I don’t know if the jar provides any leverage. The kid’s prints might be on it, if they’re not too smudged to be identifiable. I don’t know if Walt’s, Jesse’s, or Mike’s prints would be on it, since we didn’t see any of them touch the jar. They might have made Todd move the kid and all his things since Todd caused this problem.
If Todd needed leverage, he could rat them out for the meth business, or depending on where the acid barrels end up he could tell the cops about that. But I don’t see the glass jar providing any leverage.
This is just for sake of argument. I think Todd is a career criminal who wants to impress his superiors. He just grabbed the jar because he thought the spider was cool, and he’s distanced himself enough from the kid’s death that it doesn’t bother him to take it.
From memory, not re-watching the episode, they showed Todd climbing up onto the truck and uncovering the kid’s foot while Walt prepared the next barrel. I think Mike was definitely still in there but I’m not sure they showed him doing anything other than watching.
Also… unless Todd gets connected to the disappearance of the kid through some other means.. why would the cops dust a mason jar for fingerprints and then run them against a database of missing children?
From the podcast: They dismembered the bike, but it is implied that they put the body of the boy in a bucket whole since there was no blood present on anyone afterwards. They only showed the boy’s hand buried in the sand.
After he lost the coffee pot, it would have made more sense for him to have said “Oh, hey look, a neon cockroach sign sitting right here in the file cabinet”. Not only would that have had the proper voltage and ability to create the sparks, but the leads would have already been stripped (and just covered with a boot). Also, I’m surprised Walt couldn’t find something to insulate his arm with.
This episode established that she does now know that Walt’s partner is Jessie. Before this episode, she knew that Walt was responsible for Gus’ death, so she does have solid leads she gave provide to Hank.
They could have, but when you have the option to thoroughly destroy all the evidence without a trace, you do that instead of leave it scattered around the area. 100% is better than 99%.
I don’t think it really needs to be dissolved to dust or anything like that, just as long as it’s fucked up enough that no evidence could be recovered from it.
But you didn’t read the rest of my post. Supposing she gets wise and starts documenting things, starting with the dinner with Jesse Pinkman, the man Hank suspected of cooking meth out of his RV. Walt’s admission to her that he’s a drug cooker wouldn’t be admissible, but the amount of money they had hiding in the crawl space would be of great interest. She only told Hank and Marie a gambling story, but under oath if she told the real story, that would be very damaging. If she stays on a course of action that would expose Walt then she has a chance. She even went to a lawyer initially about it, so I could see her consulting her again. That’s if, she doesn’t become an alcoholic in the meanwhile. In fact, a great cover for her is to let Walt think she is spiralling down, when in actual fact she’s scheming to put him away. Witness protection gives her family a fresh start and the monster that used to be her husband is safely behind bars.
Well, heck, he had the wires and could pass them under the tie-wrap. He could have pulled the wires back and forth like dental floss, gradually sawing through the plastic. As escapes go, this wasn’t exactly a Batman level of difficulty.
That’s what I thought he was going after. When the pot fell and rolled across the room, I was thinking, “That’s okay, you didn’t need that anyway. The heater’s in the base.” I was also thinking that the Mythbusters crew have to be champing at the bit to do a Breaking Bad episode(s). That said, the real trick for Walter’s approach would be to avoid tripping a breaker. I’ve complete vaporized oscilloscope ground leads playing with the mains so power isn’t an issue. The trick would be doing it without tripping a breaker.
I found it hard to believe that Mike, given his background and line of work, wouldn’t have a pair of steel handcuffs. But, as was stated in the show: Even pros make mistakes.
Ok, Andiethewestie, maybe Skyler could become a slightly more useful asset for the DEA. But Walt has never told her much about what he’s up to and I don’t think he’ll start. She doesn’t know how Walt’s business works- the particulars of his relationship with Fring or the Vamonos Pest operation. She knows a couple of things and obviously Walt’s identity is a big one. My point is that what she does know is not very specific and I doubt it’s enough to keep her out of prison entirely. In addition to laundering Walt’s money, she has committed crimes of her own that Walt isn’t responsible for, and those might also come to light if she turned state’s evidence. She wouldn’t get much of a deal on those. In putting together a case against Walt the DEA would still have to do do all the work of figuring out the details of his drug connections, how he murdered Gus and the others, where his money came from. Skyler can’t help them with that. I don’t see how she would stay out of prison and I don’t see how the government would let her keep custody of Holly. Walt’s money would be gone, the car wash would be gone, Flynn would be gone and I assume Marie would get Holly. Skyler wants to keep her family safe from Walt and I can imagine this as a final ending for the series, but there are good reasons she is reluctant to do all this: it would still be really terrible for her. She’s done too much to get a pass on everything.
Point taken. Yet the dinner with Pinkman intrigues me. They are both now in the same room. A woman who once loved Walter White and a man who is beginning to realize who Walter White really is. Right now Walter pulls the strings. But Together, Sky and Jesse could be his undoing. In fact, this season is full of Skylar being the albatross, almost as if we’re seeing the destruction of her either by her own or Walt’s hand, but this show I hope is far less predictable and we see her emerge as more resilient than a plastic handcuff.
I thought about that too. Then I figured it’s probably illegal for a civilian to have handcuffs and since he’s being watched right now he probably doesn’t want to give the DEA any reason to give him a hard time.
So far as I know there are no limits on people being able to buy and own handcuffs.
If there were I know a lot of lawbreaking people and stores.
Mike’s restraining of Walt was lame. This is the same guy who previously single-handedly assaulted a warehouse with four or five armed and prepared people inside, going so far as to successfully shoot someone in the head through a wall through a wall based on intuition and microgestures. Then he restrains only one hand on Walt.
Nice alluding back to his rich college buddies, and the fact that he took a $5000 buyout from Grey Matter, a company now worth Billions with a “B” to explain his motivation to keep going. I’m guessing the affair with his partner’s wife or girlfriend, mentioned a couple seasons back, was the reason he took the $5000 buyout. Clever double meaning in the episode title, which the writers are so good with (a la Face Off).
Because otherwise, with all the emotional, moral and legal fallout, why not take the 5 mil and retire? It would be pretty hard to believe otherwise. 5 mil plus two businesses, one legit and one quasi-legit. You’d probably want to divest Vamanos as well though. DOES Walt own Vamanos Pest or is that just a mutual business arrangement?