Alan Sepinwall has a great post-“Say My Name” interview with Jonathan Banks up. Good stuff.
My Plot Predictions: Walt hid the cigarette as a suicide escape route. If he has to smoke it to kill himself, he will. Hank will figure out Walt is Heisenberg and get enough evidence for a search warrant. The DEA will tear his house apart looking for evidence and find the cigarette. Jesse will be brought in and interrogated. During the interrogation, the cigarette with the Ricin will come up. Jesse will learn about the cigarette. Then he’ll know that Walt poisoned the kid. This will set up Jesse to go against Walt. Jesse will make a deal to testify against Walt out of revenge. Walt will kidnap the little boy that he poisoned as a way to keep Jesse from testifying but in the process have to kill the boy’s mother. Skylar will be arrested and thrown in prison. Saul will cut a deal that gets Jesse temporarily released or Walt will break Jesse out to kill him and then Jesse will escape. Jesse will hide out in the rehab sanctuary with that creepy guy who leads the rehab group. Walt will leave the state for awhile. The Cartel will kill Walter Junior. Walt will hear the news about Walter Jr. and feel remorse. Walt will feel remorse and then return to break Skylar out of prison. He will succeed but he will be chased by Hank and Jesse to the Los Alamos lab where he used to work and will get his hands on old nuclear materials and create a dirty bomb which he will use to kill everybody in a hundred mile radius.
Should we just take turns with this?
1)The ricin was never intended to be smoked. It was hidden in the cigarette only as a convient way for Jesse to carry it. When it was time for Jesse to use it, he would have ripped it out of the cigarette and put it in (at the time) Gus’ food. It’s in a glass tube, that cigarette wasn’t really smokable to begin with.
Walt didn’t hide the cigarette. He hid the vial with ricin. Jesse knows all about the vial and that the poisoning was from a plant. He assumes that the kid ate the plant berries on his own. He also knows that Walt had the vial after they found it in the Roomba.
I don’t have the energy to read the rest of your post.
Yes, alright, I was remembering the scene wrong. Still, I do want to hear what you think of the Dirty Bomb. 
Did they have nuclear materials in that lab? I really only recall Skyler saying she was wondering it was the ‘chemicals’ that might have made him sick. Besides, even if I missed it then, I don’t recall him even mentioning anything about having a background in nuclear physics, just chemistry.
Yes, there is nuclear material at Los Alamos (article describes concerns over radioactive material at the facility during a wildfire last year).
I like cloudfishing’s scenario- except the widespread destruction. I live 2 miles from the Albuquerque city limits and I don’t want to go out as part of Heisenberg’s grand finale. Maybe he could just take out the downtown area. Or better yet the south valley.
Edit: I don’t recall them mentioning the nuclear material before, in passing or as a possible cause of Walt’s cancer.
Well, since he’s Heisenberg, you can’t know his location with any certainty. So even if he builds a dirty bomb, there’s only a 90% probability that he will be somewhere in Albuquerque when he detonates it.
Seeing Mike at the river reminded me of Slim Pickens in Pat Garrett & Billy the Kid.
I think, this season in particular, we have to speculate about the peripheral characters because so few of the old guard are left standing. We are looking for a new villain, or someone to push the story to it’s conclusion.
Makes sense. I think that’s more likely to be Declan in addition to Hank starting to make the final connections.
Season ending twist: Hank talking to Walt -
"Good job, going deep undercover. Your actions, while we of course can never publicly acknowledge them, have resulted in a total decimation of organized meth crime not only here, but in Mexico as well. We in the DEA are very pround, in an unofficial way, of how you wreaked such total havoc on the bad guys. You are a true American hero!
Well, admittedly there has been some collateral damage … "
That would be SO hilarious… I kind of hope that they put together some deliberately terrible alternate endings for the series as a special DVD feature, or something.
To continue the series:
Bad ending 2:
"… and it was just a dream. "
Bad ending 3A:
“I knew I’d be betrayed and replaced as meth kingpin eventually. I never thought it would be by you, Skyler.”
Bad ending 3B:
“I knew I’d be betrayed and replaced as meth kingpin eventually. I never thought it would be by you, Marie. Though the advent of the infamous “purple meth” should have given me a clue …”
Bad ending 4: Flynn meets with his foster father Hank in Hank’s office and talks casually about his school day. Flynn leaves, and Hank looks at a poster on his wall and suddenly drops his coffee cup, which shatters on the floor. He runs toward the door, but it’s too late. The real drug kingpin has stopped limping and gotten into a limousine driven by a man who looks like Declan. Beside him are men who look like Walt and Jesse. “Walt” nods to his boss. The limo pulls away from the curb, and we hear Flynn in voiceover: “The greatest trick the devil ever pulled was convincing the world he didn’t exist. And like that, poof. He’s gone.”
“Blue meth is people!”
“I’m Heisenberg!” “I’m Heisenberg!”
“No - I’m Heisenberg!”
“I’m Heisenberg - and so’s my wife.”
“Forget it Hank, it’s Albuquerque town.”
It’s Hisensteen
You guys crack me up. Keep 'em comming!