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Walt finds Saul's car crashed in his driveway, and his house unoccupied and doused in gasoline, so Walt leaves a message on Jesse's voice mail to meet in order to explain himself.

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Shannon

I can’t believe we only have four more episodes. Do you have any kind of time frame mapped for the last four? I need to plan accordingly so I don’t get a hernia from the stress of waiting 😅😅

Ashley

I think Walt's disbelief over Skyler asking him to kill Jesse reveals how deep his compartmentalization goes. The more Walt cares about someone, the more of a "person" they are to him. The people he kills or whose deaths he is responsible for really are lesser to him to varying degrees. It's not even that he can't believe Skyler would ask him to kill someone he cares about. It's that she would be so cavalier about the life of someone he allows himself to see as a person. We see this with Hank too in the episode, but in reverse. Jesse is nothing more than a "junkie murderer" so that he can justify treating him as expendable in his obsessive pursuit of Walt. He goes as far as to correct Steve when he refers to him as a kid, recognizing his humanity and expressing concern for his life. I don't think Skyler is able to compartmentalize in this way, and since she recognizes the humanity of everyone she and Walt have brought to harm in the name of "protecting the family" his argument that they can't kill Jesse because he's a person doesn't land with her. Then there's Marie who is deep in her fantasies of killing Walt, but recognizes that she would never seriously hurt anyone. She's not willing to kill a person and she has enough moral clarity to see that Walt still counts as one, despite his willing destruction of his own humanity.

Randy Giles

Trust me when I say the final episodes don't disappoint and are (arguably) the best episodes in the entire show. It's kind of amazing how the show continued to be excellent even after losing major characters like Gus and Mike.

ZZ

Like Jesse, Todd also refers to Walter only as Mr. White.