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?

I think she realized she could love other experiences besides stealing. She broke into wherever it was at the end just to look at art, not take it, was my interpretation.

Yeah, I thought that too, -t.

I did find that kind of disappointing, though. If she hears music in anti-theft devices, leave her alone. Everyone doesn't have to orgasm over the same societally approved things. Listen to Hardison jizz over a laser gun and foam cooking.

If she hears music in anti-theft devices, leave her alone. Everyone doesn't have to orgasm over the same societally approved things.

Yeah, that was what confused me. I think -t has the right read, and that makes sense, but the idea that Parker "doesn't know how to like things" is ludicrous. She's clearly passionate about her art, and her art is theft. And not just that, she's also demonstrated a love of jumping off things and dangerous situations in general.

It was her driving to expand her horizons, at least, not anyone telling her she needed to. Though why no one could just tell her that thievery was her thing and that was cool I don't know.

Sophie seemed to understand her.

I will admit, my first thought when she said "teach me to like stuff" was Abed saying "I guess I just like liking things". I don't know what to do with that thought, but I like it.

I will admit, my first thought when she said "teach me to like stuff" was Abed saying "I guess I just like liking things". I don't know what to do with that thought, but I like it.

Which is what led to me re-watching Regional Holiday Music off my DVR - so clearly you're not alone in that connection. I guess we like like liking things about liking things?