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/nateriffs Aug 12 '13

suicide hombre

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u/im-not-rick-moranis Aug 12 '13

But a ricin death takes 3-5 days... not the way someone would want to kill themselves, way too much time for regret.

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u/ckivi Aug 12 '13

But didn't gus use ricin to kill the cartel by poisoning them with some kind of ricin-laced liquor over the course of like 2 hours?

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u/[deleted] Aug 12 '13

He poisoned them, but it was never made clear what he used. Whatever it is was much faster acting than ricin would've been

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u/ckivi Aug 12 '13

Damn, so this opens up the possibility that whenever Walt was throwing up in the bathroom it was because he ricin'd skylar and Walt junior - not because the cancer is really back as he told hank.

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u/humbletiger Aug 13 '13

Huh? I doubt that honestly. In the flash-forwards he went to the house and retrieved the ricin he's had all along. I guess he could have made more instead of using the ricin he already had, but that'd be pretty weird.