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Originally Posted by Wormius
Killing the kid seemed a bit rash. They could have easily talked their way out of it, like some kind of train maintenance they were performing. Now they have to deal with a dead body and possibly people coming out searching for this missing kid, and seeing fresh pile of disturbed dirt where they buried the containers would set off alarm flags and those would get unburied.
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Anything other than killing the kid would have ruined the story, IMO. I didn't realize it at the time, but the past few episodes have been building up to that scene. Mike talking about the house fumigation crew and saying how professional they are and never leave untied ends. Mike's line saying "There are 2 types of jobs - ones where the guys get away with it, and one with witnesses".
It just made nothing but sense for "Landry's" first reaction to be to whip out the pistol and waste the kid without even a second thought. In my mind at least, that's what a real professional would do. It just further pushes along the fact that Walt and Jessie are no longer 2 wannabe dudes cooking in a basement somewhere and are now playing with the big boys.
All of that being said, however, it was a disturbing scene considering all of the effort they just went through to avoid killing the train engineer and conductor.