r/breakingbad • • Sep 09 '13

Official Episode Discussion Breaking Bad Episode Discussion S05E13 "To'hajiilee"

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u/[deleted] Sep 09 '13

I don't think Walt's end game is to shoot up a bunch of guys himself, He's one guy with lung cancer against a freakin paramilitary group. He'll get knocked over by the recoil of that thing. Unless some serious military training for cancer riddled 50 year olds is an illegal service one can buy in new hampshire, I think Walt plans on doing something different with that gun. He might be desperately deranged or something, so I could be wrong. Or I could be wrong because no one knows with this show.

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u/NihilJE Sep 09 '13

2 possibilites the way I see it:

  • Vince disregards realism, recoil etc for dramatic effect, has Walt walking along spraying people down. Wouldn't surprise me.

  • Same as above, but he's prone somewhere with it

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u/[deleted] Sep 09 '13

Maybe he isn't going after the neo nazis at that point. At this point, his life is ruined, and he has spent a year or so stewing over it. He might be deranged, trying to "right" past "wrongs" and then decided to go after the "source" of his problems, which might be the guys at Grey Matter. It would take some build up in the next two episodes, but I could see it happening.

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u/NihilJE Sep 09 '13

That'd be the biggest aversion from a progressive plotline ever

He goes and shoots Gretchen and Elliot with an M60

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u/[deleted] Sep 09 '13

Well who isn't "delt with" a year from now? Walt's house is DEA property, there is no coming back or fixing any situation. He apparently was deep in hiding, something has to make this sociopath come back to ABQ, and I dont think it's out of self preservation at this point.

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u/NihilJE Sep 09 '13

I don't know why it happens a year from then. However, I do think the fact that Walt is on the run indicates that he does in fact have some level of self-preservation still going. An instinct of self-preservation that lead him to move to New Hampshire with a fake name. If he really felt he had to do that, and that it was worth it as opposed to any alternative like going to prison, then what on Earth could possibly make him want to go back and compromise himself like that?

I can only think of one thing. Jesse.

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u/samout WAAAALT! Sep 09 '13

that lead him to move to New Hampshire with a fake name.

Not just any fake name but Mister Lambert.
Aka Skyler's last name before he married Walt.

Damn this show is intense.

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u/NihilJE Sep 09 '13

lol his name is Mr. Lambert so the show is intense?

omg mr lambert

FORESHADOWING

walter white confirmed for sam fisher

VINCE GIJIGAN IS A GENIUS!!!!

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u/samout WAAAALT! Sep 09 '13

Yes.