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Originally Posted by psicodude
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.
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I agree. Killing the kid was obviously disturbing but I don't think the effort they went to in order avoid killing the train crew was really because of a very big moral hurdle. I think with a little more internal debate they would have all agreed to kill the train crew but they just found another plan that was cleaner and wouldn't draw attention to the robbery. It seemed to me like the conversation seemed to be headed towards "Ok what's the best way to pull this off? We have to kill the crew? Ok, I gues if we have to."
You're right though I think the fact the shooting of the kid was after the tension of the robbery ended peacefully made it a bit more shocking.