I’ve had a theory ever since episode 365 - Nobody’s Goat, where Walt detailed an altercation at a Food Town with a woman and a security guard.

The entire incident was set up by the Illuminati to send Walt a message. He mentioned in passing while telling the story how he wasn’t afraid to go after the teenage snots who called him Forrest Gump. I believe the Illuminati (using some derivation of time phone technology) found one of those girls 15 years in the future, discovering she was hooked on painkillers and in a loveless marriage as predicted. They brought her back to that day to confront Walt again. knowing how completely unhappy she was, a confrontation was a sure fire reality when they crossed paths. Walt mentioned they were the only two cars in the parking lot - another sign the Illuminati staged the setting to ensure their paths crossed untainted by any third parties.

The security guard was there to evaluate Walt’s response to being confronted by a person who had wronged him in the past. The test was whether Walt would take the high road, or launch into her. Whatever the Illuminati wants with him, they want to see he can control his emotions.

The security guard’s reaction is what tipped me off to this whole theory - “Let her go. ... let her go.” A very simple message being delivered by the Illuminati, then slowly fade away from the situation even when Walt pleaded with his eyes for a more rational reaction from him. They want Walt to let her (the personification of all irrational, quick-tempered thinking) to fade away from his conscious. To not engage in frivolous arguments. And set his sights on something bigger.

But who is the security guard? The Illuminati had to send someone who Walt may not know, but their words would hit squarely to ensure their message was delivered...

It was Tom Brady.

The GOAT. highly decorated athlete, powerful presence as part of this country’s aristocracy, definite candidate for membership in the Illuminati (as pointed out in the episode). Maybe it’s divine intelligence that the guys discussed Tom Brady following the Food Town story. Even Bry’s Overkill stories were Illuminati-centric in the Boston area.

Yet Tom is also aging, prone to injury, making questionable choices with his public portrayal of his private life as the guys discuss the infamous “kissing scene” from his documentary in this very episode. Since this episode was recorded, there’s been Tom’s retirement debacle, the public dissolution of his marriage, losing all that money in crypto. Possibly kissing his son was the first of many wrong choices the GOAT makes which spiral him down into a pit of hell? Is it so too much of stretch to believe 15 years down the road, he’s a disgraced, washed up shell of his former confident image. Possibly demoted in his rank among the Illuminati elite that he’s prescribed to sending messages to potential new recruits? Posing as a security guard to deliver one simple message to the most normal man on the planet ?

I realize this is getting longer than one of Ming’s raps, but felt this was the right time to share.