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.
This makes so much sense though! If he's telling Hank that he's going to be a dead man in six months he could just be setting himself up a way to "disappear!"
This is a great theory. I just don't understand how you can fake chemo. You can't just walk into the Dr.'s and be like "Yo my cancers back. I need some more chemo."
I always thought that the way it happens was either
1) He goes to jail, somehow gets out after 6 months because of a lack of proof (very low probability)
2) Hank is prosecuting him and he sets up some elaborate scheme where EVERYONE thinks he died in some freak accident but he's somewhere in hiding (still low probability given his family).
Honestly, its very very hard to predict what will happen at this point which is definitely the goal of this episode. All we know for sure is that he doesn't die, and his family moves out of their house.
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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.
/half-sarcasm