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"Hopefully Hank listens to reason, Skyler, because I hear this place has some kick ass guacamole!"

Once again, we think we're getting something. It's about to be delivered. And that one little piece of the puzzle we all forgot about -- that one loose end that we thought might just be a red herring after all --comes back and changes the show."Confessions" was another link in the chain connecting us to the end of the series. It was a huge link at that. It was well-written, beautifully told, and just an awesome piece of TV. The transition to the end so far has been fluid and beautiful. Watching these episodes, this is how people must've felt watching Picasso paint.Hot damn!OK, let's get into this one.We're here to talk about three major things that happened. First, Jesse's moment of enlightenment.Jesse figured it out. Well, partially. He figured out Huell lifted the ricin from him. He knows now that Walt's been manipulating him all along and that Walt didn't really find the ricin in the Roomba. What's hilarious is Walt will probably have to tell the full truth and Jesse won't believe him. Who knows what happens next, since the house looked more abandoned in the flash forward than burned (though maybe Jesse only partially burns it, since he only has that one tank of gas?), but Jesse is pissed. Suddenly, we have a different game on our hands.Many of us writing for IGN, when discussing Breaking Bad , have always felt that the ultimate end of the show is Jesse's redemption. Seeing him walk out and on the road to Alaska (been watching too much Ice Road Truckers?) would've been kind of bittersweet: it was too quiet of an ending for Jesse. That hug Walt gave him was the most touching moment the show has had in a while, but it just wasn't right. He's been too important to this series to suddenly sit him out right when everything comes to an end.Thank goodness we're not getting that; this was far more rewarding. Just as he was about to exit quietly, he broke down Saul's door and beat the hell out of him. Poor Saul has taken quite a beating this year. Hopefully he's not visiting Belize later.I don't know what comes out of this, but it was amazing to watch the years of planning that went into this; all of it was for this one moment. Nobody saw it coming. (If you say you did, I'll burn your house down). It was absolutely perfect.This one people will be talking about for a while.Second, the opening scene with Todd and Uncle Jack. You forgot about that for a bit, didn't you? Once again, it's great to see the writers planned enough in the show to have these scenes - particularly when Todd told all about the train heist. We saw the train heist. We don't need to see it again. But it's important because it's what Todd saw and did and we learn just how proud of it he was. He's a little nervous, but he's ready, and it's kind of endearing if he weren't cooking meth for neo-nazis and hadn't shot an innocent kid at the tail end of the story he's telling (a detail he manages to leave out, of course).The greatest image in that opening moment was Uncle Jack wiping the blood off of his shoe. It was tiny and wordless and the visual metaphor of him throwing it down the toilet summed up the future of the enterprise: it will be sloppy, it will be unprofessional, it will be bloody, it will be for nothing. We are very far removed from the Gus era. All of that in three connected shots.

Breaking Bad: In Defense of Skyler

And third, Hank and Walt. We got the showdown. And once again, just when you thought things might reach a stalemate until the next episode, Walt pulled maybe the greatest haymaker the show has ever seen. All of the years of build-up so conveniently led to this one confessional videotape. He has Hank PEGGED.How amazing was it to see Hank's face? How much did you love hearing "Jesus Christ, Marie" one more time? How immersed were you in that scene that you completely forgot these are actors acting out scenes for a TV show? It's easy to forget sometimes because Dean Norris and Betsy Brant are are just so natural as Hank and Marie.The whole scene in the Taqueria opened up the present situation like how Walt opened the gun. It was great dialogue and it was awkward for everyone, including the server and his poor fresh guacamole offers. It made me wonder where they were taking it and the confession video was just the misdirection punch this show needed at this exact time."Confessions" was every bit of Breaking Bad at its best. It was fun, crazy, scary, and awkward at times. It foreshadowed something greater. We're all gripped to the edges of our seats and we're craving for more.Five more episodes.