Walt speeds down the desert highway and starts telling Jesse about how he’s got cancer again and how the money isn’t for him but for his family, so, you know, please don’t deprive his family of all these ill-gotten gains. Jesse actually can’t fucking believe Walt is going the "think of the children" route, after all that’s happened. Walt screams an apology for Brock, though most of that apology consists of him saying that Brock is alive because that’s how he planned it. So. To clarify. Walter White’s argument as to why he’s not so bad is that he knew exactly how much POISON to give a GRADE-SCHOOL CHILD so as to HOSPITALIZE him but not KILL him. I’m so glad Jesse and Hank and Gomez are getting this whole conversation on tape, because that is priceless self-justification right there. Particularly when he caps it off with "Don’t you know me by now?" But Walt’s just getting warmed up. He’s flipped from apologetic to being angry that Jesse can’t see everything he’s done for him over the years. Sure, yes, he ran over those two gang members in his Aztec. He’s also painting the murder of Krazy 8 as a defense of Jesse. And I guess killing Gus too. All for you, Jesse. All for you. "Only you’re too STUPID to know it!" Not sure whether it was this bout of hubris or just part of the plan, but Jesse’s no longer responding. Walt screams into the phone as he approaches the burial site, petrified that he got disconnected and thus Jesse ill burn the whole stash.

Walt pulls up to the clearing and looks around warily. At this point, he’s still waiting for Jesse to ambush him with a gun. He pulls out his own gun, looks around and sees nothing. "Son of a bitch," he says, as he finally figures out the plot. He immediately removes the battery from his phone, like that will make a difference now. He’s fucked and he knows it. He finds a hiding spot behind a rock, and that’s when he sees the SUV coming up the path he just blazed for it. He tries to make a run for it, but to where, you know? His car is right there in the open. Nothing he can do about that. He scrambles to retrieve his phone and finds another rock to hide behind. From there, he calls up Uncle Jack and the Fightin’ Nazis, telling them he’s managed to flush Jesse out. Yeah, so to speak. Immediately, the guys begin to suit up. "I’m guessing he’s got back-up," he says, which is maybe the funniest thing -- that he imagines Jesse, Badger and Skinny Pete are here to end his life. So Jack’s men are about to head out. Walt gives them the coordinates from his lottery ticket. But as he finishes, he sees the men disembarking from the car: Jesse, Hank and Gomez. And even though he’s flipped the switch enough to want Jesse dead, it seems that his earlier pledge that Hank will not be sent to Belize is still intact. And if he can’t kill Hank, he can’t get out of this jam. It really is over for him. You can see it on his face. Barely breathing, he tells Jack not to come. The job is off. No mas. Jack’s all "WHUT?" about it, but Walt seems to mean it. He’s done. Hank knows it, as he yells for Walt to show himself. Even the commercial break has a finality to it.

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