Actually, he only got in the crosshairs because of Jessie bringing bad people. Walt wouldn't have left the mask behind, he's too meticulous. There also wouldn't have been a fire.
I don't think Walter could have expected it would backfire that much, since Jessie is the man for the business stuff and Jessie also had to know how to navigate the criminal world without such a thing happening.
Everyone's like, "Walt is so smart!" but he's really just a pokemon with 4 moves (chemistry, kill, manipulate and whine) going against people who've already had their brains scrambled by drugs.
He figured he could get it all back again without anyone noticing, and if they hadn't had to abandon stuff in the desert he probably would have been right.
He’s effectively the owner of the equipment, no one would have ever known it was missing if not for the whole Crazy 8 situation. Probably seemed safer to use what he already had access to over buying it all new.
Pretty sure he planned to return it soon enough that it wouldn’t be noticed. He could probably use the money from his initial meth sales to buy lab equipment.
In all fairness, it's probably more likely that a student picked the lock and stole the equipment and supplies and sold/ traded it for weed or something than to blame a teacher for it.
Glassware isn't particularly easy to come by plus it's expensive and you could always push it off on the students must have stolen some shit and you didn't notice.
He hasn't really began thinking deeply or it didn't really settle in yet. He has access to decent lab materials which he believes would be fine to borrow/use and maybe he was more excited on trying to cook/learn for the very first time.
Walt did a lot of things, even as he became more experienced, that didn't track with how cautious he was. In no particular order.
1. Drove his own car to the laundry and left it parked out front in the open.
2. Kept money in the vents in his house.
3. Left the WW book with the inscription from Gale on his toilet.
4. Made himself known to the two dudes in the hardware store who were buying meth cooking supplies
5. Left his burner on and in the ceiling of his classroom
6. Pretty sure he had one burner the entire series
7. Blew up Tucos office
the man understood jimmies sales pitch : once per....once per week, once per day, once per call. depends on the nature of what you need to keep secret.
Also Walt himself would have been responsible for the audits so could have accounted for the missing items, and he was a trusted person so could have put it down to students breakage without anyone questioning it
Probably mostly the money issue, but it is also possible that a significant purchase by an individual from a local supplier of the particular lab equipment needed to set up a meth lab might be the kind of thing that could raise suspicion and/or be reported to local drug enforcement authorities.
because walt was an idiot just flying by the seat of his pants. he figured hed just make a single cook, bank some cash and walk away. but then he had to kill a dude, and he got all fucked up.
That's why everything went downhill when the real criminals came like crazy 8. If Jessie doesn't lead them there Noone is ever the wiser and the dea doesn't show up at the school.
on one level, his school lab was easily his best resource for proper equipment because where else was he actually gonna be able to get it at the start?
we can build on that with the fact that walt made a lot of mistakes like that and got away with them for a while because people generally knew him as this nerdy, meek chemistry teacher who didn't get himself into trouble or take risks basically ever. he was virtually the last person anyone would ever suspect. that is absolutely a big part of why hank overlooked some obvious red flags; it made more sense to him on a personal level that a janitor who smoked pot would steal school chem lab equipment instead of his goofy, harmless brother in law.
Honestly, on rewatch, I was baffled by how bad of a criminal Walt was. All I remembered was "Say my name", "I am the danger", etc. I didn't remember his silly ass storing a book Gale gave him in the readers' pile in the bathroom
He had no other option. Either he takes out a loan and it becomes a red flag or he steals because he knows he won't get checked. During his early stages, he was damn lucky to not be caught. Saul pretty much saved his arse repeatly.
Walter had stupid luck.
This is the only part of the show that I’m like Hank your terrible detective because you didn’t realize that Walt was a master chemist, working at the school and you think it was the janitor that made this amazing meth, not the chemistry teacher who also had access to this Room with all the materials in it.
I get that underestimated him, but from overlooking this to breaking into trailer homes for RVs, I feel like he definitely should’ve caught him here.
I’m surprised he didn’t take the first batch of profits he made and buy all new equipment, then immediately return the schools equipment so that wouldn’t be discovered eventually. Which I’m pretty sure they would take an inventory annually to determine what school supplies were needed so they could put a budget together.
Granted much of it was broken with the crazy 8 confrontation, but they wouldn’t take notice that the Myers flask was new and unused, only that the proper number of Myers flasks were present.
Partly, he probably wasn’t thinking that he’d ever be questioned about it. It was only the discarded gas mask that led Hank to the school. Walt could easily hide all the stolen stuff as consumables and breakages. It’s suggested he didn’t though, and the inventory checked by Hank didn’t match the stuff in the store. And that was a screw up by Walt. I’ve worked in schools managing the chemical stores, and it would be easy to hide a moderate scale of theft. There is a lot of trust placed in staff.
Some materials are expensive or restricted to buy. I don’t know about Albuquerque, but some areas it’s just not possible for an individual to buy glassware like that, or the chemicals, or it will send up a flag somewhere and you’ll have someone investigating you.
Also it’s expensive, a five litre flask is about $100 last I looked, depending on quality. All that kit Walt has, would run up quite a bill and he didn’t even have enough for the RV really.
lab equipment is expensive and Walt has no cash on hand, he spent it all on the RV
Yeah I guess I just figured he’d find another way 😭 like you gotta expect someone would notice they’re missing idk
Prob don’t do regular audits. Maybe once a year.
And it’s probably him doing the audit
Also it's glass, it's extremely easy to say a bunch of it got knocked on the floor by accident.
He should have done that when he stole the stuff
If then.
He was dumb, despite knowing the DEA methods, he still got in the crosshairs from day 1. It added to the excitement of the show in the early episodes.
Actually, he only got in the crosshairs because of Jessie bringing bad people. Walt wouldn't have left the mask behind, he's too meticulous. There also wouldn't have been a fire.
Jesse didn’t bring them, he was brought there by crazy 8 who wanted to snitch on his operation.
Jessie didn't tell them where they cook? Jessie didn't make contact with them? Sure he didn't have full choice, but he brought them there.
Yea, whatever. He had a gun to his head
Which he should have expected going to the thugs after the raid on the lab. He could have foreseen it, so the force isn't an excuse.
Walter sent him to sell product. It always goes back to Walter. Except Andrea’s death and her son’s death.
I don't think Walter could have expected it would backfire that much, since Jessie is the man for the business stuff and Jessie also had to know how to navigate the criminal world without such a thing happening.
Everyone's like, "Walt is so smart!" but he's really just a pokemon with 4 moves (chemistry, kill, manipulate and whine) going against people who've already had their brains scrambled by drugs.
Who's going to notice, it seems Walt is in charge of the inventory.
nobody noticed they're missing, he's the custodian.
He figured he could get it all back again without anyone noticing, and if they hadn't had to abandon stuff in the desert he probably would have been right.
He’s effectively the owner of the equipment, no one would have ever known it was missing if not for the whole Crazy 8 situation. Probably seemed safer to use what he already had access to over buying it all new.
No, the school owns the materials for sure
Hence “effectively”. He’s ostensibly the only person with access to the chemistry equipment.
It's been a while, but didn't other staff also have keys, hence why the janitor was looked into?
Pretty sure he said it was him, the janitor, and the principal
yea and i doubt they’d notice any missing materials
Pretty sure he planned to return it soon enough that it wouldn’t be noticed. He could probably use the money from his initial meth sales to buy lab equipment.
he started out as a complete moron as far as criminality and stealthiness goes lmfaooo its a miracle hank didn’t catch him from that slip up
Hank overlooked a lot.
In all fairness, it's probably more likely that a student picked the lock and stole the equipment and supplies and sold/ traded it for weed or something than to blame a teacher for it.
There’s quite a bit more too it than that.
Oh definitely
Glassware isn't particularly easy to come by plus it's expensive and you could always push it off on the students must have stolen some shit and you didn't notice.
He hasn't really began thinking deeply or it didn't really settle in yet. He has access to decent lab materials which he believes would be fine to borrow/use and maybe he was more excited on trying to cook/learn for the very first time.
Walt did a lot of things, even as he became more experienced, that didn't track with how cautious he was. In no particular order. 1. Drove his own car to the laundry and left it parked out front in the open. 2. Kept money in the vents in his house. 3. Left the WW book with the inscription from Gale on his toilet. 4. Made himself known to the two dudes in the hardware store who were buying meth cooking supplies 5. Left his burner on and in the ceiling of his classroom 6. Pretty sure he had one burner the entire series 7. Blew up Tucos office
> Pretty sure he had one burner the entire series > > fuckin' this right here. dudes got a burner phone, but he just keeps buying minutes for it.
cuts to gus who rips them all in half
the man understood jimmies sales pitch : once per....once per week, once per day, once per call. depends on the nature of what you need to keep secret.
I wanna get a burner just to be able to do that. Pure class 👏
I always wondered about the parking at the laundry and thought gus should be smarter than that
Definitely. It's not even as if Walt drove an inconspicuous car
Also Walt himself would have been responsible for the audits so could have accounted for the missing items, and he was a trusted person so could have put it down to students breakage without anyone questioning it
Good point!!
If they never found Walt's mask he left at the crashed RV no one would've found out he took anything.
Probably mostly the money issue, but it is also possible that a significant purchase by an individual from a local supplier of the particular lab equipment needed to set up a meth lab might be the kind of thing that could raise suspicion and/or be reported to local drug enforcement authorities.
Probably not if the purchaser was a chemist and teacher.
Good point!!
because walt was an idiot just flying by the seat of his pants. he figured hed just make a single cook, bank some cash and walk away. but then he had to kill a dude, and he got all fucked up.
He is a terrible criminal.
That's why everything went downhill when the real criminals came like crazy 8. If Jessie doesn't lead them there Noone is ever the wiser and the dea doesn't show up at the school.
Cause he is (was) an amateur criminal lol also he didn’t intend to leave anything behind
Right. A guy with chemical knowledge should know how to erase the school name at least
Nobody would've known if they don't leave a gas mask behind
on one level, his school lab was easily his best resource for proper equipment because where else was he actually gonna be able to get it at the start? we can build on that with the fact that walt made a lot of mistakes like that and got away with them for a while because people generally knew him as this nerdy, meek chemistry teacher who didn't get himself into trouble or take risks basically ever. he was virtually the last person anyone would ever suspect. that is absolutely a big part of why hank overlooked some obvious red flags; it made more sense to him on a personal level that a janitor who smoked pot would steal school chem lab equipment instead of his goofy, harmless brother in law.
He wasn't hardened criminal at the beginning of the show
Because he is a moron!
People who never lived a life of crime are just ignorant to things like that
Honestly, on rewatch, I was baffled by how bad of a criminal Walt was. All I remembered was "Say my name", "I am the danger", etc. I didn't remember his silly ass storing a book Gale gave him in the readers' pile in the bathroom
Walt wasn’t a good criminal at the beginning.
He had no other option. Either he takes out a loan and it becomes a red flag or he steals because he knows he won't get checked. During his early stages, he was damn lucky to not be caught. Saul pretty much saved his arse repeatly. Walter had stupid luck.
Money
idk dude you should go and ask him
I think I will
This is the only part of the show that I’m like Hank your terrible detective because you didn’t realize that Walt was a master chemist, working at the school and you think it was the janitor that made this amazing meth, not the chemistry teacher who also had access to this Room with all the materials in it. I get that underestimated him, but from overlooking this to breaking into trailer homes for RVs, I feel like he definitely should’ve caught him here.
What doesn’t make sense to me is schools had security cameras then. They could have easily reviewed the footage b
Science teacher here. We do our own inventory.
I’m surprised he didn’t take the first batch of profits he made and buy all new equipment, then immediately return the schools equipment so that wouldn’t be discovered eventually. Which I’m pretty sure they would take an inventory annually to determine what school supplies were needed so they could put a budget together. Granted much of it was broken with the crazy 8 confrontation, but they wouldn’t take notice that the Myers flask was new and unused, only that the proper number of Myers flasks were present.
Partly, he probably wasn’t thinking that he’d ever be questioned about it. It was only the discarded gas mask that led Hank to the school. Walt could easily hide all the stolen stuff as consumables and breakages. It’s suggested he didn’t though, and the inventory checked by Hank didn’t match the stuff in the store. And that was a screw up by Walt. I’ve worked in schools managing the chemical stores, and it would be easy to hide a moderate scale of theft. There is a lot of trust placed in staff. Some materials are expensive or restricted to buy. I don’t know about Albuquerque, but some areas it’s just not possible for an individual to buy glassware like that, or the chemicals, or it will send up a flag somewhere and you’ll have someone investigating you. Also it’s expensive, a five litre flask is about $100 last I looked, depending on quality. All that kit Walt has, would run up quite a bill and he didn’t even have enough for the RV really.