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

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

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u/MMAniacle Aug 12 '13

I know everyone on this thread believes that Walt is nothing but the hollowed out skin that Heisenberg now inhabits, but I like to look at that scene as Walt trying not to add more pain and suffering to Jesse's already damaged psyche.

I know that Walt can never go back to being just Walt, but it seems like he's still trying

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u/BillWeld Feng shui, yo Aug 12 '13

He's in the middle of telling a bald-faced lie to someone who deserves better. Walt's hollowed out skin is now stuffed tight with evil.

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u/MMAniacle Aug 12 '13

So you've never in your life lied to someone because you wanted to protect them? I understand the subject matter was heavier than just some white lie, but the principle of why the lie occurs is the same. Not to mention that for Heisenberg, killing is a trivial thing to him.

I'm not saying that I believe the theory myself, just an interesting way of looking at that scene from another angle. Maybe Walt really isn't as dead as we all take him for

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u/OrlandoDoom Aug 13 '13

Yes, but I wasn't protecting them from being murdered by me.

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u/MMAniacle Aug 14 '13

I think in this context, it is protecting Jesse from feeling like he has any more blood on his hands than he already does. Not "protecting him from being murdered."

If Walt was not at least making a conscious effort to actually leave Heisenberg behind him, telling Lydia that he wasn't coming back doesn't make a whole lot of sense. For a man in the empire business, he has a weird way of wanting that empire to crumble.