Fly can represent Gus, too--Walt mentions he's worried Gus is bugging the lab and there's the fly hanging over Walt at the end.

qfe

wow, i'm surprised how many people disliked this episode. yes, it was clearly filler, but i found myself amazed at how interesting they could make a filler episode about hunting down a fly actually be. i loved it.

qfwasteofgimmick

any episode without that cheating bitch whore of a wife is A+++ in my book

regardless, it was brilliantly done

do you watch the show? she never cheated, dont you get it?

Yea I wouldn't call that cheating.

We could argue this completely irrelevant topic but in the end it would boil down to semantics and/or ambiguous legal technicalities. Luckily I'm not really interested in the moral views of NVGtards.

A relationship underlies no laws. It's affection, once the affection is gone, the relationship is over. And arent you on the moral high ground here?

just watched the beginning of clear and present danger. tuco is a bad ass sniper in it

Tuco can be freaking spooky in some of his roles.

qfwhothe****areyou

Tuco got his **** pushed in

Did anybody else notice this in the sneak preview? Exciting implications for next week's episode.

yeah, you're right. i was flipping channels last night, and came across AMC just as the ep was starting again, so i sat there and watched it (more carefully this time). Walt notices the fly just as Jesse leaves for the day, after trying to rationalize why the yield is off. he knows Jesse is full of ****, Jesse is the fly, he's contaminating the lab and putting them both in jeopardy (like the scene from last week with the "bullet hole" in Walt's head, on the reflection of the vat, just before Jesse skims the product for the 1st time). he tries to convince Jesse to stop at the end, but he isn't having that.

now they could both ****ed, unless Walt sells him out to Gus (before he finds out for himself). after all, Gus might blame Walt for getting rid of Gale for Jesse. or will he keep Walt around because he's so valuable to him? or can Walt BS his way out of this one?

interesting to see what will happen from here. Walt finally started to accept blame for what happened, instead of rationalizing like in the past. he seemed to accept some responsibility in the "Jane's death --> Dad's grief --> plane crash" chain of events. also interesting that for the first time in a while (maybe ever?) Walt and Jesse showed that they actually care about each other. but why not, right? neither one has much else at point. Jesse's aunt and girlfriend are dead, he fell out with his parents, and Walt essentially lost his family. they both sort of seem to have a death wish, Walt literally, and Jesse by failing to understand the consequences of his actions (Walt's sorta already been there).

then there is Jesse's story about his aunt, comparing her to Walt. based on that i imagine we might see the cancer return in some form, and Walt to be happier about this. he hasn't been so "bad" since it went away, has he?

alright, probably enough long-winded, rambling thoughts for now... (i actually had more i think, but forgot a lot of stuff)

Nit comment since the episode bored me.

Walt says they are off .14%. That sounds insignificant to me.

Besides the 'vestiges' or evaporation, there is so much that could cause that to be off besides stealing.

Scales are always inaccurate unless recalibrated frequently. Also, they are assuming the product that went into the machines are weighed 100% accurately and those looked like some big-ass bags.

I dunno. .14% off seems small to me too.

Is there any chance this was a concealed camera in his vent rather than a smoke detector? I know it seems unlikely with the blinking light, but media seems to always put blinking lights on things that are supposed to be concealed.

it's been brought up with different words.

Squilor has actually been a pretty interesting part of the episodes recently. I've liked her interactions even more since she FT

LOL WHAT THE **** IS WRONG WITH ME THE NAMES GET ME GIGGLING EVERYTIME!

.14% of big number is still an amount that a drug lord is not going to want to have stolen from him, and it's still an amount that an exquisite and precise chemist would take note of.

also with gus hanging out around dea guys he's certain to see a blue-meth map with an Albuquerque pin in it, and realize something is up since he has only been selling out of state.

I imagine that in previous batches, Walt was able to calculate the weight within a range of a much smaller percent, for instance +/- .01%. That could be why .14% seems large to him. It's all relative.

I don't know if it is BS or not. But I don't find it straining credulity at all that in a highly controlled environment a small deviation in yield might still be significant, and would then immediately become a point of obsession of the lab manager.

Seems like every gangster movie has a scene in which the top dog asks, "Did you think you could steal from me?" before bashing in someone's head. Jesse skimming from Gus is almost too stupid for Jesse.

Am I the only one who read the Walt/fly situation as Walt trying to "tell" Jesse that even the smallest contamination/skimming cant be tolerated in their operation? He flat out told him though in the last scene that he thought he was skimming so maybe I'm wrong about the meaning of that fly scene.