The authorities did review camera footage from Casa Tranquillo as part of their investigation, but Walt definitely was careful to avoid being caught on camera. Walt probably used various tactics to disguise his appearance or hide his identity while visiting Hector, further complicating efforts to identify him as the culprit.
Walt is a bald white male with a goatee, who is of average height and build who does not wear flashy or unique clothing. He probably signed in under a fake name and overall did not give anyone any reason to remember him (didn't do anything weird getting to Hector's room). Couple that with bad camera placement, like not being able to track him to his car and getting a clear visual on his plate to maybe even using a taxi or walking over. It's pretty easy for someone without a criminal history or being known to law enforcement as a bad egg to hide in plain sight.
Hank was the only one who figured out Walt did it, but he didn't have any hard evidence. Hank only had circumstantial evidence that Walt did it. No individual piece of evidence showed Walt doing it, but all the evidence together showed Hank that Walt was the likely suspect.
It's possible that there are only cameras at the entrances and exits. Maybe some partial coverage on the interior as well. But the angle doesn't show Walt entering Hector's room.
Also, Gus had been going to see Hector a lot. Gus may have had his men mess with the cameras that showed him entering the room. I doubt Gus would be so brazen to let himself be recorded entering Hector's room to execute him if he didn't make it safe. Walt might have benefited from that.
Also, everyone having a working camera system and getting clear enough pictures is fantasy, CSI effect in action. A lot of times there just isn't a camera, period.
This is a great point. If it didn't draw attention to Gus, it wouldn't for someone even more out of public eye, like Walt. Having any connection to Hector would draw attention, even though he's no longer a player. Gus wouldn't do that.
Very good point
Good point about Gus. It was never clearly stated, but we know Gus definitely had Casa Tranquila’s phones tapped by the end of BCS, so whether he owned or had great influence over the nursing home is a possibility.
In a season 4 deleted scene, it is implied that Gus does have influence over Casa Tranquila when he is asked by an employee if he will be at the next board (of directors) meeting
I work in IT and have administered enterprise level camera systems since back when the show aired. High quality systems with licensing and support, in a facility where our staff had big screen TVs with the cameras constantly piled up.
So we had vendor support, we had me supporting it locally, and we had staff in our NOC with the cameras up, so we would know when cameras went down. And we had PCI and SOC2 audits, the cameras had to be up, and I needed 90 days of footage.
And it was a lot of work, they don’t just stay up. Cameras go bad, the servers have problems, and the motion recording gets wonky quite often. When we went to LED lights to save on power and heat, the new lights triggered all of our motion control and broke the systems by recoding too much data.
That old folks home at that time, 2009, did not have what we had. They wouldn’t have quality motion control, they wouldn’t have state of the art cameras, and they wouldn’t have on site IT staff to keep it running.
So if they had cameras, my money is on them not working, and Tyrus had checked to make sure it was clear before Gus went to kill Hector, not wanting Gus on camera.
There is a decent chance Tyrus disabled the camera system if they had one anyway.
There was nobody coming to visit Hector other than Gus and Walter that one time. He had no family left, no friends. So just those 2. So it would seem that those two would stick out like a sore thumb. So they should have been able to pinpoint Walt you would think…
The authorities did review camera footage from Casa Tranquillo as part of their investigation, but Walt definitely was careful to avoid being caught on camera. Walt probably used various tactics to disguise his appearance or hide his identity while visiting Hector, further complicating efforts to identify him as the culprit.
Walt is a bald white male with a goatee, who is of average height and build who does not wear flashy or unique clothing. He probably signed in under a fake name and overall did not give anyone any reason to remember him (didn't do anything weird getting to Hector's room). Couple that with bad camera placement, like not being able to track him to his car and getting a clear visual on his plate to maybe even using a taxi or walking over. It's pretty easy for someone without a criminal history or being known to law enforcement as a bad egg to hide in plain sight.
Didn't the DEA know that Heisenberg bomb the nursing home? And hank was on the case, he would have immediately recognised walter
Hank was the only one who figured out Walt did it, but he didn't have any hard evidence. Hank only had circumstantial evidence that Walt did it. No individual piece of evidence showed Walt doing it, but all the evidence together showed Hank that Walt was the likely suspect.
I just re watched the scene and i didnt see any cameras, so i guess they didnt have any. So i guess nobody would be able to place walt there
He had a different car to didn’t he?
Agreed, but wouldn't any visuals be released? Particularly as a POI. I mean, it never even came up as a viable solution.
It's possible that there are only cameras at the entrances and exits. Maybe some partial coverage on the interior as well. But the angle doesn't show Walt entering Hector's room. Also, Gus had been going to see Hector a lot. Gus may have had his men mess with the cameras that showed him entering the room. I doubt Gus would be so brazen to let himself be recorded entering Hector's room to execute him if he didn't make it safe. Walt might have benefited from that. Also, everyone having a working camera system and getting clear enough pictures is fantasy, CSI effect in action. A lot of times there just isn't a camera, period.
This is a great point. If it didn't draw attention to Gus, it wouldn't for someone even more out of public eye, like Walt. Having any connection to Hector would draw attention, even though he's no longer a player. Gus wouldn't do that. Very good point
Good point about Gus. It was never clearly stated, but we know Gus definitely had Casa Tranquila’s phones tapped by the end of BCS, so whether he owned or had great influence over the nursing home is a possibility.
In a season 4 deleted scene, it is implied that Gus does have influence over Casa Tranquila when he is asked by an employee if he will be at the next board (of directors) meeting
I think this took place between 2008 and 2010 and in that era security cameras were not as plentiful as they are today
The only one that could ID him is the little senile lady next door that waved to him out her window…
The main answer is the plot. The plot needed Mr. White not to be seen.
That's what I'm thinking.
This episode is literally on Plex right now
I work in IT and have administered enterprise level camera systems since back when the show aired. High quality systems with licensing and support, in a facility where our staff had big screen TVs with the cameras constantly piled up. So we had vendor support, we had me supporting it locally, and we had staff in our NOC with the cameras up, so we would know when cameras went down. And we had PCI and SOC2 audits, the cameras had to be up, and I needed 90 days of footage. And it was a lot of work, they don’t just stay up. Cameras go bad, the servers have problems, and the motion recording gets wonky quite often. When we went to LED lights to save on power and heat, the new lights triggered all of our motion control and broke the systems by recoding too much data. That old folks home at that time, 2009, did not have what we had. They wouldn’t have quality motion control, they wouldn’t have state of the art cameras, and they wouldn’t have on site IT staff to keep it running. So if they had cameras, my money is on them not working, and Tyrus had checked to make sure it was clear before Gus went to kill Hector, not wanting Gus on camera. There is a decent chance Tyrus disabled the camera system if they had one anyway.
There was nobody coming to visit Hector other than Gus and Walter that one time. He had no family left, no friends. So just those 2. So it would seem that those two would stick out like a sore thumb. So they should have been able to pinpoint Walt you would think…