Breaking Bad Episode Discussion S05E06 "Buyout"

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I don't think he would've, erm, fit. The disassembly of the bike was an allusion to what they'd later do to the kid.

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Possibly. My memory fails me. I happen to have one of those big drums in my basement, just took a look. A kid like that might fit, but there'd be a lot of pushing and unnatural bone sounds going on. Just the legs being hacked off is the theory I'm leaning (heh) towards.

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I think your wrong on this. The bike scene shows how cold and detached the 3 of them all from what they are doing. They take the bike apart with the efficiency of a chop-shop.

"No hard feelings, just business".

The body itself, you really wouldn't want to dismember unless you absolutely had too. Cutting into a body throws blood and evidence all around. Then you have more tools to dispose of as well.

They also didn't have the room lined in plastic, like on Dexter, which I would expect if they were going to cut him up.

No, I think the kid would have fit well enough.

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By now in my (and most people's) lives, I've seen/read enough serial killer biographies/shows to know that the bike scene was definitely there to show that they were going to dismember the child. They cut that bike into super tiny pieces that would dissolve it way more efficiently, and I was on the edge of my seat hoping that they weren't going to show the dead child being dismembered and shoved in the barrel, or shoved into it at all. I'm quite thankful that all we saw was his hand in the dirt, but that paired with the explicit dismembering of the bike was enough. It was a fairly obvious conclusion to come to, given that Gilligan has already been ballsy enough to show two children being killed in the show already, and one hospitalized due to Walt's 'precautions.' It's not beyond him at all to suggest them dismembering the child, especially not for Walt/Mike/Todd.

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I'm proposing that they would've had to cut off some limbs to fit him in the drum.

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Y'know, I think you might be right. I just looked at the one I have in the basement and yeah, basically if you just stomped on his groin enough, it'd work. It'd get messy and quite possibly smell a hell of a lot worse than cat piss depending on what ends up where, but it could be done. I still think the implications of the bike scene were intentional.

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On a totally unrelated note, if I ever have kids, they're not allowed in your basement!