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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Jesse starts babbling about how much he hates frozen food, particularly because it looks so delicious on the box but always turns out to be shit. Truth in advertising, amIright?

Anything to fill the silence. Luckily, the Whites start talking now…by unloading their marital problems on him. Skyler tells Jesse she had an affair! Then she takes the bottle of wine to bed with her.

Alone, Walt tells Jesse how Skyler took his own kids away from him, and admitted she’s waiting for him to die from the cancer so she can move on with her life. Meth is all Walt has left.

Chapter 8 (cont’d): And If Breaking Bread Isn’t Enough, See If Your Resentful Wife Will Fuck Them

ACT FOUR

VAMONOS PESTS

Walt runs into the Vamonos Pests garage and starts going to work on the equipment. It looks like he’s trying to take all the methylamine for himself. That’d be my guess.

Sure enough, Mike is already here and catches him in the act. He tells Walt to join him in the office, then shows him the gun in his waistband. Walt complies.

This is it. Mike is going to sell Declan all 1,000 gallons of the methylamine. And to ensure Walt won’t take it first, he’s going to keep Walt in the Vamonos office all night until Declan arrives tomorrow. At least he offers to give Walt his share of the methylamine. Honor among thieves and all that.

Walt’s cornered. What to do, what to do…

Mike tells Walt to sit in a chair. Time-lapse. Morning arrives.

Mike has an errand to run before the deal goes down…no word on what it is…so he’s going to restraint Walt in the office while he tends to that. He frisks Walt, then zip-ties him to the radiator in the office and leaves.

Chapter 10: Why I Now Keep a Sharp Object Hidden in My Rectum At All Times

Walt realizes he’s leaning up against the door to the closet, so he opens it and tumbles backward into it—still tied to the radiator.

There’s nothing useful in the closet. Walt spots a coffee maker on a file cabinet that’s just out of reach. Maybe Walt can smash the coffee pot and use a shard to cut himself free? He manages to get a hold of the cord on the coffee maker and yank it towards him, but the coffee pot falls and rolls all the way across the room. Fuck.

But he’s still got the electrical cord in his hands. And this is why you don’t leave a science genius alone in a room. Ever.

So uh…I have to admit, I have no idea what the hell Walt is doing here…

Walt turns off the power strip the coffee maker’s attached to. The electrical cord is one of those double-wire deals. Walt separates the two wires, cuts them, and chews the rubber insulation off them. Now he’s got two frayed wires. If he turns on the power strip, he’s got two currents of electricity he can touch together and basically melt the fucking zip-tie off his hand. Which he does…

Epilogue: I Will Fucking Burn My Own FLESH To Beat You, DO YOU HEAR ME?!?!?!?!??!?!??!

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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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