[Oh, Chilton has many ideas. He's gotten endless ideas, in fact, from working with Walt alone. But he's far subtler than Crane with them, and in expression of them -- there's something to be said of humanity beyond the archetype. "Useful" has a broader definition after all.]
Threat noted. [Spoken just a bit dryly.] Pinkman was right about one thing, at least. You cannot kill him, that would only further his agenda. Succumbing to murder because of fear? Because you're terrified of the danger her poses? [No, dammit, thinks Chilton. That isn't the design he has for Walt!] You'd be vindicating him. And you'd have Batman as fallout, for all your troubles.
[More to himself:]
Crane was sloppy to invoke narcissistic injury. [Insulting Walt? The man clearly didn't respond well to hostile attention. It wasn't a sound manipulative tactic -- unless Crane wanted to drive Walt into Chilton's arms, in which case Crane had drifted more from reality on multiple tiers. Walt had demonstrated he was a dangerous man, probably explicitly to Crane, so why court that with a flippant betrayal? Was Crane embroiled in a project, and wanted the glory to himself? Did he intentionally cut Walt lose? Was it possible the man didn't realize what Walter White truly could be?
As much as Chilton praised Heisenberg, it wasn't the wealthy kingpin aspect that he sought to revive in Walt. It was the violence, the control. It was the brutality. It was the ability to murder a young man and dissolve his body in secret. It was the process of convincing and aged cartel lord to play suicide bomber. Walt was narcissistic and he exhibited anti-social tendencies; he teetered on that psychopathic cliff. Chilton wanted to push him right over it. He wanted so badly his creation.
And Chilton himself, arrogant and ambitious, could never ever insult something as glorious as his own creation.]
He hurt you.
[There was sympathy in his voice.]
He made you think he was a like-minded individual. He did that to the both of us.
[And now, a darker drop in his voice:]
We have to hurt him back, yes. [But how to you battle a glacier? You don't stab it with ice picks, no, you take its opposite force. You melt it.] But we have to hurt him through Batman.
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Threat noted. [Spoken just a bit dryly.] Pinkman was right about one thing, at least. You cannot kill him, that would only further his agenda. Succumbing to murder because of fear? Because you're terrified of the danger her poses? [No, dammit, thinks Chilton. That isn't the design he has for Walt!] You'd be vindicating him. And you'd have Batman as fallout, for all your troubles.
[More to himself:]
Crane was sloppy to invoke narcissistic injury. [Insulting Walt? The man clearly didn't respond well to hostile attention. It wasn't a sound manipulative tactic -- unless Crane wanted to drive Walt into Chilton's arms, in which case Crane had drifted more from reality on multiple tiers. Walt had demonstrated he was a dangerous man, probably explicitly to Crane, so why court that with a flippant betrayal? Was Crane embroiled in a project, and wanted the glory to himself? Did he intentionally cut Walt lose? Was it possible the man didn't realize what Walter White truly could be?
As much as Chilton praised Heisenberg, it wasn't the wealthy kingpin aspect that he sought to revive in Walt. It was the violence, the control. It was the brutality. It was the ability to murder a young man and dissolve his body in secret. It was the process of convincing and aged cartel lord to play suicide bomber. Walt was narcissistic and he exhibited anti-social tendencies; he teetered on that psychopathic cliff. Chilton wanted to push him right over it. He wanted so badly his creation.
And Chilton himself, arrogant and ambitious, could never ever insult something as glorious as his own creation.]
He hurt you.
[There was sympathy in his voice.]
He made you think he was a like-minded individual. He did that to the both of us.
[And now, a darker drop in his voice:]
We have to hurt him back, yes. [But how to you battle a glacier? You don't stab it with ice picks, no, you take its opposite force. You melt it.] But we have to hurt him through Batman.
[Crane's special someone.]