<p>The scenery and cinematography in the desert sequence when Walt was burying the drums of cash reminded me of the video of Cranston reading Ozymandias.
[Ozymandias</a> - As Read by Bryan Cranston: Breaking Bad - YouTube](<a href=“Ozymandias - As Read by Bryan Cranston: Breaking Bad - YouTube”>Ozymandias - As Read by Bryan Cranston: Breaking Bad - YouTube)
I can easily imagine the series ending with a shot of that spot in the desert, looking desolate with the wind blowing across the sand, along with the realization that the cash will remain there forever undiscovered.</p>
<p>My cable came back later in the evening and I was able to watch the re-broadcast at 11:30 (yawn). Riveting episode. I thought the acting in the restaurant scene (both of them) was outstanding. And I felt so bad for that poor baby who had to endure the screaming and tug of war between Skyler and Marie and was actually crying–hope they managed to do that in one take!</p>
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<p>It takes place in Albuquerque, New Mexico.</p>
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<p>I watched “Talking Bad” which was on later last night with Anna Gunn and Aaron Paul. Anna Gunn said they used a fake baby for most of that scene. A real baby was used for the close up shots. Thank goodness, I was wondering the same thing.</p>
<p>I’m glad to read that about the baby!</p>
<p>It was poignant when Hank pointed out to Marie that no matter what happens, this will end his career. </p>
<p>When you think about how many lives Walt has ruined, it’s pretty breathtaking…up to and including the families of passengers on two commercial airline flights.</p>
<p>I was disgusted with Skylar. She’s now just trying to hold onto the money and stay out of jail.</p>
<p>Title of this episode could have been: “The monkey’s in the banana patch.”</p>
<p>Many good scenes and lines last night.</p>
<p>“Mexico. All’s I’m saying.”
“Guy hit 10 guys in jail within a two-minute window, all’s I’m saying.”</p>
<p>Todd: “You can come up now ma’am.”</p>
<p>Todd and Lydia. Two of the creepiest, scariest people. Todd, aw shucks psychopath. Lydia, defines high strung, but always ready to commit mass murder. They’d make quite the spinoff show. You know they’re there for a plot reason. What will it be?</p>
<p>Walt looking small and fragile in the bathroom. Gilligan plays with your mind. Just when you’re perfectly comfortable with detesting Walt, he comes across as vulnerable.</p>
<p>It was fun to Hank sweating like a two bit car salesman when he was talking to Skye</p>
<p>I can hardly believe that Todd and Landry (on Friday Night Lights) are played by the same actor.</p>
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<p>Thanks for correcting that Viewer! I was just about to post the same thing–though kathiep is far from the first person to confuse the two. (The New Times did a front page story about 3 years about open range issues in Arizona, but the whole article was about cattle roaming in a suburb of Albuquerque.)</p>
<p>Glad we’re allowed to discuss spoilers now; it would really be hard to talk about the show without them!</p>
<p>I really expected Todd and his neo-Nazi uncles to be central to the post Walt & Jesse meth business, so I strongly suspect that the big gun Walt acquires in the season 5 flash forward will be his way of dealing with them for something really terrible that they are going to do very soon. Will it be murdering the White family, Hank and Marie or something else? I wonder who the ricin he picked up in last weeks flash forward is for? One thing is for sure; he should have listened to Mike about Lydia…she is serious trouble.</p>
<p>Poor Jesse; is he really going to give Hank all he needs to take down Walt (& Skylar or Sky-sinburg as she’s now know in the internet). If he does, you can be sure that the murderous uncles will be able to easily kill him in jail.</p>
<p>I wasn’t really surprised that in the end, Skylar sided with Walt. At this point, she’s as culpable as he is and stands to lose her children, her business and her freedom if she confesses (as well as her husband). Also, I think that she and Walt really do love each other, twisted as their relationship has become.</p>
<p>Does Hank realize that he and Marie accepted a great deal of money from the White family to pay for the PT his insurance wouldn’t cover? He could lose more than his career by bringing Walt down.</p>
<p>Hank’s done, and the longer he waits (to report Walt) the more well-done a defense lawyer can cook him.</p>
<p>I really liked the scene when Walt leaves Hanks garage, turns and stands facing Hank. The camera work shows the twitching of Walt’s (Heisenberg’s) fingers at his side and then cuts to Hanks hand which twitches as he hits the garage door remote as they stare each other down.</p>
<p>It’s the great Wild, Wild West standoff and superbly filmed.</p>
<p>^and mirrors Walt closing the garage door on Jesse.</p>
<p>Intense enough for ya?</p>
<p>Almost too intense.</p>
<p>I KNEW Jesse wasn’t getting on that bus…just didn’t know WHY!</p>
<p>I could never have foreseen that confession, but it does seem plausible. Considering how convincingly Walt explained his injuries to Walt Jr., we’ve obviously got the world’s most accomplished liar here (as if we needed more evidence of that). It’s going to hurt to watch the scene when Walt Jr. finally learns the truth about his father.</p>
<p>I didn’t follow the ricin cigarette thing very well. I thought the MDs told Jesse that Brock had been poisoned by lily of the valley berries, not ricin. So Jesse has it right that Walt was responsible, but what have I missed that he was able to deduce that from his pack of cigarettes - what makes him think now that it was ricin?</p>
<p>Great performances from the cast last night, especially Aaron Paul (and of course Bryan Cranston). Aaron Paul is truly exceptional in this role. Can you imagine how different the series would be if Jesse had been killed off at the end of Season 1, as was the original plan?</p>
<p>Walt is going to have to kill Jesse. That was what that hug was about. He knows everything, is too twitchy and can no longer be trusted. I thought if Jesse got in the van, they were going to drive into the dessert and kill him. He was never going to be given a new identity. The only question, now that Jesse figured out the ricin twist, is whether Jesse can talk to Hank before Walt finds him.</p>
<p>I wonder if Hank left the office and took over surveillance of Jesse himself after he pulled off the surveillance team. If so, then maybe he is a witness to what was playing out at Walt’s house at the end of the episode.</p>
<p>Sorry about the state mix-up. I’m not sure why I thought it was Arizona and not New Mexico. </p>
<p>I think the cigarette thing is important because the reason that Jesse knew Brock was poisoned and not just sick was because of the missing ricin cigarette. Even though he sort of believed Walt’s lie that Gus took it, Jesse knew that somehow Walt had taken it, not Gus, and that missing cigarette was the whole reason Jesse was on-board with killing Gus.</p>