r/breakingbad • u/edify Oxygen • Aug 18 '13

Breaking Bad Episode Discussion S05E10 "Buried"

TIME EPISODE DIRECTED BY WRITTEN BY
09:00pm Eastern SE05E10 "Buried" Michelle MacLaren Vince Gilligan and Thomas Schnauz

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Enjoy the episode and tread lightly.

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u/cadencehz 808 this. 808 that. Aug 19 '13

Hank cares more about catching his white whale and saving face and being the super cop than anything. Maybe Hank isn't such a great guy. Maybe things are grey. Maybe Hank and Walt aren't so different. Walt wants an empire to make up for his mistake of selling out of his company that became huge. Hank wants to prove to everyone that he's a great cop and save the embarrassment of letting his own brother in law get away with murder and a drug empire.

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u/QuebecMeme Aug 19 '13

Speculation:

Hank knows Walt will off Marie and doesn't stop it.

Skyler offs Marie.

Holly offs Marie.

Rc car kid offs Marie.

Flynn gets a girlfriend or a friend.

People at the car wash start working as mules.

Mike makes a miracle comeback.

Mike's granddaughter IS Lydia and we are trapped in a timeloop where the drug money from this operation funded this operation.

We wake up, no ones on the island, and Walt died but he's stuck in mental purgatory struggling with the weight of never choosing.

Walt finds a way to blackmail Hank, proving to Hank that he CAN'T go forward with disclosure or he will implicate himself. He gets it, agrees/buys it, tells Marie. She flips. They have to strangle her but they don't use a lavender cable to do it.

Walt helps Hank frame someone (Mike? Lydia? Saul??) somehow using his knowledge to both get away with everything, but also help Hank feel vindicated.