Things really come to a head pretty quick after last weeks episode. While this episode may seem like a little steam is let out following last week, I think that this is an episode that was pivotal for all of the characters. This is the episode where the lines have been drawn in the sand and sides have been taken. This is where a winning "team" has been made.
Following the showdown in the garage, Walt emerges and tries to call Skyler. When he can't get her on the phone he realizes that she is talking to Hank on the other line. Walt rushes to the Car Wash to talk to her but she is gone. Walt correctly assumes that she is meeting with Hank, but Walt incorrectly assumes that she is taking a "deal".
Walt, knowing that his money is the only thing that ties him to the drugs, has Saul's guys go pick it up for him. Saul suggests to Walt that Walt "send Hank to Belize" (kill him) and Walt tells Saul that it is not an option because Hank is family. Saul's men return with Walt's money and Walt takes it to the desert to bury it.
Meanwhile, Skyler has met with Hank and Hank has foolishly made it clear that he can't do anything to Walt without Skyler telling him everything that she knows. Skyler makes a scene when Hank tries to record her testimony and she runs out of the diner. Later, Marie shows up at the White's home to talk to Skyler (obviously Hank has told her). She begins to grill Skyler about the how long she has known about Walt. When she asks if she knew before Hank was shot, and Skyler says nothing, Marie slaps her and tries to take Skyler's baby. Skyler stops her and Hank makes Marie leave with him.
Walt comes home and colapses after a long day/night of burying the money. When he wakes, Skyler tells him that Hank has told her about Walt's cancer coming back and that Hank doesn't have a case unless they find the money. She tells Walt that he should just stay quiet for now.
In the end scene, Jesse has been taken into custody for questioning regarding his money give away in the last episode. Hank comes down to the interigation room, persuades the investigating officers to let him speak with Jesse alone, and the episode ends with the door closing behind him.
*THOUGHTS*
- With only 6 episodes left, they need to move through the stuff with Jesse a little faster. I hate seeing him having little/nothing to do in these last two episodes. While his performance was wonderful in the last episode, he didn't even have a line in this one.
- Walt, I think, is STILL playing everyone. When Skyler tells him that Hank told her about the cancer, he never admits to having it. He only says "please make sure that our children get this money. Make sure that I didn't do this all for nothing". I can't believe that someone that has been pulling the strings on EVERYONE for so long is not still doing so.
- In one scene it is shown that Lydia confronts her current meth cooks about the quality of the product. They tell her that even thought they are cooking with Walt's notes they are doing their own thing and it is good enough. She reccomends that they let Todd come back in and cook. When Declan refuses, offscreen you here a gun battle. Todd's family has killed all of Declan's men. This shows that Todd is quickly becoming a much bigger player in this story.
- Hank proves that he is just as greedy and selfrightous as Walt in this episode. Knowing that he will be fired as soon as it is revealed that his brother-in-law is Heisenberg, Hank is not taking his suspicions to his superiors yet. Proving that his pride is just as damning as Walt's. This will be Hank's biggest mistake.
- Skyler, when she realized that Hank couldn't touch them without more evidence, imediately did a 180 and sided with Walt. I, honestly, think that she did this for the money. That she feels entitled to that money since Walt put her through so much. I think that greed has infected her just as bad as it has Walt.
- Walt Jr. is still no where to be found. Where the hell is this kid all of the time? For someone with limited mobility, he sure is elusive.
- I think that Marie was wearing a wire when she was talking to Skyler.
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