# 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:** 2
**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 24, 2013, 10:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/breaking-bad-5-11-confessions-8-25-13/666959/21 "2013-08-24T22:06:42Z")
> [@Dogzilla](#): > > 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. The vibe I get for Lydia’s future is that if anybody emerges from this unscathed (or possibly even better off), it will be her. I have no particular reason to believe this, and I could be completely off, but it’s a hunch that just seems fitting for some reason. So many people have gone through so much hardship, pain and death, but meek little Lydia is the only one who “wins” in the end. However bumbling she may be, she’s the only character who has kept it “strictly business” without getting too personal, too trusting and too confident. Maybe she gets there by betraying/killing everybody else, but ultimately, it seems like her paranoid and dispassionate approach to the business is the most likely to succeed. But what do I know? Maybe Todd and his neo-Nazi crew take her out and \*they \*are the only ones that emerge unscathed. ---
**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, 11:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/breaking-bad-5-11-confessions-8-25-13/666959/22 "2013-08-24T23:17:57Z")
> [@hajario](#): > > 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. Which leads to another question, if the DEA/FBI/APD have executed a search warrant on the White reisdence, why is the switch plate undisturbed? ---
**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, 11:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/breaking-bad-5-11-confessions-8-25-13/666959/23 "2013-08-24T23:28:26Z")
> [@5\_time\_champ](#): > > Which leads to another question, if the DEA/FBI/APD have executed a search warrant on the White reisdence, why is the switch plate undisturbed? If they were looking for a large stock pile of cash or documents, there would be no point in checking the electrical plate. What could they be reasonably looking for that they could find there? ---
**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 24, 2013, 11:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/breaking-bad-5-11-confessions-8-25-13/666959/24 "2013-08-24T23:49:57Z")
Even _if_ anybody took off that switch-plate and looked for stuff hidden in the wall, they might not even notice that small vial taped to the back of the switch-plate. ---
**Author:** ![typoink](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ecb155/32.png) [@typoink](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/typoink)\ **Post date:** [August 25, 2013, 12:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/breaking-bad-5-11-confessions-8-25-13/666959/25 "2013-08-25T00:42:06Z")
Seems folk think Hank is going to try to get information from Jesse; my thinking is that Hank is going to tell Jesse to keep his trap shut. He’s terrified of his career going down in flames, and I think, at this point, that he’s worried Jesse is going to give something up. Hank sure as Hell doesn’t want another cop to get Walt, which will result in either utter humiliation or possibly actual charges Hank, given his recent behavior. He _needs_ to end this thing on his terms, and he knows Jesse is a huge threat to that. I don’t think he expects Jesse to help him, I think he needs to Jesse to not help the other detectives. And that’s another step Hank could take down a bad path. ---
**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 25, 2013, 1:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/breaking-bad-5-11-confessions-8-25-13/666959/26 "2013-08-25T01:02:48Z")
DEA/FBI/APD would reasonbly be looking for anything, anything that the great Heisenberg might be hiding. Granted APD did miss the Cayman Islands bank accounts in the picture frame when they searched Gus’ office. One guesses that they would have eventually searched the picture frame and hadn’t done so when “Yo, magnets bitch!” ---
**Author:** ![Crawlspace](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/d6d6ee/32.png) [@Crawlspace](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Crawlspace)\ **Post date:** [August 25, 2013, 1:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/breaking-bad-5-11-confessions-8-25-13/666959/27 "2013-08-25T01:39:57Z")
> [@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(?). “Pay Huell and Cuby and take your cut. The rest is mine, insurance money in case I need you.” At the time I assumed the “insurance money” was for Haji’s Quick Vanish. It didn’t look like he gave him enough for the whole family, but could explain his new identity in the Deny’s. ---
**Author:** ![Frylock](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/ce7236/32.png) [@Frylock](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Frylock)\ **Post date:** [August 25, 2013, 7:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/breaking-bad-5-11-confessions-8-25-13/666959/28 "2013-08-25T19:32:06Z")
Hey is anyone else watching this on Amazon streaming? If so, have you determined how soon they release it after the actual broadcast? ---
**Author:** ![BorgHunter](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/7c8e57/32.png) [@BorgHunter](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BorgHunter)\ **Post date:** [August 25, 2013, 7:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/breaking-bad-5-11-confessions-8-25-13/666959/29 "2013-08-25T19:36:03Z")
> [@Frylock](#): > > Hey is anyone else watching this on Amazon streaming? If so, have you determined how soon they release it after the actual broadcast? I bought the season pass on Amazon. Last episode, I got an email that the order went through on Monday at about 5 AM Central. ---
**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 25, 2013, 7:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/breaking-bad-5-11-confessions-8-25-13/666959/30 "2013-08-25T19:46:17Z")
Just curious: did the season pass cover both halves of Season 5, or did you have to buy a new one this year? ---
**Author:** ![BorgHunter](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/7c8e57/32.png) [@BorgHunter](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BorgHunter)\ **Post date:** [August 25, 2013, 7:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/breaking-bad-5-11-confessions-8-25-13/666959/31 "2013-08-25T19:59:02Z")
> [@Dewey\_Finn](#): > > Just curious: did the season pass cover both halves of Season 5, or did you have to buy a new one this year? I didn’t have a season pass for season 5, actually. I have heard from numerous people that Season 5.5 is a different season from Amazon’s perspective. ---
**Author:** ![Marley23](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/45deac/32.png) [@Marley23](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Marley23)\ **Post date:** [August 25, 2013, 8:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/breaking-bad-5-11-confessions-8-25-13/666959/32 "2013-08-25T20:01:52Z")
> [@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. Yes, we are. I was just thinking about how much I want to see Hank’s talk with Jesse and then Hank’s meeting with his bosses. I’m surprised so many people are suggesting Jesse will stonewall Hank. Why do we think Jesse is going to try to get out of this? I don’t think he wants that at all. He’s overwhelmed with guilt. In the last episode he was a dead man walking- basically catatonic. When he left his house high and started tossing cash out of his car he was more or less begging to get arrested, and instead of trying to get away from the car he just lied down on the roundabout. Why wouldn’t he want to talk to the DEA at this point? He has a reason to hate Hank, but he also has reason to want to make amends to him. He has nothing but contempt for those other two agents but he knows Hank is smarter. I think the one thing we can assume is that there are other kinds of confessions coming in addition to (presumably) the legal kind. The title is plural and you can imagine, for example, Jesse confessing some things to Hank and Hank confessing to his bosses. I don’t think we’ll see Walt admitting anything to anybody or his son or Skyler going back to tell Marie what she knows. Who else has something to confess? ---
**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 25, 2013, 9:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/breaking-bad-5-11-confessions-8-25-13/666959/33 "2013-08-25T21:39:47Z")
Can anybody think of anything that Hank now knows (or can deduce) about Walt that he could use to turn Jesse against him? That seems like his most obvious play. ---
**Author:** ![BorgHunter](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/7c8e57/32.png) [@BorgHunter](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BorgHunter)\ **Post date:** [August 25, 2013, 9:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/breaking-bad-5-11-confessions-8-25-13/666959/34 "2013-08-25T21:47:22Z")
> [@voltaire](#): > > Can anybody think of anything that Hank now knows (or can deduce) about Walt that he could use to turn Jesse against him? That seems like his most obvious play. I could see Hank bringing up Gale; the _Leaves of Grass_ book with Gale’s inscription in it is what tipped him off, after all. Hank doesn’t know that Jesse’s the one who killed Gale, obviously, but with Jesse’s current state, that subject could well trigger something. Whether that “something” would be an outpouring of a guilt or a sudden interest in self-preservation (Hank asks about Gale? Better call Saul!), who knows. ---
**Author:** ![Crawlspace](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/d6d6ee/32.png) [@Crawlspace](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Crawlspace)\ **Post date:** [August 25, 2013, 10:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/breaking-bad-5-11-confessions-8-25-13/666959/35 "2013-08-25T22:05:36Z")
> [@Marley23](#): > > I don’t think we’ll see Walt admitting anything to anybody or his son or Skyler going back to tell Marie what she knows. Who else has something to confess? Marie hasn’t told Hank that Skyler has known about Walt since before Hank was shot by the Cousins. ---
**Author:** ![Marley23](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/45deac/32.png) [@Marley23](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Marley23)\ **Post date:** [August 25, 2013, 10:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/breaking-bad-5-11-confessions-8-25-13/666959/36 "2013-08-25T22:20:07Z")
> [@Crawlspace](#): > > Marie hasn’t told Hank that Skyler has known about Walt since before Hank was shot by the Cousins. That’s true. That would confirm that Skyler is not the innocent victim Hank assumed she was. ---
**Author:** ![sco3tt](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/45deac/32.png) [@sco3tt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/sco3tt)\ **Post date:** [August 26, 2013, 1:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/breaking-bad-5-11-confessions-8-25-13/666959/37 "2013-08-26T01:02:17Z")
> [@BorgHunter](#): > > I didn’t have a season pass for season 5, actually. I have heard from numerous people that Season 5.5 is a different season from Amazon’s perspective. I bought both halves of S5 this way through Amazon, and can confirm this. It really makes little difference how they split them up, though, since their “season” price is really just the sum of the per-episode price for that season minus a small discount (4% IIRC). Thus the only difference it would make is whether you do it in a single transaction or two. ---
**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 26, 2013, 1:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/breaking-bad-5-11-confessions-8-25-13/666959/38 "2013-08-26T01:11:24Z")
Could someone throw a summary of the first 5 minutes in a spoiler box for me? Thanks! ---
**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 26, 2013, 1:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/breaking-bad-5-11-confessions-8-25-13/666959/39 "2013-08-26T01:13:22Z")
Holy crap, did Hank leave a tape/memory card in that camera, and leave it running? ---
**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 26, 2013, 1:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/breaking-bad-5-11-confessions-8-25-13/666959/40 "2013-08-26T01:28:24Z")
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