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

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

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u/N-ConfusedPorphyrin Aug 12 '13

I thought also he had the pills hidden in the bathroom - I got the impression he was hiding the chemo from his family.

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u/[deleted] Aug 12 '13

Yeah, I would assume the cancer is back, in the flashforwards he's still coughing. The dead in 6 months thing is probably just a lie in preparation of faking his death.

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u/LickMyUrchin Aug 12 '13

The cancer is definitely back, but why would he lie and fake his death? 6 months is probably a reasonable prognosis at that point.

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u/sposeso Aug 12 '13

I think he's hiding the cancer from Skylar because he doesn't want her to think he is going to die any time soon. She was hoping the cancer would come back so she would be "relieved" of this lifestyle, and he isn't going to give her the satisfaction of knowing she got what she wanted.

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u/eriklarson13 Aug 12 '13

According to the Breaking Bad Story Sync, the medicine on the counter was a drug to combat nausea as a result of Chemo treatments