I would think that was more of an Easter Egg then anything else, but even if it was meant to be ‘part of the show’ Jesse did tell Walt about what got Brock sick, so he could just say he [Walt] was reading about it and ran across the song.
He was the captain on the short-lived Stargate Universe.
Meh, he’s always been happy relegating the distribution end of the business to someone else. As long as he’s negotiating from a position of strength and lays out his terms, I don’t see him having a problem forming a new partnership. He’s still making a product and selling it - it’s all just sold to one customer at wholesale.
He’s got a reputation for making the best product, and probably for taking down Gus’ whole operation, so that might be enough to make his new associates respect him and keep from messing with him.
Check the swimming pool!
My guess would be the carwash, but that would probably be Mike’s first guess, so maybe not.
Heisenberg meth — now available in lemon and pine-scented varieties.
Right. My other thought was the garage of his condo, which I don’t believe he’s sold yet.
But Mike probably knows about that as well.
We’ll see, but it seems to me that if Walter is making the meth and being paid by someone else, he’s no longer his own boss. He’s illustrated he’s willing to go to absurd lengths to maintain that supremacy. And in any case I just think something more scheme-y is in the works.
Maybe I lost track, but do we have any idea how much time elapsed between Walt MacGuyvering himself out of the wrist tie and Mike coming back?
What I am not grasping is Walt’s refusal of the Phoenix gang. Why wouldn’t he sell finished product to them, like Gus did to the cartel? AFAICT he still lacks a major distribution network. Who is selling the meth he’s been cooking these last couple episodes in the fumigated houses?
Even Hank, in the episode where he gets promoted, admits that there’s been a “small” resurgence of the blue meth on the market and speculates that it might be old inventory as the amounts the DEA are seeing are small.
I think I missed something major here. That’s what I get for playing drinking games associated with the show…every time I watch. Oh yeah, Monday mornings are hell for me.
Let me guess - you take a drink every time Walt Jr. eats breakfast?
After months, I’m finally caught up! Netflix and FIOS On Demand are grand.
This show is utterly fantastic. They do such a great job characterizing everyone and making you care about them. Walt is a monster but we lived his fall alongside him. I want everyone’s arc to complete. I want Walt to get what he wants, but I also want him to get what’s coming to him. I want Hank to make his case and catch Walt, but I don’t want Walt to go down like that. I want Skyler to be free of Walt, but I don’t want the kids to lose their father. I want Jesse to keep cooking with Walt, but I also want him to bail out and salvage his life.
More and more, though, I want Walt to be stopped. He’s completely out of control. I also want to watch some early episodes again, so I can see just how far he’s fallen.
So, some things:
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[li]Before this episode, I was thinking that Todd’s spent shell casing was going to come back to haunt them. Since their methodical disassembly of the bike, however, I’m guessing they took care of the brass, too.[/li][li]Going in to Season 5, I expected Gus to come back to haunt them, in the form of whatever it was that made him so special. There’s a couple of references to it, but the only one I remember now is the flashback to his first meeting with Don Eladio where his partner gets killed and Eladio says “The only reason you’re still alive is because I know who you are.” I figured that Gus was the son of someone important or something, and there was going to be serious unexpected blowback to his death. Now, it feels less likely that it will turn out to be significant.[/li][/ul]
But if he takes care of the whole production end, he’s really just making and selling a product at wholesale to the distributors. Since he would be providing all the ingredients, the facilities, and lab work, he could charge quite the premium to the Phoenix gang, who would only need to do the actual distribution on their end. It would not be the same kind of deal he had with Gus, where Gus provided and dictated everything, and Walt was just a paid lab monkey.
He never refused to sell them finished product - he refused to sell out to them their whole supply of methylamine.
In the episode where Mike divides the money on the table, he mentioned that the dealers had already taken their cut out of the money they returned, and Mike then put aside an additional and considerable cut of the money for the men who delivered to all the dealers. So Mike was handling that end with unnamed henchmen/contacts.
Yeah, we’ve gone over the same speculation in these threads. I’ll be kind of upset if they never resolve Gus’ past, which would almost necessarily mean it would come back to haunt Walt.
ETA: Plus, I’m really just hoping for some flashback scenes with Gus.
I’m thinking it’s at the yard owned by Badger’s buddy—where Jesse stored the RV. I don’t think Mike knows about that one.
That’s the guy who tried to keep and sell their methylamine and all their other stuff. Dunno if that would be a good choice - plus Walt was trying to hide it from Jesse, too.
For all we know, the machine gun days of future past Walter could be facing old-school Chilean connections that have come to avenge Gustavo. Those same connections were likely part of the reason the cartel wouldn’t touch him – like when he waltzed into the sniper’s line of fire.
Mike was at the scrapyard where the big jumbo magnet was tested, and purchased. Are those the same yards, or two different ones?
No, those are two different places. There’s a repair yard that’s owned by Badger’s cousin and there’s a scrap yard owned by Fake Kramer.
The pilot had more “fucks” than other episodes because they created it before they knew what network would pick up the show.
The pilot was also the only episode to show nudity, which was blurred out when shown on AMC.
It’s probably just stashed under Holly’s crib.
Right. Magnet Man was a referral from Badger’s Buddy. Remember when Walt was freaking out because they had to get rid of the RV tout suite because Hank was closing in it? Badger’s Buddy says “I know a guy who can wipe this thing off the face of the planet, no questions asked.” That was Magnet Man.
I dimly recall some episode in the second or third season that had a flashback of when Walt gave Jesse the initial startup money and he blew a lot of it on strippers and booze with his friends. Then Combo helped him steal the infamous RV from Combo’s parents. I watched that episode on Netflix, and I recall some nudity during the strip club scene. I don’t think it was blurred out, either (nor were the occasional “fucks”), I had assumed because Netflix was streaming the DVD version rather than the AMC broadcast version.