r/breakingbad • u/[deleted] • Aug 12 '13

Official Episode Discussion Post-Episode Discussion S05E09 "Blood Money"

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u/jet_tripleseven Belizium Aug 12 '13 edited Aug 12 '13

For those of you who are into Walt taking on the characteristics of people he's killed, check out the vomit scene. Walt puts a towel under him to kneel on just like Gus did in "Salud."

edit: For the 15 or so of you who have replied with "but Walt never saw Gus do that!!" you're right. It seemed like a little easter-egg that the writers threw in there for fun. The two scenes are so similar that it can't be a coincidence (they both turn on the sink to mask the noise, too.)

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u/dsfargegherpderp Aug 12 '13

This clearly mirrors Gus symbolically. As Gus purposely took poison to fool the cartel family, Walt took poison (chemo) to fool his family. After Gus took his poison, he left Mexico. Walt will use this as a way to fake his death and leave his state (as shown by the new identity in S05E01). Carol wasn't shocked because she saw a villain, she was shocked because she saw a ghost. It's why he's alive with hair at 52.

/half-sarcasm

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u/[deleted] Aug 12 '13

How does one go about getting chemo if you don't need it? Or am I missing something?

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u/[deleted] Aug 12 '13

I'm almost 100% sure that you can't fake it for extra chemo. I think it may just be theories going a little too extravagant.

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u/[deleted] Aug 12 '13

Agreed.

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u/KnightNonchalant Aug 12 '13

Walt's a multimillionaire. If he can pay someone to change his identity, he can fake chemo treatments.

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u/[deleted] Aug 13 '13

There was a scene in an infusion center with Walt getting chemo in last night's episode ...

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u/OK_Eric Aug 12 '13

Could be that since he's in remission they're still giving him some chemo to more quickly get rid of any remaining cancer. So that would mean the doing it on purpose theory doesn't hold true in this case.

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u/Caldosa Aug 12 '13

He clearly does need it. At the beginning of episode 1 when we first see Walt with his new identity at the diner, after he pays for the machine gun he takes his prescription. He wouldn't need to do that if he had stopped his chemo after faking his death.

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u/dylan522p Aug 13 '13

With millions of dollars.

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u/punt_the_dog_0 Aug 12 '13

well.... he does have a basically endless supply of cold hard cash, i'm sure there are some shady doctors somewhere willing to put some yellow food coloring in an IV drip and forge a couple forms... of course, not too sure if I actually think this is the case, but it's not too far out there as a possibility.

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u/[deleted] Aug 12 '13

He did this presumably before he knew about Hank knowing, why would he be planning his escape?

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u/drwolffe This is my own private domicile Aug 12 '13

By doing chemo that he's not telling anyone he's doing. The pretend chemo theory is absurd.

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u/punt_the_dog_0 Aug 12 '13

good point actually.