Episode 1: Live Free or Die

Negin had to comfort me last night, when I realized that after months of anticipation, I had missed the live stream of the first episode by an hour because I suck at understanding timezones.  When the little-girl sobs subsided, I quickly bought the season pass on iTunes.  I watched the episode first thing when I woke up.  Whew.

We got a few answers and a few surprises in this episode.  The current leader is: wen.  Congratulations.  The summary and leader board are below.

Significant events:

The following characters will appear

• Ted Beneke

The poison was delivered to Brock by

• Saul, Huell or Kuby

Jesse's cigarette was taken by

• Saul, Huell or Kuby

Mike will team up with Walt

• Yes

How many times will Jesse say "bitch"?

• +2

Hank will suspect that Walt is making meth

• By the end of Episode 1

Standings:

1. wen: 2
2. Shimon Whiteson: -2
3. Sam: -2
4. Quyen Luu: -2
5. Justin: -2
6. Greg Kuhlmann: -2
7. Chris Flesher: -3
8. Josh Morgan: -4
9. Brian G: -4
10. valerie: -6
11. Sandeep: -6
12. Kurt: -6

Here is how the scoring works:

• For a checkbox question, +1 for each correct answer, -1 for each known incorrect answer
• For a multiple choice question, +1 for the correct answer, -1 for each known incorrect answer
• For a numerical question, +1 for being the closest, -1 otherwise

For numerical questions, I'm extrapolating the answer by episode number.  For example, because Jesse said "bitch" 2 times in Episode 1, the extrapolated value is 2 * 16 = 32.  The closest prediction to 32 ( given by Quyen) won the question...for now.  Also, all players tied on a numerical question receive the point.

If you think I'm just making this shit up and you want to see the audit log of how you received the score you did, let me know, and I'll email it to you.