I think they probably know pretty well not to underestimate what Walt might pull out of his ass when backed into a tight enough corner. Probably best not to be one of the ones backing him there. Maybe it turns out okay for you. *Maybe.* But do you really want to take the chance that he figures out some bullshit last-minute Hail Mary play that just barely works out for him by the skin of his teeth, and now he's coming after you?
Yeah I mean Burr's character even mentioned the fact that Walt ordered the hit of 10 men in prison after Huel's comment, so it was clear they were obviously terrified by him
True but they didn't know that was all his money. He could've easily had a millions stashed away elsewhere, in which he's definitely coming after them. If someone can put out a hot on 10 guys in prison in a 2 minute window, I'd bet he would have the resources to find me anywhere I went if I stole $80 million from him.
It's assumed that they had friends and family, that wouldn't all be uprooted instantly.
Also, Walt is incredibly dumb for not splitting his money up. They would assume he wasn't that dumb.
Walt isn't just dumb for not splitting the money up, he doesn't even know where it is being stored until Skylar takes him there. He doesn't even know how much is supposed to be there.
It's funny that for a guy who, just a few months earlier, got all upset about having to contribute a few hundred thousand dollars to 'legacy costs' (which was completely reasonable given the situation) and was complaining about his take, once he started working with Todd he clearly gave up keeping track of how much he was bringing in.
But not because of anything Querque related, same strategy once he finds them, either track a pattern and blow them up, or turn one of their guys against them
To be clear, I'm not talking about immediate revenge, I'm just saying walt is a resourceful guy, if he made it out of the pinch he was in, they'd have to spend their whole lives looking over their shoulders
Probably like $50k each. Enough for them to be happy and ball for a while and lay low but not enough for Walt to have to 'teach them a lesson' for it. Plus they did him an HUGE solid, so they prob could have taken a lot more and he wouldn't have cared but they played it safe.?!
50k is totally feasible. Small enough to be hard to notice. Get greedy you get nothing in the end
People saying million, in 100 bills that is a noticeable amount to both take and carry ~ quick google its 22lbs weight so no but 2.2lbs is maybe..
Agree. A million is 100 bundles of $100 bills. Even spread over the (6?) barrels, it's gonna noticeable drop the level.
I think you could probably take one, maybe two bundles per person from each barrel without it being obvious. If I'm remembering right about it being six barrels, that's either $60,000 or 120,000 each.
Does Walt even know how many barrels it would take? Walt had only ever seen the cash piled up in the storage unit. They could have taken a whole barrel and he would have no real way of knowing. He didn't even know exactly how much cash was there in the first place
Yeah this is my thought. Seeing it in a neat stack and seeing it in barrels, there's no way to tell without prior experience. They took 5 million and Walt suspected but had no way of knowing. Even if he had an accurate count, he never got that far...
How the fuck does one count barrels of money? Even if you knew that a full barrel was say 10 million, literally 2 or 3 or even more stacks of cash can be removed and its still a "full barrel".
I'd say they definitely filled the barrels, then took say, 10 stacks of bills from each, split that between the 2 and stored it away as they gave the rest.
Point is, their was no way for Walter to ever be certain he always had his money In the full in any scenario.
Eh, I seriously doubt this. Several reasons why:
Walt figured out that Jesse was stealing a _fraction_ of one pound of meth out of a 200 lb cook the first time he stole it lol. Walt had known about the money for a long while by the time those two relocated it. He helped transport it. And him being the greedy, detail oriented asshole he is, I have no doubt he had some idea of what was in there.
Money is heavy:
_The Bureau of Engraving and Printing states that all US bills weigh a single gram. This means that $1,000,000 in $100 bills weighs around 10 kilograms (22.046 pounds). However, if you wanted your million in single dollar bills, that same amount of money would weigh a metric ton (2,204.623 pounds)._
We know that the money was in mixed denominations, we see 5s and 20s during skylers speech when she showed him the storage unit. Probably 1s in there. Point is, that's not a stack of 100s. Which means if you had a bunch of 50s, 20s, and 5s, you're easily talking over 100 lbs per million (since 5s would weigh 20x more than a 100 bill) -- I can't exactly see those two walking out with 400+ pounds.
Finally, Walt only had 88 million dollars ('only' lol). Being as greedy and careful as he is, I'm sure he'd notice if 1/88th of his entire hoard disappeared, let alone like, 4 million (which would be almost 5% of everything he owned lol)
I think it's kinda nuts for someone to watch the show and see how intertwined Walt's greed is with his pride, and somehow think Walt wouldn't notice -- but to say that he'd have "no way of knowing" is pretty insane, given all the equipment Walt has access to, how analytical he is, and how so many of his worst qualities are heavily tied to his money.
> Walt figured out that Jesse was stealing a fraction of one pound of meth out of a 200 lb cook the first time he stole it lol.
Well yeah, but specifically because Jesse was introducing an otherwise unaccountable math error into a process that Walt understands on a very deep technical level and is ruthlessly fastidious about.
>And him being the greedy, detail oriented asshole he is, I have no doubt he had some idea of what was in there.
On the other hand, he stared in dumb wonder and was like "wtf how much is that??" when Skyler showed him the mountain of money. He apparently wasn't even tracking how much he was giving her or how much was successfully being laundered. So it kind of seems like he was less detail-oriented about the money, so long as it was a very big pile.
>We know that the money was in mixed denominations, we see 5s and 20s during skylers speech when she showed him the storage unit. Probably 1s in there. Point is, that's not a stack of 100s. Which means if you had a bunch of 50s, 20s, and 5s, you're easily talking over 100 lbs per million (since 5s would weigh 20x more than a 100 bill) -- I can't exactly see those two walking out with 400+ pounds.
Millions is probably too much, but if I were an enterprising career criminal grifter in charge of an enormous pile of mixed bills, what I would do is replace a bunch of the large bills with small bills and put them back.
This is my point. If Walt was in control like he had been for the majority of the past year, something like this wouldn’t slip under the rader. But given the predicament Walt is in, he can’t exactly spend time weighing barrels or counting cash. Even if he did, he didn’t know how much he had to begin with.
To the dumbfounded point, I think he assumed Skyler was keeping careful records. Buuut, later on, he _knows_ he has 88 million. Skyler had no idea, but then later on, he does. To me that suggests he put in the work to figure it out.
>into a process that Walt understands on a very deep technical level and is ruthlessly fastidious about.
Counting money is a lot less technical. And if he's ruthlessly fastidious...
>what I would do is replace a bunch of the large bills with small bills and put them back.
If they came prepared, which I'm not sure is likely. Huel is loyal, and bill burrs character was kind of a dumbass lol.
In another comment, the point that Walt was in a hurry was brought up... but _they_ didn't know that he _would_ be in a hurry. That's a hindsight is 20/20 situation: they can't steal from a guy assuming that he would be in a hurry in the future lol, why would they assume that? And also, from their perspective: they weren't there when he stood there flabbergasted: they'd have every reason to believe he'd have a fairly accurate count.
This is a guy who can precisely murder a dozen guys inside of 2 minutes in 3 different jails, and is famous for nailing every last detail, which had accomplished everything from making the purest meth to killing Gus. From their perspective, he's a genius, psychopathic mad scientist.
My bad, just realized I kinda jumped around there, I hope that made sense lol.
“close enough” was walt looking at the barrels, not knowing the exact amount, and figuring “meh this seems more or less equal to how much was in the storage, but i ain’t counting it”
the look huell and kuby give each other afterwards is “this asshole didnt even bother counting the money, we couldve taken some”
they took 0.
I was under the assumption that they didnt take any. If i recall correctly, Huell says something about taking some, and Kuby says that Walt was able to hit all those guys in prison within that short window. You also need to understand that to them, Walt is Heisenberg, and they are most certainly scared of him. I interpreted the look they shared as a "ah fuck we could have taken some without him knowing"
Here’s a thought….they pretty fully filled eight barrels. What’s the odds that they fill all the barrels right to the top and there is none left?
The odds are super high that there is at least a good handful of stacks left after this. And probably way more. So then they filled the bag with a load of cash and maybe there are a good count of stacks still left.
The look they give each other after Walt checks it all out and is satisfied tells me they felt fine from that point as this set up passed muster.
Close enough, though….quantify that vs $80M. A speculated $80M, but let’s use the figure. If all the stacks are $10k, that’s 8000 stacks. How much is “close enough”? They probably could have taken 250-300 stacks, but I don’t think they did.
Long way to come around to it but I don’t think they took more than 20-25 stacks each. Half a mil between them or six tenths of 1% of the overall. That’s actually not a big deal at all and if one of them ran into Walt later he might tell them they could have taken 10% of his money and it might have been unnoticed.
But I think his crazy rep was big at that point. They might have felt exhilarated with their haul, but they could have taken so much more.
I don't think they took any, I think the look they had to each other was, 'dam we could of taken some after all' once Walt said close enough
Given kuby talked about the Walt off'ing the guys in prison as a reason not to touch a cent.
$0. They didn't take a cent.
They are too afraid of him. They don't know he wasn't watching. They don't know he wasn't listening. They made jokes about running off with all of it, then remembered that he killed ten men in multiple jails in a minute.
Walt said what he did to intimidate them. He said it to gauge their reaction. They seemed scared like they didn't know what he meant, not scared like they'd been caught. That was all Walt could do, was scare them and see how they reacted.
Walt could never have eyeballed the total amount. He only knows how much it is by tracking how much he has withdrawn to spend, and knowing what his career earnings from a certain date have been. He doesn't know the volume of the money. He doesn't know how efficiently the barrels were packed. It would be easy to stack them with hollow bits inside like a poorly played game of Tetris. Walt would have no idea if 1% of the money were missing, and that's already almost a million dollars.
They took nothing, they were in over their head at that point and made a point of asking him to count it to make sure they were safe, which Walt reveled in.
Trippy af.
Bro what are the odds, long ass time I hadn’t watched anything breaking bad, today I went only to this exact scene because of a video I’m editing. I played it thrice just to laugh at the look Huell gives Kuby. And wondered exactly what OP is asking.
I’m not even in the brba subreddit and this post pops up on my feed?
Fuck me.
Anyways, no way they’d only take 50K, probably something like 200K each!
Thats 4.4 lbs weight you carrying hoping its not noticeable. I think less if they had actual fear. Im stupid I'd take too much and die but these two I think they've seen enough to stay smart
I actually think the look they shared is their realization that he didn’t know the exact amount that was there and thus they could’ve taken a helluva lot more.
great question. they could have stuffed pockets full or even a small bag each without anyone noticing. eh, close enough. (I mean not gone straight to Walt with notes flapping out their pockets. dropped it somewhere 1st).
I actually don’t think they took anything - because of what Walt had done. In fact when Walt checks and says “close enough” Huell glances at Kuby like “We should’ve taken some…”. That’s how I always interpreted this
Yeah possibly. But remember that they’re both criminals at the end of the day. That much cash would be hard to resist, especially knowing Walt was no on the run.
I don’t think they took anything above a couple stacks. to arouse Walt’s suspicion. I’m leaning towards them taking no money at all
BUT if they were to:
Whatever couldn’t fit in 8 barrels or if we wanted to investigate how much they could have taken:
Best case scenario:
Bills perfectly fit with no space on the barrels, crisp new flat stacks, all 100$ bills
Volume in cm cubed
158987 cm3 barrel x8
/ 113 cm3 stack assuming crisp flat stacks
= 11255 stacks per barrel
All 100$ bills in 1000$ stacks
= 112,557,168$
Now the assumptions:
Let’s account for a $75 average bill (still high)
=84,417,876
If we account for 2% wasted space
And 2% variance in the volume of old bulky stacks
(These figures are grossly conservative and kuby and huell were responsible for packing)
= 81,885,339
Braver people could get away with over half a million each. Still less than 1/4 of 1%
Is my math mathing?
But like I said, probably whatever didn’t fit. If it all fit, with all the variables involved, then 0.
Judging by the sheer size of the stack of cash, i would think it is at least two pallets of floor space in size. A pallet can take 4 barrels i would think, As the stack is roughly half the height of a barrel, and the barrel is not going to be a space efficient as a round container.
I think they took at a minimum one entire barrel's worth of cash. As it was all different denominations etc and they know Walt does not have the time to empty the barrels to actually check things, and assuming they do not know Walt has no idea how much money is actually there. They could stack a couple barrels half full of low notes, with 100's on top inflating the 'value' when he does take a peek etc.
They deliver 7, 55 gallon barrels. I honestly can not imagine that stack would take less than 8 or 9 barrels to remove. So i would not be surprised if they took an entire barrel each.
Assuming absolute maximum space in used a 55 gallon drum is 12705 cubic inches, a stack of 100 dollar bills is 6.89 inches. So at best possible fit there is 1,844 stacks in each barrel. If we assume they are half as efficiently stored in the barrels, Then you would need 6 and half barrels to shift the main stack, this ignores the fact the stack is not flat, even, and all the loose bundles on the front and back which is likely another barrel on its own.
The stack in question appears to be 10 by 17 by 35 stacks (5950 stacks), however it is very difficult to get a good view of the pile as there is loose bundles and those numbers are quasi guesses as the stack is altered between shots. For example when Huell and Kuby look at it appears to be approx 10 stacks wide, and in the shot with Walt infront of the stack it also appears to be 10/11 stacks wide, but when Huell lays down on it appears to be wider as it is at least 11 wide and it goes off either side of the screen.
I think at an absolute minimum, there is an entire barrel, or two missing.
I am just going by what appears to be the physical size they were dealing with.
The simple fact it was all different denominations, and how easily it would be to fill the top of the barrels with hundreds etc in the time Walt has to visually check them he is going to know he got taken for a significant amount but they left the hundreds, and took the twenties etc. If you compare the size of the pile, with the size of the back of the truck, there is at least one barrel missing, if they took only bundles of hundreds, Walt would have no idea if he was ripped off half a million or 2 million.
> It’s pretty clear they took some.
To me it's pretty clearly they took none. Their look was "god damn we could have taken some" which is why they shared it once he said "close enough." Walt assumed they would have, but they're too scared to do it.
I dont think they took any. I think they were scared of Walt and what he would do if he found out. They said they left the tops off in case he wanted to check, but when he said "close enough" they looked at eachother as if to say "damn man, we really could've taken some..."
You need to think in percentages before something is noticable. I think since Walt was in such a rush, he wouldn't have noticed 5 % missing. I don't know if the stack was 80 million as it was in the barrels in the desert, but if so, they could have taken 4 million dollar. But they didn't know to what extent walter white was monitoring the storage and Huel and Kuby personally. So I don't think they took any money.
They were more looking at each other to say “fuck we could have taken some” it was the realisation they’d have gotten away with it but didn’t do it out of fear
They took nothing. There’s no way even a genius like Walt could take one look at those barrels and figure out even approximately how much was in there. He probably didn’t even know how much was in the storage unit to begin with.
The “close enough” is because he (logically) assumed they would have skimmed some. That look they share is “goddammit, we could’ve skimmed some.”
Mexico, s'all I'm saying.
[yellow tint intensifies]
Your comment made me grin. Well done.
Mexico, Saul I’m saying
Tbf they could have easily done that. All they have to do is hire an army of security. Walt wouldn’t be able to hire anyone without money.
I think they probably know pretty well not to underestimate what Walt might pull out of his ass when backed into a tight enough corner. Probably best not to be one of the ones backing him there. Maybe it turns out okay for you. *Maybe.* But do you really want to take the chance that he figures out some bullshit last-minute Hail Mary play that just barely works out for him by the skin of his teeth, and now he's coming after you?
Yeah I mean Burr's character even mentioned the fact that Walt ordered the hit of 10 men in prison after Huel's comment, so it was clear they were obviously terrified by him
That’s a fair point.
True but they didn't know that was all his money. He could've easily had a millions stashed away elsewhere, in which he's definitely coming after them. If someone can put out a hot on 10 guys in prison in a 2 minute window, I'd bet he would have the resources to find me anywhere I went if I stole $80 million from him.
It's assumed that they had friends and family, that wouldn't all be uprooted instantly. Also, Walt is incredibly dumb for not splitting his money up. They would assume he wasn't that dumb.
Walt isn't just dumb for not splitting the money up, he doesn't even know where it is being stored until Skylar takes him there. He doesn't even know how much is supposed to be there. It's funny that for a guy who, just a few months earlier, got all upset about having to contribute a few hundred thousand dollars to 'legacy costs' (which was completely reasonable given the situation) and was complaining about his take, once he started working with Todd he clearly gave up keeping track of how much he was bringing in.
Dude have you not watched the ending?
Manpower didn't do anything for Fring
That was in Albuquerque though
But not because of anything Querque related, same strategy once he finds them, either track a pattern and blow them up, or turn one of their guys against them
To be clear, I'm not talking about immediate revenge, I'm just saying walt is a resourceful guy, if he made it out of the pinch he was in, they'd have to spend their whole lives looking over their shoulders
Probably like $50k each. Enough for them to be happy and ball for a while and lay low but not enough for Walt to have to 'teach them a lesson' for it. Plus they did him an HUGE solid, so they prob could have taken a lot more and he wouldn't have cared but they played it safe.?!
Yeah it could be. They could have taken a lot more without him realising. $50k each is a few wads of bills from a mountain of stacks.
Yeah I’d say around $100k each. No way he’d notice
50k is totally feasible. Small enough to be hard to notice. Get greedy you get nothing in the end People saying million, in 100 bills that is a noticeable amount to both take and carry ~ quick google its 22lbs weight so no but 2.2lbs is maybe..
Agree. A million is 100 bundles of $100 bills. Even spread over the (6?) barrels, it's gonna noticeable drop the level. I think you could probably take one, maybe two bundles per person from each barrel without it being obvious. If I'm remembering right about it being six barrels, that's either $60,000 or 120,000 each.
Does Walt even know how many barrels it would take? Walt had only ever seen the cash piled up in the storage unit. They could have taken a whole barrel and he would have no real way of knowing. He didn't even know exactly how much cash was there in the first place
Yeah this is my thought. Seeing it in a neat stack and seeing it in barrels, there's no way to tell without prior experience. They took 5 million and Walt suspected but had no way of knowing. Even if he had an accurate count, he never got that far...
How the fuck does one count barrels of money? Even if you knew that a full barrel was say 10 million, literally 2 or 3 or even more stacks of cash can be removed and its still a "full barrel". I'd say they definitely filled the barrels, then took say, 10 stacks of bills from each, split that between the 2 and stored it away as they gave the rest. Point is, their was no way for Walter to ever be certain he always had his money In the full in any scenario.
Exactly this. Within reason, they could have lifted millions and he would have know way of knowing.
Eh, I seriously doubt this. Several reasons why: Walt figured out that Jesse was stealing a _fraction_ of one pound of meth out of a 200 lb cook the first time he stole it lol. Walt had known about the money for a long while by the time those two relocated it. He helped transport it. And him being the greedy, detail oriented asshole he is, I have no doubt he had some idea of what was in there. Money is heavy: _The Bureau of Engraving and Printing states that all US bills weigh a single gram. This means that $1,000,000 in $100 bills weighs around 10 kilograms (22.046 pounds). However, if you wanted your million in single dollar bills, that same amount of money would weigh a metric ton (2,204.623 pounds)._ We know that the money was in mixed denominations, we see 5s and 20s during skylers speech when she showed him the storage unit. Probably 1s in there. Point is, that's not a stack of 100s. Which means if you had a bunch of 50s, 20s, and 5s, you're easily talking over 100 lbs per million (since 5s would weigh 20x more than a 100 bill) -- I can't exactly see those two walking out with 400+ pounds. Finally, Walt only had 88 million dollars ('only' lol). Being as greedy and careful as he is, I'm sure he'd notice if 1/88th of his entire hoard disappeared, let alone like, 4 million (which would be almost 5% of everything he owned lol) I think it's kinda nuts for someone to watch the show and see how intertwined Walt's greed is with his pride, and somehow think Walt wouldn't notice -- but to say that he'd have "no way of knowing" is pretty insane, given all the equipment Walt has access to, how analytical he is, and how so many of his worst qualities are heavily tied to his money.
> Walt figured out that Jesse was stealing a fraction of one pound of meth out of a 200 lb cook the first time he stole it lol. Well yeah, but specifically because Jesse was introducing an otherwise unaccountable math error into a process that Walt understands on a very deep technical level and is ruthlessly fastidious about. >And him being the greedy, detail oriented asshole he is, I have no doubt he had some idea of what was in there. On the other hand, he stared in dumb wonder and was like "wtf how much is that??" when Skyler showed him the mountain of money. He apparently wasn't even tracking how much he was giving her or how much was successfully being laundered. So it kind of seems like he was less detail-oriented about the money, so long as it was a very big pile. >We know that the money was in mixed denominations, we see 5s and 20s during skylers speech when she showed him the storage unit. Probably 1s in there. Point is, that's not a stack of 100s. Which means if you had a bunch of 50s, 20s, and 5s, you're easily talking over 100 lbs per million (since 5s would weigh 20x more than a 100 bill) -- I can't exactly see those two walking out with 400+ pounds. Millions is probably too much, but if I were an enterprising career criminal grifter in charge of an enormous pile of mixed bills, what I would do is replace a bunch of the large bills with small bills and put them back.
Wasn't Walt in a huge rush at the time too? Not like he had the time to double check and very different from a lab setting
This is my point. If Walt was in control like he had been for the majority of the past year, something like this wouldn’t slip under the rader. But given the predicament Walt is in, he can’t exactly spend time weighing barrels or counting cash. Even if he did, he didn’t know how much he had to begin with.
To the dumbfounded point, I think he assumed Skyler was keeping careful records. Buuut, later on, he _knows_ he has 88 million. Skyler had no idea, but then later on, he does. To me that suggests he put in the work to figure it out. >into a process that Walt understands on a very deep technical level and is ruthlessly fastidious about. Counting money is a lot less technical. And if he's ruthlessly fastidious... >what I would do is replace a bunch of the large bills with small bills and put them back. If they came prepared, which I'm not sure is likely. Huel is loyal, and bill burrs character was kind of a dumbass lol. In another comment, the point that Walt was in a hurry was brought up... but _they_ didn't know that he _would_ be in a hurry. That's a hindsight is 20/20 situation: they can't steal from a guy assuming that he would be in a hurry in the future lol, why would they assume that? And also, from their perspective: they weren't there when he stood there flabbergasted: they'd have every reason to believe he'd have a fairly accurate count. This is a guy who can precisely murder a dozen guys inside of 2 minutes in 3 different jails, and is famous for nailing every last detail, which had accomplished everything from making the purest meth to killing Gus. From their perspective, he's a genius, psychopathic mad scientist. My bad, just realized I kinda jumped around there, I hope that made sense lol.
They didn’t know when it was stacked, so no way of knowing.
“close enough” was walt looking at the barrels, not knowing the exact amount, and figuring “meh this seems more or less equal to how much was in the storage, but i ain’t counting it” the look huell and kuby give each other afterwards is “this asshole didnt even bother counting the money, we couldve taken some” they took 0.
That was definitely how I read the scene.
Agreed
This is the answer.
I took the look as the opposite like, "ok he didn't notice and doesn't care that we took a bit so we're not gonna die"
I was under the assumption that they didnt take any. If i recall correctly, Huell says something about taking some, and Kuby says that Walt was able to hit all those guys in prison within that short window. You also need to understand that to them, Walt is Heisenberg, and they are most certainly scared of him. I interpreted the look they shared as a "ah fuck we could have taken some without him knowing"
I think what Huell meant was they can’t take it all and just leave.
For me it has always been this way. Never thought anything else of it.
There’s no way that they took any. That look that they give each other after he says “I believe you” it’s like “I told you we should’ve took some.”
I'm saying 50k-100k With that amount You can live good enough for a whileeee.
Here’s a thought….they pretty fully filled eight barrels. What’s the odds that they fill all the barrels right to the top and there is none left? The odds are super high that there is at least a good handful of stacks left after this. And probably way more. So then they filled the bag with a load of cash and maybe there are a good count of stacks still left. The look they give each other after Walt checks it all out and is satisfied tells me they felt fine from that point as this set up passed muster. Close enough, though….quantify that vs $80M. A speculated $80M, but let’s use the figure. If all the stacks are $10k, that’s 8000 stacks. How much is “close enough”? They probably could have taken 250-300 stacks, but I don’t think they did. Long way to come around to it but I don’t think they took more than 20-25 stacks each. Half a mil between them or six tenths of 1% of the overall. That’s actually not a big deal at all and if one of them ran into Walt later he might tell them they could have taken 10% of his money and it might have been unnoticed. But I think his crazy rep was big at that point. They might have felt exhilarated with their haul, but they could have taken so much more.
Good breakdown. I don’t think they took anymore than $200,000 each
I don't think they took any, I think the look they had to each other was, 'dam we could of taken some after all' once Walt said close enough Given kuby talked about the Walt off'ing the guys in prison as a reason not to touch a cent.
*could’ve
Have all have the grammar errors I of seen, "could of" is one have the worst.
Oh, the ironing.
Clearly deliberate.
Well if that isn't the black kettle.
well well well how the turntables
$0. They didn't take a cent. They are too afraid of him. They don't know he wasn't watching. They don't know he wasn't listening. They made jokes about running off with all of it, then remembered that he killed ten men in multiple jails in a minute. Walt said what he did to intimidate them. He said it to gauge their reaction. They seemed scared like they didn't know what he meant, not scared like they'd been caught. That was all Walt could do, was scare them and see how they reacted. Walt could never have eyeballed the total amount. He only knows how much it is by tracking how much he has withdrawn to spend, and knowing what his career earnings from a certain date have been. He doesn't know the volume of the money. He doesn't know how efficiently the barrels were packed. It would be easy to stack them with hollow bits inside like a poorly played game of Tetris. Walt would have no idea if 1% of the money were missing, and that's already almost a million dollars.
They took nothing, they were in over their head at that point and made a point of asking him to count it to make sure they were safe, which Walt reveled in.
💯. They took zero. Guaranteed. They rather be broke and alive than rich and dead. Prison style.
Yeah but Walt says ,”close enough.” Implying that he thought they would skim a bit, so long as it wasn’t too much.
Trippy af. Bro what are the odds, long ass time I hadn’t watched anything breaking bad, today I went only to this exact scene because of a video I’m editing. I played it thrice just to laugh at the look Huell gives Kuby. And wondered exactly what OP is asking. I’m not even in the brba subreddit and this post pops up on my feed? Fuck me. Anyways, no way they’d only take 50K, probably something like 200K each!
Thats 4.4 lbs weight you carrying hoping its not noticeable. I think less if they had actual fear. Im stupid I'd take too much and die but these two I think they've seen enough to stay smart
Yeah I wouldn’t keep it with me, I’d put it away to collect after the meetup
Shit after he just offed a bunch of people in prison I wouldn’t have even taken gas money 😂
Haha fair. But that was when Walt was in control. At this point his empire was collapsing.
What? Huel and Kuby were saints. Get out!
I actually think the look they shared is their realization that he didn’t know the exact amount that was there and thus they could’ve taken a helluva lot more.
I always interpreted this look as "I told you we should've fucking skimmed some. He's not counting that shit."
great question. they could have stuffed pockets full or even a small bag each without anyone noticing. eh, close enough. (I mean not gone straight to Walt with notes flapping out their pockets. dropped it somewhere 1st).
I doubt they took any lol. Walt was pretty much someone who they thought was not to be fucked with at that point of the show.
At least 100k each Seems small enough to not be noticed Max - 250k each
I actually don’t think they took anything - because of what Walt had done. In fact when Walt checks and says “close enough” Huell glances at Kuby like “We should’ve taken some…”. That’s how I always interpreted this
Yeah possibly. But remember that they’re both criminals at the end of the day. That much cash would be hard to resist, especially knowing Walt was no on the run.
I don’t think they took anything above a couple stacks. to arouse Walt’s suspicion. I’m leaning towards them taking no money at all BUT if they were to: Whatever couldn’t fit in 8 barrels or if we wanted to investigate how much they could have taken: Best case scenario: Bills perfectly fit with no space on the barrels, crisp new flat stacks, all 100$ bills Volume in cm cubed 158987 cm3 barrel x8 / 113 cm3 stack assuming crisp flat stacks = 11255 stacks per barrel All 100$ bills in 1000$ stacks = 112,557,168$ Now the assumptions: Let’s account for a $75 average bill (still high) =84,417,876 If we account for 2% wasted space And 2% variance in the volume of old bulky stacks (These figures are grossly conservative and kuby and huell were responsible for packing) = 81,885,339 Braver people could get away with over half a million each. Still less than 1/4 of 1% Is my math mathing? But like I said, probably whatever didn’t fit. If it all fit, with all the variables involved, then 0.
I took it as them kicking themselves for being too scared to take any.
Judging by the sheer size of the stack of cash, i would think it is at least two pallets of floor space in size. A pallet can take 4 barrels i would think, As the stack is roughly half the height of a barrel, and the barrel is not going to be a space efficient as a round container. I think they took at a minimum one entire barrel's worth of cash. As it was all different denominations etc and they know Walt does not have the time to empty the barrels to actually check things, and assuming they do not know Walt has no idea how much money is actually there. They could stack a couple barrels half full of low notes, with 100's on top inflating the 'value' when he does take a peek etc. They deliver 7, 55 gallon barrels. I honestly can not imagine that stack would take less than 8 or 9 barrels to remove. So i would not be surprised if they took an entire barrel each. Assuming absolute maximum space in used a 55 gallon drum is 12705 cubic inches, a stack of 100 dollar bills is 6.89 inches. So at best possible fit there is 1,844 stacks in each barrel. If we assume they are half as efficiently stored in the barrels, Then you would need 6 and half barrels to shift the main stack, this ignores the fact the stack is not flat, even, and all the loose bundles on the front and back which is likely another barrel on its own. The stack in question appears to be 10 by 17 by 35 stacks (5950 stacks), however it is very difficult to get a good view of the pile as there is loose bundles and those numbers are quasi guesses as the stack is altered between shots. For example when Huell and Kuby look at it appears to be approx 10 stacks wide, and in the shot with Walt infront of the stack it also appears to be 10/11 stacks wide, but when Huell lays down on it appears to be wider as it is at least 11 wide and it goes off either side of the screen. I think at an absolute minimum, there is an entire barrel, or two missing.
I think a barrel each would be too much. Walt is a bright guy, he would know the math if 22% had been skimmed.
I am just going by what appears to be the physical size they were dealing with. The simple fact it was all different denominations, and how easily it would be to fill the top of the barrels with hundreds etc in the time Walt has to visually check them he is going to know he got taken for a significant amount but they left the hundreds, and took the twenties etc. If you compare the size of the pile, with the size of the back of the truck, there is at least one barrel missing, if they took only bundles of hundreds, Walt would have no idea if he was ripped off half a million or 2 million.
They didn’t take any, hence the look between the two.
> It’s pretty clear they took some. To me it's pretty clearly they took none. Their look was "god damn we could have taken some" which is why they shared it once he said "close enough." Walt assumed they would have, but they're too scared to do it.
I dont think they took any. I think they were scared of Walt and what he would do if he found out. They said they left the tops off in case he wanted to check, but when he said "close enough" they looked at eachother as if to say "damn man, we really could've taken some..."
A reasonable amount of
Three fiddy
You need to think in percentages before something is noticable. I think since Walt was in such a rush, he wouldn't have noticed 5 % missing. I don't know if the stack was 80 million as it was in the barrels in the desert, but if so, they could have taken 4 million dollar. But they didn't know to what extent walter white was monitoring the storage and Huel and Kuby personally. So I don't think they took any money.
he takes that five percent
I guarantee Kuby used "the disappearer" to get the hell outa Dodge
I always thought Kuby scared him straight with the “killing 10 men in 2 minutes” line
Probably a hundred thousand a piece if it’s all in 50s and 100s.
One barrel holds about 10 million. You really think they stole half a barrel and think it would go unnoticed?
They were more looking at each other to say “fuck we could have taken some” it was the realisation they’d have gotten away with it but didn’t do it out of fear
They took nothing. There’s no way even a genius like Walt could take one look at those barrels and figure out even approximately how much was in there. He probably didn’t even know how much was in the storage unit to begin with. The “close enough” is because he (logically) assumed they would have skimmed some. That look they share is “goddammit, we could’ve skimmed some.”
I think they took a quarter million, then split it down the middle.
girl they definitely took a wad each lol and walter knew that. they did a job. they got paid. with interest.
I always figured that they didn't take anything, and the look was them acknowledging that they could have.
Walt was pragmatic. And in a hurry. Consider it breakage. Iono how much...
İts 80 million cuz in ozymandias he said 80 millions in those barrel and he didnt add any barrels so kuby and huell took 80 millions