Best part of Hank’s investigation scene when he’s looking at all the evidence is that you can see he realizes multiple times throughout and tries to go back and prove himself wrong, but it only further proves him right. Dean Norris did such an amazing job of showing Hank’s desperation to find something, anything, that would prove this to all be a coincidence and all he’s finding is more and more proof that it really was Walt all along.
@@JohnSmith-wh2ob I love how you can see how increasingly anxious and devastated he’s becoming as he goes on. Like he doesn’t say a word the whole scene but you can almost hear his thoughts screaming, “no.. no this can’t be true. Please give me something that shows this isn’t true.” Hank was always kind of an ass to Walt but you see with his interactions with everyone else that that was just his personality and throughout the series you can always tell how much Walt means to Hank as Hank always makes time for him no matter what.
On TH-cam there’s a video of the table read and in the script it says that Hank really doesn’t want it to be Walt that he’s trying to make the evidence not what it is and I think that’s heartbreaking. Dean really manages to show that
@@John_Locke_108 Except, they're not mad at him for being the bad guy, they say again and again they're mad at him for not committing to being the bad guy, and if he did, they'd root for him. Like they did for Gus.
@havok6280 He hasn't exactly taken this characteristic, though. He would never have known Gus did that too. Definitely when it comes to the other stuff.
I don’t think it’s a matter of Walt knowing people’s way of doing things but the shows way of displaying the change in Walt’s character. There’s tons of references to characters he’s killed off and emulated (like Mike’s preference to how he drinks whiskey) towards other people. It’s more of the show’s way of giving a nod to past characters that are still echoing throughout the show.
Yeah to Jesse is probably sounds like a threat, but there's also the other meaning of "I need you to believe my lie", he's pleading with Jesse to just let it go. I love the table read for this episode when this scene comes up, it's so good.
@@jmwild1 ya I agree, it’s a “don’t make me do this, walk away and let sleeping dogs lie” kinda threat. If he gets pushed to it he will pull the trigger, although he doesn’t want it.
I don't understand why you are getting so upset at Walt not being honest. Why would he be? He doesn't want to face the consequences of his actions. You would lie too if you didn't want to face the consequences of Your actions.
@@mst4705 "Why can't you be honest". Literally they should know why he wouldn't be honest to Jesse. How would you not know why he can't be honest to Jesse? The entirety of breaking bad was Walt trying to keep Jesse in a tight leash in their toxic love-hate relationship. Walt doesn't want to kill Jesse. Walt doesn't want to HAVE to kill Jesse. Walt doesn't want Jesse to leave him. Why are the girls screaming at the TV asking "why" when it was shown literally sinse season 1, the reason. Note: rant is directed to the girls, not to you lol
"That is not going to happen." The LOOK in Walt's eyes, pure evil, just an empty, cold stare of absolute death. Hank's reaction sums it up perfectly, he sees the hint of the real man behind those eyes. A monster.
I think the moment where Walt tells Jesse to stop focusing on the past because there's nothing that they can do to change it (13:50) is pretty key to understanding how Walt rationalizes his own bad behavior. He's trying to convince Jesse with the same reasoning he uses to try to convince himself. And it never seems to fully convince himself either, as you can see in scenes throughout the series. If he can get Jesse to agree he's right, he gets Jesse to assure himself he's right.
Walt's downfall will always be summed up in his "none of that concerns me" moments. He thinks he can be the next kingpin without planning ahead and understanding what could go wrong. He thinks he's smart enough to be able to think his way out of every problem that arises.. until he can't. He never had the foresight that Gus did, nor did he have the humility to know some people were better at their job and needed to be listened to.
Boom. Thank you for seeing this. Yes, he killed Gus but that was luck. Gus ran an empire for decades. Walt barely did it for a year before getting caught.
@@John_Locke_108What is "luck" is Hank finding Gale's book. Gus' demise was Walt literally calculating how every single player would've acted and played the heck out of Gus. Gus took decades to build his empire, while being connected to the literal Mexican cartel. Walt became a drug dealer overnight and toppled Gus' empire and built a multicontinental empire within weeks. AND he willingly stepped down after Skylar convinced him. Walt is a bitch and he is a villain and he is indeed the antagonist, who no one should root for, but you're just being so disingenuous at this point John. It does the whole show a disservice.
Not humility, Gus was never truly humble but he knew how to keep his ego under wraps and better emotional management his judgment clear. Walt did have good foresight but he just couldn't handle or trust it, but Yeah Gus has better feats of foresight and intuition overall.
Walt is great at planning ahead. His weakness is that he is too soft. He tried to protect both Hank and Jesse even when they directly threatened him. Any self respecting drug lord would have eliminated them.
My favorite writing moment is when Walt says,"If that is true? If you don't know who I am? Then maybe the best course would be to tread lightly." Walt is saying if you can no longer see Walter, you are now seeing Heisenberg. If we can't be family then we are enemies and you know what I have done to my enemies. Such a threat.
Walter palyed that last scene like the Devil he tried everything in his power to wrestle off Hank with words and convince him As soon as Hank wouldn't bite Walt has 0 choice,he dont wanna do it,but he gotta play that last card... brilliant,Bryan Cranston is top 7 actor EVER
@@John_Locke_108- He wasn’t “lucky” with his schemes, not always anyway. There were times where he was genuinely good at crime, like letting Jane die, manipulating Jesse into killing Gale, killing Gus, convincing Declan to be his distributor. It’s just that if he didn’t let his ego override his judgement, he could have been an even more effective criminal.
@@John_Locke_108He had a fully functioning multicontinental meth empire only weeks/months after toppling daddy gus. For a high school teacher turned Meth cook overnight, that is pretty impressive. He only "lost" his empire because he decided willingly to step down. How are you even claiming he wasn't good at it?
@@rjharikumar6555 I'm sorry but with Gale he didn't manipulate Jesse, it was a last chance to save his life and Jesse knew fully well why it had to be done and Jesse contiously but with pain decided on Walt and killed Gale.
Their reaction continues to be great stuff. Their long term predictions are atrocious, at least for this show, whereas their short term predictions are on point and based on evidence and increasingly improving media literacy. Their long term predictions are atrocious for this show because: I have seen their other videos, Maple and Arianna are smart as fuck, smarter than a lot of other popular reactors AND on the bonus side they do not overreact. BUT their hate for Walt is blinding them (Maple more so than Arianna) to his accomplishments and achievements. This by itself isn't an issue for me. The show continually proves them wrong when compared to their long term predictions. It's satisfying to see and it makes for a better reaction. This isn't serious by any means btw. But I believe their hate for Walt is a big factor as to why their predictions are so off the mark. Maple believes that Hank will prevail in the end and they BOTH believe that the evidence that Hank has will be enough to put Walt away. Make no mistake, I do not want them to tone down their hate, as I have said before it makes for a better reaction. They're just making too many snap predictions and keep disappointing themselves. I don't blame them however, this season was intense and my thoughts were all over the place as to how this would turn out so naturally their thoughts would run rampant. I just think that they would have a better time not overthinking it and setting up expectations. Walt warning Hank to tread lightly was not an empty threat, just fyi
I fr dont understand why are you so mad at walt not being honest like, what do you think is gonna happen after that? After hank suspects him do you want him to ho like yea im heinsenberg f you?😭😭 he is not dumb he is a meth kingpin who knows he is bad, like why would you expect him to be honest about everything in the first place😶
Fr, like, what do you think criminals in real life do? Just up and admit to committing criminal acts? How many lies and secrets has Gus told and kept do they think?
"We want you to be honest about being bad, both to others around you and to yourself." In season 4 when he WAS honest about being bad, you guys laughed at him lol...
Dean Norris has come a long way since being a backup cop to Martin and Riggs in Lethal Weapon 2 Dean deserves all the flowers for his performance as Hank Schrade-excuse me, sorry that's ASAC HANK SCHRADER
The I NEED you to believe me line always seemed pleading with jessie because he didnt want to LOOK bad for jessie but every time I rewatch it it seems super malicious. Like I need you to believe me or else your gonna end up dealt with too.
Yup. But at the same time, if you want to be a bad ass like Gus, you gotta act like one. Just tell Jesse that you killed Mike and then leave and allow him to think on that. Or kill Jesse. Like wtf. You can't take Walt seriously because he's just a middle of the road bad guy. Which isn't a complaint because that's how they wrote him and how he is portrayed by Brian. And some folks miss that nuance.
@@John_Locke_108 that’s what makes him a great character imo. He considers Jesse like a son in a way and he shows he will go to extreme lengths to not have to kill him. He goes to even greater lengths to not kill Hank. That’s two men not related to him that he’s willing to risk everything for
@@bigpictureguys8415 To me it comes across more like he's pleading with Jesse. "I need you to believe me, so that I can believe me." Especially considering there's a bunch of similar moments throughout the series where he comes off particularly desperate for acknowledgment from Jesse or Skyler that they believe his story. He wants Jesse to affirm the lie he tells himself.
@@chrisadraheim at other points in the series that makes sense but here? You think there’s any part of him that thinks or even cares whether or not Mike made it out alive or that he didn’t kill him?
Both Brian and Dean's acting were on point this episode, especially that last scene. Hank going from rage to pain, then Walt's mic drop when he finally gets to show Hank a small taste of the real Heisenberg was just pure TV gold
Walt's motive hasn't changed. He is trying to convince Hank that it isn't worth the effort to pursue a criminal case, because Walt would be dead before he would even see a jail and the fallout would be that all the money Walt wants to leave for his family would be confiscated and his kids would have to live with the knowledge of him being Heisenberg. Walt wants Hank to look the other way, so that the cancer can take its course and resolve the issue without anyone else being the wiser.
I like these two, but they do not have very good media literacy. Maybe if they grow their cinematic and artistic log more and come back in a few years to rewatch they catch up. Thats the issue with a lot of reactors - they often come in blind, because that gets more authentic reactions and thus views. But if you havent seen or read a lot - you will almost guaranteed have not a good media literacy, because you have to consumed some amount of media to gain this. Its a paradoxon. I actually know not a lot of reactors who are really good at this, only Filmbuff and LM Reactions come to my mind.
@@TheOriginalDogLPI wouldn’t call it an issue. A lot of us tune in so we can relieve our memories and experiences through another person and watch them fall in love with our favourite shows, not everything has to be gotten the first time around
@@TheOriginalDogLP I think they catch more than they miss, and who didn't miss or forget significant details on their first watch? I think their media literacy is fine, I would actually say most of where they go wrong (in my opinion) is that their takes tend to lose track of what we're supposed to know as semi-omniscient audience members vs what Walt should reasonably be expected to know as a character within the fiction. I think they're reading the metatextual information, but they're also getting frustrated at Walt for not reading it. Kind of like Homer Simpson yelling at his TV "He gets results, you stupid chief!"
And to be fair, sometimes you're supposed to lose track of what information Walt knows, like in the setup to the Lily of the Valley twist at the end of season 4.
I love how Walt takes a bit after everyone he kills; the 'thread lightly' was 100% Mike talking right there. "Saul, Mike threatened me. He threatened Jesse. He probably threatened someone before breakfast this morning. It's what he does."
Thats fucking right!! You want to see Heisenberg??? You got him!!! A lot of things stand out for me after watching the show multiple times. But mainly the thing that i think about is Walt is dying. And he's tired of taking the back seat and he knows he's smarter than everyone around him. AND maybe the Cancer warped his mind a little??? Idk ill always be team Walt.
Hank’s acting both where he looks at the WW he doesn’t want to believe it also with walt in the garage is incredible but damn walt turning on Heisenberg at the end is insane this final run of episodes is legendary Edit: Hank has always been an amazing detective but his own personal view and bias of walt blinded him from the truth which is also realistic
Watching the garage confrontation happen was *crazy* when the show aired: you're expecting like 5 episodes of cat and mouse! How long will it take Hank to learn that Walt knows he knows? etc. But that's not how the creators wanted to tell this story. They go. ALL. OUT.
No show has ever delivered more on everything it promised like Breaking Bad did! The expectations were almost unattainable at the time this season was releasing and they somehow surpassed them in every way!
This episode? Yeah. It's like putting a truck on top of a hill, cutting the breaks, and pushing it over the edge. There's no going back and every episode tops itself from here until the end.
I love how you guys are appreciating the genius of Breaking Bad. Sometimes you just got to make it to Season 6 to understand how it's one of the greatest shows of all time, if not the greatest.
I can't wait for them to get into better caul sall. For them to see it all and how it came to this. Arianna and Maple watching this universe is the magic of shared experience; the appreciation of effective storytelling is our greatest theme park. I listen/watch this while I work and I enjoy every minute of this channel.
The writing was so good that they give the audience just enough info to piece things together. So its cool to hear the girls break down the episode in real time. Ozymandias soon 👀
Walt doesn't want Jesse to think bad of him that's why he wants Jesse to believe him he doesn't want Jesse to hate him. And yes Walt wants to take care of Jesse financially too.
The “I’m a dying man who runs a car wash, right hand to god that’s all that I am” comment was him demonstrating how convincing he’d sound to a jury & the girl’s seem to think that’s how he sees himself
But that is how he sees himself. Because technically he is dying of cancer again and technically all he is running is a car wash. So yes, that's how he sees himself.
@@John_Locke_108 He is saying that because on technicality that is true hence the 'Right hand on God' part, because it is true NOW, that's obviously not what he believes. Again no surprise that a person who just comes every weak to whine 'Reactor good, people criticising them are walt stans' has a lack of media literacy.
@@John_Locke_108 wtf are you on. He knows what he is, he literally forced 2 episodes ago a big fish to say his name. He sees himself as a drug kingpin and its absolutely wild that people like you in their defense of their bad understanding of the story say these bonkers takes. The whole series is about Walt feeling alive and powerful again - ofc he does not see himself as a passive victim. He was just trying to convince Hank and lie, like always. And when he sees that he is failing, he immediately threatened Hank.
I think a lesser show would have dragged out the Hank investigation and Walt dancing around it with him for a whole season. Breaking Bad does not fuck around because they realize how the inevitably of that stuff resolving isn’t the interesting bit; the interesting bit is the fallout and what happens next 😉
If that's true. If you really don't know who I am. Then, maybe your best course, is to tread lightly. BECAUSE I'M HEISENBERG PUNK. Then Walt drops Hank with an RKO! 😂
Walt needs Jesse to believe his lies about Mike because if he doesn't then he is a liability and Walt doesn't want to kill Jesse. Walt needs to reassure himself that Jesse won't rat him out. I think he also needs Jesse to be ok because if Jesse is ok then he didn't really do anything bad.
Dean Norris killed it as Hank for this entire show, but it was always too easy to get distracted by Bryan Cranston's brilliant performance as Walter. Until this episode. The initial reaction. Leaving Walt's house. The heart attack. And then we see him reexamine all of his evidence. Hank goes through the entire grieving process. Shock, denial, anger, bargaining, sadness, and acceptance are all over his face without Dean Norris having to say a word. Finally, the confrontation in the garage. A moment the entire series has been building towards. Bryan and Dean delivered everything we wanted out of that moment, plus a LOT more.
You would think that Walt could have come up with a better lie. If I was Walt, I would have just told Jessie that I made a deal with Mike. Mike gives up his guys. In exchange, I give Mike's granddaughter $5 Million dollars.
A lot of people ask, how could Hank know that Walt bombed Fring? There were plenty of other actors that could have benefited from doing that, including whoever was left of the Cartel after Gus's coup d'etat against Eladio. It's probably because (1) Walt crashed the car to keep Hank from the laundry, which means Walt was probably cooking for Fring and there was evidence in the lab tying him to it, (2) Walt refused DEA protective custody after Fring put a hit on Hank, (3) an "anonymous" tip was left warning of the hit, and (4) after a few days of not knowing Walt's whereabouts, Fring ends up dead from a makeshift pipe bomb, something Walter, as a master chemist, could easily make.
21:14 The bloopers for that part are hilarious, the door kept malfunctioning while they were trying to remain in character Ya'll better belt in, you ain't seen nothin yet !
Lydia using a rental at the car wash is perfect for her character. She’s so overly paranoid that it makes her suspicious, just like when we first see her meet Mike and she lies about his name to the waitress
Hey! Just saw this! You nailed it. Just pronounced like 'Joe'! Long story short: I used to stream myself playing guitar and singing songs back in like the... 2009-2012 timeframe. I only played late at night after track practice so my audience was largely Norwegian for some reason. They asked my name, I said "Joe", they typed back "Joh?" and I liked it and started going by that. Kinda weird, but I thought it was neat. 🤣
"I Hate Walt" season 5 episode 9 "Blood Money" Let's see what else Walt has in store for them to infuriate these two reactors. According to them, Walt is so bad that the cancer itself is the victim.
@the_crypter Okay... so you guys _do_ understand the fact that he's bad. What's with all of you criticising those who say the same? Walter *is* manipulative and does have many faults. But if pointing them out each time is annoying, would you not fault the show for the same? And what else is a reactor supposed to say when the character does the same thing for the 20th time? Nobody's gonna watch someone sit in silence for half an hour.
One my favorite scenes has to be that instant voice change from his cowering, timid voice to *Tread Lightly* Walt might not be a master meth kingpin, but hes a master at manipulation. 100%
We had to wait almost a year for the payoff and this episode effing DELIVERED. I remember thinking how lesser shows (cough, Dexter, cough) would've stretched out the cat and mouse game for the rest of the season. Not this show. If it makes sense to pull the trigger on the confrontation, then Gilligan pulls the dang trigger baby! What a scene!
You should watch the table read of that scene with Walt and Jesse at Jesse's house talking about Mike Aaron Paul does so good he makes everyone cry in the room
@@theo1216 How would Saul set that up without setting off red flags? Is everyone just going to buy that some random person online decided to set up a fundraiser for a missing kid that isn’t officially declared dead? That would be super suspicious to the detectives involved with that case
@@comeatmebro8120 It's pretty common in the real world, communities or concerned citizens putting together relief money for the relatives of people that have gone missing, like the Jay Slater case a few weeks ago. Not long after the search started there was already a fundraiser for the family.
The way Bryan Cranston drops his voice when he says 'tread lightly' is so awesome.
Bryan Cranston is such a good actor
@@NIKSEEN its soo crazy that this is the guy who played the goofball dad on Malcom in the Middle
They both absolutely killed it during that scene. The hurt in Hank's eyes at the end. Wowza.
@@Steelburgh right? People like to treat Dean as a comedic actor only but he has great range
Best part of Hank’s investigation scene when he’s looking at all the evidence is that you can see he realizes multiple times throughout and tries to go back and prove himself wrong, but it only further proves him right. Dean Norris did such an amazing job of showing Hank’s desperation to find something, anything, that would prove this to all be a coincidence and all he’s finding is more and more proof that it really was Walt all along.
yea it does feel like he is desperately trying to prove its not Walt.
Yes he keeps trying to convince himself that what he knows to now be true isn’t and man the acting is so good
@@JohnSmith-wh2ob I love how you can see how increasingly anxious and devastated he’s becoming as he goes on. Like he doesn’t say a word the whole scene but you can almost hear his thoughts screaming, “no.. no this can’t be true. Please give me something that shows this isn’t true.” Hank was always kind of an ass to Walt but you see with his interactions with everyone else that that was just his personality and throughout the series you can always tell how much Walt means to Hank as Hank always makes time for him no matter what.
On TH-cam there’s a video of the table read and in the script it says that Hank really doesn’t want it to be Walt that he’s trying to make the evidence not what it is and I think that’s heartbreaking. Dean really manages to show that
He also had a personal reason for not wanting it to he Walt - its from something he says in one of the upcoming episodes
Great acting by Dean Norris in that garage scene and when he was panicking leaving Walter’s house
“You bombed a nursing home!”
Jeez Hank, when you put like that you make it sound like he’s evil or something.
And yet people defend Walt and act like he's some cool badass who shouldn't be despised and hated by these two reactors.
@@John_Locke_108 I give Arianna and Maple huge props for having the moral clarity to realize what a piece of shit he is early on.
@@John_Locke_108#waltdidnothingwrong
@@supagremlin3274nah he’s still dumb
@@John_Locke_108 Except, they're not mad at him for being the bad guy, they say again and again they're mad at him for not committing to being the bad guy, and if he did, they'd root for him. Like they did for Gus.
Did you notice Walt putting the towel under his knees while throwing up just like Gus did at the pool poisoning?
Walt consistly takes characteristics of his victims. He's cut the crust off his sandwiches ever since he killed Krazy 8.
@havok6280 He hasn't exactly taken this characteristic, though. He would never have known Gus did that too. Definitely when it comes to the other stuff.
I don’t think it’s a matter of Walt knowing people’s way of doing things but the shows way of displaying the change in Walt’s character. There’s tons of references to characters he’s killed off and emulated (like Mike’s preference to how he drinks whiskey) towards other people. It’s more of the show’s way of giving a nod to past characters that are still echoing throughout the show.
@@havok6280 he keeps a habit of each victim as his serial killer trophy
Also the way he talks to someone he doesn't want to talk "business" with where he ignores what they say
This is the moment when Walter becomes Waltuh
Put your d away waltuh
So true 😂
Put your D away Waltuh
Jesse where are my v bucks
Put ya dick away waltuh
“I need you to believe me” is a veiled threat- Jesse at least thinks that.
Yeah to Jesse is probably sounds like a threat, but there's also the other meaning of "I need you to believe my lie", he's pleading with Jesse to just let it go. I love the table read for this episode when this scene comes up, it's so good.
These two are so frustrating because they choose to just see the surface level. So much goes over their heads it's ridiculous.
The way it came across was very close to an open threat
@@jmwild1 ya I agree, it’s a “don’t make me do this, walk away and let sleeping dogs lie” kinda threat. If he gets pushed to it he will pull the trigger, although he doesn’t want it.
That's pretty much what one of the writers or actors said on the post-show that they aired on AMC when the episodes were coming out (I forget who).
Fun fact: this episode was released a whole year after the last. So people had to wait a year to see Hanks reaction 😂😂
Was it a whole year? I thought it was like 6 months or something
Oh God! I forgot about that!!! This is why it's considered "episode 1".
Yes 1 year. Im lucky i wasnt watching the show back then😂 1 year is way too long to wait @@deltoidable
Poor Hank's numb legs, also had to wait that long to wipe 'n flush...
@@deltoidable Not quite a year. 11 months. Close enough to hurt. But man did this episode deliver!
"If you don't know who I am maybe your best course would be to tread lightly."
One of the best lines of the entire series...and they just keep coming.
"He can't keep getting away with this!"
When she said that was the best 5 minutes to end a show, I was like... Just wait LOL
@@slayerje1884 Right? Ozymandias awaits.
I was rooting for him the whole time despite all the bad karmas he did@@Athasin
I don't understand why you are getting so upset at Walt not being honest. Why would he be? He doesn't want to face the consequences of his actions. You would lie too if you didn't want to face the consequences of Your actions.
And that's what makes him pathetic and someone to laugh at.
@@John_Locke_108 you don't sound like you're laughing
@@benguensche 😂😂😂😂
@@John_Locke_108 Yeah they’re definitely laughing at him rather than angrily yelling at him…right?
@@mst4705 "Why can't you be honest". Literally they should know why he wouldn't be honest to Jesse. How would you not know why he can't be honest to Jesse? The entirety of breaking bad was Walt trying to keep Jesse in a tight leash in their toxic love-hate relationship. Walt doesn't want to kill Jesse. Walt doesn't want to HAVE to kill Jesse. Walt doesn't want Jesse to leave him. Why are the girls screaming at the TV asking "why" when it was shown literally sinse season 1, the reason.
Note: rant is directed to the girls, not to you lol
"That is not going to happen." The LOOK in Walt's eyes, pure evil, just an empty, cold stare of absolute death. Hank's reaction sums it up perfectly, he sees the hint of the real man behind those eyes. A monster.
The on screen chemistry between Dean Norris and Bryan Cranston in the last scene is honestly so so good
SOOOO GOODDDD
I think the moment where Walt tells Jesse to stop focusing on the past because there's nothing that they can do to change it (13:50) is pretty key to understanding how Walt rationalizes his own bad behavior. He's trying to convince Jesse with the same reasoning he uses to try to convince himself. And it never seems to fully convince himself either, as you can see in scenes throughout the series. If he can get Jesse to agree he's right, he gets Jesse to assure himself he's right.
I love the meticulous way they shot it with Walt (“the darkness”) slowly going out of focus behind Jesse as he’s delivering the line. Best season imo
when Hank closes the garage door - so good
Walt's downfall will always be summed up in his "none of that concerns me" moments. He thinks he can be the next kingpin without planning ahead and understanding what could go wrong. He thinks he's smart enough to be able to think his way out of every problem that arises.. until he can't. He never had the foresight that Gus did, nor did he have the humility to know some people were better at their job and needed to be listened to.
Boom. Thank you for seeing this. Yes, he killed Gus but that was luck. Gus ran an empire for decades. Walt barely did it for a year before getting caught.
@@John_Locke_108 🧢🧢🧢
@@John_Locke_108What is "luck" is Hank finding Gale's book. Gus' demise was Walt literally calculating how every single player would've acted and played the heck out of Gus. Gus took decades to build his empire, while being connected to the literal Mexican cartel. Walt became a drug dealer overnight and toppled Gus' empire and built a multicontinental empire within weeks. AND he willingly stepped down after Skylar convinced him. Walt is a bitch and he is a villain and he is indeed the antagonist, who no one should root for, but you're just being so disingenuous at this point John. It does the whole show a disservice.
Not humility, Gus was never truly humble but he knew how to keep his ego under wraps and better emotional management his judgment clear. Walt did have good foresight but he just couldn't handle or trust it, but Yeah Gus has better feats of foresight and intuition overall.
Walt is great at planning ahead. His weakness is that he is too soft. He tried to protect both Hank and Jesse even when they directly threatened him. Any self respecting drug lord would have eliminated them.
Dean Norris was soooo good in this episode!! his facial acting, showing both rage and betrayal--chef's kiss!!!!!
The beginning of the end
The end of the beginning
Every new beginning comes from some other beginnings end.
@@John_Locke_108closing time....
@@John_Locke_108 Dark 2017
My favorite writing moment is when Walt says,"If that is true? If you don't know who I am? Then maybe the best course would be to tread lightly."
Walt is saying if you can no longer see Walter, you are now seeing Heisenberg. If we can't be family then we are enemies and you know what I have done to my enemies. Such a threat.
Walter palyed that last scene like the Devil he tried everything in his power to wrestle off Hank with words and convince him
As soon as Hank wouldn't bite Walt has 0 choice,he dont wanna do it,but he gotta play that last card...
brilliant,Bryan Cranston is top 7 actor EVER
That instant switch when Hank tells him to bring the kids, No wonder why Brian Cranston's performance is considered one of the greatest ever.
Bryan not only put on this performance but he directed this episode as well
Walt : “i liked It… i was good at it..”
Them: “ wereee you thooo??!?!”
Like yes!🤦🏾♂️😂 i can see it now
He was good at cooking and getting lucky with his schemes. If he was truly good than he would have built an empire that lasted more than a year.
@@John_Locke_108- He wasn’t “lucky” with his schemes, not always anyway. There were times where he was genuinely good at crime, like letting Jane die, manipulating Jesse into killing Gale, killing Gus, convincing Declan to be his distributor. It’s just that if he didn’t let his ego override his judgement, he could have been an even more effective criminal.
@@John_Locke_108He had a fully functioning multicontinental meth empire only weeks/months after toppling daddy gus. For a high school teacher turned Meth cook overnight, that is pretty impressive. He only "lost" his empire because he decided willingly to step down. How are you even claiming he wasn't good at it?
@@rjharikumar6555 I'm sorry but with Gale he didn't manipulate Jesse, it was a last chance to save his life and Jesse knew fully well why it had to be done and Jesse contiously but with pain decided on Walt and killed Gale.
" I don't even know who you are.." GOD forbid, you EVER have anyone look at you, the way Hank looked at Walt in that garage... 😰
Their reaction continues to be great stuff. Their long term predictions are atrocious, at least for this show, whereas their short term predictions are on point and based on evidence and increasingly improving media literacy. Their long term predictions are atrocious for this show because: I have seen their other videos, Maple and Arianna are smart as fuck, smarter than a lot of other popular reactors AND on the bonus side they do not overreact. BUT their hate for Walt is blinding them (Maple more so than Arianna) to his accomplishments and achievements. This by itself isn't an issue for me. The show continually proves them wrong when compared to their long term predictions. It's satisfying to see and it makes for a better reaction. This isn't serious by any means btw. But I believe their hate for Walt is a big factor as to why their predictions are so off the mark. Maple believes that Hank will prevail in the end and they BOTH believe that the evidence that Hank has will be enough to put Walt away. Make no mistake, I do not want them to tone down their hate, as I have said before it makes for a better reaction. They're just making too many snap predictions and keep disappointing themselves. I don't blame them however, this season was intense and my thoughts were all over the place as to how this would turn out so naturally their thoughts would run rampant. I just think that they would have a better time not overthinking it and setting up expectations.
Walt warning Hank to tread lightly was not an empty threat, just fyi
I fr dont understand why are you so mad at walt not being honest like, what do you think is gonna happen after that? After hank suspects him do you want him to ho like yea im heinsenberg f you?😭😭 he is not dumb he is a meth kingpin who knows he is bad, like why would you expect him to be honest about everything in the first place😶
Fr, like, what do you think criminals in real life do? Just up and admit to committing criminal acts? How many lies and secrets has Gus told and kept do they think?
"We want you to be honest about being bad, both to others around you and to yourself."
In season 4 when he WAS honest about being bad, you guys laughed at him lol...
Dean Norris has come a long way since being a backup cop to Martin and Riggs in Lethal Weapon 2
Dean deserves all the flowers for his performance as Hank Schrade-excuse me, sorry that's ASAC HANK SCHRADER
The I NEED you to believe me line always seemed pleading with jessie because he didnt want to LOOK bad for jessie but every time I rewatch it it seems super malicious. Like I need you to believe me or else your gonna end up dealt with too.
Yeah it definitely screams “please believe me or at least pretend to because I’m looking for any reason not to have to kill you”
Yup. But at the same time, if you want to be a bad ass like Gus, you gotta act like one. Just tell Jesse that you killed Mike and then leave and allow him to think on that. Or kill Jesse. Like wtf. You can't take Walt seriously because he's just a middle of the road bad guy.
Which isn't a complaint because that's how they wrote him and how he is portrayed by Brian. And some folks miss that nuance.
@@John_Locke_108 that’s what makes him a great character imo. He considers Jesse like a son in a way and he shows he will go to extreme lengths to not have to kill him. He goes to even greater lengths to not kill Hank. That’s two men not related to him that he’s willing to risk everything for
@@bigpictureguys8415 To me it comes across more like he's pleading with Jesse. "I need you to believe me, so that I can believe me." Especially considering there's a bunch of similar moments throughout the series where he comes off particularly desperate for acknowledgment from Jesse or Skyler that they believe his story.
He wants Jesse to affirm the lie he tells himself.
@@chrisadraheim at other points in the series that makes sense but here? You think there’s any part of him that thinks or even cares whether or not Mike made it out alive or that he didn’t kill him?
Both Brian and Dean's acting were on point this episode, especially that last scene. Hank going from rage to pain, then Walt's mic drop when he finally gets to show Hank a small taste of the real Heisenberg was just pure TV gold
And Hank afterwards looking at him like "who is this silly douchebag?" Suprised Hank didn't laugh in his face.
Walt's motive hasn't changed. He is trying to convince Hank that it isn't worth the effort to pursue a criminal case, because Walt would be dead before he would even see a jail and the fallout would be that all the money Walt wants to leave for his family would be confiscated and his kids would have to live with the knowledge of him being Heisenberg. Walt wants Hank to look the other way, so that the cancer can take its course and resolve the issue without anyone else being the wiser.
Yup. What a tool. You got caught. Just take your medicine like a man.
Bryan Cranston directed this ep.... Has some talent
It’s all swirls into the deepest depths of Hell from here on out haha
This is the true mineral point of the show.
man they're missing a lot of nuances really
They miss a lot because they talk over it.
I like these two, but they do not have very good media literacy. Maybe if they grow their cinematic and artistic log more and come back in a few years to rewatch they catch up. Thats the issue with a lot of reactors - they often come in blind, because that gets more authentic reactions and thus views. But if you havent seen or read a lot - you will almost guaranteed have not a good media literacy, because you have to consumed some amount of media to gain this. Its a paradoxon. I actually know not a lot of reactors who are really good at this, only Filmbuff and LM Reactions come to my mind.
@@TheOriginalDogLPI wouldn’t call it an issue. A lot of us tune in so we can relieve our memories and experiences through another person and watch them fall in love with our favourite shows, not everything has to be gotten the first time around
@@TheOriginalDogLP I think they catch more than they miss, and who didn't miss or forget significant details on their first watch? I think their media literacy is fine, I would actually say most of where they go wrong (in my opinion) is that their takes tend to lose track of what we're supposed to know as semi-omniscient audience members vs what Walt should reasonably be expected to know as a character within the fiction. I think they're reading the metatextual information, but they're also getting frustrated at Walt for not reading it. Kind of like Homer Simpson yelling at his TV "He gets results, you stupid chief!"
And to be fair, sometimes you're supposed to lose track of what information Walt knows, like in the setup to the Lily of the Valley twist at the end of season 4.
People tend not to notice how Walter wanted to start building the biggest and best carwash empire
in real life, "mr identity swap" just quietly murders you
I love how Walt takes a bit after everyone he kills; the 'thread lightly' was 100% Mike talking right there. "Saul, Mike threatened me. He threatened Jesse. He probably threatened someone before breakfast this morning. It's what he does."
Walt is a villain, I love when you complain when he acts like a villain, lol
Thats fucking right!! You want to see Heisenberg??? You got him!!! A lot of things stand out for me after watching the show multiple times. But mainly the thing that i think about is Walt is dying. And he's tired of taking the back seat and he knows he's smarter than everyone around him. AND maybe the Cancer warped his mind a little??? Idk ill always be team Walt.
Hank’s acting both where he looks at the WW he doesn’t want to believe it also with walt in the garage is incredible but damn walt turning on Heisenberg at the end is insane this final run of episodes is legendary
Edit: Hank has always been an amazing detective but his own personal view and bias of walt blinded him from the truth which is also realistic
Is anyone gonna tell them Saul was getting a happy ending from that masseuse when Jesse walked in? That's why his fly was down 😂
Watching the garage confrontation happen was *crazy* when the show aired: you're expecting like 5 episodes of cat and mouse! How long will it take Hank to learn that Walt knows he knows? etc. But that's not how the creators wanted to tell this story. They go. ALL. OUT.
No show has ever delivered more on everything it promised like Breaking Bad did! The expectations were almost unattainable at the time this season was releasing and they somehow surpassed them in every way!
What kind of savage puts their entire palm on glass door lol
Someone who owns stock in Windex.
For me, the equivalence is with astrophysics and understanding that you have just crossed over the event horizon of a black hole.
This episode? Yeah. It's like putting a truck on top of a hill, cutting the breaks, and pushing it over the edge. There's no going back and every episode tops itself from here until the end.
I love how you guys are appreciating the genius of Breaking Bad. Sometimes you just got to make it to Season 6 to understand how it's one of the greatest shows of all time, if not the greatest.
😂😂😂 Season 6?
Hank's confrontation of Walt is one of the most epic moments in television.
“That was the most wildest last five minutes of a show of all time!”
Be prepared to say that at the end of every episode moving forward.
If you guys are uncomfortable with this episode... it's like the most chill of the remaining ones 😬
I am surprised Marie didn't call Skyler from the ER to tell her they went straight to the hospital after leaving their house lol
You have NO IDEA just how wild this show is going to be, or how AMAZING these actors can perform. Just fasten your seatbelts and enjoy the ride!
I can't wait for them to get into better caul sall. For them to see it all and how it came to this. Arianna and Maple watching this universe is the magic of shared experience; the appreciation of effective storytelling is our greatest theme park. I listen/watch this while I work and I enjoy every minute of this channel.
20:31
Maple - Jiggling
Arianna - Perfectly Still
We all deal with stress differently.
Walt can't just leave the tracker for Hank to come back and retrieve it because it would show that Walt went to Saul's place and Jesse's house.
The entire show is wonderful but these final 8 episodes are something truly special.
Man, you guys are going to hate Walter SO MUCH, I can’t wait
The writing was so good that they give the audience just enough info to piece things together. So its cool to hear the girls break down the episode in real time. Ozymandias soon 👀
Walt needs Jesse to believe Mike is alive otherwise, Jesse is a loose end who needs to be dealt with. How is that not obvious?
Walt doesn't want Jesse to think bad of him that's why he wants Jesse to believe him he doesn't want Jesse to hate him. And yes Walt wants to take care of Jesse financially too.
The last few episodes of this season has some of the best moments in any show i've ever seen.
Ah yes, the time Hank took the longest dump of all time.
We waited a whole year for this!!!
The “I’m a dying man who runs a car wash, right hand to god that’s all that I am” comment was him demonstrating how convincing he’d sound to a jury & the girl’s seem to think that’s how he sees himself
But that is how he sees himself. Because technically he is dying of cancer again and technically all he is running is a car wash. So yes, that's how he sees himself.
@@John_Locke_108watch the show again. You seem to have missed some big parts. We’ll be here when you get back.
@@John_Locke_108 I don’t think that’s true at all. As evidenced by the immediate “if you don’t know who you see, tread lightly” line.
@@John_Locke_108 He is saying that because on technicality that is true hence the 'Right hand on God' part, because it is true NOW, that's obviously not what he believes. Again no surprise that a person who just comes every weak to whine 'Reactor good, people criticising them are walt stans' has a lack of media literacy.
@@John_Locke_108 wtf are you on. He knows what he is, he literally forced 2 episodes ago a big fish to say his name. He sees himself as a drug kingpin and its absolutely wild that people like you in their defense of their bad understanding of the story say these bonkers takes. The whole series is about Walt feeling alive and powerful again - ofc he does not see himself as a passive victim. He was just trying to convince Hank and lie, like always. And when he sees that he is failing, he immediately threatened Hank.
this is the Walter Heisenberg becomes moment
Tread lightly line is the best line in the series for me.
I think a lesser show would have dragged out the Hank investigation and Walt dancing around it with him for a whole season. Breaking Bad does not fuck around because they realize how the inevitably of that stuff resolving isn’t the interesting bit; the interesting bit is the fallout and what happens next 😉
The final line in that episode is my favourite moment in all of TV history.
If that's true. If you really don't know who I am. Then, maybe your best course, is to tread lightly. BECAUSE I'M HEISENBERG PUNK. Then Walt drops Hank with an RKO! 😂
Walt needs Jesse to believe his lies about Mike because if he doesn't then he is a liability and Walt doesn't want to kill Jesse. Walt needs to reassure himself that Jesse won't rat him out. I think he also needs Jesse to be ok because if Jesse is ok then he didn't really do anything bad.
Dean Norris killed it as Hank for this entire show, but it was always too easy to get distracted by Bryan Cranston's brilliant performance as Walter.
Until this episode.
The initial reaction. Leaving Walt's house. The heart attack. And then we see him reexamine all of his evidence. Hank goes through the entire grieving process. Shock, denial, anger, bargaining, sadness, and acceptance are all over his face without Dean Norris having to say a word.
Finally, the confrontation in the garage. A moment the entire series has been building towards. Bryan and Dean delivered everything we wanted out of that moment, plus a LOT more.
You would think that Walt could have come up with a better lie. If I was Walt, I would have just told Jessie that I made a deal with Mike. Mike gives up his guys. In exchange, I give Mike's granddaughter $5 Million dollars.
A lot of people ask, how could Hank know that Walt bombed Fring? There were plenty of other actors that could have benefited from doing that, including whoever was left of the Cartel after Gus's coup d'etat against Eladio. It's probably because (1) Walt crashed the car to keep Hank from the laundry, which means Walt was probably cooking for Fring and there was evidence in the lab tying him to it, (2) Walt refused DEA protective custody after Fring put a hit on Hank, (3) an "anonymous" tip was left warning of the hit, and (4) after a few days of not knowing Walt's whereabouts, Fring ends up dead from a makeshift pipe bomb, something Walter, as a master chemist, could easily make.
21:14 The bloopers for that part are hilarious, the door kept malfunctioning while they were trying to remain in character
Ya'll better belt in, you ain't seen nothin yet !
Lydia using a rental at the car wash is perfect for her character. She’s so overly paranoid that it makes her suspicious, just like when we first see her meet Mike and she lies about his name to the waitress
7:50
Stay. Out. Of. My. Territory.
Buckle up. This show is about to go from great to incredible from this episode on.
Tread lightly
Can I get a Heisenburger with cheese and a large Meth….i mean Coke
The build up to this point was amazing
NOW THIS IS TELEVISION FOLKS 🥶🥶
Mr. Editor, how do we say your name? Is it pronounced 'Joe'? Never seen a name that short before, its pretty neat.
Hey! Just saw this! You nailed it. Just pronounced like 'Joe'!
Long story short: I used to stream myself playing guitar and singing songs back in like the... 2009-2012 timeframe. I only played late at night after track practice so my audience was largely Norwegian for some reason. They asked my name, I said "Joe", they typed back "Joh?" and I liked it and started going by that. Kinda weird, but I thought it was neat. 🤣
"tread lightly" mic drop
“Can Hank keep a poker face?”
Narrator: Hank could NOT keep a poker face.
Did maple just randomly shout out the nine club??? I love her even more now. 😂
hey babes, it’s just season 5. no one really calls it season 6. just letting ya know!
Amazon is clueless.
I love how frustrated you guys get with Walt. Now you understand why it’s so frustrating seeing people idolize him in those edits
hanks the GOAT
Also dean is a fantastic actor
"I Hate Walt" season 5 episode 9 "Blood Money"
Let's see what else Walt has in store for them to infuriate these two reactors. According to them, Walt is so bad that the cancer itself is the victim.
And they're not wrong for that opinion. He's worse than cancer.
You're right, what an absolute saint he is. Not at all a bad or manipulative person.
@@John_Locke_108 I've never seen a bigger simp than you are for these two lmao
@@deco_boi The main protagonist of a show named 'Breaking Bad' who cooks meth is a Bad guy !? no way, holy shit 🤯
@the_crypter Okay... so you guys _do_ understand the fact that he's bad. What's with all of you criticising those who say the same?
Walter *is* manipulative and does have many faults. But if pointing them out each time is annoying, would you not fault the show for the same? And what else is a reactor supposed to say when the character does the same thing for the 20th time? Nobody's gonna watch someone sit in silence for half an hour.
The last couple of minutes of this episode is so damn good.
There's a great edit of the end scene. Just look up "Walt almost fools hank with disguise"
One my favorite scenes has to be that instant voice change from his cowering, timid voice to *Tread Lightly*
Walt might not be a master meth kingpin, but hes a master at manipulation. 100%
We had to wait almost a year for the payoff and this episode effing DELIVERED. I remember thinking how lesser shows (cough, Dexter, cough) would've stretched out the cat and mouse game for the rest of the season. Not this show. If it makes sense to pull the trigger on the confrontation, then Gilligan pulls the dang trigger baby! What a scene!
Skyler threatening Lydia is idiotic. What is Skyler gonna do ? empty threat from and empty head
You should watch the table read of that scene with Walt and Jesse at Jesse's house talking about Mike Aaron Paul does so good he makes everyone cry in the room
Hank is a beast
Walter needs Jesse to believe him because Jesse is the only person left in Walter's life who he can still manipulate at this point
if you guys hate walt no way you will like tony soprano lol
In case you guys didn’t notice, this was the turning point of the whole show
So looking forward to the series finale here.
Thank you to Joh A. for editing 🍿⭐
This is when I decided Breaking Bad is the greatest show I’ve ever seen.
I feel like Saul could've just set up a bogus fundraiser for the parents of the kid Todd killed similar to that whole Walter Jr website storyline.
The whole Jesse not wanting to keep the money was my least favorite storyline of the entire show
@@theo1216 How would Saul set that up without setting off red flags? Is everyone just going to buy that some random person online decided to set up a fundraiser for a missing kid that isn’t officially declared dead? That would be super suspicious to the detectives involved with that case
@@comeatmebro8120it would be to help find him. It would just be weird because Walt's one worked because it was set up by his son
@@comeatmebro8120 It's pretty common in the real world, communities or concerned citizens putting together relief money for the relatives of people that have gone missing, like the Jay Slater case a few weeks ago. Not long after the search started there was already a fundraiser for the family.
I can't wait for them to lose it over next episode.