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

maybe in order to tie things up she'll end up telling hank about walt and hank will be like yeah I thought something was screwy *wink*

He already gave the secretary the money

― Number None, Thursday, 20 October 2011 03:03 (5 hours ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

He already gave the secretary the money

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― caek

I was sorta pissed that he didn't kick her ass or something, idk, you can poison a kid but you're gonna let a receptionist blackmail you?

She had information he needed quickly. Also, he beats up/hurts/kills Saul's receptionist, do you think Saul is going to continue to do business with him?

yeah i mean if you've got a couple of hundred grand in your cellar then, even if the house it being watched, that seems like the smarter big picture thing to do.

walt is nuts though of course.

I find it interesting that there is some part of him that's still easily cowed by someone just shouting at him, though. Like, I wonder if he'd just pinned receptionist lady against the wall and shouted back would she have given up the info? Maybe not. But of course that would make him incredibly unsympathetic and we wouldn't have had the cool and tense scene that followed. So I think we won, really.

that would make him incredibly unsympathetic

I know, i know, but you know what I mean.

I know what you mean

He already gave the secretary the money

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― caek

― zverotic discourse (jim in glasgow), Thursday, 20 October 2011 09:25 Bookmark

so?

it isn't a loose thread.

maybe

maybe not

He already gave the secretary the money

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― caek

― zverotic discourse (jim in glasgow), Thursday, 20 October 2011 09:25 Bookmark

I think you may be alone on that one

lol

conrad = mvp of this thread

being doggedly observant can really pay off

i read the whole secretary dynamic as walt encountering the real world of ordinary people w/moral standards for the first time in a while

me too

or like when artz went off at jack or whoever about thinking everything revolved around them when there were other people all around getting on with stuff before he blew up just a nod to perspective in a jokey way

the real world of ordinary people w/moral standards

Shaking Walt down for $25K is part this world with moral standards?

will be interesting to see how that plotline pans out

Why would it ever need to be brought up again? It's not a loose end.

surely any sane person will take the opportunity to extract 25k from a raving meth cook should the opportunity present itself - thats just common sense

I'd have to agree

try thinking about the bigger picture for once Martyr McFly

as a ugandan prince, i shake down all manner of people on an almost daily basis.
me and tyrus are like THAT

the thing is, walt is never an asshole in a confrontational way -- hes totally a passive aggressive bully. threatening the secretary would have been totally out of character.

I think the secretary is obviously the most important person this show has yet introduced. Just wait and see. She's obviously key to the whole thing, and people will be rewinding and watching that scene for months to come.

She's tyrus's lover. Will avenge his death.

in cahoots with beneke?

y'all are kidding yourselves if you think we've seen the last of the real estate agent that got Marie arrested.

don't think it was a coincidence that it was a spoon she stole

p sure Jesse will die at the hands of Spooge's girlfriend & her towheaded kid

Chew on this for a bit: it's been a while since we've last seen Badger... connect the dots and the whole thing comes together. Or ... falls apart!

Like I said, just something the chew on, until season five.

just rewatched the last two eps & have been slowly catching up w/ this thread.. gotta say, I think this was easily the most satisfying season finale thusfar. Excepting some of the looser plot contrivances re: lily o the valley/ricin poisoning, the only thing that doesn't sit quite right w/ me is that Tyrus, while checking Tio's room extensively for surveillance gadgets etc., would have overlooked the fucking pipe bomb blatantly duct-taped to the wheelchair.

haha I was thinking about that too

I feel like Walt went back and installed it. That's why he waited outside the window for Tyrus to check the room and leave. We see under the wheelchair in that scene—Ty specifically looks there—but NOT in the explosion scene, where the dresser blocks our view of it.

OK, just reviewed that sequence again & you are right: Walt waits outside until Tyrus finishes sweeping the room; Then we see Walt running to his car (presumably parked in some lot adjacent to the rear) & then Ty going back out to the front parking lot to call Gus & report on the situation. This ^ reading def checks out.

the way it was edited really made it seem like walt took off as soon as tyrus did w/o going back in the room - thing is tyrus wasnt looking around the room he was looking at his bug finding device - anyway walt sure did a horrible job of concealing the bomb

mike wouldve found it

I think that was deliberately misleading editing. We didn't see a LOT of what Walt did in those two eps (obv)

Showing him going back into the room would really have tipped it, as it is I feel like they set it up just enough w/o letting the audience guess too early

Mike probably would have picked up Walter's scent while W was hangin outside w/ the Ms. Dementia Cat-Eye Specs.

xp

Mike would have killed her and disguised himself in her clothes and glasses big bad wolf style. Guaranteed

Hopefully that nice old bird was not injured by the bomb!

Another detail I just picked up: the muscle(s) in Gus's post-bomb empty eye-socket move in concert w/ his working eye while he is standing, straightening his tie!

yeah that was a nice touch

I feel like Walt went back and installed it. That's why he waited outside the window for Tyrus to check the room and leave. We see under the wheelchair in that scene—Ty specifically looks there—but NOT in the explosion scene, where the dresser blocks our view of it.

― the jazz zinger (s1ocki), Thursday, October 20, 2011 11:20 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

this is totally what happened dudes. why do u think walt was even waiting outside at that point?

saying hi to the old lady, duh

I thought it was a "oh shit, someone's coming, better go out the window!" "Three's Company"-type move myself.

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This was all great. Secretary scene especially. I like that Walt's so far away from anything like normal now that it takes him a bit of time to realise "oh yeah, people do get make a huge deal out of just breaking a single window. Seems like nbd to me, why, just the other day I was mysteriously teleporting into the bedroom of a kid I'd never met before to secretly feed him a poisonous plant".

rip gus, even though you are a drug kingpin and you killed victor (which felt weirdly out of character) you still managed to come out this season as a better dude than Walter.

Curious about S5 now. Not sure I have the stomach for any more bad things happening to Jesse. Don't even want some "this is how bad walt really was to you" realisation.