# Breaking Bad 5.8 "Gliding Over All" **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [September 3, 2012, 1:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/breaking-bad-5-8-gliding-over-all/633506 "2012-09-03T01:55:47Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![AuntiePam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/f19dbf/32.png) [@AuntiePam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AuntiePam)\ **Post date:** [September 3, 2012, 1:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/breaking-bad-5-8-gliding-over-all/633506/1 "2012-09-03T01:55:47Z")
Didn’t see a thread. Maybe **Senor Beef** is away for the long holiday. So here’s the thread! ---
**Author:** ![maikai](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/53a042/32.png) [@maikai](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/maikai)\ **Post date:** [September 3, 2012, 2:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/breaking-bad-5-8-gliding-over-all/633506/2 "2012-09-03T02:30:50Z")
Holy shit! ---
**Author:** ![jrepka](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/ee59a6/32.png) [@jrepka](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jrepka)\ **Post date:** [September 3, 2012, 2:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/breaking-bad-5-8-gliding-over-all/633506/3 "2012-09-03T02:40:18Z")
OK, he’s no Antoine Lavoisiere, but Todd is a pretty useful guy, in a quite unique set of circumstances… ---
**Author:** ![jrepka](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/ee59a6/32.png) [@jrepka](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jrepka)\ **Post date:** [September 3, 2012, 2:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/breaking-bad-5-8-gliding-over-all/633506/4 "2012-09-03T02:44:16Z")
Can’t believe they’ve never used this music cue! ---
**Author:** ![voltaire](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/voltaire/32/313_2.png) [@voltaire](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/voltaire)\ **Post date:** [September 3, 2012, 3:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/breaking-bad-5-8-gliding-over-all/633506/5 "2012-09-03T03:02:45Z")
Oh shit! ---
**Author:** ![maikai](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/53a042/32.png) [@maikai](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/maikai)\ **Post date:** [September 3, 2012, 3:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/breaking-bad-5-8-gliding-over-all/633506/6 "2012-09-03T03:03:47Z")
Holy shit!!! ---
**Author:** ![ExTank](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/35a633/32.png) [@ExTank](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ExTank)\ **Post date:** [September 3, 2012, 3:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/breaking-bad-5-8-gliding-over-all/633506/7 "2012-09-03T03:03:50Z")
Yup. It’s the little things that get ya. ---
**Author:** ![Dewey\_Finn](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dewey_finn/32/4222_2.png) [@Dewey\_Finn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dewey_Finn)\ **Post date:** [September 3, 2012, 3:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/breaking-bad-5-8-gliding-over-all/633506/8 "2012-09-03T03:05:36Z")
I was sitting there, waiting for the big moment. I expected it to be a hit on someone in the family, especially since Walt said that he was out of the business. ---
**Author:** ![voltaire](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/voltaire/32/313_2.png) [@voltaire](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/voltaire)\ **Post date:** [September 3, 2012, 3:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/breaking-bad-5-8-gliding-over-all/633506/9 "2012-09-03T03:05:47Z")
I was half hoping they’d just leave everything looking up. Sort of the anti-cliffhanger leaving you to wonder how it all starts to go wrong. ---
**Author:** ![Bytegeist](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/9dc877/32.png) [@Bytegeist](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bytegeist)\ **Post date:** [September 3, 2012, 3:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/breaking-bad-5-8-gliding-over-all/633506/10 "2012-09-03T03:06:19Z")
Rather careless of Walt to hold onto that book. Or at least not rip out the page with Gale’s note on it. I guess Walt broke off his business relationships with Lydia, Todd, and the Phoenix crew without much ado? ---
**Author:** ![jrepka](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/ee59a6/32.png) [@jrepka](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jrepka)\ **Post date:** [September 3, 2012, 3:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/breaking-bad-5-8-gliding-over-all/633506/11 "2012-09-03T03:07:38Z")
> [@maikai](#): > > Holy shit! No, HOLY SHIT! ---
**Author:** ![RancidYakButterTeaParty](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/53a042/32.png) [@RancidYakButterTeaParty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RancidYakButterTeaParty)\ **Post date:** [September 3, 2012, 3:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/breaking-bad-5-8-gliding-over-all/633506/12 "2012-09-03T03:08:30Z")
Didn’t like the ending at all. Hank doesn’t suspect Walt at all the first time he hear of “W.W.”, but seeing it in the book makes it all clear somehow? Not as clever as I’ve come to expect from this show. ---
**Author:** ![Dewey\_Finn](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dewey_finn/32/4222_2.png) [@Dewey\_Finn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dewey_Finn)\ **Post date:** [September 3, 2012, 3:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/breaking-bad-5-8-gliding-over-all/633506/13 "2012-09-03T03:10:40Z")
Remember that the endorsement in the book was by G.B, which was Gale’s initials. ---
**Author:** ![Chefguy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chefguy/32/138_2.png) [@Chefguy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chefguy)\ **Post date:** [September 3, 2012, 3:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/breaking-bad-5-8-gliding-over-all/633506/14 "2012-09-03T03:11:35Z")
> [@RancidYakButterTeaParty](#): > > Didn’t like the ending at all. Hank doesn’t suspect Walt at all the first time he hear of “W.W.”, but seeing it in the book makes it all clear somehow? Not as clever as I’ve come to expect from this show. It’s the “WW” combined with the “GB”. You could tell it took him a minute to connect the two sets of initials. Damn you, **Dewey Finn**! ---
**Author:** ![Tarwater](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/9de0a6/32.png) [@Tarwater](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tarwater)\ **Post date:** [September 3, 2012, 3:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/breaking-bad-5-8-gliding-over-all/633506/15 "2012-09-03T03:13:05Z")
And combined with the “It’s been a pleasure working with you,” it’s pretty obvious. ---
**Author:** ![GrandWino](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/grandwino/32/67_2.png) [@GrandWino](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GrandWino)\ **Post date:** [September 3, 2012, 3:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/breaking-bad-5-8-gliding-over-all/633506/16 "2012-09-03T03:14:01Z")
Good thing Hank was sitting on the toilet. ---
**Author:** ![RancidYakButterTeaParty](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/53a042/32.png) [@RancidYakButterTeaParty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RancidYakButterTeaParty)\ **Post date:** [September 3, 2012, 3:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/breaking-bad-5-8-gliding-over-all/633506/17 "2012-09-03T03:15:56Z")
> [@Chefguy](#): > > It’s the “WW” combined with the “GB”. You could tell it took him a minute to connect the two sets of initials. > > Damn you, **Dewey Finn**! Still seems too random for him to connect–maybe I just don’t have the mind of a detective.. Seems that things may be setting up for Jesse to confess everything at some point, thereby relieving his conscience. ---
**Author:** ![ExTank](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/35a633/32.png) [@ExTank](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ExTank)\ **Post date:** [September 3, 2012, 3:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/breaking-bad-5-8-gliding-over-all/633506/18 "2012-09-03T03:18:24Z")
Please refresh my memory: wasn’t that book part of the evidence, taken by the ABQPD, from Gale’s apartment after his death? That same evidence Hank’s ABQPD Detective buddy waved under his nose while he was recuperating to motivate Hank into getting well and getting back into being a cop? So how did Walt wind up with it? Or is it a different copy of the same book? ---
**Author:** ![Dewey\_Finn](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dewey_finn/32/4222_2.png) [@Dewey\_Finn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dewey_Finn)\ **Post date:** [September 3, 2012, 3:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/breaking-bad-5-8-gliding-over-all/633506/19 "2012-09-03T03:18:41Z")
I was wondering at how much money was in that storage unit. If you do a web search, you can find illustrations of $100 million stacked on a pallet about four or five feet high. So the messier pile in the storage unit could have been fifty million or so (given that they weren’t all $100 bills). ---
**Author:** ![well\_he\_s\_back](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/3ab097/32.png) [@well\_he\_s\_back](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/well_he_s_back)\ **Post date:** [September 3, 2012, 3:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/breaking-bad-5-8-gliding-over-all/633506/20 "2012-09-03T03:19:22Z")
So how could Walt get out that easily? Could someone refresh me about the book? Now - my contribution - Aaron Paul deserves every award just for that scene with Walter at Jesse’s house . Wow. Just wow. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/breaking-bad-5-8-gliding-over-all/633506.md?page=2)