Breaking Bad: "Better Call Saul" 04/26/09

The opening scene was fantastic. All the while you’re flipping, this guy is/isn’t a cop. Wait, yeh maybe he is. Naw, Badger’s just fucking with some poor sap. God what if he is a cop? Then BOOM, yep, he is. And after all that, even Badger’s advice about using a garbage truck “that one’s a freebee,” he gets pinched anyway. Wheee!

Anyway, I agree that Hank isn’t buying that that dude is Heisenberg. He just doesn’t fit the profile of a chemistry wizard. And when the DEA questions him further, it’ll be painfully evident they’ve been duped. Albeit, the ABQ cops won’t give a shit, they’ll still pat themselves on the back.

And, if you’re Saul, and stage the arrangement he did, with two criminals who are in deep shit, and he knows nothing about them, sure as hell you’re going to get your PI on their tail, asap. They’d be easy to find once you physically meet with them. Also, he wanted in on the jig the moment he was accosted and figured out just what was happening there. The guy’s a shark, and he smells money from miles away, even with a hood over his head and his hands bound.

Saul’s going to be good for them in the short term, but he’s also going to fuck everything up (or get himself killed — Err, I mean molecularly dissociated). He’s too greedy.

It’s only a matter of time before Hank finally puts 2+2 together, and interpreting the B&W foreshadowing with the pool, it happens this season.

How much has Walt netted after all this time cooking meth? With all the problems he’s had, I don’t think he’s made very much as a drug kingpin.

We’re not really sure, but he lost how much when the DEA confiscated the cash at Tucco’s? 40k? Now, they had to cough up another 80k. So, subtract 120k from whatever they’ve made so far, and I’ll bet they’re still in under 100k, split between them.

737k is looking a loooong way off, now.

I’m not 100% sure of that, but being a mini series it may have to come to that (even if Walt dies first). We already did the Hank being suspicious of Walt episode when Hank showed up at the school and went through them chemistry closet and pointed out all the missing equipment. That and I think Hank is way to arrogant to think that someone as dumb as Hank could be doing this right under his nose.

I can see this building to a confrontation between Hank and Walt, but that might be too cliche. I could see Hank realizing who Heisenberg is and letting Walt escape or even abetting him, too.

I liked the addition of Saul Goodman. He wants to be Tom Hagen to Walt’s Don Corleone. He really helped Walt and Jesse in this episode. They would have been SOL with Badger singing like a bird without him.

In the scene you’re referring to, I had the impression Hank was just messing with him, never really suspecting him of anything. It was the audience knowing that Walt was guilty as sin, that that scene played so paranoid. In Hank’s eyes, at that point, he only ever suspected a student or other lowly staff member.

I can’t really blame Hank not putting it together yet merely on arrogance alone. Sure, he’s arrogant to think Walt and him don’t share anything in common, but he’s known Walt personally, for a long time, and such a thing would be so out of character for Walt, in Hank’s eyes, he hasn’t even begun to link him to such a thing. Hank relates the miscreants he deals with in his job as so far removed from his family, that it hasn’t even occurred to him that it could be happening right under his nose in his own family. That the kingpin of a new drug cartel, with such a high-quality, pure product could be Walt?! I don’t blame Hank of even suspecting him on such an impossible thing. Yet, I think one little piece of criteria is alluding Hank, unbeknownst to him, that’s going to finally link it to Walt. And it’ll shatter him. No telling how the writers will have him react, as I can see it going either way for Hank, either helping Walt or doing his duty.

Either way, it obviously ends with the DEA at Walt’s place after something bad.

It’s kinda wierd seeing Jessie having one of Rory Gilmore’s college friend as a girlfriend/fuck buddy :wink:

I wonder if they’ll figure it out before he’s convicted, or only afterwards, when the supply of blue meth fails to dry up.

I’m guessing afterwords since he should be smart enough to keep his mouth shut when they ask him questions about how and where he makes it (which he wouldn’t be able to answer anyways), also I’m assuming Saul will be his attorney. Even if they would manage to figure that part up, they’d still be able to lock him up for a little white for the ‘sale’ of a pound of meth.

That’s the thing that’s so great about this show. You’re thinking there’s no way Walt’s gonna get out of this one, and then (well, at least for me) it resolves in a way you never considered.

Oddly though, this time it was Jesse that got him out of the jam with his suggestion to call Saul.