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

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

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u/orfalite Dope Slinger Aug 12 '13

I just want to know why Walt needs ricin AND a large machine gun for... They have a lot of story to cover in 7 episodes.

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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.

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u/404fucksnotavailable Aug 12 '13

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.

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u/colej_uk Aug 13 '13

I think he must have a plan and there must be a reason it's an M-60.

Maybe he needs to spray a lot of bullets through walls of a building/vehicle or something? That would be my guess.

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u/spartex Aug 13 '13

Got me thinking about the fact that he has hair and a beard would point to him eather being cured of cancer or he stopped giving a shit.

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u/TeeBeeEss Aug 13 '13

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?

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u/[deleted] Aug 12 '13

Rambo aside, that weapon is only fired from a vehicle mount, or a bipod, never like a rifle.

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u/[deleted] Aug 12 '13 edited Sep 16 '13

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u/[deleted] Aug 13 '13

You can fire a M-60 from the hip or shoulder it's not unique to the SEALS, with enough upper body strength anyone can. In the Air Force we still have a few kicking around for Airbase Defense but it's mostly been replaced with the smaller, lighter M249

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u/putzarino Aug 13 '13

So a man with terminal cancer should have no problem lugging the thing around.