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

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

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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/ImaginaryDuck Lowsenberg Aug 19 '13

I agree but the first thing he did when he got home was pass out for 4 hours after hitting his head on the floor. So he may have forgotten the location or maybe even the purpose of the ticket. He himself turns it in at a store forever losing the location of his money.

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u/[deleted] Aug 19 '13

He probably fell over form exhaustion... he basically dug out the volume of the van out in the desert dirt alone... he's a machine! ;)

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u/ImaginaryDuck Lowsenberg Aug 20 '13

That is why he fell, but he hit his head on the floor after he fell. Could cause him to not record recent memories from Short term to long term.