Breaking Bad Season 5 Episode 9 Spoiler RECAP: 'Blood Money' - A Solid Punch from Hank
The first episode of the second instalment of AMC's cult drama series Breaking Bad Season 5 opens with a flash-forward and ends on a cliff-hanger, again. The episode is slow to unfold and almost kills the viewers with curiosity to know what will Hank (Dean Norris) do. But it is worth the wait as one gets to see the power-packed closing scene and Hank (Dean Norris) punching Walter White (Bryan Cranston) right in the face .
Breaking Bad's 'The Blood Money' opens with the scene of children skating in the once upon a time swimming pool at Walter White and Skyler's (Anna Gunn) residence. An unkempt, dishevelled Walt, -- the hair is back on his head -- arrives in a car and he enters the house. We get to see the interiors of the abandoned house. It wears a haunted look and there is HiSENBERG sprayed in yellow on one of the walls.
Walt's neighbour spots him when he is about to get into his car after inspecting the house. "Hello Carol" -- the first words we hear from Walt and Carol drops the bag as if she has seen a spectre of a man dangerous. The world knows about his true identity but he is still a free man -- how did that happen. We are not going to find that out soon.
It is back to where the final episode of Season 5 A ended. Hank comes out of the bathroom, feeling sick to the core. He is horror-stricken, trembling and is on the verge of having a vertigo. He slips the book "Leaves of Grass" into his bag, excuses himself, drives as a man unable to listen or see, gets into an accident and has a panic-attack.
The words "To My Star, To My Perfect Silence" were dedicated to W.W by Gale Boettiche (David Costabile) in the latter's lab notebook. The same words chose to speak-up when Hank compares the lab-note's inscription with the inscription written in the book 'Leaves of Grass': "To my other favorite, W.W. It' an honor working with you." He skips office but converts his garage into a makeshift workplace and starts working on the files related to Heisenberg, connecting all the missing links.
"Leaves of Grass" not only unmakes Walter White's true identity but it also alerts Walt when he does not finds it is at its original place in the bathroom. He finds a GPS tracking device on his car and the next day, he is there at Hank's place.
Jesse Pinkman (Aaron Paul) wants to give away his 'Blood Money' to the boy's family who was killed during the train robbery and also Mike's (Jonathan Banks) granddaughter. He meets Saul (Odenkirk) and asks him to do that but the lawyer calls up Walt and tells on Jesse.
Walt meets Jesse and tells him that he should stop looking back and nothing can change what they have done, that it is over and he is out, too. "You need to stop focussing on the darkness behind. Your past is past." He lies with a poker-face that Mike must be alive and he must be looking after his grand-daughter.
However, Jesse cannot shake-off the monstrous burden of his guilt and what all he has done. He gives a bundle of money to a tramp and drives around the town like a man possessed, throwing the money out of the car's window.
Hank punches Walt right in the face and grabs his collars: "It was you, all along, it was you, Son of B**** I'll put you under the jail."
Walt says it's futile as his cancer has returned and he has only six months to live, and he won't have anyone to prosecute in six month time. "I'm a dying man with a car wash business."
"What is the point?"
"I don't know whom I am talking to," Hanks stares in disbelief, seeing a hardened, no remorse person talking to him. The mild-mannered, Chemistry teacher and his brother-in-law is no longer there.
"If you don't know who I'm then, may be your best course would be to tread lightly."
Heisenberg has been resurrected by Walt to deal with his brother-in-law and DEA agent Hank. We don't know what happened to Walt's family and kids.