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

When are we going to get to 52-year old Walt, I wonder. Like, is that the last episode? Second to last?

Going public would also mean any time that Walt's family, whether it's his wife and kids or even their kids, attempted to use any money it'd be incredibly suspect. People would protest the hell of their car wash making it implausible that they'd have enough income to write off the laundered money. If they tried buying real estate elsewhere, someone would figure it out or leak it to the local press. They'd all have to get new identities and start over somewhere.

you guys have a very weird conception of how the media works, frankly

They have the Whitman book, which at the least is a circumstantial connection between Walt and Gale, who was a murdered meth cooker. Between that and Jesse, that's something. But not hard evidence, I guess.

think they already discounted the book - handwriting analysis not reliable etc.

Jesse and Hank should just go on the Perd Hapley Show and set things straight

think it was the opposite actually. they said the handwriting matched. still doesn't prove anything except Walt may have known Gale. (xp)

Which is still pretty bad, if the guy clearly knew a meth cook who was murdered in the midst of his meth cooking!

eh could probably write it off plausibly as an academic connection, if we want to go there.

yeah, chemists

used to go to poetry readings together etc

those all sound way more plausible than what actually happened

this story is so unbelievably convoluted and unlikely that it seems extreeeeemely unlikely that any reputable news source, local or otherwise, would pick it up based on "information" foisted on them by a random junkie

but what do I know, this show also worked an airplane crash into the narrative so

plus you know how much skaters pay attention to the news

I don't know... it's gotta be a big 3-episode-long Hank + Jesse vs. Walt arc like the other big season-ending showdowns with lots of double-crosses, fake-outs and poison.

I don't really see "Jesse gets interviewed on KRQE Local News and Walt is shunned by Carol and everyone boycotts the carwash!" as the big payoff we're all hoping for.

does jesse care if walt gets caught via the legal system? jesse could just be telling everyone he knows who heisenberg is & once word gets around, whatever happens, happens - i mean those people walt killed were local, they knew people

idk who is Jesse gonna tell? Badger/Skinny Pete? Randos on the street? He is not a trustworthy source. and while he may not care how Walt gets caught, Hank certainly does, and Hank isn't gonna go along with a cockamamie scheme that will expose him as well.

plus I mean everyone who knows there IS a Heisenberg already knows Jesse

i had the impression jesse knows plenty of people connected to the drug trade, badger/skinny pete are his friends so they're around more
but anybody who knows there's a heisenberg prob doesn't know that heisenberg poisoned andrea's kid & had all of mike's guys killed. and they all had families/friends/associates i assume so what happens if the word gets back to them that this person is heisenberg and that's who did this.

So the question is how do we get to all that in the next two or three episodes.

due to loads of killings and the jesse tape being found by the dea.

and they all had families/friends/associates i assume so what happens if the word gets back to them that this person is heisenberg and that's who did this.

this would require introducing a bunch of new characters to be set up as adversaries for Walt which, frankly, is not something any decent writer would do in the last 5 episodes of a series

the "end" as seen in the flash-forwards is quite far into the future anyway, relative to the latest episodes which are honing in on very short periods of time. i'm sure it will become a bit more macro again as it nears the finale.

i don't think there would be a need to introduce new characters. also i wasn't trying to start an argument, tbh

what if Mike sank into the water but was taken in by bog creatures who live at the bottom of the river and they nursed him back to health and he rises gigantic from the water in the last episode to exact his terrible revenge

this is my prediction anyway

*crosses fingers*

Wouldn't the feds have taken Walt's house apart? Including checking behind any switches/electrical outlets and discovered the ricin? I reckon he has already defeated Hank and needs the ricin for some outrageous, unexpected target. If the feds had Walt at this point all the internal drywalls would be ripped open, no stones unturned. Which is not the scene in that episode.

Hiding shit in socket outlets is not exactly original, low wrung drug dealer stuff.

anybody who knows there's a heisenberg prob doesn't know that heisenberg ... had all of mike's guys killed.

But wasn't the whole point of killing all Mike's guys within minutes of each other precisely to show the underworld not to fuck with Heisenberg?

Walt insisted on them all getting killed within minutes of each other - I guess it could have been to keep them from getting put into protective custody once a pattern of killings of Mike's guys emerged, but seems like a pretty showy move - and Bill Burr's character refers to it this season as a reason why he's afraid to steal from Walt

hey wait - do you think the flash forward is Walt coming back after faking his own death?

I think that Marie "why don't you just kill yourself" thing might point to something

yeah that why dont you kill yrself did seem pointed

it's kinda hard to casually suggest somebody kill themselves tbh

hey if you've gotta minute can you just

i meant it seemed pointed in the way even it was portrayed on the show the direction and what not

I reckon he has already defeated Hank and needs the ricin for some outrageous, unexpected target. If the feds had Walt at this point all the internal drywalls would be ripped open, no stones unturned. Which is not the scene in that episode.

― Damo Suzuki's Parrot, Friday, September 6, 2013 12:02 AM (1 hour ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

I was wondering about this too, but I naively assumed that an electrical socket was a good hiding place.

Don't know if anybody else noticed it, but some faceplates in the house were removed in the flashforward, but not all of them (obviously).

kitchen island is gone also iirc

http://insidetv.ew.com/2013/09/05/breaking-bad-story-lines/

It could have been Walt jr or Skylor who spray-painted Heisenberg throughout the house. Walt dwells on it for a few seconds, but didn't look surprised.

Or Hank wrote it after he is discredited and framed by Walt, shortly before he gets murdered by him.

Suddenly craved a spin-off pairing Saul and Wynn Duffy.

Sad reminder that when Justified returns, Elmore Leonard has absolutely severed all links with us.

:(

;_;

hey wait - do you think the flash forward is Walt coming back after faking his own death?

This occurred to me as well, mostly due to the neighbour's reaction.

Also OMG at that 'Badger as master archer' storyline.

Regarding the more immediate future, where is Hank taking Jesse now? I mean he can't post him up at the schraderhausen now can he? Is he taking him to jail like he threatened to do if he didn't meet Walt in the plaza? If so, then wouldn't Walt's call to Todd about needed Todd's uncle to do one more job most likely be a prison killing like the last job. That's like his thing, right? Connections. Also mad timing and there was some line about timing in the 'Next on BrBa' trailer.

I still think Jesse's plan is to somehow expose Walt to the world. Maybe if they could arrest him based on Jesse's tape it would be plausible that the media would be interested in a suspect in the retirement home bombing since it was all over the news.
If jesse is going to get him where he really lives couldn't that be reference to his dual personas / web of lies /pride which would all be exposed/damaged in a public outing. And his kids would get taken away from him. And Skylar would probably run to her divorce lawyer who was all for exposing Walt in the beginning. 4am speculation, man.

Regarding the more immediate future, where is Hank taking Jesse now?

To the clink, which means Jesse has about 5 minutes to convince Hank of his plan. Which I suspect he will.

it feels to me like each time hank moves further away from pursuing the case within the dea that he embroils himself deeper into the world of it all, and incriminates himself, and that he's going to suffer for this and these decisions will haunt him, or be the nails in his coffin.

Was thinking about the thing with Hank's medical bills the other day, and you'd think the DEA would be more understanding given they were taking Gus Fring's drug money for years.

they'd still have to can him in terms of pr you'd imagine - esp assuming there was a shitstorm after gus was killed.