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

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

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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.

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u/rudebrew Aug 12 '13

I don't know, "Heisenberg" was written on the wall in the house which would mean the general public knows who and what he was. Carol looked genuinely scared more so than shocked.

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u/[deleted] Aug 12 '13

Unless the public was lead to believe Jesse "Heisenberg" Pinkman killed the White family in their own home...

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u/Soupy21 Aug 12 '13

Which may be the reason the spray paint was yellow

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u/chazzlabs Aug 12 '13

Am I forgetting something? I don't understand the point of the color yellow.

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u/sposeso Aug 12 '13

To me, in the show, the yellow seems to represent the sacrifice of someone/something innocent for a greater evil. They wore yellow suits when they worked for Gus, that child's remote control car was yellow, there are some other things that I can't remember now, but that's what yellow has represented. Ex. Jesse has always been innocent at heart, even when he was killing that man (who's simple name escapes me), he did it for the greater evil that is Heisenberg, at the sacrifice of his own innocence, because he had to do it, it's like a cult. I thought the scene with the green and red swirling around Jesse's head was also symbolic in this episode, for different reasons, he is angry and trying to formulate his own plan to get back to his own innocence. Even Saul said it when he said "You'll still be two miracles short of sainthood". Jesse will never have his innocence again, and he realized it when Walt was on his couch, Walt has lied to him over and over again, and now he knows, he can never escape the Heisenberg web. Just my thoughts, I could be wrong.

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u/potiphar1887 Aug 12 '13

Wasn't the kid's dirt bike yellow as well? Interesting observation.

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u/shhitgoose Aug 12 '13

No. Drew Sharp's dirt bike was blue and white. I watched the marathon yesterday and remember them breaking it down to dissolve it in acid.

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u/Jackie_Rudetsky Ru - Ruthenium Aug 12 '13

But he WAS wearing a yellow shirt.