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Breaking Bad Season 5 - Official Discussion Thread

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I estimated that pile of money to be about $75 million. Lot of money, who knows what they do with it. They need to be smart and at least spread it around.
 
PottedMeat said:
those guys were just german police
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O.

Also wondering how Walter ended up with that book in his house, I thought it was police evidence.

Also sad to see Mike go without being able to support his grand daughter like he wanted to, was basically why he did all the work that he did. Maybe as a final gesture to mike, Walt will give mike's granddaughter 10million or so. He didn't even have to kill Mike, after all
 
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Hank may have the connection now but how in the world is he going to prove it? I can only think of some conjecture and coincidences that he will be able to put together. Not really anything that he could put Walt in jail for. And if Walt really is out of the business like it shows last night, it will be even harder.

Something must happen next season in order for Walt to reach the level he was at in the initial opening of this season. Maybe those brotherhood guys come looking for him. Who knows, but I can't wait to find out!

It also seems a bit odd they are waiting all the way until next summer to continue. When series split their season in two they usually continue in the spring. Unless they are considering next year season 6?
 
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Franz316 said:
Hank may have the connection now but how in the world is he going to prove it? I can only think of some conjecture and coincidences that he will be able to put together. Not really anything that he could put Walt in jail for. And if Walt really is out of the business like it shows last night, it will be even harder.

Something must happen next season in order for Walt to reach the level he was at in the initial opening of this season. Maybe those brotherhood guys come looking for him. Who knows, but I can't wait to find out!

It also seems a bit odd they are waiting all the way until next summer to continue. When series split their season in two they usually continue in the spring. Unless they are considering next year season 6?
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While proving it is going to be the trick, my guess is the car wash won’t hold up as well under examination. Also, if Walt messed up here, the odds are he’ll mess up bigger as he won’t have a clue he needs to be extra careful.
 
hank can always put pressure on saul, jesse, and definitely badger. i don't think he knows who skinny pete is though.

i think the gambling/car wash thing will hold up though.
 
Skel said:
While proving it is going to be the trick, my guess is the car wash won’t hold up as well under examination. Also, if Walt messed up here, the odds are he’ll mess up bigger as he won’t have a clue he needs to be extra careful.
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That's true, Walt won't have any idea that Hank is on to him now. But if Walt is really out of the business then Hank will have an even tougher time. That leaves the car wash which Hank will probably use his rogue tactics on, lol.
 
Walt will find out about the book. My bed is, he will go in the bathroom after Hank and either notice the book was missing or that it has been moved.

Him keeping that book was foolish anyway..

Its not like Hank can prove that the book meant anything. No names were mentioned, anyone can have the initials "W.W" or "G.B"
 
MikeyLSU said:
I estimated that pile of money to be about $75 million. Lot of money, who knows what they do with it. They need to be smart and at least spread it around.
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that should be close because didn't Walt say the 1000 gallons was enough to make 300 million, split 3 ways between the AZ dudes and Todd its 100 mill each before expenses like paying off the AB to kill 9 people and Lydia taking her 30%, if they were doing 2 cooks a week they could have burned through it all in the time alloted. they showed Walt looking exhausted which made me think that they were cooking like madmen to get it all made. and I agree that the cancer is definitely back
 
SheHateMe said:
Walt will find out about the book. My bed is, he will go in the bathroom after Hank and either notice the book was missing or that it has been moved.

Him keeping that book was foolish anyway..

Its not like Hank can prove that the book meant anything. No names were mentioned, anyone can have the initials "W.W" or "G.B"
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Handwriting expertise and linking the note found at Gales apt that was addressed to WW as well.
 
Anubis said:
the exact convo is this

girl: New Hampshire, your a long way from home. How long a drive is it?
walt: about 30 hours if all you stop for is gas.
girl: wow you headed to California?
walt: no, here
girl: ok, so whats here?
walt - looks back at gun dude coming in the door - Business
girl: starts talking about town near Boston that is "near New Hampshire right?"

the gun dude asks walt "ive got your word this isn't wont wind up crossing the boarder" walt replies "its never leaving town"
gun dude: well good luck i guess


hes not in NH, hes still in ABQ
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I'm not entirely sure if it has been mentioned but the opening birthday breakfast scene definitely still had Walt in New Mexico. If you look at the picture on the wall behind Walt while he's crumpling up the bacon, it says New Mexico.

Also, if anyone goes back to rewatch that opening scene at the diner, they'd notice that when Walt goes to the bathroom to make the exchange for the LMG, he ends that scene by taking pills and coughing. It seems that that is meant to give the audience a hint that his cancer has returned, which feels somewhat more confirmed in this latest episode with Walt's sudden softening.
 
Hank is going to go PI on Walt... no way is he going to bring the DEA in on it. Can you imagine that conversation going down with Gomie(his old partner)? I imagine he's going to confront Walt personally as well.

He's between a rock and a hard place... his career and reputation is over no matter what he does and it's going mindfuck him when he realizes he got shot because of Walt while that same man also paid for his recovery. Not to mention the ramifications with Skylar and the kids with which he raised over the last 3 months.

Season 5.2 is going to be insane!
 
darkxshade said:
Hank is going to go PI on Walt... no way is he going to bring the DEA in on it. Can you imagine that conversation going down with Gomie(his old partner)? I imagine he's going to confront Walt personally as well.

He's between a rock and a hard place... his career and reputation is over no matter what he does and it's going mindfuck him when he realizes he got shot because of Walt while that same man also paid for his recovery. Not to mention the ramifications with Skylar and the kids with which he raised over the last 3 months.

Season 5.2 is going to be insane!
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Yep, Hank has to keep this one to himself. His overlords would have a sh!t fit. Not having a surveillance team on Walt works in his favor, but he's probably not hard for Hank to follow. Shouldn't be long before he's tied to the bug extermination business, giving Hank a big wtf.
 
Anubis said:
they were stiill selling with the AZ crew, the Cars they show them swapping is tyhe AZ crew drop offs, lydia drops off her stuff at that coffee shop

as for the book, they are still at walts house, he took a bunch of books out of a box in an earlier ep this season when he moved back in and placed them on the nightstand, it doesn't show you where any of them end up but im guessing one of those was this book and he or skyler put it in the bathroom not even thinking about what was in it
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I'm thinking skylar did it without knowing when walt wasn't living there.
 
jjsole said:
Yep, Hank has to keep this one to himself. His overlords would have a sh!t fit. Not having a surveillance team on Walt works in his favor, but he's probably not hard for Hank to follow. Shouldn't be long before he's tied to the bug extermination business, giving Hank a big wtf.
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Walt can mess with Hank saying that if he's implicated, that Walt would tell the authorities that Hank knew all along and helped his brother-in-law get around the sticky adventures.

Walt can easily frame Hank if he wanted to.

Breaking Bad can go in so many great angles at this point. Gilligan better end it with an intelligent bang!
 
We have to wait until the Summer of 2013 for the second half of the season? That's an entire season away. Good gravy that's a long time.
 
Dominato3r said:
I must be missing something because Google is telling me her last name is Schwartz, unless Black was her maiden name
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That's kind of an amusing coincidence, since "schwarz" (w/o the T) is German for "black". Gretchen is also a German name, is it not?

But yeah I think the simplest explanation in the correct one. GB = Gale Boetticher. I'm not sure why he uses the British/Canadian spelling of "honor/honour", though.

I think that while Walter is in a lot of trouble b/c of Hank's discovery, Hank won't be the only foe that Walter faces as the series wraps up. I don't think anyone 'retires' from the drug business as Walt did.
 
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Even if her maiden name was Black I don't see Hank buying that excuse. Walt's really not that good of a liar and as someone else already posted, the light bulb just went on for Hank. It's too obvious now... he's not an idiot. The chemistry background, the cash from gambling, the marriage/family issues, the inside track on DEA info... yeah, Hank knows it's Walt.

The question at this point is whether Hank knows Walt is running the show or whether he's "just" the cook. I think there's potential for Walt to still try to come off as innocent to a degree... that he got mixed up to pay for the cancer treatments, got in over his head, and was mixed up with the wrong guys with no way out. I mean, it's actually partially true.

If he comes 100% clean with Hank, then flips on everyone else then Hank might just forgive him so they both save face. Hank gets to take down the rest of the bad guys, and Walt dies of cancer anyway.

My guess is the M-16 isn't for Hank or the DEA. The whole rift between Walt and Gus was because Walt wasn't down with them off-ing Hank (and Jesse). He's not going to turn on his family... even though it's looked at times that he forgot they were the reason he started down this path. No, the gun is for protection from the distributors, Arian gang, and/or whoever else is about to go down once Walt starts to sing.
 
It's more likely it's from Gale, but it would be a funny twist if it was from Gretchen.

So Hank knows. Even if it's from Gale, it doesn't prove anything.

What's Hank going to do? If he goes after Walt, his sister-in-law loses everything, and it would also be bad for Hank's career that his own brother-in-law was a meth dealer getting info from Hank. Drug money even paid for Hank's therapy.
 
Booty said:
My guess is the M-16 isn't for Hank or the DEA.
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Maybe it's Fring's Chilean buddies. I've always thought they kinda just brushed over Don Eladio's comment about how "the only reason you are alive...is because I know who you are."

It'd be awesome to see Hank, the DEA, Fring's peeps and disgruntled dealers that can't get pure meth to be after Heisenberg at the same time.
 
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