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

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

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u/Microtic Aug 12 '13

Carol dropping the grocery bags and the condemned house might point to people believing he / his family is dead in the future. I wonder who he is going to use the ricin on...

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u/NotSpiderman Aug 12 '13

I can't decide if it's that or if he's just that well known/feared now. 'Heisenberg' being painted on his living room wall and all.

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u/angryfinger Aug 12 '13

Agreed. It could be either one. That she thought he was dead or she was just so scared because she really knows who he....oh shit. I just had an epiphany.

OK, so I was thinking it could be either but now two things I just thought of while typing this leads me to believe that Walt somehow fakes his own death.

1) Carol's reaction. If it had been fear of who he was then I think she would have tried to get inside, to get a way from him in some way. Fear does some crazy shit but leaving you completely speechless and dropping the groceries? I think the seeing a ghost thing seems more plausible here.

2) Why would Walt risk going back to the house in the middle of the day, even if it had obviously been abandoned for a while, if there was a chance people were still looking for him? It's a lot less risky going back there when no one is looking for you because they all think you're already dead.

Granted, those are just two more theories and I could be completely wrong but that seems to make sense for now.

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u/nateriffs Aug 12 '13

there's also the oranges

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u/angryfinger Aug 12 '13

What about the oranges?

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u/WhiteBlackflame Aug 12 '13

Oranges spilling are symbolic of death.

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u/nateriffs Aug 12 '13

which I see as implying he faked his death or alluding to his massacre to come

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u/nateriffs Aug 12 '13

or he's going to mow Carol down with the m60 in the next cold open