Considering it ate through the cast iron tub in Jesse’s aunt’s house in Season 1, I’m thinking it will do more than just etch the surface.
Hydrochloric acid can dissolve metal, or at least it dissolves some metals.
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Skyler tells Walt about her affair by saying “I fucked Ted.” Bleeped out of course. I think that episode was named IFT too.
So are we to believe that Skyler has lost it a bit and isnt thinking rationally? If not, what possible reason does she have to not turn in Walt? She’s obviously done with him. She has to know that the kids can’t stay with Hank and Marie indefinitely. Junior especially wont stand for it. Sure, it will hurt them to know the truth about Walt… but from Skyler’s viewpoint that Walt is a danger to the kids, isnt turning him in the only way to keep them safe?
If she turns him in, she’s turning herself in as well. She’s guilty of money laundering, etc.
Yes, but an entire motorbike? I’m skeptical it can be done with the quantity of acid in a barrel.
If she goes to prison, she loses the children anyway. And then there’s the whole fear of death thing. She might not be specifically afraid of Walt but she knows he’s killed people to defend his operation.
I think at some point she’s gotta blow. Walt’s inviting Jesse to stay for dinner was just another slap in the face, keeping her down on the farm.
Would it be reasonable to assume that should she decide to turn, she could get immunity for the bigger get? Suppose she does this. It’s possible she could start a new life under witness protection and keep the kids safe. She seems consumed by her own misdeeds as well as Walt’s, but she could have a future without him, and without bloodshed. She knows what’s going on, but she has to get crafty and get specifics of the murders as well as the cooks.
I thought Jesse’s tub was porcelain. In any case, Walt did say that the acid would eat through both metal and porcelain, among other things.
Their relationship was about this hostile earlier in the series, but you do get the sense she’s not coming back this time. She does not seem to think going to the cops is an option, though.
No. The only thing she knows is that Walt is Heisenberg. That’s something, but it doesn’t make the case for the DEA. She has no other information about his business and she’s been actively involved in money laundering, so if she went to the police, she would go to prison. It’s not impossible that her tax fraud and her intimidation of Ted would come out, too. That means she loses Walt’s money and the car wash and loses the children and Hank and Marie, so she winds up with nothing. She is going along with this because she does want the family to be provided for after Walt is gone.
I have no problem with them finding a friendly judge. My problem was with using the meeting to get Mike away from Walt.
Actually, I have a problem with the TRO in general, because wouldn’t it alert the DEA that Mike might be up to something special while the TRO is in effect? And why would they honor it anyway? They know it’ll be shot down by another judge. If they violate it, what’s the penalty? Nobody’s going to send an agent to jail for doing his job.
On another note, I don’t know how Mike restrained himself from punching Walt in the face when Walt was ranting about the DEA tail. Walt was talking to Mike like he was an underling, a witless underling. Pompous, self-aggrandizing, like he’s in control of everything and everyone and would know better than Mike what to do. Fucking know-it-all asshole.
Agreed. I was thinking along the lines of they buy from him. The Phoenix crew is taking Mike’s place.
It’s enough for them to tail Walt who won’t be able to shake the tail let alone notice it like Mike can. She could get Witness Protection for herself and the kids if her info proves to be good.
Having a judge or multiple judges permanently pissed off at them would only make their lives more difficult in the future. It’s probably easier to just live with the restraining order until it is inevitably thrown out.
I don’t think she has that kind of leverage. Yes, she could tell them to look at Walt and that might be worth something, but she’s done enough on her own that she would go to prison before any kind of Witness Protection deal could happen. In that eventuality she’d lose custody of Holly. And Flynn, who’d be a legal adult by then anyway, would hate her for life.
You better believe that disobeying a direct order of a court can get you in big, big trouble. And they would also risk tainting any evidence they might uncover while disobeying the order, which would put their prosecution in jeopardy.
Excellent episode. The scene with Jesse at the dinner table harkened back to earlier times when he was less jaded and more just a goofy guy with a drug habit. I miss that Jesse. He did a masterful job of acting like a goofy guy, but at the same time being not quite convincing.
Re: the Electric Escape. I was an electrician for a long time, and while I melted a few tool tips by shorting them on live circuits, that scene was bogus. First off, power strips are usually protected and would trip. Even if that weren’t the case, a dead short like that would trip the breaker in the panel. There is no way any person could withstand the sort of heat being produced by what is essentially an arc welder. The wire was also laying against his wrist, which means he would have been receiving a continuous electric shock during that process. Even if it didn’t disable him, the muscle contractions in his arm would have made holding still impossible. Lastly, the burns that would have been inflicted would have required hospitalization. We’re talking deep tissue damage. Having him be sitting calmly, showing no affect from those burns was ridiculous.
Also, are we to believe that he hauled that trailer with his Chrysler? He just happened to have a hitch on a new car? And if so, with a towing capacity of 1,000 pounds max for the 300, he towed a trailer with 8,000+ pounds of liquid in it without destroying his vehicle?
Let the arguments begin.
I believe what they have been using all along is hydrofluoric acid. Truly nasty stuff that will readily dissolve a body and as far as I can remember, will dissolve steel liike the motorcycle. It will also dissolve glass and ceramic (like bathtubs) and needs to be stored in plastic containers.
That was the part I was wondering about. And yes, I also enjoyed Jesse being a a little bit of a goofball again. Throughout this season he’s been forced to be the kid in the middle of a bad relationship - usually it’s Mike and Walt, but here it was Walt and Skyler.
Right, my mistake. Damn you, Google! I think I got it right in some other threads.
I believe that this is true. Even if it didn’t totally dissolve everything, it would be a bunch of lumps of material that wouldn’t be identifiable as anything specific.
I took it as a ‘helpful connections’ comment, also. Then when Mike talked about flexing, I decided that Todd was also saying that, if something happened to him, he knew people that might coming looking for satisfaction/revenge.