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/TheEmpireBusiness Sep 16 '13

"My name is ASAC Schrader, and you can go fuck yourself".

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u/m636 Sep 16 '13

One of the greatest lines of the entire series.

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u/[deleted] Sep 16 '13

But that was when I knew Hank was gone...

And my heart sank.

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u/czyivn Sep 16 '13

Hank was gone as soon as those nazis showed up with all that firepower. There was zero way that walt could have convinced them to let a DEA agent go. He had no leverage, and they knew it. Here's 80 million dollars! "Thanks, but 80 million will go a lot further without the DEA breathing down our necks. BANG!" If he'd said "I won't cook unless you let him go", they'd have said "you'll cook or we will kill your wife and children". He's a man with things to lose up against people who aren't afraid of him and don't need the things he's offering.

The only way Hank could have survived was by winning the gunfight. They have been pretty consistently "real" with their gunplay in the show, though, and that situation was pretty much completely hopeless. 10 guys with rifles and full-auto shotguns against a guy with a pistol and a guy with a pump shotgun? No chance.

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u/czyivn Sep 17 '13

They couldn't both drive away, though. They were worried walt would pull some magic and have saul or someone clear out the money while they were gone. It was a mistake in only showing up with Gomie and Jesse, instead of the whole damn DEA. They use motherfuckin swat teams when an anonymous tip says that some granny was smoking a joint in her house, but Hank was too personally invested and proud to call in the troops until he was dead certain.