Didn’t Hank tell Jessie he was taking him to the DEA? Was that a bluff or did he change his mind… or did I hear it wrong?
Isn’t Jessie smart enough not to provide a taped confession without a deal? Drugs I guess.
Jessie changing his mind in the plaza?? Because of some scary dude standing in the wide open?? I didn’t see the scary dude’s kid until late in the scene but maybe Jessie did and realized that hitting Walt’s family would hurt more.
I was actually a little concerned for Jesse in the plaza. First, the reference to “Old Yeller”… then in the plaza there were several yellow objects that stood out in an otherwise drab environment: a yellow flag, a yellow umbrella, several workers wearing yellow.
I found Gomez’s expression very difficult to read. I couldn’t decide if he was pissed at Jesse, at Hank, or just concerned about the whole situation.
Certainly Gomie now knows that Hank has been keeping important secrets, but decided to join in with Hank’s insanity. Because now almost everyone on the show is insane in some way.
I didn’t realize it was a Reagan book at first and it made me think of Dutch Schultz, who it actually might have been meant as a reference to. He, when dying, babbled incoherently rather than give the police any information about who might have shot him. Also, he’s supposed to have buried all his money before he was killed. Of course he didn’t tell people where he’d put it so it’s lost.
Yes, at one point of the conversation that was mentioned, followed by Jesse referring to Walt’s ability to provide snitches with stitches.
Jesse don’t care.
Jesse went into the meeting thinking that Walt was gonna have him killed and the scary looking guy looked exactly the kind of person who might be a hitman. You weren’t supposed to see the kid until when Walt was leaving the scene as a “hey, he wasn’t a hitman after all, Jesse sure done goofed”.
Also, I’ll bet Jesse somehow reveals the truth about Drew Sharp just before the Nazi gang kill him…and they take out Todd instead. Or maybe Jesse and Todd get whacked together.
I argued previously that Walt’s embrace of Jesse in the desert was not just manipulation but genuine affection, and this episode seems to vindicate that conception. Which is not to say that I believe Walt is a sympathetic character – not at all. But like many evil men, he does have certain people he cares about personally, and Jesse and Hank are within that circle.
How could Hank be so stupid as to persuade Jesse of that fact though? He is lucky that didn’t send Jesse back to Walt or at least to a place where he says “fuck it, I don’t need to get Mr. White so bad that I team up with the scumbag who beat me to a pulp”.
I don’t think it was at Hank. I think it was being concerned about the whole situation, and being a bit disgusted that a junkie murder was having to hide out in Hank’s house, with Marie getting him coffee, instead of being in lock up.
ETA:
I don’t think the Hoover guy ever got a call for Walt because he did not bring Saul the money. So I think that ticket is still available to be punched, although I could be wrong. As far as whether he needs the guy to disappear, how would money alone keep him from being caught by the police?
This is interesting. I’d never heard of Dutch Schultz, but I just checked him out on Wikipedia. The article includes a section on one of his enforcers, Vincent Coll, nicknamed “Mad Dog” (ahem, see title of this week’s episode, ahem).
Thank you. I don’t know if that’s where they are going, but at least it confirms it’s possible.
I think so, too.
I felt it was a reference to Dutch Schultz. We’ll see. His death sounds pretty awful but there is some unintentionally beautiful poetry in his last words.
If you’re thinking the Nazis would care that Todd killed a child… they wouldn’t. Gus wouldn’t have cared about that either. I guess I could see Todd getting whacked if the police were closing in and it would get them out of trouble, but Todd is their cook, so they need him. And to that end he’s sort of the one carrying on the Heisenberg legacy. Could that be Jesse’s target?
Yup, you’re right. It’s also true that Walt is unable to accept that he’s failed as a surrogate father to Jesse and that he can’t just make everybody see that he did the right thing. Walt has talked himself out of some tough spots, but the idea that he could convince Jesse that he did the right thing by poisoning Jesse’s girlfriend’s child to manipulate him is particularly insane.
This. One hand washes the other. Walt/Sklyer/Saul all get Jesse gone, Lydia gets her 99 Fine for Prague, the neo Nazis get more return on their methylamine and Hank/Gomez get to catch Walt in the act. The fly in the ointment is Jesse and his plan to get Walt where he really lives.
I don’t know how you can be so sure. Wasn’t Hitler himself softhearted about children and animals? I’m not saying that I know they *would *care, just that I don’t think we have enough information to state categorically that they would not.
