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Unpack something for me. The fixer tells Walt to lay low and stay in the cabin for the foreseeable future.

Why?

Even if he is getting national attention, he has a new name/license, he's not bald, he has different glasses, and he's in some podunk town 2,000 miles away from where everything went down. He could fit in around New Hampshire as anonymously as Vito did before hooking up with Johnnycakes in disgusting man-sex.
There's two dead DEA agents. They know he had millions in cash and fled. It's all over national news. Its a big story with the whole average hs teacher gets cancer and turns murdering kingpin. His picture is all over. You're using a quote from the day he got to New Hampshire but describing his appearance 6 months later. Don't ever compare this New Hampshire trip to that other one.

 
Unpack something for me. The fixer tells Walt to lay low and stay in the cabin for the foreseeable future.

Why?

Even if he is getting national attention, he has a new name/license, he's not bald, he has different glasses, and he's in some podunk town 2,000 miles away from where everything went down. He could fit in around New Hampshire as anonymously as Vito did before hooking up with Johnnycakes in disgusting man-sex.
:shrug:

Why not?

Even if it's a slim chance he would get recognized, from his perspective its better if Walt keeps to himself. I imagine a newcomer to such a small town would still raise questions.

Plus I imagine a drug kingpin with suspected involvement in the possible death of two DEA agents could very easily end up on a national show like America's Most Wanted. Telling Walt to lay low makes sense IMO.
I guessed way wrong on this one to begin with. I thought that the Robert Forester character had filled this little town with all of his new identity people

 
Premier said:
I did have to step away from the fictional show last night and wonder for a minute why the vacuum guy doesn't just kill Walt in that lonely cabin and then drive off with the 11M. Code amongst certain thieves I guess.
not every criminal is a murderer
Why kill when he can just bide his time for a couple of months?

 
Chase Stuart said:
I don't think the machine gun is for the Nazis. I don't know what it's for, but I think that's less likely each week.
Who would it be for then? They killed Hank, that was the final straw that ruined his life as he knew it. It was the final nail that killed any chance at keeping his family together. In his mind at least, it was over long before then but his megalomania let him think he could fix it. They took his money, the only thing he cares about - tangible evidence of his empire. He may have severed his fatherly feelings towards Jesse, but there may be some idea of redemption by saving him, or he may be in kill-mode and want to take out the only other person that can make the blue. The top 4-5 reasons to get an M60 all point to the Nazis.
Considering Walt has never fired an M60, has no idea how to fire one, and has no chance of successfully gunning down a group of trained killers, I don't think the top reason to get one points to the Nazis.
Instruction manual was included

 
Can't people just watch a show, enjoy it and not make ####### predictions, most of which are mind boggling stupid?
why does it bother you if people make predicitions?
I agree. I find it entertaining and also interesting that the show still completely surprises us with what happens
Try watching or talking about football the same you are with this show. It should give you a general idea just how crazy you sound for taking a stand against predictions relating to someting you love.

 
I just thought of a new way to frame the Walt taking the ricin himself theory.

He takes it BEFORE he goes on a rampage to kill the Nazis to prevent him from being taken hostage and being forced to cook.

Put that in your pipe and smoke it fellas.

 
I just thought of a new way to frame the Walt taking the ricin himself theory.

He takes it BEFORE he goes on a rampage to kill the Nazis to prevent him from being taken hostage and being forced to cook.

Put that in your pipe and smoke it fellas.
already been stated in this thread...but it was more of assurance that he would just go in guns a blazing. Getting kilt by bullets better than suffering from the ricin

 
I just thought of a new way to frame the Walt taking the ricin himself theory.

He takes it BEFORE he goes on a rampage to kill the Nazis to prevent him from being taken hostage and being forced to cook.

Put that in your pipe and smoke it fellas.
do you even read this thread?

 
Aaron Rudnicki said:
Scoresman said:
I just thought of a new way to frame the Walt taking the ricin himself theory.

He takes it BEFORE he goes on a rampage to kill the Nazis to prevent him from being taken hostage and being forced to cook.

Put that in your pipe and smoke it fellas.
do you even read this thread?
not really. its 280 pages dude.

 
I think Jesse is still in the meth dungeon, only 7-9 months later he basically turns into Gollum-jesse. Walt somehow finds this out and comes to rescue him. "Rescuing him" might mean offering him the ricin to end it all.
RICIN IS A HORRIBLE WAY TO ####### DIE.
I still think Walt takes it. But only as a means to override his own innate sense of self-preservation. He knows that whatever shootout he has planned is a death sentence. He doesn't want to chicken out. So he takes the ricin knowing that the alternative is just him dying in miserable pain a few days later. I wouldn't be at all surprised if Walt specifically references MIke's "no half-measures" speech when explaining why he took it.
bump for scoresman

 
Sarnoff said:
Abraham said:
Sarnoff said:
Raider Nation said:
Unpack something for me. The fixer tells Walt to lay low and stay in the cabin for the foreseeable future.

Why?

Even if he is getting national attention, he has a new name/license, he's not bald, he has different glasses, and he's in some podunk town 2,000 miles away from where everything went down. He could fit in around New Hampshire as anonymously as Vito did before hooking up with Johnnycakes in disgusting man-sex.
Why does the fixer even help anybody? Seems he's got the perfect business plan... "Show up at my place with all your money and everything you value. I'll disappear you to a remote location and you'll never make contact with anyone you leave behind. A new start." Then he takes someone in, then shoots them and takes their cash. He'd never get caught... every time someone disappears, it looks like a great success. Even if he's never done it before, Walt and his barrel of money would be an easy target to start....
Do you even watch the show?"Normally this is where you and I would part ways, but you're you so this is different."

Most cases are a one time fee, one time disappearance.
Did you even read my post?

He doesn't have to actually do the job to appear to do the job. Either way, as Walt said, once Walt's dead the barrel of cash is the fixer's. Must be tempting when sticking that chemical poison in Walt's arm to just take him out now and take the cash. Why wait? Even if the body is found, could look like someone tying up loose ends. A nazi, a rogue fed... maybe he makes it looks like a suicide.

But he doesn't. Perhaps one of the most morally upstanding of the characters on the bad side.
This was another suspend disbelief moment for me. You would think the fixer guy would just off Walt in the cabin. There's no morally upstanding fixer guy that wouldn't just do that and roll the barrel of cash into his truck.

 
yeah I read that. you have to read it like 3 times though to infer that he takes the ricin before the shootout. thanks for the bump.

sorry I didnt have a completely original idea in a 280 page thread though.

Has anyone in the thread mentioned how good a piece of ### Marie is?

 
Sarnoff said:
Abraham said:
Sarnoff said:
Raider Nation said:
Unpack something for me. The fixer tells Walt to lay low and stay in the cabin for the foreseeable future.

Why?

Even if he is getting national attention, he has a new name/license, he's not bald, he has different glasses, and he's in some podunk town 2,000 miles away from where everything went down. He could fit in around New Hampshire as anonymously as Vito did before hooking up with Johnnycakes in disgusting man-sex.
Why does the fixer even help anybody? Seems he's got the perfect business plan... "Show up at my place with all your money and everything you value. I'll disappear you to a remote location and you'll never make contact with anyone you leave behind. A new start." Then he takes someone in, then shoots them and takes their cash. He'd never get caught... every time someone disappears, it looks like a great success. Even if he's never done it before, Walt and his barrel of money would be an easy target to start....
Do you even watch the show?"Normally this is where you and I would part ways, but you're you so this is different."

Most cases are a one time fee, one time disappearance.
Did you even read my post?

He doesn't have to actually do the job to appear to do the job. Either way, as Walt said, once Walt's dead the barrel of cash is the fixer's. Must be tempting when sticking that chemical poison in Walt's arm to just take him out now and take the cash. Why wait? Even if the body is found, could look like someone tying up loose ends. A nazi, a rogue fed... maybe he makes it looks like a suicide.

But he doesn't. Perhaps one of the most morally upstanding of the characters on the bad side.
This was another suspend disbelief moment for me. You would think the fixer guy would just off Walt in the cabin. There's no morally upstanding fixer guy that wouldn't just do that and roll the barrel of cash into his truck.
Maybe he isn't a murderer.

 
yeah I read that. you have to read it like 3 times though to infer that he takes the ricin before the shootout. thanks for the bump.

sorry I didnt have a completely original idea in a 280 page thread though.

Has anyone in the thread mentioned how good a piece of ### Marie is?
Nope, i think youre good there

 
Sarnoff said:
Abraham said:
Sarnoff said:
Raider Nation said:
Unpack something for me. The fixer tells Walt to lay low and stay in the cabin for the foreseeable future.

Why?

Even if he is getting national attention, he has a new name/license, he's not bald, he has different glasses, and he's in some podunk town 2,000 miles away from where everything went down. He could fit in around New Hampshire as anonymously as Vito did before hooking up with Johnnycakes in disgusting man-sex.
Why does the fixer even help anybody? Seems he's got the perfect business plan... "Show up at my place with all your money and everything you value. I'll disappear you to a remote location and you'll never make contact with anyone you leave behind. A new start." Then he takes someone in, then shoots them and takes their cash. He'd never get caught... every time someone disappears, it looks like a great success. Even if he's never done it before, Walt and his barrel of money would be an easy target to start....
Do you even watch the show?"Normally this is where you and I would part ways, but you're you so this is different."

Most cases are a one time fee, one time disappearance.
Did you even read my post?

He doesn't have to actually do the job to appear to do the job. Either way, as Walt said, once Walt's dead the barrel of cash is the fixer's. Must be tempting when sticking that chemical poison in Walt's arm to just take him out now and take the cash. Why wait? Even if the body is found, could look like someone tying up loose ends. A nazi, a rogue fed... maybe he makes it looks like a suicide.

But he doesn't. Perhaps one of the most morally upstanding of the characters on the bad side.
This was another suspend disbelief moment for me. You would think the fixer guy would just off Walt in the cabin. There's no morally upstanding fixer guy that wouldn't just do that and roll the barrel of cash into his truck.
Maybe he isn't a murderer.
Yup. Or he makes plenty of money doing what he does and doesn't need the added risk that comes with murdering a famous person, which he could only avoid by effectively disposing of the body- another headache he might not want to take on.

I saw this "criticism" mentioned in several other places. I don't see it at all. It's a huge leap from what he does to killing people and disposing of their corpses. Sure he could kill Walt, and it would make sense if he did, but it also makes sense if he doesn't.

 
shader said:
ScottNorwood said:
Anyone in for a final episode death pool?
Here are my odds.

Random Nazi 1-1

Walt: 1.1-1

Jesse: 2-1

Head Nazi: 2-1

Lydia: 3-1

Todd: 4-1

Skylar: 5-1

Flynn: 15-1

Marie: 20-1

Holly: 100-1
Think there is big money to be made here on Todd... No way he doesn't die.

 
Statorama said:
I guessed way wrong on this one to begin with. I thought that the Robert Forester character had filled this little town with all of his new identity people
Brilliant. I would watch this show. The fixer dumps all of his shady relocation projects into a single town, each one of them thinks they're the only one trying to hide from the world.

 
I know this is a question that might have been asked before (several seasons ago), but could walter jr. actually be Ted Beneke's son?
I don't think Skyler worked for Beneke that long ago
I never got the impression that Skyler cheated on Walt until after he got cancer.
There was 100% some inappropriate stuff going on between them when she previously worked there. It's just a question of how far they took it back then.

 
I know this is a question that might have been asked before (several seasons ago), but could walter jr. actually be Ted Beneke's son?
I don't think Skyler worked for Beneke that long ago
I never got the impression that Skyler cheated on Walt until after he got cancer.
There was 100% some inappropriate stuff going on between them when she previously worked there. It's just a question of how far they took it back then.
More than likely but I still never got the impression Skyler w****d herself out to Ted until after Walt got cancer.

I may have editorialized a bit there. :)

 
I know this is a question that might have been asked before (several seasons ago), but could walter jr. actually be Ted Beneke's son?
I don't think Skyler worked for Beneke that long ago
I never got the impression that Skyler cheated on Walt until after he got cancer.
There was 100% some inappropriate stuff going on between them when she previously worked there. It's just a question of how far they took it back then.
More than likely but I still never got the impression Skyler w****d herself out to Ted until after Walt got cancer.I may have editorialized a bit there. :)
I think the whole Marilyn Monroe "Happy Birthday Mr. President" was pretty telling that there was something going on there previously (since this was not the first time she sang that for him).

 
It's one thing for Skyler to have flirted with Ted when she worked for him before. It's another for her to sleep with him, get pregnant and have Walt go along with pretending the kid is his. Granted, Walt was being stepped on by life at that point but I can't see him going along with that.

 
It's one thing for Skyler to have flirted with Ted when she worked for him before. It's another for her to sleep with him, get pregnant and have Walt go along with pretending the kid is his. Granted, Walt was being stepped on by life at that point but I can't see him going along with that.
Who says he knew (yet) and went along with it?

 
Statorama said:
I guessed way wrong on this one to begin with. I thought that the Robert Forester character had filled this little town with all of his new identity people
Brilliant. I would watch this show. The fixer dumps all of his shady relocation projects into a single town, each one of them thinks they're the only one trying to hide from the world.
sounds like The Prisoner

 
It's one thing for Skyler to have flirted with Ted when she worked for him before. It's another for her to sleep with him, get pregnant and have Walt go along with pretending the kid is his. Granted, Walt was being stepped on by life at that point but I can't see him going along with that.
Walt Jr is definitely Walt's child. That shouldn't be up for debate.

 
It's one thing for Skyler to have flirted with Ted when she worked for him before. It's another for her to sleep with him, get pregnant and have Walt go along with pretending the kid is his. Granted, Walt was being stepped on by life at that point but I can't see him going along with that.
Walt Jr is definitely Walt's child. That shouldn't be up for debate.
That card would have been played a long time ago.

 
John Maddens Lunchbox said:
Can't people just watch a show, enjoy it and not make ####### predictions, most of which are mind boggling stupid?
Please submit a list of things you think it's ok for us to discuss.

 
If Saturday Night Live did a skit of Breaking Bad fans, it would read a lot like this thread.

 
It's one thing for Skyler to have flirted with Ted when she worked for him before. It's another for her to sleep with him, get pregnant and have Walt go along with pretending the kid is his. Granted, Walt was being stepped on by life at that point but I can't see him going along with that.
Walt Jr is definitely Walt's child. That shouldn't be up for debate.
Of course he is. His name is Walt Jr for Gods sakes.

 
It's one thing for Skyler to have flirted with Ted when she worked for him before. It's another for her to sleep with him, get pregnant and have Walt go along with pretending the kid is his. Granted, Walt was being stepped on by life at that point but I can't see him going along with that.
Walt Jr is definitely Walt's child. That shouldn't be up for debate.
Agreed. Besides Skyler would've told Walt when she cheated on him after he got cancer. She was doing all she could to hurt him at that point and finding out Walt Jr. wasn't his kid would've devastated him.

I would be shocked if Gilligan pulled something that major out of his a** in the finale. I don't think there's any reason to think Walt Jr.'s dad is anyone other than Walt.

 

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