Holy fucking shit. Fuck them for ending that episode like that. I knew there was no way the neo-nazi guys were not going to show up. Once Hank made that phone call I KNEW it was going to go bad. I don't see any way that Hank and Gomez get out of that alive.
Yeah the phone call was excellent, no way Hank and Gomez survive next episode. That being said somehow the word gets out who Walt is and what he's done, so many questions left the next 3 are going to be awesome. With only three left to go how are they going to do the time lapse from when Walt gets a new identity and grows his hair out?
Remember he confessed almost everything as he raced towards his stash? No way Hank didn't have that call recorded somewhere. And I'm guessing Jesse uses the shootout as a screen to GTFO. How far does he make it on foot? Tune in next week!
Todd is quietly the most frightening character on the show. He's a perfect element of everything Jesse, Gale, and Mike are not in partners. Cold, impulsive, indifferent, and psychotic. I always thought he was just a plot device but he's definitely the symbol of evil in the show. And his flirting with Lydia... eeesh.
As soon as Walt called the Aryans, I knew how the rest of the ep would play out, except for one thing. I expected Hank to get his brains blown out as soon as he hung up with Marie. "I love you" *click* POW. I forgot that mustache guy had loaded up an AA-12, and you don't have that gun on a tv show unless you're going to use it.
Why did the Aryans bring their #1 meth cook to a shoot out? Probably because he's going to get kilt. That gives the Aryans an excuse to kidnap Jesse. It also gives Walt a reason to flee and come back and save Jesse one last time in a giant shootout with an M60.
Re: Re: Breaking Bad: Season 5 Except that Jesse ratted him out to the DEA and got him to confess and Walt wanted him killed. So then Walt just forgets this and comes out of hiding to save him? No I think not.
I have a feeling the ending to this is going to be very Shakespearean. Everybody dies. I think the ricin is for Walt.
Vehicles are NOT cover and turn into bullet magnets in a gunfight. Hank would know this. They are using it as temporary concealment, not a position to fight from cover. Either way, Hank and the other DEA agent get smoked.
Obviously willing to cut this show a lot of slack when it comes realism, and it's not like I've been in a gun fight, but that was a bit much. Once the first shot was fired, couldn't they have cut the rest of the scene in half? Especially since it's most likely going to pick up at that spot next episode. As awesome as that scene still was, I was kind of hoping that Walt had a back up plan once he got taken in. Something CD-confession related. Speaking of potential evidence, can Hank actually use any of it? Don't know if this is obvious, or I missed something, or I'm not up to date on U.S. legal proceedings, but doesn't the fact that Hank has done all this completely off the books make whatever evidence he has (even Walt's recorded admission) inadmissible in court? Or something? This season, especially lately, has had Walt acting more emotionally, to the point it blinded him to the possibility that Jesse would turn. Wonder if he learned his lesson, and we'll see a return to Heisenberg at his peak evil powers, where he thinks of everything. You know, once he's out of the cuffs/desert and all that.
Did that version of Heisenberg ever existed? I mean, Walt has dreamed up a lot of schemes and solved problems that would've killed lesser men. But he's not Heisen-Batman. When Walt is pushed into a corner, he comes up with something and kills whatever's in his way. A lot of the time he's improvising. Like poisoning Emilio and Krazy-8. Getting Hank to leave the RV. Freeing himself from the chain on the radiator. His elaborate schemes often don't work to perfection. Tuco didn't take the Ricin. Gus avoided the car-bomb. The magnet-heist was unnecessary and brought unwanted attention to the other guys in Fring's operation. I think the train-heist was the only instance where everything worked to perfection for Walt (well, besides the killing of an innocent boy). And when he convinced Jesse to kill Gale. But that was a long-shot, because Gus also could've used the box-cutter on them. Other times he just bluffs his way out of it, like not letting Skyler have the house or making that 'confession tape' for Hank and dare him to come after him. But Walt never was a 'think of everything' kind of guy. That what makes the shows often unbearably tense, because Walt had to come up with something on the spot instead of planning it in advance. Well....... http://i.imgur.com/LxuSHvR.jpg Also, was anyone else releaved that someone finally adressed the fact that yes, Declan does look a lot like Wolverine?
The only possible move I see for Hank and Gomi would be to take Walt hostage and somehow talk their way out of it. If Walt gets a chance to talk, he might figure something out to keep everyone (or almost everyone) alive... I don't know, I just don't see them killing off Hank right away. Or at least not just right away in the next episode, something else has to happen. The unpredictability of this show is great, so you never know, but it seems like Hank vs. Walt is what it's been building to and there will be more to it. Maybe Walt uses this to get Hank to destroy the confession that Jesse got out of him? And like Superfantastic said, I'm wondering when/if pure evil Heisenberg will show up again. I feel like they really played up that aspect of him in season 4, and at the time I thought he wasn't going back. It was interesting to see the contrast of his meeting with Todd's uncle this time compared to before when he met with them to order the prison murders. That time he was the fucking boss and everyone, the hardened murderers and myself, were afraid of him. This time he kind of just seemed like a middle aged man with cancer. The emotional side of him this season has me wondering, again, what is/has been driving him this whole time. We certainly have some pieces of the puzzle, but I still don't really "get" him.
Yeah, he was never a perfect evil genius, that's true. But poisoning brock/manipulating Jesse definitely worked out like he planned (well, until Jesse found out), and there was the prison murders, though he didn't orchestrate them, just set up the plan. Oh and there was the time he walked into Tuco's lair armed with a bag of phosphorus-something-or-other, and walked out with tens of thousands in cash. Even still, he seems to have swung quite far on the emotional vs logical spectrum, and it's making him sloppy. I feel like it has to come back the other way, but maybe it's only half throttle and it's gonna get even crazier. Can't say I'd be disappointed. I don't see Hank dying straight away either (my money's been on suicide for a while -- not looking likely at this point), but holy fuck, if they don't kill him, I'm scared to think of what they would do to him. Hold him for ransom to make Walt cook? Or worse? Is there any way they don't kill Jesse? I could see Walt pleading for his life, and saying he won't cook if they kill him, but they know he's a rat, and in my admittedly limited experience dealing with Nazi meth cooks, they don't take kindly to rats.
Walt does come up with ingenious plans and work out from time to time like a fucking super villain. He is also one to absolutely panic when backed into a corner like when Gus had him in the desert and threatened to kill his entire family (he was 2 seconds away from using Saul's disappearing guy before he found out Skylar gave their money away). He was never totally cool like Gus, who is the epitome of Heisenberg. I don't think Hank's off the record investigation would invalidate his evidence unless he obtained it illegally. Something like the car tracking GPS device would since it wasn't obtained with the proper warrants so some of the evidence might not fly. Tricking Walt into giving up the location of his money seems legit. Also, police use interrogation tactics all the time that kind of bend around the letter of the law. Saul's fat body guard and his confession, while underhanded, wasn't against the law, and they told him repeatedly he wasn't under arrest and was free to leave. Police claim all the time that co-conspiritors are in the next room singing as they speak, Im thinking it is along these lines with the mock execution photo of Jesse. Im with Superfantastic, the shoot out was quite a bit longer than it needed to be. How do have a dozen guys armed with automatic weapons NOT hit anything from 20-30 feet away at basically stationary objects who are totally outgunned? My guess is that they'll play the old cold opening that is somewhere far off from the shooting either in distance or time. I had a thought but haven't rewatched the two episodes to see if they match up but I am wondering if the opening a few episodes back with the Ayrans at the diner was a flash forward to after this gun fight with hank/Gomez or just after wiping out Lydia's rivals. Not sure if the clothes or situations match up.
Pretty certain it wasn't a flash forward. If I remember correctly, Todd calls Walt and leaves a message re: killing Declan's gang. And it showed them heading back to ABQ from...somewhere.
It's true that poisoning Brock worked wonders for bringing Jesse back on his side. Afterwards Gus did avoid the car bomb, but considering he still got half his face blown off, Walt's plan was perfect enough. About the prison murders: Walt didn't 'plan' anything. He gave a bag of money to the Nazi's and, I'm paraphrasing here but I think it's close enough, told them to figure out the rest. So that had more to do with Heisenberg's riches than his brains. Tuco's lair? Walt walked in to intimidate Tuco and get his money back. He sure as hell wasn't planning to be rewarded for it. In hindsight you have to admit it was a pretty dumb idea, but ballsy nonetheless. He hadn't even met Tuco, but just walked in and blew the place up. He could've easily been killed, because y'know, Tuco was a goddamn unpredictable psychopath. Walt just got lucky. That's not the say that a lot of Walt's plans have been impressive and well thought-out. But the execution didn't always go according to plan and a lot hinged on improvisation and sometimes on dumb luck (Like Tuco getting killed by Hank, after he wouldn't take the ricin). Walt reached the top last season and he was surely to a lot of people one of the most infamous criminals in that area. But the series has shown time and again that Walt isn't some Bond-villain who plans everything to perfection. And his empire only consisted of a dirtbag-lawyer and his two bodyguards, a messed up kid and a jittery woman who sent his stuff to the Czech Republic. Heisenberg isn't Lex Luthor or something. What I am still curious about and what I hope the show will still adress is this: what made Walter decide to retire from the meth-business? Yes, the cancer is back and Skylar did seem to get through to him when she asked him how much money is enough. And there was the implication that making meth was starting to turn into another dull and grinding routine. But an answer hasn't been given and the reason behind this hasn't even come up yet.