Plus, Walt is essentially an adrenaline junkie at this point. Every time he’s had calm around him he has acted to disrupt it.
I don’t think he’d have taken the deal if they’d been offering $300 million for the methylamine. That wouldn’t have any excitement. Now that he’s convinced himself he’s smart enough to get out of any trouble, even that check on his behavior is gone. He just wants the thrill.
Fair enough, re pistol/gun.
Plastic cuffs are more secure than the steel versions?
Not even a little. Heck, just above the radiator are two posters showing various bugs. If they’re held up with thumbtacks (I can’t really tell), Walt could have used one of them to push the zip-tie’s tab. Any small sharp piece of metal would be worth trying, even the clasp in his watch’s wristband. Heck, the office is decorated with cheap paneling. Rip that out, or the trim around the door right next to the radiator, and extract one of the small nails.
All that’s missing from this escape is the one inept guard.
Perhaps Mike didn’t even think that anyone would have a gun on this job, aside from him? I don’t think that Jesse or Walt are the type to go around armed.
Again, I don’t think he’s a serial killer in the Hollywood or pop culture sense. Only that he might technically meet the definition of serial killer(and I don’t care either way, I was just pointing out that the Doper that first mentioned might not be far off). Let’s check Wiki’s article on serial killing:
1.) “an individual who has killed three or more people…”
2.) “over a period of more than a month, with down time (a “cooling off period”) between the murders.”
3.) “and whose motivation for killing is usually based on psychological gratification.” I did mention “for fun or profit”.
4.) However, the FBI states that motives for serial murder include not just sexual gratification, but “anger, thrill, financial gain, and attention seeking”.
If Todd has killed 3 or more people, over a period of time, for thrill OR profit, then I would say that he would technically meet the definition of serial killer. I’d call him a gangster, not a serial killer, but he might be both.
This was just a minor point anyway, the major point is that Todd is a fucking weirdo, and you and I are getting a completely different vibe off the guy. I think he’s a psychopath who by definition cannot have remorse, and that he’s bad news that might be used by the writers as a sort of stick-in-the-bicycle-tire somewhere along the line.
Yeah, I was shocked that he picked such an insane way to get out of that zip tie. Is it even hard to get out of them when it’s just one hand bound and your other hand completely free? I’ve never dealt with the big restraint type ones, but it’s certainly not hard to get open smaller ones without resorting to cutting/burning them. At the very least I’m thinking he could’ve gotten the thing open if he broke the arm off his glasses and shoved it in there.
Anyway… Most awkward dinner EVER. Jesse was so funny, just gulping down the water after Skyler got all “did he tell you about my affair too”. And hey, a food scene without Jr!
I liked Jesse bringing up the 700k or so Walt was originally in it for. Boy that was a long time ago! (More so to us than them). Nice insight from Walt about why he won’t stop at $5mil. Not that he’s not insane for not taking the money and trying to put his family back together, but Heisenberg’s ego is so in control now that he just can’t see the trees for the forest (yes, I meant to say it that way).
I’d guess they might be - if you did both hands. Both hands joined at the wrist, I think it would be much harder to do anything to get out.
One hand, not so much.
Realizing that I’m backtracking - I don’t know that Mike has a lot of respect for Walt, beyond as a chemist. He may have figured that Walt would be cowed by him.
Well, close second to this.
Maybe. Mike doesn’t like surprises, and Todd being armed was a surprise. Todd is supposed to be a flunky, he’s not supposed to think on his own. Todd rattled Mike. I can’t think of any other time Mike was rattled. Hell, even the Cousins followed Mike’s orders.
Well, my point is that it shouldn’t have been a surprise. The issue of whether or not they should have guns is something I’d’ve though they’d’ve discussed beforehand.
Regarding the cuffs: Having just watched last week(?)'s episode of Burn Notice, I assumed Walt was going to break the coffee pot to make a shim to get out of the cuffs. Not really sure what his original plan was at this point.
Okay, I get’cha.
Did Mike have a gun at the train? I don’t remember.
I’d’ve thought break the carafe for a piece of glass to cut the strap.
It seems to me that might have been his first idea. After he knocks the coffee pot down, but it fails to shatter and instead just bounces out of reach, didn’t Walt look seriously annoyed for a moment?
I could be misremembering.
That’s how I read the scene.
Me too.
You don’t need Mythbusters to prove that 2 guys can try to push a fully loaded dump truck.
Walter White: I’m sorry, what were you asking me? Oh, yes, that stupid plastic container I asked you to buy. You see, hydrofluoric acid won’t eat through plastic; it will however dissolve metal, rock, glass, ceramic. So there’s that.
The acting talent on this show is phenomenal. I really, REALLY believed that Holly was sure she could eat that bracelet if she just tried hard enough.