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Carol didn't drop the groceries because she was weirded out from seeing Walt because she thought he was dead. She dropped them, and the look on her face confirms it, because she is absolutely terrified of Walt. She sold that look so hard I'm surprised they didn't have her piss herself.
I'm sure it will come up, and I don't know how the writers will play it. But if Hank for some reason declines to pursue Walter and Skyler while knowing that his medical bills were paid by them, he's going beyond playing career suicide. He's joining a criminal racketeering enterprise. Maybe Hank will be tempted, but I highly doubt he'll let that stand in the way of his quest for the truth.
If it's like every other show, it'll be the hesitation that does him in and I'd imagine that's what'll happen.
Contrived prediction...
a publicly known drug kingpin on the run under a fake name cant exactly go into a clinic to get chemo. Him being on the run is basically a death sentence. Which also makes me think hes not on the run from the law cuz i dont think hank will turn him in. Hes on the run from the drug gang.
I'm not sure we can conclude just by Carol's reaction if she was in shock he's alive or fear for her life. Typically when somone is in fear they run, and shock they stand there, but I could see both sides,
So? I would think that's even better. Once he destroyed the one that had tracked him visiting Jesse/Saul the tracker would only help him look less suspicious with him knowing it's there. Just go about your "out of the game" normal life and if you need to do something crazy like visit Jesse, use a different car. Then all Hank is getting is a bunch of trackers showing totally normal behavior.
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I think your right, but the show is trying to wrap things up. If this was not the final 8 episodes I could see the writers doing something like that, but with only 8 episodes left they can not drag these small things out.
I don't think they would have had Hank's old supervising agent have to resign/be demoted/be reassigned for his longtime relationship with Gus if we're not supposed to believe that Hank will have similar concerns about him and Walt.
Walter is still running a criminal conspiracy (he's laundering money). Any law enforcement official who willfully looks the other way would be furthering an active criminal conspiracy. That's a RICO violation.
They are going to start fighting, maybe even killing each other over it. That might attract some police attention.
Yes. The old supervisor had Gus over for a BBQ. Hank is in much deeper than that guy.
But if it's a concern to the point that he can't take it to law enforcement, why work the case at all?
I agree that that's likely what we're supposed to think and how it'll play out.
Hank has repeatedly ignored evidence that pointed to Walt. The first evidence they found (the gas mask and the subsequent missing lab equipment) were from Walt's high school lab. We understand why Hank ignored it. He had a blind spot, just as his boss did with Fring.
That a guy cooking extremely pure meth just happened to have a bunch of equipment from a certain chemistry teacher's lab? If that were anyone but Walk, they would have taken a harder look at the teacher than janitor.
It wasn't the teacher's lab, it was the school's.
Fair point. Going to Jesse's and ending up at Tuco's in search of Walt wouldn't look very good either (I don't remember how even got out of that one).
The great thing about this is that we can all talk about them going this way or that way with it, but you just know the writers will take it in a way none of us imagined.
same here.The great thing about this is that we can all talk about them going this way or that way with it, but you just know the writers will take it in a way none of us imagined.
That's why I'm not trying to guess as to how it all might end. I'm just gonna sit back and enjoy the ride.
Yup. A minute in to last night they had declared that everyone was going to know he was Heisenberg in the next 9 months (wall graffiti). I don't think anyone expected that at all.The great thing about this is that we can all talk about them going this way or that way with it, but you just know the writers will take it in a way none of us imagined.
That's why I'm not trying to guess as to how it all might end. I'm just gonna sit back and enjoy the ride.
didn't some ASAC Merkert lose his job over Fring being right under his nose?
Like I said, that guy missed Fring for years, and he only found out when everyone else did after the nursing home explosion. Walt only cooked for 18 months and presumably acted as "kingpin" for much less time than that, and Hank's the guy that caught him.
Yea, but Hank has been the main guy and obsessed with the whole blue meth/Heisenberg thing from the very beginning. Maybe he kept that investigation to himself and made it look like he was working it hard was because he was tipping off his BIL drug dealer.
One issue is that the only evidence that Hank has now -- the book inscribed by Gale Boetticher -- is evidence that was seized illegally by Hank from Walt's house. Despite reviewing all of those boxes of evidence from the Fring case, the only other evidence that Hank mentions in his confrontation with Walt is the car crash when they were headed to Fring's laundry facility and the fact that Walt knew Hank's phone number in relation to the time that Hank was tricked into going to the hospital -- which hardly prove that Walt is a meth kingpin. Hank can't just show up at the DEA office and say "Hey look at this evidence that I illegally seized from my brother-in-law's house that will ultimately be suppressed in court due to the illegal manner in which I seized it." An action like that could potentially be a career-ender.
Maybe.
I'll always remember him most as Union Col. Austin in "North And South, Book II." He really helped James Read out.
I agree that he definitely doesn't have enough evidence now.
Of course Hank didn't know; that's an easy sell.
