Breaking Bad 5x08 - Gliding Over All [**SPOILERS WITHIN**]

dave1982 wrote: »

Anyone have a total death toll for Walter?

Directly:
Emilio
Krazy 8
2 street dealers
2 of Gus' henchmen
Mike

Indirectly: much more :P

I think we also need a running total of how many times Lydia has cheated imminent death this season.

It was much easier for BB to maintain tension when Walt was in direct competition with an imminent threat like Tuco, Mike or Gus so, in comparison, this season has felt a bit flat. Hopefully it's the calm before the storm.

There was also no call back to the opening scene of this series so we'll have to wait until next year to find out what that machine gun was about.

At least Hank has finally twigged - although I'd prefer if he'd found out in a different way. Via the WW inscription seemed a bit contrived.

Roll on the last eight.

DeepBlue wrote: »

At least Hank has finally twigged - although I'd prefer if he'd found out in a different way. Via the WW inscription seemed a bit contrived.

I think it's been long established that it's always the little things that trip Walt up. He can help build a giant magnet to erase a computer hard drive which is inside a police evidence room, but it's the little things that catch him out. Plus in a previous episode of this season, Walt looked at the book and kinda smiled. I think he had the book almost as sort of a memento, never thinking it could lead to anything.

And I think it's the genius of Breaking Bad, that moment where after 4.5 seasons, Hank finally figures out that Walt is Heisenberg... while taking a ****.

I must say this episode was a lot more low key than I was expecting. I kept an eye on the seek bar wondering when the **** would hit the fan. By the time it got to the final scene, it was obvious how it had to play.

What does Hank's new found suspicion mean for Walter exactly? Will he take the book as evidence?

briany wrote: »

I must say this episode was a lot more low key than I was expecting. I kept an eye on the seek bar wondering when the **** would hit the fan. By the time it got to the final scene, it was obvious how it had to play.

What does Hank's new found suspicion mean for Walter exactly? Will he take the book as evidence?

Walt could easily shrug off the book inscription with an excuse. A deep audit of the magic car wash would be far harder to explain away. I'll lay money one or two of the dead prison guys kept a diary. Jesse is still in the wind. I wouldn't trust Saul as far as I'd throw him. All Hank needed was an opening to unravel the knot - now he has it.
ps. forgot about Walt's earlier victims. I'm due a rewatch. Lucky me.

Sacramento wrote: »

Hank is a clever man, this is not a scene where he gets a new suspicion, but rather one of realisation. He knows that Walt is Heisenberg.

Definitely. The book isn't evidence, but more of a "Now it all makes sense..." kinda thing. We've already seen Hank be a little suspicious of Walt with things he says or does but just shrugging it off because he could never believe it could be Walt. Now he's connecting the dots.

Ah for **** sake, they can't make us wait another 9 months after that final scene :mad: :pac:

donfers wrote: »

did hank not see that book before? why does he think it means walt is heisenberg?

yes it has his initials so what? hardly catching him red-handed is it?

if the book is incriminating walt why is he leaving it around the house

Gale had a poem or something by Walt Whitman in his notes. The inscription on the Walt Whitman book that Walt just happened to have in his bathroom was:
"To my other favorite W.W.

It's an honour working with you.

Fondly, G.B."

All it took to put Gus Fring in Hank's sights was a Los Pollos Hermanos napkin in Gale's apartment, Walt actually left a note from Gale in his own bathroom, far more incriminating.

FloatingVoter wrote: »

It depends how Hank handles his revelation. He has no proof just suspicion so if he confronts Walt with that - RIP Hank.
Or he'll play along, maybe even move from home brew beer into home brew meth.
The fact that Jesse had a gun and was fully prepared to kill Walt might be more of a reveal to how this ends. Jesse won't rest easy until the coward Walter White is dead.
Excellent way to end the first half of the last season of the best show I've ever seen (apart from Cheers).

Hank doesn't have a proof, but everything makes now, buying the car wash, paying for Hank's medical bills, the fancy new watch, Walt Jr's car.

I probably missed it, but did any of the last 7 episodes relate to that scene in very first episode of this season in the diner in New Hampshire?

Deleted User wrote: »

The pool scene was wonderful. During the whole thing I was expecting something to happen; Walt Jnr. pushing the child in the pool by accident, someone running around the corner and trying to gun them all down, or the child's first words being "Heisenberg". However the ending we got was quite wonderful.. will be interesting to see what happens when Hank returns to the pool.

ironictoaster wrote: »

Hank doesn't have a proof, but everything makes now, buying the car wash, paying for Hank's medical bills, the fancy new watch, Walt Jr's car.

I probably missed it, but did any of the last 7 episodes relate to that scene in very first episode of this season in the diner in New Hampshire?

I had a theory that the diner scene is something of a red herring. That scene takes place sometime after the series as a whole ends next year. It's just a scene placed outside of the timeline that we'll see to put questions in the mind of the viewer as well as a clue to where Walter might be after the series ends.

I don't think it's showing where next year's will pick up because that would mean we'd have to see a whole lot of stuff explained in flashbacks etc. and, dammit, I want to see the immediate aftermath of Hank's realization. That is a rich resource of dramatic gold that it would be a terrific shame not to exploit. Also, Breaking Bad, until now, has been continuous in it's time frame with each season picking up exactly where the last left off. The second half of the season could end up with Walt in NH but I don't get why they'd write themselves into a corner like that and now have to figure out how to get him that point or, maybe, they already know how to and are just being teleprick teases.

Deleted User wrote: »

It would make some amount of sense; if I remember right, in a scene from a previous season (can't remember which), Walt was saying, "can you say Heisenberg?" - I might have that wrong though. Would have been a pretty funny way of finally revealing that.

If it was her first word, that'd be really weird.

Deleted User wrote: »

Also, those were the best shanking scenes since Oz.

Won't be able to listen to Nat King Cole for a long time without being remind of that!

When Holly speaks for the first time, he first words are likely to be "Chardonnay", or "Sauvignon Blanc".