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

Cars are very important in Breaking Bad

oh absolutely. and one detail i noticed from the scene where walt gets fired is that gus and gus's guys depart the cloudy desert using two different cars (gus takes his volvo, the other guys take whatever the other car was). but once they had gone, there was a third car left -- some crappy white subcompact, presumably for walt to drive himself home in. or, drive most of the way home in, then do a buncha donuts in, then light on fire, as he likes to do.

dow: don't forget hanks' medical bills... pretty sure those have added up to some serious clams

once they had gone, there was a third car left -- some crappy white subcompact, presumably for walt to drive himself home in

That's the car that walt drove to jesse's house you see it next to him when they are talking in the front yard.

It also crossed my mind that Ted was wearing a wire but that was just because of how he was speaking, and it wouldn't make sense anyway.
I'm sure Hank is gonna get suspicious of Walt sometime soon. I totally knew he was going to crash the car as soon as you saw his face when Hank asked him to go to the laundry. Hank's got time on his hands and is gonna sense something is properly up with Walt, I reckon. I kind of hope not, though, because the show doesn't need that right now.

Walt is pretty much going to have to tell him at his point.

or just come up with some other insane lie i guess.

did anyone else notice the similarity in mannerisms between Walt after Gus told him he'd kill his entire family and Hector during his friendly chats with Gus?

No way is Walt going to tell Hank.

> Aren't they also giving a bunch of it to Saul?

Not to mention that it was Saul that arranged the Beneke shakedown, and knew all about Skyler handing Ted the money. Saul also knows Walter's salary. So Saul should have been aware that Walt was not sitting on the giant cash pile he thought he was.

well i dont think saul knows how much money theyve given to hank and marie though, or necessarily about how much money the carwash has lost (which skylar said was losing money iirc)

I wouldn't put it past Walt to kill Hank, if his freedom/family was at stake. Especially if Marie is taken out first.

He would, but absolute last resort.

all Walt had to do was let Gus "take care" of Hank and he would have been fine.

It should be noted that Hank and Marie do not have children, and therefore are slightly more expendable (dramatically) than the White family. I think Marie may not be with us much longer. :(

how much money the carwash has lost (which skylar said was losing money iirc)

Really? I thought it was the opposite, even allowing for the "special services".

yeah, remember the "quit your day job" discussion? she told walt that they were making a profit, right?

Yeah, the carwash is doing okay.

It really bothers me that they went to the trouble of building a tilting washer secret entrance to the underground meth lair when there's a freight elevator right there.

She said the car wash would be making a profit in a few months, iirc.

Walt did not want Hank wacked because he still thinks he (Walt) has some power. But if Hank was going to turn Walt in, what do you think Walt would do? Especially if killing Hank could be used to his advantage in his relationship with Gus? Look how little arm twisting it took Skyler to set the B-team heavies on Ted.

Maybe Gail designed the secret nerd entrance and Gus humored him?

that was the A-team and she had exhausted dialogue

If the show were ending this season I would expect Gus to threaten Brock & his mom and give Jesse an ultimatum that he has to kill Walter. Jesse would then run around in a panic doing lots of dumb shit while trying to figure out how to save Mr White. In the end Walt would reveal to Jesse that his cancer has come back and he has two days to live so Jesse should just go ahead and kill him. Jesse shoots Walter, the end.

there's a fair possibility that Jesse is less down with Gus and his whole op than he's letting on, so the remaining poison cigarette deal doesn't seem that unlikely a scenario to me

it does seem like this show doesnt like anything to be in a resting position, so the gus->jesse team is likely to experience stresses next ep or 2 imo

Well, we already know, despite appearances, that there is still a strong bond between Walt and Jesse. Just as Walt was willing to make a fuss to keep Jesse on board, so was Jesse willing to make a stink to keep Walt safe, even though neither of them has anything to gain from the implicit allegiance.

Whether Ted's dead or not, he's a bigger problem now. If that that top-of-the-head wound is still extant, it's obviously no accident (unless he was strolling around a construction site and oops forgot my hardhat, or explained that he liked to do hundred yard dashes around the house and oops that darn rug). Whether he's around or not, a $615,0000 deposit(to his personal account, by ?), followed by a check for the same amount (even if written to the good ol' IRS), a check written the same day as his crack-up, will surely be of interest, maybe to Hank's cop buddy, for instance.

And if Ted is alive and remembers the accident's circumstances, he may finally be so freaked out he'll spill all the beans to the cops.

By "around or not," I meant the A-Team may have buried him in the desert.

maybe Ted dies and comes back to life and is elected zombie president in highly-promo'd AMC original series The Walking Dead

can't wait for the blue-meth-caused-zombie-disease reveal

i think ted's death won't have any repurcussions, well not any that are not caused by skylar's guilt over it.

next season of AMCs the Killing to focus heavily on the ted investigation iirc

ted's death was an accident

BTW, just to be sure we're all on the same page, Saul's A-team was totally a B-team at best. HIs erstwhile bodyguard, who spends most of his days asleep? And the dude who pretended to be an EPA inspector? That's some bumbling Coen Bros. "Fargo"-style shit. Ted's death was, too, for that matter.

That's some bumbling Coen Bros. "Fargo"-style shit.

right after that call from marie, skylar gets a call from

http://mimg.ugo.com/200803/20733/fargo-top-11-yanagita.jpg

just to be sure we're all on the same page

?

i think it was meant to be jokey-obvious this was barely even a "b" team.

Am sometimes thrown off by the deadpan of text.

Like the fake EPA inspector guy, good actor.

Just thought about teds death again and lolled

http://maps.google.com/maps?q=&hl=en&ll=35.106568,-106.617508&spn=0.060808,0.097847&sll=37.0625,-95.677068&sspn=34.861942,77.871094&vpsrc=0&t=m&layer=c&cbll=35.114887,-106.627256&panoid=Y3OSPZDC5QaHXeY54KvrVg&cbp=12,30.98,,0,-3.31&z=13

It should be noted that Hank and Marie do not have children, and therefore are slightly more expendable (dramatically) than the White family. I think Marie may not be with us much longer. :(

Marie is pretty expendable dramatically now, Hank isn't at all, since the police are pretty minor characters and are looking the other way, he's the only one turning the screw.

All speculation obviously, but Marie dying would stretch the Walt and Skylar relationship to breaking point if not beyond it. Given she's Skylar's sister, and Skylar has been complicit in much of what's happened this season, except the really dangerous stuff that Walt has deliberately hidden from her.

Actually in a show that's pretty economical with its cast Marie might be the only expendable main character at the moment, although Gus dying would set up a big change of emphasis for the final season.

There are two more seasons after this

Where did you read that?

It's 16 episodes. Just checking now, I guess it hasn't been totally confirmed but most sources say they expect them to be split into two.

Does that mean 8 episodes one year and 8 the next, or one longer season with a break of a couple of months in the middle?

Who knows really? It could be ten episodes with a cliffhanger and then a completely mental final six.

maybe it'll be 15 subdued episodes then a really nutty one-shot a year later.

or maybe some other configuration thereof