Skyler and Walter in “Half Measures”

Skyler

Have you thought anymore about what we discussed?

Walter

"Thought anymore", meaning reconsidered? No.

Skyler

So, show me the flaw in it.

Walter

Flaws, Skyler. Flaws. Plural, not singular. Where do you want me to start?

Skyler

Hey, I don't love this situation that you put me in. However, let's just stick with what makes sense here. You took the money you won gambling invested it in the car wash you helped run. You hired your wife as a bookkeeper, because she's actually a bookkeeper. That is a story an auditor can believe. What am I missing?

Walter

You should just take this money that I give you and not look too closely at it. So if God forbid, I get caught, you maintain plausible deniability.

Skyler

Okay, my estranged husband who, when he was working made $43,000 a year, starts shoveling money at me. And when the police come, I'm supposed to say: "I never thought about it, officers. Made sense to me.” Really? That, in your mind, is plausible deniability? I'll tell you what, Walt. I'd rather have them think I'm Bonnie what's-her-name than some complete idiot.

Walter

So you're promoting caution here. [sighs] And you want a believable story. That, it seems to me, is the safest way to make the best out of a very bad situation, yes. But I'm noting a little hole in your plot, though. Why would your estranged husband be doing all this for you?

Skyler

Because he loves his family and desperately wants a reconciliation, though it may be hopeless and futile. Then again, he'd try anything.

Walter

I'm just not buying it.

Skyler

No, I think it would be better if the husband were no longer estranged. You know, maybe if he were back sleeping in his own bed.