I know! They have a lot of great music on the show, but that was an absolute perfect choice. And an amazing montage.
That’d make sense. This episode was the first time they really jumped forward several months in time. That would take us a lot closer to the diner scene in the beginning of the season, assuming that his birthday under the fake identity matches up with his real one.
Re: the towel dispenser, now I remember. He punched it when they told him he was in remission. Now they show it again, right after showing him get a scan. I’m a cancer survivor so maybe I’m reading too much into it, but I’m pretty sure I’m right about it being back. That, coupled with seeing just how much money he had, probably made him realize why he had started this to begin with. Except now his family will be well provided for. Can’t launder all that money now, but they’ll have quite a tidy income if they launder it over time.
I don’t like this. When did Gale give Walt the book? Offscreen? In the two days they worked together? I went back and watched all the Gale scenes on NetFlix, and no scene with the book.
If this is really it (an off-screen gift of a book that has never been seen before or since) then that is really weak and way less than I expect from Gilligan.
I would take it all back, of course, if someone could point to an earlier scene with the book.
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Good thing Hank was sitting on the toilet.
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This is the funniest thing I’ve read all day.
That’s what I had thought, and that the recent scan was just a follow up to make sure he was still in remission.
So when Walt gave Jesse the duffle bag, was Jesse freaking out about the gun because it was Mike’s gun? Was that Walt’s way of telling Jesse, “Yeah, I killed Mike, sorry. Here’s that money I owe you.”
Also, I do think that it was unbelievably stupid of Walt to hang on to that book, though an easy fanwank is that he simply forgot he had it (which is a bit hard to swallow, given that Hank’s investigation of Gale’s lab notes should have jogged his memory).
Heh, on re-watch I just noticed how they showed the telltale book on the toilet when Walt was taking a shower after the first commercial break. There wasn’t a magazine on top of it at that point.
By the way, I saw that copy of Leaves of Grass when Hank was taking a shower early in the episode. I didn’t remember that he was given that book by Gale.
And how about how Hank brought the ricin to the meeting with Lydia but decided not to use it when she gave him the Czech plan?
The scene with Jesse was great. He really thought that he might be killed. That relief that he showed when Walt left and there was money in the bag so he was able to toss the gun was great.
Something else has happened since the last time Hank encountered “W.W.”–all this weirdness has come up with Walt and Skyler and the kids. When Hank jokingly suggested that W.W. was Walter White back then, he had no reason to think about it any further than that. Walt was just a sad sack ex-teacher who happened to make a pile playing blackjack (which I think had come up at that point), which was not so unlikely that you’d go looking for another explanation like Meth Kingpin.
But since then he’s seen Walt crash his car as they were about to visit the laundry (which Hank now knows he was right about), Walt live way above his means buying a bunch of expensive cars, and Skyler go so far as to send the kids to live with them for three months. All Hank needs to do is seriously consider the possibility that Walt is up to some seriously illegal shit for one second, and it’s all going to fall into place. And that’s what the book did.
Great episode, great point to leave us at.
EDIT: Beaten to some of this. Damn my slow typing!
This is a good question. The Phoenix crew (and now the Czechs) are going to want a continuing supply.
I’ll have to rewatch that scene, but I don’t think that the gun was in the bag. I think Jesse pulled it out of the waistband of his pants.
Jesse went to get the gun when he saw that it was Walt at the door. He had it for protection in case Walt was going to kill him.
No, there was no gun in the duffel. Jesse got the gun as soon as he saw it was Walt at the door. He had it on him the whole conversation because he assumed Walt had come back to tie up a loose end.
Ninja’ed! Twice!
I wonder if we’ve seen the last of Todd’s uncle’s crew. Did they know why they were killing those guys? And what happened with the lawyer? Is he still alive?
I vaguely remember Gale giving Walt the book, I think we even mentioned it in these threads. Couldn’t tell you what episode, though.
No, that was Jesse’s gun, and he went and got it only after he saw it was Walt at the door. He just took it out from his waistband when he sat down with the money. He was absolutely scared the whole time thinking that Walt was going to wack him.
Earlier this season when Walt moved back in, when he was unpacking his things, the book was in one of the boxes.
I’ll throw in another “HOLY SHIT!” here. I was watching it on TIVO so I just finished it.
Regarding the paper towel dispenser, I also was under the impression that it was the one he punched back when he discovered he was in remission. Showing it again may have been symbolic of a return of the cancer or maybe it was symbolic of his criminal career going “into remission” like his cancer did. It does seem like there must have been some reason to show him getting a scan and then showing him in that bathroom followed by the shot of the dented dispenser.
What was up with Jesse shoving the gun across the floor? Was he out of money with nowhere to turn and planning to shoot himself before Walt showed up with the money?
On Edit: I see that a discussion about the gun occurred while I was typing this post.
If there was $5 million in the duffel bag that Walt gave Jesse, there had to be like $200 million in the storage unit.
That was the pause between the time Jesse looked out the window and when he answered the door. He got his gun.
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What was up with Jesse shoving the gun across the floor? Was he out of money with nowhere to turn and planning to shoot himself before Walt showed up with the money?
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Whoa, you really misinterpreted that scene. Jesse was relieved that Walt didn’t kill him.
I’m watching the second run now. I’ll have to watch that scene closely to see what exactly was up with the gun.
I didn’t misinterpret it. I didn’t understand it. I gave that as one possible interpretation.