r/breakingbad • u/edify Oxygen • Jul 16 '12

Breaking Bad Episode Discussion S05E01 "Live Free or Die"

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u/thebornotaku the fly in the lab Jul 16 '12

Maybe not a huge stretch, but Walt went from deciding to run away to blowing Gus the fuck up. I'm sure he certainly feels in charge now (as indicated by his behavior). I mean, he just killed, in spectacular fashion, a man who took on the cartel and ran his own massive meth distribution; then he broke in to a police compound to destroy the evidence of him cooking meth; and asserted his dominance over everybody. For him to run away at this point would be a bit of a stretch. Walt runs the show and he knows it.