"All BAD Things Must Come to an End" - Breaking Bad Season 5: Part 2 Official Thread (SPOILERS)

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IGN has a very detailed description of the footage. DO NOT READ THIS IF YOU DON'T WANT TO KNOW HOW THE NEW EPISODE STARTS:

Comic-Con: Breaking Bad Cast and Creator Preview the Show's Ending And Debut a New Scene - IGN

We begin with a loud noise that sounds like an airplane engine, but is revealed to be the sound of skateboards as we see some teenagers skating in the swimming pool of an abandoned house. As we cut to the street outside, something becomes clear… We are at Walter and Skyler’s house, but clearly no one has lived in it for a long time. There is a chained gate in front and the house looks terrible.

Sitting in a car out front is Walt, appearing as he did in the Season 5 flash-forward, with a full head of hair and a beard, looking very disheveled, with a stained shirt. He gets out of the car and opens the trunk, where we see the gun he got in that same premiere episode. He ignores the gun and take a tire iron. He manages to squeeze through the small space where the gate is chained and uses the tire iron to break the lock on the front door, going inside. As Walter closes the door behind him, he lets out a small cough.

The house looks terrible inside. People have tagged the walls and flies fill the kitchen, indicating food was left behind – and that the occupants of the house didn’t have time to prepare for their departure. But the most notable thing is the giant word “Heisenberg” spray-painted on the wall of the living room.

Walt looks at the word and then hears the kids skating in the pool, pausing to glance through the blinds at them. He then goes down the hall to the bedroom, where he unscrews a certain wall socket plate… and retrieves the ricin he hid there. As Walt exists the house and goes back to his car, his neighbor has just parked and is taking a bag of groceries from her car.

She sees Walt and suddenly freezes, mouth agape. “Hello, Carol” says Walt, as Carol drops the grocery bag to the ground in shock.

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i caught up to this entire show from episode 1 in 2 and a half weeks and cot damnit that cliff hanger!!!!

of all the seasons i had watched that actually left me wondering what the fukk is gonna happen now
 
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seasons 2-5 all dealt with Walt/Jesse beefing... I was hoping that season 6 would be them coming together one last time to try and escape the mess they've made.

Tony/Chris, Shane/Vic, Nucky/Jimmy (boardwalk's chances to be a great show instead of a very good one died with Jimmy)...Not the same class of show but SOA with Jax/Clay... Point is the great crime dramas, except the wire, have all had this storyline and it is getting old

Just like deep down Walt still cared for Skyler even after all their BS, I still feel Walt sees Jesse as a son and Jesse sees Walt as a father the one guy who actually believed in him. I don't want to see Walt kill jesse and its unlikely jesse will ever find out bout jane/brock
 

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seasons 2-5 all dealt with Walt/Jesse beefing... I was hoping that season 6 would be them coming together one last time to try and escape the mess they've made.

Tony/Chris, Shane/Vic, Nucky/Jimmy (boardwalk's chances to be a great show instead of a very good one died with Jimmy)...Not the same class of show but SOA with Jax/Clay... Point is the great crime dramas, except the wire, have all had this storyline and it is getting old

Just like deep down Walt still cared for Skyler even after all their BS, I still feel Walt sees Jesse as a son and Jesse sees Walt as a father the one guy who actually believed in him. I don't want to see Walt kill jesse and its unlikely jesse will ever find out bout jane/brock

"The Wire" had it too. Avon and Stringer.

It's used often because it works. I'm sure there's a trope for it. I have no idea if that's where "Breaking Bad" is heading though. All I know is Jesse is scared of Walt, and rightfully so.

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yeah forgot bout avon/stringer

if jesse somehow kills walt then it would be an interesting twist, but the same old play wouldn't set well with me

I was with this show from the beginning...the wire was in its last season and the sopranos had ended the summer before so I was hoping this would be the next great drama. Gof I hope this ends well
 

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I picked up on something when guys were taking on parts of people he killed, like Krazy 8 with the bread, and Mike with the drinks, but i just thought for a second, Walt maybe out of the business but he may have a crew like Gus and Mike did. A team to do his dirty work, he made millions and Mike went into detail on how he vetted people, imagine Walt coming back with the M60 to just plant on it Hank, having evidence show that Hank was the real mastermind the whole, he could show that Hank refused promotions to run in local meth ring with 1st Gus and Gale and when that failed he forces his own brother in law to cook with a low level crook he had busted in Jesse. He could use the M60 and shoot up the new lab or something and have the evidence point towards Hank, i am sure Saul purchased some feds with all the money they were making. Imagine thinks he got Walt and then he comes to find out Walt played him and that the only thing he can do is kill himself from the shame.
 

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yeah forgot bout avon/stringer

if jesse somehow kills walt then it would be an interesting twist, but the same old play wouldn't set well with me

I was with this show from the beginning...the wire was in its last season and the sopranos had ended the summer before so I was hoping this would be the next great drama. Gof I hope this ends well

Stringer/Avon is a different story. All the other ones your listed were fathers and sons (surrogate fathers specifically). Stringer and Avon was your standard brother vs. brother. Most major crime dramas of the past 10 years have retold some form of Hamlet/Henry IV part 1, but the stringer and avon conflict isn't a great example of that.
 

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"Breaking Bad" will be featured in this week's TV Guide, with a preview of the final eps:



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Behind the scenes look at the final 8 eps. There is a spoiler about half way through so I'll spoiler tag it:

Behind the Scenes of Breaking Bad's Shocking Final Showdown - Today's News: Our Take | TVGuide.com

When we last saw Walter White (three-time Emmy winner Bryan Cranston), he had amassed more money than anyone who didn't have a corner office at Goldman Sachs, ordered just about anyone who could connect him to his meth operation shivved with extreme prejudice and ultimately opted to retire from his immensely lucrative and deadly empire.

There were downsides, though: He became estranged from his protégé Jesse Pinkman (two-time Emmy winner Aaron Paul), he could barely keep his marriage to Skyler (Anna Gunn) intact and his DEA agent brother-in-law, Hank (Dean Norris), finally figured out that Walt was the drug kingpin Heisenberg, whom he'd been chasing for so long.

The final eight episodes of "Breaking Bad"will only get more disturbing. "This season slaughters every past season," Paul says. "We're burning every bridge, but we're not being dark just to be dark. It just plummets."

In other words: Fasten your seat belts. "It's not pretty — it's as it should be," says Gunn. "It's a painful place: the crumbling of every single character."

"This is a race to the finish," says creator Vince Gilligan. "We leave it all on the field. No loose ends go untied. It's a fast-moving eight episodes."

Norris originally asked to be killed off before the final episodes so he could pursue another role, but he's glad Gilligan turned him down. "This last eight, they've outdone themselves," he says. "It's going out on a huge note. All of my favorite episodes are going to be in these last eight. This season is Hank's revenge."

Betsy Brandt, who plays Hank's wife, Marie, says the finale is "true to each of the characters, to who they are. My last day, I didn't want to go into work. I was crying before I went into hair and makeup."

On this late January morning, as Episode 4 of the final eight is being shot, it's unseasonably frigid in Albuquerque. In one scene, Paul has to remove his shirt outdoors, which he stoically endures, though the temperature barely breaks 30 degrees. In another sequence shooting today, Hank angrily drives Jesse around the downtown block that circles the Albuquerque police station.

Since it's freezing outside, the curator of the nearby Albuquerque Police Museum invites us inside to conduct interviews and even thoughtfully sets us up next to an exhibit featuring beakers and flasks. "It's a perfect opportunity for me to cook up one last batch," Cranston says with a laugh.

The actor considers Walter's unprecedented-for-TV descent from milquetoast science teacher to ruthless drug lord. "People ask, 'Was Heisenberg always there — the darkness — or did he have to completely adopt a new personality to survive?' And my answer is the former — he was always there," Cranston says. "We are built with the capability of being light or dark or anywhere in between. Given the right set of circumstances, anyone can become dangerous. And here you have a man who's a sweet guy, a smart man, and he has dark thoughts. The rest of us are just not exposing our dark thoughts to the world."

Cranston says the same applies to Skyler. "We firmly believed initially that Skyler was not to be turned," he says. "But everybody has a little bit of larceny in them, and she was tempted. She's looking at this pragmatically: 'My husband's going to be dead soon — what are my options?' Everybody's morality line fluctuates with each situation."

Paul ponders the fact that Jesse has become the show's unlikely ethical center. "I'm rewatching the series now for the first time, and this incredible arc that's been given to him is amazing. To have this burnout loser be, at the end of the show, the moral compass — to be the one who truly thinks before he acts — is just amazing."

"Breaking Bad" premieres Sunday, August 11 on AMC.

For more with the cast of "Breaking Bad," pick up this week's issue of TV Guide Magazine, on newsstands Thursday, July 25.

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