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When shit hits the fan, and the guys aren’t receiving regular paychecks, they have Gus’ Cayman savings to fall back on. “Hazard pay” is drug dealer jargon for insurance. We’ll return to Mike’s deductions that wounded Walt’s ego later. Could Walt be considering that punishment for Mike stepping out of bounds? Is this Heisenberg-fueled empire not big enough for both of their brilliant minds? We may be headed for another “Face Off,” and I wonder if that would be pushing Jesse’s allegiance too far. At this episode’s end, Jesse looks back disgusted as he watches Walt find purpose to such a senseless, vulgar action that has undoubtedly scarred him. Walt tells Jesse that Victor “took liberties that weren’t his to take.” Then he channels the greek myth as reasoning for the vicious act. He’d watched Walt and Jesse’s steps so many times from surveilling them, he was able to produce an approximation from memory.
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Without any orders from Gus, Victor cooked his own batch. And while that message may have been a benefit to staging Victor’s execution before his rebellious cooks, he now sees it differently. Walt was aware, after a rare instance of Jesse spelling it out for him, that a message was sent. For the rest of the season, he felt hunted, his life on a tether that could easily snap.
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To refresh your memory, Victor was one of Gus’ muscle who got his throat cut in the haunting season four premiere. He uses an Icarus metaphor, “he flew too close to the sun” to describe Victor. And Walt thinks Mike has forgotten his place. All the seeds that he’s planted deeply beneath his foundations of friends and allies, are starting to take root, albeit damaged roots that have been twisted into loyalty-except for Mike. And the countdown for that bomb seems to be accelerating. As Mike foretold last week, Walt is tick-tick-ticking away.
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