In a flashback, a real estate agent shows a younger Walt and Skyler (pregnant withWalter, Jr.) the house where they’ll eventually live. Walt, then working at the prestigious Sandia Laboratory and envisioning a bright future with three children, worries they aren’t setting their sights high enough with this house. “We’ve got nowhere to go but up,” he says. [...]
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Wendy the meth whore turns tricks outside the “Crystal Palace” motel. Her finances replenished, she exchanges cash and burgers for blue meth with the dealers behind Combo’s murder. Jesse, nearby in his car, watches the deal go down. Walt sits in his car’s passenger seat while Walter, Jr. practices for his upcoming driving test. When the two arrive [...]
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In a flashback, we find Jesse and Jane taking in Georgia O’Keeffe’s painting, “My Last Door.” Unimpressed, Jesse argues that O’Keeffe painted the same door over and over attempting to achieve perfection. To Jane, the repetition was about making a good feeling last. Her point made, Jane extinguishes her cigarette — marked with an impression of her pink [...]
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It’s two in the morning at Walt‘s condo. He lies in bed, staring up at his smoke detector’s flashing indicator light. Later, at Gus‘s industrial laundry, workers punch a time clock. “I’m surprised he doesn’t make us do that,” Jesse comments to Walt. Downstairs, the partners scrub equipment as Jesse describes how hyenas acknowledge the pack leader’s superiority [...]
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A Los Pollos Hermanos commercial extols the chain’s signature chicken. Back at the lab, Walt and Jesse hand off a batch of blue crystal meth, which ends up at Gus‘ chicken farm. Victor supervises workers as they submerge plastic bags of blue meth into specially-marked tubs of fry batter for shipment across the Southwest. Jesse and Walt cook a [...]
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Jesse, still weak and bruised, is wheeled out of the hospital by an orderly. As he waits outside for his ride, an ambulance approaches. Curious, Jesse rolls his wheelchair closer to find paramedics working frantically on an unconscious Hank. Skinny Pete arrives and asks how Jesse is doing. Jesse smiles. “Actually, I’m great,” he says. [...]
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In Mexico, two young boys — the Cousins as children — fight over a toy until one breaks it. Nearby, a much younger, spryer Tio talks on his cell phone, disparaging the “Chicken Man” as a “dirty” South American. The call finished, one young Cousin, Leonel, complains to his uncle about the broken toy, [...]
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A tribal police officer is dispatched to investigate the possible disappearance of an elderly woman that resides on a reservation outside of Albuquerque. At her house he finds a body, and evidence that someone else has taken up residence. “Whoever’s in there, show yourself!” the officer shouts. One Cousin steps out of the house, [...]
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In a flashback to the Pilot episode, Walt — sporting a full head of hair — hands Jesse$7,000 to purchase an RV. Instead, Jesse heads to a strip club with Skinny Pete and Combo and spends the cash on lap dances and champagne. Come morning, only $1,400 remains, but Combo, in what he describes as “a no paperwork-type [...]
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At a desert gas station, Jesse fills the RV’s tank. Realizing that he has no cash, he charms the cashier girl into taking some freshly manufactured blue meth as payment. Mike visits Saul and plays an audio recording of Skyler and Walt‘s fight over her affair with Ted. Skyler admits that Walt called her bluff about having him arrested, but whether he stays [...]
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