# 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:** 18
**Author:** ![hajario](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hajario/32/171_2.png) [@hajario](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/hajario)\ **Post date:** [September 8, 2012, 1:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/breaking-bad-5-8-gliding-over-all/633506/341 "2012-09-08T01:47:27Z")
> [@well\_he\_s\_back](#): > > As if their storytelling has ever been timid! He was obviously being facetious. ---
**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 8, 2012, 3:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/breaking-bad-5-8-gliding-over-all/633506/342 "2012-09-08T03:42:08Z")
Yep, got that. ---
**Author:** ![Uber\_the\_Goober](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/58956e/32.png) [@Uber\_the\_Goober](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Uber_the_Goober)\ **Post date:** [September 8, 2012, 4:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/breaking-bad-5-8-gliding-over-all/633506/343 "2012-09-08T04:00:56Z")
> [@coremelt](#): > > Well if Hank is having to try to get Walt to turn witness and lead him to bigger partners acting completely unofficially without any DEA resources and without taking Walt into custody thats another matter and that’s what I meant. So then Hank would find out that Walt doesn’t take too kindly to partners that have a larger stake than himself…and that there aren’t any? Really…so far Walt’s put himself at the top. There’s nobody for him to roll over on. Nobody to blame in a plausible way. ---
**Author:** ![sco3tt](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/45deac/32.png) [@sco3tt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/sco3tt)\ **Post date:** [September 8, 2012, 4:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/breaking-bad-5-8-gliding-over-all/633506/344 "2012-09-08T04:05:34Z")
> [@Rigamarole](#): > > No doubt they’re going to throw down, but a machine gun isn’t for taking out just one guy. Will Jesse have some kind of gang behind him? How will Todd play into it? Declan and the Czechs? Will we get to see Lydia naked? > > Can’t wait to find out. Here’s a thought: The showdown will be Walt versus Jesse plus the DEA. Jesse’s going to flip at some point. Hank will continue to play dumb around Walt while coming to understand Jesse’s role in the operation to build his case. Badger and Skinny Pete seem to be key to this – Badger has already been arrested once for dealing Blue Sky and I can’t see Gilligan leaving that thread unresolved. They both know all about Jesse and his involvement in the process, and Gilligan had a reason for Jesse’s hiring them to buy the road cases for the new meth operation. (If it wasn’t intended to have future consequences they’d have called in their usual plot-irrelevant handyman Bill Burr.) As Gilligan said in the interview linked above, “we really try never to have a scene in our show that adds up to nothing. Every scene – if you go to the trouble of asking your crew to build a set and shoot a scene, it damn well ought to be important.” The two of them even made a big deal about Jesse being back in business during the delivery. As far as I can recall, they still think that Jesse is the cook, and he occasionally hangs around with some bald guy. Do they even know Walt’s name though? I see Hank interrogating them about Heisenberg and coming up with nothing but a possible connection to Jesse Pinkman. Hank will then go after Jesse to build the case against Walt. There’ll be the requisite episode where Jesse struggles for 47 minutes over the decision to betray his mentor and ally himself with the guy who put him in the hospital, but in the end he’ll turn informant. He and Walt have parallel but opposing motivations in regard to family – just as Walt broke bad for the sake of his, Jesse will break good for Andrea and Brock, completing his redemption. Then he’ll be killed in a massive (possibly one-sided) gun battle between Walt and the DEA, in which Walt may not even realize Jesse’s presence or involvement until after he has gunned down everyone in sight. I can just see Walt turning over bodies in the aftermath, trying to confirm that he got Hank, then breaking down when he sees Jesse’s dead eyes staring back at him. But in the end Walt walks unscathed into the sunset, leaving us to wonder whether Jesse’s fate changes him for the better, or only encourages him to flee to the Czech Republic and ramp up Blue Sky production. All this while “Don’t Stop Believin’” plays in the background on a jukebox at a nearby Denny’s. ---
**Author:** ![Siam\_Sam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/d78d45/32.png) [@Siam\_Sam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Siam_Sam)\ **Post date:** [September 8, 2012, 3:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/breaking-bad-5-8-gliding-over-all/633506/345 "2012-09-08T15:21:19Z")
I’m thinking more an ending like _The Good, the Bad and the Ugly_, with Walt, Jesse and Declan having to face off to see which one picks up the rock in the middle with the name of the location of all the loot or methylamine or rest of the blue stuff. ---
**Author:** ![Spoke](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a88e57/32.png) [@Spoke](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spoke)\ **Post date:** [September 8, 2012, 5:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/breaking-bad-5-8-gliding-over-all/633506/346 "2012-09-08T17:03:41Z")
> [@Washoe](#): > > What am I going to watch for a year? _Breaking Bad_ has ruined me for mere pedestrian television. I’ve never seen _The Wire_. Guess it’s time to get crackin’ and see if all the hoopla is justified. Ditto with _The Walking Dead_. Never seen _Burn Notice_, either—should I give it a shot? Give the first couple of seasons of [Justified](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1489428/) a shot. Very good TV. Nothing matches Breaking Bad, but Justified is in the big leagues. ---
**Author:** ![sco3tt](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/45deac/32.png) [@sco3tt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/sco3tt)\ **Post date:** [September 8, 2012, 8:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/breaking-bad-5-8-gliding-over-all/633506/347 "2012-09-08T20:06:22Z")
> [@cmyk](#): > > I’ll predict it right now: That end scene is going to get a million+ hits on YouTube after someone adds the _“ploooping”_ sound right before they cut to black. The [one on Cracked](http://www.cracked.com/quick-fixes/the-explosive-breaking-bad-alternate-ending-you-didnt-see/) has only 27k views at the moment, but there you go. ---
**Author:** ![Frostillicus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/e9bcb4/32.png) [@Frostillicus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Frostillicus)\ **Post date:** [September 10, 2012, 6:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/breaking-bad-5-8-gliding-over-all/633506/348 "2012-09-10T18:02:48Z")
> [@cmyk](#): > > Think there’s any chance Hank’s loyalty to family is greater than his sense of duty? Zero chance. Heisenberg is Hank’s white whale. He is obsessed with catching him. Especially after the 10 murders ruined his previous cases. ---
**Author:** ![Acsenray](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/acsenray/32/4519_2.png) [@Acsenray](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Acsenray)\ **Post date:** [September 10, 2012, 6:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/breaking-bad-5-8-gliding-over-all/633506/349 "2012-09-10T18:20:28Z")
I just realized that the door on the Whites’ master bath is not solid. It’s slotted, and you would be able see, hear, and smell darn near everything through it. ---
**Author:** ![Pashnish\_Ewing](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/8797f3/32.png) [@Pashnish\_Ewing](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Pashnish_Ewing)\ **Post date:** [September 10, 2012, 6:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/breaking-bad-5-8-gliding-over-all/633506/350 "2012-09-10T18:34:18Z")
I have a question about he storage shed full of money. Is this the excess cash that they aren’t able to launder through the car wash? So, assuming Walter is really ‘out’, is the plan to gradually move cash from storage \> car wash \> bank accounts until there is no more cash in storage? ---
**Author:** ![Marley23](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/45deac/32.png) [@Marley23](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Marley23)\ **Post date:** [September 10, 2012, 7:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/breaking-bad-5-8-gliding-over-all/633506/351 "2012-09-10T19:00:52Z")
> [@sco3tt](#): > > Badger and Skinny Pete seem to be key to this – Badger has already been arrested once for dealing Blue Sky and I can’t see Gilligan leaving that thread unresolved. It seems like that was resolved long ago. He got arrested, skipped town, and the heat went away. I can’t help thinking that if they were going to do anything else with that, it would have been kept alive somehow. They would have showed us Badger meeting with Saul about the case periodically or something. > [@Pashnish\_Ewing](#): > > I have a question about he storage shed full of money. Is this the excess cash that they aren’t able to launder through the car wash? So, assuming Walter is really ‘out’, is the plan to gradually move cash from storage \> car wash \> bank accounts until there is no more cash in storage? They haven’t said specifically that they’ll keep laundering that money, although I would think they have to or they may not be able to use it. But yes, it’s excess cash. Skyler said it’s just too much money for her to launder. I think even after the carwash she complained that Walt was asking her to launder an unrealistic amount of money, and once Walt became the owner of the meth business and was making money hand over first, he was making even more. ---
**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 13, 2012, 9:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/breaking-bad-5-8-gliding-over-all/633506/352 "2012-09-13T21:16:40Z")
This has nothing to do with the season or the episode. I popped in a Seinfeld disc the other evening and thought: who does that actress playing Jerry’s girlfriend remind me of? It was Anna Gunn. ---
**Author:** ![Acsenray](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/acsenray/32/4519_2.png) [@Acsenray](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Acsenray)\ **Post date:** [September 13, 2012, 10:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/breaking-bad-5-8-gliding-over-all/633506/353 "2012-09-13T22:05:25Z")
I had to look it up. Squinting George thought he saw her kissing Jerry’s cousin Jeffrey. ---
**Author:** ![standingwave](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/9de0a6/32.png) [@standingwave](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/standingwave)\ **Post date:** [September 13, 2012, 10:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/breaking-bad-5-8-gliding-over-all/633506/354 "2012-09-13T22:12:20Z")
> [@Chefguy](#): > > This has nothing to do with the season or the episode. I popped in a Seinfeld disc the other evening and thought: who does that actress playing Jerry’s girlfriend remind me of? It was Anna Gunn. A few actors have made the transition from appearing in Seinfeld to appearing (or starring) in Breaking Bad: [From Seinfeld to Breaking Bad](http://youtu.be/i6FbQyYloRY) ---
**Author:** ![Acsenray](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/acsenray/32/4519_2.png) [@Acsenray](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Acsenray)\ **Post date:** [September 13, 2012, 10:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/breaking-bad-5-8-gliding-over-all/633506/355 "2012-09-13T22:21:44Z")
Very cool! ---
**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 13, 2012, 10:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/breaking-bad-5-8-gliding-over-all/633506/356 "2012-09-13T22:51:00Z")
> [@standingwave](#): > > A few actors have made the transition from appearing in Seinfeld to appearing (or starring) in Breaking Bad: > > [From Seinfeld to Breaking Bad](http://youtu.be/i6FbQyYloRY) Bryan Cranston really is a chameleon, isn’t he? Totally missed the others, but should have caught Junkyard Joe. ---
**Author:** ![Oslo\_Ostragoth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/a9a28c/32.png) [@Oslo\_Ostragoth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Oslo_Ostragoth)\ **Post date:** [September 25, 2012, 8:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/breaking-bad-5-8-gliding-over-all/633506/357 "2012-09-25T20:39:00Z")
[Breaking Bad death toll chart](http://cheezburger.com/6567544832). ---
**Author:** ![davidm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/davidm/32/225_2.png) [@davidm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/davidm)\ **Post date:** [September 25, 2012, 8:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/breaking-bad-5-8-gliding-over-all/633506/358 "2012-09-25T20:55:11Z")
> [@standingwave](#): > > A few actors have made the transition from appearing in Seinfeld to appearing (or starring) in Breaking Bad: > > [From Seinfeld to Breaking Bad](http://youtu.be/i6FbQyYloRY) I love that video. ---
**Author:** ![Malthus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/85f322/32.png) [@Malthus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Malthus)\ **Post date:** [September 25, 2012, 8:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/breaking-bad-5-8-gliding-over-all/633506/359 "2012-09-25T20:59:55Z")
> [@Oslo\_Ostragoth](#): > > [Breaking Bad death toll chart](http://cheezburger.com/6567544832). That is awesome. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![MostlyClueless](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/ba9def/32.png) [@MostlyClueless](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MostlyClueless)\ **Post date:** [September 29, 2012, 9:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/breaking-bad-5-8-gliding-over-all/633506/360 "2012-09-29T21:55:43Z")
I was watching a documentary on the Clintons. The program briefly mentioned one of the gifts Lewinsky left Clinton. A book of poetry by Walt Whitman. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/breaking-bad-5-8-gliding-over-all/633506.md?page=17) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/breaking-bad-5-8-gliding-over-all/633506.md?page=19)