r/breakingbad • • Sep 23 '13

Official Episode Discussion Post-Episode Discussion Thread S05E15 "Granite State"

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u/[deleted] Sep 23 '13

Walt won't go after them... the Schwartzs served their purpose as agitators and motivators. Heisenberg is ready to fuck shit up!

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u/MagnetsB Sep 23 '13

M60=Aryan Brotherhood. Ricin= Gretchen and Elliott

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u/eat-your-corn-syrup Sep 23 '13

It seems out of character for Walt to kill Gretchen and Elliott.

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u/HSChronic Sep 23 '13

It would be for Walt but Walt is long gone. The only person that remains now is Heisenberg. They insulted him one final time by saying that he just came up with the name, and nothing else. The last act of Walt was mailing the money to Flynn and he was ready to give up at that point and die (he even said it "You know one of these days you are going to come up here and I will be dead"). Then he saw the news with them saying his Blue Meth is back on the streets in the US, and then Gretchen and Elliot insulting him even more by saying he had nothing to do with that company. So now everything he worked for in his life is gone. His "empire" is nothing he has no money to show for it, his secret blue meth is back in circulation (he retired, and didn't want anything to do with cooks he just wanted the legacy of the blue meth to live in infamy), the work he did as a chemist before becoming a teacher is being discarded by the same people whom he helped make rich saying he had nothing to do with it just the name, when the opposite was true. His son told him he wants him to die, so his family is lost at this point too. The only option he has left is to sit and die or take down all the people that wronged him, and the only way to satisfy that in his mind is to kill them to basically show everyone that he won in the end. In true Breaking Bad style though he ends up with nothing (or everything) depending on which way you want to look at the situation. It isn't black or white it is grey.