Breaking Bad Season 5 (2012-13): What is a good approximation of how much money Skyler had in the storage unit when she showed Walt how she stopped counting it?
Assuming the the duffle bags that Walt left Jesse after visiting him had the requisite $5 million that he was entitled to from the methylamine sale*, the money in the storage locker looked insane.
*I realize the duffle bag drop that Walt brought may have been an installment payment, but since shortly thereafter he tells Skyler that he is "out" of the game, I'm going to assume there was 5 MM in there.
During episode 8's cook montage we see that the purple bill wrapper is for $2000:
We'll use $2000 as the low estimate for every bill bundle. There are larger bundles ($5000?) in there, but there's no way to know how many of each type. We get a couple hints to the overall volume of the stack in other shots:
Width: 12 bills
Height: ~40-45 bundles
Depth: ~17 bills
Based on this nonscientific image analysis the minimum amount in the pile would be around
$17,500,000. If every bundle were $5000 then it'd be
$43,860,000.00. The actual value is likely somewhere in between those two estimates.
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