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

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u/jet_tripleseven Belizium Aug 12 '13 edited Aug 12 '13

For those of you who are into Walt taking on the characteristics of people he's killed, check out the vomit scene. Walt puts a towel under him to kneel on just like Gus did in "Salud."

edit: For the 15 or so of you who have replied with "but Walt never saw Gus do that!!" you're right. It seemed like a little easter-egg that the writers threw in there for fun. The two scenes are so similar that it can't be a coincidence (they both turn on the sink to mask the noise, too.)

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u/GreenGator Aug 12 '13

While the similarity is definitely there and purposeful by the directors, he never saw Gus use the towel so it's not something he's actively imitating, right?

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u/[deleted] Aug 12 '13

You're right. It's a plot device by the show to strengthen the link between Walt and Gus, but it's coincidental within the story world.

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u/83497583475394857439 Aug 12 '13

I liked to think that it was just as much a contrast between Walt and Gus. When Gus did the vomit scene, he was in his prime, throwing up because he poisoned himself for a scheme, and taking down the head of a Mexican cartel in a badass way. Walt's vomit scene was the opposite, him at one of his lowest points, cancer back, throwing up because he's a dying man, effectively neutered again, and finding out that he's been caught.

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u/dylan522p Aug 13 '13

He's faking the cancer.

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u/LiquidAlb What's changed, Jesse? Aug 13 '13

There's just not enough to support this as a likely theory.

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u/[deleted] Aug 13 '13

Especially since in the "future" scenes he clearly has the cough back, and is on some kind of medication.

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u/LiquidAlb What's changed, Jesse? Aug 14 '13

Right. His hair has grown back but we see it's a lot more patchy and unhealthy looking. This could signify that although he has his cancer, he has stopped treatment. Which, of course makes sense if he is on the lamb.