Huh? How would that happen? It’s not like he set up the camera and walked away, he was standing right there while it was recording. Presumably asking him questions as he was talking. They [Hank and Gomez] even tried to decide if they could follow up on anything Jesse gave them so you know they heard it all.
Even if they did, say, set up the camera and walk away so he could talk for a half an hour about his ‘ordeal’ it’s not like Hank is just going to hand it over to the DEA sight on seen. He’d pick through it to see if there’s anything he can work with first. He’s a pretty thorough guy. That and he’d probably want to make sure it’s not a half an hour of Jesse drooling on his couch or getting high.
Also, this probably doesn’t need to be spoliered, but I’m going to anyways because it was in the podcast.
Kelley mentioned how she liked that both Walt and Skyler were both wearing the same shade of beige at some point. I think it was just meant to point out that they’re both settling into their new lives as retired drug kingpins and they’re they starting to get closer to each other again, but it was odd that she mentioned it. It was odder that Vince then quickly mentioned that it wasn’t beige, it was some other color, but I don’t remember what he said, cream maybe. Honestly, I’m not even sure which scene she was talking about. But with not only colors but also Walt taking on the traits of others, it seemed worth mentioning
It would have been great if Jesse would have made his own DVD, like Walt’s, that implicated Hank as well, not only in being Heisenberg, but also in being the one that killed his girlfriend and ultimately caused the plane crash. The only problem with that is that Jesse didn’t use his real name when he was renting the apartment.
Actually, now that I think about it, that would require Walt to tell Jesse that he was there when Jane died. Then he’d have to explain two messes to Jesse.
I don’t think this needs to be spoilered: it was during the Mexican (food) standoff in the previous episode. Maybe they repeated it in this one, but if so, I didn’t notice. It stood out to me, though: Walt and Skyler are definitely not getting closer, but it did make it look like they were on the same team. I think we’ve also seen Hank wearing more purple lately, which I think makes the same point about him and Marie. In fact I thought I remembered Hank and Marie both wearing purple at Garduno’s, but I was wrong: Hank was in purple and Marie wore black.
I think, but I could be wrong, that Hank’s worn purple throughout the series. But it makes sense that if you have a wife that likes purple that much, you’re going to end up with some of it in your wardrobe.
As far as Walt and Skyler getting closer, no, not like they were before, but sleeping in the same bed, eating at the same table. It’s leaps and bounds ahead of him having his own condo because she didn’t even want to see him (of course, she was over there all the time it seemed).
Hank’s actions with Jesse may not help him build a case against Jesse, but there is nothing that keeps the evidence he is collecting to be used against Walt.
BTW, I have a feeling that the condition of Walt’s house in the flashforward has something to do with Jesse’s plan. Something like Jesse let’s al the methheads in ABQ (through Badger or whatever) know exactly where Heisenberg lives. They go there take everything, trash the place looking for blue, Spray paint Heisenberg on the walls. Not suure how this all works out to help the DEA, though.
One thing that is bothering me though, is why hasn’t Hank tried to follow the money? If I learned nothing from Law & Order it is “follow the money”. He’s gotta know the car wash is the front some how or other. I realize that huge chinks of the money are buried in the desert, but that still doesn’t explain why Hank seems to be somewhat unconcerned about it.
I believe Hank was told that Walt used gambling winnings to buy the car wash, and now he knows that was a lie. So he knows that it’s one way that Walt is laundering money.But it’s not enough to build a case.
Regarding the car wash and Hank not looking into it, I think it’s A)He only figured out the WW=Heisenberg connection, what, a few days ago. It’s not like he’s had time to investigate every facet of it and B)I can’t imagine Hank’s all that concerned about what Walt does with the money after he sells the meth. He really just wants the meth, and it’s cook, gone. As for the money, the Feds/Secret Service can deal with that.
After Walter is in cuffs, and charged with something that’ll stick, then they can worry about the money.
Also, even when they do get to the money, not that much of it’s been laundered. The majority of the giant pile is still in the giant pile and what he made before the giant pile of money, Saul was laundering for him.
But even with the books, he needs to go and stake the place out, or gain access to the cameras or interview the employees or something. The books alone aren’t going to help because they’re not cooking them, they’re not evading taxes, just the opposite, they’re pumping more money into the business. When they do 100 cars, Skyler says they did 150 and maybe she records a premium wash for some of the basic washes. IOW if they brought in $3000 today, she wrote down that they brought in $4000 and added a thousand dollars to the deposit from the giant pile of money. They pay taxes on it and now it’s clean. That’s not going to show up on the books on it’s own.
Now they’ve got to spend the rest of their lives laundering the giant pile of money. They can spend some of it as pocket money, but they can’t go buy a house with cash or anything like that.
I think it’s appearing more often right now, though. And the fact that he was in purple and Marie was in threatening black seemed like it might mean something. I have the feeling she’s going to do something desperate here.
Yes, but their relationship is on the downswing now. She’s disgusted by what he threatened to do to Hank and now she’s angry that Jesse brought a threat straight to their house. She’ll side with him against Hank, at least for now, because he’s a threat to both of them. But otherwise there’s not much of a relationship between them.
This may be reaching, but is there any chance that when Walt told Todd he might have another job for his uncle, he meant Hank and not Jesse? Jesse did mention earlier in the episode that Walt was smarter than they were and 2 steps ahead of them - maybe he somehow realized Hank had gotten to Jesse? Sorry if someone already brought this up - it’s a long thread.
If Jesse could somehow manage to cook up a batch of 99% (or close to it), he could claim that he had been the real Heisenberg all along and Walt had just been his lackey. I’m pretty sure that would send Walt into an insane rage since it would pretty much mirror what had happened to him at Grey Matters. It would surely drive him to do something they could nail him for. I’m not sure if Jesse could put out a batch good enough to make that claim though.
Yeah, reaching, IMO. I don’t know how Walt would have come to that conclusion. Besides his already stated firm opposition to killing Hank, having a DEA agent overtly murdered by a bunch of sloppy neo-Nazis would be a very bad idea. Not to mention that he’d pretty much have to kill Marie, too. (At that point, he’d probably have to kill Skyler in self-defense!) And he doesn’t know it but, even then, Gomez would still know who was behind it.
He already knew Hank was coming at him hard, nothing changed with that, and Walt is pretty confident that he’s neutralized that threat as best he could. He only called for a hit when he realized that Jesse was now coming at him, and Jesse as an enemy is much more of a threat, since he knows waaaaay too much dirt.
The logical conclusion is that Walt is putting a hit on Jesse, but it’s also Breaking Bad. They’ve surprised us more than a few times in the past, so it’s fair to wonder if that conversation wasn’t quite what it appeared to be.
Regarding the flash forward to Walts spray painted ruined house, why would someone ruin your house then write your name? Seems to me a person doing it (spun out meth-heads?) would write the name of the person on whose orders they were doing it as a fuck you. “Heisenberg was here!” (Bitch!)
Of the theories about how Jesse approaches going after Walt, I think you may be on to something. But I don’t think it necessarily has to be limited to just methheads. It would seem more appropriate for Jesse to go around (as part of his own making amends) saying that Walter White = Meth-Kingpin Heisenberg to everybody that has been wronged and adversely affected by his actions, or anybody that will listen. The more it gets out, the better. That might even include making sure that this knowledge gets back to Mexico and Chile. :eek:
Getting Walt “where he really lives” could mean piercing the anonymity of the “Heisenberg” persona that he hides behind and which is where he really lives. With the amount of people who might want to come after him, his cozy family life would be ruined and he’d pretty much have to go on the run.
However it goes down, Hank is going to have to admit it went on under his nose. This way, Walt would gain nothing by trying to take Hank down with him, since the secret would already be out and he would have to go on the run anyway. Besides, with Jesse cooperating, Walt implicating Hank would be easily debunked.