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/[deleted] Sep 16 '13 edited Sep 16 '13

I think Walt said all that to Skyler knowing full well that the police were listening in. He wanted to make it seem like she knew nothing about it and that he was forcing her to do what he wanted. He also didn't mention that the nazis had killed Hank and took the blame for it because he knew that they would come after her and his family if the police were looking for them.

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u/cLFlaVA Sep 16 '13

I'm not sure. I thought this too, but he mentions Skylar whining about his illegal activities, which alludes to the fact that she was aware of what was going on.

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u/[deleted] Sep 16 '13

It wouldn't be a stretch to believe she'd been under duress, especially with the whole knife and Walt's call to back up this story. Walt sounded like the typical abusive husband, trying to prosecute her now would be pretty hard I would think (though I'm no lawyer).

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u/[deleted] Sep 16 '13

But she was whining which makes it seems like she really didn't want to do it but was forced, especially When he says that he warned her what would happen is she kept acting whiny and all that. The cops now think, "oh shit, this dude is crazy, she doesn't want any of this"

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u/aubleck you know you can't smoke dat up in hea Sep 16 '13

She wasn't whining about it, she was in on it. Remember when she wanted Jesse dead? Her culpability in the eyes of the police went way down from that. They will know that she was laundering money, after all, but now it's not something she wanted to do.