Much more likely and workable that it be Todd, the exterminator crew, and Todd’s prison gang connections that handle Walt’s side of the operation. Without the exterminator cover and place to store equipment, and Todd’s new lab knowledge, there would be no production in place.
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? I almost feel as if I’ve been abandoned—like a spouse had left me after years of marriage. A couple of months from now they’ll find me dead in bed with empty booze bottles all over the place, a Breaking Bad disc spinning away in the Blu-Ray…
And the only loose ends tying Walt to the blue meth (if he really is retired, as he claims) are Lydia, Todd, Goodman, and Jesse. As far as I can see, there is absolutely no physical evidence anywhere linking the Blue Sky to W.W.
Burn Notice isn’t even in the same league as the others. Skip it in favor of any/all others.
Which, as an extension to my post above, makes me wonder what would happen if Hank’s investigation leads to them and their newly inherited meth production business.
re: the money, that pile is roughly 12x12 stacked around 37 bundles tall mixed 20’s, 50’s, and 100’s
(yes I paused it and counted to get that estimate)
that’s 5,328 bundles or 532,800 bills
20’s = 10,656,000
50’s = 26,640,000
100’s = 53,280,000
so the answer is somewhere in between those 3 as an educated guestimate. my ball park would be around 30 mil.
Indeed, and Jesse was also shown playing a videogame from 2010 videogame some time ago, which would be well past the year the show is set in, assuming it’s set when the show first aired (which it may not be).
Well, methylamine doesn’t just grow on trees. Once that thousand gallons is gone, there’s no way to get more unless Lydia can pull another rabbit out of her ass. And Lydia wants out—real bad. The whole Czech thing was just a means of preventing Walt from killing her. The smart thing for Lydia to do would be to kill Walt, and that would effectively end the trail right there. Todd and his dumbass con buddies really don’t know shit from Shinola. It’s unlikely that they pose any real threat to her. Mike didn’t even give them a second glance. And they have more money than they know what to do with. It’s almost certain that we haven’t seen the last of Lydia. And she’s really far more powerful than Walt is. The rest of the series will have to be an endgame involving the three principal players—Walt, Hank, and Lydia.
When it comes right down to it though, methylamine isn’t that hard to make—it’s just a colossal pain in the ass (see chapter 13). But if cooks are really willing to pay $15k/gallon for the stuff, why isn’t every jib head from the redwood forest to the Gulf Stream waters making the stuff in their backyards?
On the podcast, Vince said that the propmaster calculated it as $80M. That seems high to me considering a mix of denominations. Here’s a screen grab of the Storage Wars scene and here’s what $100M looks like as stacks of Benjamins.
It’s also in Gale’s rather distinctive handwriting. Same as Gale’s notebook.
Yeah, I meant to mention the Lydia situation before. There is a natural progression for Todd and company to take over fulfilling production for the Phoenix crew, but what becomes of Lydia’s foreign foray? Was Walt planning on keeping that action on the side, in secret? It seemed like Lydia was eager to see it through, I don’t think she just brought it up only as a reason to prevent Walt from killing her.
Alternate ep title “The Return of the Fly”?
I don’t have an opinion as to whether the cancer’s back at this point but, as to Walt’s being “out,” I think this is his genuine intention, and that Marie’s speechifying in the storage locker has a lot to do with this–that she actually succeeded in breaking through his long-term battle plan (with its partial genesis of his needing to possess mucho $$$ comparable to those he “lost” by selling his partnership in the tech startup years ago) by confronting him with the physical evidence of all that currency.
Yes, he’s lied to her and manipulated her throughout his transformation into Heisenberg, but on some level, he really does believe that his “family” and his role as father/protector trumps all, and that at this point, and after all the prison murders, it’s time to abdicate his Godfather-like role.
The stack in the episode looks to be about twice as wide as the Benjamin stack you linked, a little longer, and about half as high. It’s packed less densely though, so the 80M figure sounds reasonable to me.
Comparing the pictures in the 2 links, it doesn’t seem too far-fetched to me that Walt’s haul could be close to $100 million. Or at least somewhere north of $50 million. I don’t know denominations in the storage unit, but just comparing the size of each: the $100 million picture is on a standard 4x4 skid (which is more like 48"x40"), and appears to about shoulder high. I believe the skid is 4" tall, so take that into account (at least it’s not flat on the floor, like Walt’s loot is).
The dough on the skid is also not to the edge of the wood, so its footprint is less than 4x4. Still, it’s probably over 5 feet high. The storage pile is much shorter, closer to Skylar’s knee height. But it’s spread out over a larger area than 4x4. Pile it as high as the skid money, and I’d guess it’s roughly the same height.
Now here’s something else to consider: We saw Walt running the dough through the counting machines and wrapping it. Not that he’d keep a written record, but considering he’s (probably) not making the denomination bands, he should have at least a rough idea of how much he’s making.
In other words, it’s his operation, so he’s getting the money directly, sorting it, counting it, bundling it, and arranging for it to be laundered. Unlike when it was Mike’s (or Gus’s) responsibility, and Walt just got his cut. So I’d be surprised if he didn’t at least have a guess at how much Skylar piled up.
On the other hand, to play devil’s advocate to my own thought, it’s plausible he doesn’t, for any number of reasons.
Damn you, Walt Whitman! I HATE YOU WALT! FREAKIN’! WHITMAN! “LEAVES OF GRASS” MY ASS!
[/Homer Simpson and Walter White]
He was arrested, though I’m not sure for what specifically. Here’s his Breaking Bad wiki page.
What does “queen for a day” mean in the context things you might offer a convict in exchange for testimony?
I was curious about that cop/prison/legal banter too.
I found an entire article about that here
Think there’s any chance Hank’s loyalty to family is greater than his sense of duty?
I’m not sure how open the Fring case still is at the DEA, but if Hank just sits (heh) on this new evidence, there’s still hardly anything connecting Walt to the case.
Unless, something ugly turns up this coming season, and Hank might try to play both sides, in helping Walt as much as he can, while cooperating with the investigation the least he can get away with.
Here’s what $205.6 million looks like from a drug raid.
I want a bed like that. 