Devastated that Hank is dead, Walt figures out where Jesse is hiding, and cold-bloodedly gives him up, with one last wound - Walt tells Jesse about when he stood and watched Jane die, how he could have saved her, but he didn't.
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Uncle Jack and his henchmen steal it, but leave Walt with one barrel full as a nice parting gift.
The smarter-than-everyone Walt foolishly, in his panic to save his $80 million worth stash of buried money, revealed its exact location. Just when you think Breaking Bad cannot get any more intense after last weeks cliffhanger shootout, it. He pleads with Uncle Jack to spare Hank's life - and fails, as Hank refuses to beg for mercy. Breaking Bad 5.14 Ozymandias Review: Family Matters. How awful was Walt's speech to Skyler where he called her a nag and a whiner and a stupid bitch who needed to "learn to respect" him, and then that if she crossed him again she would end up like Hank (he says as tears stream down his face).Viewers who get off on seeing the chemistry teacher-turned-Heisenberg- bad-man certainly didn't see that in "Ozymandias." Instead, Walt was in full-on desperation mode, trying to hold on as everything was cracking open and falling into the abyss.
"If all this is true and you knew about it, you're as bad as him" - Walt Jr to Skyler Of course, that would have been a terrible idea (…right?) I still stupidly wanted Walt, Jr and Skyler to heed and pack up and get the heck out of Dodge. Marie's speech, with us knowing the truth, was ruthless. Walt leaving her at the fire station and turning the light on was brilliant and sad. And thank the lord for that tiny smidge of comic relief when Walt rolled that barrel and bought that car. Walt's car running out of gas reminded me of the broken RV back in the day. The sizzling tension and emotional impact are only a couple of truly great things and even more the rich subtlety and story advancing twists that will. If you're curious, most of my notes for this episode are just "omgomgomgomgomgomomggggggg," amid me holding back tears. 'Ozymandias' (referencing the poem by Percy Byssche Shelley) is another incredible 'Breaking Bad' episode, perhaps the best episode of the fifth season and one of the show's biggest achievements. Walt's face after Hank's murder was so incredibly powerful in its deep horror. I've been dreading that moment of revelation since it happened. The weight of all of Walt's decisions are coming down, the price is going to be paid now. There's not another dance for these two to have. The show wouldn't retread there, but also, this is the end. Hank wouldn't have just been wounded again - it was because of Walt he was crippled before. Those who speculated last week that Hank would live haven't been paying attention. And after all of that, he is left with one barrel of money. Flash forward to two years later, and Walt has kidnapped his own child, killed his brother-in-law, threatened his "stupid bitch" wife, and ordered Jesse's death.
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"Ozymandias" was the culmination of everything that the series has been building to, as illustrated in the cold open which showed how much things had changed from the days when Walt had to practice his lies, where he wooed Skyler and she joked with him on the phone lovingly, and where a snarky Jesse Pinkman mumbled and smoked and attacked rocks with sticks. Surely neither of the remaining two Breaking Bad episodes could be as explosive as this one was.