I have developed huge Hank love and I do not want him to get fired no matter what.

Personally, I think Walt would have been okay with killing Lydia but I think he didn't want to admit it. I think Walt is totally gone on his power trip and I doubt he even justifies this to himself anymore. He's Heisenberg and he's a force, even if he's not a force for good.

Maybe I want to See Jesse side with Hank at the end and turn in Walt. It would be a nice turn around from the pilot.

I am so with you about Hank. And, yeah, Walt would have been fine with killing Lydia if she wasn't needed to get the precursor.

That's an interesting idea about Jesse working with Hank. I could see how we could get there from here.

Yeah, exactly. Just make them affable bad guys that I root for despite myself and we'll all be fine. Don't make it so it has to be okay for me to like them.

But yeah, I feel like me thinking I'm getting a good deal when I score a super discount and bragging about it is on the same continuum as people who get scammed thinking they're getting over on someone.

So--due to things (which I honestly can never remember at the time), my Breaking Bad recording is clipped at the end. What happened after the truck got pushed off the rails?

Oh, god, so much! Should I whitefont? It's high HSQ, so I will

Mike told Walt to abort but Walt had the guys finish pumping until he had the full 900 gallons, then they raced the clock to get the seals and whatever put back together. Todd (I think that's his name, Landry from FNL) had to climb down the side of the car and jump off while the train was moving. Jesse LAY DOWN BETWEEN THE TRACKS until the train passed over him.

So they're all jubilant that that worked and they didn't get caught and the kid from the opening scene with the tarantula rides up and, like, waves at them. And Landry shoots him, bang, no hesitation, while Jesse is saying "No, no, no".

Credits and previews.

Wait--the blond kid shot him? Have we seen him before? Do we know why he's a hardcore kid-killer?

Did we see Walt's reaction to the boy being killed?

The show is still really good, and I think my problem might be that I saw the final episode of last season by mistake before any of the others, but I've lost touch with everyone but Jesse. I could not give one fuck if anyone else lived or died in the end. If the show ends with him planting a flag into a smoking heap of their decapitated heads, I'd be a-okay with it all.

He works for the exterminators/burglars, and he brought himself to Walt's attention at the first house where they pulled the cooking-inside-the-tent thing by mentioning that he'd spotted and disabled a nannycam. So he's a go-getter, I guess, and Walt had emphasized that no one outside of them who were robbing the train could know what happened. That's all we know about him, I think.

We did not see Walt's reaction, yet, unless I missed it in my own reaction.

Jesse is my favorite, but I still like Hank and Walt Jr. Marie I was never fond of, but I'd rather she lived. Skyler, man, Skyler is just so screwed that I hurt for her, but I'm pretty resigned to her suffering at this point.

Hank suffered a downswing this week, actually. I know nothing anyone says to a pre-verbal baby counts, but I still thought it creepy.

He hasn't done anything wrong-- he totally has the moral and ethical high ground (unless I missed something in S4), but I am not vibing on his how. His wife is horrific, I've been imaging methods of her death for a while now.

"Flynn"--I'm sure I'm not giving him enough teenaged boy benefit of the doubt. I will settle for sending him off to boarding school. And the baby is blameless, but I don't like the way the genetic dice are stacked...inasmuch as you don't stack dice.

I was wondering how the kid earned his way into that gig, and if he was going to be a potential weak link. He may be a liability, but clearly not in any way I'd been thinking.

Yeah, I was expecting maybe Walt to decide the kid was unreliable and knew too much. I had my "don't kill Landry" wail all cued up and ready to go but they pulled the rug out from under me.

Flynn, as I suppose he is liking to be called again, earned a whole bunch of bonus points from me last season for being all honest and clear-headed when Walt was all "I don't want you to remember me like this". I think that was last season. It made a big impression on me, whenever it happened. I'll cut him a lot of slack.

Marie is pretty awful, but sometimes she comes through when the chips are down and I'm fairly sure she hasn't killed anyone.

She's just stolen a lot of things! With the exception of Skyler, Walt's family is pretty clean, and I do not want them to die. I never thought about Jesse teaming up with Hank, but that is an idea. I think I am really, really attached to the idea of Jesse killing Walt at this point. I feel like it's the only way it can end, where the whole show has been leading.

The end of the episode destroyed me. I had to keep myself from crying for a while after.

Leverage was fun, and it was cool to see Eliot in cooking mode and get a little backstory on that, but I was a little confused on Parker's story. We already knew she loved stealing things. That was her Thing. She had to become a foodie for a night to realize that she loved stealing?