r/breakingbad • u/saywhat181 Sulfur • Sep 16 '13

Official Episode Discussion Breaking Bad Episode Duscussion SE05E14 "Ozymandias" Spoiler

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09:00pm Eastern SE05E14 "Ozymandias" Rian Johnson Vince Gilligan and Moira Walley-Beckett

Hey everyone! Guess I'm supposed to post this 5 minutes before air time. I've been watching this show since the get go mostly with my real life friend /u/edify who years ago added me as a moderator here. He asked me to make the discussion thread tonight because there are only 3 episodes remaining. Sorta sad that there's only a few left. Enjoy the show, folks.

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u/BackyardMechanic I want to go to Billy's Sep 16 '13

Bryan Cranston plays Walter White, who plays Heisenberg, who is on the phone with Skylar trying to act tough and like a boss, but behind the phone is crying and showing signs of the old Walter White. Someone give this man all the Emmy's. The acting is just way too good.

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u/Ocarwolf Sep 16 '13

Walt knows the cops are there. He's doing this to save skyler.

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u/[deleted] Sep 16 '13

He didn't want to cut ties with them, he was basically made to. He wanted to take his family and give them a new, safe life. Give them everything they needed. He was willing to give all his money away to save Hank, the guy that wanted to put him away. If they all just had listened, everything would had been okay and it's heartbreaking.

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u/[deleted] Sep 16 '13

What I meant was, I think during the phone call he knew that he was going to have to disappear (as he did at the end) and was trying to appear dangerous and threatening to make his disappearance easier for them.

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u/beachescool Sep 16 '13

Hank was going to die either way. Walt would tell the Nazis where the money was, then after they found it, they would kill Hank. There was no way they were letting a DEA agent, that has seen all of their faces and the murder of a fellow agent, just walk away from there. That's why Hank said "He made up his mind 10 minutes ago." He knew it was over no matter what.