tackling his father and protecting his mother, Walt screams at them: “What the hell is wrong with you?! We’re a family!” Next, after a shocking knife fight between Skyler and Walt (never thought I’d be writing that) and Walter Jr. Walt’s insane rationalization and her participation in it have come to an end.
But then Skyler makes her stand - she makes a decision that it’s enough. You killed Hank.” This was an intriguing episode for Skyler because she was forced to tell the hardest secret to her son, have his mind blown and then filled with disbelief and rage as he says she’s no better than his father. “Where is Hank?” she keeps asking Walt, who puts her off. come home to find that Walt isn’t in custody, Skyler knows exactly what that means.
The enormity of this episode kept revealing itself. A succession of long shots, each farther from the last, with the landscape growing and Walt shrinking was a wonderful piece of work from Johnson. With Walt’s car out of gas, he rolls the heavy barrel of money through the oppressive desert. Of course, it wouldn’t be Breaking Bad if the writers didn’t offer us another iconic moment in the ABQ desert. He was back to business, driving what was left of the money home. He turns the mirror away.īut like all things with Walt, even new revelations about the depth of his amoral being were not enough to make him stop and take account. As Jack and the goons leave, Walt gets in the car and looks slowly into the rear view mirror, where he sees himself as he truly is now. Gomey and Hank are dumped in the pit Walt had originally dug to hide his money. How could you do this, Walt? How can one man have become so evil, so cold-blooded?įrom there, the accelerator remained floored. White” from the day he met him in chemistry class. I loved the subtle look of head-shaking disbelief that Jesse gave the man he’s called “Mr. This, with two episodes to go, felt like the biggest reveal in all five seasons - the writers flipping almost all the cards over, playing their hands, ending the suspense (and yet, most people were still probably barely breathing or stuck to the ceiling). In “Ozymandias,” it was like every moment contained a line or an action that you couldn’t believe was playing out– partly because we’ve all been waiting for them to unfold, pretty much since the show began but most definitely, and with authority, in this final season. “I could have saved her, but I didn’t.” He tells Jesse how his girlfriend choked on her own vomit - it’s Walt twisting the knife into Jesse because, well, he’s Scarface now. “I watched Jane die,” he says with concentrated malice. PHOTOS: ‘Breaking Bad’: 20 Most Shocking DeathsĪs they drag Jesse away, kicking and screaming, Walt tells them to wait. But Todd saves Jesse because he realizes Jesse came with Hank and Gomey, so why not find out what he told them. When Jack puts the gun to Jesse’s head and asks if it’s a go, Walt stares coldly at Jesse and nods yes. Chips and turn him into Scarface” was completed. I might even argue that’s the precise moment that Gilligan’s plan to “take Mr. You still owe me,” he says to Jack, who in turn replies, “If you can find him, we’ll kill him.” The elapsed time is a wonderful feint because of what Walt does before they leave.
#WALTER WHITE OZYMANDIAS PLUS#
Other elements play out - the hint being that Walt said nothing and Jack and his Nazi pals, plus Todd (“Sorry for your loss”) have stolen all but one barrel of Walt’s money and are about to leave. Johnson, in the middle of a tense scene after Hank has been shot dead in front of Walt, lets Walt’s eyes drift under the Cadillac where Jesse has avoided detection. This episode was written by Moira Walley-Beckett and directed by Rian Johnson. “If all this is true and you knew about it, then you’re as bad as him.”Įxcept that she’s not, because it would be almost impossible to be as bad, broken, disillusioned, unrepentant and evil as Walt. “How can you keep this a secret? Why would you go along?” he yells at Skyler. The episode seemed to race through reveals and shocking moments - Walter Jr.’s anguish and anger at both of his parents and calling out Skyler for being an accomplice.
In scenes that rushed by so quickly and were heart-stopping in their intensity and crushing truth, the White family lies came undone.īut it didn’t stop there. Marie, still thinking Hank is alive, confronts Skyler and makes her tell Walter Jr. Hank’s death both simultaneously crushes Walt and in turn makes him embrace the evil that he’s become. Hank lives long enough to be shot dead in cold blood by Jack. It was an episode that put an exclamation point of a climax on last week’s unfinished but predictably bad business: Gomey is killed in the shootout. The lone and level sands stretch far away. Of that colossal wreck, boundless and bare
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