Ugh. Okay, so Walt has barely made it off of Hank’s cul-de-sac before Hank is on the phone with Skyler. They schedule an immediate meet-up at a diner (where else, on this show?), where Skyler is scared shitless, and when Hank tries to barrel her over into putting her story on tape so he can quickly get Walt locked up, Skyler starts freaking out about getting a lawyer and bolts. Things manage to go oven worse when Marie comes by the house to talk. After surmising that Skyler knew the truth about Walt since before Hank was shot, she slaps her sister across the face and then tries to take baby Holly away. Hank stops her and they leave Skyler to figure her shit out in private.
Meanwhile, Walt is freaking out, thinking that Skyler just went right to Hank and told him everything. First order of business is to get Saul’s guys to round up the money. They probably pocket a few stacks for themselves and then load the rest into barrels, which Walt then drives out to the desert and buries. He then commits the coordinates of the location to a lottery ticket, which he later magnets to his fridge, where no one will ever figure it out ever I bet.
Once home, he heads straight for the shower, but between the stress of Skyler asking a billion questions, the heat stroke he probably suffered in the desert, and all that cancer (oh, yeah, Hank told Skyler about the cancer), he passes out. Some hours later, he wakes up to Skyler doting on him. He tells her he knows she probably ratted him out to Hank; he’ll turn himself in, if only she’ll promise not to give up the money, to pass it on to this kids, so this whole endeavor won’t be for nothing. Now, last we checked in with Skyler’s emotions, the only thing she wanted was to be out. But now, she knows that Walt can’t go down without the money going away. So suddenly she cares about the money again, and she starts advising Walt to keep quiet, since Hank doesn’t have very much in the way of real evidence, or else he wouldn’t have been grilling her so hard. I’ll probably work this out more in the recap, but for now, this feels like a major selling out of the Skyler character for plot purposes.
The other uncomfortable realization is that Walt can’t go down without Jesse going down too. After his nighttime money-tossing escapade, Jesse crashes his car and ends up drifting listlessly on a merry-go-round. By episode’s end, he’s been brought in for questioning (where’d all that money come from, etc.), and Hank sees an opportunity to lean on him to get to Walt.
Meanwhile, in Lydia Rodart-Quayle news, she gets taken out to the desert (blindfolded) to get a look at Declan’s meth operation, which is well below the Heisenberg standard, but Declan simply doesn’t give a fuck. Heisenberg’s stuff is off the market, so the meth-heads will buy what they’re offered. This isn’t good enough for Lydia nor her Czech backers, so she settles herself into a nice, quiet corner while Todd, Todd’s uncle, and Todd’s uncle’s gang members massacre Declan and his crew. Guys, is Todd going to end up being this season’s Big Bad?