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Message: <blockquote data-quote="AnotherGuy" data-source="post: 8857710" data-attributes="member: 7029930">This is what I found online, since it has been a while for me.the shoplifting arc wasn't abandoned, (its mentioned that she was seeing a shrink about it by Hank, which would explain it's absence for a while) but in Season 4 episode, Open House, Marie began shoplifting again (most likely a subliminal cry for help due to Hank's verbal abuse while he was bedridden and collecting "minerals"). after she was arrested for trying to steal from an open house, she was bailed out by Hank's cop buddy Tim. Tim then asked for a favor in return, for Hank to look at a case Tim was working on, which was the homicide of Gale Boetticher. Which, of course, had major consequences. so if Marie wasn't a shoplifter, Hank would have never discovered Gus' secret, and Hank wouldn't ever have seen Gale's Walt Whitman quote in his lab notes, and made the connection to Walter in season 5.There are various theories on the internet about this.Would it have been as good, probably not.The story has a lot of metaphorical layers, and it showed the gradual fall/corruption of people as worse and worse things became normalised.</blockquote>