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He might have. If he didn't, I could see that coming around either getting into Hank's hands (less likely) or him finding just as he's about to destroy Skyler for threatening to take down his empire (more likely).
Was the then confession even all that specific?
#### Flynn, where's my purple?
Dude, you are talking about a little kid. Get your mind out of the gutter. What the #### is wrong with you?
That whole therapy thing was worst part of The Sopranos.
First episode, like two minutes in, right?
I'm not convinced the DEA has that money. The box was so full, he couldn't put another dollar in it. That means the lawyer would not have a need to open it the day the DEA was there.
I wasn't paying close attention, but maybe he was withdrawing in order to make legacy payments?
Good point. I was assuming the legacy payments were coming from money outside the bank, but maybe not.
They showed the lawyer bringing a briefcase full of money into the bank each time, so I don't think so. But if the lawyer flipped, I'd imagine he'd tell the DEA about all the safe deposit boxes, even if he didn't open one that day.
Then it doesn't make any sense for him to put that paper on the top of the cash that said to XXXX happy 18th birthday. If the lawyer was making withdrawals from that SD box, he would have to take that paper out, move it to the side, take money out, then put the paper back on top every time a legacy payment was made. Much easier to just put the happy birthday wish in when the last legacy withdrawal was made. I believe the inclusion of the note indicated the box would not be opened again until the granddaughter did on her 18th birthday.
Yeah I just watched it on Netflix. Pretty awesome way to open a show up.
Yes. The cold open is Walter barreling through the desert in the RV, Jesse passed out in the front seat with the gas-mask on, 8-Ball and his cousin out cold in the back. He hears sirens coming, pulls over and makes a confession. Turns out to be just fire trucks who whiz by him.
And then after the opening credits, Walt Jr. eats breakfast.
You know what would be awesome, if the next episode features Flynn eating breakfast with Meera and Jojen Reed.
I think you're looking for realism in a show that is easily the best on TV at this moment. Adjust your expectations and enjoy this sheer brilliance.
You didn't dislike Walt when he was willing to poison an innocent child?
My mind is blown.
Not sure what I said here that's so outrageous, but OKSeriously? Are you guys watching the same show as the Noid and I?JZ, I don't even know where to begin with your post.'JZilla said:
My understanding was that the lawyer was making drops and then the families of the guys owed the legacy payments would show up later on their own to pickup the money. I thought that after he made the first drop we saw he said something to Mike along the lines of "the families have been making the pickups" or something like that. There were nine guys on the list and, I think, nine different small boxes. I took the big box for Mike's granddaughter as one that would only get a one-time drop and that Mike probably had left some kind of instructions for the girl's mother to go open that box when the granddaughter turns 18.Either way, the legacy payments are about to stop and it appears that could be a significant problem for Walt.ETA: Regarding the big box: As the teller was going around opening all the nine boxes the lawyer said something to her like "I have one more today." My guess is just that once Mike got his $5 million he had the lawyer deposit a portion of it in that box for the granddaughter with the expectation it would never be opened again until she turned 18.
Yes, this is obvious. It's why Walt was asking for the names. It's why in the previews he is talking to Lydia etc.
Why would Walt need to threaten Lydia to give up the names when she was the one who wanted to kill them all in the first place, along with Mike, who Walt has now taken care of for her?
He's my type.
Even among professional critics, this perception that Breaking Bad is about how a "good" man becomes "bad" strikes me as just completely, utterly wrong. Walt is offered a deus ex machina out from the meth game in the fourth episode of season one. He turns it down. Because of pride. Because of self-disgust at his own mediocrity. Because of whatever. And that's after his dalliance in the meth game has already led him to kill a man. Something was rotten in Walt from the start of the series. And I'd argue that the series would never work otherwise. People like Walt because they see most of his thought processes and because he's played by an actor giving a great performance that is both pathetic and charismatic at the same time. Similarly, it amazes me that some critics are just suggesting that Hank's narrative is supposed to be a parallel "shadow hero" narrative to contrast with Walt. Maybe I'm biased by watching the entire series at once, but that seemed self-evident at least by Season 2. Hank has consistently been shown to be the better man behind the crass exterior. From the beginning.
:( Jesus Christ nobody ever escapes.
Don't hate me. I came back to work only to have every partner I work for go on vacation. I've already watched all the CLE I could this week.
I have not, this is the only show where I try not to watch the previews. Just my gut feeling after how the last episode ended and what Walt said to Mike right before he died.
I don't know that Walt was "rotten" but he wasn't fully there. He played along nicely has the homely school teacher who lived a lower middle-class life, with a #####y wife and a kid with a disability. His son and family looked up to the hero DEA guy. Even Walt "seemed" to look up to him, or at least acted like he was supposed to -- which was why he was on the ride-along in the first place. But cancer woke him up. He was told he had a few years to live if the chemo went right (remember only one year has passed since the show even began). Walt then is forced to go to that party, which brings back all the memories of the one decision in his life that would have made a huge impact. That crossroads has haunted him for 20+ years, and now they want to give him charity? #### that he says, if he is going out, he is going out on his terms. He wants to leave a mark on the world. It started that he wanted to prove to his family that he could provide. That they should be in awe of him. It morphed further and deeper the more Walt "became" Heisenberg. Now Walt doesn't just want to provide for his family. He wants to achieve a greatness because he discovered something that he could do that nobody else can touch. Walt was empty, and now he is trying to be fulfilled. Is it a twisted and morally corrupt avenue? Yes. Has he done more harm to those around him than good? Yes. Is anybody better off today than they were when this show met him? No. But Walt isn't living for them now. Walt is still dying and he wants a memorable legacy, regardless of what kind.
Plus the first time we saw Shamu opening all the boxes, he told her that he wanted into 603 also, as if it wasn't part of the usual ritual. Whether or not the Feds got it, I dunno, but that money was definitely set aside for the girl and was not the source of the legacy payments. He brought that in with him bot times.
Or walked away from a choking girl because she was making Jesse get sloppy and greedy?
I still don't quite get why the lawyer would be arrested in the vault.He's just counting out money, as far as anyone knows.
