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I saw it as Walt and his ego being his usual self feeling the need to prove how clever he is and letting Mike know he can do it without him. anyway. There seemed to be regret from Walt instantly after he shot him but once he found him down on the bank there was no empathy that I could see.

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Glasgowchivas

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It was

a heat of the moment rage killing brought on by Walt's anger at being accused by Mike as to being the cause of everyone's problems and his frustration at being unable to get the names of the nine guys from Mike. He (wrongly) saw Mike's departure as leaving him at the mercy of the guys in lockup and decided to kill Mike for it. Only after the fact does he remember Lydia and therefore, to me, his apology and regret over his actions was genuine and all the more repulsive.

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The way i saw it was Walt didn't mean, or really want to shoot Mike, but Mike not giving him the 9 guys details plus the "insult" of it all being his fault got Walt's blood up & as Mike started to drive away Walt shot, it was all very spur of the moment & half assed. If Walt had planned to kill Mike i think he would have done it a bit better than this. Walt seemed in shock after doing it & more scared than anything, especially as he opened the car door. Then when he found Mike down the by the river & realises that Mike isn't out to shoot him back he kinda just realises how he could have got the names from Lydia & how stupid & pointless it was. Mike rightly tells him to STFU but i certainly didn't see it as fake. I think it was just a moment of realisation of what a tit he is.

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I love the way the writers mess with your expectations. At first it was like "Shit Mike got away, Walt is fucked!", then you see his car veer off and it's "okay, he got him." Then "Wait, he's gone! Walt's back to being fucked again", and finally "Oh. Mike really is dead :(".

I wonder how they'll bring Jesse back into now he's "out". Maybe he'll go back to his gf and Brock will say something about the poisoning (unlikely - a bit contrived).

Also, when do we think the time-lapse will occur, when Walt grows his hair and beard. After the next episode? Or right near the end of the run?

Finally, isn't shanking nine different inmates going to be an impossible task? Once more than a couple go down, the rest will be put under guard pretty sharpish. A better option for Walt would be to find a way to continue to pay them.

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aren't you guys forgetting that

none of those 9 guys can lead the police to Walt or Jessie can they? Not directly anyway. Only via Lydia surely?

I think that Lawyer will tell the police everything he knows anyway

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Glasgowchivas

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Finally, isn't shanking nine different inmates going to be an impossible task? Once more than a couple go down, the rest will be put under guard pretty sharpish. A better option for Walt would be to find a way to continue to pay them.

Walt has a vial or ricin. Easier to poison them than shank them I think.

aren't you guys forgetting that

none of those 9 guys can lead the police to Walt or Jessie can they? Not directly anyway. Only via Lydia surely?

I think that Lawyer will tell the police everything he knows anyway

Some of them can identify Walt and Jesse as they were laundromat employees who saw them come and go to the lab and helped with deliveries etc

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Walt has a vial or ricin. Easier to poison them than shank them I think.

Maybe. Walt would have to slip Todd's prison contact a load of ricin and poison all of their soups at the same time. Assuming they are all in the same jail. The idea of killing all nine before the authorities make the connection and put the rest under protection is a little far-fetched.

Actually, are they all in prison? Or is it just some of them e.g the laundry manager?

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Glasgowchivas

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Maybe. Walt would have to slip Todd's prison contact a load of ricin and poison all of their soups at the same time. Assuming they are all in the same jail. The idea of killing all nine before the authorities make the connection and put the rest under protection is a little far-fetched.

Actually, are they all in prison? Or is it just some of them e.g the laundry manager?

Yes it would have to be carefully co-ordinated but it's not impossible. Not for Heisenberg. All nine are in jail and are withstanding pressure from the DEA as their familes are telling them that Mike's "legacy" payments are coming through regularly. This is why Walt needs to take them out as now that Mike is dead and his lawyer flipped the nine guys will get no more money and have no more reason to keep silent.

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Ricin + Todd's contacts = 9 pretty easily dead prison naughties. It'll raise suspicion of course which I reckon will trigger Hank's final search for Heisenburg and the end of the show. Walt's gun is to shoot his son, who backchats him one too many times during breakfast. Ricin is the perfect way to take the 9 out. I might make some actually, sounds well easy to drop it into my mates' food for a laugh.

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Still, he did poison a child. I doubt it was pleasant for Brock. You're not really defending Walt's actions at this point, are you?

Well it was a gamble, but his actions did save Hank's life and probably also his own. So, you know....

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SpagMasterSwift

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So many conflicting emotions.

I accidentally saw that

river gif so was waiting to see who was gonna end up dead in there. When Mike opened up that hole in the desert I half expected him to put himself in there, so hopeless was his situation. No chance of a peaceful retirement, it's almost as if he forced Walt's hand. He could have killed him, but decided it was time to stop with the life, let it all go. Even if he had escaped, I don't think he could have lived without his Grand Daughter. A key moment in Walt's journey, but the show will feel that bit empty without Mike. I'm a pour out a little liquor for you, man.

That start was epic. Please to meet you, hope you guess my name.

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So the movie Mike was watching was about a cop committing suicide. In the same episode Hank jokes about blowing his head off after leaving Walt 'crying' in his office. Hank to commit suicide? He finds out Heisenberg has been under his nose this whole time. We've already seen he's a bit mentally fragile under all that bluster, maybe it's easier to kill himself than deal with the shame.

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