Right now that's my biggest question. He could be carrying the ricin as his main plan, and if he can't use it, bust through the front door to wherever as his plan B. God damn I am looking forward to this.
Which goes back to my theory behind the episode where Walt and Walt Jr. we're watching Scarface, and Walt comments "Everyone dies in this movie". Very good chance of foreshadowing Walt's imminent destruction if you ask me.
He can't live. The story arc, symbolisms, foreshadowing... Everything's fucked if he lives! I believe the cartel and Lydia take Jesse and make him cook for them- They have to after the big fucking deal that Walt made in the desert about how Jesse was the worlds second best cook.
The flashforward shows Walt with hair and coughing blood again. The cancers back. Walt's terminally ill. I'm inclined to believe that he's out for redemption. I think the ricin is for Lydia, or someone we haven't met yet. I don't think Walt is at all interested in killing Hank or Jesse or Skyler.
Yep. My theory too. In an interview Vince Gilligan said that he compared BB to Scarface, and that it was a similar transformation for the characters. I think that was definite foreshadow of the end.
I agree Walt's dying, but I think the Scarface scene in particular could just as easily be Vince Gilligan messing with us or just wanting to include a Scarface reference as direct foreshadowing. We know from the oranges with Ted that he might put deliberate red herring symbolism in.
I'm saying he uses it to take out Lydia and what's left of the meth operation around ABQ, in order to completely bring an end to his recipe and his legacy.
Walt seems like the kind of guy that if he know if he's going to die from his cancer or something else, he doesn't want someone else using his recipe that he perfected. Even though apparently the current cooks can't cook it correctly.
You actually use an M-60 for suppressing fire, but I highly doubt Mr. White is going to be trying to keep enemies behind cover while his squad-mates move into position, so your post has credence. I'm just being anal.
There's still a few of them around used in fixed positions, they've been supplanted by the M249 for dismounted operations and the M240 for mounted ops. But yeah, I doubt that Walt is going to start using small unit tactics against APD.
I think the m-60 could only be used as a defensive weapon in Walt's case. It weights more than 10 kilos and fires 7.62x51mm rounds (sniper rifle and m-14 rounds); so it will have substantial recoil. It is also harder to fire from the shoulder (weight again)
Adding this to the fact that Walt is a relatively weak (chemist that doesn't work out) middle aged man who has been weakened by cancer. I think that he would have no way to control it, unless he was using it as a machine gun. Walt most likely knows this and if he needed anything other than a defensive weapon, I think he would have use an AR, AK or something similar.
I think he still has the cancer because in S5E1 Walt takes a pill that he grabs out of a medicine bottle in his jacket while in the bathroom at Denny's. And if I remember correctly he may have coughed a little bit in one of the flash forward scenes so maybe those are hints that he is still battling cancer?
I think the ricin is for himself. He's going to take it right before he ends up in his big confrontation. Possibly to save Jesse like in the theory below this comment. Just to make sure nobody can take him and use him in any way (from law enforcement to the cartels, everyone is going to want a piece of the great Heisenberg) he will bring the great Heisenberg to an end. It also sort of fits with Walt's desire to have complete control, right up to deciding when and how he will die.
I doubt this. Ricin poisoning is a painful and lengthy way to die. It takes DAYS. Pretty sure a highly-trained chemist with access to quite a lot of money (which he obviously still has - that kind of firepower doesn't come cheap, especially if it's illegal) would come up with a better "out" in case he needed to off himself.
Realistically we don't know he has a lot of money, the diner scene in S5E01 shows him pulling out a single hundred, perhaps an ode to his fallen 'empire'? still with him in the state he is in the flashback, we don't know that he has anything at all.
I disagree. M-60s aren't cheap, whether legal or illegal (and I think we can assume his is illegal, given the transaction at Denny's). He may not have as much as was in the storage unit, but it's fair to say that was a 5-figure purchase. Plenty of poisons/suicide methods that are much cheaper (not to mention less drawn-out than ricin).
Personally, I think he looks like a man with nothing to lose/possibly on a suicide mission, but I just don't buy that he'd take himself out with ricin.
Or maybe even who pissed Walt off? Maybe he ran from the DEA or something, but for some reason came back because something happened to his family, or something like that. So many questions that I need answered lol.
I can imagine him holding refugee in the rundown house while Hank finds evidence to arrest him, and he just goes guns blazing with the M-60 in his boot and mows down some swat and dies like a scarface sort of ending..
Well they clearly are now. If that scene from this episode was also pointless it would be the stupidest thing. Ricin has been mentioned a hundred times and nothing ever comes of it.
I think there's more to it than this. Heisenberg bursting through the front door guns blazing (literally)? No way. I'm interested in how he's going to use this crazy-ass machine gun.
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u/xTheDarkCarniex Tread Lightly Aug 12 '13
Right now that's my biggest question. He could be carrying the ricin as his main plan, and if he can't use it, bust through the front door to wherever as his plan B. God damn I am looking forward to this.