I will be disappointed if Jesse doesn't blow up the lab

Also seems likely Jack will die by inhaling some fumes

+1 for the still shot.

Also, can someone refresh me on the Chilean Connection I've seen mentioned a few times. I'm spacing on that.

Gus was from Chile and did some stuff

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Gus originates from Chile, although his entire history was scrubbed (Hank couldn't even find that he existed - which Gus excused by saying the Pinochet regime was notorious at record-keeping). When Don Eladio killed Gus' cook years ago, Don told Gus that the only reason he didn't kill Gus was, "I know who you are. But understand, you aren't in Chile anymore."

Other than that, we don't know ****, and it seems way too late in the game for anything related to Chile to come up again.

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Granted he's got a barrel full of cash, but he gave Mr. Vacuum $10k just to hang out for a while. That's not someone who can live in a cabin until they die.

So who here had Jesse, Walt Jr, Marie, Holly and Skylar all making it to the finale alive? Not me.

When I saw the guy that got Walt a new identity I cheered because I remembered the guy from Jackie Brown and loved his character in that movie.

Turns out they actually got the idea for the character from his role in Jackie Brown.

http://www.miramax.com/subscript/what-breaking-bad-and-jackie-brown-have-in-common

Count me in as one of those who would be incredibly disappointed if he went Rambo on the Grey Matter founders/HQ. However, it would be badass if he somehow worked his magic to pit the Nazis and Grey Matter against eachother in some type of insane confrontation.

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Did we ever find out who Gus really was?

no we didn't

While I love the idea of Jesse taking Brock under his wing, I do not think that is going to happen. Brock's mother is dead, which means he is in the custody of family members or the state of New Mexico.

Lydia said in the last episode that the Feds are also looking for Jesse. I suspect Jesse would be arrested at the time of, or soon after, picking up Brock.

Jesse and Walt will both be very dead by next Monday. This is not a feel-good show.

Interesting how the ride this show has taken us on has been very meth-y. Dangerous, fun, exciting in the beginning... Got everyone hooked by being new and delightful and interesting, and every episode up since has been a gradually more devastating hit. None of us can stop, and these previous two episodes made us feel awful about everything.

A week from now we are in rehab and having horrible withdrawals.

Walt is dead. Jesse dead. That fat chick at the dairy queen....dead.

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Jesse and Walt will both be very dead by next Monday. This is not a feel-good show.

Interesting how the ride this show has taken us on has been very meth-y. Dangerous, fun, exciting in the beginning... Got everyone hooked by being new and delightful and interesting, and every episode up since has been a gradually more devastating hit. None of us can stop, and these previous two episodes made us feel awful about everything.

A week from now we are in rehab and having horrible withdrawals.

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You could turn this into a 100,000 click article on Salon.com

This is where the ricin for Walt seems to be plausible. Take out nazis, turn himself in to authorities after taking ricin...DEA gets their man, looks like he dies from cancer complications...what happens to money though? Gray Matters blackmail seems plausible as Charlie Rose specifically mentions the perspective that Schwartzes are only making donation to bolster stick price.

Pretty excellent comparison to meth

According to that Yahoo article Gilligan had no intention of revisiting Gray Matter until the lil boy with Cancer mentioned it...so he threw it in. That would seem to indicate Gray Matter is closed. Then again..maybe they are just throwing us for a loop.

Brock isn't riding off into the sunset with Jesse. His grandmother likely has him - recall her watching him when Jesse first met Andrea and Andrea also mentioning that her mom took care of him when Andrea was a junkie.

I agree - as nice as that sounds, Brock is with family and Jesse will most likely be dead.

Jesse is basically a mercy kill at this point. Already couldn't really live with himself before. After seeeing Andrea, he's going to be looking for a way to end it for everyone, including himself.

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Jesse and Walt will both be very dead by next Monday. This is not a feel-good show.

Interesting how the ride this show has taken us on has been very meth-y. Dangerous, fun, exciting in the beginning... Got everyone hooked by being new and delightful and interesting, and every episode up since has been a gradually more devastating hit. None of us can stop, and these previous two episodes made us feel awful about everything.

A week from now we are in rehab and having horrible withdrawals.

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All I know is, when the full theme music kicked in in the last scene when Walt is watching the TV, and we see the look on his face, I got chills.

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did you also get shivers. Come on man, man the F up

Do they show BrBa in the UK? I'll be in London/Aberdeen and I'm debating trying to watch vs. waiting until I get back.

You better watch. Good luck getting back without hearing spoilers.

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Though the one still shot we've gotten so far of Walt is apparently him in front of Grethchen's house.

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i must have missed this. can you post it?

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where the hell is this?

One thought that may or may not have been addressed:

The Nazis have barrels of money. Walt will, in all likelhood, kill them. The money flat out can't go to Skyler/Walt Jr...or Marie...or anyone directly connected to Walt.

Walt is dead from cancer in a matter of days/weeks, and that is assuming he isn't killed in the finale himself.

So what happens to the money?

I'm thinking its burned/destroyed. The feds simply taking it seems too easy.

Thoughts?

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He uses Grey Matter to launder the money to give to Walt jr and Holly.

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It's on Netflix UK on Monday. My wife grew up in the UK. Her best friend and bfs husband stayed with us in April for a week. I showed them the pilot the night before they left. One month later they were completely caught up. Season 5 they netflix.

Director of Granite Slate discussed the episode

http://www.rollingstone.com/movies/news/breaking-bad-director-peter-gould-breaks-down-granite-state-20130924

Stolen from Reddit, but definitely made me think of discussions here

My post will go perfectly with that image above.

A few things:

*Walt's Heisenberg hat was dented in at the top front center when he pulled it out of his suitcase and put it on. Another reference to him getting shot in the head ultimately (like the bullet hole in the car, in the center of his head in the reflection from the Ozmandias episode)?

*In this week's episode, they made a point to show that Lydia uses Stevia in her tea. Could this be setting up what some of you are guessing will happen with the Ricin?

And finally...

*In the 9/22 Talking Bad Vince Gilligan preview for the final episode, he mentions the word "woodworking".

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Is that how you tied it back to the beginning? With the show's original musical theme? I don't think we've ever heard that played as score before.
You're absolutely right. Dave Porter and I discussed this a little bit, and I thought it was absolutely the perfect move. It was his idea, and I think his logic was that this beat in the story is really about Walt becoming what he's going to become. He's been in a state of transformation through the whole show and this moment is, in some ways, his final transformation. What he is now, in my mind, is not Heisenberg or Walter White. This is somebody who is, for better or for worse, a fully different person, and I think that it feels so right that the theme that's been playing through on the title suddenly reaches a crescendo because, now, here he is. Here's the guy we've been waiting for.

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i wonder what a fully broken bad Walter looks like.

is he going to go Driver on the Nazis?

of course, as has been pointed out since the last episode, there will be no redemption.

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