So, this is the first Sunday night this season where I actually am home with nothing planned. Every other time, I had to download the episode the next morning. However, I'm thinking I may want to still do that! I don't think I'll be able to sleep after whatever goes down tonight.

I am super excited because this is the first episode I will be watching in real time, after having just caught up last Tuesday night (Wednesday morning) at, like, 3:30 a.m.!

Well, I watched it. Besides all the usual sadness and horror, I have to say I had the worst sense of claustrophobia from watching that.

And again, with everything that happened tonight, the part that was the saddest for me, in a way, was when Walt had to pay the guy 10K to spend an extra hour with him.

I agree, Nancy. How the guy only would give him one extra hour rather than the two Walt asked for... not exactly Heisenberg level negotiating, huh?

I wanted Jesse to escape so bad. How many deaths can he witness without completely losing his mind?

When Todd first came to this series, all I could see was Landry from Friday Night Lights, but Jesse Plemons has done such a great job playing Creepy Todd. Politest sociopath ever.

OMG, the sense of being closed in... and I had to stop watching for a few minutes after Todd killed Brock's mom.

Ugh, I had dreams about this episode all night. Not good. I can't wait to find out how the series gets wrapped up, but I'm sort of dreading it too. It seems like everybody's story line is just spiraling downward.

I know. It's like everything is becoming inevitable now, like a Greek tragedy. I really feel like Jesse is bearing an undue share of punishment relative to his behavior, and the ripple effect with Walt's evil side has reached further than I ever expected.

My guess; Jesse blows up the meth lab and kills himself along with Todd's whole group. Walt goes after the Grey Matter couple and gets gunned down. Sklyer and the kids end up in a trailer somewhere, living in poverty. Marie is committed to a psych ward.

I don't foresee any kind of a happy ending.

If only Jesse could have walked away rather than trying to get back at Walt. I even felt kind of bad about Walt having to pay for the extra hour, but not for long. It was his own doing.

I thought Jesse would live and Walt would die, but now I'm thinking it's going to be the opposite. Poor Jesse is so messed up now that I swear death would come as a relief to him -- I like Una's idea about blowing up the lab!

I have zero sympathy for Walt. I think he is nothing but a M-O-N-S-T-E-R. But Jesse? OMG I love him and my heart is just broken in a million pieces over what's happened to him!

BTW, I sat next to John De Lancie, who played Jane's dad, at a wedding reception a few years ago. Great, great guy. So you are now all just a couple of degrees of separation from the whole Breaking Bad gang!!

Oh, that was such a heart-rending performance (Jane's dad, that is).

I can't help but have some sort of bad feeling for Walt. Not pity. He is a violent sociopath but yet, I believe he truly meant to protect and care for his family. When he called his son on the pay phone, when he paid off the guy to stay the extra hour with him....it's just so PATHETIC.

I'm not one for suicide, and I like my solitude, but I was thinking I would probably end up killing myself if I was staying in that cabin, shut off from everything. You wonder why Walt doesn't just will himself to die at this point. How he can use his last months, putting everything into plans for revenge.

Mary, that is so cool! I'm such a geek, I've been a fan of him ever since he was in Star Trek TNG.

And it looks like the very thing Walt feared happening -- his family losing him and having no money -- is ironically coming to pass, despite (and because of) all he has done.