When Breaking Bad began, Mr. White was a high-school chemistry teacher. The man drove a Pontiac Aztec. He might as well have had a scarlet L inked across his forehead. Then metastatic lung cancer came for him. A monstrous and inexplicable unfairness. But what happened next was worse. Walter's cancer — real enough — became metaphorical, too. This tumor didn't just choke his breath. It ate his soul from the inside out. But Breaking Bad might be the best of all because Walter's turn to darkness has been so unexpected, and so complete.
Tony Soprano was born to be a mob boss. Jimmy McNulty is good police with every beat of his lying heart.
But Walter White? How did an ordinary father and husband become Heisenberg? How did he turn into a man who melted away a child's body in a barrel of acid? I've always thought that moment was the point of no return, worse even than the jailhouse murders. Walter's a father himself. Walter has always pretended he took this course for his family — even though his wife now hates him with venom that could cut through steel.
So: Dump the boy's corpse somewhere, call the cops. For the record, pine is their best-seller. He impresses upon Skyler that their cover story is the most important thing. Skyler, making the most of her predicament, acknowledges that she likes the location of another car wash. Reluctant power looks good on her. Walt hustles inside, probably eager to rearrange the air-fresheners, as a new customer pulls up. Skyler takes her order, and looks curiously at the keys the woman hands her.
We know what Mrs. Lydia has a problem. The product has fallen to a 68 percent level of purity. A week at most. Get the ship back on course. She follows Lydia and threatens her. Do you understand me?
Besides, we know Walt takes pride in his work. Thank goodness for Saul and the first bit of levity in the hour. Remember when he tried to quit after finding out that Walt had poisoned Brock? Saul tries to talk the wayward Jesse out of it; Jesse just wants it done.
Of course, once Jesse leaves, Saul calls Walt. Cut to Jesse lying under his dirty, glass-topped coffee table. He hears a knock on the door. You can guess who it is. He drops the bags on the floor and tries to convince his young protege to keep the cash. I did. But it was in the heat of the moment. I was trying to win an argument.
However, Scotty gets distracted when Uhura walks into the room with her "big pointies" and accidentally kills Chekov by beaming his guts into space, leaving Spock as the only remaining player and, presumably, winner of the game.
When he goes back downstairs, Jesse brings his giant bags of money to Saul Goodman's office. While sitting in the waiting room, he grows tired of waiting and lights up a joint. Upon seeing this, the receptionist moves him to the front of the line to see Saul.
Saul seems uncomfortable with the idea but Jesse is adamant. Jesse leaves and Saul calls Walter. Walter takes the call while taking a course of chemotherapy and tells him to hang on to the money, adding that "[he]'ll handle it.
Although hinted at before, it is now confirmed that his cancer has returned. Walt begs Jesse to believe he did not kill Mike. Walter shows up at Jesse's door with the money and asks for an explanation. Jesse responds, "It's like you said, it's blood money. He tells Jesse that he's out of the drug business himself and says there's nothing for them to do but live good lives. A teary-eyed Jesse thinks Mike's granddaughter needs someone to look after her.
Jesse thinks Mike is dead and that Walt knows more than he lets on about Mike's fate. Walter denies having anything to do with Mike's death and tries to assuage Jesse's suspicions. Later, the Whites are eating dinner at home when Walt excuses himself from dinner and rushes to the bathroom to vomit. He inadvertently peers above the toilet and notices his copy of Leaves of Grass has gone missing.
He continues to search for the book all about the house. He gets into bed and, suspicious of Hank's possible involvement in the disappearance of the book, asks Skyler what is wrong with Hank. She tells him Hank hasn't been to work all week. Even more suspicious, he sneaks outside in the middle of the night and checks the bottom of his car , finding as he'd feared, a tracking device.
Meanwhile, a homeless man knocks on the window of Jesse's parked car at the Dog House , waking him up from a nap. The vagrant asks a rather worse for wear Jesse if he can spare some change and he gives him a large stack of cash. The man, though markedly reluctant and perturbed by this windfall, eventually accepts and Jesse drives off. We next see Jesse, all glassy eyed and deeply perturbed, driving through an impoverished neighbourhood frantically tossing wads of cash into random lawns, visibly desperate to be rid of it all.
Walt menacingly advises Hank to "tread lightly. The two cops who dropped off the files ask Hank if Steven Gomez should be worried. Hank assures them that he's fine. Get the best of Den of Geek delivered right to your inbox!
As for Skyler, her new-found apparent contentment suggests that rather than seeing the one who knocks, she sees her old husband Walter White finally coming back to her; only this time, with the added drive and ambition required to run and operate his own successful car wash business. But then Heisenberg is never far away. F Scott Fitzgerald said that the test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in mind at the same time and still retain the ability to function.
Who does he see when he looks? A truly gifted investigator and a natural tough guy, whose only weakness is his own inherently good nature; one characterised by a need to feel as if he can trust those closest to him, due to his day to day existence living in a world populated by crooks and snakes. In a characteristically clever bit of misdirection, the final scene plays out tentatively at first, as if it will mark the beginning of a duel between Hank and Walt which will see them circle each other well into the next few episodes.
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