This druglord hated Walt, but Walt convinced him he hated Gus more. That is, of course, the exact argument with which Walter convinced a dying druglord last season to blow himself up so he could also take Gus out. It could also anger the Mexican drug cartel for whom they all work, and that's never good.īut Jesse (Aaron Paul) buys Walt just enough time for him to convince Mike that they have a common enemy more important than their own differences.
On Sunday, for instance, Mike is about to shoot Walt, because Mike worked for Gus and Gus's death throws Mike's world into chaos. That's mission accomplished for Walt, who has been going to school on all the awful drug people with whom he has been fraternizing. "Scared of what?" said Walt, who had just told her he had eliminated the reason to be scared. That remark also suggests Skyler was right during her exchange with Walt earlier in the show. Most high school chemistry teachers do not have that power. Walt to Skyler, at the end of the episode:Īll "Godfather" fans will recognize that last line as by far the most chilling, since it says Walt is now in the position to forgive or not forgive, which in this game means the power to decide who lives and who dies. Walt to his lowlife attorney Saul Goodman (Bob Odenkirk), who wants to stop doing business with Walt and Skyler: "It's done when I say it's done." Walt to cold-blooded accomplice and sometime-nemesis Mike (Jonathan Banks), who has just asked how Walt can be sure their scheme to erase Gus's laptop with magnets worked: "Because I said so." Walt to his wife Skyler (Anna Gunn) when she was just first realizing it was Walt who arranged to have Gus blown up: "I won." He's more and more becoming Heisenberg, his drug world persona.Ĭonsider some of Sunday night's quotes from Chairman Walter:
After several seasons of sparring with the psychotic homicidal bad guys in the drug biz, Walt feels like he's not only playing in bigger leagues, but has become an all-star. Walt, we need to remember, was a timid high school chemistry teacher who originally started cooking crystal meth because he thought he was dying and he needed fast cash so he didn't leave his wife and son destitute. Walter spent the night doing end zone victory dances, first from blowing up Gus Fring at the end of last season and then Sunday from neutralizing a potentially incriminating laptop Gus left behind. Bryan Cranston's Walter White was feeling like the Terrell Owens of crystal meth cookers Sunday night as the two-segment final season of "Breaking Bad" finally arrived on AMC.