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is the one uncorrupted soul in this world (at least to this point). He can’t believe it, of course – from all we’ve seen, Walt Jr. (who Marie will only call ‘Flynn’ now) learn the truth. Marie shows up, tells Skylar that Hank caught him (Hank’s phone call turned out to be what we thought it was: his last) and demands that Walt Jr. What Walt doesn’t know while he’s trying to save some of his own money (the $10-11 million he’s “allowed” to keep), is that the White family is fracturing. For seasons, I’ve been talking about how important Walt’s paternal relationship with Jesse was to his humanity: and when he sends Jesse off to a short stay of torture-flavored execution, it’s clear that the anger and hate has completely consumed Walt’s entire being, leaving only the evil sociopath at his core. It’s only Todd who steps in to “save him”: and even then, Walt doesn’t try to stop anything. He still can’t let go of the idea: and what does anyone do when it all goes to shit? They cling to the one thing we’re always supposed to count on in life: family.īut Walt doesn’t care about his family: sure, Hank’s death shocks him, but it’s not long before he points out Jesse to his murderous crew and stands waiting to watch his face get blown off. Even after Walt spills the beans that all his money is out here, it’s not enough for him to save Hank… but even after he dies, Walt STILL thinks he can find a way out, to fix it and make it all better. He still has a family, so the illusion that it can all be fixed remains in his mind: he tries to talk to Uncle Jack (*shudder*), but Hank (along with everyone else) know that it’s all done for.

Gomez is dead, Hank’s shot in the leg, and Jesse’s nowhere to be found: but Walt still insists there is a solution to the issue.

When it returns, the final gunshots of last week’s shootout ring in the air, and we return to the heart-pounding gunfight between Hank/Gomez and Todd’s crew. The lone and level sands stretch far away.” Of that colossal wreck, boundless and bare ‘Ozymandias’ then fades out the scene before going to credits: the ghosts of the van and the younger, slightly more innocent Walt and Jesse fade from the shot, leaving nothing but the desert – a reference to the final line of the poem tonight’s episode was titled for: By the time he’s on the phone lying to Skylar, it’s already too late for Walt: as he tells Jesse just moments before, “the reaction has begun”. Walt was never really a man driven to help his family: he wanted to make that money to help himself pay for cancer treatment (something he’d never tell his family). Simply put, Walt is the sad clown: by the time he finally gets the attention he wanted, the power and money he always thought he deserved from himself, he failed to realize that he had corrupted his very soul with the rage building in him since he lost the company he co-founded (and the woman he loved). For those unfamiliar, the story of Pagliacci is simple: it’s a play about how revenge and jealousy destroys everything one loves (a fact it states in the prologue and displays over its two acts).

In it, Skylar describes the “ugly” item of Walt’s that she’s selling on eBay (remember the 50th birthday handjob scene?): it’s of the sad clown Canio from Pagliacci (and also Walt’s favorite piece). Now, normally I’m not a fan of the “amended flashback” sequence – but in ‘Ozymandias’, the conversation between Walter and Skyler is arguably the most important of the series. After rambling to a still-green Jesse, Walt steps outside and (with some careful editing and great makeup) show Walt calling Skylar on the phone to tell her the first of his many lies. The episode begins just as Walt is finishing his first cook, the exact moment where he went from being a chemistry teacher to the finest skante chef in the Southwest.

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In keeping with this half-season’s theme of coming full circle, ‘Ozymandias’ opens the same place the pilot opened and last week’s episode ended: the fateful spot of Walt’s first cook in the desert. For a man who purported his criminal activities as something he was doing for his family, Walter White revealed himself to be one of the most selfish, self-preserving humans on the planet, relying on a combination of brains and luck to keep himself afloat over the years. Over the five seasons since the pilot, that illusion’s slowly been stripped away as we learned the story of Gray Matter, and saw Walt’s increasing addiction to the two things eluding him through his entire life: power and money. When Walt began cooking meth at the beginning of Breaking Bad, we saw him as a desperate, dying man doing the only thing he knew how (chemistry) to leave his family with money after his death.