Synopsis:



This is the penultimate episode of the season.

If I was Jesse I would just walk away from those people that offed Combo and never look back, considering it a cost of doing business and a lesson learned. But I guess that's why Jesse's an idiot.

FYI: According to my guide, next week's episode (season finale) will be
1hr and 47 min.

wow

People keep saying this, but Jesse's not an idiot. He's just reactionary and immature. But he's in many ways smarter than Walt about the realities of their business.

Wow... what an opening!

Holy SHIT!

Holy shit!

What an ending!

Did anyone see that shit coming?

holy shit indeed

Holy mother of god

my exact reaction...."holy shit!"

Yeah what the FUCK.

I dont even know what to say. I did not see that coming in the slightest.

Gus is one of the best villains ever in TV or movies.

Um... that was... well, that was... um, yeah.

Gus who?

Gus is old news.

There's a new man in town and his name is Walt.

Correction: His name is Heisenberg.

Gus may respect Walt's intelligence, but even after this, I still am not sure he'd be afraid of him.

That was nuts.

So the dealers went back and killed the kid, knowing Jesse'd come after them, which of course he did. So Walt killed them purely to save Jesse? (And Walt did not think twice about pulling out that gun and shooting the guy in the head.) Wow...

Also Marie is a good wife.

This episode was called "Half Measures", three guesses what the next episode's called...

I was wondering if Walt killed them to save Jessie, or after seeing the news if he couldn't live with them getting away with killing a kid either.

But my guess is it's the Jessie reason.

Very tense ending. One thing I wondered about though, would Gus really be meeting with street-level dealers face-to-face? Is his identity basically an open secret then?

Also, I wonder if Skyler looking up "Money Laundering" on Wikipedia (LOL) was in any way Gilligan referencing the last X-Files movie where Scully looks up "Stem Cell Research" on Google a few days before doing the procedure - that's what I thought of, anyway.

I was going to post this. Gus has been portrayed as working in the shadows, taking extreme precautions, never working with drug addicts etc... now we show him having a sit down with 2 street dealers.. and his top chemists.

I just didn't buy this - it kind of brought Gus down a bit in my eyes..but it did move the plot forward.

There is no way I will be able to stay up until midnight to watch the finale next week. I'll have to DVR and watch it on monday night.

It made me think about Office Space, when they were looking up money laundering in the dictionary.

I was also surprised that Gus would be meeting with dealers.

Whew! What.an.episode!

I was hoping Walt would come in and stop/save Jessie, but I didn't think he'd do that! Wow.

at Sklyer looking up money laundering on wikipedia

I also thought it was a bit weird to see Gus meeting with the dealers. I too pictured him in the background or the shadows running things.