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Anticipation is mounting for the Season 3 premiere on Sun., Mar. 21 at 10PM | 9C, and the talk forum is abuzz with viewer predictions and guesses as to why Walt seems to be burning money in the teaser.

• "[T]he only way Skyler could possibly condone what Walt has done, since he's clearly going to tell her what he's been up to, is to give him the ultimatum to burn the money and she'll come back. If you look at Walt's face in the short clip they give us, he is certainly not happy burning that money." -- Borito1

• "My first goofy theory... was that Walt was doing a TV commercial for Saul, with the tag line 'In trouble, but don't have money to burn? Better Call Saul.' In this theory, it's toy money. Later I came up with my second goofy theory, that Gus is somehow in cahoots with the government, and the money he pays Walt consists of marked bills that can be traced back to him, so he burns it." -- rockmama

• "Seems to me that burning up the money is a very counterproductive act. Walt has worked so hard to make it and then he destroys it it all. Very symbolic of the entire story I think. Walt is a self-destructive individual." -- R.W.

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Posted by Carolyn Koo
February 26, 2010 12:00am

Filed under: Sweepstakes & Contests

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By rockmama on March 4, 2010 6:39 PM

got swag?

:-)

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By JBG Past Prime on March 18, 2010 10:39 PM

My guess would be that he had found out that not only did he not save the life of Jessy's girlfriend but by not doing so has caused her father to not be in his right state of mind and is feeling guilty for the loss of lives in the flight above his home.

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By Lindas555 on March 22, 2010 3:42 AM

Burning the money "buys" Walt a temporarily redemption to rid himself of his guilt of past crimes and bad choices. Coming out of his denial in a split second, decides burning the money won't bring back all those lost souls from the crash and can't change all the bad choices he made. He is going to need the money to survive now.

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By Liz on March 24, 2010 9:19 AM

It could just mean that without his family, the money means nothing. Or for a brief moment, he saw the money as something evil, the evil thing that took his family away.
I would love to blame the money and the meth for the plane crash, but you can't. That's the problem, maybe the biggest problem Walt will have to deal with, that deep hole of guilt.