Currently watching S5, E10 (this is my fifth watch through) and one of the things that is standing out to me this time around is how easily Hank (upon finding the Walt Whitman book) accepts that Walter is the chemist he has been chasing for so long. His entire perception of Walt is altered in like a minute and a half, which I find interesting, given how oblivious he was previously . He lifted bags full of money into the back of his car, was literally told by Walt that they contained a "half million in cash" and just laughed it off. He found Walt's initials in Gale's lab notes and made a joke about them standing for "Walter White," then laughed it off. Then there was the incident where Walt intentionally crashed the car, rather than take him to investigate the laundry, and once again Hank isn't suspicious at all. Walter perfectly fits the Heisenberg profile, he has been acting strange for exactly the amount of time that the blue meth has been on the market, and he suddenly starts to take an interest in Hank's investigation of Fring, yet not once does Hank suspect that Walt may be Heisenberg. But he finds one piece of evidence in the bathroom, and he immediately believes that Walt is his guy?
Knowing how oblivious Hank was leading up to this point, and also the fact that he truly loves Walter and thinks so highly of him, I find it hard to believe that he wouldn't try to come up with some kind of explanation for the book being there, or at the very least convince himself that Walter must have somehow been forced into cooking the meth. Was the evidence just too overwhelming for him to ignore? Or maybe deep down he suspected that Walt had something to do with it all along?
Any thoughts are appreciated, this show is such a masterpiece and so fascinating to analyze.
Submitted July 03, 2018 at 12:18AM by LadyWoodstock https://ift.tt/2Ksbj4e
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