If Todd were running the business on his own he probably has the money and connections to do it now. (I don’t know if he has the wherewithal.) Lydia is still there and the operation makes enough money that he could find partners. But he was torturing Jesse for information and the gang would have hung around for that, at least. Unless we specifically hear otherwise I’d assume Jack and Kenny and the other creeps are still in the picture. Walt quit the business for specific reasons. Gus made tons of money and didn’t quit and the guys who run the cartels probably don’t retire just because they’re rich. This is what they do. And if $70 million is great, wouldn’t $100 million be even better?
By and large I wouldn’t characterize Breaking Bad as a show where the creative team telegraphs stuff then pulls something out of left field. By and large when they’ve telegraphed stuff in advance, it’s been for a reason that what they’re telegraphing is going to happen.
Yeah but they also rarely do the obvious thing. Also, I’m no gun expert but would Walt even be capable of shooting that gun on his own? It seems like an odd choice for a shootout when I would imagine mobility would be a benefit. Wouldn’t he want something like an AR-15 assault rifle if he’s going into battle?
Of all the tragedy in this episode, I think the hardest for me to watch were Junior’s scenes. First when he was told the truth about Walt by Marie and Skylar, and then when Walt came to the house and Junior ended up having to physically defend his mom and call the police on his dad. He was the last bit of innocence left in this story (other than Holly, who’s too young to understand any of it) and to watch his world crumble before him was heartbreaking.
I’m thinking Walt finds out Jesse is still alive, and that’s who he’s going after in the final showdown.
Two more things: didn’t Walt say the M-60 wasn’t leaving NH? Why on earth would the Nazis cross the country to go after Walt?
And where have the writers telegraphed a shootout with the Nazis?
I’m too stupid for this show. I totally thought Walt had gone off the deep end when he phoned Skyler.
As more evidence of my stupidity, I think Walt gave Jesse to the Nazis in order to save Jesse’s life – he knew the Nazis would see him under the car and that Todd would want him to cook – and that he told Jesse about Jane in order to give Jesse something to live for – revenge.
Excellent episode. Hank’s death should have been the high (low?) point, but bam, it was one breathtaking scene after another. Amazing.
Walt is back in ABQ in the flash-forwards. He says to the waitress that he’s driven 30 hours. Then he goes back to his house.
Ah, OK. Thanks. Hmmm.
Right. He has a New Hampshire drivers’ license and NH plates on his car. Jim Beaver asks Walt to promise the gun won’t cross state lines (which would make it a federal, rather than state, crime). Walt says it won’t leave town. By the way if Walt goes to save Jesse, Jesse will beat him to death with the M60. On the other hand I guess it might be unsatisfying if they never meet again…
I wonder how Hank finds out anything. He’s in NH under a new identity.
Before I comment on anything else, or read the thread, I just have to say, 23 minutes into a 46 minute show and they still run credits!? Obnoxious! I just want to see the fallout from the last cliffhanger, and my god was that distracting.
From the time Walt said on the phone to Skyler “no police” and she answered “no police” she knew Walter wanted the police to hear him. Skyler and Walt have a shorthand that he didn’t have with Uncle Jack. Walt crying at the end of the phone call to Skyler sealed the deal for me. He was getting her off the hook and he was totally alone. I had a little sadness for him because the whole dessert fiasco was Jesse’s doing. Jesse thought he could do better than Hank at catching Walt but like the train robbery that was Jesse’s idea gone horribly wrong, so did the run in the dessert to get Walt. Right now I’m in mourning. Like Marie I’ve changed from purple to black, I was totally team Hank. I wasn’t surprised Hank died, I just never really prepared for it, although I have to say I heard an interview that Bestsy Brandt did for EW and I had my suspicions that Hank wouldn’t be coming out of that dessert alive.
While the credits were rolling at the end, they showed brief scenes from the next episode with a voice-over by (Saul?) talking about “two DEA agents presumed dead” and also implying that Walts family was in danger. And " how much time do you think you have left?" I’m assuming this was a conversation Saul was having with Walt. No one else hear that?
I can’t see why you found it distracting, but it was an interesting place to put the credits. They could have had them just after the first flashback. The credits do coincide with the song: “Say goodbye to everyone”. Maybe a double meaning there, say goodbye to everyone who made this great show.
Holy crap that was intense!
They delayed the credits instead of running them over Hank’s last scene. I thought that was a good choice.
Why do people assume that the Nazis are “gone”? They’re not gone, they’ve got a meth empire to run.
Why do people keep saying the Nazis are out of it? Todd can’t run a setup like that on his own and they’re not going to introduce a new set of Todd’s thugs with two episodes left.
Assuming they are still selling to Lydia, they have to retrieve the tape that Jesse made from Hank’s house, Lydia would have been directly named in it by Jesse.
I’m dissapointed, the Nazi’s are boring antagonists who don’t hold up to Gus or even Tuco… but they’re still in the game. For whatever reason $70 million wasn’t enough for them.
edit: ninjad by reverse…
Because they just got $70 million for digging up a few barrels. Why bother with the hassle of cooking/distributing meth?
And because it looked like Todd was all by himself at the end. He may be rich but he’s motivated by something (Lydia) other than money.