Summary and spoilers
A lone Mexican border patrol officer investigates a woman who has not contacted her daughter for some time. On a remote property, he sees no sign of her, but through the window, he can see candles burning, a shrine, and a crude drawing of Heisenberg. Out on the line, matching black shirts are hanging. A figure moves inside the house, but the officer does not see this. Please leave now, officer! But he doesn’t. He finds the decomposing body of the woman who used to live there. Soon after, he is ambushed and brutally murdered by the Snake Brothers.
Skyler rings Walt about the signed papers. She wants to talk about how they are going to deal with Walt Jr. if they get divorced. Walt plans to pay for all of Walt Jrs.' needs. Skyler isn’t happy about that, but Walt reminds her that this has been happening for six months. Their conversation is terminated by Walt’s need to convince a property manager to rent him the model apartment.
Gus’s normal manager duties at Los Pollos Hermanos are thrown asunder when the Snake Brothers walk in silently, grab a table, and get into a staring match with him. The boys are back each day, sitting, staring, like a guilty conscience. Eventually, Gus gets rid of them by telling them that they will have what they want by sunset. I thought they wanted Heisenberg, so I don’t know how or why Gus would deliver him.
Jesse is showing off a big nugget of blue meth to Badger and Skinny Pete. They are impressed, but a bit reticent to start selling again after what happened to Combo. But the clean and calculating Jesse has a plan to play it safe and smart this time, and the guys agree. As they emerge from Jesse’s house, Hank is outside doing surveillance, a discreet distance away.
It is Walt’s first day of work. He packs a bagged lunch and dresses smart casual. First stop is to drive Walt Jr. to school. Junior is upset that his parents are splitting, and he takes out his frustration on dad. Walt’s optimism about the future is unaffected by Junior’s negativity. At work, Walt scoots behind the machinery and enters his massive new kitchen. He will work with lab assistant Gale. Highly qualified and obviously highly intelligent, Neil wows Walt with a delicious cup of beaker-brewed coffee. These two geek scientists don yellow lab protective suits and cook together in harmony. Afterward, Gale recites Walt Whitman verses and the two bask in their love of the magic of chemistry.
Hank has reached a dead end in linking Jesse to the RV. At Marie’s suggestion, Hank rings Walt and asks if former student Jesse ever had a brown and beige recreational vehicle. Walt sits up and goes into action.
Walt calls Jesse but hangs up when Jesse answers. Next, Walt calls Saul. Saul’s advice is to go get the RV and dispose of it.
Walt drives to Jesse’s brother-in-law’s car lot and insists that the RV be disposed of immediately. Badger is there and immediately calls Jesse. Jesse runs out of the house and drives away quickly, keen to stop the RV from being destroyed. Hank is in pursuit. Jesse shows up, irate, but he cools when Walt sees Hank pull up and park just outside the RV. Walt covers the windows. Hank prowls outside, casually prying at windows and doors. How can they get out of this one? Just before Hank breaks in, he is thwarted by the lot owner, who reminds him of the 4th amendment protection provided to domiciles like this RV. In case he doesn’t believe it, Jesse reminds him of it from inside the locked door. This merely delays disaster until Hank can get a search warrant. Inside, Jesse panics while Walt thinks of a plan. He calls someone…and soon, Hank receives a call from Albuquerque police informing him that Marie has been in a serious car accident and being airlifted to hospital. As Hank speeds off, we see that that call was made by Saul’s PA.
Hank blasts through the hospital searching for Marie until she coincidentally calls. He turns red in anger as he realizes he was duped. Meanwhile, Walt and Jesse watch the RV as it is reduced to a thin strip of crushed metal, on its way to Japan as scrap.
As sunset approaches, Gus drives to a remote location to meet face to face with the Snake Brothers. They want to kill Walter White; Gus says no, but he has something better. He allows them to kill the man who pulled the trigger and shot Tuco, a normally off-limits DEA agent named Hank Schrader.
Breaking Bad Quotes
"Why the hell are we making meth?"
- Walt’s enthusiastic reaction to tasting Gale’s coffee for the first time
"This is my own private domicile and I will not be harassed! Bitch!"
- Jesse to Hank
Does anybody know which is the mexican theme that plays at the end of the chapter, during the RV reduction? I really dig it.
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One of the best episodes of Breaking Bad.
ReplyDeleteIsn't the woman who's body is decomposing outside the home where the Cousins are living also the same woman who was in the wheelchair in the van that the Cousins needed to transport their uncle to the meeting with Gus? This would make sense since the Cousins killed EVERYONE in the hay truck at the beginning of Episode 301. They simply never leave any witnesses around...ever.
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