“Next time, I’m gonna get you where you really live.”
Breaking Bad has shown us the world through Walter White’s eyes. As the show progressed we saw Walt miraculously balance the separate but equally thrilling double lives he lived as Walter White, and Heisenberg. It worked for a while as he was able to turn it off like a switch. Being the family friendly Walter White while home, and then the prideful empire building Heisenberg whenever it called for it. In truth of course Walt and Heisenberg are one and the same, but it wasn’t until these final run of episodes that everyone else around Walt finally saw this. Now that Walt is unable to separate the lives of the two, they have become one and the same, causing the corruption of literally everyone around him (save for Walt Jr.).
Of course, Jessee was the first to discover this Walt, seeing his old teacher turn into this entirely new being. A dark force who he now considers the devil. Walt would act like a father figure to Jesse one minute, and then manipulate him almost as a puppet whenever he needed to. Then Skylar came next, making terrible discovery after terrible discovery, until the facade of Walt was no more accurate than Heisenberg. Now Hank and Marie are all caught up, and hell, even Walt Jr. is able to catch on to Walt’s ridiculous lies and schemes.
The final crossing point this week was Jesse pouring gasoline all over Walt’s house ready to burn it straight to hell. Walt comes home with a gun ready, but finds no Jesse there, just a gasoline barrel and a house reeking of it. Walt tries to maintain a sense of normalcy by trying to get the smell out, but when that fails, he comes up with a ridiculous story that may have worked on his family 4 seasons ago, but everyone is much wiser to Walt’s bs at this point. Walt somewhat saves face with Jr. by bringing them to fancy hotel, but Skylar is far too smart to not to see what is going on. And she’s not the only one.
In a chilling scene with Saul and Kuby, Saul floats the idea of killing Jessee by using the story of Old Yeller as a metaphor, comparing Jesse to a rabid dog that may need to be put down for his own good. Walt refuses to even consider it. “You’re full of colorful metaphors aren’t you saul? Belize, Old Yeller, just brimming with advice.” Walt can’t bring himself to do it. I can’t help wonder if Saul may take things into his own hands, even if that meant against Walt if he doesn’t handle this well.
Saul isn’t the only one to float this idea. At the hotel, a sick to her stomach Skylar basically tells Walt to “deal with it”, almost in a similar way that Walt told Jesse to deal with the crackheads who stole from them, as well as to when they needed to kill Gale, “It’s either him or us, and I choose us.” Well it seems that Skylar is thinking the same way, confirming that she is very well fully Mrs. Heisenberg. After all “Whats one more?”
We later see that the reason Jesse didn’t burn the house down was because Hank had been following him at Saul’s. He convinces Jesse to work together in a tense scene that is just further Emmy award winning material for both Aaron Paul and Dean Norris. “He can’t keep getting away with this!” Some people speculated of the possible teaming up of the former enemies, but Hank finally brings the idea to full fruition with one great line: “You really wanna burn him down? Lets do it together.”
The strangest scene of the night had to go to Marie, who is seeing her psychiatrist. It seemed out of place, if not to provide us a little more time with the character to show us how sick all of this has made her. If anything we now know that she has researched ways to possible poison Walt if she needs to. It seems that this sinister-ness has now spread to the far reaches of the family, even Marie.
She goes home to discover a recovering Jesse sleeping off his cocaine fueled rage, but is fine with it as long as its bad for Walt. When Jesse wakes up we see one of the most awkward encounters between Marie and him, in their first scene ever together in the show. Jessee records a video tape in similar fashion to the one Walt left Hank, spilling his whole story from top to bottom with Hank and Gomie watching in. They believe him, but know there isn’t any proof. So they come up with a plan to send Jesse in to meet Walt, who wants to talk to Jesse. Walt makes this call after a heartbreaking heart to heart with Walt Jr., possibly the only character on this show whose morals haven’t fallen to shit…yet. One can speculate that this made him want to have a similar talk with Jesse, his other son in ways.
Hank sends Jesse in to a very public area to meet with Walt. Gomie has a bad feeling about sending Jesse in there, but Hank doesn’t care too much about Jesse, as long as it means Walt goes down. It’s a chilling moment for two reasons. Hank clearly is not that much different from Walt. He didn’t like what Jesse said about Walt “He’s smarter than you. He’s luckier than you. Watever you think is supposed to happen, I’m telling you, the exact reverse opposite of that is gonna happen, ok.” You saw Hank’s pride take a hit, as we have with Walt throughout the side, and he was willing to send Jesse to the wolves in order to take Walt down.
Jesse goes to meet Walt but is instantly spooked by a menacing looking bald guy who is standing nearby. This sends Jesse into a panic, and he ends up calling Walt, putting all the cards on the table and making an ultimate thread. “I decided burning down your house is nothing. Next time, I’m gonna get you where you really live.” Ironically the bald man was just there picking up his daughter. Looks like Walt’s luck is running out. Jesse has a better mind he tells Hank, but who knows what it is, or if Hank will go along with it, if it means targeting Walt’s family, which is a big possibility.
Walt makes a call to Todd, calling for the assistance of his Uncle’s once again. It looks like Walt did just intend to talk to Jesse but now the stakes have changed. Is he calling to finally put down Jesse, the rabid dog, or does Walt have something even crazier up his sleeve? Whatever you think will happen in the show, you need to stop, turn around, and think about the opposite. What if Walt fakes his own death in order to stop all this from happening? What if the whole opening scenes from the future is Walt coming back from “death”, with the alternative identity and the shocked Carol. It’s a far out theory, but something I could see Walt pulling. We’ll see. With only 4 episodes, there’s not much room left for speculation, but plenty of time for action.
Notes:
- Lydia is going to freak out and be a big time problem when she finds out Jesse is working with the DEA. Remember, Mike warned them about her.
- Nice to see the gun tucked in Walt’s underwear again. A early callback to when things where a little less crazy…
- Walt calling Badger and Skinny Pete “Beaver and whats his name?”
- Saul and /kuby – old yeller
- Marie’s doctor bringing up how last week, she was upset about the new parking rules. Not such a big problem now, eh?
- “It just feels good to think about it.” – Marie clearly has a thing for crime.
- Gomie was acting weird this whole episode. Something about him seemed off to me.
- “Yeah, no, Mr. White’s gay for me. Everyone knows that.”
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