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

little dude probably saw his older bro (bicycle kid) with some rocks, thought he'd found some hidden in Jesse's shit, and snorted them

but what then was saul's bodyguard pocketing after frisking jesse - just some stuff

maybe his hand

I don't buy the Saul's bodyguard angle -- I mean, these are the dudes who let Ted die on a rug!

Also, that wasn't even mentioned all episode, lol

but Dust checked the vid

don't think they *let* ted die it was a pretty decisive head-smashed-in rug trip

I don't buy the Saul's bodyguard angle -- I mean, these are the dudes who let Ted die on a rug! (mh)

What were they supposed to do? Rush him to the emergency room?

anyone willing to make a friendly wager on the saul's bodyguard angle?

I dunno, stop him from running for the door when they were supposed to be imprisoning him?

in case he tripped on the rug from earlier in the ep

I'll bet you $500000000 balls

No, because they were going to be holding on to him for two days and that'd be hard to do if he made it out the back door!

they'd made sure the back door was locked as will be revealed in the final ep

They probably just chose to not Vaccinate the kid. And plum forgot about it!

Cue Walt ranting on about the scientific necessity for vaccination

how do people think this saul's bodyguard scenario happened? jesse still had a pack of cigarettes when he freaked out. in less than a second a bodyguard who has only been portrayed as slow and lazy removed a single cigarette from jesse's pack?

Gus didn't get into the car because after carefully contemplating it, he realized he left his palm pilot in the hospital.

Yeah, but now the police are going to find this nice Volvo wagon registered to ... someone ... abandoned in a hospital parking lot (which, I assume, is being videotaped), with an IED stuffed in it. Right? Right?

Nah, probably not.

The ricin thing seems far fetched, but not as far fetched about Gus not knowing about it. Surely his confirmation of Jesse's trust came when Jesse didn't poison him, because if Jesse had poisoned and killed him then to would have proven himself totally untrustworthy.

This episode was weird and kind of a letdown. We don't really know what happened to the kid, surely the whole thing with ricin is that a tiny amount kills you straight away? But something *has* happened to the cigarette. Whole thing is clumsy; hope it makes more sense in the next ep.
I can buy Gus knowing about the ricin somehow, I guess.
The Jesse/Walt dialogue was off, too - Walt seemed to be saying the exact type of stuff in the exact way that sounded like he had actually done it and was 'cleverly' manipulating Jesse to think otherwise (I don't actually think this, it just had those kind of signifiers). Communication of relatively important facts between the two of them is almost reaching "Lost" levels.

Presumably Skyler doesn't know about Ted yet.

takes several days to die from ricin poisoning, pretty miserable death iirc

The kid doesn't have ricin poisoning. It's a red herring. Come on.

It's not even a red herring. Jesse's so high strung he'll believe anything. Plus, per the show's own science explanation, doesn't ricin give the victim heart attack symptoms a couple of days later? Kid got flu symptoms within hours of the alleged dose.

Really thought Skyler was gonna get picked off when she was having a cigarette outside.

appreciate you all analyzing the ep all critical like BUT GDAMN IT I JUST WANTED GUS TO DIE SO BAD

like my heart was seriously beating hard

EXPLODE HIM

Also Gus's ~premonition~ is not so far fetched. Shit's squirrelly already, Jesse starts acting up, and then he very specifically mentions poison. Recall Gus's last poison-related situation. It's definitely enough to make an extremely tense drug kingpin act more cautious than usual.

yeah jesse blew it for sure, then gus' intuition kicked in

Jesse should have said it was a chili powder overdose.

jesse shouldve just stuck w/'the kid is sick'

I definitely think Walt poisoned the kid via Saul's goons.

it occurred to me, tho not via the goon stealing the cigarette, unless it turns out he was a magician or pick pocket, but i dont think walt would stoop that low, or would he

also it is interesting that the kid isnt displaying the symptoms as walt described them, spose walt couldve given him something that wasnt gonna kill him just to reel jesse in

dude, saul's "a team" couldn't take candy from a kid

but maybe just maybe they could give candy (poison) to a kid

ಠ_ಠ

btw sauls ateam is a hilarious concept

Saul's perceived level of organization dropped a lot of notches when it was revealed that Mike was a free agent who just did work for him in his free time.

feel like that was a bit of a fudge by the show turning mike into gus' main dood just cause they liked him

yeah the mike reveal in the finale should be something. sure jesse can shoot gus? but gus and mike? and then of course you just hear the shots and 'directed by vince gilligan' pops up. boy o boy that is gonna be something.

I think Tyrus took the cigarette (in fact I think he's the only person who could have taken the cigarette). I don't have the faintest idea who (if anyone) poisoned "Brock", but I don't think that Saul or his A-team would have gone along or helped with it even Walt would have had the stomach for it in the first place (which would really be far far far out of character for him.)

ha yeah id like to see walt trying to sell saul on that one

the guy who plays tyrus was pretty incredible in his stint on the shield and has been generally underused here so would not be surprised if they have larger things in store for him. or he could die next episode.

i liked when he wouldnt pass jesse the phone, he h8s those dudes so bad

yeah the 'does the laundry have to be dirty?!!!' '...no' exchange is my fave non-badass gus moment this season.

Victor didn't seem to fond of them either.

don't think anyone really has a prob with gus's premo thinking jesus that's not realistic come on

turns out skylar is spelled skylar and not spelled skyler btw :O

don't think anyone really has a prob with gus's premo thinking jesus that's not realistic come on
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appreciate you all analyzing the ep all critical like BUT GDAMN IT I JUST WANTED GUS TO DIE SO BAD

Yeah me too, I'm getting bored of things going wrong for Walt, I want a big successful bloodbath, like the good old days.

The poisoning thing very confusing. They telegraph that it's Gus - "There will be an appropriate response" - and when you hear the kid's been poisoned it feels like just another example of a mafioso hurting someone's family as leverage. But then it all goes sideways.

How long before all the purple in Hank and Marie's house starts doing lasting damage to somebody's eyesight?

Speaking of eyesight I was impressed that the DEA sniper wasn't wearing any glasses. I guess if you're a pro sniper you just spring for the LASIK.

I wonder if this really is the last time Walt sees his family. It would be fitting, especially after Walt's speech to Jr. about how "this isn't how I want you to remember me".