| And not the good kind of Forever |
The first episode opens showing a Walt (with hair!) eating breakfast at a Denny's on his 52nd birthday. There are two ways we can take this scene: It's Walt's evil twin or Walt is on the run and OMG WHAT IS HAPPENING!?!? Either way, it's your call. Vince Gilligan has (allegedly) said he takes what fans are speculating and writes the opposite of that, so I'm just going to pretend it never happened.
| Don't you wish you could do that with every trip to Denny's? |
The rest of episode one is the tying up of loose ends. Killing who needs to be killed, hiding the evidence of poisoned kids, and, oh yeah, taking a page from the Wile E. Coyote playbook and using a giant magnet in an ambulance to destroy damaging evidence...
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| "We'll hide it in an ambulance. Nothing could go wrong." |
...but also uncovering even more damaging evidence. Everything in BB has consequences, yo. But now Walt is setting up his own meth cooking enterprise, and since he's in charge, it's going to be all sunshine and roses like making drugs should be.
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| Bodies in barrels non-withstanding. |
Episode two starts off with some German guy committing suicide via heart paddles rather than face a police interrogation. The delibertate and careful way he goes about it reminded me of Gus, carefully and deliberately using the boxcutter in Season 4 Episode 1: Boxcutter. Y'all know what happened there.
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| That. |
Anyway, the most important thing to take away from this episode is that Mike is in like Flynn* with Walt's new and improved meth-making business because he needs money, even though he thinks Walt is heading for disaster. Silly Mike.
Episode Three is a lesson in economics. Walt and Jesse cook, Mike distributes, then sets up three piles of cash- their cuts. Then, just like a father explaining how his lawn maintenance business works, he starts taking away from the piles for each expenditure. The biggest expenditure: keeping the people in prison quiet so they all don't go down.
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| "Don't go buying a fancy sports car just yet, young man." |
That's unexpected, so of course Walt throws a temper tantrum. It's kind of what he does when he doesn't get his way. That or use some kind of evil Sith mind trick to get what he wants, but that doesn't work on this guy:
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| "That doesn't work when my granddaughter does it, and I like her." |
Episode Four: Walt's Super-Sweet 51st Birthday is about the bling. He gets rid of the Pontiak Aztek that's been through so much with him...
And leases a couple of fancy sports cars: one for him and one to buy the love of his son Flynn (known for his penchant for eating breakfast).
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| Walt's the cool parent. He's got cancer AND a Chrysler 300! |
He also gets a sweet watch from the kid whose life he's totally ruined even though Jesse doesn't know it.
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| "No guilt, but you're seriously like my surrogate father, yo." |
Oh, and his wife gets him a great present: she tries to kill herself. It's what every man dreams of, right?
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| Happy Birthday Honey! |
So Skyler doesn't die, much to the chagrin of the audience, who HATES the character. I do too, even though I know that I would probably act the same way if my husband started cooking meth, putting the family in danger, and then didn't leave when I tried to divorce him. She's actually pretty reasonable considering the circumstances. But we still hate her. Sorry, Skyler, the audience is Team Walt and you're Team Walt's Cancer.
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| Consider this item on my Christmas list |
*After writing this I learned I use this phrase incorrectly, as it means "attained a desired goal" not "all the way in." I do not intend to stop using it incorrectly however.
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