Andrea is the kid’s older sister, right? He told her directly. Presumably she’s not willing to report him to the cops. It doesn’t necesarily mean it’s common knowledge.
Maybe he did want to find out before, but had nothing to go on. He’s trying now because he stumbled onto new information.
The reason his friends didn’t make any sales, as I saw it, was because they were only trying to sell to members of the NA group (that’s why they were there) but were actually having an attack of conscience and couldn’t bring themselves to sell to people who were trying to recover from drug abuse.
The kid being Andrea’s brother struck me as less of a coincidence than Walt meeting Jane’s dad in the bar. What I wonder is if the writers just thought of this, or if they planned on using Tomas later on when Combo was shot.
It was unrealistic, but I still laughed when Badger and Skinny Pete said they were on steps 2 and 5 in the program.
Andrea was played by Emily Rios.
What does Abiquiu have to do with anything?**
Never mind; I see after Googling that Abiquiu is the Georgia O’Keefe museum.
Abiquiu is actually the town in New Mexico where the Georgia O’Keefe Museum is located.
“Abiquiu” reminded me of the name of last season’s last episode, “ABQ”, which is the airport code for Albuquerque.
I thought that it might be some kind of reference to that, and maybe it was. Kind of a pun.
How is it unrealistic? Were we ever shown that they are hardcore addicts? Perhaps if they were recreational users, being in a group therapy talk session they might be more open to stopping.
This isn’t such a stretch since they are still decent enough people not to be selling to people recovering from true addiction.
I don’t think Gus deals locally. That’s the whole point of the chicken sauce delivery system - to keep it out of his own back yard.
By the way, I’m pretty gobsmacked by how Skyler is jumping into the criminal enterprise, even though I suspected it was coming.
Yeah, that seemed like a bit of a leap. My only guess is that when Walt handed her the check she suddenly realized how easy it was. Maybe she realized that she could get a little taste of this money too…without even getting her hands dirty. She knows that Walt makes meth, but that’s really all she knows. She doesn’t know when or where or how or who get’s hurt in the process (other then Hank). Like in the early days of the Sopranos, Carm knew that Tony was in the mafia, but from her end, he left for work in the morning and came home with bags full of money at night. She didn’t like it, but she liked the lifestyle she was getting to live, and as long as she didn’t know the details she was more or less okay with it.
Also, I think she’s taking what her boss told her about cooking the books to make a better life for his family to heart. She knows it’s dirty money, but she’s using it to make a better life for Hank…then she’ll use it to better her own family life* then she’ll start bettering her family life with more frivolous things (time to upgrade the cars or put on an addition), then it’ll keep going downhill from there.
*I’m going to predict there will be an unexpected expensive family issue to take care of soon. Someone gets sick, car accident, house fire, job loss, something that she can use to make the jump from spending money on Hank to spending money on the White’s.
If they’ll just get Marie to help her with some wacky drug dealing hijinks it’ll be like I Love Lucy with Meth. “Oh honey, just let me audition for the role of Danny… Mrs. Trimble can keep the baby and I’ve got a natural talent for hiding criminally obtained money!”
Maybe Walt Jr. will get that 'stang he asked for.
I’ll probably be proven wrong, but I think Skyler wants the control more than she wants the money. In that little snippet of podcast, didn’t Anna Gunn say Skyler wanted to make sure things were done right? She doesn’t strike me as materialistic, but I’m not either, unless I can afford to be. 
The Mustang, forgot about that, maybe, but I still think there’s going to have to be something non-materialistic first before she’s okay with doing something like that. Also, something else I’ve been thinking about. She said she didn’t get the divorce so she can’t ever have to testify against him. On the one hand, she may have done that so in the even that he does get caught someday, she doesn’t have to worry about telling everything she knows. OTOH, that moved seemed premeditated, like she planned to start helping him out.
I’m not so sure. I remember her moment of bliss in her boss’s luxurious bathroom. I think she wants a taste of the finer things.
Maybe she’ll get the baby that diamond tiara after all!
I think Skyler’s reaction is pretty normal–here she is, she did everything right and her life was total shit. So Walt does some bad things, but now they aren’t scraping to pay for his medical bills, he’s in remission and they can help out family–she’s thinking “WTF, being a good girl got me precisely squat, let’s see what being a bad girl gets me.” She’s no virgin, she knows about how the real world works and she doesn’t feel like letting scruples get in the way of some security in her life. Plus, she knows plenty in theory about how to cook books and is probably kinda welcoming the challenge. I think it’s getting good to her.
Any theories on why Skylar is always in green?
Skyler jumped on board the Meth Express last episode when Hank needed help paying medical bills. Which is, of course, the same reason that Walt started cooking meth in the first place. It seems to me that Skyler is exactly the same morally as Walt is, with the sole exception being that Skyler had the luxury of indulging in hypocritical outrage in the brief time between knowing about the meth and having large medical bills that needed paying.
That’s true, but…she could have just taken the check that Walt handed her and paid the bill, instead she suddenly wants to be his accountant, she’s helping him make business decisions and she even chose not to get the divorce all to help him. Yes, she could be doing all this not to help Walt, so much as to protect him and help Hank, but she seems to be diving in head first here. I’m still thinking this is all a transition to her basically turning into a mafia wife…again, think Carmella in the first few seasons of The Sopranos.
Oh, now I see you mean. Yeah, when you put it that way, she does seem a touch eager.
I was thinking maybe your observation was an extension of the earlier threads this season about how Walt was such a scumbag compared to Saint Skyler.
I think she’s thinking that Walt caused this mess, and by god he’s going to make the money to pay for Hank for as long as it takes. Whatever she has to do to make sure Walt pays and stays out of jail, she’ll do. But, I bet she will find herself inevitably making compromise after compromise just as Walt has done. I think she presumes some kind of end point where Hank is walking and back at work and she can divorce Walt and walk away.
There was already enough cash in that bag Skyler saw to pay for all Hank’s bills; no need to “make enough money” about it.
I guess we should be reading into her actions that she’s now okay with taking Walt’s money to use for her kids’ school and their life in general after the cancer finishes Walt off? Maybe?