A couple things... The book was by Walt Whitman, which happened to be Gales favorite author as his house had a bunch of his books. The signature in the front under the note was Gales. Hank now knows that Walt, being a chemist, is connected.
Yeah, I know. That was my point. The book was Gales, an ex-cook that they knew was involved with Gus. The book was taken from Gales' apartment right? The note said something like "My second favorite W.W." So a source of evidence had just been sitting on Hank's shitter and he didn't look at it before now?
Only this show can make a darling scene of a family sitting by a pool feel so goddamn ominous. I knew something awful was going to happen so I just started guessing the most ridiculous things. Every other second I was like: OH MY GOD. WALT JR IS GOING TO DROWN HOLLY. or OH MY GOD. SOMEONE FROM THE CARTEL IS GOING TO KNOCK DOWN THE DOOR AND JUST START SHOOTING EVERY BODY. or OH MY GOD. THEIR HOUSE IS GOING TO EXPLODE? ISN'T IT? ISN'T IT? or OH MY GOD. WALTER HAS POISONED THEM ALL WITH THE LILY OF THE VALLEY. or OH MY GOD. WALTER'S GOING TO GET A CALL THAT JESSE HAS KILLED HIMSELF. My heart was pounding so bad. The book was so anti-climactic. But I'm really glad that's how they set up the last season. It's how it had to be.
This episode was the only torrent I've ever downloaded that wasn't immediately paused after being 100% complete. I can only hope the additional 8.6 Kb/s of my uploading allowed someone to watch this masterpiece of a show that much quicker. Echoing 5 million other sentiments expressed throughout the World this evening, I cannot wait another year for this to start back up.
I don't think Walt's out of the bizzz just yet. He has too much work wrapped up in the overseas thing as well as his dealing with the local dealers to just give up whole hog on his business and pure meth recipe.
That's it, I'm done with this fucking show. There's no goddamned way they could have done that many cooks so fast. It was like one every 15 seconds. Did you see how fast Walt and Todd were moving inside of the tents? Are we supposed to believe they're fucking robots?! Ridiculous.
I think he was joking but it is fun to guesstimate how much money he could have accumulated in those three months. With him being the sole proprietor only paying new dude per cook and not a portion of the whole like he had been with Jesse/Mike he'd be keeping a very large amount for himself. If he ramped up cooking as it was kind of implied, he could have pulled in 3-4 million a week. I could see it being in the 40-50 million sitting in the storage locker.
The book was another copy of that book given to Walt by Gale as a gift. Not taken from Gale's apartment, and thus not evidence.
I used to work in a bank cash centre. Basically a warehouse full of cash. Although she said it was different denominations so it's impossible to know, I think your 40-50 million estimate is probably fairly close to the mark. You know with this show that the writers have a bit of paper somewhere which has written on it the exact amount of money Walt has over every episode of the programme's run. Still not sure what's going to play out over the next eight episodes. Are the Arizona guys going to feature again at all? Surely they must. Jesse seems content to be out so to tie up his storyline perhaps Hank gets the hard proof on Walt through him? I dunno. I've only just started to digest the last episode but it's sure as hell going to come out the other end long before I next get fed. It's going to be a long year(-ish).
I cannot wait to see the shit storm that is going to unfold next season. That episode was sublime, especially the ending. It is absolutely fitting the way he was found out.
Everything all the people before this post said correctly, I agree with. I really fucking thought Walt Jr. was going to stumble and drown Holly. Also I don't think Hank has it 100% dead to rights that it is Walt, but I think he's going to start asking questions. Hank is a law man, he just can throw cuffs on him and go for there. He has a lead and now he has to follow it. He could be wrong, but shit is clicking just a little. Walt has been giving him some funny fucking looks and has had this weird demeanor, now its falling into place. God fucking damn. Now I can turn my brain off with The Walking Dead and American Horror Story Asylum.
I feel like Hank definitely knows, he'll just have to prove it. If Gale's prints are on the book -- game over. Maybe he plays it cool and it takes Walt a couple episodes to realize Hank is investigating him? Can't wait for that exact scene to continue at the start of next season, as Hank realizes how much horrible shit Walt's done, including the horrible shit that's happened to him because of Walt...then drops a deuce and walks back out. That prison killing scene creeped me the fuck out. I thought either Skylar would kill herself of Lydia would take Holly (which I still think she will). So. Fucking. Epic. Oh, and also, I may be reading into it too much, but Holly was coughing in at least one scene, and they really emphasized her wearing sun screen. Gotta be foreshadowing something (I dunno, skin cancer...or something?).
Re: Re: Breaking Bad: Season 5 Cause we all know the cough that skin cancer gives you is terrible. I really thought junior was going to dump the kid into the pool for some reason, that scene was awesome because you KNEW something bad was going to happen, then it didn't.
Oh god, the sound of people being stabbed hundreds of times, it was giving me chills. I wonder what's going to happen with Jesse. They have to bring him back somehow but if they are both completely out of the business how do they get him back into the story? I can't think of anyway Hank would connect him with Walt.
Re: Re: Breaking Bad: Season 5 Ehh I would surprised if that's the direction it went because that would make us root for Walt again and that's not what Vince Gilligan wants at all.
My memory is a bit foggy but Hank did know Jesse drove the trailer he was tracking down, and that Jesse miraculously had his phone number when Saul's secretary called to say Marie had been in an accident. Couple articles pointed out how screwed Hank could be after this discovery. His promotions are almost entirely because of figuring out Fring's operation, but if he goes to the chief now and says "Oh, also, my brother-in-law is the cook and Gus' killer, and he used some of his drug money to pay for my medical bills," he'll either look like an idiot, or complicit.