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If you weren't watching MTV's Video Music Awards Sunday night you were most likely tuned into the other most talked about event of the evening Breaking Bad.
Season 5 Episode 11 Confessions has easily become one of our favorite episodes of the AMC series to date.
Between backstabbing blackmail a desperate DEA agent and brother in law and a broken Jesse Pinkman (Aaron Paul) the episode was a lot to process.
Walter White (Bryan Cranston) continued to deal with the fall out of his brother in law finding out he's Albuquerque's big meth dealer and it quickly became uncomfortably ugly.
Paul's character was on the verge of tears the entire episode as he was grappling not only with his future but in grappling with his allegiance to his chemistry teacher.
Normally the audience finds it difficult to root against meth kingpin Walter White however seeing the absolute pain and destruction he has brought upon his former student and now his family the man is teetering so dangerously close to the edge of collapse that it's difficult to root against Jesse and Hank.
What had us on edge about this episode Let's discuss.
1. Marie tells Walt he should just die.
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Over what easily becomes the most awkward double dinner date ever Walt and Skyler meet up with in laws Hank and Marie to discuss the elephant in the room the knowledge that Walt has been living a secret double life as a meth dealer.What's a DEA brother in law to do Does he turn in his brother
Marie has a simpler solution to the entire problem Why don't you just kill yourself Walt Just kill yourself This whole thing dies with you.
Walt had another idea he got up and left Hank with a confession tape.
In between all of this an all too eager waiter continued to chime in and ask the group for orders of guacamole. The interruptions were happily welcomed as some of the only comic relief in the otherwise high suspense episode.
2. Walt's confession tape turns out to be blackmail
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We knew Walt wouldn't go down without a fight.Rather than turn himself in to the police he decides that if he's going to go down that he's going to take Hank down with him.
We then sit in shock as Hank and Marie watch Walt spill a twisted convoluted tale of the DEA cop being the real mastermind behind the meth empire. Poor Walt was forced into being his chemist.
The blackmail was perfect because Walt notes that his drug money a little more than $177 000 paid for Hank's medical expenses when he was badly injured in season 3.
Unfortunately that news was a huge blow to Hank who had no idea his medical treatment wasn't covered by his insurance.
3. Jesse goes ballistic on Walt.
This is where the episode begins to get really emotional.
Right now Hank has nothing more than conjecture and without Jesse's or Skyler's testimony he has no evidence against Walt. The best course of action for Walt is to get Jesse out of the picture.
After Jesse reluctantly meets up with Walt in the desert Walt begins giving the kid this speech about starting his entire life over with a clean slate. However to Jesse it's clear Walt wants nothing more than to get his former partner in crime out of town and out of the picture and for the first time all episode he loses it.
For once can you stop working me drop the whole concerned dad thing and tell me the truth. It's really about you you need me gone because your brother in law is never going to let up.
Jesse then asks Walt if he'll kill him the same way he killed Mike. As an audience member your heart sinks because you think this is it. Jesse's starting to figure out the truth about Walt and Walt may just off him.
It's sad because from watching early episodes of the series it's clear that Jesse really looked up to his high school teacher. His mother told him previously that she believed White was the only teacher who believed in him and tried to push him to his full potential.
In response Walt does the only thing he can and holds Jesse this broken man in his arms. However Jesse doesn't try to hold him back.
4. Jesse figures out that Walt poisoned Brock
Saul's (Bob Odenkirk) henchman Huell makes a grave mistake when he pick pocketed Jesse at his lawyer's office.
Jesse's ready to follow Mr. White's orders pick up and leave town with a new identity but he finds a stash of drugs missing after bumping into Huell.
Jesse immediately flashes back to a similar occurrence when he thought Huell swiped a ricin filled cigarette off of him for Walt to poison a little boy (Brock) in season 4.
However we all know including Jesse that Brock wasn't poisoned with ricin it was lily of the valley.
In a behind the scenes video on the episode both Aaron Paul and show creator Vince Gilligan expand on Jesse's reaction.
At the end of the day Jesse was completely right about Walt poisoning Brock says Paul. He's broken inside.
He realizes Saul's place in this scam that just really played a number on Jesse's head and all hell breaks loose says Gilligan.
5. Jesse loses it beating Saul to a bloodied pulp and covering the inside of Walt's house in gasoline
After the realization that Walt isn't the man he thought he was he races back to Saul and punches him senseless before racing over to Walt's in Saul's Cadillac and getting ready to torch his home.
Prepare for an entirely different ...
... darker side to Jesse we've never seen before.
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Other observations Somehow Walter Jr. is STILL the only one other than baby Holly in the dark about his father's true nature. Instead he thinks everyone's troubled about Walt's cancer coming back. Poor Jr.Photo of the night
Saul's license plate. Lawyer up
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We've been waiting for an ultimate showdown between teacher and student since Walt let Jesse's girlfriend choke to death on her own vomit in season 2.We're pretty excited and equally terrified to see Pinkman exact his own brand of (reckless ) vengeance next week.
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