Breaking Bad: Does this thing go on one more season?

Oh, well, hell. Did I misunderstand? I thought this was the final season of Breaking Bad. Is it going on for one more season?

Well. The episode tonight had its good points and bad points.

The good points----we see Walter doing that thing. It's his most endearing quality. In situations where most people would be begging for their lives or would be grateful to still be alive, he becomes aggressive and defiant.

This is a spoiler if you haven't seen it.

Mike's stooge, whose been following Walt around and watching him at the lab, uses a stun gun on him. Walt falls to the ground. They use it on him a few more times. Then we see Walter in the desert. There are a couple of cars parked there. There are men standing around him. Walt is on the ground on his knees, tied up, with a black bag over his head.

A car drives up. Gus climbs out. He pulls the bag off Walter's head.

"You are finished! Fired!" He warns him to stay away from Jesse. Never go near him again.

"Or you'll do what?" Walter says. He tells Gus that if he could kill him (Walter), he would have already. He can't because, if he does, Jesse will quit.

The bad points:

Walter intentionally wrecks his car when his brother-in-law has him drive him to the meth lab concealed in a commercial laundry. He wrecks the car so he won't have to take him there, which I didn't like.

Some other bad points---they keep going to the lawyer, Saul, for things.

First, Skyler goes to Saul to sent a couple of goons for force her ex-boyfriend/employer to write his check to the IRS. He needs to pay them so they don't prosecute him because, if they prosecute him, they'll investigate her and find out about her current money laundering.

Then, at the end, Walter runs to Saul. He needs to flee the country and go into hiding because, after he pointed out to Gus that he couldn't kill him, Gus said he was going to kill Hank and if Walter tried to stop him he'd kill Walter's wife, his son and his baby daughter. Saul "knows a guy" who can hide them.

They live in Albuquerque. How many people like this are in Albuquerque? Apparently the place is teeming with hitmen, with hired goons, people who can whisk you out of the country, people willing to go to prison in your place. And this one lawyer knows them all.


Am I lost here?

There are things I don't understand.

Why does Gus want to kill Walter but not Jesse? Walter killed two of Gus's men, but only because Jesse was about to get into a gun fight with them. Then, when Mike came to murder Walter, Walter called Jesse on the cell phone and sent him to murder that other chemist who would have taken over his role in the meth lab.

If Gus doesn't want to kill Jesse for these things, why does he want to kill Walter?

And now that I think back to it----

Okay. Walter had killed those two guys before Jesse could shoot it out with them. Jesse was in hiding. Walter talks to Gus. Gus decides to be reasonable. There's money to be made so Walter should keep working for Gus.

Walter knows that they are gunning for Jesse. He also knows that they're going to kill him as soon as there's another chemist to replace him.

When Mike and the other guy come to murder Walter, Walter pleads for his life. If they let him live, he'll give them Jesse! He's in town! He doesn't know where, but he'll call him on his cell phone!

He calls Jesse and blurts out that they're going to kill him and to get the other chemist's house and kill him NOW! Quick!

Jesse was closer to the other chemist's house. He could get there and kill him before they could get there to stop him.

So why didn't they just call the other chemist and tell him to clear out?

Maybe they didn't have his number. They'd have to call Gus. Maybe Gus was unavailable.

But now Gus is getting along fine with Jesse but wants to kill Walter. What did Walter do that Jesse didn't?

Is it because Walter got mad about the camera they installed in the lab and made obscene gestures at it?

Is it because Walter's DEA agent brother-in-law is being driven around by Walter and that Walter put a tracking device on Gus's car? Walter told him about it. Walter couldn't refuse without perhaps raising Hank's suspicions.

Okay, now that I think about it, Walter did go to Mike and ask him to get him close enough to Gus that he could shoot him. That probably got Gus's goat.

It is pretty cool though

They keep going. Walter, as I said above, is angry and defiant. Gus tells him he's going to kill Hank and if Walt tries to stop him he'll kill Walters wife, son and baby.

Walter runs to the lawyer. He needs to "disappear"! Gus is going to kill his family! They need to flee!

Saul gets him the phone number. Tells him what to say and what it will cost.

Walter tells the lawyer to call the DEA and warn them that they're going to try to kill Hank. He does. Walter gets down into the crawl space. He digs into his money. There's not enough there! Skyler has given it to her ex-employer to pay his back taxes!

Walter become hysterical.

They can't just hop in Walt, Jr's, car and head for Canada?