Red Mosquito

After Walt abducts baby Holly, the Whites' house is crawling with cops, but he calls home anyway, and lays into Skyler as we've never heard him before. In plot terms, it makes the most sense to assume that the call is more for the policemen Walt must know are listening than it is for Skyler, painting a fraudulent picture of her as a woman held in check by the threat of bodily harm who never understood the extent of Walt's criminality. But the way Bryan Cranston and Anna Gunn play the exchange, there's plenty of reality to it as well. Would Walt really threaten Skyler with death? Probably not. Does he feel she held him back, that she never fully understood or supported him, that he could have been a great man were it not for her? Without a single doubt. There's a killing irony in the idea that Walter White comes closest to telling the truth when he's engaged in a lie.

WtOB? wrote:my theory is before walt returns to get that ricin, jesse or hank will die. then walt returns to get it to take out the last guy that can bring him down. which leads to his undoing. will it be hank or jesse? mah gawd.

Harry Lime wrote:What was Jesse saying to Todd in that holding cell? Something about Jesse's confession tape probably?

"I told you it's at his (Hank's) house."

Is that what he said?

Fuzzcharger wrote:Well everything sure went to shit in a big way.

I'm guessing the flash-forward at the start of episode 8 with Walt getting some weapons in that diner is definitely leading to a bigger than all hell showdown with the Brotherhood in the last episode.

Stickman wrote:
And now I"m thinkin that M60 he's got in the trunk a few months from now is to finally take care of Jesse. The one last loose end.

theplatypus wrote:What an astounding episode. Pitch perfect. Everything I love about the show, compacted and intensified to a piercing degree. Tragic, solemn, sickeningly clever, darkly humorous, sustaining a level of tension to the point of physical discomfort. Every act break was a crushing blow, every left turn a sly reminder that this show can defy even the most savvy viewer's expectations. The direction was right on par with the writing, loaded with symbolism and eye candy; with one very minor exception (Skyler's superfluous, crassly-ADR'd "whose truck is that?") every line reading packed a prodigious wallop. On first viewing, this could be the single greatest episode of the show. Even Hollie deserves a fucking Emmy.