Shall we anticpate the AMC series "Breaking Bad"? I think I may.

Maybe, but how much has he got readily available at short notice, rather than tied up in car wash/paying Hank's medical bills?

there are literal millions in vacuum bags under the floorboards in Skylar's house. the problem is going to be Ted asking questions about where the money came from if she gives it to him.

surely $650k outta nowhere doesn't exactly clear up accounting discrepancies

No I think it does. Fines + back taxes. Incompetence, not criminality.

Anybody else get the sense that the "send Jesse to Mexico" plan is a load of horseshit?

Skyler telling Ted to sell the BMW and then cut to Ted starting up his Ford Festiva or whatever was pretty great.

Broke my heart when she told Walt they were making enough profit that he could quit his second job.

Anybody else get the sense that the "send Jesse to Mexico" plan is a load of horseshit?

no, it was apparent the other week at the Cartel meeting that what they wanted was Walt. remember he was meant to go and work in their bunker in the jungle a couple of years ago, before Gus decided to cut the cartel out.

well those dudes are going to be a little disappointed when X-Box McGee shows up

which surely Gus knows, as he also knows Jesse is going to come to Walt for help about this supposed plan

Xbox McGee!!!

Even if Skyler gives Ted $650K, problem's not solved. Don't banks have to report large cash transactions? And he can't exactly go to the IRS with bricks of crisp fifties.

yeah one might say surely $650k outta nowhere doesn't exactly clear up accounting discrepancies

heh...yeah, sorry, conrad otm

On the other hand this is a world where people are stupid enough to fall for Skylar's airhead routine.

i was expecting her to bust out a cigarette again, but she let me down

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calls a number of walt

Jeez ever heard of a spoiler alert?!

Actually this dialogue captures Jesse's voice pretty accurately.

lol wait were u reading a jpg of what pretends to be an unreleased script and you didn't expect spoilers?

its just the ways it is

to be continue?

that leaked script thing is like The Internet Justified, 2011

your amazing lets get dennys

shoots mike who dies right a way

dying, the right a way

that was posted on this thread two weeks ago, GOD

did you post "first!" after it was posted?

still holds up imo

I posted it the first time round but y'know, it bears repeating

forreal yo

trying to figure out how to add 'bitch' to my weekday conversations in corporation world

good morning Ted. how are you? listen, no big deal - but you forgot the put covers on those TPS reports... bitch.
anyways, you'll get 'em next time.

Skyler was on some Melanie Griffith/"Working Girl" shit there. No way mere incompetence gets a dude out of a felony charge, though, especially if the investigation had progressed that far already. And there's double no way that just giving Ted the $650K would make the problem go away.

Still not sure of Gus's long game. Or. hell Walt's short game. He's going to end up penniless and dead. Hell, he's already managed to disappear his kids! Seriously, though, who's watching the fucking BABY?

Why did Mike have to liquidate random worker #3? Why couldn't they bury him in the desert or something? Why did he warrant fancy-pants waste disposal?

Anyway, good episode. Ratcheted things even tighter with ruthless efficiency.

Oh, and the reason Jesse is so likable, relatively speaking, is that his learning curve is leaving him smarter, or at least less prone to ignorant self-destruction, whereas Walt's is leaving him dumber and more fatalistic. What are the chances the show leaves Jesse last man standing, back working the streets? At the very least he needs to throw Badger a bone, at least for my sake. The Badger and Skinny Pete show is almost as funny as the Mike and Jesse show.

I hope they all die except holly. And the final season is just her and a string of wacky babysitters.

i love that jesse still refers to walt - after everything they've been through - as "Mr White"

Why did Mike have to liquidate random worker #3? Why couldn't they bury him in the desert or something? Why did he warrant fancy-pants waste disposal?

a body buried in the desert can be found, or uncovered by wind. Mike's a professional.

walt's short game of killing gus is fucking suicidal - gus is the only thing standing between walt and the cartels

Walt doesn't know much about the cartel though. He still doesn't know that two twins showed up with an axe and were in his house about to kill him until Gus called them off.

This looks like a bad move on Gus's part actually, keeping Walt in the dark about it, he'd have Walt's loyalty then. I suppose he's already said he doesn't believe fear to be an effective motivator, but Walt's in a permanent state of fear already.

Actually I'm trying to remember that face-off meeting between Walt and Gus in the last season. Gus didn't actually tell him that the cartel are out for his blood, did he? There was a lot of conjecture on Walt's part that just happened to get near the truth of the power struggle, but not the whole truth? I need to watch that scene again really.

yeah, walt is right to be paranoid, but he's paranoid about the wrong people

i forgot that gus said fear isn't a motivator. the first episode seems like a, shall we say, U-turn on that policy

first ep of this season i mean

Gus probably knows that if he told Walt the whole story then Walt would try to leverage the cartel against him. That is, Walt, ever myopic, would side with the cartel just as a quick survival fix.

Anyway, this show is nothing if not about lack of communication and things left unspoken. Think of the countless secrets everyone's keeping from one another: Hank's secret pursuit of Gus, Walt's numerous schemes/infraction, the whereabouts of Holly/Walt Jr., Ted's tax problems, Marie's purple addiction, Skyler's secret plastic surgery, how a vat of viscous red liquid shipped off in a truck is less conspicuous than a random shot dude buried somewhere deep in the desert ...

I just assume that Holly is with Marie and Walter Jr, being 16 years old, has a life that involves not hanging around with his parents that much.

But, um, Marie works, doesn't she? (This is moot, btw; mystery baby is irrelevant, it just bugs me when shows add children for no good reason and then don't know how to deal with it - sort of like a lot of parents).

kids raise themselves these days.

She'll be dealing meth soon enough.

Breaking Bad would definitely be a much better show with the addition of ~ 15 min per episode of Skyler and Walt calling around for baby sitters, navigating day care waiting lists, researching nanny share programs, scrambling for car wash coverage because the day care closed early. I have no idea why they don't focus on that more.

The baby isn't there "for no good reason" - one of the reasons Walt panicked in S1 when he thought he was dying of cancer was because his wife was about to have a second child he wouldn't be there to provide for. There's just not much you can do with it now other than have it kidnapped or just turn up occasionally wearing an array of cute little hats.

Yeah baffled by people caring where Holly is. She's either with a nanny or at baby-day-care-share. Who cares? It's not like WHO IS TAKING CARE OF THE BABY NOW is some central plot point.

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Shoot. Here:

http://juliasegal.tumblr.com/post/10190517286

Very worth a click.