Teeyes wrote:
As said in this episodes summary:
Walt disagrees, and brings up Victor. Maybe, he surmises, Gus didn't just kill Victor to send a message. "Victor trying to cook that batch on his own, taking liberties that weren’t his to take?" Walt says. "Maybe he flew too close to the sun; got his throat cut." Jesse watches Walt walk away, thinking about exactly what that means for their fledgling new enterprise.
Lately I rewatched the entire series, and now I'm up to S05E03... I know the expressing "flying too close to the sun", but I have no clue what Walt meant to say by that.
It seems I'm missing an important point here... someone cares to explain what Walt means?
We're talking about the hazard pay Mike is giving to his incarcerated employees. At first, Walt's bringing up Victor seemed like the writer's answer to a question that fans had been asking since Victor's death and on a technical writing level, I still believe this was the core motivation for including it. However, from a narrative viewpoint, there can't not be significance in Walter saying he understands that Gus killed Victor 'for taking liberties that weren't his to take' immediately after the heated expenditure meeting between him, Jesse, and Mike. It has been established both in and out of the show that, as Season 5 progresses, Walter was beginning to think of himself as the New Gus. And if, in Walter's mind, he saw himself as Gus, then perhaps he saw Mike as Victor and the 'liberties' refer to the hazard pay that Walter loathed paying.