Holy shit. Cranston has to be one of the best actors of our time. His breakdown at the end was simply awesome. A world of shit has descended.
Yeah, wow. Just wow.
Breaking Bad has always been great, but the last 10 minutes of that episode are head and shoulders above anything I’ve ever seen.
Honestly, with that zoom out at the end (and what was with the weird CG, was it just my TV or was everything kinda shifty) it could have been the series finale and easily have left the audience to decide what happened next. It would have been discussed for months and compared to The Sopranos but it would have been done so much better.
So, Walt doesn’t have the money to make himself disappear, Gus took away his livelihood and is threatening his family as well as his brother-in-law, his wife gave all their money to T, Jesse doesn’t want anything to do with him (again)…they’re setting him up to make a colossal ass of himself next week. It should be interesting.
I’m slightly confused. Skyler gave Beneke $617,000 and change, right? Walt was bringing in millions, right? How could $617,000 missing from all of those millions make a difference? How would it even be so immediately obvious to Walt?
Am I missing something?
I assume it all went into the $617,000 and the “almost a million” for the car wash. I think he was probably pulling in closer to hundreds of thousands rather than millions.
He’s paid (at the very least) tens of thousands of dollars for his cancer treatment, which involved an experimental surgery that was very expensive. He’s paid for Hank’s treatment, which has also been very expensive. He bought a car wash for $800k and Skyler had given Ted $600k from what he had left.
It looked like he had close to enough, but not quite. Maybe if he hadn’t burned that Charger.
Plus he had something under a half million in the crawlspace.
At the beginning, did Jesse and Gus walk the six miles to the Texas border? BTW. that was an impressively well-equipped medical clinic.
I would have liked an explanation as to how they knew everything about Jesse. Even something as simple as “Have you ever had your blood drawn?” and allowed him/us to figure out the rest. It’s entirely possible someone like him has never had that done, maybe they figured that out some other way.
Seemed pretty short-sighted for Gus to insinuate that he was going to kill Hank, and then threaten to kill Walt’s whole family. It would have been much better for him to just “disappear” Walt - or him and his whole family - and tell Jesse they went into hiding.
How does Gus expect Walt to react to that? He’s got to consider that he could pretty easily go into witness protection now that he’s been thoroughly pushed into a corner. Not that he doesn’t probably have someone in the DEA on the payroll, but still, letting it get to that point would cause some serious complications.
He hasn’t been working for Gus that long, in the grand scheme of things, and they just spent nearly a million bucks on a car wash. Plus whatever they’ve been spending on Hank’s medical bills.
Jesse was in the hospital after Hank assaulted him, so it’s possible that they somehow got his blood type and other medical information from there.
He makes 7.5 million a year which comes to $625,000 a month, so okay, one months salary goes to Beneke.
$800,000 for the carwash, was that cash or was there a loan involved?
Granted, we don’t know what Hanks treatments cost, but how much could it be? I would think under half million.
Didn’t he make $3 million for the first 3 months? How long has he been working for Gus beyond that?
I was thinking he had millions in cash by now. Maybe I’m mistaken.
Don’t forget that he’s splitting his salary with Jesse.
Just finally got caught up on this series with this episode, and it makes me a little bit sad to know that there’s much less ahead of me than there is behind…
I think the 7.5 million is after the split. That’s how much he told Skyler he was making. But I guess I’m wrong about how much he has at the moment.
There’s supposedly at least one more season after this, but I have to say that the plot seems to be drawing to some sort of conclusion.
Wow, that really could have been the season finale–and we still have two episodes to go!
The writing, directing, and acting are all–of course–outstanding. And another thing that I just can’t praise enough is the cinematography on this show. Every episode just looks amazing!
My bet is that next season involves that conglomerate company in a deeper capacity.
At this point doesn’t Walt pretty much have to go to the DEA in hopes of getting a witness protection deal?
It could be, OTOH, the final season is longer then normal if that means anything. Since I can’t see them getting rid of Walt or Jesse with more then a handful of episodes left I also can’t see them sending the Whites into witness protection or disappearing them unless they take Jesse with them and at the moment it doesn’t look like that’s going to be happening.
I’m guessing at some point Jesse will prove that while he’s an okay cook, he’s incompetent as a chef (based on what Walt said during the Box Cutter episode, that speech wasn’t entirely for nothing) and Walt will be back in the lab…or maybe he’ll be working for the Cartel.
Whoo hoo hoo, that ending. Wow was that intense and unnerving. The desperation, fear, despair, then the maniacal cackling over the irony of the 600k going to Ted. Skyler backing away… Terrified… And not even knowing what’s happening.
Then that final pull-out as Walt went catatonic. Talk about evoking an image of him in a casket/grave.
Damn that was good. What a mess. And on top of it, neither has learned that Ted went the way of the Darwin Awards.
Walt’s options now are very limited. Do they somehow cancel the IRS check, and forge a check from Ted (RIP) to get the dough back in time? Does Jesse some how save his ass? Does he spill the beans to Hank to get help? What am I missing?