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Tuesday, August 14, 2012
4:34 pm
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Hank’s secretary connects Lydia to Hank. Let’s see what they want Lydia to say to him…
Lydia, feigning ignorance, tells Hank she found a tracking bug on a barrel and asks him if he placed it there. So now we get to the reason for the call…Walt, Mike, and Jesse are determining whether the DEA placed the bug or whether Lydia did it herself. Depending on Hank’s reaction, Lydia will live or die.
Hank tells her he’ll call her back. Then, on Jesse’s laptop, they listen to the bugs Walt placed in Hank’s office. Hank asks Gomez if he put a bug on the methylamine and Gomez says he didn’t. Busted. Looks like Lydia put the bug there herself
Walt, Mike, and Jesse walk away to talk this over. Clear evidence Lydia tried to scare them off, and more important, evidence she’s treacherous. Mike wants to kill her and Walt is behind him. Lydia pleads with them to reconsider, and Jesse believes her, but as Mike points out, “Everyone sounds like Meryl Streep when they have a gun to their head”.
But hang on a second. Through the bugs, they hear Hank call the Houston DEA’s office. He asks the Houston DEA agent if THEY placed any bugs in the warehouse. The Houstonian fesses up. Lydia is saved!
So this changes everything. Mike still doesn’t trust Lydia but now he doesn’t have the ironclad proof to justify whacking her. Desperate, he tells Walt and Jesse how Lydia tried to have him killed. Apparently Mike was saving this tidbit for a rainy day.
Alternately, Mike might just have a bit of sand in his vagina
Jesse and Walt sound convinced. Maybe Lydia really is too much of a liability. And on top of the treachery, it now looks like the DEA will be paying closer attention to Lydia’s warehouse. Mike starts making plans for a raid on the methylamine warehouse, which would be a short-term solution and would only keep them in business for a couple more weeks.
But Lydia has an ace up her sleeve: access to “an ocean of methylamine”. Mike, Walt, and Jesse are intrigued.
ACT TWO
THE BASEMENT
Actually it’s an abandoned metal fabricating warehouse in Houston, a sign tells us outside. Mike and Jesse are waiting while Walt and Lydia converse inside.
No explanation given for why it’s just Walt. Since he’s the only one of the three Lydia’s never seen before, maybe they think she’ll be more cooperative with him than with Mike or Jesse.
But Walt doesn’t ask about the methylamine, not at first…he asks her why she put out a hit on Mike. She explains how Mike’s eight or nine associates are all in jail, and all of them know the details of Gus’s operation, and how any of them could blow her cover, but that Mike wasn’t doing anything about it. So Mike became a threat.
Walt almost seems…interested? Sympathetic? Like he’s trolling for pointers for when HE decides to bump Mike off? A couple weeks ago he mused to Jesse that he understood why Gus gutted Victor in front of them to kick off Season 4. Victor was taking liberties with the business, and Walt has begun to think Mike is doing the same thing by forcing them to pay hush money to his associates
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Welcome back and hope u feel better. I thought this was one of the better shows this year. I forgot about kid until he showed up at the end . I was wondering how they were going to divide Jessie and Walt. I think this will be the start and Mike will go with Jessie. I can see Walt and Lydia getting together she is just as ruthless as he as long it doesn’t effect her kid.
Great recap as always and catch way more things in the show that lets me watch again in new light.
Thanks
T
I did not see it coming when the boy showed up. Actually, I had forgotten about him, which is rookie mistake #1. It did make me think that Todd isn’t an undercover agent though, which I have heard a little chatter that possibly he was working for the DEA.
This show has had me on the edge of my seat many times, and this was definitely one of those episodes! The writing, acting, everything is just so awesome I feel privileged to witness how it’s unfolding. Between Mad Men, The Walking Dead, and Breaking Bad, AMC is really getting my vote for best channel EVER!
After the cold open with the kid, I watched the rest of the episode anticipating his return. I knew when I saw the site of the train robbery that the kid would reappear there. That still didn’t prepare me for the end though. I had two physical reactions when Todd shot the kid, my stomach flipped, and my eyes teared up. I wasn’t expecting that kind of reaction after knowing how brutal this show can be. Jesse isn’t going to take this well at all, and it very well may be what finally severs his loyalty to ‘Mr. White’ if Walt doesn’t measure his response very closely. Good shit!! I jones for it every week…
Thanks for the awesome recaps, too. I always want to go back and rewatch after reading.
I had forgotten about the kid by the time he pulled up at the end. I never it coming – I also thought Todd was a cop. It actually is just like the movie Heat (referenced by Hank earlier in the show), when they bring in a new guy for a job and he ends up killing an innocent.
I personally think it was done because Gilligan wanted to remind everyone that these are all bad people. By now everyone has turned on Walt as evil, but most seem to have sympathy for Jesse and Mike. You literally forget that their business is selling life ruining meth. This was a brutal reminder that even if Jesse was horrified by the shooting, his actions have devastating collateral effects that ruin lives.
All in all a great episode and recap (even with the prediction so good it needed a spoiler alert).
Great recap!
I too totally forgot about the kid. Congrats on putting it together so well! This was a great episode and I think you’re right about how it was set up with scant information, but the whole thing was just so… cool.
I had the same reaction to Walt bugging Hank’s office. He didn’t bother to wipe prints, left a key logger in plain view and was caught holding Hank’s photo. Unless he plans to head back in there in a day or two, he is really risking a lot. I didn’t think of IT guy interfering but Hank doesn’t seem like someone who could fix his own PC!
I already feel like the final showdown will be Walt v Jesse and I can totally see Walt pairing with Lydia to take out the 9 and Mike. How they get there will be interesting, and if I’m wrong of course that will be interesting too!
I wonder what the final arc is for Walt and Skylar. I know he is turning megalomaniacal but before the show wraps (and I suspect Walt’s life), I would like to see a glimpse of the old Walt and Skylar for redemption purposes.
@mjhhawk – you are dead on. This show is so good it is easy to forget what a terrible drug Meth is. Just have to think back to the two junkies ( and their poor kid ) who dropped the ATM… shudder
I’m crushing hard on Lydia…hope she becomes a regular. Now, back to reading…
Jesse is getting smarter (and wiser) by the week!
My prediction stands…Jesse will find out the truth about everything, kill Walt and burn the whole operation down by end of series. And Skyler will be okay with the world.
And I agree MsMiaWallace, I can totally see Walt and Lydia trying to forge a plan to kill the 9 too.
It must be the mom in me, but when that kid pulled out the glass jar for the tarantula, all I could think of was how dangerous it is to ride a dirt bike with something that breaks in to several extremely sharp, stabby pieces in your jacket pocket.
I am still having trouble with the it’s-only-been-a-year business. Remember all the time spent here working out Walt’s finances? Maybe now we could construct a timeline? For some reason it’s Jesse’s stint in rehab, relapse, etc. that’s bothering me the most. Also the shifts in Hank and Marie’s relationship. I know it can all be explained, but it’s still hard for me!