How does a person go from a bruised ego to just killing somebody in cold blood? There were plenty of times where Mike 'bruised his ego' and he didn't kill him then didn't he.
Clearly Walt had killing Mike on the top of his mind, but would make that decision based on whatever convo they had. If was a satisfactory convo he might not have done anything. Mike just accelerated what was already on Heisenberg's brain by pissing him off.
There is no other point in the series where Walt has helped Mike so much, and received nothing but disrespect in return.
In this ep Walt secured Mike's $5 mill, warned him about the DEA coming for him,
and brought him his go-bag and money. The scene showed Mike would
never respect him, no matter what he did.
So yeah, that's why it's a little deeper than any other time Mike "bruised his ego". This is the last time they'd interact with each other.
And it wasn't a satisfactory conversation and Walt still let him take the bag from him, turn his back, and walk away after refusing to hand over the list of names.
So if killing Mike was
anywhere in his thought process why didn't he do it then? He blurted out "you're welcome!" because all he wanted was a "thank you". He wanted respect from Mike, for once.
I don't even understand how this is a topic of discussion. If killing Mike was at "the top of his mind" he had a full 5 minute scene to do it. He barely did it, at the ass-end of the scene, and then immediately regretted it as "something that could've been avoided".
What are people seeing in this scene? I honestly don't get it.
Fred.
After spending a whole couple episodes getting out of the game and making that explicitly clear to his former partners in crime, he's going to kill the fukking brother in law of the DEA agent that's on his ass? That's how Mike is going to exit the game?
At that point, Mike was the least dangerous to Walt then he'd ever been. Mike could have genuinely killed Walt multiple times this season already, and Walt never reacted as scared as the normal person would because he knew he had some leverage and that Mike was a reasonable guy. Getting out of the game was not going to magically make Mike reckless enough to kill Walt. I'm willing to say that Walt maybe was pushed to kill him because of his ego in the end, but the premeditation was there as far as killing Mike being an option in the first place. That scene would be executed much better minus the lamentation about being able to get the list from Lydia. That's Walt's true Breaking Bad moment. The forced and illogical remorse does nothing for the scene.
what ricin?
the flower.
what movie is this?
