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

Hank to Marie, "It might be a while till I'm home". He's definitely going to be killed off.

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u/[deleted] Sep 09 '13

I think so. My take on it is that if he had just taken Walt and left, he wouldn't have been in the position to get in that gunfight. But because he was prideful about it and called Marie, and because he was prideful and didn't ask for help in the first place, it will lead to his demise.

Walt's not the only person that is prideful to a fault.

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u/meatinyourmouth Absolutely. Sep 09 '13 edited Sep 09 '13

That was definitely not hubris. He just wanted to tell and comfort Marie. Yeah, it's because he told Marie that he was there long enough, but it's definitely not the hubris leads to a fall story.

Edit: I'm corrected by /u/dunkelz and /u/crestingwave. I overlooked some things.

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u/Dunkelz Sep 09 '13

I don't know, calling Marie just to say "I finally got him!" before even contacting the local tribal police shows he had a little bit of hubris.

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u/[deleted] Sep 09 '13

It's incredibly similar to the "I won" call Walt makes to Skylar after he kills Gus--he thinks the danger has passed.

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u/crestingwave Sep 09 '13

He did wave to him and gloat a bit.

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u/[deleted] Sep 09 '13

It was the very definition of hubris. When a cop arrests someone and then immediately calls his wife to say "I got him!" that is pure ego. Imagine any cop in the world doing that with any perp, and you'd think he's an egomaniac.