The last episode is titled “Felina.” Relation to “El Paso” by Marty Robbins? The outlaw manged to escape town with his life, but only if he doesn’t come back. His love for Felina was too strong and he couldn’t stay away, so he returned and was gunned down.
Scene: Interior of a volcano.
Walt and Jesse are locked in a heated battle. Hank rushes up the outside of the volcano but it’s too steep to get to the top.
“You were the chosen one!” Jesse screams
“And now I’m the one who knocks…you out.” Walt retorts, before punching Jesse.
Jesse topples down, almost falling off the cliff.
“Jesse!” Walt screams
“Let me go, Mr. White,”
“I’ll never let you go, Jesse. Never. Join me, and we shall rule Albuquerque together.”
“No. I cannot. I must defeat you.”
“Defeat me? You? And what army?” Walt says now holding Jesse on the ledge. Flames from the lava rising from below. “You could never amount to anything without me. You could never apply yourself. You think you can take me on? Wake up, Jesse. Wake up!”
A smile flickers across Jesse’s face. Then Jesse starts laughing. “What’s so funny?” Walt asks.
“Wake up? That’s just what I wanted to say.” Jesse states. He opens up a pack of cigarettes with one hand, pulls one out, and shoves it into Walter White’s mouth.
Walter’s eyes go wide. Jesse pulls himself up, spins Walter around, and yells “Ricin Shine, bitch!” and pushes Walter White off the ledge to the fire down below. Then Jesse hears commotion up above and hides.
Hank arrives. “Shit!” He yells. “Just missed them!” Marie is by his side.
“You would have gotten here sooner if you hadn’t gotten caught up on those rocks.”
“God DAMNIT Marie. They’re…huh. I guess these are rocks.”
“Come on home, honey. I’ll make you a nice cup of tea.”
They leave. Jesse emerges. “Now there’s no one to stop me” he says and cackles to himself.
The music cues up dramatically. The screen shows eyes. Then we pan out to see a face. Walt Jr.'s face. He’s seen the whole thing.
“Gotta have my pops,” he says, as the screen fades to blue.
Mod note/fan note:
I don’t like to be anal about everything that could be deemed a spoiler, but I didn’t know the titles of the remaining episodes and I would not have looked them up. If you’re going to reveal them and speculate on their relevance to the plot of the show, put them in spoiler boxes.
Well, as long as they don’t adopt a Chinese baby together, I guess I’m OK with it.
For anybody that’s interested, I’ve been contacted by a writer for Entertainment Weekly and they’re looking at referencing the SDMB and the BB theory I posted (that got picked up by Buzzfeed and whatnot) in an upcoming BB themed issue.
Also I don’t want to know how many episodes are left, as I consider that a spoiler. Please keep that information contained to spoiler boxes
Super awesome!
If you get a chance, could you maybe mention Crawlspace’s observation about Walt’s goatee to them?
It’s funny you should say that, I just watched a MITM episode that started with Hal putting his finger through the wall, it was termites, but I really wanted him to say “We’ve got rot” and ended with the family living in an RV, at each other’s throats and Hal in his underwear.
Oh and bug fogging tents were involved.
Breaking Bad inspired by Malcolm in the Middle? Never…
(The balloons and the plane crash are pretty remarkable, actually. And the tightie-whities, of course. :p)
I’m sure I’ve said in one of these threads over the years that I’ve felt like Walt is a continuation of Hal. They have A LOT of similarities.
I’m not the biggest BB viewer - I saw S1 about 5 months ago, haven’t cracked open S2 (my wife bought it for me)… but I really have enjoyed all the discussion and articles written by this show. It’s a rather bizarre, vicarious way of experiencing the show.
In S1, there’s an offer to assist Walt through the means of hiring him at the company he founded (and sold for $5k), which Skyler is instrumental in finding and pitching to Walt. Walt, however, decides his pride is better served by cooking meth than by getting a cushy job and refuses the offer.
However, Hank had medical issues and Marie, maybe learning her lesson from Walt/Skyler/job (?), took it upon herself to take care of the money issue by getting a gift/loan of $177k from her sister’s “gambling winnings.”
The White’s refused the charity, the Shrader’s took it, and they’re both damned.
Not to mention the fact that Malcolm himself grew up to be a Jesse Pinkman wannabe.
Maybe Walt, but more likely Todd who did the actual murder. It’s interesting that the opening scene in the diner with Uncle Jack his sidekick and Todd, Todd bragging about the train heist and then the rather strange way the waitress looked at them, saying nothing just giving them bill and they saying nothing in return, just makes me wonder if she wasn’t eavesdropping and somehow her knowledge of the heist as Todd told it will factor into Todd’s undoing.
It was perfect wasn’t it? For me it’s because the series always opened with the conceit, we witness a death, and then the Fisher family would retrieve the body and the story unfolded for that week, and they would deal as always with death in relation to their lives. At the beginning of the series these departed were random people who needed funeral services, but as the series continued and we got to learn more it grew from the seemingly impersonal world to how dealing with the awesome burden of a funeral business would impact the main characters so profoundly. In the end, everyone must meet their maker and that’s why it was so visceral. There could be no better perfect ending.
What we’re seeing in the BB series is a similar conceit, these first few minutes inform the entire show of what is to come, it may come as early as the next show, or it may not be fully realized until the end of the series. But the actors are saying it ends how it “should” end so I’m really interested to see how they tie it up.
I know—I was thinking exactly the same thing. I’m surprised nobody else has brought that up yet. She did appear slightly uncomfortable.
Has Todd eaten there before, perhaps with Walt and the others, the morning of the heist? Maybe she recognizes Todd as a stranger who was in town the day the boy disappeared? I have no idea if that restaurant is even in the area.
Maybe the waitress was just uncomfortable serving a guy with a swastika tattooed on his neck
Talking about that scene made me think of something. In the restroom, when they were having the “nanny state” conversation, they mentioned kids on bikes. I wonder if the writers were setting something up with that?
Alright, could someone give me a recap of the whole Brock poisoning / ricin storyline that led to Jesse’s big Aha! moment in the latest episode? My memory isn’t allowing me to connect the dots.
Here’s what I understand:
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Jesse had the ricin cig to possibly poison Gus when they dined together at Gus’s house.
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He didn’t do it and I forgot why not.
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Walt later had Saul / Big guy lift the cig from Jesse. Did he ever replace it in Jesse’s pack?
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Walt somehow poisoned Brock, not with ricin, but with a poisonous plant in his backyard.
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Jesse thinks Walt poisoned Brock and goes to kill him.
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Walt somehow convinces Jesse it wasn’t him, it was Gus. I have no idea of the reasoning Walt used to convince him. Need some help here.
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At some point during this, either Walt or Saul convinces Jesse the Big Guy couldn’t have lifted the pack from him.
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Upthread, Jesse’s Roomba is mentioned, and how Walt had stashed the ricin there. Not seeing where this fits in.
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This episode. The Big Guy lifts the weed off Jesse as Jesse leaves Saul’s office. Jesse pats himself down, realizes Saul or the Big Guy lifted the bag from him, finds his own pack of cigs, and realizes Saul or the Big Guy lifted the ricin cig from him a while back.
Please let me know where I’m wrong and perhaps fill in some of the blanks.
Thanks in advance!