The countdown is starting for the Breaking Bad’s characters. I’ve to admit when Hank discovered everything about Walter’s business I’ve never imagined it could become that big, so tensed. Hank and Walter are both fighting each other to win this battle and the best example is their very first scene.
Walter is standing in his car trying to call Skylar at the car wash but one of the employees tells him she’s on the phone talking to someone. He urges him to talk to Skylar until he looks to Hank’s garage and saw him on the phone. Who is Skylar talking to on the phone?….Nobody else but Hank.
Poor man, he is in a bad situation. He has to choose between his family and his job. His first move is to protect his sister-in-law he tries to force to testify against her husband. Unfortunately for him, Skylar refuses leaving the café they were meeting by yelling “Are you arresting me or not”. Later, Marie his wife stops by the White’s house to talk with her sister.
At the time, Marie just thinks Hank has only suspicion and not thousands of proofs against Walter. I’m feeling so sorry for especially when she discovers that her own brother-in-law and her sister were certainly aware that someone will shoot Hank. The scene between the two sisters is just perfectly done by the two actresses. The emotions they’re sharing and representing on the screen is wonderfully played. Marie tries to leave the house with the baby wanting to protect at least the kids from a monster like Walter but Hank prevents her to do so.
But as much as he wants to protect the family, he also has to protect himself as Marie reminds him: what will happen if his colleagues discover the truth about Walter and discover that he knew and did nothing? Hank has to take a big decision.
Meanwhile Walter doesn’t remain indolent. He calls Saul Goodman to take care of all the money he hid in a storage. Goodman’s men brought the money in a truck that Walter uses to drive into the desert. There he buried all his money which is a good idea as even if the police investigate on Walter, they won’t find it. As the desert, it’s definitely a perfect place to hide your secrets including money, dead bodies and a meth lab.
After such a day, he comes back home and faints both by exhaustion of the money burial and because of the cancer. Once he wakes up, Skylar tells him what happened with Hank and wonders how he discovered the whole story. She thinks someone may have told him but Walter admits it’s his entire fault. “I screwed up.”
What he doesn’t know is that even if Hank has proof but will face the problem of the money disappearance, there’s another data he should have considered: Jessie.
Suffering from a sort of post-trauma syndrome, Jessie had thrown his money to people’s front yard. And this becomes like the little rocks of Hop O’ My Thumb’s story. An old man finding the money notices there are some in his neighbor’s yard and follow them until he discovers Jessie’s car left with still the big bag of money in it and not far away, Jessie lying down in a sort of lethargic state.
This led him to be driven to the police station where he is interviewed by some cop just the day Hank is coming back to the office. Learning about Jessie’s presence, he waits outside the room and then tells his colleague he wants to talk to him. Hank comes into the room and leaves us frustrated as it’s the end of the episode.
I know that’s cruel but this is life. See ya next week for Breaking Bad’s season 5 episode 11 recap.
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