Sneak Peek Episode 508 Breaking Bad: Gliding Over AllWalt switching up from Heisenberg, to Gustavo Fring in front of Lydia, and Lydia being rightfully cautious in sharing “The List” with Walt…which is now 10 names, but hopefully for her sake, it isn’t 11.
My bet is on the second half of Season 5 is that there is an episode named “I.F.L.” (ok…maybe I am wishing it!)
I think Jesse is going to accidentally discover it somehow…my whacked out scenarios are:
Wouldn’t be ironic though if Jesse saw Skyler with Holly and strikes up a conversation about kids and he mentions in passing that a kid he cared about was poisoned by Lilly of the Valley, which happens to be the plant that Skyler may know is missing from the back yard (in an episode coming soon) and verbalizes the coincidence?
OR
Holly might still get to the Ricin, get sick and hospitalized (and dies?!?), and the cops who were breaking Jesse’s balls over Brock and the alleged Ricin poisoning, come back again to break Jesse’s balls…which in turn, makes Jesse suspicious of Walt still holding on to the ricin which may lead to Skyler and Jesse to the first scenario I mentioned above.
I don’t see Brock and Andrea coming back into the picture at all. The bigger secret Walt is keeping is that he let Jane die. Jesse cared for Brock, but he loved Jane.
I was surprised that Mike didn’t come to his meeting with Walt fully locked and loaded. That made no sense to me. His spidey-sense should have been tingling like crazy. Walt had every motivation to kill Mike, to keep him from singing to the feds (in the event of Mike’s capture). Surely Mike would have thought about that and been on his guard. Seemed like a stupid move for a smart character.
He had a pistol in his jacket pocket. We saw Walt take it away from him while Mike was dying on that bench- he had the weapon out but didn’t have the energy to shoot (or didn’t see the point).
I have no idea.
True. It doesn’t have to be one or the other, and I’d assume it’s both. We know Walt has a fake ID and switches cars in the parking lot in addition to getting the gun. He’s changed his appearance a bit, too. For one reason or another he didn’t want to look like Heisenberg anymore. I presume he’s been laying low for a while. So he must be concerned that someone is watching him and wants to avoid them, and whatever he’s going to do, he probably wants to be able to disappear afterward. It’s not impossible that everything has fallen apart and he’s on a suicide mission, but I’d tend to think not. We do know that Walt thinks he can plot and scheme his way out of any problem and that refuses to accept the possibility that someone else can dictate the terms of his life. I don’t know what would happen if he were convinced it were game over and that he’d truly lost everything, but so far it’s hard to see him admitting that that has happened. This drug business is a real-life fantasy for him, so he always thinks he can find a way to win.
I was thinking about Walt’s improvised wrist-tie escape again this week and that consciously or unconsciously he picked the most action-movie way to get out because that’s sort of how he sees his life at this point.
[From last week’s thread]
What I thought was odd was when the lawyer guy called and said there was some issues, asked if they could meet, then said “sit tight, I’ll be right there”. It played out almost exactly like his meeting with Chow’s hitman. But if it wasn’t for Walter’s call, he would have just been a sitting duck.
I don’t think Mike was at all worried about Walt. I don’t think Walt had any intention of shooting Mike. I think Walt though he’d ask for the names and Mike would have said “Well, I’m out of the game so, do you have a pen and paper…” and I think Mike was just planning on getting his bag and disappearing. After Walter asked him for the names, I think he was just planning to tell him no, maybe explaining to him (again) that they’re his guys and Walt doesn’t need to know who they are, they can’t out him, they don’t know him and it’s better if he doesn’t know them.
Besides, Walter doesn’t need to kill Mike, he’s too loyal, he doesn’t need to kill the 9 guys, they don’t know him. The ONLY connection between the 9 guys and him is Lydia. Lydia is the only person that can give him up right now.
This is what made me think of Mike’s Nine Guys. Assuming there isn’t a new player that we have yet to meet (and time is running short for that), the only groups we know of who would give Walt the opportunity for a large number of targets at once are the competition (who wanted to buy the methalamine), or the DEA. Seems like the machine gun could also be perfect for assaulting a convoy or just a lightly armored vehicle, like a prisoner transport.
Ok, the threads long already, hope I didn’t miss any points already stated.
The gradual payout scheme was to guarantee silence over time. If they were already paid off in full nothing would stop the guys from turning. I don’t understand how Mike would go along with the safe deposit box system, there’s a record of all access and it wouldn’t be hard to get a search warrent in a drug case based on easily obtained evidence.
It does seem out of character for Mike not to be ready for Walter. He was under pressure, he was already predisposed to consider Walt harmless one on one. But he knew Walt would look in the bag and find the gun. Perhaps he thought he was all done for anyway and stopped caring.
How sure is it that Mike is dead? I assume he is and Hank will start directing his efforts on something he knows about Heisenberg.
At the meeting Hank was staring at photographs as if he was picking up a clue. Does anyone know what he was looking at?
I noticed that too and meant to post something about it. I’ll take a closer look when I re-watch the episode but it looked like a reflection in a window.
I think we discussed this earlier in the season, but several of the guys at the laundry, especially Dennis the manager, have undoubtedly seen Walt and Jesse going into the meth lab. Even if they don’t know Walt’s name and SSN, a brief sketch is all it would take to alert Hank or even Gomie. Walt needs at least a couple of those Nine dead.
Right, I forgot about them. I’ve even mentioned that several times in the past. Were those all legit workers that can be tracked down? I assume they were.
Yes, he’s dead. There’s no reason to believe they’re lying to us about that.
There’s a post up thread with three links in it. Watch the one called Making of Episode 507 for confirmation.