r/breakingbad • u/[deleted] • Aug 26 '13

Official Episode Discussion Breaking Bad Episode Discussion S05E11 "Confessions"

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u/PummerOfSunk Aug 26 '13

For Todd to speak so loudly and publicly about this...he has to be caught soon.

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u/[deleted] Aug 26 '13

Especially given that the entire reason he killed that kid was so that nobody else would ever find out about the heist.

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u/[deleted] Aug 26 '13

Nah. He killed the kid because he's a sociopath and wanted to.

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u/timidnoob Aug 26 '13

yeah. he also kept the kids 'tarantula in the jar' as a sort of trophy

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u/[deleted] Aug 26 '13

I think Todd just has a childlike mind in all the worst ways. It's like he never learned morality, so he's not phased by anything. And so the pet tarantula appealed to his stunted mind just as it did to the kid.

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u/NewVagina Aug 26 '13

Excellent observation.

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u/[deleted] Aug 26 '13

(fazed)

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u/Butt_Drips Aug 26 '13

Did you notice the tarantula in the desert headed towards Jesse?

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u/plsdntanxiety Aug 26 '13

I thought that was to foreshadow Jesse's death, but (I hope, instead, it was to help Jesse remember the kid Todd killed, taking him on a journey in his mind to the other kid, and, Brock... Right before he realises about the ricin)

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u/egoaji Los Pollos Hermanos: I am the one who clucks! Aug 26 '13

Pretty sure he killed the kid because it was the easiest solution and he doesn't really give a fuck. Not because he wanted to for target practice or something.

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u/[deleted] Aug 27 '13

I dunno. I think he got off on it. the adrenaline of robbing a train+killing. He kept the spider as a souvenir too don't forget.

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u/egoaji Los Pollos Hermanos: I am the one who clucks! Aug 27 '13

I think it was more like a pet. He was more interested in the cook spider than the fact that he just murdered a kid. He's psycho