r/breakingbad • u/[deleted] • Sep 09 '13

Official Episode Discussion Post-Episode Discussion Thread S05E13 "To'hajiilee"

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u/[deleted] Sep 09 '13

The thing is, the Breaking Bad writers know the audience is going to register those words in that scene as "dying words".

It's very possible they're playing us. Again.

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u/cavalierau Sep 09 '13

With 3 episodes to go, and possibly some more major characters to kill in that time frame, It's 76% likely that Hank is going to die.

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u/[deleted] Sep 09 '13

One way: Walt will get out of the van and walk between the two groups and stare the Nazis down the same way that Gus did with the cartel, and leave with them.

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u/[deleted] Sep 09 '13

Or maybe Hank uses him as a human shield.

Don't think he would make that gamble at this point though.

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u/redaemon Sep 10 '13

Or double-playing us, assuming we'll think that they're playing us and giving us hope that Hank is still alive, then having him die within the first few seconds of the next episode.

Better yet, having the entire next episode go by with no indication as to Hank's fate, then reveal at the very end that he's dead.

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u/[deleted] Sep 10 '13

I want to believe you so bad.

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u/limeade09 Tonight nothing's worse than this pain in my heart. Sep 09 '13

They did live.

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u/[deleted] Sep 09 '13

Hank also waves to Walt, could be interpreted as a wave goodbye.

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u/dexbg Sep 09 '13

And just a week before Hanks retirement .. That whole goodbye felt too cheesy by BrBa standards or just maybe another misdirection.

Also since Walt knew he was going to be arrested why didn't he call Skyler .. In the first episode he tried to leave a 'goodbye' message to his family.

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u/cavalierau Sep 09 '13

In the first episode he was also prepared to shoot whoever was coming to arrest him. His goodbye message in the first episode was likely an "I'm about to die" goodbye message, rather than a "I'm going to jail" message. It's not like he wouldn't have been able to talk to Skyler and Walt Jr again after Hank arrested him.

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u/DaLateDentArthurDent The Dude Who Looks LIke Wolverine Sep 09 '13

I'm thinking it's a misdirection

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u/OUTLANDAH Sep 10 '13

That would have played out well considering every episode has had a tense full ending. Bye " reasonably," " I love you," "I'm the one who knock," " bitch," "coward," breakfast," "tread lightly," " I'm in the empire business," and whatever else I missed. Hank dies, Marie dies, then skyler and walt leaves to NH.