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Quite a lively discussion y'all are happening about Walt whistling, lol.

Although here's a little hilarious tidbit the internet has provided me: The tune Walt is whistling in that scene is "Lily of the Valley" by Johnny Cash. I went and looked it up, and I don't quite hear it myself, but boy a lot of people seem to think this is the case.

Anyway, this episode opens with Walt sneaking into his own place, something he's surprisingly well practiced at given how many times he's done so over the course of this show. His gun seems to have thawed on the ride over.

Ah...guess we're spared a house in flames for now. It's pretty impressive how Walt can spin a plausible-ish story from nothing but a gas soaked rug. He's had quite some practice to be fair. Although not enough that his family can't tell he's covering something up, though Jr. completely misreads the situation.

"For 3 hours straight all he talked about was something called Babylon 5" I'm pretty sure with all the stoner sci-fi talk that's happened, there's gotta be at least one geek on the show's writing staff, or else are otherwise in tune with nerd culture...either way that makes me quite happy. But yeah, Babylon 5...definitely an underrated classic.

They actually go ahead and do the hotel thing, looks like a classier room than I've had the pleasure of staying in. It's weird how because there's 5 seasons of drama that have happened to mold every character's view, and our views of them, that every conversation is now like a little puzzle as you have to think of not only the surface discussion, but also how much each party knows about events, what their stances on the matter are, what they'd like things to be, and all manner of things that add layers and layers of nuance to just about every word said.

Like, just something as simple as Skyler asking Walt if Jesse has ever hurt anyone, to which Walt simply replies 'no', even though we the viewer know good and well what Jesse did to Major Tom Wannabe. Is this merely what Walt thinks Skyler wants to hear or perhaps what he needs her to hear as part of his machinations, or maybe he is so far gone as to genuinely believe Jesse is legitimately innocent and merely a victim of circumstance and not truly responsible for their actions.

...huh. Even knowing not to trust interpretations of events that happen when the camera isn't rolling, I gotta say I wasn't expecting the rewind to Jesse's gasoline adventures to suddenly have a wild Hank appear.

I love that Hank is so far outside the system with his actions, and Jesse is so far removed from Walt's sphere with his actions, that the two can somehow manage to form some kind of unholy alliance. There's probably some kind of perfect chemistry analogy to be made here, but Walt hasn't been a chemistry teacher for a few seasons now.

Jesse's word vs Walt's word...but presumably he's told the whole story to Hank and Gomey. No actual evidence sadly, but Hank's never without a new course of action. "Your plan is to do his plan?" I'm kinda with Jesse here, a good plan this is not, but it is all they really have at the moment.

I'm not sure what Jesse is playing at with skipping this meeting, but he seems to have thought of a new plan. Walt seems to be stirred into action too. Stuff is surely about to go down.


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