# Breaking Bad 5.10 "Buried" 8/18/13 **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [August 18, 2013, 6:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/breaking-bad-5-10-buried-8-18-13/666580 "2013-08-18T18:48:26Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 7
**Author:** ![Don\_t\_Panic](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/don_t_panic/32/398_2.png) [@Don\_t\_Panic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Don_t_Panic)\ **Post date:** [August 19, 2013, 8:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/breaking-bad-5-10-buried-8-18-13/666580/121 "2013-08-19T20:24:29Z")
Despite the Heisenberg reveal, Hank still has that blind spot in his field of vision firmly placed directly in front of his nose. When Skyler acts as jittery as a bowl of Jell-O in a hurricane, and first suggests that she needs a lawyer and then asks if she’s being arrested, that should be a pretty big, flashing sign that she’s got her own skeletons in the closet. But Hank still doesn’t look like he gets it. Marie only starts unraveling things later. ---
**Author:** ![zoid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/zoid/32/336_2.png) [@zoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/zoid)\ **Post date:** [August 19, 2013, 8:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/breaking-bad-5-10-buried-8-18-13/666580/122 "2013-08-19T20:38:19Z")
> [@Marley23](#): > > Hank didn’t do anything bad in the diner scene. From his perspective, Skyler is an innocent victim and if she comes clean about everything she knows, she minimizes the chances the DEA will look at her as a potential co-conspirator. It’s true that he’s not giving her the best legal advice, but he think he’s helping and he hasn’t stopped to consider the possibility that she’s involved. Agreed, but by the end when he shoots her the look when he and Marie are leaving you can see he at least suspects she’s complicit. ---
**Author:** ![Erdosain](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/erdosain/32/7284_2.png) [@Erdosain](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Erdosain)\ **Post date:** [August 19, 2013, 9:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/breaking-bad-5-10-buried-8-18-13/666580/123 "2013-08-19T21:03:02Z")
> [@Munch](#): > > Huh? How in the world is getting a tape recorder out any indication whatsoever that Hank is breaking bad? If anything, it’s proof that he’s straining as hard as he can to keep his side-investigation legitimate by looking for concrete evidence he could present, instead of conjecture. I was unclear. The tape recorder is evidence that Hank is so intent on getting Walt that he totally misread Skyler’s reactions and attitude. He’s breaking bad in that he’s holding out on the DEA what he knows. > [@Munch](#): > > I think you miswatched that scene. He pushed back the budget meeting to make room for a conference call with Ramey that had not been scheduled. Uh, no, I think we just have different interpretations of the scene. My interpretation (and I think it’s the majority one here) is that the conference call was intended to tell his superior Ramey about Walt. In view of that, he wouldn’t be around to participate in a boring budget meeting, and that’s part of why he’s not going to bother with the meeting. ---
**Author:** ![Gangster\_Octopus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/a8b319/32.png) [@Gangster\_Octopus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gangster_Octopus)\ **Post date:** [August 19, 2013, 9:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/breaking-bad-5-10-buried-8-18-13/666580/124 "2013-08-19T21:19:11Z")
> [@Erdosain](#): > > I was unclear. The tape recorder is evidence that Hank is so intent on getting Walt that he totally misread Skyler’s reactions and attitude. He’s breaking bad in that he’s holding out on the DEA what he knows. > > Uh, no, I think we just have different interpretations of the scene. My interpretation (and I think it’s the majority one here) is that the conference call was intended to tell his superior Ramey about Walt. In view of that, he wouldn’t be around to participate in a boring budget meeting, and that’s part of why he’s not going to bother with the meeting. Actually **Munch** is right. Walt said he wanted to push back the budget meeting so he could schedule a call with Ramey. Whether or not he was going to tell Ramey about Walt is never made xplicit, Walt simply says something to the effect that the meeting is to “get up to speed”. ---
**Author:** ![Red\_Barchetta](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/da6949/32.png) [@Red\_Barchetta](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Red_Barchetta)\ **Post date:** [August 19, 2013, 9:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/breaking-bad-5-10-buried-8-18-13/666580/125 "2013-08-19T21:27:34Z")
> [@Gangster\_Octopus](#): > > Actually **Munch** is right. Walt said he wanted to push back the budget meeting so he could schedule a call with Ramey. Whether or not he was going to tell Ramey about Walt is never made xplicit, Walt simply says something to the effect that the meeting is to “get up to speed”. There are a lot of Walt’s in this description… :dubious: 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Gangster\_Octopus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/a8b319/32.png) [@Gangster\_Octopus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gangster_Octopus)\ **Post date:** [August 19, 2013, 9:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/breaking-bad-5-10-buried-8-18-13/666580/126 "2013-08-19T21:33:39Z")
> [@Red\_Barchetta](#): > > There are a lot of Walt’s in this description… :dubious: > > 😃 Yeah, well…I think I should talk to a lawyer…AM I UNDER ARREST? ---
**Author:** ![Don\_t\_Panic](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/don_t_panic/32/398_2.png) [@Don\_t\_Panic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Don_t_Panic)\ **Post date:** [August 19, 2013, 9:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/breaking-bad-5-10-buried-8-18-13/666580/127 "2013-08-19T21:36:04Z")
> [@zoid](#): > > Agreed, but by the end when he shoots her the look when he and Marie are leaving you can see he at least suspects she’s complicit. Marie will at least get him up to speed on the fact that Skyler is in deeper than he expected. Jeez, Hank needs some help on this case. If there’s one thing he can’t trust when it comes to his family members, it’s clearly his own judgement. ---
**Author:** ![Munch](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/munch/32/5281_2.png) [@Munch](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Munch)\ **Post date:** [August 19, 2013, 9:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/breaking-bad-5-10-buried-8-18-13/666580/128 "2013-08-19T21:36:25Z")
> [@Erdosain](#): > > Uh, no, I think we just have different interpretations of the scene. My interpretation (and I think it’s the majority one here) is that the conference call was intended to tell his superior Ramey about Walt. In view of that, he wouldn’t be around to participate in a boring budget meeting, and that’s part of why he’s not going to bother with the meeting. I don’t disagree that the purpose of the conference call was to come clean to the DEA - just that the budget meeting had nothing to do with it. ---
**Author:** ![Erdosain](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/erdosain/32/7284_2.png) [@Erdosain](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Erdosain)\ **Post date:** [August 19, 2013, 9:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/breaking-bad-5-10-buried-8-18-13/666580/129 "2013-08-19T21:50:41Z")
> [@Munch](#): > > I don’t disagree that the purpose of the conference call was to come clean to the DEA - just that the budget meeting had nothing to do with it. Fair enough. I interpreted it as a subtle nod to Hank’s dislike of the administrative duties of the ASAC. ---
**Author:** ![What\_the](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/f4b2a3/32.png) [@What\_the](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/What_the)\ **Post date:** [August 19, 2013, 10:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/breaking-bad-5-10-buried-8-18-13/666580/130 "2013-08-19T22:25:24Z")
Nobody watching Talking Bad? Aaron Paul was on instead of the SNL guy… as was Anna Gunn. ---
**Author:** ![TBG](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/c89c15/32.png) [@TBG](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TBG)\ **Post date:** [August 19, 2013, 10:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/breaking-bad-5-10-buried-8-18-13/666580/131 "2013-08-19T22:25:54Z")
I can’t believe Jesse went an entire episode without saying “bitch”. ---
**Author:** ![hajario](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hajario/32/171_2.png) [@hajario](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/hajario)\ **Post date:** [August 19, 2013, 10:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/breaking-bad-5-10-buried-8-18-13/666580/132 "2013-08-19T22:28:28Z")
> [@Gangster\_Octopus](#): > > Actually **Munch** is right. Walt said he wanted to push back the budget meeting so he could schedule a call with Ramey. Whether or not he was going to tell Ramey about Walt is never made xplicit, Walt simply says something to the effect that the meeting is to “get up to speed”. I agree with this. I also think, as others have already said, that Marie convinced him to come clean and we was planning on doing so with that call until he heard that Jesse was in the holding cell. ---
**Author:** ![Gangster\_Octopus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/a8b319/32.png) [@Gangster\_Octopus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gangster_Octopus)\ **Post date:** [August 19, 2013, 10:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/breaking-bad-5-10-buried-8-18-13/666580/133 "2013-08-19T22:29:55Z")
> [@TBG](#): > > I can’t believe Jesse went an entire episode without saying “bitch”. Jesse didn’t say anything at all in the whole episode. ---
**Author:** ![Don\_t\_Panic](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/don_t_panic/32/398_2.png) [@Don\_t\_Panic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Don_t_Panic)\ **Post date:** [August 19, 2013, 10:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/breaking-bad-5-10-buried-8-18-13/666580/134 "2013-08-19T22:37:42Z")
> [@What\_the](#): > > Nobody watching Talking Bad? > > Aaron Paul was on instead of the SNL guy… as was Anna Gunn. And it still managed to suck donkey balls. I’m not even sure how they did it. Thank God for the Insider podcast, as usual. ---
**Author:** ![Unauthorized\_Cinnamon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/bc8723/32.png) [@Unauthorized\_Cinnamon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Unauthorized_Cinnamon)\ **Post date:** [August 19, 2013, 11:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/breaking-bad-5-10-buried-8-18-13/666580/135 "2013-08-19T23:30:22Z")
> [@Stephe96](#): > > The spin-off should star Walt Jr and be called ‘Breaking Fast’ 😃 > [@Erdosain](#): > > . . . On a unrelated note, I am glad that they brought back Marie’s kleptomania. It took me a second, and then I laughed really hard! > [@SenorBeef](#): > > They did take some. Walt said “close enough”, and Huell and not-Huell shared a glance. It was clear that Walt knew they stole some but not enough to matter. I think the fact that they ended the previous scene with the “EPA official” pointing out that Walt just iced a dozen people with icy indifference and clockwork precision means they opted not to take the risk, then regretted it once it was clear Walt had no clue (or didn’t care) how much money there was. Also, there’s no way he could have judged that they took some from that cursory inspection, so they can’t think he means “I know you took some, but whatever.” > [@obfusciatrist](#): > > That was my take on it. Marie convinced Hank that ending his career in shame was a better outcome than going to jail because while sitting on his information the DEA caught Walt anyway and it came out then that he knew about it. > > While setting up the call to do that, he learns Jesse is in jail and thinks he may have a way to quickly get the confirming information so that he can go to his superiors with enough information for an arrest rather than just the suspicions of a potential co-conspirator that got in too deep and is looking to get out while the getting is good. This was my read as well. I loved the Western showdown bit with Walt and Hank, right down to itchy fingers and Hank “drawing and firing” his garage door remote. From this moment forward, when my kids are getting out of hand, I’m going to tell them, “I’ll send \*you \*to Belize!” Skyler’s exit from the diner reminded my of this joke: Why did the libertarian chicken cross the road? Chicken: none of your business. Am I being detained? ---
**Author:** ![Marley23](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/45deac/32.png) [@Marley23](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Marley23)\ **Post date:** [August 19, 2013, 11:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/breaking-bad-5-10-buried-8-18-13/666580/136 "2013-08-19T23:33:18Z")
> [@Unauthorized\_Cinnamon](#): > > From this moment forward, when my kids are getting out of hand, I’m going to tell them, “I’ll send \*you \*to Belize!” Yes, that was really funny. They used to have a lot more laugh lines like that one, so it was nice to get one here. ---
**Author:** ![ISiddiqui](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/97f17d/32.png) [@ISiddiqui](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ISiddiqui)\ **Post date:** [August 20, 2013, 1:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/breaking-bad-5-10-buried-8-18-13/666580/137 "2013-08-20T01:36:14Z")
Also thought it humorous when Todd was leading Lydia back to the car, around all the dead bodies. Yes, the show is super dark, but still has those comedic scenes every once in a while. ---
**Author:** ![Breen11](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/c0e974/32.png) [@Breen11](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Breen11)\ **Post date:** [August 20, 2013, 1:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/breaking-bad-5-10-buried-8-18-13/666580/138 "2013-08-20T01:36:43Z")
IDK Jesse will say what Hank wants to hear. I do think that Walt has back up of coordinates to the money location. Just in case the lotto ticket gets tossed. ---
**Author:** ![BlackKnight](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/eb8c5e/32.png) [@BlackKnight](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BlackKnight)\ **Post date:** [August 20, 2013, 1:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/breaking-bad-5-10-buried-8-18-13/666580/139 "2013-08-20T01:39:58Z")
Todd’s jacket: [Imgur: The magic of the Internet](http://imgur.com/JEYNrNB) Lotto numbers / Latitude-Longitude: [Imgur: The magic of the Internet](http://imgur.com/NrRsteg) The jacket that Walt is wearing in the flashforward seems to resemble Todd’s more than it resembles Jesse’s. I now know that the numbers are the coordinates of the studio. At first, I wondered if there was some other significance. The “52” at the end, and the “34” at the beginning (Gale’s age when killed, according to the Breaking Bad Wiki) made me wonder. Tomorrow, I am going to print out a fake postcard from Belize, write a message from Mike on it (“Enjoying Belize. Gus, Gale, and I are having a great time here. Hope to see you soon”), and slip it through my brother’s mail slot. ---
**Author:** ![Stephe96](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/bbe5ce/32.png) [@Stephe96](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Stephe96)\ **Post date:** [August 20, 2013, 1:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/breaking-bad-5-10-buried-8-18-13/666580/140 "2013-08-20T01:40:55Z")
> [@Joey\_P](#): > > [http://mcgarnagle.files.wordpress.com/2012/04/big-w.png](http://mcgarnagle.files.wordpress.com/2012/04/big-w.png) Yes! The riotous sequel will open with a dying Walt telling a virtual who’s-who of Hollywood’s biggest comedy stars that he buried the money under a giant W (“Remember my name!”). A madcap race for the treasure ensues in “It’s a Breaking Bad Bad Bad Bad World.” [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/breaking-bad-5-10-buried-8-18-13/666580.md?page=6) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/breaking-bad-5-10-buried-8-18-13/666580.md?page=8)