Scott's Storylines for Breaking Bad
Scott Goodin
BREAKING BAD: SEASON 5, EPISODE 9: “...THROUGH ALL.”
We open, exactly where the previous episode let off. Hank sitting on the toiler, having discovered WW in the bathroom. Utterly shocked, he puts the book back, underneath the magazine, and walks back out to the family having the party.
The next morning, Walter wakes up, apparently suffering from depression – the excitement is gone from his life. Apparently dead set on getting his life turned around, Walt is trying other activities – but nothing catches.
Skylar is still emotionally scared from the past year. Clearly what she experienced is not something that she can just hide under the rug – she needs to talk to someone. Optimistically, she triest to talk to Walt, but he shushes her immediately, telling her they can never speak of that again, and that that was a different lifetime.
Hank is distressed. The evidence is there, and it might be Walt – but the thought is so out in the blue, out in the open, that it still doesn't seem plausible. He hasn't told anyone – not even Gomez.
Jesse has gone back home to live with his parents, and his younger brother, who, over the years, has strayed away from his academic pursuits, and become a pot head. Jesse's parents seem to have given up – as both of their son's appear to be failures.
Desperate for excitement, and feeling that Hank has been pulling away from him, Walt invites him to go camping with him. Hank is initially hesitant (this, after all, might be Heinsenberg) but Marie and Skylar pressure him into it. So he, Jr. and Walt set off.
Where does Walt take them? Out into the desert, but close enough to the railroad tracks where the Methlamine heist took place. Hank knows nothing of its importance, but immediately it gives Walter a jolt of adrenaline: he might actually be a God! Jr. utterly enjoys himself, glad to have a time to be just a couple of dudes camping.
That night, in his sleep, Walter begins to mumble a phrase over and over again: “The voyage of the soul – not life alone, / Death, many deaths I'll sing.” The next morning, as they are packing up, Hank mentions that Walt must be a real Whitman fan, that he only recognized the poem because he read Leaves of Grass looking for any kind of lead on Gail. Walter doesn't react, and tries to play it off.
Once home, and sure no one will notice, Walt rushes to the bathroom – thank god, the book is still there.
Hank calls Gomez. They need to meet off the record. He needs advice. Something big.