I agree. I don’t know if it’s occurred to him that this will probably cost him his career, but when it comes to that I don’t think he’ll find the choice all that difficult.
I have a sneaking suspicion that Walt will have “dealt with” the threat from Hank in some manner within 2-3 episodes, and be confronted by a bigger obstacle/threat that ultimately determines his fate…
Hank has not said anything only because he wanted to make sure he’s right before he accuses his brother-in-law of being a drug lord. He’s protecting his family.
His investigation is more about making sure he’s not crazy, rather than gathering evidence to ensure a conviction.
Now that he’s sure, I think he’ll go to the DEA soon. His risk is that if he goes too early and without evidence, the DEA will think he’s crazy and take him off the case. The only thing certain is that he will not let this go.
My guess is that he’ll find Jesse, and Jesse will help him.
I agree, especially since they got to the showdown in the garage so quickly. So, if Hank doesn’t take him down, who does? There are basically three final boss fights left in the game: Walt vs. Hank, Walt vs. cancer, and Walt vs. Jesse. I think the only questions remaining are in which order they will happen, and the specifics of how they will go down.
(Lydia, Declan’s crew and all that jazz isn’t a big enough part of the grand narrative, so Walt’s end won’t come from that direction. Although I hope someone shoots Lydia in the face before it’s all over.)
My money is on
a cow falling on his head.
OK, not really. My money is actually on
Jesse taking him out.
Quite the opposite. He stayed here so he could remain on top of the DEA’s investigation and steer it away, so that the gravy train continued.
I would point out Walt’s aloofness (or his best attempt at being aloof) towards Lydia at the carwash was the actual habit that he picked up directly from Gus when Walt approached him several times at Pollos Hermanos.
But Skyler would have no part in that aloofness.
That was classic Lydia too. She thinks that she’s being slick but not taking her own car but is found out by taking a fresh rental to a car wash. Just like when she had Mike meet her at some out of the way diner so that she wouldn’t be noticed and was a total pain in the ass to the waitress about not having herbal tea.
Breaking Bad’s Gooey Badness!
Breaking Bad : Reflections On Heisenberg - The Uncertainty Of Walter White - I liked some of the analysis done here from seasons 1-3. Slightly dated, but still relevant.
BREAKING BAD Walter White Speaks - My Way
BettingBad.com - Can you Predict the Final Season? - What I was trying to do back in a thread at the end of last season, but dropped the ball…anyone else got into this?
Jesse Pinkman’s Complete Bitch Compilation
Breaking Bad Theme - played with meth lab equipment.
Breaking Bad - The Ecstasy of Gold (tribute video) [seasons 1-5A] - Still one of the best BB tribute videos out there.
Under what circumstances would it be possible for Hank to leave the DEA and still keep his pension?
Getting transferred to another government job might do the trick or maybe his pain will suddenly become so bad he’ll have to go on permanent disability and take an early retirement.
Or maybe he’ll retire to Taos and open up a gem shop.
With all the free time he’ll have when he leaves the DEA, he will perfect his Schraderbrau recipe and make the purest home brew in the Southwest. With no other income, and huge therapy bills, he’ll have to start pushing it to provide for his family. Then he goes to on become a beer baron, under the name “Bohr”.
There are real-life criminals who have been allowed to keep their pensions. There was a This American Life on a school administrator who waged a campaign of harassment and I believe he’s being paid a pension of $80K+ per year, while in prison.
Cite for the above, it’s a good listen: http://www.thisamericanlife.org/radio-archives/episode/419/petty-tyrant
So yeah, just because he may be linked to a meth ring doesn’t mean that he’ll necessarily lose his pension, even if he goes to prison.
I wonder how long til it’s a tourist shrine, like the Christmas Story house in Cleveland.
I’m wondering if the Star Trek story could have been sort of a symbolic foreshadowing of something. Obviously not something involving a pie eating contest or a transporter, but some underhanded scheme that backfires and kills one of the schemers.
Or maybe it was just a morality play about karma, sort of like the entire series. Maybe Walt will be puking up blood before it’s all over.
The entire series is a morality play about karma? I wouldn’t agree with that. I’d say it’s about a very angry man who lived the life if a good man until the prospect of certain death freed him to become who he really was.
Well… Hank was wearing a red shirt, so…
He could have been a Nobel chemist…? Why?
He knows chemistry. He cooks the best meth. So what? Who’re his competitors? It’s people like Jesse and his friends, right? Kids who flunked HS school chemistry. I don’t think that means he could have been a Nobel chemist.
There’s a plaque in the White home that says Walt was involved in a project that won a Nobel Prize in Physics. I don’t think we’ve seen it since early in season one, but it’s one of those things that tells us he’s the most overqualified high school chemistry teacher in the world. I think someone asked earlier about the resolution to Gray Matter. I don’t know if anything more dramatic was ever planned, but to me, the climax of that subplot was when Walt suggested that his meth empire was had become his Gray Matter- the legacy he was leaving behind.