Skyler White Can't Clean The Money Fast Enough | Problem Dog | Breaking Bad
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- Walt (Bryan Cranston) places Skyler (Anna Gunn) in a difficult spot with their new operation. And as Walt looks to protect himself against Gus (Giancarlo Esposito), Jesse (Aaron Paul) agrees to a dangerous proposition.
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Season Four - Episode Seven: "Problem Dog"
Episode Overview:
As she is preparing to open the car wash, Skyler brusquely orders Walt to return their son’s new car to the dealer. However, upset at being told what to do when it comes to Walt, Jr. and displeased with being given the cold shoulder, Walt instead sets the car ablaze in a large parking lot. As a result, he’s forced to call his lawyer, Saul Goodman, to get him out of trouble with the law. Having agreed to pay more than $50,000 to make the legal problem go away, Walt then asks Saul for help in getting rid of Gus once and for all. And when Walt takes the lawyer’s advice to ask his young partner to take care of the job, Jesse agrees to kill Gus.
Faced with Skyler’s frosty, business-like demeanor, Walt strikes a blow of his own by delivering over $250,000 in cash for her to launder through the car wash along with the news that there is much more to come. Leaving his wife to struggle with finding a way to conceal the millions that are coming their way, Walt returns to the lab to prepare a batch of ricin, the same deadly poison he and Jesse used to kill their nemesis, Tuco. Meanwhile, during a trip to Pollos Hermanos with Walt, Jr., Hank gathers fingerprint evidence he hopes will tie Gus to the meth lab.
Accompanying Mike to the high-security headquarters of the meth empire, Jesse is thrust squarely in the middle of Gus’s meeting with a Mexican drug cartel representative. Though the cartel’s message is clear - get out of the drug business, or else - Gus refuses, though he stops short of Mike’s suggestion that he resort to violence. Yet, after Jesse hesitates to take advantage of the opportunity to poison Gus, he begins to regret it after Mike warns him against harboring any misplaced loyalties. Finally, as Jesse heads back to rehab to confront his own inner demons by venting his anger on the addicts gathered there, Hank presents his former DEA colleagues with evidence linking Gus to the manufacture of the potent blue meth they’ve been trying to eradicate in Albuquerque.
#WalterWhite #SkylerWhite
for a smart guy like walt he sure had a tough time understanding that was a lot of money to launder..
Walt gets himself into seemingly impossible situations and uses his smarts to get out of them. He expects the same from Skyler.
Buck Futter Actually if you think about it, when Walt gets himself into those seemingly impossible situations, he usually gets other people to bail him out. It’s less to do with his smarts than you think. When he was about to be killed, Jesse killed Gale and saved him. When he gets stuck in the RV with Hank outside, Saul saves him. Here, Skyler is going to deal with his money and he doesn’t even understand the problem.
Most of Walt’s ‘smart’ solutions’ are just pure violence. Killing Krazy-8, killing Jane, killing Gus, killing Mike, killing literally anyone in his way. It’s less about smarts when in 9/10 situations you shoot your way out.
@@sahirkhan2835 - I agree that it's not intelligence in the academic sense (which he relies on to develop a meth formula). What he uses is a form of wisdom, specifically cunning, to get out of tough spots. He uses his knowledge of science and other people and applies it ruthlessly in unexpected ways.
It's not as simple as just shooting his way out, because they would have left far more of a trace, and he'd have gotten busted early. He finds the right time and the right method to shoot his way out, which takes cunning. But in the end, the little splatters that fly out from his violence accumulate to put him in an inescapable bind.
Sahir Khan he is really smart, he figure when Gale asked alot of question about the cook that he was gonna get killed and gale takes over, when jesse went out with mike and they been ambush walt knew it was a set up, when walt poison brock he told lies to jesse so that he would turn against Gus etc... he is really smart
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Gus offered Walt $15 million a year to just cook at a state of the art facility, could make his own hours and come and go as he pleased. Walt decided it would be better to take on more responsibility and make half that.
No. The other 7.5million went to Jessie from Walt's pocket. This means that Gus didn't pay Jessie but it was Walt paying from his own pocket!
@@spacelover9635 yep. It's been awhile since I've seen the show and I was just going off the clips I've been binge watching. But still, making the same with more responsibility isn't a good move.
Jesse should have listened to Gus and buy the salon
and death once Gale absorbs the knowledge
You guys shouldn't forget what it means for Walt to own an empire. Its worth more to him than if Gus were to pay 10x that
Clear scene of Walt trying and failing to mimic Gus. He bares his power, his value, giving out orders, but is too ignorant to actually put any thought into his schemes other than "This needs to happen"
and to his own wife no less
Good noticing.
He's a Barbarian with intelligence+, but that doesn't make him a Dark Mage
Gus was so legendary Walter spent the last 2 years of his life trying to be like him.
@@deuce5546 well gus has been in the game for 20 years sadly Walt didnt have that much of time
Walt's dumbest moment in the series, other than convincing Hank that Heisenberg is still out there.
Nah, what about him driving a wedge between him and Jesse by arrogantly and condescendingly telling Jesse that Gus is trying to drive a wedge between them
@@criert135 "this whole thing.... It's all about ME"
Killing mike for no reason
@@criert135 Mike was already going to run away and everything once his lawyer snitched. Walt said himself that he could’ve just went to Lydia and got the names since Mike would’ve been long since gone by the time they would’ve put out the hits on his men.
@@swissidol8403 Walt was planning to get the names of Mike and then kill him. Maybe he was planning on seeing how the conversation went first to get a read on whether Mike would come after him for killing the men in prison. If he thought Mike would let him get away with it then he might not have killed him. We see that Walt took the gun out of the bag in advance. As it turned out, he ended up getting angry and shot Mike before he had gotten the names. Then afterwards realised he could get the names off Lydia, so didn’t need Mike anymore.
One of Walt's biggest mistake was looking down and refusing to listen to people like Saul and Skyler, who were way better at being criminals than he was. It felt like he was enjoying watching Skyler be overwhelmed by his money like 'Hah, would ya look at that. So much money you can't even launder properly', when he should've listened to reason.
I can imagine Walt calling Saul while Skyler's negotiating for the car wash.
Totally !! He was super negging her this scene
I’m happy to say that after several years of hindsight people are realizing that Skyler was a victim and all this bullshit
I'm getting the feeling that Skyler would've stuck with Walt's drug business if Walt didn't go heisenberg on her all the time.
Onur A never go full Heisenberg
She was literally his hostage for the whole last season.
Yeah man heisenberg is a really aggressive species
@@tankdogization How? He didn’t have a gun to her head?
@@tankdogization In the last season they were fine, that was in season 4
Skylar was very precise in laundering Walt’s drug money. She had receipts, mostly false , to back up all the money the “car wash” brought in. She was probably enjoying herself, until Walt brought in more money than 1 car wash could ever launder. No wonder she was overwhelmed
I think had Walt taken Skylars concerns more seriously and actually heard her out, they would’ve been successful
@@Tavi78 If Skyler had not felt the need to pump up her ego and thrust herself into an operation she was not remotely qualified for, then swindle an immigrant out of his business just to avoid giving Walt & Saul the satisfaction of proving that a criminal lawyer knows a BIT more about money laundering than a housewife and part-time bookkeeper, whose bookkeeping career keeps being aborted by her inability to be professional with the boss.
@@Gunleaver she was a successful accountant who had once already been covering up overcooked books without even realizing it. i don’t think it’s quite fair to say she was entirely unqualified. I made that comment years ago and upon rewatch i’ve started more to see that the both of them could’ve communicated their concerns and skill sets more clearly.
Skylar definitely had enough “street smarts” in the corporate landscape to know that Walt was bringing in far too much money, while Walt was unable to clearly communicate to Skylar that in this business this was unfortunately as small as the numbers were gonna get. The dysfunction between the two of them existed far before Walt’s criminal enterprise drove them apart.
@@Tavi78 All I know is she had to google money laundering before she went in fronting like an expert to Walt and Saul.
Buy another car wash, tell Hank and the family "Its crazy, we've made such a profit doing this that we've been able to set up a chain of carwashes." Donate a few hundred thousand to charity wards as a recovering cancer patient, laundering the rest through the car wash.
I can’t wait to give it all to Ted. - Skyler
but she did it because she was kind of forced to
@John Doe yeah, you might be right
This caugh me off guard. Funny!
@John Doe why because her name signature was all over Ted's books or whatever I think they jus would have went after him she was jus tryna look cool
@John Doe Simp
Walter is arguably the most intelligent character on the show, but he just doesn't understand how much money he can realistically launder.
You're the smartest guy I ever met, and you're too stupid to see...
To be fair, non of us can even fathom what a million actually looks like, but we can try
nah, saul goodman is.
he wants to beat Grey Matter which is a billion dollar company. This was nothing to him. He doesnt care what can be laundered and what cant. He wants more. Way way more
The problem is that you are being shortsighted. It doesn't matter if it is a lot of money as there is no strict time-limit on the laundering -- she can launder for years after he is
dead, he is merely building up a stockpile of money for her. The problem is not launder, the problem is to store the money waiting to be laundered. They argue over the wrong problem and fail to solve it.
I took a financial investigations class as part of my finance minor. An IRS agent taught the class. I learned a lot about money laundering. The single biggest choke point for illegal activity, especially drug related enterprises is what to do with all the money. Smuggling drugs into the country is only one side of the equation-getting the money out is actually very problematic. Domestic drug enterprises are challenged with excess money as well. Can't bank it, can't live well above your means either if you're on Walt's level. Laundering can get expensive and even so, you end up with unexplained real estate holdings. A couple of million is easy. 80 million is tougher than it appears. If they see you living substantially above your means, or no visible means of support, they'll interview your neighbors, employer ( if applicable) to determine lifestyle. The IRS will literally go through your trash looking for receipts to build a case and then they will say you have an income much greater by 10x and say you owe taxes unless you can prove your income stream. If you refuse, they want you to cut a check for the back due, so they can make you prove where you got that money.
Does the IRS care where you got the money from? I’ve always understood that they only care that you pay the tax on it. Al Capone was taken down by tax evasion not by the murders he committed or ordered.
Other branches like law enforcement do give a care. $7.5 million a year is going to come with loads of victims.
Here in Canada our IRS (we call it CRA-Canadian Revenue Agency) is not allowed to share information with law enforcement. If they ever ask where my declared income came from and I answered “drug dealing and prostitution” all they can say is “okey-dockey”. Once I’ve paid the tax CRA doesn’t care. If law enforcement has a problem it’s up to them to scrounge up the evidence and haul me in front of a judge. It wouldn’t be a hard job… $7.5 million per year is going to leave a lot of evidence and lots of victims ready to exact revenge.
@@CarFreeSegnitz Yes, the IRS does care where you get your money. Unlike Canada, the IRS can work with other agencies. Law enforcement simply couldn't prove that Capone had a direct hand or conspiracy in the violent side of his enterprise, not that they "didn't care" about his use of vioence. It was the first time the feds used tax liability as an enforcement tool which later morphed into RICO in 1970. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Racketeer_Influenced_and_Corrupt_Organizations_Act
Rico is used to bust open organized crime as it would be hard to come up with evidence for a $ 7.5 million a year enterprise. Capone was worth around $ 100 million ( $ 1.5 billion today) at his peak. Think about it, would you go to court and testify against a Capone like figure? You would need dozens of people with first hand knowledge to give him and time and victims and associates aren't going to testify.
@@CarFreeSegnitz the poster explained below but yes, they do care as essentially it would turn into a rico case
@@CarFreeSegnitz
What are you talking about? The CRA absolutely IS allowed to share info with other government agencies. They even have a federal program, the Criminal Investigations Program, that involves the CRA working with the RCMP and other agencies to catch tax evaders.
In addition each province's CRA department has an investigative unit that goes to peoples' businesses and/or homes to personally interview business owners if their tax reports seem shady and turn up red flags. If the owner(s) can't give a good answer, the CRA then refers the case to the RCMP or to a local police department, who take any info collected by the CRA ans start criminal investigations.
It's not good to oversell how easy it is to do crimes because that helps convince poor people who would otherwise never try to sling drugs to give it a shot. That leads to many people ending up in jail for years who would otherwise not have.
Interesting information you got there. And interesting profile picture too. Hillary Clinton's friends are you?
I can’t believe Hank was using his connections in the drug world to make that kind of cash. Makes him a hypocrite don’t you guys think?
@@dandavis8300 he's talking about the fake confession tape Walt made in season 5
Hahahahaha that mad me laugh so hard! @tankdogization
@@dandavis8300 u dumb
@@dandavis8300 obviously he did lmao
@@dandavis8300 r/woooosh
Any expert knows the best way to launder money is with warm water in your washing machine, some baking soda to remove blood stains, and fabric softener at the end.
The whut-buddy?
It's been 8 months and your comment still makes me wish I was illiterate.
Yes this guy here officer
The cash will come out too clean. I recommend adding a cup of dirt and some rocks in the dryer. They’ve got to look like bills that came from carwash customers.
@@CarFreeSegnitz poker chips to rough up the money in the dryer. Rocks will dent it.
_I know drug dealing is bad, and I've been against it this whole series, but damn that's a lotta money_
- Skyler White, yo.
Drug dealing can be just as wholesome as anything .... But Its not the breed that bites its the dog
Zhake Ija but why did she choose to be in the business? Why did she choose to be the danny? No one forced her
@@Fbitypeshit because after paying for Hank's treatment she wanted to know what was the story for the money and how were they going to launder it.
After meeting Saul and the plan to buy the laser tag she had to intervene or else Hank was going to find out sooner. Bogdan wasn't going to be their Danny so they had no one else but Skyler to take the role.
Were you even paying attention?
Zhake Ija well you don’t hear what i said lol, why did she choose to be the danny? Why did she choose to be in walt’s business? And the answer... well skyler didn’t even know it because if you actually watch the serie you would know that she said "i will ask myself this for the rest of my life"
Zhake Ija woah people must love you , jesus take a chill pill...
I love how they go from sitting at their kitchen table trying to figure out how to pay their bills to this. Entire series is amazing.
Oh man, this scene makes me hate Skyler SO MUCH.
1) She preaches morals to Walt, but has no problems laundering his money, and handling that much cash. That means she does get a kick out of it.
2) When Walt tells her he makes 7.5 million a YEAR, rather than being happy, Skyler tries to bring him down and discourage him.
If she hates what Walt does, she should not launder his money. But, since she's starting handling the money, she loves that money. So pick a side. You cant have everything.
I think Skyler is the perfect "anti Walt". While Walt lives on his pride and ego, Skyler continually treats him like a helpless man. Then she has an affair with Ted, gives him Walt's money?
She's definitely no angel, and should not act like she has the moral high ground. She does not.
@@sup1291 You can't use that 7.5 million drug money a year without the IRS investigating, and that piles is going to get a whole lot bigger. That's the point. Unless they want to get caught, it's worthless money.
@@sup1291 It has nothing to do with moral high ground or not wanting that much money it's just that no car wash makes 7.5 mil a year it's literally impossible to get away with laundering that much money. It's money you literally can't use
@@sup1291 No, Skyler is trying to tell Walt to be a criminal the right way. What carwash on the planet has a customer base that pays in all $50 bills? The least he could do is go to Saul and have him break the notes down. There's also no way for them to launder $7.5 mil quickly without franchising, and that could take years.
Skyler should've started taking sexy pictures in anime costumes and selling bathwater, it would've easily explained the 99999 billion
She could drop an OF after Walt died 😈😈😈
However, she will sing
"happy birthday Mr. President"
In her videos.
please never put that image in my head ever again
@@FormulaFanboy 😂💀
After that neekokul 2M department that's seems very plausible
At this point, their only option would be to take Saul up on his other offers. They need to diversify; buy up other businesses around town - the Salon and the Arcade for example.
Have the money going through different filters at the same time, that way no one business looks _too successful._
They would still have to explain having the money to purchase those businesses though. The car wash makes sense, walt worked there, they could've saved up the money for it etc. But if they start buying multiple businesses that would look fishy
For a slightly lower level of detail on laundering, check out Ozark.
The main character gets "lucky" in that they're in the finance game, so they can write off the seed money as "investors" but it's on what they do with those investments afterwards to launder the income that would have made this a great crossover.
@Alex Pokrandt Exactly they could've taken out a loan to buy the other businesses and then pay out the loan really quick
If you purchase business with dirty money, that defeats the purpose.
Laundering money requires a lot of starting capital. If you want to launder 7.5 million dollars a year, you need to already own properties worth millions of dollars.
She's absolutely right. You can't launder that much money with one car wash. You might could do it with like 50. She had a plan to launder like 150,000 dollars. There isn't a solution to the problem of 7.5 million.
@@ScathingMobile you can't really do that anymore since everybody and their mom need to comply with know your customer, anti money laundering and anti terrorism regulations.
While I do like Ozark, this is one of the biggest plotholes in the series. The authorities would be so far up your ass if you just start spending random millions from "investors", they might as well be your dentist.
One of my favorite moments from the series.
Walt and Skyler working together. Partners in crime. Wish there were more scenes like this.
Watch Narcos.
Watch Ozark. The husband and wife are partners in crime and it's great.
Watch Better Call Saul. Viktor and Giselle are in the game.
@@DoctorStranger99 trash, if you wanna see parents in crime, watch
@@DoctorStranger99 Season 1&2 of Narcos is the best thing I've ever seen outside of BB/BCS
Skyler was 100% in the right on everything here lmao
she was also wet down there...
@@martinm.1967 tf?
@@leopoldbuttersstotch277 oh come on it was funny
@@Purohueso555 no it wasnt
@@Purohueso555 it was just kinda weird and out of nowhere
As the series went on I wanted Walter to go away as far as possible from Skyler. But as the series went close to end, I wanted Skyler to go away as far as possible from Walter.
Funny that's exactly what screen junkies said honest trailer lol
Either way it's the same thing.
Skylar was a let down the whole series she never stood by her husband she only thought of her kids and their best interest. Ok maybe thats what a mother supposed to do but that's mainly when you're a single parent.
@@adamsamuel8593 "She never stood by her husband"
Yeah for good reason, he was a drug dealing murdering who was quickly turning evil
She would be actually be foolish to trust his judgement, especially considering how reckless he becomes
@@yokuredcorner4128 at the start tho, she made her husband work two jobs while she sat at home selling random shit online and being a bitch overall. but after the first few episodes and when skyler finds out its completely walts fault
Walt was a genius when it came to book smarts, but street smarts he was basically a child.
He wasn't even laundering his money for his medical bills at first, I'm shocked that he never got caught on that.
School teacher that at one point was having to work a second job just to make ends meet, with a new baby on the way and no one was suspicious of him dropping 10s of thousands in cash.
Wasn't he paying for the treatments under the lie that elliot and Gretchen are paying for it though?
Didn't Junior start a crowd sourcing campaign for the treatment?
@@Username-2 Bingo. That was his laundry. Saul had to spell it out for the Big Brain. Remember ?
what got me was that he was able to buy the carwash in the first place.
@@christopherdelorme7040 Skyler came up with gambling winnings.
For a genious, walt was as sharp as a doornail in this instance. Not immediately recognizing the issue when pointed out and handed to him on a silver plate, and skyler was extremely smart here. Stashing the money in the storage unit - not the smartest move, but she was an expert in recognizing problems
Walt is entirely book smart not really street smart
He’s an impractical genius.
Skyler was by far the most practical character in BB.
Skyler was way more logical and thought out with crime than Walt was, she made a good partner. I wish we got more time watching them work together.
It was Skyler's idea to acquire the car wash and use it to launder money, instead of any of the methods used and recommended by the professional criminal lawyer. Skyler's ego made almost as much trouble as Walt's did.
"So, it's more than you thought... and this is somehow... bad news."
Dat is not the point
@@ziskador, Shut The Fuck Up.... BITCH
Why do people quote what we had just seen?!
@@dbodooley people type / comment / post as if they're talking / quoting the show in-person with their friends to try to be funny and reference or emphasize shit so they seem up to date with a common show they all watch.
Even though they know it's a bunch of people they don't give a fuck about (since we're all strangers to each other here) they still do it because now they can record / recollect their accolades with super special thumbs up or upvotes.
Kinda fuckin' stupid if you think about it a certain way.
@@worlwr2 youtubes a wierd place
Anyone who has ever tried to Handtruck a soda case, especially like that one, knows damn well how easily he could've spilled that stack at any time wheeling that money in.
if i saw that fall id grab a few stacks and say... i saw nothing... and leave
@@Dilllonm you would end up in one of those barrels walt disposed people
@@boyka2962 no half measures
Honestly if Walter didn’t have such an ego he could have kept his 80 million or the big pile of cash in the storage and him and his wife and leave New Mexico and get a nice mansion in the Bahamas chillin
Walt could never chill
Poradon.... that's literally the point
Well after Gus's death he thought of himself as the new methamphetamine kingpin.
He was in the empire business.
"Honestly if Walter didn’t have such an ego..." would've solved almost every problem he had.
I like how most of the camera work was aimed looking up at a looming Walt when Skyler was speaking, and down on Skyler when Walt was. Kinda helps illustrate the sort of power or fearful dynamic they had between them by this point.
Skyler so you make 7 mill a year thats to much
Walt:no problem i kill my boss after a few months every time
Yeah, so the self-employment definetely wasn't a great idea
The look Skylar gave him when he said “if you want out just ‘you want out’” was like “we both know you’re not gonna give me an out”
@@Username-2 Yes that’s true. But before all this, she wanted out when she first found out, she asked for a divorce and she did try to get him out of the house. But he didn’t let her do any of those things
@@deathstarresident Except Walter eventually conceded by signing the divorce papers and moving out, only to find out months later that Skyler never filed the divorce papers because she wasn’t willing to cut ties with him completely.
"At first we didn't know what to do with all the money! We tried burying it, shredding it, and burning it! In the end, we just decided to give it all away."
What the hell is that from? I know it but I can't remember where from.
@@Blasted2Oblivion SpongeBob
Say my name
Spongebob
You're 🐬🐬🐬 right
That's basically what Jesse did at a point
This series is brilliant. Each character “breaks bad” at different times and for different reasons. Sometimes you feel sorry for them and then they do something really bad and you see them differently.
What a combo these two. Walter's grandchildren would've been set for life if it wasn't for the ego.
If he Didn’t have the ego, he wouldn’t have made the money 😉
@@Xplora213 He would have made more with grey matter without the ego.
@@bebo2629damn all you grey matter simps are cucks
Sadly his ego is the size of a small country.
I like how walt doesn't once ask her what he could do to make it easier on her. He could have said "if 50's are an issue, how would you go about fixing the problem?"
bit ch if he had time to manage feelings he wouldnt last in his line of work. That's not Walt's job thats why he said if you cant do it let me know meaning he'll find someone else.
If you complain about having too much money then youre just a karen who likes to complain about anything and everything in the known universe. Bit ch
@carmine you would make a good manager
@@ChrisM-qo1jc you have no god damn clue how money laundering works do you?
LOL Skyler up until this point has literally acted like the most colossal bitch on the planet. Constantly betraying and belittling Walt. Then, in this scene, she starts complaining AFTER agreeing to do this part of laundering the money while Walt is trying to do deal with the whole Gus situation, he's somehow a bad person because he didn't ask how to make things easier on HER? Like SHE'S the one with the real problems? LOLOL Man, I'll never understand Skyler defenders.
Walt didn't say that, because that would be admitting that they were both way out of their depth here. Walt's ego would never let him admit that he was inadequate at something.
Walt's greatest enemy was himself and his need for control of everything around him. He needed others to acknowledge his greatness to satisfy his own ego
His other great enemy was cancer.
See, I always thought Walt should have opened a chain of coffee shops. Think about it:
-he could learn to make really good coffee the same way that Gael did.
-if Hank and Marie ask, Walt discovered a new way to make amazing coffee and decided to capitalize on it
-coffee is one of the most valuable commodities in the world. If it works, the quality of the coffee + walt's laundering would make him the owner of the next Starbucks
-the main problem with laundering through the car wash was that no car wash makes Walt's kind of money . . . . .
. but a really successful chain of Coffee shops might.
It'd be the coffee equivalent to Los pollos hermanos
and Cinnabon. :)
Restaurants make good money laundering operations for the reason of easy growth. If someone opens up a successful restaurant odds are they'll be able to open up two more on the success of the first. Now lots of restauranteurs do this, expand too quickly, and then have to scale back to what they can actually make money on, but if you're able to launder money through the business to make it seem like you're doing say twice as better as industry average at your locations then it's reasonable to assume you just have a successful business and are good at owning restaurants
Perhaps Walt should think about that before trying to kill Gale
It still takes years on years of success to make it believable
@@calvinware7957 That's exactly what Gus's strategy was. He owned 14 Los Pollos Hermanos establishments across the country, more than enough to justify the scrooge mcduck fortune he'd amassed through his drug empire.
Walt, meanwhile, never bothered to branch out past one single car wash place.
this is so reminiscent of jesse and walter's relationship in seasons 1 and 2. For instance, Walter pretty much went overboard in grasping territory, by having high yet unreasonable expectations from jesse, resulting in Combo's death and now, he's just giving skylar a whole lot of money expecting her to do her "part" like jesse expanding her boundaries, and we all know what many in situations occur surrounding all that money in these last two seasons
Walt has a 'If you believe strongly enough, it will happen' mentality. Right from the beginning he has symptoms of megalomania and by the end he's into Fuhrer territory, ranting that the failures of others are failures of will rather than the result of practical impossibility.
I don't get how anyone can step back from the show, after everything that happens, and still hate Skylar. In the moment, when you're in Walt's head, sure, but Jesus, Walt's just awful, and he's awful to her.
She's trying to work the story of their unbelievable wealth into their lives in a way that's convincing, and there's just no way to. She's scared they're going to get caught, and Walt's just stands there, looming over her, daring her to oppose him, basically telling her to stop bitching and figure it out.
Keep in mind, Skylar is right. They don't have a way of laundering their money, and this money they can't use is a massive liability. It ends up being central to Walt's downfall. If their money was safe in a bank, Jesse couldn't have threatened to burn it.
*She Fucked Ted*
That's really all it took for me. Anna Gunn? Love her. Skylar? No. And that's a testament to Gunn's acting ability.
@@Raphie009 I think that's fair. I won't defend that, though I was more talking about in situations of Walt vs Skylar, like this one, where people still side with Walt over Skylar.
The affair was like her version of killing Krazy 8 or something. She needed money and put herself in a dangerous (as far as she knew she'd have to deal with Ted's sexual advances), and ended up doing something she wasn't proud of. And her IFT moment was like Walt's "I watched Jane die", where she confessed something that she felt guilty about solely to cause someone pain. And I'm not excusing her, it's just that Walt is so much worse, and even in small conflicts where Walt is clearly the abuser, even with everything else taken into consideration, people still side with Walt over her.
The thing is, she WANTED to be the one that washes the money. I think Walt's response of "stop bitching and figure it out" is totally reasonable when she was the one that went out of her way and insisted to do this job.
Skylar was no saint, but she wasn't anywhere near being the sociopath Walt morphed into.
I mean, walt never asked her to do it, and even here he still tells her to simply say it if she wants out.
At that point, she was simply being a bitch about it
Imagine being told in season 1 Walt would say "it's a simple division of labour, I bring in the money, you launder the money." While talking about $7,500,000
Let's be real Skyler had a knack for criminal doing 😂
Hardly. She ended up taking it all to a storage unit.
@@lynxminx4 well she knew how to cook books n stuff. What she was doing for Ted for longest
@@rebboy17 She never cooked books for Ted. He brought her back to be the 'fall guy' at tax time for books that were already cooked. Once she figured this out she resigned rather than uncook them or turn him in, which left her vulnerable to audit and we see that come to pass.
Should have bought a mattress store. I'm convinced most mattress stores are laundering fronts. There's way too many of them and they always seem way too empty to stay in business with legitimate income.
You would have thought that they would have had this conversation BEFORE buying the car wash....
Walt could have just kept raking in the money in gus' lab and kept his mouth shut like Mike said and everything would have been fine.
In terms of criminality, gus is a great boss to have. Hes fair and extremely cautious. Just keep your mouth shut and you'll earn millions. Everything Walt touched turned to shit.
Walt was doing that just fine, but Hank had to beat the crap out of Jesse and Jesse was going to be reckless and sue Hank (which would force Walt to have him killed). Jesse ruined the Gus/Walt partnership.
I think that’s the whole point throughout the show most of walt’s problems are created by him even leaving gray matter was his own fault he constantly lets his pride get in the way of things which caused his downfall
But wouldn't Gus eventually kill Walt? I always see this argument, but the reason Gus put Gale as his lab assistant was to eventually steal the recipe from Walt and then kill him ?
@@snowchips9596 thats mainly because he cant trust and doesnt like walt
@@snowchips9596 The way that I saw it, the original plan was to let Walt work until his cancer kills him, while having Gale learn the recipe so that Gale can continue running the lab when Walt goes. At the start, there wasn't a reason for Gus to kill Walt, because Walt happily agreed to Gus's offer. It was only when Jesse came back into the picture and Walt started crossing Gus to protect Jesse that Gus had an issue with Walt, and may have wanted to kill him.
I really was so unsatisfied that Walt & his family couldn’t enjoy the money he worked for to it’s fullest extent. They could have had such a happy life.
So many people here in the comments being experts in money laundering seems suspicious lol. Makes me feel like we have some professionals in our midst.
Is just basic mathematics and understanding the laws and how money works. Banks, and knowing some economics. Tbh any person can understand money laundering. It just takes research and studying. Basically it's just trying to make dirty money look clean. Fake charging, and finance keeping, to ward off the banks that don't know you have millions from drug trade. Going out and buying a business or a million dollar vehicle will raise eyebrows, but faking you made 60 grand a year at your family owned car wash isn't to out of the ordinary.
Well, Saul explained money laundering pretty well early in the series so...
If you truly don't know who you're dealing with in the comments, then maybe your best course is to *tread lightly.*
@@MaskOfCinder 😂😂😂
lol youtube commenters love to pretend they are experts. Do you think actual professionals would give away their trade secrets to other strangers on youtube?
That nail salon would've made this all easier.
Better Call Saul
Nope. Laser tag. "Scientists love lasers."
It was never a particularly smooth partnership, but part of me always loved to see Skyler working with Walt. It's harder to see at first because she occupies the social position of "housewife/mother," but she was a pretty smart gal - i mean, a genius like Walt wouldn't be satisfied marrying an airhead. She hated it, and didn't want to do it, but can you imagine if she shared his narcissistic lust for power and glory? they could've taken over the damn world!
you mean like the Ozarks.
If she'd shared his greed, they would've gotten caught. She was the voice of reason while he was blinded by avarice.
She wanted to do it. He wasn’t forcing her. He told her if she wanted out she could go .
If you pause at 0:06, you can see on the billsit says "For motion picture use only", because it's prop money!
What they should have done is had Saul open up an account in the Caribbean or Switzerland, and deposit the money there. Those two countries are (in)famous for NOT cooperating with American banking or law enforcement agencies.
Nowadays they cooperate with the authorities as well
Have you seen Wolf of Wall Street?
@@kylenetherwood8734 Nope, and I don't want to. Doesn't interest me.
@@kylenetherwood8734 Wolf of Wall Street is based on events that took place a while back - in the late 90's.
After 9/11 they cooperate pretty much all the time with the US authorities.. Switzerland isn't as safe for criminals as it used to be.
I once hated character Skyler so much because the first time watching, I saw things through Walt's eyes, but now that I thought this character totally makes sense. She gave up her career for her family and at the end, she was betrayed by her husband. That must be hell for her to be in this situation.
yeah, until a certain point in the show, Skyler was actually kind of a bitch, but the moment Walt started going Heisenberg all the way, giving himself too much to his ego and narcissistic personality, more and more Skyler became the right side over all this
Uh... what? She was the one who betrayed HIM.
@@jamesshepherd9390 huh? walt started this drug business and lied over and over again. he put his family in danger many times cause of his ego. walt's really the one who betrayed skyler and their family
@@baldkurapika8475 No, Skyler and Walt Jr were the ones who betrayed him. Anyone who says otherwise wasn't paying attention.
@@jamesshepherd9390 lol walt is clearly the bad guy. yeah i like his character but we gotta accept he's the bad guy, not his family
I feel that Skylar deep down really liked the kind of money Walt was making, and maybe even the fact that her husband was a drug kingpin (bad boy complex), but what really ended up her loving Walt less and less, to the point of hatred, was his “Heisenberg” persona and how it made her feel when she interacted with this persona.
No. She would hate walt way quicker if she knows how many people he killed before gus.
Nope. It was RISK. Skyler -- like most all women -- is not interested in having her children put at risk.
In a few episodes, she goes APE over the risk Walt is bringing home with him.
Jesse's gasoline project was the last straw. Risk had returned -- straight out of left field.
Nah she definitely didn't like what was happening
The fact that she only has a picture of Flynn on the desk is a nice detail
0:45 instant moisture
And it's still less annually than he would've made if he stayed with Grey Matter.
@@yawgmoth5662 instant dryness
@@yawgmoth5662 It's up there. The company's worth =/= profit he gets personally.
@@yawgmoth5662 initially i thought so too, but after thinking it over some more, i have my doubts: Walter's money was given to Ted at the end of the 4th season and he was left with next to nothing: within a year he had 80 million dollars free and clear. Now Gretchen and Elliott may have a company worth 2.1 billion, but their own net worth was probably a reasonable amount less: maybe 100-300 million range (Foot Locker CEO Dick Johnson is worth 23 million even as the company is worth 7 billion) Given the amazing speed that Walt was developing his empire and given that he was just ramping up his overseas operations, i'm betting that if he beat his cancer a second time, his net worth would have surpassed his two former partners within 3 years tops..
1:04 Walt undeniably being the smartest character in the show, but still glazing over the factual truth from Skyler‘s inability to launder that amount of money. Instead, he just assumes the more money he brings in, the better😂😂
He was actually giving her more than she could handle on purpose
Doesn't make sense that Fring didn't help Walt launder the money. Walt getting caught with all that cash is a liability to Fring.
Fring has his own problems. Plus, Walt is giving have of his cash to Jesse.
Jesse is a constant problem for Walt. Just look at the pals Jesse hangs with.
Keep bringing us more of this! 🙏
AndroidNovo "blue yellow pink whatever"
"Just remember who you’re working for"
FBI we got em Excuse me? Are you saying they’re stupid or something?
@@RadagonTheRed Nah just that they know not to sell to our rivals
"I didn't ask for any of this."
Walt knew that was a good point but was too prideful to acknowledge it.
Actually Skyler asked for this, rewatch the show
Rewatch episodes 9, 11, 12 of season 3
@@doriangray104 Skyler did not ask her husband to get involved in crime and illegal activity.
@@SpitefulAZ Walter signed divorce papers and left the house but Skyler wanted Walter's money, so she munipulated him to come back to the family
@@doriangray104 great, she still didn't ask for Walt to get involved with criminals and start synthesizing methamphetamine.
If i could just do this for a month then walk away...
That's basically what Walter White said in the beginning too 😂
@@FullPlaythroughs If I could just be Walt through three and a half seasons (but without the cancer) and move to either (1) a different country or (2) the North East once Gus threatened my family if I didn't back off.
Walt did end up walking away. Then Hank decided to take a dump in their bathroom and everything went to hell...
@@geoffreysorkin5774 But your wish would basically guarantee a monkeys paw, just like the situation was with Walt. Something would always go wrong to the point where you’re digging yourself in a hole that you can’t get out from.
You can't really walk away just like Saul said once your in your in
When you make over 10 times more money than you can use without going to jail
DO NOT get your wife involved in your business!!!
david israel she is the one who ask to be the danny, walt even said that’s a bad idead, she choose to do that
Any female at all ....
Why?
Then she will end up giving it to her lover for support😠
MMAbadboy that’s the stupidest comment I’ve ever read lol.
hated her so much .....Great acting Anna Gunn 👌✌
Especially when she fuck piece of shit Ted! just because Walter has the second phone!
@@اسامةالشمري-ه6م She didn't cheat. And it wasn't just because he had a second cell phone. Lmao, smh.
@@burnedflowers141 Extra-marital sex is cheating... Or are you one of those modern idiots who claim women are incapable of cheating?
@Raffay's Universe "It's the fucking internet I can write whatever the fuck I want, do or say."
JewTube: Well yes but actually, no.
@Raffay's Universe "I can write whatever the fuck I want, do or say." You can, but you can also still be wrong.
I used to pay for washes in $50s... How I miss those days 😭
I always wondered if the reason Skyler didn't opt to get out when Walt asked her if she wanted to, was because she wanted to support him, or because she was scared he would kill her if she did
Yeah after his "I'm the one who knocks" speech she probably lived in a lot of fear that Walt could just make her disappear.
I hated her from the moment she had the talking pillow.
That would either make you a sexist or a sociopath who sides with Walt as a person.
Two Twig why is hating someone for having a talking pillow sexist you are a complete moron
@@NastoKing Because this is 2019, and anyone who dislikes or disagrees with a woman is automatically sexist regardless of circumstance. Same as that you're an immediate racist for disliking/disagreeing with anyone who isn't white.
You are correct though, he is a complete moron.
@@TheStraightestWhitest most of Skyler's hate post season 1 is retarded, anyway, gender or not.
Two Twig it’s a fuckin show you idiot. Walter and Pinkman are the best characters. Just because someone dislikes a female character does not mean that person is sexist or a damn sociopath 🤦♂️
Now I get why the soda machine was always running out of Coke Zero.
0:47 Skylar : are you telling me that you are the one who knocks...
It’s so bothersome to see him destroy himself. If he didn’t have such a big ego and need for recognition and praise, he would have gotten what he wanted all along. Financial stability and a happy family.
I feel like Gus should be helping Walt to launder the money, it'd be bad if Walt gets caught by the IRS
Re-watching this scene after watching Ozarks gives me ✨anxiety✨
i thought the exact same thing XD
It's all because the government *_HATES_* competition. That's why they go after money laundering drug dealers... The gummint isn't getting their cut of the profits!
BB still better
Honestly the best way of money laundering is by selling art, you can charge any x amount for a painting
Art is a great money transporter. $10 million in cash is a steamer trunk full of $100 bills. $10 million in art is one or two original Picasso or daVinci sketches that would fit in a briefcase with loads of room to spare.
Art is a great for tax avoidance too. Not tax EVASION just avoidance. Buy a piece for $200K and donate it to a public gallery… but only if they asses it for $2 million. Whose to say that it wasn’t one of those garage-sale finds? You spent $200K to avoid a $2 million tax bill.
Shame she didn't think of it. It's strange, considering she was dealing in resale in the first season.
How would that work in the circumstances of the show?
@@justrandomthings319
Walter: (talking to Saul) "Saul we have a PROBLEM that requires your...services. We have a...laundry problem. We were wondering if you know of any... up and COMING artists that were looking to sell some art."
Saul: "Hey no problemo buddy. How much we talkin' here?"
Skyler: (Hands Saul a handwritten paper form showing the numbers)
Saul: (Whistles) "Wow daddy! Hang on a sec" (Proceeds to rip apart then eat all the pieces of the paper) "So I know 2 nice lil' ol' ladies that just SWEAR they owned some original Norman Rockwell paintings they were tryin' tah sell. Turns out they're both just skilled amateurs with a flair for imitation. Anyway I got em out of a jam, so they owe me one. I also know a lotta guys that likes tah say they own a lotta moolah that like to buy expensive lookin' stuff like fancy cars or expensive paintings. I helped alot of em sort out the issues they end up having with credit card companies and the courts. Of course it turns out many ah those guys end up having troubles payin' their legal bills. I'm sure they'd love a free way tah pay their bills that also lets em collect lots ah art".
Walt: "It's still insufficient. We need another way to get rid of some of this money"
Saul: "I also helped out a construction guy once. He owns a 3 person family business that takes old asbestos out ah old warehouse buildings and replaces it with foam insulation or that pink wall stuffing stuff. He got in trouble because he doesn't like paying for building materials. I'm sure he'd love to not have to spend so much on buidling materials to insulate walls with..."
Hunter knows all about that.
Walt is sometimes very smart and sometimes very stupid.
He sometimes nice and sometimes evil.
Mostly smart but sometimes stupid
Mostly evil but sometimes nice
This is the point (or points) where Walt started to lose it, his ego and all that selfishness started to blind him. He didn't understand his limitations and tried to pretend that he could run an Empire (as he said). It's funny because in this aspect, Gus overthrown Walt all the way, Fring got everything it takes to make this work like a clock. The best way to put it, I guess, is to say that Walter took a bite bigger than his mouth
0:11 pause and look closely, the money has the words "FOR MOTION PICTURES ONLY"
wow! good eye!
In Rush Hour 2, from 2001, they had prop money that looked extremely real but said "in dog we trust" and it blew up as part of a stunt, got blown out the window, and people who found it spent it at businesses. The secret service had a tizzy fit, and the rules on prop money became MUCH more strict after that.
Ugh the condescending way he speaks to Skyler cheeses me off. Just bc he wants something done doesn't mean it's possible in his time frame and any time someone tells him there's a problem he goes into petty mode instead of listening.
At what point would walt say that 7 million is enough and retire to cover his tracks and keep his family safe? this man was so egotistical.
nobody walks away from their best earning years willingly
She is right about the 50's though.
The higher value of the bill the more investigation is done. Always best to keep it mostly in 5's and 1's as those are hardly looked at.
You have to remember what amounts of money people are using to pay... And what they're buying and how much.
Large amounts of money are usually paid with large bills.
@@tylerdurden639 Yes, the most successful way is to have mixed bills and coins. But only $50's is suspicious as hell.
@@dumbdude3103 but then of course imagine demanding that $275k every two weeks is paid in small bills. If you have 10s as the average bill, that's gonna be 5 times as many bills. Somehow they gotta find a way to change out bills without arousing suspicion. Surely Saul would know some loan sharks, pawn shops, or Indian casinos that could supply. Even so, even if they had reasonable bills to put in the register, it would take years to feign a successful carwash and expand to a chain of carwashes to adequately cover the drug profits.
At this point I wouldn't be surprised if Walter thinks laundering money means to put it through the washer and dryer.
"I cant launder this much money. I know, ill just give it to Ted!" - Skyler
I can see why Gustavo built a fast food empire in order to launder his money
Getting the money in the world of crime is easy. Keeping it is hard.
It's actually really amazing how many good opportunities Walt gave up because of his ego
It's incredible how even this speaks to that whole Ted situation. He just told her he would be making 7,5mi a year, that they wouldn't be able to clean anyway, so she probably thought it would be ok to give Ted the 600k to stay clear from the IRS as a long lasting solution.
Even that came full circle, which proves the brilliance of the writing. Too bad some fans can't keep up with it.
That's when Skyler realized Heisenberg became the Danger
It seriously would've been interesting to see how far Walt and Skyler could've gotten had his ego not gotten in the way. In scenes like this it doesn't seem like she had a problem with it.
I love how Walter is so casual about making 7.5 million a year as if it’s an office job
This really shows Walt's growing cruelty as much as any murder. His wife, who has every reason in the world to be shutting his shit down, is being as sweet as she could possibly be about a situation like this, and he responds with gaslighting. He is smart enough to know what she means! So for him to be like, "well it's not my problem, it's your problem" is insane! They should be partners who communicate and collaborate! Selfish and cruel. It really shines when Skylar responds to him with, *"I never wanted any of this"* .
*"Skylar this is a simple division of labor. I bring in the money, you launder the money."*
I only just realised how much weight Skyler put on since season 1.
Her pregnancy in the show was real
True
and this is where Skyler becomes fully complicit in walts crimes. She couldve walked away and taken the kids but she chose money instead. She and Walt really were meant for each other.
Skylar- I f*cked Ted
Ted’s Rug- So did I
9 months of work for 1 carwash, 1 month of work for 9 car washes, that's how you do it.
Best to clean that money, having a fall guy open an brokerage account and buy penny stocks set at certain times. Then buy those stocks and sell when it hit the highs and take the gains.
I’m watching too many clips of both shows and I can see why people love it. I guess the maturity of its subject matter and it’s group of characters are all great. 👍
This here is a the big difference in Narcos.
Pablo Escobar's wife had been loyal to him from heaven to hell.
Skyler White? Meh.
@diamond dogs Loyalty does not an idiot make.
@Straight White Male ...yeah, unconditional loyalty is a pretty unintelligent trait. if you're loyal to something no matter what happens, you're pretty stupid.
@Ztornado why you like submissive women so that you can beat her up?
@Mayochiki this is the best comeback I've ever heard. I'm going to use it on trolls. This made my day. Thanks
This is the exact moment Marie turned into Minerals.
Tbh, Walt should have just left it here. He was working for Gus, and making huge amounts of money. And Skylar seemed good with laundering the money. His kids would have no idea and still got the money he made. But his ego ultimately ended all of that…
ever since i watched this show i think about how the hell would i handle this, its almost impossible to laundry that kind of $ without fcking up, the level of stress this would cause its just not worth it i think. what do you guys think? XD
@deenman23 yeah, but the business would need to be successful in order for the laundry to work, alter the books and stuff, and you will need a hell of an accountant XD
anyone who's smart will realize that this show demonstrates how not worth it this business is. yeah you might get a lot of money but, you'll barely get to enjoy it being so paranoid about being killed by a rival or caught by the feds
Make a few million then quit as soon as you can, that's a dangerous business. Very slowly launder the money, even if it takes decades. Buy stuff with cash in the meantime. Not stuff that has paper trails like cars, or real estate but untraceable things like clothes, latest tv or computer. Eat out at nice restaurants a lot. Enjoy life.
@Hans 7 haven't you been watching Better Call Saul ''Once you're in, you're in"
Quitting isn't usually an option.
Or make another company?
*Questions Skylar should have asked (she's supposed to be an accountant):* "Hey Walt, to to the nearest million, what's the ballpark on how much money per year we can be expected to need to money launder?"
Walt should've hired Marty Bryde to launder for him. The best crossover partner
It was at this point 2:13... Skyler became Skysenberg
at 2:08 "That's my darling wife."
Her eyes are so beautiful
She's not wrong, there is such a thing as to much money to launder. All it takes is the IRS putting two and two together, watching your business and seeing there's no way you are doing the amount of legal business you're claiming to do.