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Like the A Team and GI Joe CartoonsAll those bullets fired.
No one hit.
The hell?
IM CRYING LLEGIT IM CRYING. SON THIS IS SOME EPIC ****. I WISH SOMEONE WOULD GIVE ME A A CONCUSSION SO IC AN REWATCH THIS EPISODE LIKE NEW
— alex (@infraredsix) September 9, 2013
Be careful what you wish for, fans. You might get it.
Did you want Walt in handcuffs, the ******** fountain finally run dry? I know I have, at various times, wanted this. Well, here it is, in one of the series’ very few true cliffhanger endings, the kind where, when we come back next week, we’re likely to pick up the story at the same moment it cut to black on us this week. Did you want Hank vindicated? Here he is, triumphant, accepting congratulations from his partner, calling Marie to exchange tearful, relieved expressions of love. Did you want Jesse to gain the upper hand, for once to be the man with the foolproof plan? Here he is snarling on the phone, goading Walt into the kind of recklessness that goes before big mistakes, spitting on his former mentor.
Is that what we wanted? We may have thought so. But now, as it’s happening and Walt sits defeated and Jesse looks frightened, we have to question ourselves. And that’s even before the wild card shows up and the fans who wanted something different start cheering, before trailing off in puzzlement about whether they, in their turn, like getting what they wished for. Did you want Walt back cooking again? That’s where we’re headed, but he’s far from Heisenberg at his height.
And then there’s Todd, whose dead-eyed turn from eager apprentice to remorseless, opportunistic killer makes him the scariest ************ in the Breaking Bad universe right now. One minute he’s agreeing to arrange a hit on Jesse without batting an eye, the next he’s dispassionately pumping bullets in the general direction of whoever his Uncle Jack says stands between them and unlimited Czech drug cash. Todd is Jesse with no loyalty, Gale with no aesthetics, Mike with no code. He’s a tool who’s perfectly content with having no other identity than how others might want to use him.
But the biggest twist of the episode is the one that happens in Walt’s mind when, crouched behind a rock, he sees Hank get out of the SUV. That’s when he realizes that he has neglected to consider the unthinkable: Jesse has turned on him. Why he didn’t foresee it, and what meaning it conveys to him, are the questions that cast the die for Walt’s perspective on defeat. It never occurred to Walt that Jesse would become Hank’s partner in the hunt for Heisenberg because Walt so thoroughly believes his ******** to Skyler about having Jesse under control—and because he doesn’t think to question whether his own sense of family obligation is shared by those in his circle. (Of course, it’s a sense of family obligation that ambushes and shoots kin in the back of the head in their own best interests, but that’s not unprecedented amongst your Old Yellers and Lennie Smallses and such.)
And then Walt settles on what this betrayal means. It means that he misjudged Jesse all along, and was a fool to defend him to Skyler, to Saul, to Uncle Jack. Jesse is a rat. “Coward!” he hisses at Jesse, ignoring Hank who has just Mirandized him. The implication is that ratting is a craven move; Jesse should have settled his beef with Walter mano a mano, somehow. I found Walt’s “Coward!” accusation extraordinarily revealing. Does he really pride himself on confronting his problems directly, excusing and explaining away all the times he used other people to do his dirty work, even the one he was engineering mere hours ago outside of Andrea's house? Or has he adopted the version of honor among thieves that despises a rat as the lowest of the low?
J, they weren't at the SUV yet, and they were shooting automatic machine guns, first, and on top of that, once Hank sticks his head out, 4 machine guns couldn't head shot him?????
Please let these Aryans show up
Only time you'll ever hear me say this.
Thing is though Hank and Gomie were returning fire. So it's not like the nazis could just take their time line up the shot. They were in spray and pray mode.
Call of Duty make it look so easy, I know, but it's not so simple.
Here's my theory.
Hank and Gomez die. They kidnap jesse, know he can cook.
For some reason, Walt can't let jesse go out like that and goes to his rescue with the 60.
Waltz family had left at this point cause skylar thinks Walt killed hank.
they could have ended the episode as soon as the guns were drawn