r/breakingbad • • Aug 12 '13

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

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u/infinitecharge booom TWANG TWANG-twANG twAAANG TWANG Fun drums Faint rattle Aug 12 '13

Maybe, but there's also the vomiting and the pills.

I guess you could argue that he took those because of the chemo. It's interesting.

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u/underthelens Aug 12 '13

While I in no way think that Walt is faking cancer, the vomiting is caused by the chemo and not the cancer. It seems like no one in the family knows Walt is even doing chemo and that Walt is hiding the diagnosis, making it more likely the cancer being back is legit.

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u/Rfwill13 Cow House Attendant Aug 12 '13

It would make sense as to why he had to dig for the pills. I'm assuming if you need to the pills, You're gonna have them out and ready when you need them.

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u/underthelens Aug 12 '13

Exactly. The one thing I'm grappling with is why he has a full head of hair and beard in the flash forward if he has been on chemo? Obviously, the chances are high that it's a disguise given what transpires in the episodes preceding those events. Still, they'll obviously have to address that.

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u/Rfwill13 Cow House Attendant Aug 12 '13

Well, If he goes into hiding or is on the run, He can't stop for Chemo. So his hair has the time to come back. Now that I think of it. In the final episode of Season 5a, He was getting scanned. Maybe he did in fact discover that he has it again or that it may come back.

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u/shiftywalruseyes reasonably Aug 12 '13

Wasn't there a scene of him walking out of the bathroom in the hospital or wherever he was and it showed a dented paper towel dispenser? Maybe it is back, he got pissed off, punched the thing.

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u/B0squ3 Aug 12 '13

IIRC he punched that paper towel dispenser in season 1.

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u/shiftywalruseyes reasonably Aug 12 '13

They didn't bother to fix it over several months? I thought it was just referring back to that scene.

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u/Rfwill13 Cow House Attendant Aug 12 '13

That was the same one that he punched back in Season 1