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What are you talking about?

The cousins didn't have very good reflexes. When a car is backing up, you step out of the way. When a guy is pointing a gun at your dome, you duck. You don't stand there acting badass like you're immortal.

It's amazing they lived this long.

No disagreement with the cousins' slowness and foolishness, scowl. I said "that was a serious head-shot" because it was a shocking view of it, not because the cousin made it such a challenge. After they had hyped up the hollowpoint "shredder" bullet, some might have expected we'd get to see it produce such a result; however, I was still shocked by that image.

This show regularly goes over the top. I'm hoping the splatter was an accident and they didn't have time to reshoot it (they only get eight days to shoot an episode).

The interesting thing is that Jesse dropped his charges against Hank for pounding his face to a pulp, then shortly after that two hit men try to kill Hank. If the DEA and local police have any brains, they'll suspect Jesse hired them for revenge or at least strongly suspect the two events are related. They probably have no idea who the cousins are.

The cousins didn't have very good reflexes. When a car is backing up, you step out of the way.

Remember, the brothers- and last night's show established that they were brothers- had already been established as too cool for school. They always moved slowly, even when creeping around was called for, such as when stalking Hank in his SUV.

I found it harder to understand that Hank could ultimately survive when Jesse was screaming at him in the hospital and calling him Heisenberg. Or that the other brother would be well enough to be doing what he seemed to be up to doing in the previews.

Still, an excellent episode.

Always assumed "the cousins" were brothers. They are called "the cousins" because of their relation to Tuco.

Did the one cousin survive who got hit with the truck?

Quick Question: Who called Hank to warn him about the Mexican Death Twins (cousins)??

i think not
but its tv so anything is possible

Yes, he's in a hospital bed in the Pre-View.

Probably the same guy who cleaned Jesse's house of drugs and bugged Walt's house. I bet he was tailing the twins on orders from Hamburglar.

His guardian angel.

They are Tuco's cousins. Brother's can be cousins.


That's all great for when creeping around is called for, but when a truck is barreling at you that's when moving quickly is called for unless you're made out of liquid metal and can reconstitute yourself. Maybe he thought the kevlar jacket would protect him.

I expected Hank to finally get that bullet into the gun and discover it was the wrong caliber.

Obviously, Head-Shot Cousin (HSC) is very, very dead. But I suspect Truck-Smash Cousin (TSC) is still alive. We must eventually see TSC in a wheelchair next to papi ("Hamburglar?"), plotting revenge against all their enemies in Albuquerque, now including Mr. Chicken. (He did set them on the path to their demise, after all...)

Another amazing episode. This show does suspense like nobody's business. Kind of sad, in a way, to see the brothers taken out of action. Man, they were creepy and menacing in such a mixture that I'd hoped they'd be around for the duration of the season.

I can see the jilted assistant making trouble. Gus will want to kill him, but Walt will feel responsible and then he'll have two assistants. Speaking of Gus, now we know him to be some kind of South American military leader on the lam, maybe one of those Argentine strongmen during the "missing persons" era down there.

So, my guess is Hank becomes a security consultant or private investigator. He'll probably still be obsessed with Heisenberg.

you sure that wasn't Hank?

Funny..real..Hilarious..Gus does look like the Hamburgular and he cooks (double metaphor) Hamburgers and he's a criminal (burgular).

Now that's funny!

Yes, it was a cousin, the one that got hit by the van.

Arch, Hank won't be kicked out of DEA now. Jesse won't press charges.

Wasn't what he did to Jessee prosecuteable? Remember Rodney King?

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I don't think his suspension will be lifted just because Jesse isn't pressing charges; that's just a bonus. Hank still beat him up which is what got him bounced. Looked to me like Hank was kind of relieved to be out.

Hank is certainly undergoing his own mid-life crisis. Who knows what will happen to him next? Lots of creative possibilities.

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If Jesse doesn't press charges, the DEA could choose to keep Hank.

However, Hank's tell-all affidavit might have been his effective resignation letter, by his own choice...

The writers have the flexibility to take it either way at this point.

Regardless, I expect TSC to cause more trouble now -- somehow -- for Hank, Walt, and Mr. Chicken.

Yeah, that's how I took it.

They could give him a desk job and that's all. They could never ever put him back out in field. An agent who has no control over themselves is a huge liability. What does the agency do the next time Hank flips out and pummels a defenseless person into the hospital? This time they can say they didn't see it coming. The second time would be undeniable negligence.

I think Mike (Saul's cleaner) calling Hank is too easy.
I think its his (former) dea boss. I think he's on the take from Gus. He knew Jesse was dropping the suit. he tried to have Hank moved to el paso on two occasions because he knew hank was getting close.
unlikely, but possible.

You're probably on to something here. I always thought is was too convenient for burrito man to have been on a "tour" of the DEA offices that one time. So if anyone is pulling strings at the DEA office, it's prolly him.

That's the kind of twist that few would see coming, but could certainly work. The voice was electronically altered, and Mike would have no reason to do that as he and Hank have had no previous interaction. And one might presume that Hank would have changed his cell-phone number after the hoax (although I don't remember them telling or showing us), and his boss would have access to his new one.

Maybe the real plan was to get rid of the cousins. If Gus wanted them to get killed, tipping off Hank would be one way to see that happen. Giving them "permission" to go after Hank was the set up. Either way, the public execution of a DEA officer is a sure way to have them go away. They'd either be dead or too hot to stick around and bother Gus.

Those theories are so plausible, they practically deserve spoiler-tags! Nice speculatin', guys...

Great ideas, yet I still wonder who called Hank.
The episode was so good and tense it was a day later until I realized "The Mystery Caller" was not clearly identified.
Honestly, I think it could have been anyone on the show...not that's peerless writing.