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

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.

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.

we speculated on this upthread

How many of you re-read a 4000 post thread before posting something? Or was this right above?

haha i'm not calling you out, but you seemed curious so i'm directing you to the relevant ILX convo! it's RIGHT above but it was posted last night, i think VegemiteGrrrl kicked it off

i mean it's NOT right above. close though.

they can't take it to a big boat because new mexico is landlocked!

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 would be the most consistent with ozymandias theme as well imo

Walt being alive but unacknowledged and powerless would be the worse punishment for him, actually.

Imagine how thrilled Walt must be that alpha male family hero Hank finally knows how cleverly outsmarted he was.

I do wonder if that will be addressed more! Or is Walt just so damn tired and beat up at this point he doesn't care anymore...

I wonder who the ricin is for. Skyler seems to be well out of the picture in the future scenes so I assume the kids are with hank and Marie or Skyler (assuming she's still alive which she probably isn't). I imagine Lydia's death will be bloody and brutal. Ditto for Todd if he does die. Jesse doesn't seem likely. Saul isn't going to die. Todd's uncle nazi and friends will probably just fade away. This leaves me with two theories: 1) Walt, having lost everything and dying of cancer takes it himself 2) Walt ricin's Marie because he knows Marie dying is Hank's most dreaded fear and that it will destroy him.

someone upthread said it's not nice to die of ricining

I know I seem to be in a minority here, and i know part of the show was to get everyone to hate Walt, but I really don't think it's going to go that way. I think we've already seen enough things to hate Walt and now that we're coming to the end they're setting up Todd + Lydia + Nazis as the real bad guys and we'll be able to root for Walt at the end to take care of them and the show will end without everyone feeling so terrible about themselves. I'll say it now, Walt is not going to kill Hank, Marie, Rebar or Jesse.

The scene of Todd and Lydia walking through the field of drug dealers I think just serves to show two psychopaths who are more frightening than Walt.

hasnt gilligan actually come out and said "everyone wants walt to be the last man standing and sad so we're not gonna do that"

I know I seem to be in a minority here, and i know part of the show was to get everyone to hate Walt, but I really don't think it's going to go that way. I think we've already seen enough things to hate Walt and now that we're coming to the end they're setting up Todd + Lydia + Nazis as the real bad guys and we'll be able to root for Walt at the end to take care of them and the show will end without everyone feeling so terrible about themselves. I'll say it now, Walt is not going to kill Hank, Marie, Rebar or Jesse.

i'm not predict-y but i'm kind of on board with this. def not in the "desperately hoping walt kills skyler" camp

Show runners lie all the time.

someone upthread said it's not nice to die of ricining

What if you bake it into ricin crispy treats?

I dunno. They could come out horribly formed.

i'm not predict-y but i'm kind of on board with this

Ditto. Breaking Bad is not some Haneke joint.

It gets close!

Never felt that Walt would kill Skyler (not that that means it won't happen). We've never been really clear what his real feelings are towards her.

I think we've already seen enough things to hate Walt and now that we're coming to the end they're setting up Todd + Lydia + Nazis as the real bad guys and we'll be able to root for Walt at the end to take care of them and the show will end without everyone feeling so terrible about themselves. I'll say it now, Walt is not going to kill Hank, Marie, Rebar or Jesse.

I don't think there'll be a Kill 'Em All ending either, but no way is BB gonna redeem Walt! The main arc of the entire series has been his slippery slope into villaindom, so Walt being triumphant at the end just so the viewers can root for him would be a total cop-out. Plus they already did the trick where you root for Walt because he's against a bigger bad guy with Gus, so doing it again would be redundant. I think most of the viewers would be satisfied with an "happy" ending where Walt is punished for his sins, but Hank & Marie + Walt Jr. & Holly continue with their lives. Jesse and Skyler can go either way, IMO.

I feel like he's just gonna curl up in a hole somewhere and die of cancer

i will be very very surprised if hank/marie/walt jr./holly get out of this unscathed.

one of them is def headed for a bad turn, just not sure which and how many

http://www.fastcodesign.com/1673264/an-epic-timeline-of-breaking-bads-wardrobe-colors#1

^ super rad art-direction/color symbolism infographic.