'Breaking Bad' recap - 'Blood Money'

The final season of Breaking Bad is what fans have anticipated for months. The final season’s first episode, “Blood Money,” premiered August 11th on AMC. “Blood Money” did not disappoint, and kept viewers on the edge of their seats from beginning to end.

The episode opens with serious intensity. There is a boarded up house, and people are skateboarding in what was once a pool. The initial reaction is, “meth den?” But in fact, it’s Walt’s own home. This flash-forward, which occurs at the same time of the flash-forward in “Live Free or Die,” shows Walt, full head of hair, and a machine gun in his trunk. He walks into the abandoned house where Heisenberg is spray painted on the inside wall. Walt walks in and removes the ricin from the outlet panel, intentions unknown. Walt comes outside, where he finally says something. He says hello to his neighbor, where she stares in horror as her grocery bag splits open and oranges run down her driveway (Gilligan does NOTHING on purpose, people. Can we recall what spilled all over the floor after Ted’s accident?).

We are then to the present, where Hank is just emerging from the bathroom. He takes the Leaves of Grass, and hides it away in his bag. Hank is having a serious problem dealing with the reality that his brother-in-law is the biggest meth distributor in the Southwest (wouldn’t you?). He walks outside, where ironically, the sound picks up mid-conversation, where Marie is jokingly saying to Walt, “you’re the devil!”

Hank compares the handwriting, and starts to piece together all the cases over the course of a week. He knows for sure that Walt is the infamous Heisenberg. The ironic thing is, Walt is finally starting to act like his old self again with his relationship with Skyler. They are focused on the car wash, and he even starts talking about organizing air fresheners. How normal can someone get?

We finally see Jesse, and he is in bad shape. In better shape than when he was using, but still, bad shape. He is wracked with guilt over the death of the innocent child who saw their train heist, and intuition is telling him that Mike is dead. Jesse has nothing but pure speculation that Walt killed Mike, and Walt denies it when Jesse confronts him. Still, Jesse is unconvinced. Walt tells Jesse to stop feeling guilty, and now that they are both out of the business, they both need to “try and live ordinary, decent lives.” Though Walt might be acting like his old self, there is no way he could go back to being who he was before Heisenberg. No relationship can be build on lies, even if you’re a badass drug lord, but the relationship between Jesse and Walt seems to continue to be built on lies that Walt tells Jesse to appease him. Walt might think he is on the way of living a normal life, but is seriously wrong when he has a realization later in the episode that his copy of Leaves of Grass is gone.

Walt is back on chemo, and is starting to break down. This is further suggesting that his cancer has come back, and in the flash-forward at the beginning of the episode might suggest that he gives up on chemo all together since his hair has fully grown back. While sick in his bathroom, he notices that his copy of Leaves of Grass is gone. He then goes out to his car to find a bug, placed by Hank, and knows that Hank has finally connected all the dots.

Walt decides to confront Hank about the GPS tracker, and masks it saying he came by to check in on Hank after feeling sick after their barbeque. Hank shuts the garage door, and that’s when you know things are about to get intense. Hank punches Walt, and starts yelling at him about how Walt had all his information, how everything is Walt’s fault, and repeatedly calls him Heisenberg. Walt reacts pretty calmly to the whole situation, and tells him that the cancer is back. Hank’s Heisenberg is dying, and that even if Hank can prove anything, he will be dead before anything can happen. Walt gives Hank a serious warning, that would send chills down anyone’s spine: “If you don’t know who I am, then, maybe your best course would be to tred lightly.”

Fans of the show know that when Walt gives a warning, he means what he says. Walt has no problem killing someone to protect himself and his family, but now that it is his family, are the lines suddenly blurred? Will he stop at nothing to protect what he has worked so hard to build? For someone who would supposedly never see the inside of a jail cell because he is dying, Walt is going through extreme measures to insure that he won’t get caught.

“Blood Money” held up all the expectations fans of the show could have ever anticipated, and more importantly, makes the audience hungry for more of Walt’s story.

What do you think is going to happen next?

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