The fourth season of the american television drama series breaking bad premiered on july 17, 2011 and concluded on october 9, 2011. The 16 worst things walter white has done on breaking bad. In 2012, gilligan received the writers guild of america award for best episodic drama for his work on this episode. Vacuums keep popping up in breaking bad, from the one that walt once used to hide his drug money to the robotic roomba that kept running through jesses house parties earlier this season. Killing saul wouldnt make jesse or walt any more likely to cook for him, though. End times bryan cranston and the cast discuss lifeanddeath aspects in episode 412. Until the fifth season premiere, box cutter was the most watched breaking bad episode in the series history and the thirdhighestrated season premiere for any amc show, after the first two seasons premieres of the walking dead. Jesse is picked up by the police to answer questions about the ricin. Walter is hellbent on killing gus, and gus seems to be two steps ahead. Walter white described himself thus to skyler earlier in breaking bad season 4 as it happened, i was on set when they shot it, and amc played up the line in its pre season promos. In a last effort to kill gus, walt must ask for help from an old enemy.
If you watched the season finale of breaking bad on sunday night, it may have crossed your mind that it could have easily served as a series finale. Jesse seemingly manages to lie to gus that he doesnt know how brock was poisoned. When season 5 started, walter white bryan cranston was seen arranging some bacon on his plate into the number fiftytwo. Upon their exit its revealed that they are working in a. Pretty much anything that occupies time and space in an episode of breaking bad is invested with some terrible power. Basically gus wasnt sure if his car had been rigged to blow, but he knew if he was. Last nights episode of breaking bad proved that the walking dead isnt the only show that knows how to make good use of a special effects budget. I watched the end times episode from breaking bad twice. Season 4, episodes 11 august 3, 20 by supreme being in its okay he saw it on the television. Face off is the thirteenth episode and season finale of the fourth season of the american television drama series breaking bad, and the 46th overall episode of the series. There was only a limited need primarily for the sake of the series for him to.
If you are breaking bad season four, and you have spent 10 episodes establishing the grave disasters, psychological and criminal, that your characters are spiraling down towards, and one horrifying episode showing that no options are left, an impressive parade of climaxes is now within reach. I hadnt seen until after id watched the entire series, so gales fate was still a mystery at the time. Jesse is brought to the fbi for questioning on his knowledge of ricin. Review of breaking bad season four finale, face off. The scene itself shoots straight into the pantheon of incredible breaking bad scenes, and god knows thats a crowded field at this point. From the acid bath of season 1 to face off in season 5, breaking bad has never shied away from. Set in the 24th century, the series followed the adventures of the starfleet and maquis crew of the starship uss voyager after they were stranded in the delta quadrant, far from the. Season four of breaking bad is shaping up to be a game of cat and mouse. In season 4 episode 12 when gus is walking towards his car in the hospital that walt has rigged with a bomb, why did gus not get in the car did he know the bomb was there.
Hank encourages gomez to check out the industrial laun. But until the final shot of the next episode and season finale, face off. As walter continues to move forward with his attempt to fill the streets with his special product, breaking bad continues to illustrate just how far away from the original intent and. Walt was right when he said that gus is always 10 moves ahead. In the wake of the albuquerque airline disaster, skyler forces walt to move out, while jesses stay in drug rehab helps him come to grips with his role in the fatal midair collision. Tonight, in the aptly titled fiftyone, we learn just where that tradition started. Some of the references were quite obvious, but there were a couple that you may have not noticed. Breaking bad spinoff show better call saul is now in its third season, and episode 2 just had many references to the original series that you may have missed. According to at least one breaking bad fan, the chemistry holds up. The other reason why it wouldnt work is that the cargo bay is hermetically sealed being a refrigerator truck and the exhaust can not push air out of the enclosed space.
Matt zoller seitz on revisiting breaking bad season 4. Just finished season 4 for the 5th time and im still not entirely sure why gus stops. We are to believe that gus, not being given the green light from jesse to. The most painful scene of the episode for me was jimmy trying to repeat mikes folksy metaphor about bad choices back to kim in a completely twisted context, all the while refusing to tell her why the choice that felt so right to her was so wrong. It would increase pressure for a while, then probably just stall. The formidable breaking bad villain gus fring first entered the fray in season three, and he was a fairly major part of the last series as well which focused heavily on the building of the.
In breaking bad s04e12 end times, at the end gus walks towards his car at the hospital parking with his two bodyguards, with walt watching from an adjacent rooftop. Walt pays sauls secretary to call him and get him to save jesse. In which i rewatch and discuss, with spoilers aplenty, the first four and a half seasons of breaking bad, one or two or three episodes at a time, leading up to the final half of season five beginning august 11. There were four parties involved in the conflict walter, jesse, gus, and hank. End times is also the name of the episode, and the religious. See, im more interested in why gus fring decided to put a guy like you in charge. We respond to deeper urges, then, know, somehow, that to be a father is to hold your baby for the first time and say to yourself, all right. Spoiler in breaking bad, season 4, how did gus know that. At the beginning of this episode walt runs to gus car and removes the bomb that he attached to it. Five if you count the cartel, but gus has already taken care of them. Everyone knew that hank was a bythebook agent, and would never resort to things like poisonin. The fourth season of the american science fiction television series star trek.
How fitting that when gus and jesse finally have their big. End times is the twelfth episode of the fourth season of breaking bad and the fortyfifth. It consisted of episodes, each running approximately 47 minutes in length. The dea is putting hank and his family in protective custody. How closely has gus been watching walt and jesse this season. It originally aired on amc in the united states on october 9, 2011. It seemed to suggest that season 4 would show a walter white feeling and owning his power. Jesse again refuses to let gus get rid of walt, even after the dea visits the. The term to break bad is american southeast slang meaning to turn against ones. Weve seen this flowertopped bottle many a time on both better call saul and breaking bad, the first during breaking bad season 4, episode 10, salud, when gus uses it to poison don eladio. He then meets with jesse at the hospital and a while after jesse got taken by police for interrogation.
A few hours after exposure to ricin, the victim gets flulike symptoms. Walter and jesse know gus is not above killing children, after the death of andreas younger brother. I dont know why gus was suddenly so generous with the comp time and why he allowed. Doctors and nurses hastily prepare medical equipment until a phone call prompts them to wheel a stretcher out of the room. Cornered is an episode about each character getting a little smarter, but the only one whos changed really changed is walt. Crawl space is the eleventh episode of the fourth season of breaking bad and the fortyfourth episode altogether. In season 4 episode 12 when gus is walking towards his car. Since were all here, lets analyse some theories as to who did it. To borrow an episode title from earlier in the breaking bad season, gus is cornered last time, the cartel rejected his bid to sever all ties. Obviously to us as the viewers we know its rigged with a bomb, but there is. Season 2, episode 12 breaking bad amc yet another in the saga of walt driving places in a hurry while lying on the phone, walt drops off a delivery for gus just in time to miss the birth of his. Voyager commenced airing on upn in the united states on september 3, 1997, and concluded on may 20, 1998, after airing 26 episodes.
End times is the twelfth and penultimate episode of the fourth season of the american. Walt arranges for hanks protective custody to include skyler and the children. Oh, actually i knew a crew out of fort worth that tried to blow up an. One of the best things about breaking bad has always been that even. Primarily, the first season of breaking bad is about walt trying to escape the helplessness he feels in his lifewhether its due to cancer, money problems or just feeling like a weak. Breaking bad season 4 list of breaking bad episodes.
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