This episode started out once again with a glimpse at an upcoming event, the same one that apparently transpires at some point at the White household. But unlike the second episode, we’re going to have to wait for the payoff. Among the items seen in evidence bags (uh oh) along the poolside was what looks to be Walter’s glasses (double uh-oh!), and still we have no clue as to what’s going to happen besides some sort of fire/fiery explosion.
Walter may be a great actor when it comes to putting on a false front to his friends, family and even professional shrinks, but, just as with slinging shards on the street, he’s no good at selling himself. In fact, he’s overselling his story which, as we saw, causes Skyler to have a near mental breakdown. How can a guy who’s facing death and who was just found naked and with memory loss act like nothing at all is wrong?
Throughout this show, so far, the White household seems like a rather unhappy place to be. It’s not awful, really, but Walter carrying on a happy demeanor is completely out of character. Even though she’d love to have a more positive Walter in her life, Skyler knows this is not him. When you think of it, that’s pretty depressing, actually. That, even after Walter’s “done” with his business with Jesse, life in the White household will continue to be shitty. Walt still won’t have the scientific notoriety he so desperately craves. He’ll still carry on putting high-school students to sleep with his lectures that only he finds fascinating. He’ll have a son who’s distant, relatives he doesn’t like and cancer looming over his head. And, more than likely, he’ll lose the family he’s been working for all this time.
Meanwhile, Jesse’s life has gone from bad to worse. It seems to me, though, that it’s just possible he could be redeemable. In the end, it could be Jesse coming out of this cleaner than Walter — who else will believe Jesse Pinkman was able to create glass so pure?
The question is, of Jesse and Walt, who will have an easier time selling their story of innocence if/when the law comes cracking down on them? If Walter can’t clean up the messes he’s already making for himself, he won’t even have a family to back him up. Jesse, on the other hand, has less to lose, even if it means he technically has more years left to his life than Walter.
Clacked by Keith McDuffee 
on Mar 30, 2009 @ 18:00 EST5EDT
