Louise is just not that stressed out over last night's Breaking Bad

This is my face during the last three minutes of last night's Breaking Bad episode:

And this is me about five minutes later:

Yup.  As soon as the Breaking Bad shootout-a-thon faded to black, the yellow lab and I were able sleep comfortably, with no nightmares about Jesse or Hank getting killed by a bunch of white supremacists.  Why?  Because this is Breaking Bad we're talking about, and this show is too well-written for my two favorite characters to die this anticlimactically.

Allow me to explain.  In the final moments of last night's episode, Walt gives Uncle Jack and Todd the coordinates for his hidden money, all in an attempt to kill Jesse, but calls the hit off at the last minute when Jesse has arrived with the DEA. Jack and his trusty gang of white supremacists all show up anyway, because no one tells the white supremacists what to do, I guess, and a massive shootout between them, Hank, and Gomez ensues.

Sure, Hank and Gomez are outnumbered.  But a showdown between Hank and Walt has been foreshadowed since Breaking Bad's pilot episode, and Uncle Jack has only been a character for a handful of episodes.  Likewise, Jesse's power over Walt has been steadily increasing for five seasons; even last night, it was Jesse, not the DEA, who brilliantly engineered the sting that forced Walt to give his position away.  With the possible exception of Skyler, Hank and Jesse are more ruined by Walt's duplicity than any other characters in the show, and they will deserve a final confrontation with him, not just the goons he's hired.  Both of them will survive this firefight, perhaps saved by the tribal police, as was teased in this episode, and Jesse will hang on to the final episode of the series.

For me, the biggest takeaway from the firefight is that Jesse is ready to die.  As soon as the shootout begins, Jesse considers giving himself up, because he knows Jack and Todd have come for him.  Some have speculated the season finale is named Felina for the Marty Robbins's song "El Paso," in which a man who has murdered dies for a woman he loves named Felina.  Call me conspiratorial, but with Brock and Andrea returning in this episode, I strongly suspect Jesse will make it to the season finale to protect and die for them.

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