“Nobody moves nuclear material in the South Valley but me, BITCH!”
Jesse is refurbishing an old RV on a Mexican beach. From a crane shot, we see Walt walking barefoot through the sand toward him.
Walt, Skylar, and Flynn are eating breakfast at Denny’s, making casual conversation. A Journey song plays in the background. Suddenly, the screen goes black.
One improvement they could’ve made to the episode:
“Shut the fuck up and let me die in peace” followed by Walter then stickijng his thumbs in his ears and waving around, hopping around on one foot, and then alternately making horse noises, snorting like a pig, and farting.
That would’ve been a turn for the macabre and truly tested the audience’s ability to still emphathize with Walt. Nothing says grimdark like funny noises, hopping around, and farting while someone slowly bleeds to death.
Walt walks in after another day of teaching chemistry at the high school. Skylar is making dinner while Walt Jr. sits on the floor staring into a blue glass ornament…
Walt’s body gets left behind on the Genesis Planet.
Walt gets hit in the head and collapses. He wakes up in bed and turns on a lamp, saying to his wife, “Honey, wake up! You won’t believe the dream I just had.”
Jane Kaczmarek sits up in bed next to him. “All right, Hal, what is it?”
Walt Jr. confides to Walt that he sees dead people.
This has only briefly been touched on in this thread, but it made a big impression on me during the episode:
When Walt was alone in Hank’s office, and after he removed the bugs, we got a quick glimpse of Walt from what was obviously a security camera. Walt made eye contact with the camera. Immediately after that, he turned to the easel of photos in the office that held security camera pictures taken, I think, from inside the bank vault. As he was looking at these, Hank returned. It seemed to me that Walt put two and two together and realized that he had been on camera when he de-bugged the joint.
Why a security cam in Hank’s office? I dunno, but it wouldn’t be the strangest thing I’ve ever heard of.
This is significant because I believe it is the beginning of the chain of events that will lead Hank to hone in on Walt as a suspect.
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I’m pretty sure if they meant to show us it was a security cam, they’d have had a low res screen with text hyperimposed. We’ve seen that before with security cam footage on this show. It was just the camera angle they chose.
I’m not sure we’ll find out there was a camera in Hank’s office. More likely, it suggests that, like the lawyer in the bank vault, we can be photographed without knowing it. I figure Walt will get more and more paranoid, constantly checking for cameras and other surveillance.
The camera angle they used in the scene is insignificant, IMO. The show has a history of filming from weird angles. Just this episode, in fact, they shot from the perspective of the lawyer’s wrist as he was opening the safety deposit boxes. Yet nobody is claiming that he stashed a small spy camera under the sleeve of his oxford.
I trust the show’s producers. There’s no way they’d hide something that significant in a single shot, and there’s nothing else in the episode that validates that theory.
Have we ruled out Hank and Gomez’ boss as being some kind of mole? I only say this because he’s spent a lot of time doing everything he can to get Hank off the case. I don’t remember, but was he the one who asked Hank to move to another city a few seasons back when Hank declined because he was > < this close to cracking the case? Then this season he turned Hank into the ASAC which should have meant he would spend less time on the case. Then in 5.07 he specifically asked him to take the tail off of Mike.
Now, don’t get me wrong, as far as the DEA was concerned, Gus is dead, the case is more or less closed and it’s time to worry about other things. On top of that, Hank needs to be running the department.
It bugs me because, it was due to him being forced to take the tail off Mike that they ended up getting a big break in the case. It was almost like they wrote it this way to advance the storyline. However, they could have, instead, just had Hank say “Mike’s not getting us anywhere, let’s look into this other lawyer” and he would’ve gotten an attaboy instead of whatever he’s got coming to him next week which may be some sort of punishment for not backing off on the case…even though he blew it wide open.
If he ends up getting transferred, fired or some how being forcibly removed from the case by the boss, I think we need to wonder if the boss is involved somehow. Of course, with Mike dead, if he is involved, he’s not going to get paid anymore. That could make it interesting.
I wonder if the second half of the season will involve a gimpy rogue Hank trying to catch Walt on his own. I hope not, that seems kind of cliche and this show has really done a good job of steering clear of the cliches. Also, I don’t think we’ve seen any hints of the boss being involved in any way, have we?
A mole for whom?
Gus.
Hank has a new boss now & his old boss’s job. Old boss was either canned, transferred, or retired for not seeing Gus right under his nose. Hank seems to be headed for a similar fate.
Here’s the guy I’m talking about. If anyone has the old episodes he was in from Season 2, it might be worth just taking a quick look at them to see if there’s anything in them that might be noteworthy.
Who set Hank up to go to El Paso where he almost got killed? Was that the boss that just got fired?
ETA, it was, I see that now. I’m not saying there is or was a someone on Gus’ payroll in the DEA, I’m just saying we should keep an open mind. I know it’s been tossed around in the past, but it’s something to think about. If it does turn out to be the case, it’ll be interesting to see what happens now that Mike is gone.
:smack:
Wow! I don’t even remember him being in Season 2.
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Upon further review…
I just re-watched that scene.
I wuz wrong, y’all wuz right.
Carry on.
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Do we know anything about Kaylee’s parents? Have they been shown, or referred to? I’m drawing a blank.
And I wish they would have shown us Mike making arrangements for someone to retrieve her from that park (I assume Mike jetted out of there without scooping her up).
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