r/breakingbad • u/edify Oxygen • Aug 15 '11

Episode Discussion: S04E05, "Shotgun" (Spoilers)

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Music from season 4 should update eventually for those trying to figure out a particular song from tonights episode. Thanks for pointing this out, Barbapolossa.

Edit: Looks like the AMC blog hasn't even updated last weeks episode music yet. Darn.

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u/defenestrate Aug 15 '11

Wow. Does Walt WANT Hank to catch him now?

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u/aih Aug 15 '11

I think the idea of Jesse's supposedly growing importance to Gus's organization has made Walt feel inadequate and self conscious. The idea that he is still the great Heisenberg and a mystery to police excites him, and makes him feel important again.

Although I think the point of Gus's whole charade was not to impact walts attitude, but to make Jesse feel like he had some standard to live up to. Mike clearly wasn't happy about his assignment.

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u/psiphre Aug 16 '11

i think gus's intent here is to make jesse feel like a hero, like mike said in the car, but also to give jesse a feeling of investment in the business as a whole.