Breaking Bad

Iannis_sl said:

Who is supposed to be cooking the meth now? Corporate bimbo shows up and starts talking about low grade product and her ass in a sling and I assume that Jesse is running the operation now. But the conversation between Walt and Jesse leads me to believe that isn't the case at all.

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Her own people.

They got Al Capone for tax evasion. They had an entire episode where Gus tells Walt you have to learn how to be rich. Skylar has to spray a pallet of stacked 100 dollar bills for bugs every week. Unreported income is indeed a big deal for kingpins.


I doubt Jesse is the loose end. It's just too obvious and straightforward. Corporate Woman or Skylar or Skinny Pete will be the loose end if anything. It doesn't even need a loose end, it just needs Hank pushing Walt. Walt will serve as his own foil just fine.

i can just imagine skinny pete on the witness stand. would make rachel jeantel look like albert einstein. and it took them a long time to put capone away. nah man, its going to be some drastic event that sends walt on the run and for his appearance to scare the fuck out of his neighbor, carol. something like a child murder.

Maester Chuk_sl said:

i can just imagine skinny pete on the witness stand. would make rachel jeantel look like albert einstein.

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Dude...Skinny Pete has hidden depths.

Here's the thing about Tax evasion--the only way to get caught, is to spend money without paying taxes on it. If you just have the money sitting somewhere, unless someone actually finds the money, you're 100% fine. As far as auditing the Car Wash? It would come up clean, unless Skylar is a moron. Money laundering is just about making sure you pay on the money you earn. If an auditor comes in, he's not going to check to see if you actually had 1 customer per 1 transaction, that's not the way it works. What he's looking for is total receipts, than checking it against what you claimed, to make sure that all the money you made in a given year, was put on the IRS's desk, and taxes were paid on it (Appropriately--a lot of people who get caught for "tax evasion", typically just claimed crap that they couldn't prove and or lied about).

Skylar's laundering money by essentially creating fake customers. As long as it's not absolutely absurd, she won't get caught, because, again, the thing the IRS checks for is essentially that all the money the business makes, is probably accounted for. If ghosts are buying car washes? They could really care less (Again, absurdities not withstanding.)In fact, one of the reasons service industries and food industries are used is because they don't have accounts to keep track of, so it's easy to make a bunch of ghosts and impossible for the government to prove they were ghosts (Businesses with actual accounts aren't used for laundering, usually). The only way people get caught when they do this, is by being really stupid, or attempting to spend large amounts of money that they do not launder first--because they assume the laundering will prevent anyone from looking at them.

Usually people who got put away for tax evasion, did just that. They had enormous amounts of money they didn't claim and never paid taxes on--and had clear records of themselvesspendingit.

Not saying Walt won't go to jail for Tax evasion--but just pointing out, money laundering? Is hard to catch through just accounting, usually it's tied in with other charges after the person is monitored for a long, long time.

Homeless man is going to rat out Pinkman being the only witness to all the money, showing that Jessie's charity is his downfall.
Or he's going to spend it on meth.

chaos_sl said:

That's what I love about this show. You are sitting here thinking "Oh wow the next few episodes are going to be epic, with Hank picking up the trail." and Breaking Bad says "No fuck you, we're DOING IT LIVE!" None of this fucking around with some kind of merry chase, we cut right through that shit.

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Yeah that surprised me too. I figured we'd have a couple episodes with Hank figuring shit out but they're just like naw we're doing it now. It's funny because right after the scene where Walt finds the bug on his car, they go straight to the homeless dude digging through the trash. I was pretty sure they were going to show him finding the bug in the trash, or showing it in his shopping cart or something.

What surprised me the most was Walt actually confronting Hank with the car bug. With all of the meticulous planning that Walt has done you would think he'd use the car bug to his advantage (put it on his wifes car, or leave it on his and drive around to a bunch of bullshit places, whatever). He did pay a visit to Saul and Jesse before he found the bug, so I'd guess that both of them are going to be getting visits from the DEA soon.

Damn I love this show. The next 7 weeks of waiting to find out how it ends are going to be torture.

In the garage scene Hank says to Walt you bombed a nursing home, Walt says to Hank dam straight I would bomb a day care if I have to.

Drug lord Heisenberg is back!

Cranston directed that episode as well.

Iannis_sl said:

Who is supposed to be cooking the meth now? Corporate bimbo shows up and starts talking about low grade product and her ass in a sling and I assume that Jesse is running the operation now. But the conversation between Walt and Jesse leads me to believe that isn't the case at all. Seems kinda late in the series for that sort of inconsistency. Did they supposedly teach Mr. Trainrobbery FNG how to cook in a month?

Edit: I did like Badger's Star Trek episode.

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The people in Arizona that Walt made say his name are the ones cooking for Lydia now. During that scene Walt specifically mentions how their meth is only 70% pure and they use food coloring to dye it blue.

The garage door shutting was definitely epic. I crapped my pants during.

When Walt showed up at hanks house, I actually thought he was going to place the bug either on hanks car or the DEA agents mini van then they would have a shot of hank having DEA follow other agents or himself with close up shot of him knowing that Walt now knows due to the fact that the bug leads to other agents or himself depending on where Walt placed it, it would have been comedy Gold.

I however like the version we got more instead.

Lyrical_sl said:

The garage door shutting was definitely epic. I crapped my pants during.

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Cranston nailed it in both acting as well as directing it.

cabbitcabbit_sl said:

It's Todd. obviously he's not great at cooking meth.

The star trek conversation had me rolling.

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I realize im in the minority but christ...that entire segment with them was just fucking annoying and waaaaay waaaay retarded. Actually, they are easily the worst part of this show. Im not sure how they are not embarressed on set with actual other actors around. I mean....anyone and I do mean anyone can play a retarded high person. They bring absolutely nothing of value to this series. Im sad someone ever wrote them into it. They could have used them to tie things together as they did in some episodes but the stupid rants could be removed.

You are just pissed that Chekov might die. No need to worry, Spock and Bones would have saved him somehow

Rengak_sl said:

The people in Arizona that Walt made say his name are the ones cooking for Lydia now. During that scene Walt specifically mentions how their meth is only 70% pure and they use food coloring to dye it blue.

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while we don't know for sure its probably Todd cooking meth for Lydia now - in season 5 he studied under Walt for months, took tons of notes, and has his Aryan Brotherhood Uncle as his partner. He also met Lydia. It wouldn't make much sense for Lydia to get meth from Arizona, sinc Walt never taught those guys how to cook his meth. Its just Todd sucks at cooking meth.

One interesting thing too is that we just assume Walt is on the run and comes back for revenge, but there is also the possibility Walt fakes his own death and comes back for reasons unknown. His neighbor seeing him and being in shock could just be "a ghost!" reaction instead of fear. Walt also has a bagful of money, not something you'd expect if he was in hiding. He also has a full set of hair, which implies his cancer is gone. Perhaps he is going to fake his own death via cancer, which parallels Gus eating poison and throwing it up just like Walt did with his cancer medication/IV/etc, Walt even does the whole towel-before-kneel thing. The spray painted Heisenberg is interesting too, because most people won't know or care who Heisenberg is so why is that painted in his house... by him before he left?

Chekov's Gun is a famous play/movie thing too, basically if you show an item use it before things end (not Star Trek chekov, a playwriter chekov). Dunno if that was a sly reference by the writers or what it would be referencing though.

spronk_sl said:

One interesting thing too is that we just assume Walt is on the run and comes back for revenge, but there is also the possibility Walt fakes his own death and comes back for reasons unknown. His neighbor seeing him and being in shock could just be "a ghost!" reaction instead of fear. Walt also has a bagful of money, not something you'd expect if he was in hiding. He also has a full set of hair, which implies his cancer is gone. Perhaps he is going to fake his own death via cancer, which parallels Gus eating poison and throwing it up just like Walt did with his cancer medication/IV/etc, Walt even does the whole towel-before-kneel thing. The spray painted Heisenberg is interesting too, because most people won't know or care who Heisenberg is so why is that painted in his house... by him before he left?

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Judging from the "No Trespassing" signs posted on the property, it looks like Walt's house has been seized by the city and not the bank that holds the mortgage on it. That implies it was taken in a drug bust instead of just being abandoned by Walt and his family going into hiding. There would have been a lot of local publicity around that, so vandals could have spray painted Heisenberg on the wall. The neighbor's reaction leads me to believe that Walt faked his death at some point as well, to get the cops and/or other drug lords off of his trail. If that's the case though, what be would his reason for resurfacing there just to retrieve the vial of ricin? He could always make more if he needed it so badly and no one would have ever found the old vial. Maybe he's accepted his fate and knows he's about to embark on something that will lead to him dying one way or the other and just said "fuck it".

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