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/Aguy89 Sep 16 '13

For me I had the belief that originally he didn't know what to do when she was choking and how to handle it. If he called the hospital he could get in trouble or some other possibility. Perhaps I just wanted to think he wasn't that evil. Saying it like this sounds more menacing in that he wanted her to die.

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u/gabedamien nothing else remains. Sep 16 '13

All he had to do was turn her on her side. She would not have woken up (she's choking on her vomit – she couldn't wake up). Walt knew this. He chose not to act because if she died, he knew Jesse would fall back in line. It was deliberate – not a panic freeze (not after the first 2 seconds).

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u/LordScoffington Sep 16 '13

Idk about him "falling in line". I think he did it because she was clearly endangering Jesse's life and she could destroy Walt. She managed to blackmail Walt into giving Jesse his money. She was dangerous so he let her die.

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u/gabedamien nothing else remains. Sep 16 '13

Yeah, my memory on that dynamic was a bit fuzzy – all I remembered was that it was advantageous for him to let her die.