Nice user name/post combo.
I think it was more than one cook. Wasn’t there a montage there, depicting some elapsed time?
ETA: What Sam said.
Yes, I remember something like that.
I think it would be out of character for Walt to forget a detail like that, especially considering the conversation he had previously with Hank about the initials W.W.
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on Fresh Air, Terry Gross interviewed Peter Gould and Thomas Schnauz (sorry if I blew either of those names) - writers and producers for the show. One highlight was the sharing of the fact that Mike Ehrmentrout came about because Bob Odenkirk wasn’t available to play Saul in helping Jesse clean up after Jane’s death. The Mike Private Eye character had been mentioned before that, apparently. They went with him and cast Jonathan Banks because Gilligan is a huge fan of his work on the TV show Wiseguy
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in the NY Times, TV Critic Emily Nussbaum gives a bad review behind their paywall. One paragraph:
- Grantland has a great analysis: » Walt’s Legacy - one choice paragraph:
I did read it, I thought it was quite silly using $9.5 million to pay the gardener and house keeper. Assuming they pay $2500/month for gardening and maid service on that pad, it would take 317 years to eat up the pile of cash.
Sorry to say, but G&E are going to have to do something illegal to launder that money. I hear there is a car wash for sale in ABQ…
Walt and Gale had not met before they worked together in the Superlab.
We first see Walt reading the book in the season 3 episode “Sunset”. Earlier in the same episode, Gale recites “When I Heard the Learn’d Astronomer” to Walt. We don’t actually see Gale give Walt the book, but it’s pretty clear that he does it at around that point.
We see the book again once more on the show before Hank’s “oh shit” moment, when Walt unpacks his things in the episode “Hazard Pay”.
There’s absolutely no reason in this world or any other for G&E to take any risks at all with this, when it’s so ridiculously easy for them to do it entirely risk-free and without complications. Well, unless they’re stupid, and they’re clearly not. They’ll just burn Walt’s cash and set up the trust fund for Junior with their own money. It’s pretty clear that they’re silly rich, $10 million is peanuts for them. They just donated $28 million to meth treatment centers.
That is, IF they go through with the plan (although I think they probably will).
Walt insisting that they use his money was as much about him making it clear to them that “I have millions, too” as anything else.
I think you mean The New Yorker and not The New York Times.
Shoot. Of course you’re right. So it should be accessible. Worth reading, even if you disagree. I really liked the quote from the Grantland piece - captures some cool truths about the orderly structure of the show…
They can use it to tip the pizza guy and buy lattes too then. If they have a lot left over when they die, so what?
Just to add another thing about the cash: I do think that it’s ironic that what will happen is essentially that Walt takes G&E’s money, which is what he could have done in the first place all the way back in season 1. I guess he just had to go on his two-year rampage of doom and self-fulfillment before he could bring himself to do it.
Only in the sense that his family might not realize it’s actually Walt’s money. He doesn’t actually take their money. He surrenders the credit.
Well, as I said, only if G&E goes through the unnecessary trouble and risk of laundering and using his cash, instead of just disposing of it and setting up the trust fund with their own money instead, which is a heck of a lot easier for everyone, and the only sensible thing for them to do (and it’s not like Walt’s fictional “hitmen” would be able to tell the difference).
I agree with this. He was telling them, basically, “I still don’t want your charity and you’re not being robbed in any way.”
Yes, it was his pridefulness. The ‘use my money, not yours’ was certainly nothing to do with those particular pieces of paper currency (as some seemed to believe, a few pages back). It was about asserting his status as their equal (or even their better, as he surely believed).
G & E should just come clean and tell everybody they won $9.72 million in a card game.
Cue shots of G&E in the back of a limo, driving around at night through a poor neighborhood, while their chauffeur is throwing piles of money through the window.
IMHO they will probably dispose of most of the money as quickly as possible, for the following reasons:
1 This amount of cash is only found in the homes of criminals.
2 CEO’s of huge companies are much more likely to get house calls from the IRS, and they will have a lot of explaining to do, if someone finds out.
3 They are former associates of a noted drug kingpin, people will snoop, especially journalists.
4 According to this article:
Roughly 30% of US notes carry trace amounts of Meth and the pile Walt brought should have much much more and of a higher quality.
Walt, being a clever bastard, probably realized this.
So in the end, they will destroy his drug money and pay his family from their own money.
Not sure if this is coincidence or not.
Walt tells G&E about why they would send his family the money “Call it a Beau Geste, call it liberal guilt, call it whatever you want, but do it.”
Beau Geste means gracious gesture in French.
It is also the name of a very famous adventure novel that was filmed multiple times.
The plot centers around the disappearance of a precious sapphire known as “Blue Water.”
Nice! Good point about the truly “happy” ending back in 508.
Yeah, I’ve been hearing Vince say that for years. It’s an interesting method. For instance when they were stuck in the RV with Hank outside, that was apparently a difficult one for them to crack. Then there was the series of flashforwards showing the singed pink teddy bear. Originally they did not know that was going to be a plane crash.
I have said and continue to think that it might have been too specific, too early, this time with the gun and the New Hampshire thing. They really boxed themselves in with that.
So where did he spend the night?
To the extent that they leave the door open, not even locking it? Never mind the alarm; what about a basic lock?
This, this, this.