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

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.

need to be buying bitcoins imo

good general rule

Walt's pride would drive him crazy if he saw that pile was way bigger than his.

Question: would Walt have gotten out of the biz if he had not heard the cancer was back?

Kelley Dixon, editor of episode 511 had this to say about the upcoming ep:
"Oh...my...god. OHMYGOD!!!!!!!!'

Question: would Walt have gotten out of the biz if he had not heard the cancer was back?

No.

Someone on the net pointed out that the divorce lawyer Skyler talked to during season 3, the one to whom she confessed Walt is a drug dealer, is still sort of a loose end in the story. If Hank somehow manages to find her and question her, could she spill the beans on Skyler and Walt, or would that be a breach of attorney-client confidentiality? Could this be the smoking gun Hank needs? (Though I guess it's still second-hand knowledge, hardly enough prove anything.)

On the subject of loose ends.... When Jesse was cooking in Mexico they were videoing him. Later, while on one of their faux stakeouts, Walt asks Hank about the Mexican cartel bloodbath. Hank replies that as soon as they clear out the bodies they'll know more. Could Hank get hold of this tape then use Jesse to get Walt?

I'm not sure if Hanks needs that evidence anymore, since Jesse was found with millions of shady cash. And since Hank figured out it was Walt who arranged the fake phone call about Marie being in hospital when Hank was about to arrest Jesse, it means Hank now knows Jesse was working with Walt. Also, Jesse's clearly looking for absolution now, so all Hank needs to do is make Jesse get over his hatred of him, and then he'll get Jesse co-operating with the cops. I think it's almost certain this'll happen.

I don't think Jesse will rat anyone out. He may breakdown and confess he had some involvement in drew sharp's death but I seriously doubt he'd go so far turning Walt in

But yeah he clearly hates him now

It's also interesting that he didn't call Saul when those jerk off FBI dudes had him in a room again. It's like he's not even interested in spinning a story. He's just silent like he doesn't care what they do.

Jesse didn't have a single word of dialogue in that episode, did he?

"If Hank somehow manages to find her and question her, could she spill the beans on Skyler and Walt, or would that be a breach of attorney-client confidentiality?"

Good god yes. It would also be hearsay.

Just saw the ep. This is quality TV. There's a shot in the desert that's framed through a rock that looks like a closing fist. That's not a coincidence.

What's to stop anyone from taking the money in a big boat to some off-shore account? Of course, I don't know how one goes about depositing millions in stacks of cash anywhere. You're better off just chucking it out the window like Jesse.

Man, maybe Jesse does rat him out, and Walt is getting the ricin to take out Jesse. I can imagine Walt at this (that) point being so enraged at Jesse the Rat that he turns himself in just to get close to him to kill him. "Have a cigarette, buddy."

BTW, irony a la "The Shield" would leave everyone gone or jailed or dead except Walt, who is left free (cancer or otherwise) and presumed innocent but constantly under watch and unable to spend his money.

This show.