watch Breaking Bad Season 4, Episode 12 End Times online
Friday, September 30, 2011
watch Breaking Bad Season 4, Episode 12 End Times online
watch Breaking Bad Season 4, Episode 11 Crawl Space online
watch Breaking Bad Season 4, Episode 11 Crawl Space online
watch Breaking Bad Season 4, Episode 10 Salud online
watch Breaking Bad Season 4, Episode 10 Salud online
The family becomes gravely concerned when Walt doesn't show up for his son's 16th birthday celebration. And Jesse's lab skills are tested in Walt's absence
watch Breaking Bad Season 4, Episode 9 Bug online
watch Breaking Bad Season 4, Episode 9 Bug online
Mistakes from Skyler's past prove to be impactful to the present; Gus is spurred to action against rivals; Jesse seeks help from Walt but the results are mixed
Sunday, September 4, 2011
Breaking Bad season 4 episode 7 review: "Problem Dog"
episode 7 review: "Problem Dog"
car. Saul covers up the outburst, which costs Walt $52,000. When Walt drops off more than $250,000—his biweekly take—to Skyler, she's stunned by the amount, unsure how she'll launder his annual meth-lab earnings (over $7 million) through their car wash. Walt convinces Jesse to kill Gus and concocts a ricin poison in the lab that Jesse then hides in one of his cigarettes. At the sitdown with the cartel, though, Jesse hesitates and doesn't add the poison to the coffee he makes for Gus. The sitdown involves only a flat ultimatum from the cartel, rejected by Gus. Jesse returns to the 12-step group; during his turn, he angrily disagrees with the organizer about not judging oneself, noting he had used the group as potential meth-buyers and recently killed a "problem dog"—believing he should be judged for what he has done. Hank visits Gus' restaurant with Walt Jr. and manages to get Gus' fingerprints on a cup, which he uses to confirm that Gus had been in Gale's apartment; he reveals his evidence to his DEA chief, suggesting they now know who's funding Heisenberg.
Breaking Bad season 4 episode 6 review: "Cornered"
episode 6 review: "Cornered"
When Walt wakes with a hangover, Skyler tells him she thinks his scoffing of the Gale-is-Heisenberg theory to Hank was a self-sabotaging "cry for help." Walt angrily denies that, telling her he's not in trouble because "I am the danger." Alarmed, Skyler leaves. Walt, worried, buys a flashy new car for Walt Jr. Walt picks up the keys to the car wash from Bogdan, who tells him he must be a "tough" boss; Walt, seething, refuses to let Bogdan take his framed first dollar from the business. He breaks the glass and uses the dollar to buy a soda from the vending machine. Rather than wait them out with Mike, Jesse cleverly tricks two meth-heads into surrendering product stolen from one of Gus's shipments. The lid has a message from the opposing cartel and Gus, preferring to maintain a "cold" war, tells Mike to arrange a sit-down. Walt tells Jesse that he suspects Gus is driving a wedge between him and Jesse and Jesse's heroic stopping of the stick-up was a set-up; he tells a fuming Jesse that "it's all about me!" Skyler drives to the Four Corners and flips a coin—it lands twice on the Colorado side but she reluctantly decides to return home. She tells Walt he must return Walt Jr.'s new car tomorrow and that "Someone has to protect this family from the man who protects this family."
Breaking Bad season 4 episode 5 review: "Shotgun"
episode 5 review: "Shotgun"
Fearing for Jesse's safety, Walt tries to confront Gus at Los Pollos Hermanos, but Gus is not there. Mike assures Walt that Jesse is safe, and he takes Jesse with him while he collects drug money for Gus. Walt and Skyler purchase the car wash and make love, after which Skyler asks Walt to move back into the house. Jesse fights off two attackers at one of the money collections, appearing to be a hero. He informs Walt that he will be making pick ups with Mike as a second job from now on. Gus and Mike discuss the attack on Jesse, and reveal that Gus set up the attack, planning for Jesse to win the confrontation. When Hank suggests to an intoxicated Walt that Gale was a genius, Walt's pride gets the better of him and he tells Hank that he believes Gale more likely copied another's work. Hank's pursuit of the case is renewed, and he expresses his puzzlement at finding a Los Pollos Hermanos napkin in Gale's belongings, as he was a vegan.
Breaking Bad season 4 episode 4 review: "Bullet Points"
episode 4 review: "Bullet Points"
The episode opens with Mike patiently waiting inside a refrigerated truck, seemingly with advance knowledge that it will be hijacked. After the armed hijackers stop the truck and fire automatic weapons into it, Mike shoots them both and emerges with a wounded ear. Walt and Skyler craft an elaborate story of gambling addiction to explain why they have enough money to purchase a business. They rehearse the story and even attend a support group for gambling addicts, but Walt remains too distracted to put much effort into the charade. During a family dinner, Hank tells Walt that he is informally consulting on a murder case for the local police and reveals evidence that implicates Gale as cook of the high grade blue meth that's been turning up in the Southwest. Jesse's detached complacence leads to over seventy-thousand dollars in cash being stolen from his house. Jesse seems genuinely apathetic about the loss, but Mike recovers the money and warns Jesse that he's on thin ice. Gus and Mike have a brief meeting, shortly before which, Mike can be seen focusing on a small pen-knife resting in a cup on Gus' desk, showing a growing concern for his safety, or a growing desire to preserve it. Regardless, Mike reports back that Jesse has become "incautious" and something needs to be done. The episode ends with Mike driving Jesse to an unknown destination.
Breaking Bad season 4. episode.3.review. "Open House"
episode.3.review. "Open House"
The episode begins as Walt furiously notices that a motion-detecting surveillance camera has been installed in the lab. Later that day, Skyler convinces Walt in a meeting with Saul to buy the car wash by mentioning how the owner insulted his manhood. She devises a plan to trick the owner into selling by having a hired-gun (supplied by Saul) pretend to be a water-tester who's shutting down the business out of concerns over contaminants. The owner promptly sells to her, agreeing to an even lower price than her original offer. Jesse is still feeling numb from recent events, attempting to clear his head with nostalgic go-kart trips. He continues to open his house up for all-night drug fueled orgies, deliberately throwing piles of money in the midst of the chaos. Feeling stressed from her husband's coldness, Marie renews her kleptomania. She starts stealing objects from real-estate open houses, where she also makes up elaborate stories about who she is, but is eventually caught by a real-estate agent. A livid Hank pulls strings with a senior cop to get her out of being charged. The same cop drops by to leave the lab notes, found in Gale's apartment, for Hank to look at in case he can help them with their investigation. Hank initially shoves away the notebook, but begins to read it later that night.
Breaking Bad season 4 episode 2 review: Thirty-Eight Snub
episode 2 review: Thirty-Eight Snub
Walt illegally buys and begins carrying a Snubnosed revolver but Mike soon tells Walt he'll never see Gus again. Jesse, in an attempt to distract himself from having murdered Gale, buys an elaborate stereo system and throws an ongoing party with Badger and Skinny Pete. Hank continues to push Marie away. Skyler attempts to buy the car wash but the owner angrily refuses. Walt goes to Gus's home, presumably to kill him, but receives a call telling him to go home. Walt later follows Mike to a bar, tells Mike that he might be in danger as well, then asks Mike to get him in a room with Gus and Walt will "do the rest". Mike punches Walt, kicks him twice on the floor, then leaves. Badger and Skinny Pete leave Jesse following a binge of partying at his house. Jesse sits alone in front of one of his speakers, visibly distraught.
Breaking Bad season 4 episode 1 review: Box Cutter
Walt and Jesse are held hostage by Victor and Mike, anxiously awaiting Gus's reaction to the murder of Gale. Skyler fears the worst when she can't get hold of Walt. Saul is paranoid about bugs, wiretaps, and surveillance now, even hiring a personal bodyguard. Hank struggles with life at home after his injury, snapping at Marie and becoming more preoccupied with collecting and cataloging minerals. Gus shows up, changes into a lab suit, slits Victor's throat with a box cutter, then changes back to his work clothes and tells Walt and Jesse to get back to making meth as he leaves. Walt is more shaken than Jesse, who later tells Walt that they don't need to worry about being killed when it's as if, stuck in their situation now, they're already dead.
Mike
Mike
Mike (played by Jonathan Banks) is a private investigator who works for Saul (as a PI) and Gus (as a PI and hired hitman). When Jane dies, Jesse calls Walt, who in turn calls Saul, and he sends Mike to clean up the crime scene. Mike is very knowledgeable about police procedure and successfully removes any evidence that may implicate Jesse in Jane's death. He also teaches Jesse the steps to getting out of jail as well and coaches Jesse with a cover story. Mike later escorts Walter to a drug den where Jesse is staying and offers to rescue Jesse himself, but Walter refuses. In season three, Mike is shown as a loving family man despite his grim job. Saul asks him to place a bug in the White residence, apparently due to Saul's concern that Skyler will turn Walter in. As he is preparing to leave, Mike sees the Cousins arrive at the house and notifies Gus, which ultimately saves Walter's life. He later kills the surviving cousin in the hospital on behalf of Gus. Before being a private investigator he worked as a police officer, describing to Walt a series of domestic disputes he was sent to, involving a man who continually beats his wife but she refuses to press charges against him. Mike tells Walter he drove the man out to the desert and threatened him by putting a gun in his mouth, causing him to lose control of his bowels, but allowed the man to return home after he promised to never harm his wife again. The man killed his wife weeks later by smashing a blender into her skull, leading Mike to believe he had done a "half measure, when I should have gone all the way" and suggests that Walt not take any "half measures" of his own in dealing with Jesse. He later kills several cartel members who had crossed the border in order to sell meth on Gus' territory and wounds a Chinese man who provided them with the chemicals needed for manufacturing their meth. He is also present when Victor tries to kill Walter, apologizing to Walt for having to murder him, but explaining that it has to be done. When their plan fails he tries to warn Gale that Jesse is on his way to kill him, but is unsuccessful.
Gustavo Fring
Gustavo "Gus" Fring (played by Giancarlo Esposito) is a successful yet low-key drug distributor from South America, controlling meth distribution in New Mexico and several neighboring states with connections to the Juarez cartel in Mexico. He owns and operates several legitimate businesses, including an industrial laundry facility and several fast food restaurants, as fronts for his drug operation. He has been a distributor for 20 years and has never been caught, and indeed very few people know what he looks like.
Saul manages to arrange a meeting between Walter, Jesse, and Gus at a fast food restaurant called "Los Pollos Hermanos" ("The Chicken Brothers"). While Gus seemingly never shows up, Walter later deduces Gus to be the restaurant proprietor, who had purposely scheduled the meeting at his own restaurant to be able to observe Walter and Jesse. After initially dismissing them as unreliable, Gus buys 38 pounds of Walter and Jesse's meth for $1.2 million. Pleased with how well Walter's product sold, Gus offers Walter $3 million for three months of his time.
Though he respects and appreciates Gus' all-business approach, Walter initially declines the offer, telling Gus that he no longer wants any part of the drug trade. When Gus learns of the Juarez cartel's attempt to kill Walter, he intervenes at the last moment, narrowly saving an oblivious Walter's life. During a subsequent sit-down, the head of the cartel Juan Bolsa explains that the cartel believes Walter to be responsible for Tuco's death. Gus explains that he has business with Walter and promises that the cartel may kill him as soon as their business has concluded. Bolsa reluctantly agrees, but urges Gus to wrap up his business with Walter soon and warns him that any delay would strain Gus' good graces with the cartel. Undeterred, Gus eventually persuades Walter to accept his offer by showing him the true nature of the work: operating a "superlab" housed under an industrial laundry facility that he owns, outfitted with top-of-the-line equipment and capable of producing at least 200 pounds of meth a week.
As the cartel pushes back against Gus' protection of Walter, Gus offers the cartel hitmen permission to kill Walt's brother-in-law, Hank Schrader (who, as a DEA agent, had previously been off limits). However, Hank survives the hit, killing one hitman and critically injuring the other. After learning of the failed hit, Bolsa begins to suspect that Gus orchestrated the entire fiasco. His suspicions are strengthened when the Mexican Federales raid his home, presumably in retaliation for the attack on Schrader. In a frantic telephone call moments before he is killed by the Federales, Bolsa angrily accuses Gus of trying to cripple the Mexican cartel and take over the entire methamphetamine market.
Meanwhile Walter, after learning that Hank had received a phone call warning him of the impending hit one minute before he was attacked, also deduces Gus' plan and requests a meeting with Gus to discuss the future of their arrangement. Gus offers to extend their agreement to a long-term, $15 million a year deal, which Walter accepts. Gus reluctantly agrees to allow Walter to hire Jesse as his assistant. Gus makes it clear throughout his dealings with Walter that he dislikes Jesse and only tolerates him because he respects Walt's meth-cooking genius.
Walter's relationship with Gus is jeopardized when Walter kills two of Gus' dealers to protect Jesse. Gus, along with Mike and Victor, meets Walt in the desert and demands that he explain himself. Walt implies that he suspects Gus of having ordered the dealers to kill 11 year old Tomas, which infuriates Gus. Gus seemingly accepts Walter's plea to regard the episode as a "hiccup" and allow him to continue cooking meth. Gus re-appoints the first lab assistant for Walt, Gale Boetticher, and surreptitiously instructs him to learn Walter's formula so as to be able to replace Walter (telling the clueless Gale that Walt has cancer and could die any day). Walter again deduces Gus' true intentions and plots with Jesse to kill Gale. Walter surmises that any delay in production would weaken Gus' position and that without Gale, Gus would be forced to retain Walter as the only cook capable of producing the high-quality meth needed to sustain his operations, and Gus knows that rival dealers have already tried and failed to enter his territory. Gus presumably OKs the planned murder of Walt when he learns that Jesse hasn't fled the area, but the plan seems to have failed when Jesse shows at Gale's apartment, and kills him. In the season 4 opening episode "Box Cutter", Gus slits the throat of Victor, one of his henchmen, (after Victor was seen by witnesses at Gale's murder scene) in front of Walt and Jesse as a violent show of power.
In season 3 during a dinner with Walter White it is implied that Gus grew up in Chile and that he has children.
Saul Goodman
Saul Goodman
Saul Goodman (played by Bob Odenkirk) is Walter and Jesse's criminal lawyer, whom they hired after Badger's arrest. His real surname is McGill, but he thinks his clients feel more confident with a Jewish lawyer; the moniker "Saul Goodman" is also homophonous with the expression "[it]'s all good, man". Though Walter had introduced himself to Saul as Badger's uncle, Saul uncovers Walter's true identity and shows up at Walter's school. He corners Walter into making him a silent partner in their operation in exchange for serving as a consigliere. Saul initially appears to just be a sleazy criminal defense lawyer with a cheesy television ad, but turns out to have a more sophisticated understanding of the illegal drug trade than both Walter and Jesse. He has extensive connections within the criminal underworld, which he utilizes to facilitate drug transactions and other misdeeds. Walter and Jesse come to rely on Saul as a trusted adviser and effective problem-solver. In Season 3, Jesse retains Saul to represent him as an anonymous party seeking to purchase his aunt's home from his parents. Saul blackmails them into selling the property for well below its market value by threatening to expose the prior existence of a meth lab on the premises. Worried that Skyler will testify to the authorities about Walter's meth dealings, he asks a private investigator named Mike to bug the White household. A furious Walter fires Saul when he discovers this, forcing Saul to deal with Jesse alone. When Walter goes back to cooking meth, Saul immediately switches priorities, and is hired back by Walter at a much lower rate than before, telling Jesse "you always go with the winner". Still, he does not abandon Jesse, and continues to act as his lawyer/adviser. When Jesse and Walt fall out of Fring's good graces, Goodman still helps them (though not without complaint). Even when Mike threatens Saul with violence, Saul still does not betray his clients. Instead, he leaves a notepad on his desk with Jesse's supposed location in a trailer park in Virginia. He later warns Jesse and Walt of Mike's interest in locating Jesse.
Walter White, Jr.
Walter White, Jr.
Walter White, Jr. (played by RJ Mitte), is Walter and Skyler's teenage son. He was born with cerebral palsy and suffers from speech and motor difficulties, for which he uses crutches. He grows apart from Walt due to his father's absences and bizarre behavior, being taught to drive by his friends and wanting to be called "Flynn." In an effort to help his father pay for cancer treatment, Walter Jr. sets up a website asking for donations. As part of a plan to launder Walt's drug profits, Saul Goodman (Walt's lawyer) arranges for a wave of "donations" drawn from Walter's drug money. When Skyler and Walter separate due to Walt's deceptions, Walter Jr. ultimately takes his father's side, and stops answering to the name Flynn. Thus far in the series, Walter Jr. remains completely oblivious to his drug business and its role in his family's life. Very little has been seen of Walter Jr. as of early season four, a drastic reduction in screen time from earlier seasons.
Marie Schrader
Marie Schrader
Marie Schrader (played by Betsy Brandt), née Lambert, is Skyler's sister, Hank's wife, and Walt's sister-in-law. She doesn't hesitate to offer advice to others, but she often fails to practice what she preaches. She shoplifts and may suffer from kleptomania, for which she sees a therapist. She appears self-centered and shallow but is very devoted to her husband and cares deeply for her sister's family. In season three, Marie becomes a major source of comfort and support to her husband, who proves to be more emotionally fragile than he lets on. When Hank is shot and nearly killed by the cousins, Marie angrily accuses Hank's DEA colleagues of not doing enough to support and protect their fellow agent. With Walt and Skyler's help, she arranges for Hank to undergo an aggressive physical therapy program that is not covered by their insurance. Marie loves the color purple, and nearly all her household and clothing items are various shades of purple.
Hank Schrader
Hank Schrader
"Hank Schrader"played by Dean Norris" is a Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) agent. He is also Walter's boisterous brother-in-law, and Marie Schrader's husband. He is currently investigating a new meth kingpin in the area named "Heisenberg", unaware that Heisenberg is actually Walter. Hank is not free of shortcomings – he once offered Walter a Cuban cigar, and when asked whether that was legal, replied "sometimes the forbidden fruit tastes the sweetest." Although loutish and obstreperous, he is highly competent at his job and genuinely cares about Walter and his family. When searching for a missing Walter in season two, he stumbled upon the drug baron Tuco and killed him. This earned him a promotion and a transfer to El Paso but also triggered panic attacks, which Hank struggles to keep from affecting his work. While in El Paso, Hank is with a group of fellow DEA agents, preparing to meet an informant, when a tortoise with the informant's severed head atop its shell arrived, with a sign painted along the tortoise's shell that said "HOLA DEA". This triggers a panic attack for Hank, who flees to a car to hide his embarrassment from his colleagues, who are investigating the shell. Removing the informant's head from the tortoise shell triggers a nasty explosion, killing and wounding the DEA agents who were nearby. Although unharmed (his hiding the panic attack from his colleagues resulted in being shielded from the blast), Hank is so further traumatized by this incident that he is unable to return to El Paso, eventually giving up the promotion, which went to his close friend and partner, Steven Gomez. Nagged by feelings of inadequacy, Hank becomes obsessed with the Heisenberg case, and overly aggressive on the job, starting a fight with two men in a bar whom he suspects of dealing drugs. A call telling him that Marie was in a car accident forced him to abandon pursuit of Jesse's RV, a huge clue in the case. Discovering he had been duped, he violently beat up Jesse, resulting in his suspension from the DEA. Hank finally opens up to Marie and reveals his panic attacks, but Jesse ends up not pressing charges because Walter agrees to a 50-50 deal working in Gus' mega-lab for millions each. Unknown to him, the Cousins—twin brothers and hitmen from Mexico—have been following him, planning to avenge Tuco's death. An anonymous caller warns Hank about the hit one minute beforehand, just as he returns to his car in a shopping center parking lot. Because he is suspended, Hank is unarmed. He is shot multiple times, but manages to kill one of the Cousins and severely injures the other, who on Gus' orders is later murdered by Mike while in the hospital. Hank is left unable to walk by the shooting and doctors are unsure if he will be left paraplegic. Marie, however, insists on putting Hank into expensive PT (physical therapy). When told that insurance won't cover the doctors Marie chooses, Skyler and Walter agree to pay for it (unbeknownst to Hank). When Marie suggests taking care of Hank at home, Hank refuses, saying that he won't go home until he can walk again. Marie makes a bet that he can still get an erection, and if he does, he has to return home. Shortly afterwards, Hank looks annoyed as Marie triumphantly wheels him out of the hospital. Later on it is shown that in his recovery, Hank has spent time "bidding on minerals", or buying rocks. Many of these rocks (crystals) resemble the blue meth crystals Heisenberg produces. Throughout his recovery, he is much harsher to Marie than he ever had been in the past, snapping at her constantly and treating her with contempt. The cause of this behavior is likely the fact that he is dependent on her for things he would once do himself (going to the bathroom and heavy lifting, among others). He seems to be his usual self in the presence of others, though he still makes crude remarks about Marie in their company. Recently, he has been approached by the Albuquerque Police Department to offer his insights into the shooting of Gale, including looking over his lab notebook. He had come to believe that Gale might have been the elusive Heisenberg, and (seeing this as closure for his previous work) turns the evidence back over to the APD. However, at a celebratory dinner with Walter and his family congratulating their acquisition of a car wash, Hank discusses his conclusions about Gale being a cooking genius, prompting Walter to arrogantly claim that he doubts that Gale was doing anything more than copying the work of a greater meth cook. Suspicions aroused, he had the APD send over the evidence once more, this time noticing that Gale, a known vegan and consumer of organic food, had a bag from Los Pollos Hermanos (Gus's fast food joint), and questions why a vegan would eat fried chicken.
Jesse Pinkman
Jesse Pinkman
Jesse Bruce Pinkman (played by Aaron Paul) is Walter White's partner in his meth business. Jesse is a former chemistry student of Walter, though he failed Walter's class. Although he aspires to be and emulates the behavior and fashion of a street-wise hustler-gangster, he lacks sufficient violence and callousness to succeed: he often finds himself unable to kill or harm others and his frequent relapses into drug use are attempts at self-anesthesia following the traumatic experiences of the meth trade. He comes from an upper middle-class family but was kicked out of his home because of his drug use. Jesse lived in his late aunt's house that he inherited but was again forced out by his parents (who legally own the home) when they discovered that he was cooking crystal meth in the basement. He has a much younger, over-achieving brother named Jake with whom he gets along, despite their age difference and divergent paths in life.
Following the deaths of Emilio and Krazy-8, Jesse attempts reconciliation with his parents, but fails when his parents discover Jake's marijuana; he claims ownership to spare Jake from the consequences of his own fate. In season two, Jesse becomes romantically involved with his landlord, a recovering addict named Jane. The death of his friend, Combo, sends him spiraling into drug addiction, namely heroin, introduced to him by Jane. When Jane dies by asphyxiating on her own vomit following a heroin binge, Jesse blames himself for her death and descends further into a drug-fueled depression. Unknown to Jesse, Walt was present when Jane overdosed and did nothing to prevent her asphyxiation. Walt takes Jesse to a rehabilitation center where he is able to get clean. His experiences have taken their toll, and he resigns himself to a fate as a "bad guy", to remain in the drug trade to the bitter end. He remains downcast over Jane's death, and ends up cooking meth on his own while Walt remains "retired". Jesse is enraged when Gus gives half of the profits from Jesse's work to Walt. Jesse later learns that Gus only hired him to manipulate Walt to return to making meth, and Walt tells Jesse he's finished either working with him or using Walt's formula. He then plans to use the RV he and Walt purchased as a re-started mobile lab, but Hank Schrader has gotten a line on the vehicle, and only some fast thinking by Walt and Saul Goodman lure Hank away from the RV long enough for it to be completely demolished. Hank later savagely beats Jesse, and after Jesse blames Walt for his miserable fate, Walt convinces Gus to offer Jesse a job at a new, high-tech meth production lab; Jesse only accepts reluctantly and after Walt says Jesse's new meth is as good as his original Heisenberg recipe.
Unfamiliar with White's past and insecurities, he is constantly confused, enraged, and betrayed by his mentor's patronizing, jealous attitude towards him. He begins having sex with Andrea, a woman he meets at a Narcotics Anonymous meeting, who is revealed to be the elder sister of Combo's murderer, and also begins stealing small amounts of Gus's meth with a plan to sell it to recovering addicts. Jesse plans to murder two gang members, both employees of Gus, in retaliation for their murder of Combo, but is forced by Gus to make peace. When Andrea's 11 year old brother Tomas is murdered, Jesse assumes the two dealers are responsible and sets out to kill them. He is stopped when Walt intervenes and kills the gang members. After Walt tells him to run, Jesse temporarily disappears after the murders. Sometime later, having gotten the damage to his car from killing the two dealers repaired, Jesse and Walt meet. Their mutual lawyer and partner Saul arranges for them to meet at a laser tag business that Saul is encouraging Walt to buy as a money-laundering front. Walt and Jesse agree that Gus wants to kill them both, and their only way out is to remove Gale, leaving Walt as the only meth cook available to Gus. Jesse admits he can't kill Gale, and suggests Walt go to the DEA and become a State's witness. Walt vehemently swears never to turn to the DEA, and accepts the responsibility of killing Gale. When Walt is brought to the lab later that night by Victor and finds Mike waiting for him, Walt calls Jesse. He warns Jesse that Mike is going to kill Walt unless Jesse immediately kills Gale. Jesse shows up at Gale's apartment and kills him. Jesse's last name, like Walter's, is an homage to Reservoir Dogs
Skyler White
Skyler White
Skyler White, née Lambert, (played by Anna Gunn) is Walter's wife, a published short-story writer who sells items on eBay. She and Walter have one son (Walter Jr). She is pregnant during the first two seasons with the couple's daughter, Holly (born at the end of the second season). She cares for Walter very much, but their marriage becomes increasingly strained due to his unexplained absences and bizarre behavior. Unaware of Walter's meth business, she believes that Walter's illness has strained the family's finances and returns to her old job working for Ted Beneke, whose sexual advances had caused her to quit earlier. She increasingly relies on Ted for emotional support as her husband grows distant. She leaves Walter at the end of season two after her suspicions regarding Walter's double life are confirmed when he accidentally reveals he has two cell phones. In the third season, she deduces that he is in the drug trade and confronts him; he admits (and emphasizes) that he is a crystal meth producer ("not a dealer"). She demands a divorce from him in exchange for her silence about his criminal activities. When Walter calls her bluff and forcibly moves back into their home, she retaliates by initiating an affair with Ted and coldly informing Walter. Even in her anger, Skyler is conflicted; she permits Walt to take care of baby Holly, and defends some of his actions to her divorce lawyer. She later finds that Walter has signed off on their divorce and left the house for good. When Ted arrives at her home and tries to clarify the nature of Skyler's feelings, she refuses to answer and asks him to leave. Following Hank's shooting, Skyler tells Marie that Walter earned millions through card counting at underground blackjack games, and offers to pay for Hank's physical therapy and anything else not covered by insurance. She later admits to Walt that she never filed the divorce papers, slyly beginning to work her way into Walter's criminal activities by reminding him that spouses cannot be forced to testify against each other. She suggests an alternative money-laundering scheme after being thoroughly unimpressed by Saul's plan to launder the money through a laser-tag facility. Skylar suggests Walter instead purchase the car wash facility he worked at in the pilot, and offers to run the business for Walt. She tries to frame these decisions as forced on her by Walt's criminal activities, but she ends up letting Walt spend more time with the kids and having dinners as a family when Walt, sensing an opportunity to regain his place in the family, tells her that's the only way her cover-up can succeed.
Walter White
walter White
walter White starts out as a middle-aged high-school chemistry teacher who learns that he has terminal lung cancer. This diagnosis changes the way Walt views his life. Once, a mild mannered guy who took whatever life dealt him, now he ponders how he will take care of his family after death. Now burdened with a new baby girl named Holly, his wife Skyler, and a teenage son named Walt Jr., he decides to use his knowledge of chemistry to manufacture and distribute a very pure from of crystal methamphetamine.
Allying himself with Jesse, a former student and junkie, they quickly embark in a career in the drug making business. Soon, they become known for having the highest-quality dope in the area which leads Walter downward in an ever spiraling world of harden criminals and crime.
Throughout Season One and Two of Breaking Bad, we get a glimpse at Walt’s world from the lies and deceptions he has to put on his family from his whereabouts to how he is funding his cancer treatment. Also, he has to deal with an ever increasing DEA investigation led by his wife’s sister’s husband Hank.
After dealing with several setbacks including an attempted blackmailing from Jesse’s drug-addicted girlfriend, Jane, Walt ends Season Two with his cancer in remission and enough cash to handle his expenses. But Skyler is tired of his lies and announces that she will leave him.
Saturday, September 3, 2011
Breaking Bad info
Breaking Bad is an a big American television drama series created and produced by Vince Gilligan. The series is broadcast in the United States and Canada on the cable channel AMC, and is a production of Sony Pictures Television. It premiered on January 20, 2008. The series was renewed for a fourth season, which premiered on July 17, 2011. On August 14, 2011, AMC announced that Breaking Bad had been renewed for a fifth and final season consisting of 16 episodes that may be split over two seasons."4"
Set and produced in Albuquerque, New Mexico, Breaking Bad is the story of Walter White (Bryan Cranston), a struggling high school chemistry teacher who is diagnosed with advanced lung cancer at the beginning of the series. He turns to a life of crime, producing and selling methamphetamine with a former student, Jesse Pinkman (Aaron Paul), with the aim of securing his family's financial future before he dies.
Breaking Bad has received widespread critical acclaim, particularly for its writing and cinematography as well as for Cranston's and Paul's performances. It has won six Emmy Awards—including three consecutive wins for Lead Actor in a Drama Series for Cranston—in addition to numerous other awards and nominations.
Summary
Informed he has terminal cancer, an underachieving chemistry genius turned high school chemistry teacher turns to using his expertise in chemistry to provide a legacy for his family... by producing the world's highest quality crystal meth.
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