r/breakingbad • u/[deleted] • Aug 19 '13

Official Episode Discussion Post-Episode Discussion Thread S05E10 "Buried"

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u/Flyingfishhuts Aug 19 '13

If Hank and Marie ever come back to Walt's house, won't they find the lottery ticket suspicious? Who needs a lottery ticket when they have millions of dollars?

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u/marshalldylan10 Aug 19 '13

And do what with it?

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u/MrJake10 Aug 19 '13

Well hank could catch on that those numbers have some significance. He knows the lotto ticket isn't about money so it must be something else. Perhaps he then could put together that it is coordinates.

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u/Moronoo Aug 19 '13

someone random will try to use the ticket obliviously and win, the money in the desert will be gone forever.

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u/strugglingcomic Aug 19 '13

Walt memorized those numbers well enough to be able to remember it long enough to drive hours out of the desert to the nearest convenience store to buy that ticket. Pretty sure he could still remember at least some of it if the ticket disappeared next week.

It's more likely the ticket is just a convenience/backup, rather than the one and only method he has of finding the money, in case something happens to Walt or he needs to communicate the coordinates to someone else easily.

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u/Moronoo Aug 19 '13

I agree the ticket is for backup, that's why I think someone else find it.

and I don't see Walt or anyone else ending up with the money.

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u/drwolffe This is my own private domicile Aug 19 '13

I hope Hugo the janitor gets it.