Shall we anticipate the FIFTH SEASON of the AMC series "Breaking Bad"? I think I may.

It is crazy that Sklar and Walt are closer now than they have been..... ever? On this show? Closer than they were at the pool party at the end of last season. Certainly closer than S01E01. The wagons have circled.

Yeah, on both sides. Marie and Sgellar have always had a veiled frenemies thing going on between them.

I had also forgotten about how jealous Walt was of the time that Flynn was spending with Hank. The kids have been on the verge of moving in with the Schraeders for like 2 years!

can i take a moment to commend the many spellings of Schuyler itt

aww, someone already used Skylab upthread

how much time has elapsed so far? in the whole show? not counting thi sseason's flash forward?

About a year and a half. Flash forward is exactly two years after the first episode.

crazy couple years

no doubt

why are they not arranging to have the cash shipped to a location remote to albq and then hightailing it out of there with flynn & holly on a boat they bought with their shitloads of cash? he could probably buy somalia with that money. that's what he would do if wanting to be king were really important to him.

That would turn into "The Mosquito Coast" so quick.

And the dozen episodes of Flynn bitching about being on a goddamm boat would be excruciating.

imagine eating breakfast on a boat

when he was burying the money i was thinking dude why didn't you built a top secret underground bunker/base for just this reason

i was thinking about the mosquito coast too! <3 river and martha in that movie
coincidence -- it was written by paul SCHRADER

tbh I think minimizing the number of people and connections is probably for the best, fewer prison stabbings to coordinate later

he can dig a big hole in one day, he could build a secret base in a couple months

he figured he'd be dead in within six months, what would be the point

i keep thinking about shuteyed lydia's red-soled louboutins stepping daintily around the red pools of blood seeping from dead men's skulls.

it's a striking image

i keep returning to the fact that she hunkered down near the exit stairs of the underground bus meth lab. her actions seemed so deliberate and calculated, yet still squeamish

lydia's cover-your-eyes-so-you-don't-see-the-dead-people was a great metaphor for the way the show covers up the human cost of walt/lydia/jessie's meth dealing

wouldst be great; art not without ambition, but without the illness should attend it. (at least not directly)

yeah, good connection there. Gus is very much a banquo character.
i guess the question is if hank is macduff

i keep returning to the fact that she hunkered down near the exit stairs of the underground bus meth lab. her actions seemed so deliberate and calculated, yet still squeamish

i figured this was cos she didn't know who'd win the shootout, so there would be some element of fear about who was going to open the hatch.

i agree - if the other guys won, they'd be surely gunning for her next

i think Lydia is plenty squeamish but her fear trumps all

they really shouldve taken the money

― lag∞n, Monday, August 19, 2013 4:02 PM (Yesterday)

wouldn't have been disappointed if the remainder of the season had been huell and burr just driving around in the truck trying to figure out what to do

actually I have a legit question about that

what DO you do with a money pile that big. I mean, while I am firmly of the belief that walt is Wile E Coyote and as such his decision-making is not indicative, I mean who the fuck buries it in a hole

but like, don't offshore accounts and shell companies and whatever exist for that exact reason? I'm kinda curious what is the 'normal' method of dispersing/disguising huge amounts of ill-gotten cash

Walt and Skyler don't have banking connections. I suppose Saul might, but probably not at the level required.

laundering it through legitimate businesses, mostly, or finding a reputable offshore bank that can launder it for you

the problem in 2013 is that a lot of those banks got nabbed. Walt's on the right track with this second carwash thing, but he really needs a lot more than that

you have to remember that Gus had an entire chain of restaurants in the southwest, all the supporting businesses like the laundry, and a charitable organization

shell company route is basically what Walt was suggesting I think (buy more gas stations) but it takes a lotta time (xposts)

oh yeah carwashes. not gas stations.

You have a kickstarter for a multimillion dollar Broadway production of Mean Girls but secretly promise a small return to all investors. You then sit back and let lilo do the rest.

I was listening to a podcast that was talking about how to smuggle a lot of cash and the guy said to fly it into country (he named some small island countries) without customs, get cashiers checks for the cash, then fly to a country with customs where they only check your bags and keep the check in your pocket and then open a bank account there. I'm sure I'm missing some important details. Anyway, they needed to hire a plane and fly the money around.

my co-worker who used to work at a bank told me if you deposit over $10,000 a government security alert immediately goes into action and you have to fill out a bunch of forms. They'll even get you if you're sneaky and do smaller amounts over a month or so.

yeah, that is true for any US bank

that's also the amount you're not allowed to exceed on your person when traveling without declaring, iirc

yeah foreign travel definitely required here, I would think

didnt skylar say something to the effect of 'i couldnt launder all of this if we had 20 car washes' when she first showed walt the pile?

she sure did
that's why i thought they could branch out the scenery and include some gnarly shipping dudes/somali pirates into the show

I liked the song when Walt was digging the impossible hole.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yJGL1hdl8Cw

when a pseudoephedrine supplier in Mexico got his mansion raided, they found this:

http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_EZ38IjI0pK4/Rop1QE21mTI/AAAAAAAABfs/p49gUZsnk9M/s1600-h/billetes-decomiso6.jpg

http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_EZ38IjI0pK4/Rop1QE21mTI/AAAAAAAABfs/p49gUZsnk9M/s1600-h/billetes-decomiso6.jpg

psh, whatever: http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_EZ38IjI0pK4/Rop1QE21mTI/AAAAAAAABfs/p49gUZsnk9M/s1600-h/billetes-decomiso6.jpg

stacks of money look like they're missing Huell now

If you have that kind of money in your house and you order a pizza I wonder if you just run downstairs and grab a couple of $20s from the stack if you forgot to go to the ATM?

http://x46.xanga.com/06dc744342632187656520/m144153977.jpg
For those curious about Matt's photo, that's what that's what $207 million in cash looks like07 million in cash looks like.

seems like they could just make the whispers loud when they mix it why not

because recording whispering means having engineers who are about their business and there's not a whole lot of them

we need them

this is a crisis

if i had that kind of money, i would hire huell to lie on it all day

I swear there was some scene on the Sopranos where Carmela deposited like $9,900 in a bank and the teller said something "gee, if it was $100 more we'd have to inform the feds!" and Carmela acts all innocent as they show her marking a list like she had done this at five other banks already.

Also Pablo Escobar's cartel suposedly spent $2500 a month just for rubber bands to wrap around their cash and lost 10% just to rats chewing up piles in warehouses.

Basically I'm sort of fascinated by how you deal with ridiculous amounts of illicitly acquired paper money.