[Brando]

Originally Posted by Anyong Bluth

I dont see why theyd come after him with everyone dead and that would make for a rather short story to play out in just the final 7 episodes.

Though the dealer he got his grande gun from did explicitly mention he didnt want the gun to end up on the other side of the border.

I still think or starting to think its possible that Hank ends up dead and Walt is somehow responsible - though I have trouble seeing him do it himself unless backed into a no choice corner. Hank dead, and Marie or Steve discover Walt when going through all the case file boxes he had delivered to the house.

That'd be crazy if Marie end up being the one to take out Walt for Hank. Walt would never see it coming and completely with his guard down. Lets not forget she has her own masked self- the compulsive shoplifter, and she was the one that lost her temper and drove over the RC car- which made an appearance last night as you watched Walt following in as he pulled up to Hank's place and was very attentive to avoid the RC car.

Was old Walt a man thought capable of murder - by how Hank treated Walt, it was almost as if he looked at him about as formidable as Junior and completely clueless of the very real threat and source of his obsession Walt actually was. Same goes for Jesse- a lost twerp with little direction and only guilty of rather minor and harmless mischief as a 2 bit dealer/cook that was essentially making some walking money and a pizza here and there. Then pushed by the circumstance goes deadeye killer staring Gail eye to eye before firing off the killshot point blank. Mind you, Gail wasn't even a transgressor, paying for deeds in any retributive manner of justice like with killing Crazy 8 given his death was reactive to his initial attempt to kill Walt and Jesse, and then planning a second attempt with dish shard.

Not saying it will happen, but Marie's motive should Hank die is more than plausible as Breaking Bad has consistly drawn from the idea of trying to rationalize away any heinous act as Walt has done over and over falling prey to the idea that his superior intellect grants him the privilege of assuming his logical deduction soundly wraps him in absolution by means of justification for his actions which is so often played up for the noble cause of his love and devoution to his family no matter because the ends will always justify the means. He clearly played that card in accepting to poison a child to manipulate Jesse, and once again invokes family when hashing it out with Hank in the attempt to emotional neuter Hank to sit on his discovery.

Notice that in the conversation with Jesse he never once says anything like, I didnt kill Mike. In the scene he consistly utters at least 3 or more times I need you to believe me. Jesse has it figured out, and Walt precisely phrases his need for Jesse to believe him, because Walt is now truly the bad guy and his homelife, father role is his "make believe" mask, so Jesse needs to believe and get back on board with keeping up with shirade of appearances.

Walt offs Todd for making an inferior product, the Chechs off Schuyler as payback and press Jesse into service.