# Breaking Bad 5.11 "Confessions" 8/25/13 **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [August 23, 2013, 1:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/breaking-bad-5-11-confessions-8-25-13/666959 "2013-08-23T13:02:33Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Agent\_Foxtrot](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/9fc29f/32.png) [@Agent\_Foxtrot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Agent_Foxtrot)\ **Post date:** [August 23, 2013, 1:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/breaking-bad-5-11-confessions-8-25-13/666959/1 "2013-08-23T13:02:33Z")
I know it’s a little early to start this thread, but damn if we aren’t at an interesting point in the series. I’m guessing that Jesse won’t give Hank shit, and Hank’ll have to let him go because playing paperboy with stacks of $100 bills isn’t a crime. Will Jesse end up killing Walt later on to clear his conscience? I’m particularly interested in what Skyler is going to do. Suicide isn’t an option as she has her kids to think about. She’s now estranged from her entire family and has no place to go. Ted wants her to stay the hell away. She’s in an even tougher position than Walt. Thoughts? Speculation? ---
**Author:** ![SykoSkotty](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/c0e974/32.png) [@SykoSkotty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SykoSkotty)\ **Post date:** [August 23, 2013, 1:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/breaking-bad-5-11-confessions-8-25-13/666959/2 "2013-08-23T13:27:27Z")
My head is spinning. I can’t wait for the next episode on Sunday night. I have too many theories floating around. The way the show sucks you in with the flash forwards and leaves you trying to figure out how we got there is just brilliant. I will be sad to see this amazing series go. Skyler is all about Team Walt now. She’s knows Hank has no evidence, so like she said, I think she’s going to keep quiet. Jesse. Well, I see Jesse making a big comeback after his arrest. I think the interrogation with Hank will snap him out of his funk, and he’ll start making moves. Don’t know what kind of moves, but he’s far from done. I’d like to see him reunite with Andrea, take his cash and head off into the sunset…after killing Walt once he discovers that he poisoned Brock after all. ---
**Author:** ![Dewey\_Finn](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dewey_finn/32/4222_2.png) [@Dewey\_Finn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dewey_Finn)\ **Post date:** [August 23, 2013, 1:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/breaking-bad-5-11-confessions-8-25-13/666959/3 "2013-08-23T13:37:53Z")
Take his cash? Unless he has money set aside from the cash in the duffel bags that he was throwing around, he’s not taking his money anywhere. The police have the majority of it and they’re not going to just give it back to him. ---
**Author:** ![Simplicio](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/c37758/32.png) [@Simplicio](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Simplicio)\ **Post date:** [August 23, 2013, 1:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/breaking-bad-5-11-confessions-8-25-13/666959/4 "2013-08-23T13:44:23Z")
> [@Agent\_Foxtrot](#): > > I know it’s a little early to start this thread, but damn if we aren’t at an interesting point in the series. I’m guessing that Jesse won’t give Hank shit, and Hank’ll have to let him go because playing paperboy with stacks of $100 bills isn’t a crime. He was driving under the influence (and into a ditch), which I imagine is what they took him in for in the first place. And if they search his house/car, I imagine they’d find enough drug-related stuff to hold him for a while. And having stacks of cash you can’t explain is a crime. Your supposed to report income to the IRS and found money to the cops. But I hope Jessie snaps out of it and does _something_. Depressed, out of it Jessie is kind of boring to watch. ---
**Author:** ![Agent\_Foxtrot](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/9fc29f/32.png) [@Agent\_Foxtrot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Agent_Foxtrot)\ **Post date:** [August 23, 2013, 1:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/breaking-bad-5-11-confessions-8-25-13/666959/5 "2013-08-23T13:44:29Z")
> [@Dewey\_Finn](#): > > Take his cash? Unless he has money set aside from the cash in the duffel bags that he was throwing around, he’s not taking his money anywhere. The police have the majority of it and they’re not going to just give it back to him. Why not? It’s not illegal to carry large amounts of cash. Suspicious, yes, but not illegal. And if Jesse can’t convince them to let it go, Saul will. ---
**Author:** ![Enright3](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/enright3/32/2897_2.png) [@Enright3](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Enright3)\ **Post date:** [August 23, 2013, 1:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/breaking-bad-5-11-confessions-8-25-13/666959/6 "2013-08-23T13:45:40Z")
> [@Dewey\_Finn](#): > > Take his cash? Unless he has money set aside from the cash in the duffel bags that he was throwing around, he’s not taking his money anywhere. The police have the majority of it and they’re not going to just give it back to him. I don’t know how things work in real life; but in TV life; it’s not against the law to have a duffel full of cash. They have no proof that it’s tied to any type of drug deal. I could see Jesse keeping his mouth shut except to call Saul; and getting out of there with his cash. ---
**Author:** ![Simplicio](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/c37758/32.png) [@Simplicio](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Simplicio)\ **Post date:** [August 23, 2013, 1:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/breaking-bad-5-11-confessions-8-25-13/666959/7 "2013-08-23T13:49:29Z")
> [@Enright3](#): > > I don’t know how things work in real life; but in TV life; it’s not against the law to have a duffel full of cash. They have no proof that it’s tied to any type of drug deal. I could see Jesse keeping his mouth shut except to call Saul; and getting out of there with his cash. It’s not illegal to have it, but my understanding is to get it back from the cops you have to claim its yours, and to make a claim you have to have some explanation of how you got it. Granted, I’m basically just going off what happens in other TV shows (I think The Wire had a similar scenario). Jessie was trying to get rid of it anyways, so I doubt he’s going to try too hard to get it back. ---
**Author:** ![SykoSkotty](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/c0e974/32.png) [@SykoSkotty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SykoSkotty)\ **Post date:** [August 23, 2013, 1:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/breaking-bad-5-11-confessions-8-25-13/666959/8 "2013-08-23T13:49:30Z")
> [@Dewey\_Finn](#): > > Take his cash? Unless he has money set aside from the cash in the duffel bags that he was throwing around, he’s not taking his money anywhere. The police have the majority of it and they’re not going to just give it back to him. Well, I was actually referring to all the money he’s made prior to the duffel bags. The cash he made during his employment under Gus Fring, and the cash he made during the Walt/Jesse/Mike business. Best I can tell, he hasn’t spent much money on anything. He still drives the same beat up hunk o’ junk and lives in the same house with little furniture. The only things I can recall him spending any money on would be that monster stereo, some new clothes that fit a little better, the occasional dimebag, and that expensive watch for Walt. ---
**Author:** ![Agent\_Foxtrot](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/9fc29f/32.png) [@Agent\_Foxtrot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Agent_Foxtrot)\ **Post date:** [August 23, 2013, 1:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/breaking-bad-5-11-confessions-8-25-13/666959/9 "2013-08-23T13:49:37Z")
Question that just occurred to me: I seem to remember in the last episode that Walt handed Saul a bunch of cash, told him to take his fees out, and give the rest to Skyler(?). Anyway, what would Saul do with several stacks of $100’s? He can’t deposit it in the bank without arousing suspicion. No money launderer is going to bother with that small an amount of cash, and even if he did have a launderer on hand, Walt/Jesse/Skyler would already be using him. ---
**Author:** ![Simplicio](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/c37758/32.png) [@Simplicio](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Simplicio)\ **Post date:** [August 23, 2013, 1:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/breaking-bad-5-11-confessions-8-25-13/666959/10 "2013-08-23T13:54:40Z")
> [@Agent\_Foxtrot](#): > > Question that just occurred to me: I seem to remember in the last episode that Walt handed Saul a bunch of cash, told him to take his fees out, and give the rest to Skyler(?). Anyway, what would Saul do with several stacks of $100’s? He can’t deposit it in the bank without arousing suspicion. No money launderer is going to bother with that small an amount of cash, and even if he did have a launderer on hand, Walt/Jesse/Skyler would already be using him. I think he told him to pay off the two guys that moved the money, not Skyler. But Saul doesn’t really need to launder anything, Walt really is his client and the money is payment for legal advice (well, and moving large pallets of cash around, but he can leave that part off his tax returns). I doubt it’s that unusual for lawyers of certain types of clients to get paid large sums in cash (or alternatively, have a bunch of poorer clients that pay small sums in cash). I think Saul mentioned in one of the last two episodes that he launders his money through his lawfirm. ---
**Author:** ![WordMan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/e8c25b/32.png) [@WordMan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WordMan)\ **Post date:** [August 23, 2013, 3:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/breaking-bad-5-11-confessions-8-25-13/666959/11 "2013-08-23T15:20:13Z")
In a related note, I read in the NYTimes that the Belize Board of Tourism has offered Vince Gilligan and many of the actors a free Trip to Belize. 😉 As for the show, the one who understands how deep this goes is Marie, because she grasps Skyler’s role. I wonder if Confessions is about legal/police/Hank stuff, or something more important between sisters… ---
**Author:** ![Martin\_Hyde](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/47e85d/32.png) [@Martin\_Hyde](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Martin_Hyde)\ **Post date:** [August 23, 2013, 5:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/breaking-bad-5-11-confessions-8-25-13/666959/12 "2013-08-23T17:48:58Z")
**Jesse Jesse Jesse Jesse Jesse Jesse Jesse** Why does this “Jessie” thing seem to come up in every Breaking Bad thread? ---
**Author:** ![well\_he\_s\_back](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/3ab097/32.png) [@well\_he\_s\_back](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/well_he_s_back)\ **Post date:** [August 23, 2013, 6:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/breaking-bad-5-11-confessions-8-25-13/666959/13 "2013-08-23T18:21:10Z")
I wonder if Walt will confess to Walt jr. Show has to deal with him too. ---
**Author:** ![Skammer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/skammer/32/143_2.png) [@Skammer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skammer)\ **Post date:** [August 23, 2013, 6:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/breaking-bad-5-11-confessions-8-25-13/666959/14 "2013-08-23T18:26:28Z")
Walt Jr’s heart will break when he finds out. He’ll probably never speak to his father again. ---
**Author:** ![Washoe](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/ecae2f/32.png) [@Washoe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Washoe)\ **Post date:** [August 23, 2013, 7:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/breaking-bad-5-11-confessions-8-25-13/666959/15 "2013-08-23T19:28:25Z")
I just wish that Jesse hadn’t turned into such a whiney little bitch and had just driven up to White Horse and dropped the money on the Sharps’ doorstep himself. That would have made for a really interesting side story. Also, I only saw one duffel bag in the car—where’s the other one? ---
**Author:** ![Dogzilla](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e480ec/32.png) [@Dogzilla](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dogzilla)\ **Post date:** [August 23, 2013, 8:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/breaking-bad-5-11-confessions-8-25-13/666959/16 "2013-08-23T20:17:40Z")
I don’t know how it’s going to happen, exactly, but I think the scene with Marie trying to take Holly was foreshadowing. I think Skyler will end up dead and Hank and Marie will end up raising the kids, both of them. Jesse may also end up dead after he or when he tries to roll on Walt. Lydia will get her hands dirty and may either end up killing someone, witnessing it, or being an accessory. She and her crew may also all end up dead. Hank may get his Heisenberg, but his career is over either way. Upon investigation, it will be obvious he should have seen the forest for all the trees, and he will get shitcanned and become a stay at home dad to Holly, teaching her to collect rocks, erm, _minerals._ Walt will not be able to get to his money and will take off to start up again in another part of the country. The money will not end up taking care of the kids, as he and Skyler would like. That’s it. Those are my predictions. ---
**Author:** ![GrandWino](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/grandwino/32/67_2.png) [@GrandWino](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GrandWino)\ **Post date:** [August 23, 2013, 8:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/breaking-bad-5-11-confessions-8-25-13/666959/17 "2013-08-23T20:20:11Z")
> [@Dogzilla](#): > > I don’t know how it’s going to happen, exactly, but I think the scene with Marie trying to take Holly was foreshadowing. I think Skyler will end up dead and Hank and Marie will end up raising the kids, both of them. I was just watching an episode from last season (or the first half of this season, I guess?) that had several strong bits of foreshadowing just like this. ---
**Author:** ![Skammer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/skammer/32/143_2.png) [@Skammer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skammer)\ **Post date:** [August 23, 2013, 9:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/breaking-bad-5-11-confessions-8-25-13/666959/18 "2013-08-23T21:53:13Z")
I agree that Holly will end up with Hank and Marie. Or, at the very least, Marie. ---
**Author:** ![5\_time\_champ](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/5/278dde/32.png) [@5\_time\_champ](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/5_time_champ)\ **Post date:** [August 24, 2013, 8:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/breaking-bad-5-11-confessions-8-25-13/666959/19 "2013-08-24T20:28:13Z")
I think the cold opening will be Walt and Skylar going to meet and start negotiations with . . . the present owners of Gentle Hands Car Wash that Walt spoke of buying in Episode 9. Walt and Skylar meeting Hank & Marie in a public place is too predictable. Hank’s meeting with Jesse will backfire at the start at least, though who knows where it will lead. Hank’s appearance will certainly bring Jesse out of his funk as mentioned upthread. Something I noticed re-watching Walt recovering the ricin vial. Walt looks over at the opposite wall, and pauses. What does Walt see? He doesn’t replace the switch plate, which he had started to do. I think the preview clip for this episode is about as generic and useless as all the Mad Men preview clips. ---
**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 24, 2013, 9:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/breaking-bad-5-11-confessions-8-25-13/666959/20 "2013-08-24T21:19:34Z")
I saw it as he went to replace the switch plate and then saw how ridiculous that would be in the shell of a house. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/breaking-bad-5-11-confessions-8-25-13/666959.md?page=2)