Last night's episode begins with an show down between a meth manufacturer and law enforcement. Fortunately for Walt, the aforementioned meth cooker, he is only pulled over for having a broken windshield. He explains to the officer that the windshield was damaged by falling debris from the plane crash. Unmoved, the officer writes Walt a citation, to which Walt reacts with a conniption that results in him being pepper sprayed and hauled back to the station. Luckily Hank pulls a few strings and Walt is released without charge.
From the opening moments and through the entire episode Walt appears to be completely shell-shocked. His face is blank and expressionless, except when he is lecturing a police officer about the first amendment. I don't know if it is the plane crash, or the separation from his wife, or the fact that he is coming to grips with the fact that now that he has beaten cancer he has to live with all of the terrible things he has caused, but it seems like he is suffering from some sort of PTSD.
Meanwhile, Jesse appears to be doing pretty well, all things considered. He drives past his old house and sees his father there fixing the place up. His father treats him coolly and tells Jesse that he plans on selling the house. Jesse, now thinking with a sober mind, formulates a plan to both screw over his parents, who he still seems to resent, as well as get his home back. He enlists Saul, who brokers a deal with Jesse's parents to sell the house at half the asking price as long as the fact that there was at one point a meth lab housed in the basement stays buried.
Walt also meets with Saul in this episode. Saul tries, unsuccessfully, to talk Walt into rejoining the meth cooking fraternity. Unlike Jesse, who admits to "being the bad guy" in the previous episode, Walt appears to still be in denial about all of the pain he has caused. He tells Saul he can't get back into the meth game because he "can't be the bad guy". When will he realize, like Jesse has, that he already is the bad guy? Saul attempts to convince Walt that Skylar has too much to lose to ever rat him out to the police, but just to be sure Saul, without Walt's knowledge, hires a man to keep surveillance (or is he up to something more sinister?) on her.
The bad ass Mexican dudes, who it turns out are cousins, reappear as well. This time they have made their way into the U.S. and are right in Walt's neck of the woods. After a strange scene involving an old man in a nursing home and a Ouija board, the cousins learn the true identity of the man they are a after, Walter White. (It has been awhile since I have watched any of the episodes from the older seasons, but is the old guy in the nursing home someone I should recognize? How does he know Walt?)
After a slow-burn for most the episode, things get pretty intense in the last couple of minutes as a confluence of danger comes to a head at the White residence. Walt arrives at the house only to discover that Skylar has changed the locks. While Walt is busy trying to break into his own former residence, the guy that Saul has hired to keep surveillance on Skylar is bugging the phones and house. Walt successfully gains entrance and hops in the shower. Meanwhile, as Saul's man watches from across the street, a car pulls up and the Mexican cousins, wielding a large axe, step out and head toward the door. The man watching across the street makes phone call to Gus Fring, the guy at the chicken restaurant. Before Walt steps out of the shower and is, presumably, chopped to bits, one of the Mexicans gets a text message that reads, "POLLO" and Walt is saved for the moment.
So things are bit more clear now, but just barely. We know that the Mexican cousins know that Walt is Heisenberg. We know that Fring is connected to the cousins, but we don't know how and to what extent. We also don't know why they are after Walt or what Saul has in mind for Skylar. Lastly, we still don't know what the significance of that eye Walt is always carrying around. I expect the pace of the season to pick up considerably next week. Needless to say, I'm pretty pumped.
Leftovers:
Flynn now would like to be referred to as Walter Jr. again.
There is something going on in this show with pools. There are always shots of pools, Walter is always pulling something out of or throwing something into a pool. Any guesses as to what the symbolism of the pool means? If I had to take a wild guess, I would say that in the last episode of the show Walt dies in a pool...
Marie, Skylar's sister, seems to know something fishy is going on with Skylar and Walt's separation. If she were to find out the truth, would she tell Hank? And even if she did, would Hank take Walt down? I think he would.
I would probably still eat that "roof pizza".
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