Breaking Bad Recap: I Know Why the Caged Walt Sings

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By Saint Clare of Assisi | Tuesday, August 21, 2012 | 3:08 pm | 5 Comments
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HANK AND MARIE’S HOUSE

Skyler’s dropped by to see her kids and to check in with Marie. She continues the ruse Walt started with Hank last week, which is that she’s seeing a made-up therapist named Peter who lives in the next town. Marie offers some encouragement.

Marie asks Skyler how things are going with Walt right now, and being that Skyler’s life is a living hell, the mere mention of Walt is enough for her to burst into tears. Skyler babbles about needing to keep her children safe. Marie understandably thinks Skyler’s a bit hysterical right now (Keep them safe? From sweet ol’ cancer-ridden Walt? Hu-whaa?), but she can sense Skyler’s not telling her SOMETHING, so she asks Skyler to open up.

Wait, this scene gets a lot better. Remember how Walt told Marie about Skyler’s affair with Beneke? Marie thinks this is what’s upsetting Skyler right now. And what’s more, Skyler didn’t know Walt told Marie about it in the first place. So Marie tries to comfort Skyler by telling her to stop beating herself up about Beneke, but all it does is let Skyler know Walt is bad-mouthing her to her own sister. He’s making her the bad guy.

Feel better, Sky?

FUMIGATED HOUSE

It’s just another day at the office. Walt and Jesse are having lunch (Walt is STILL brown-bagging it!), and watching some TV on the unsuspecting homeowner’s set. They’re watching an infomercial for imitation caviar, made with kelp.

Jesse switches over to the news. There’s a bulletin about a missing boy. The one they shot. Apparently the kid’s name was Drew Sharp and he was 14 years old. Drew’s been missing for four days now.

Walt switches the TV off but the bulletin, but Jesse is upset. Shit. Now Walt has to talk Jesse off the ledge. Walt first tries to empathize with Jesse, says he hasn’t slept the last four nights. (Bullllllshit). Then, Walt tries to get Jesse to look on the bright side! Now they have enough methylamine for a year’s worth of cooking. They’re self-sufficient! No more kids will die! Probably!

No dice. Jesse’s too upset to continue working today so Walt sends him home.

Jesse changes out of his hazmat suit and…uh…Walt is freaking WHISTLING as he works. Nice sell job, Walt.

Chapter 3: “Well This Is Another Fine Meth You’ve Gotten Me Into!”: When Employees Screw Up

Then Jesse gets a phone call from someone. Who could it be? 

VAMONOS

Walt opens the garage door at Vamonos Pests. He’s got the latest batch of meth to deliver, but he’s surprised to find Mike already inside. Walt asks what’s going on but Mike just tells him to come into the office. Neither expected the other to be here.

Jesse is here too. It was probably Mike who made that call to Jesse in the last scene.

Wonder why Mike and Jesse are arranging to meet without Walt? Well, it’s because they’ve decided to retire. From meth. Walt’s got a mutiny on his hands.

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Saint Clare of Assisi attended Boston University and has written for The Onion.  He took his name from the patron saint of television, who was a virgin and saved a boy from a wolf one time.

5 Comments

  1. 1
    MrsMiaWallace MrsMiaWallace
    Posted August 21, 2012 at 4:20 pm

    Great recap, I love the book chapters!

    Ok, here is my thinking on the Grey Matter backstory. I may be dead wrong based on things they’ve already told us and I have forgotten, so feel free to slap me down.

    I think the whole other-guy-got-the-girl is too straightforward. Plausible, but not interesting enough. I want it to be something like Walt cheated with Skylar or split off to be with her. That and/or there were issues with Walt getting a temper, acting like a dictator, maybe doing something illegal/immoral. All things that he is displaying now and the friends asked him to leave. Finding out he has tendencies for this behavior would be interesting. I also wonder if he totally cashed out or if he expected to go it alone and use the $5k to build his own company and failed?

    As for his idea… not sure. At first I just assumed he wanted them to give him the chemicals and he would pay them back, but from the prequels it doesn’t look that way. Maybe since Walt has a disti problem and Dradel or whoever wants to expand he starts supplying to him? But that would only be palatable for Walt if he is still the boss and not just working for another version of Fring.

    My question is that Mike said he’d pay back all the guys out of his share… but with 9 guys cutting into $5M that cannot be enough. Didn’t Mike alone have $2M seized by the DEA? Maybe he got paid way more than the others?

    Love your recaps!

  2. 2
    mjhhawk
    Posted August 22, 2012 at 7:10 am

    Great recap.

    I think Todd is going to turn out to be a psycho. The tarantula is his trophy from the kill, kind of like Dexter with the blood slides.

    I do agree that Grey Matter is going to be something revolving around a love triangle. They’ve tried to basically spell that out, but is anything ever that straightforward in BB land?

    Mrs.Mia – Hank definitely said something along the lines to Mike during their initial meeting that his granddaughter had a much larger amount in her bank account than everyone else (I thought he said over double). But I would agree that $5M doesn’t seem enough to make everyone whole again.

    Do we think they are treating this half-season like a full season with a uge cliff hanger in two episodes?

  3. 3
    timgunnssister timgunnssister
    Posted August 22, 2012 at 8:48 am

    Stellar recap, as always.

    Based on the first season’s episode where Walt speaks to Gretchen, I got the distinct impression that Walt and Gretchen had an affair – that Gretchen was already married to Elliot and that’s what broke up their group. And that she and Elliot feel awful about the chintzy buyout Walt got. That’s why they offered to pay Walt’s medical bills. Remeber how Walt initially told Skyler THAT’s where the money was coming from? Of course, when she thanked them, it got a little weird because Walt had actually refused the money.

    I also thought Tod keeping the jar was weird. Was that just the little kid in him being as fascinated with the tarantula as the boy he shot? Are the kids fingerprints on the jar? Does Tod get caught or does he use this as leverage over our boys? No one can prove who actualy took the shot but, Tod now has a piece of evidence that one of them did the deed. And any one of the other three are a more likely candidate than Tod. Wonder if Tod now needs to die?

    As to Walt’s wonderful solution? I have no idea. I doubt he would be willing to work for Declan – remember, he wants to build an empire, not work for Guslight. And what about Jesse? He really is no longer interested in the money as we’ve seen from previous episodes – I think he just wants his life back. Or at least the promise of a relatively normal life since he doesn’t seem to have really had one. Ever.

    And Skyler always looks like she’s about to explode with the news of Walt’s ‘hobby’. She may be the weakest link in the chain.

  4. 4
    Kammie
    Posted August 23, 2012 at 5:59 pm

    There was a shot towards the beginning when they were disposing of the crime that gave me chills. Walt was standing on a chair and it was shot from below him looking up. He had his mask on the top of his head which looked like horns and gave him a devilish appearance – did anyone else notice that?!

  5. 5
    Corey
    Posted September 19, 2012 at 5:42 am

    I loved these two episodes but can someone explain why they only stole 1,000 gallons, when they were using multiple 55 gallon drums already (based on 1 drum stolen in the earlier seasons yielding 40lbs). That 1,000 gallons is about 18 drums worth of methlyamine. Sure, the drums were being bugged, but they were still able to acquire them without the risk of robbing it from a train.

    I feel like this is a little fact checker moment. If they had stolen 2,000 gallons or more, I could see this being worthwhile, but only 1,000…

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