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If you haven't watched this week's episode of "Breaking Bad" you really shouldn't read any further. This recap is going to be chock full of spoilers and with only 7 episodes left after this one you really don't want to spoil anything.

It's been an entire year since the first half of season five ended with Hank sitting on the toilet realizing that his nerdy brother-in-law was the ruthless Heisenberg. For months I have been trying to figure out how they are going to spend 6 maybe 7 episodes building up the tension between Hank and Walt until it all comes to a head in the final episode or two. Silly me, thinking that I could predict what was going on in Vince Gilligan's mind.

Hank and Walt finally confronted each other at the end of the episode in what may go down as the best scene in a show with way too many "best scenes" already. Dean Norris does an amazing job showing Hank's barely controlled rage when Walt comes into the garage. At first he can't even look at Walt; then he brings down the garage door basically forcing a confrontation with a man who has killed a slew of people, the proof of which is sitting right on the table.

The most rewarding thing about following "Breaking Bad" is watching how Bryan Cranston has taking a character who seemed to be afraid of his own shadow in the early episodes and done a masterful job at turning him into one of the scariest villains on television. In the scene with Hank we get to see Cranston go through pretty much every "Walt" that has existed in the show.

First off Scientist Walt is trying to fully deduce just what exactly Hank knows; he may have his copy of the Whitman book and be tracking his car but has Hank been able to put all of the pieces together.

Secondly we see Family Man Walt once he is certain that Hank is on to him. Walt tries to explain that he is out of the meth game for good and that he only did everything so that he could provide for his family. He was dealt a horrible hand by getting cancer after years of working as a teacher and barely getting by but everything he did wrong was for the family.

Quickly Family Man Walt turns into Scared Walt as he reveals to Hank that the cancer is back and that within six months he'll be dead. Even if Walt is trying to pull one over on Hank, which we know he isn't because we've seen him getting chemo and throwing up in the episode already, you can see the fear of death that we saw in Walt the first couple of episodes.

When none of this works Walt disappears completely and Heisenberg shows up. The transition is flawless. In an instant every bit of the weak but compassionate Walt is gone and there is nothing left but the ruthless murderer.

The opening scene with bearded Walt returning to his house in order to obtain the ricin brings up a myriad of questions. There are the most obvious ones such as what exactly happened that led to the house being abandoned in the first place and who is going to end up getting a dose of ricin. Looking into the trunk of his car left me with one question, just who is Walt going to shoot with that enormous gun?

As hardened as Walt may be by this time that is an enormous firearm. That's the kind of gun that is better suited for taking out a neighborhood than a single person, just what does Walt have in mind? We know that it will be used, there's no reason to show it otherwise.

It is so frustrating to watch Jesse refuse to just take his money and get far, far away. While hanging out with Badger and Skinny Pete may be a lot of fun, and with conversations like that I'd gladly spend my free time with them, but he just needs to take the money and leave town. Throwing bundles of $10,000 to the neighbors may alleviate some guilt but is definitely going to lead to bad news for Mr. Pinkman; the longer he keeps hanging around the shorter his life expectancy gets.

Only seven more episodes to go and every episode will probably be as packed as this one was. How do you see everything coming to a close? Go ahead and discuss/argue in the comments.