# 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:** 15
**Author:** ![Marley23](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/45deac/32.png) [@Marley23](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Marley23)\ **Post date:** [August 27, 2013, 6:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/breaking-bad-5-11-confessions-8-25-13/666959/281 "2013-08-27T18:45:54Z")
> [@hajario](#): > > Why not Walt Jr? Because he would have reacted when Jesse kicked the door in. I don’t know how long that scene lasted, but it was long enough that if anybody were home I think they would have at least said something. > [@Acsenray](#): > > Was it Norris playing Walt as well? And Vince Gilligan. That was really the best part of the video. ---
**Author:** ![Washoe](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/ecae2f/32.png) [@Washoe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Washoe)\ **Post date:** [August 27, 2013, 6:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/breaking-bad-5-11-confessions-8-25-13/666959/282 "2013-08-27T18:46:28Z")
> [@Agent\_Foxtrot](#): > > Thread idea: Write the worst Breaking Bad ending imaginable. 1). Final scene: Junior sitting at the breakfast table, milk drooling out of the corner of his mouth, staring vacuously at a snow globe. The flakes are blue instead of white. 2). Anything that involves the ‘good guys’ triumphing completely, and in a traditional, non-extrajudicial manner—all of the baddies behind bars, and all innocents safely in WITSEC or even just going about their normal routines. 3). Walt suicides. Somehow that would just be too lazy. 4). Walt forgot to check the white van for tracking devices, and Huell and Kuby go dig up his booty and abscond to Mexico with it. ---
**Author:** ![Marley23](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/45deac/32.png) [@Marley23](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Marley23)\ **Post date:** [August 27, 2013, 6:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/breaking-bad-5-11-confessions-8-25-13/666959/283 "2013-08-27T18:51:57Z")
> [@Washoe](#): > > 4). Walt forgot to check the white van for tracking devices, and Huell and Kuby go dig up his booty and abscond to Mexico with it. To flesh it out a little: we see Huell get on a bus and arrive at a beach in Mexico. He walks across the sand and meets Kuby, who is smiling and building a boat. ---
**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 27, 2013, 6:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/breaking-bad-5-11-confessions-8-25-13/666959/284 "2013-08-27T18:55:06Z")
Worst Breaking Bad ending ever: As it turns out, Walt is actually a vampire. ---
**Author:** ![JohnT](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnt/32/15048_2.png) [@JohnT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JohnT)\ **Post date:** [August 27, 2013, 6:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/breaking-bad-5-11-confessions-8-25-13/666959/285 "2013-08-27T18:59:42Z")
[bad ending] Walt goes into the corner grocery: “Pack of Newports… soft pack.” Some 12 year-old walks in, shoots him in the head, drops the gun and runs out of the store. [/bad ending] ---
**Author:** ![Smeghead](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/f1d935/32.png) [@Smeghead](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Smeghead)\ **Post date:** [August 27, 2013, 7:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/breaking-bad-5-11-confessions-8-25-13/666959/286 "2013-08-27T19:00:27Z")
I know I’m not the only one to think this up, but I’d love to see Walt wake up next to Lois from Malcolm in the Middle and start telling her about this crazy dream he had about being a meth cook in New Mexico… ---
**Author:** ![phungi](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/phungi/32/395_2.png) [@phungi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/phungi)\ **Post date:** [August 27, 2013, 7:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/breaking-bad-5-11-confessions-8-25-13/666959/287 "2013-08-27T19:00:47Z")
Worst Breaking Bad ending ever: Walt, Hank, Jesse, Skyler are put on trial for breaking the Good Samaritan Law and being a bad influence, and end up arguing in a jail cell together. ---
**Author:** ![Chefguy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chefguy/32/138_2.png) [@Chefguy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chefguy)\ **Post date:** [August 27, 2013, 7:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/breaking-bad-5-11-confessions-8-25-13/666959/288 "2013-08-27T19:01:35Z")
> [@Agent\_Foxtrot](#): > > Worst Breaking Bad ending ever: > > As it turns out, Walt is actually a vampire. The escaped Russian from the Sopranos suddenly appears, mistakes Walt for Pauli, and kills him with a lethal Death Blow. ---
**Author:** ![ZipperJJ](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/zipperjj/32/211_2.png) [@ZipperJJ](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ZipperJJ)\ **Post date:** [August 27, 2013, 7:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/breaking-bad-5-11-confessions-8-25-13/666959/289 "2013-08-27T19:18:37Z")
> [@Agent\_Foxtrot](#): > > I looked up the house a while back on Google Maps. It actually exists and someone lives in it. Pretty sure it’s just the exterior that gets filmed. I read that in 1 or 2 threads back. The interior is a sound stage. ---
**Author:** ![Sampiro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/2acd7d/32.png) [@Sampiro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sampiro)\ **Post date:** [August 27, 2013, 7:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/breaking-bad-5-11-confessions-8-25-13/666959/290 "2013-08-27T19:22:20Z")
Hank has tried playing both bad cop and worse cop (and to a degree this time good cop) with Jesse. The pity is if he’d throw a baseball with him and then take him out for ice cream Jesse would probably sing like Sammy Davis, Jr… I was actually disappointed when Jesse didn’t get into the van because (if Hoover dust filter guy is legit) with a new identity he could be redeemed. Of the outlaws he’s about the only one of whom that’s true. [QUOTE=Ascenray] Now that I read that description, I wonder if it would also have been accurate for Hitler. [/QUOTE] I’m imagining Hitler climbing out of the bunker in designer heels and asking Goebbels to hold his hand and lead him past the dead soldiers and rubble. ---
**Author:** ![LawMonkey](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/d6d6ee/32.png) [@LawMonkey](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LawMonkey)\ **Post date:** [August 27, 2013, 7:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/breaking-bad-5-11-confessions-8-25-13/666959/291 "2013-08-27T19:49:53Z")
> [@Washoe](#): > > 2). Anything that involves the ‘good guys’ triumphing completely, and in a traditional, non-extrajudicial manner—all of the baddies behind bars, and all innocents safely in WITSEC or even just going about their normal routines. Not complete unless the very last image is a freeze-frame of Hank, Gomie, Marie and Walt, Jr. laughing together. > [@](#): > > 4). Walt forgot to check the white van for tracking devices, and Huell and Kuby go dig up his booty and abscond to Mexico with it. Are you sure you didn’t mean to put this in the “Best Breaking Bad Endings” thread? ---
**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 27, 2013, 7:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/breaking-bad-5-11-confessions-8-25-13/666959/292 "2013-08-27T19:54:16Z")
I can imagine the show ending with Walt sitting there, perhaps in an interrogation room at the DEA, denying that his name is Walter White and saying that he is Heisenberg. In other words, the persona entirely takes over and all of his humanity is lost. ---
**Author:** ![edwards\_beard](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/7bcc69/32.png) [@edwards\_beard](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/edwards_beard)\ **Post date:** [August 27, 2013, 7:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/breaking-bad-5-11-confessions-8-25-13/666959/293 "2013-08-27T19:56:11Z")
Walt, sitting in a chair getting Chemo…the camera pans back to reveal an RV in a snow globe. ---
**Author:** ![Stephe96](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/bbe5ce/32.png) [@Stephe96](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Stephe96)\ **Post date:** [August 27, 2013, 8:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/breaking-bad-5-11-confessions-8-25-13/666959/294 "2013-08-27T20:01:55Z")
After Walt confesses everything to the increasingly skeptical Feds, he says, “Oh yeah. And the plane that crashed last year? That was me too.” Feds decide he’s crazy and arrest Hank. ---
**Author:** ![voltaire](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/voltaire/32/313_2.png) [@voltaire](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/voltaire)\ **Post date:** [August 27, 2013, 8:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/breaking-bad-5-11-confessions-8-25-13/666959/295 "2013-08-27T20:02:55Z")
> [@hajario](#): > > Todd won’t be making good stuff. His shit was barely better than Declan’s and he got fired for starting a fire. Unless Walt agrees to come back to get them back on track. > [@Andiethewestie](#): > > Not only was it creepy, but for me Uncle Jack was in stark contrast to the precise Gus Fring, who completely covered himself before killing, no hair out of place, always straightening his tie. Uncle Jack’s killings are not only cavalier, they’re messy. I think there’s going to be a blood bath soon. > [@Marley23](#): > > Unless I misunderstood, these guys already killed Mike’s guys in prison and then we saw them wipe out Declan and his crew last week. Mike and Gus regarded killing as a last resort, but these guys don’t care. So if they decide they need Walt they certainly won’t hesitate to get violent. They may not need to use threats on Walt to get him to help. If Walt is in need of someone to go after Jesse, or just muscle in general (for Hank?/cartel?), he could trade his consulting services for their “extermination” services. > [@obfusciatrist](#): > > Why do we assume that Todd made less than stellar meth because he’s an idiot? Has he done anything to suggest he is? > > Maybe he made crappy meth because his bosses weren’t interested in providing an environment in which it was possible to make really good meth. Since the Todd and the Nazis knew where the lab was, I take it that Todd was also cooking in that horribly dirty buried bus. I don’t think Todd and the neo-Nazis knew where the lab was. Declan’s people had Lydia blindfolded on the way there, and they knew that she and Todd worked together, so if Todd knew where their operation was, they would expect Lydia to already know. It looked like Lydia had some sort of tracking device that allowed them to follow her there from a safe distance. Todd was probably cooking elsewhere, which they may have had to abandon due to the fire. ---
**Author:** ![Stephe96](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/bbe5ce/32.png) [@Stephe96](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Stephe96)\ **Post date:** [August 27, 2013, 8:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/breaking-bad-5-11-confessions-8-25-13/666959/296 "2013-08-27T20:14:38Z")
Walt confesses everything, then says “None of these stories are embellished because they need no embellishment. They are simply, horrifyingly, the true experiences of my life as a stocky, bald, slow-witted man in Albequerque.” ---
**Author:** ![standingwave](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/9de0a6/32.png) [@standingwave](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/standingwave)\ **Post date:** [August 27, 2013, 8:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/breaking-bad-5-11-confessions-8-25-13/666959/297 "2013-08-27T20:27:34Z")
> [@Stephe96](#): > > Walt confesses everything, then says “None of these stories are embellished because they need no embellishment. They are simply, horrifyingly, the true experiences of my life as a stocky, bald, slow-witted man in Albequerque.” Sincerely, Walter Vandelay. Confessing is the only way Jesse is ever going to find out about Jane. ---
**Author:** ![Stephe96](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/bbe5ce/32.png) [@Stephe96](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Stephe96)\ **Post date:** [August 27, 2013, 8:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/breaking-bad-5-11-confessions-8-25-13/666959/298 "2013-08-27T20:33:59Z")
Last scene in doctor’s office. Doctor: “Boy, do I feel an idiot! I mixed up my charts! Walt, YOU don’t have cancer; it’s the late Walter BLACK who only had a few months to live. I’m really sorry and I hope my little gaffe didn’t cause any trouble.” ---
**Author:** ![LawMonkey](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/d6d6ee/32.png) [@LawMonkey](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LawMonkey)\ **Post date:** [August 27, 2013, 8:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/breaking-bad-5-11-confessions-8-25-13/666959/299 "2013-08-27T20:45:17Z")
And the [Facebook recap](http://happyplace.someecards.com/25941/if-breaking-bad-took-place-entirely-on-facebook-season-5-episode-11)! “\*\*Hank Schrader \*\*has invited **Jesse Pinkman** to join the group People Who Regret Ever Meeting Walter White.” ---
**Author:** ![Stephe96](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/bbe5ce/32.png) [@Stephe96](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Stephe96)\ **Post date:** [August 27, 2013, 8:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/breaking-bad-5-11-confessions-8-25-13/666959/300 "2013-08-27T20:54:33Z")
I think it will be brutal when the truth of the missing kid comes out. That might be the thing that changes the endgame for good. Maybe the kid’s father will take Walter out. Sweet justice! [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/breaking-bad-5-11-confessions-8-25-13/666959.md?page=14) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/breaking-bad-5-11-confessions-8-25-13/666959.md?page=16)