It is inside the battered Aztek that Walt sits, waiting to meet Gus & Co. And now he’s just got that damned Aztek, its windshield cracked once more. All of which makes this so much more than a clanging bell indicating that Walt always wanted big things (money) for his family (himself). The rest is left to our imagination: The missed fortune, the settling for the (admittedly nice, but always rather dark) house, Walt Jr.’s disability, cancer … and, like a ghost, the child that never was. Feeling flush from the chem-company money that he’ll later get screwed out of, Walt tries to insist that three bedrooms aren’t enough: They plan to have three kids, after all, and of course they’ll need a study in which he can work and she can do her writing. to distinguish her from her current desperate self) tour the home that Skyler still occupies. He and Skyler (who merely gets curls and a big baby bump - Walt Jr. Seeing him in flashback, as we do in the show’s opening, is almost shocking. Bryan Cranston plays the latter-day Walt so close to the bone, so precise and minimalist, that he’s more like the show’s trademark landscapes than any of the other actors: windswept, quietly awesome. What kind of man was Walter White before he got cancer and embarked on a life of crime? Clean-shaven, almost poofy-haired, black-leather-jacketed - and brimming with confidence and ambition.
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