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person then. Everyone knows this is Ern writing about this show. After this
episode, I just kind of sat there for 30 seconds with my mouth hanging open. I
can’t decide if that ending was horrifying or awesome. At the beginning of the
episode, a little kid is riding a motorized bike. Is this a dirt bike? Sorry, I
was a peasant growing up. My parents made me pedal. Anyway, it looks pretty
cool and I want one. The little boy is cute. He stops to pick up a tarantula
and put it in a jar. It’s neat how he’s not afraid of it at all.
Walt
bugs Hank’s office, and Mike forces Lydia to report the bug to Hank so that
they can see if the police planted the trackers. It turns out Mike was wrong
about Lydia. The F.B.I. planted them. Lydia tells Jesse, Walt, and Mike that
they can rob a freight train to get methylamine. Yes, I keep having to look
that word up in order to spell it right. I got a D in chemistry in high school.
More fun facts about Ern! No? Okay, back to the show. Mike says that in order
to rob the train, they will have to kill the conductor and engineer onboard.
Mike
makes it clear that there are two kinds of heists: Heists where the perps get
away with it and heists with witnesses. Walt strongly considers killing the
men, but Jesse won’t have it because Jesse is the best. Instead, Jesse comes up
with this insanely brilliant idea to stop the train, drain the methylamine, and
then replace it with water, using pre-prepared, buried tanks and hoses. That
way, when the tank is weighed, no one would even know the train had been
robbed. When the buyers find diluted methylamine (by only 4%, by the way), they
will blame the supplier (China). It’s so smart, it’s scary. Jesse is a genius
when he’s not on meth. He’s the MVP so far. Remember the magnets idea too?
They
get Todd (Landry from Friday Night Lights) to help with the actual deed. Shockingly,
they pull it off. No one sees them. The train stops because they planted another
of their guys’ trucks in the middle of the tracks so that the train had to try to
get that truck moving again. It’s a tense, long scene, and it’s great. The train
starts moving just when they are finishing up. Jesse almost gets run over by the
train. Todd has to jump. They all meet under the tracks as the train leaves. Walt
laughs. Jesse says, “YEAH BITCH.” Because I’ve seen this show, I know that the episode
can’t end this way, with the success. This show is too dark for that.
That’s
when I remembered the kid from the cold open. Literally five seconds later we see
him. He waves hi to the three thieves. Todd pulls out a gun. Jesse screams in protest.
Todd shoots the kid in the head. Oh, Jesse is gonna KILL this guy. Even evil Walt
looked shocked. In other news, Flynn is emo. No one cares. No one shoots him in
the head. It should have been Flynn. Sklyer is a little more sane in this
episode, and she and Walt have reached some sort of (probably temporary) deal
where Skyler will keep doing Walt’s dirty work if he lets the kids stay with
her sister. In order to drive home the point that this is a heist episode, the
movie Heat is referenced.
Episode grade: A
SHOCKED is my word at the end of this episode. At the beginning I was "what, who's that kid?!". Poor kid!
ReplyDeleteIn other news, how are they going to explain to everyone not being able to raise their own children anymore? That's just too much for my brain to wrap it up.
Oh, and by the way, I may not comment, but I always read your Breaking Bad posts. Well actually every post you write.
EVERY post? Well...I approve. :-)
DeleteSkyler and Walt will probably just keep the mental health excuse going and say Skyler is highly stressed and unhappy.