He probably parked somewhere out of the way and slept in the car.
I find that hard to believe. I think we saw the teddy bear in the first episode of the second season. The episode title was “Seven Thirty-Seven”. Some later (non-consecutive) episodes that season were titled “Down”, “Over” and “ABQ”. In other words, the four episode titles collectively spelled “737 Down Over ABQ”. I don’t believe that wasn’t planned.
Vince Gilligan told The AV Club, “Season two was the only season where we knew exactly where we would end at the beginning of it all. That came about through many, many hours of beating our heads against the wall—very laborious work, which is probably why we haven’t repeated that formula since.”
I havent read all every page in the thread, but I didnt see this mentioned. Did anyone else notice when Walt falls down at the end his hand on the tank forms a W in blood. I listened to a few podcasts about this episode also and they didnt mention it either.
No, it was definitely just after the first cook that Gale recited “To the Learn’d Astronomer” to Walt and then we see Walt reading the Book of Doom just after that. I mean, the meth did take a long time to cook; what was it, 16 hours? But it always bothered me that inscription didn’t really fit with the relationship between Walt and Gale at that time.
But, as Marley23 said, Gale was an odd duck.
Gale was impressed with Walt’s intelligence (based on the blue meth) before he ever met Walt, or had any idea who Walt was.
That’s right- he encouraged Gus to hire Walt rather than Gale, himself, running the lab saying Heisenberg was the best of the best.
Yes. This isn’t New York City. It’s a gated community. I didn’t live in a gated community, but I did live in New Mexico, I did visit gated communities in Santa Fe, and I have no trouble believing they did not immediately lock the door in fear of monsters getting in. Things are pretty laid back out there.
s for Gale, I don’t have time to go back and review that season, but I feel certain they had more than one cook.
We see a montage of them working together in “Sunset”, and then at least one more cook in “One Minute” (where Walt goes into complete dickhead mode). Technically, I guess it could have been just two cooks, but it’s at least implied that they worked together for some time.
(By the way, I absolutely love that cooking montage, with those two eggheads geeking around with their chemistry, while making coffee, playing chess and reciting poetry. They think of themselves as proper scientists in that pristine lab, brainiacs doing serious lab work, in a world where degrees matter and the chemistry is respected.
Of course, the reality is that, while it may help to a be chemical genius to create extremely pure blue meth in the first place, and geniuses presumably like to work in nice conditions, the Superlab is hardly a necessity, and certainly not for day-to-day meth manufacture. After all, not much earlier, Walt and Jesse were cooking it up in the back of an old, beat-up RV, and later, Jesse’s doing it as a tortured meth slave in a warehouse. The Superlab is all pomp and circumstance, bling and shiny surfaces, to let Walt and Gale have their illusion of scientific respectability, and divorce them from the realities of what they’re doing.)
You are making the assumption that G&E have vast liquid assets. You don’t know if the $28 million was a personal donation or one using Gray Matter corporate funds. As a banker, I talk to wealthy people every day, liquid assets are a major concern. Most rich people do not maintain liquid assets at a 1 to 2% return and their wealth is locked up in long term investments. To burn $9.5 million and replace it with clean money might actually create a financial hardship, even for folks deemed billionaires.
I would think that by the time they were airing episode 1, episode 4 had already been filmed, meaning the titles don’t tell us much about the order in which they came up with the ideas contained in those four episodes.
Not really. I’m a financial advisor to high net worth people, and anyone worth billions could easily liquidate 10 times that amount in 3 days or less.
The lab does let Walt and Gale sort of replace the academic and research careers they never had, but the lab wasn’t for them. The lab was for Gus. He had a very large operation and he needed a well-hidden and secure location where his cooks could produce large amounts of reliably high-quality meth. In large part it’s insurance. Of course it also allowed him to keep an eye on his cooks.
Marley - I just noticed your updated title “I am the One who Bans” - love it!
A few posts on this topic back I realized we weren’t discussing reality but the fictitious world that Walt inhabits. One where the IRS makes unannounced “house calls” on high net worth people to poke around their safes, cash from illicit sources is radioactive in some manner that makes it unsafe to spend at the grocery store, and founders of billion dollar companies are 100% invested in their company stock.
I’m sorry, LD, but your knowledge of actual wealthy people who inhabit our reality doesn’t apply here.
I know this message sounds snarky, but the serious point it makes is that this a meaningless debate since there is no canon answer to the exact finances of Gretchen and Elliot, there is no canon answer to the exact laws the IRS works under in the Breaking Bad universe, and thus no single answer to the best way they can handle the situation they find themselves in.
That’s fine. I was responding to someone else’s claims about the real world.
According to somebody on Reddit, their friend works at the Albuquerque newspaper and they’ll be running this obit tomorrow morning.
Really funny is that even in Albuquerque, there’ll be some people, living under a rock maybe, will have never heard of the show and will take the obit as serious.
Indeed there will be! Old folks especially; problem is, that’s a lot of who actually gets the newspaper these days. I wonder if there is a disclaimer below that that we could not see in the clipping?
Apparently the alleged gate (never shown) was insufficient to keep out a frail cancer patient and two goofball druggies.
And FWIW I live nowhere near NYC and in fact there is not even an interstate highway for at least fifty miles in any direction; but I lock my front door immediately after entering. You are never going to convince me that a rich couple who has many valuables in their home are going to use an alarm system when they are out, but leave the door completely open when they are home.
Right. Look at how often movies are totally finished before they get a proper title. Before that, it’s often something like “Untitled Tom Cruise Space Cowboy Project”.
But I think Martian’s point is valid. We are first shown that the lab is used to lure Walt into working for Gus on an ongoing basis when previously he had been reluctant to continue. Later, they retcon the origin story of the lab as being equipment that Gale ordered. Either way, it fits that narrative of giving them more shiny toys then they perhaps really need in order to make them feel satisfied as working a chemistry career rather than just a drug manufacturing one.
Diego Trujillo stars as Walter Blanco in Metastasis, a Spanish language version of Breaking Bad set in Colombia.
Judging from the trailer in the link, it looks to be a straight-up remake.