Walt: You said it yourself.
Jesse: A robot?

I am sure he will "think of something scientific" as a reason to cook again.

In all seriousness this will be the major turning point in the show. When Walt's rationalization for turning to cooking meth falls apart, and he realizes he enjoys doing it will be the make or break moment for the series.

How that is handled will determmine just how great this show will be.

Money will become the motivation in my opinion.

I have really really high hopes for the "Walt goes bad, becomes a kingpin" direction many expect the show to go in.

I thought the scene with Walt teaching jesse how to make the batteries was hilarious. Exactly like a teacher trying to teach a really dumb student. "we have this, and this, and all we need issss....." "wire!!!" "...copper."

Didn't really seem weird at all to me. They are family, i mean they aren't immediate family but seemed normal to have them there for such a big moment. They went into it assuming that walt was basically ****ed so they would be there for support etc.

lol this was my favorite scene by far

Wow this is among my favorite episodes. Reminded me of the Soprano's episode where Chris and Paulie are stranded in the woods looking for that Russian guy who escapes from their trunk.

The images were stunning and the acting sublime as usual. This does give the story more options to go in now that Walt appears to have more time, which is interesting. At this point I think he will keep cooking because it seems he has already crossed the point of no return. You don't go from normal guy to a murderer drug dealer cooking million dollar batches of meth back to a normal guy.

That cracked me up.

I liked this episode - I thought the whole desert scene was pretty intense.



Slight nit - 40K per pound is 2500 per ounce which I thought was the original price before Walt said to increase it.

i wasn't feeling this episode while i was watching it but am liking it more and more as time passes

Walt: What one element is best (waves copper wire)
Jesse: (pauses) Wire!

I think that was the best hour of television I've watched since The Wire. Or maybe a couple good episodes of Cheap Seats back to back.

lol me too. sick ep, love this f'ing show

thought this ep was amazing

I really liked the shot of Jesse and Walt sitting on lawnchairs in the desert, Jesse smoking and Walt eating Funyuns.

Damn, can't seem to find EP9 anywhere
The series is getting better and better imo.

I thought it was $1500 per ounce.

Nah 2500, 500 to Jesse's friends and 2k split between Walt and Jesse. That's how it's always been.

What did Jesse say when after he freaked out when the RV didn't start the first time - it was "Why couldn't I have just...(something)"

I think it ended "stayed in [name of city/place that I was familiar with but cannot remember now]." My gut is telling me he said Mesa but I have no idea.

He said "Why couldn't I have just gone to Santa Fe" where he was going to go with his g/f to the museum.

Eh, my gut sucks

QFT

yeah funyuns were awesome

'how are you even alive'

I don't know anything about meth, but I'm pretty sure there isn't any drug out there where you can get a full 16x for a pound when you sell ounces for x. If they were charging 2500 for ounces before, they were probably charging 30 or 32.5 for pounds. Now with pounds at 40, they're probably charging more than 2500 when they sell ounces.

I was kind of hoping that they'd somehow wrap this up next year and it would be happily ever after. Walt dead and his family with some money and respect for him. Pinkman escaping to some other place. It's not like they cured him or are dangling that, but I can't take the fricking tension. I already need closure.

Anyway. I thought the latest episode was beautifully shot and paced and acted. A bit of look at me photography, but it was so good that it added rather than subtracted.

I still chuckle thinking that Jessie somehow managed to pull off the absurd "A robot?" with it being funny and in character rather than just kinda sit-com funny.

But they weren't selling it by the pound. They were selling it ounce-by-ounce, so at 2500 an ounce, they'd still be taking in 40k on each pound.