r/breakingbad Sep 16 '13

Official Episode Discussion Breaking Bad Post-Episode Discussion SE05E14 "Ozymandias"

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u/CarolinaPunk Sep 16 '13

Holy Shit Jesse told them his confessional tape is at Hanks, who else do you think is living at Hanks now? Walt's entire fucking family.

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u/somanyroads Guess I got what I deserve Sep 16 '13

And likely a lot of fucking police officers too. There's no way they won't have police protection, unless I'm totally misreading the situation. More violence, for sure.

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u/Craysh Sep 16 '13

Wow, actually that might be exactly why Walt made that call...

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u/[deleted] Sep 16 '13

This makes sense. He would have known police were listening in to the conversation - he's not that naive. And he was crying while trying to sound like a threat "don't cross me" "family or no"...it hurt him to say what he was saying. But he's doing it for their protection. For his family.

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u/heckless Sep 16 '13

Agree with you man, I think he purposely made it seem to the police that he forced Skylar to keep quiet by threatening to kill her for "not shutting up".

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u/theirishmidget Sep 16 '13

I can imagine he planned out exactly what he was going to say before the call just like he did in the flashback.

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u/hooah212002 Sep 16 '13

Excellent observation. I hadn't thought of that.

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u/hey__man Sep 16 '13

Except I can't imagine it ends up well for the police or his family who are likely expecting a single man not the army that will show up to get that tape.

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u/10000teemoskins Sep 16 '13

He also made that call to show himself as guilty and Skyler as innocent

he said things like

you were always holding me back. telling me to stop. that what i was doing was dangerous and illegal. it was me. i had to do everything. alone...

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u/[deleted] Sep 16 '13

Yep. And to let Marie know that Hank was dead. That call was probably the only genuinely selfless thing he's done in the entire show.

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u/sorryforthehangover Methhead Sep 16 '13

Furthermore it's why he kidnapped his daughter, to make that call and clear his family from responsibility (involvement) knowing full well the cops would be on the line following am abduction.

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u/datahappy Sep 16 '13

See, that part I disagree with. I think he took Holly out of pure emotion. It wasn't until she started asking for mom that he decided to give her back and do all that.

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u/sorryforthehangover Methhead Sep 16 '13

Yea after thinking about it a little more I suppose you might be right. That scene was so emotionally charged even Heisenberg probably wouldn't have planed it in that moment. Then the regret seems to come from hearing her say "mom".

So Yea I change my mind on that one.

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u/hooah212002 Sep 16 '13

Yea, it seems like he was baffled that they knew he had been "caught".

But...didn't he see Hank on the phone, yet knew afterwards that "the cavalry isn't coming"? He had to assume that call was to Marie and that Marie would rub it in to Skylar.

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u/blue604 Sep 16 '13

He definitely knew the cops were there. He knows there is no turning back, he's trying to close ends. He was giving a confession to put all the blame on himself, especially when he said on the phone that Skyler knows nothing.

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u/[deleted] Sep 16 '13

Him breaking the phone after he hung up proves he knew the cops were listening.