After last weeks episode I was think that the show had done a great job of transitioning from getting the audience rooting for Walt to rooting for Walt's demise and the success of Gus (Walt joy riding and burning a new car? this does not gel with the guy trying to provide finical security for his family in earlier seasons). Now, I find myself rooting for Walt again (I have no idea why). The fact that I can't figure out who support is meant to be a huge compliment to the show and how authentic and complex it's characters are.
Whether Walt poisoned the kid or the kid is sick from something else is unclear, but I don't think it was Gus. The final scene was Gus stopping and realizing that if he didn't poison the kid, it must have been Walt.
anybody else think the final frame last night would be gus staring straight at walt when he re-focused the binoculars?
HOW DID GUS FREAKING KNOW??? They teased us with the the transmitter earlier but it didn't even come to that. Gus knew something was up, but how? HOW??? Spoiler
i did too. before jesse confronted walt i assumed the kid has stolen a cig from jesse. but according to jesse's timeline he had it the next day. jesse said he switched packs so its possible he left it in the other. as far as gus, maybe he didnt have intuition about the car, but was thinking about jesse and was returning to the hospital to speak w/ him again? and like someone else said, my allegiances are now back w/ walt - most of this season he has been acting so stupid that i was kind of hoping he would get killed and the rest of the series could be about gus/mike/jesse. but now i want gus dead and walt to win. its amazing how they make you root for different characters and how quickly they make you switch your allegiances. they made me despise the main character so much for his arrogance and stupidity that i wanted him dead...now in basically one episode they have turned it around. mike is still cool though - guess he wont be back till next season.
Spoiler I assumed Huell switched the cigarette pack while he was patting Jesse down. I'm not sure why Saul would order him to do that though. Maybe he is secretly working for Gus.
I think Gus didn't poison the kid, but when he found out about it from Jesse he knew someone had (look at how his demeanor changes after that point), and he figured that their motivation was to get him to come to the hospital. From that point, it's not too big a leap to figure that whoever that was may have done something to his car while he was inside.
I mean poisoning the kid in the hopes that Jesse will blame your rival and try to kill him is a ridiculous plan no matter who did it, just so convoluted. I still find the show extremely entertaining but I hope they can wrap it up the loose ends nicely.
Really, I don't think Walt is capable of poisoning a kid... based on what the show has made his character out to be so far. Only Gus is capable of killing kids.. since he has a history of doing it before.
don't forget Walt let Jesse's girlfriend die because he thought it was for Jesse's own good it's not such a stretch to assume he could have killed a kid
i don't remember that at all. I thought she started choking on her own and he just sat there and didn't roll her over
Does anyone remember Walt's explanation about the timeline of ricin poisoning? For some reason, I have in my mind that Walt said it takes days for someone to die from ricin after being exposed to it. But from Brock's poisoning, it seems like he got sick in hours. Maybe it's because Brock is a child that he gets affected faster, or maybe that's just irrelevant for plot purposes. Just curious. I feel like it's the latter even if Walt did say it takes days.
funny, i thought just the opposite and thought the kid should have been dead already based on his explanation, and i was trying to recall exactly what he said as well.
Well considering the unrealistic poisoning of the cartel leaders, how can you expect this one to be realistic? All the cartel members starting dying at the same time, that is ridiculous.
I figured Gus used a different type of poison for that. I don't recall it ever being explicitly explained, but I assumed it wasn't from ricin poisoning.
