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[li]Am I the only one that thought the angle of the money bags that Walt left for Jesse looked like a body bag at first?[/li]
[li]Chalk me up for thinking the WW and GB initial are for our benefit, it was the handwriting that finally clued Hank.[/li]
[li]Skyler has been so uneven this season, it has been distracting from the story, sorry, had to be said…[/li]
[li]And last, any Clutch fans out there? One of Todd’s Uncle’s prison buddies in the set up looked an awful lot like Neil Fallon, but can’t find anything in the credits I’ve seen to confirm.[/li][/ul]
Noting that this hasn’t exactly been the most subtle season of BB, did anyone notice the irony of the music at the reunion scene at the end?
Walt and Skylar may or may not really be back together, but at least they’ve come to some sort of truce, the kids are home and no-one’s going anywhere. The scene played over UK Squeeze’s Up the Junction, which tells the first-person story of a guy who’s wife left him and took the child because she couldn’t cope with his drug (alcohol) abuse.
I can’t help but wonder if GB could be Gretchen Black. Walt was already familiar with the Whitman poem when Gale recited it, and Walt worked with Gretchen when they founded Gray Matter. Wouldn’t that be awesome- Hank finds out Walt’s secret by acting on a hunch that’s based on a misunderstanding.
Well, he can describe Gale as being a fellow chemistry wonk (this should be verifiable) who approached and befriended Walt about a year earlier, before his diagnosis. Walt can describe them talking chemistry for hours on end, but starting to get a Spider-sense tingle when Gale started asking questions about meth production. Walt was sufficiently curious to ask to go on a ride-along on a meth bust, as we saw in an early episode, but Gale’s persistent questions became troubling, and he seemed romantically attracted to Walt, so when Walt got the book of poetry with the inscription, he smiled and nodded and as gently as possible broke off contact. He feels just terrible if any of the chemistry questions he answered helped Gale do something criminal, but he’d completely forgotten about him - didn’t even realize that guy who got shot in his apartment was Gale - until now.
It’s a stretch, not likely to satisfy Hank, but if Walt really is out of the business and covering his tracks, Hank won’t have anything to go on but vague suspicions.
Theres a bit mental leap from thinking your geek brother in law is a meth cook to thinking he’s a serial murdering crime lord. As far as Hank knows Mike is still out there (his body was never found) and was far more likely to be behind the murders. Mike had the motive to shut them up and the reputation as a cold ruthless killer.
If I was Hank I’d think Walt was the master cook working for Mike, who killed Gus and took over.
God, if this were true, I’d take back everything bad I said about this episode. This would be absolute genius. I already worship Vince Gilligan but that twist would make me name children after him.
In the screen grab, I count 16 stacks on one edge and 12 on the other, so 192 individual stacks. It appears to be about 2 feet high.
On the page with the reference photo, they state that a 1’ stack contains roughly 3000 individual bills, so the pallet has 6000 x 192 or 1.152 million individual bills. If Gilligan’s prop master says that the total is about 80 million, then the average of the denominations is about $70, meaning that there are way more fifties and hundreds than ones, fives, or tens…
Gretchen’s last name is Schwartz; she’s married to Elliot Schwartz, the co-founder of Gray Matter. Schwartz is German for black – this is the source of the Gray in Gray Matter: Walter White + Elliot Schwartz (black).
I keep hearing rumors that Gretchen’s maiden name was Black. This would be a remarkable coincidence, but I don’t recall a reference to it on the show. Besides, the handwriting is easily matched to Gale’s handwriting in his lab notebook.
Gale was an eccentric, theres no reason to think he might not have written in British english, there’s no inconsistent usage of Honour / Honor between the two notes.
Naw. In my entire life I’ve only known one woman who writes in all caps. That’s a guy thing. Also, I went back to last season (episode four; Bullet Points) and compared the handwriting. It’s exactly the same. There is absolutely no question that Hank now knows that Walt and Gale knew each other. And Walt was completely unfamiliar with the poem when Gale first brought it up. (Season 3, episode 7, about 22 minutes in.)
What clear flammable liquid would prisoners have access to? It can’t be rubbing alcohol; you can get drunk on that, just like ethanol. Acetone is extremely flammable, but sometimes hard to ignite.
I wonder if Dennis is still alive. If the guards got to him with the fire extinguishers in time, he may have lingered in the burn ward for a few hours, or even days—enough time to tell the feds everything he knows. Gilligan likes creepy hospital scenes—it’s something I could easily see him doing.
The conversation with Todd’s uncle and his buddies seemed to suggest that their contacts included not only inmates, but dirty prison guards as well. One could have smuggled in whatever it was for them.
I don’t know. It’s printing rather than handwriting so it’d be much easier for them to appear the same. But I don’t think they do look all that similar. The writing in the notebook is much straighter and more precise, something you’d expect from Gale.
From the start Hank has always viewed Walter White as a weak, mousy guy. I think the Gale book just removes that blind spot in Hank’s mind. He will now put together all the missed clues in the past year – the gas mask that came from Walt’s school lab, Walt crashing his car on the way to the laundry plant, Walt “kidding” about his satchel of half a million bucks that Hank helped carry, Walter pointing him to WW=Walt Whitman, all of Walt’s “gambling winnings”, Walt’s knowledge of chemistry, and last but not least Walt’s resemblance to the police sketches of Heisenberg. I don’t think the book is enough evidence. So the fun will be how Hank will nail Walt and how Walt will try to stay clear. We know that, for some reason, Walt had to go to New Hampshire in the time ahead and then back to somewhere near home and that he’ll be pretty well armed. Should be very interesting when the story picks up next July. I can’t wait.
About the Gretchen thing. Do we know that her maiden name is Black? I can’t find that anywhere on the web other than people speculating about this episode.
Also, I can see eccentric Gale using the British spelling of “honour” but why would Gretchen use it?
