I was rooting in the beginning but at this point, I want Walt in jail and I want Hank to catch him. I also want Jesse free. Not sure about Mike.

I've been thinking it ends with Jesse killing Walt. The two prevailing schools of thought are that either Walt dies or everyone but Walt dies. I don't think jail is an option. Remember Scarface ? "Everyone in this movie dies."

I keep coming back to the podcast I heard with the show runner (when I lived in PR! So long ago!) about how this was a show about a good man choosing to go bad. I rooted for Walt for two seasons. Then I thought he was in over his head. But he doesn't seem to be. He seems to be succeeding and everyone around him is paying the price.

Jesse, OTOH, seems to becoming a better person or at least more adult. I think Jesse gave Walt that watch out of friendship although Walt seems pleased in a rather Machiavellian way.

I like jail for Walt because, like Angel at the bottom of the ocean, it allows/requires him to just sit with himself. Death is sort of easy, from a storytelling perspective.

I mostly agree with you, Stephanie, although I do think Walt is a little more out of his depth than he realizes. He's not Gus, he doesn't have everything covered. Leasing those cars was foolish. He's not even considering the bigger picture.

I'm rooting for Hank to catch him.

That flash forward to Walt's next birthday stymies me, though, so mostly I am not trying to guess what's coming.

I missed a flash forward. Where was it?

Yeah, I agree that Walt doesn't have everything under control the way he thinks he does.

I really hope that there will be one little thing that gives Walt away. He thinks he's so smart AND I don't want Hank to lose credibility at the DEA because it was his BIL who was Heisenberg.

I haven't actually watched this particular show in a few seasons so bear with me, but maybe they'll go a kind of noir route and deny the hit of quick justice.

The very beginning of the first episode of the season, Walt got breakfast in a diner and arranged his bacon to say 52, so it was his next birthday.

Hank seems so close to putting it all together. The look on his face when they were talking about Gus being right under their noses, somewhere in his subconscious, at least, he suspects.

The first scene of the season was his next birthday. He seems to be on the run, out of state, and heavily armed.

I had the sense that he had been on the run/in hiding but was coming home (heavily armed).

What show are we discussing?

Breaking Bad