Breaking Bad – May his death satisfy you

A lot was accomplished in this episode, and it sure looks like it’s going to end up really gruesome for someone … most likely for Mr. Hank Schrader. Not only have we found out how Jesse and Walter will get Hank and, possibly, the DEA as a whole off their tails, but the impending threat that’s been following Walt — namely, the twins with the gleaming, chrome ax — seems it can be safely eliminated. Both problems are solved by making Hank’s life hell.

I was definitely on the edge of my seat as Jesse drove out to the RV’s location, with Hank tailing right along. However, I think we all knew that there was no way Walt or even Jesse was going to be discovered by Hank this soon. Even though I was biting my fingernails, I knew something was coming to pull Hank away. I thought Walt was going to call Hank or Hank’s wife to get him out of there, but the fake accident was much more effective … and boy did it piss Hank off.

There are only two ways I could see this ending up for Hank. Either the last thing he ever sees will be the sharp end of that ax, or he’ll get the jump on those two Mexicans before they can get to him (or finish him off). Personally, I’m pulling for the latter, and it makes more sense. First of all, we’ve already seen what a badass Hank is, so why spend the time to show us that and not let it amount to anything? Secondly, I could see Walt and possibly Gustavo setting up Tuco’s cousins to appear as the masterminds behind the blue meth. Hank takes them out, Walt and Jesse are safe.

Really an amazing episode. I love this show! I’m wondering now what this will mean for Jesse’s business. He may have enough cash to buy everything he needs to start up again, but with Hank breathing down his neck, how could he possibly get anything done?

Lastly, for those wondering what poem Walt’s new assistant (played by the now-beardless David Costabile of Damages) recited from Walt Whitman, it’s called “When I heard the Learn’d Astronomer”:

When I heard the learn’d astronomer;
When the proofs, the figures, were ranged in columns before me;
When I was shown the charts and the diagrams, to add, divide, and measure them;
When I, sitting, heard the astronomer, where he lectured with much applause in the lecture-room,
How soon, unaccountable, I became tired and sick;
Till rising and gliding out, I wander’d off by myself,
In the mystical moist night-air, and from time to time,
Look’d up in perfect silence at the stars.

Clacked by Keith McDuffee
on Apr 25, 2010 @ 23:20 EST5EDT