Lydia Rodarte-Quayle would love to have Gale Boetticher back if she ever knew him. Cultured, polite, and a persnickety hot beverage connoisseur who can guarantee 96% pure meth.
Walt jumps out of the car waving his arms and yelling for everyone to hold their fire. He says, “WAIT! There’s a way to work this out.”
I think Jesse is behind Walt’s car and Hank and Gomez are now taking cover behind the SUV (with Walt inside).
I don’t see both Hank and Jesse dying, because without at least one of them, there’s no show left. If Hank dies, I could see Walt offering Jesse his life in exchange for him (Jesse) doing the last cook. Or I could see Hank wounded enough that Walt is able to escape. But no way do I see both of them being killed.
yeah Marley, I was trying to remember the placing of vehicles…perhaps handcuffed Walt rolls out…makes a scramble of it…with Hank and Gomez still shooting or wounded…
.Felina!!! (had to look that up, its also a lingerie line):eek:
Anybody else get a chuckle out of the Nazi’s arguing that purity isn’t *that *important.
This brings up a question for me. Did the Nazis see Walt in the SUV? I think they did, right? They’re sure expending a lot of ammo straight at their only chance for blue meth.
Is “Felina” still going to be the title of the last episodes? I thought it might just be a anagram place holder till the last second.
Well if this was going to become truly Shakespearian, Hank gets killed, Marie using her Google info tries to poison Walt, but ends up poisoning Walt Jr. Skyler in a fit of rage attacks Marie and attacks her, they both get killed by Walt rushing home and running them over as their fight spills out into the street. Walt in a fit of grief takes the ricin he has on him. Jesse who was with Walt, who had taken him hostage, runs over to Walt’s dead body and starts beating it up saying over and over, “You bitch, you don’t get to go out on your own! You don’t get to do that!”, final crane shot of Jesse crying over Walt’s dead body.
Walt’s cowering for his life right now and I’m not sure he could get out of the SUV if he wanted to. On the one hand you have to expect an unexpected resolution, and on the other hand I am not sure how the quote-unquote good guys can survive this.
I believe that’s the title. Not only an anagram of Finale but also could be related to the Felina mentioned in the classic Marty Robbins song, “El Paso”.
Partial lyrics spoilered, just in case:
[spoiler]Felina is strong and I rise where I’ve fallen,
Though I am weary I can’t stop to rest.
I see the white puff of smoke from the rifle.
I feel the bullet go deep in my chest.
From out of nowhere Felina has found me,
Kissing my cheek as she kneels by my side.
Cradled by two loving arms that I’ll die for,
One little kiss and Felina, good-bye. [/spoiler]
Walt opens the doors of the SUV and Jesse, Hank and Gomez scramble in. They drive like madmen and get away from the Nazis. When they get to civilization, Walt says to Hank, “now we’re even. Just let me out and give me twenty-four hours.”
And Hank says, “Yeah, no.”
Not the greatest episode, but still very tense. With the cliffhanger it’s hard to adequately rate it, but I enjoyed it.
Aaron Paul was amazing as always. The rage phone call was killer. And his expressions in the desert. Jesse couldn’t quite believe that it was happening, that Mr. White was actually caught.
Also I loved Walt Jr.‘s excitement about meeting Saul. I liked that though he’s trapped at his parents’ boring workplace, he did get to meet a celebrity.
There’s no reason for the Nazis to know about the money. They don’t know why they drove out there. I think it would be poetic if no one ended up with the money. The only people who know where the money is are Walt, Jesse, Hank, and Gomez. It would be fitting for the money just to be lost to the world, out in the desert.
Walt specifically said a few episodes ago to Skyler something about if the money’s lost then this has all been for nothing. I could definitely see him panicking and not thinking straight when it comes to his money being threatened. And he knows that Jesse is a wildcard who would do it.
It did make me wonder how Hank had enough money for a picture, but I guess he was able to cover up some newspaper or something else with enough money to make it look good, and knew Walt wouldn’t study it for too long. I didn’t see it closely, maybe it was also framed well enough and blurry so it wouldn’t be too obviously fake.
The shootout bothered me too, just like many other posters. Especially since we’ve seen the effects of another shootout the Nazis had. In that case there were more men with Declan and more Nazis. After seeing the effects of that shootout, I would think the Nazis would be more effective. But since the show is so great, I can roll with minor issues like this.
I did like Walt’s play for Jesse, it was smart, even though it didn’t work.
I was wondering about that too. It was either by the phone, or Hank slipped another GPS tracking device onto Walt’s car.
I’m guessing Hank was planning on testimony from Jesse and Huell about where the money came from. Walt would have no good explanation where it came from; he didn’t make $20 million from gambling. And Walt can’t claim it’s not his, he was the only one who knew where it was, and he led them right to it.
That was interesting to me too. Walt has refused to have Hank killed before. There’s been times where he could have allowed it to happen, or could have ordered to happen, but he wouldn’t allow his family to be killed, and Hank is part of his family. I would have thought that maybe being trapped out there, tricked by Jesse that this would have pushed him over that line, so it was interesting to see that he’s still not that far gone. But there’s still three more episodes where he could go further.
I was wondering about Brock. It could have been just typical child shyness. But Brock looked uneasy to me. I don’t think Brock knows that Walt poisoned him, I think he just knows that he’s bad.
Good point. That did make it more tense.
The show is extremely hard to predict though. I wouldn’t bet on them surviving, but the writers could figure out a way to do it. It might be unbelievable, but there have been unbelievable moments in Breaking Bad before that have worked. The only thing I could imagine is if Jesse backed the car up and around and Hank and Gomez were able to jump in. But even that would be unbelievable.
Walt is in handcuffs. Opening the car door would be awfully tricky.
True. I thought it was cool that they included those reaction shots. And of course that only played up the reversal later: yes, Walt finally got caught, and then…
I liked that a lot. Walt and Skyler view Saul as a sleazy annoyance and Junior saw him as a minor local celebrity. And Saul’s line about drunk driving was funny, too.
Would he even be able to open the door from the backseat of that car (meaning, is it a legit police-type car with no handles on the inside of the back?)
A good trick with your hands cuffed behind your back.
what scenario brings us to the flash forward…the house has been seized.so the feds are or were involved. he spent his last bit of money at the diner…his money is gone, His chosen weapon is a military assault type machine gun, same as the neo nazi gang uses so he is matching somebody’s weaponry, he has the ricin so he will poison somebody at a meeting…Lydia?
Seems reasonable Hank or Gomez die…they certainly want us to think that Hank dies because of the farewell to Marie…which btw that call made no sense…he was in law enforcement mode, his first call would have been for back up to secure the scene…and btw…why go after Walt the way they did…their first and best move would have been to apprehend him when he exited the scene, not while Walt had the element of surprise, I digress.
Near the end of the show the camera zooms in on Walt emptying is service weapon in quick fire mode and we did not see him reload at any point. One of two things, first they would like us to believe the rapid fire was Hank exhausting his options or second which I think is the case, one or two of those rounds catch up to Todd, now they need a cook!! Walt in servitude until somehow he breaks free and he and his machine gun go hunting.
Of the unknown variables at play the one I believe to break bad next is Marie. They have showed us her cognitive potential. If Hank dies her chains come off.
The money in Jesse’s fake-out pic is Jesse’s, or rather Walt’s. It was his disappear money that Walt had Saul give to him. When Hank puts Jesse in the car at Walt’s house, you see Hank putting that red bag into the car too.
Except they wouldn’t have found out where the money was if they waited until he left. And he would (I imagine) have seen an awaiting road block from miles away, giving him a chance to call in reinforcements.
For the sake of making a prediction that hasn’t already been made, I offer this: Next episode will begin with a flashback. Something along the lines of Jesse and Jane talking in the car or Combo getting Jesse the RV. Possibly some sort of Shrader/White gathering from back before the series began. The show has a tendency to start episodes off with very calm moments and I just don’t expect next episode to immediately resume from where this one left off.