An outstanding beginning of the end for Walter White.

The story up until now:

http://www.businessinsider.com/breaking-bad-season-5-what-you-need-to-know-2013-8?op=1

More analysis:

http://rollingstone.com/movies/news/breaking-bad-season-premiere-recap-like-an-open-book-20130811

He calls that treading lightly?!

I do love Hank's look at the end...

From Grantland:

The difference between an exit and an escape is really just context. And as the cancer receded and the seasons wore on, Walt's flimsy justifications began to disappear too. The thing that Breaking Bad has never shied away from is reminding its audience that Walt's circumstance, while unfortunate, wasn't particularly special. An imminent demise may change what you do, but it doesn't affect who you are. And it doesn't (or it shouldn't) mean you can flick aside morality like Jesse Pinkman disposing of a cigarette butt. The universe isn't in the habit of handing out hall passes. The reality is that the worst of Heisenberg was always lurking just beneath Walter White's wallpaper wardrobe. Cancer merely fulminated the mercury buried within his own dark, frustrated heart. After all, every one of us is dying. The only question, as Superchunk once sang, is how fast.

More: http://www.grantland.com/blog/hollywood-prospectus/post/_/id/83966/breaking-bad-season-5-episode-9-recap-the-endgame-begins-with-blood-money

Boy, have we come a long way...

Reflection and reflections were a huge theme in "Blood Money".

Haunting.

I love how they've already gotten into endgame in this episode.

They must have a LOT of story left to tell.

Still, the conflict is ON.

"You don't give a shit about family."

One of Hank's crime scene photos:

Also, this.

"To my other favorite W.W..."

Hmmm...

Yeah, we will see that ricin again. Lydia loves artificial sweetener.

I think he’s dead. And I think you know that.

 

 

Why so many leaves on the roof?

"Blood Money" gifs and memes:

http://pandawhale.com/post/24648/breaking-bad-blood-money-season-5-episode-9-gifs-and-memes