Breaking Bad: Season 5 Episode 10 Recap — “Buried”

Breaking Bad is back for another tension filled episode titled ‘Buried’ and we are here to recap every last piece of the puzzle so tread lightly…

By Curt Heinrichs — Staff Writer

Let me just start by saying that I love my wife very much. With that said, I can say that she makes it very difficult to watch shows on TV together. She’s not one of those incessant talkers or question askers. That would be horrible. Nope. She is insanely good at guessing how a show will end or what the quirky twist at the end will be. Not only is she unbelievably accurate with her predictions, she makes them so early in the show that I sometimes think she’s losing her touch because they seem so far off from any plausible story line. With that in the back of your mind, early in Season 5 of Breaking Bad, way back before the horrible hiatus, she predicted Walt’s cancer would come back and do him in before he gets his legal comeuppance.

Now onto tonight’s episode. Remember last week when Jesse threw stacks of his share of the methylamine money out the window whilst driving down the street? The episode begins with an old guy in an Elmer Fudd hat finding several stacks of cash in his front yard. Not far away, we see Jesse on a merry-go-round on a playground. He is clearly slipping into a dark place.

We see Walt walking out of Hank’s garage just following the culmination of the previous episode. Hank immediately calls Skyler, who agrees to meet up with Hank at a diner. Hank wants to record a statement from Skyler, incriminating Walt. Skyler says she should probably get a lawyer (great news for fans of Saul Goodman) instead of speaking right then and there. Skyler decides she wants to leave and makes a bit of a scene when Hank grabs her arm.

Saul’s goon squad (including one of my favorite comedians, Bill Burr) is seen entering a lock-up with Walt’s giant pile of cash. They lie down on the money and contemplate heading to Mexico, before remembering Walt had 10 guys offed in about 2 minutes. They take the money in large drums to Saul’s office, where Saul suggests Walt should be more careful about his phone and uses some not-so-cryptic suggestions about getting rid of Hank. Either that or Saul really did want to arrange for Hank to go to Belize. I’ve heard the rainforest is beautiful. When Walt takes the van with the cash drums, he asks if it’s all there and the goons give a quick glance, which led me to believe that they may have helped lighten Walt’s payload.Walt takes the money into the desert and starts to bury it.

Hank tries to use Marie to get to Skyler. Marie starts to pull at loose ends and realizes that Skyler has known about Walt’s side business for a significant amount of time. Marie slaps her sister and takes off like a shot. She grabs the baby (Holly) and says she’s trying to protect her. Hank intervenes and Skyler is left comforting a crying baby while Marie (who let’s not forget was of the mindset that she should steal a super fancy baby tiara) tells Hank that he needs to bring Walt to justice. Which side of the law are you on, Marie?
We go back to the desert much later in the evening and Walt puts the money into a sizeable hole. He uses the headlights of the van to read the coordinates on his GPS (interestingly enough, this is the 2nd time in this episode that someone has used headlights to get a better look at something, with the 1st being Elmer Fudd checking out his newly found money). Once he’s committed the coordinates of the hidden money and covered the hole, he smashes the GPS.

Upon returning home, Walt gives Skyler the cold shoulder about where he’s been but she deduces that he’s buried the money. As Walt is getting into the shower after a hard day of digging in the desert, he collapses on the bathroom floor after Skyler claims that she didn’t spill the beans to Hank. When he comes to, Walt tells Skyler that he’ll give himself up to the authorities if she promises to keep the money for herself and the kids. Walt says he doesn’t want to have gotten into this for nothing (remember why Walt started cooking in the 1st place? He wanted to provide for his family once he was gone). It’s a pretty endearing scene that shows that Walt isn’t entirely a hardened criminal, but a family man as well. Skyler tells Walt that she doesn’t think Hank has much more than suspicions based on their diner conversation. Hank had asked Skyler to help him fill in the gaps to bring Walt down with her sworn statement.

Next we find Lydia out in the desert, meeting with the crew that bought the methylamine. Her crew attacks the Arizona meth cooks because she says they’ve been making a product that’s of a lower quality than that of Heisenberg, to which the guy scoffs and says that doesn’t matter to his buyers. At that moment, the entire cooksite save Lydia is gunned down. When Lydia climbs out of the subterranean meth lab, she shields her eyes and is led threw the bullet and body-strewn ground.

Hank and Marie discuss the situation, at which time Hank tells her that he’s over a barrel because he can’t envision himself going back to work and admitting that he’s been chasing his brother-in-law for the past several years. Hank returns to work, where he hears that his old buddy Jesse Pinkman is locked up for making it rain money in ABQ. Is this the crack in the case that Hank needs? He goes to interrogate Jesse and…FADE TO BLACK.

The lines are clearly drawn now with Walt and Skyler vs. Hank and Marie and the DEA. Jesse looks like a man on the brink. Will he aid or thwart Hank’s plan to take out Heisenberg? At this point, I’m leaning toward him giving up Heisenberg because he appears to be in the middle of a moral crisis.

Do you have a theory as to how the Breaking Bad will end? Leave it in the comments so I can use it as my own when my wife starts talking about how she thinks the series will wrap. Thanks for reading and check me out next week as I recap the next episode of Breaking Bad.