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It's the only thing I watch now. The only current TV series. But what will happen this week?
Last week, Gus tells Walter he's fired. Jesse is "cooking" for him now. But Gus can't kill Walter like he wants because Jesse would refuse to work for him if he did. He tells Walt that he's going to have his brother-in-law, Hank, murdered and, if Walter tries to stop him, he'll have Walter's wife, son and baby daughter killed.
Walt runs to Saul, his lawyer. He wants to disappear with his family. Saul previously said that he "knows a guy" who can help them vanish. Saul tells him how much it will cost.
Walt races home. He goes into the crawl space under the house. But where is the money? There's not enough!
His wife Skyler explains that she gave several hundred thousand to her former employer with whom she had been having an affair. She did this because he had been audited by the IRS. If he didn't pay the back taxes he owed, he would be arrested for tax evasion and, as his accountant, she would be investigated as well and the IRS would then discover that she was laundering Walt's meth money.
The last episode ended with Walter lying in his crawl space becoming hysterical.
And in the promo for next weeks episode, we hear Walter confessing to...well. Something. He says he's done bad things since his diagnosis. Is he going to confess to his actual crimes or talk about his phony gambling problem? And who was he telling this to anyway?
I watched a teaser on Hulu. I don't know what's going on. Walter says it's time to stop putting off the inevitable. Looks like he and Skyler are in a motel and Walt's going out with a suitcase to go take his medicine, so to speak. But it didn't sound like he was going to turn himself in, and if he did, it would defeat the purpose of everything he did which was to make money to leave to his family.
I'm getting the impression that this was intended as the conclusion to the series and that they're going to tack on one more season.
I read a Breaking Bad message board a few weeks ago. I think I mentioned this before. I scoffed at one fellow who thought that Walter would go to Hank to get Gus. I scoffed. Hank was in terrible shape and how could he go along with his brother-in-law's terrible crimes?
But...now....
The Mexican cartel was after Walt. They're now gone, killed off by Gus. Now Gus is after Walt. But Hank is already onto Gus and now the DEA knows that SOMEBODY is gunning for Hank (Saul said he wouldn't mention Gus's name when he tipped off the DEA.)
Well, I'll see in about 13 hours.
But, what a miserable life! The guy works for months making a fortune for Gus. He's getting paid himself but he can't spend the money and he knows that Gus will murder him the first chance he gets. The idea was to make money to leave to his family.
And another thing!
I didn't like the poetic justice in the accidental death of Skyler's former boss. I guess it was a problem. They (the writers and producers of the show) couldn't let him live because he was blackmailing Skyler and they needed a logical way out, but they couldn't murder him because it was known that he'd been sleeping with Skyler and Walt was down there threatening him.
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Do you know why Gus wants to kill Walt? The motivation seems unclear. Walt has been protecting Gus, and is not likely to turn him in, because he would only implicate himself and shame himself in front of his son. So why does Gus think Walt must die?
ReplyDeleteI don't know---initially it was because Walt killed those two guys who killed the 11-year-old. But Jesse there, too, and Jesse actually killed Gale, but Gus isn't killing him.
ReplyDeleteWalter did ask Mike to get him close to Gus in order to kill him. And he could be concerned that Walter's going to produce his stuff for someone else.
But if that's the case, why not just keep Walt working for him?