Breaking Bad Recap: Everybody Roomba!

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By Saint Clare of Assisi | Tuesday, July 24, 2012 | 8:09 pm | 7 Comments
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A blank-faced German man in a suit is sitting in an industrial kitchen. In front of him is a glass platter with dollops of six or seven types of dipping sauces, and a glass bowl full of…tater tots. In Germany? OK! It makes sense. This is the fast food division of a multinational conglomerate that makes food items for American markets, we learn.

A scientist is explaining all the different sauces to the man in the suit, as the man in the suit tries each one, starting with the honey mustard. Presumably the guy in the suit is one of the higher-ups at Madrigal. His name is Herr Schuler. The scientist is showing Schuler all the new dipping sauces they’ve developed for the US Midwestern market. There’s a half-Ranch, half-French concoction called “Franch”.

I like that better than their working title, “Lobster Jizz”

Then there’s something called “Cajun Kickass”. And finally there’s regular ketchup. And so on. The scientist rattles off a bunch of facts about the various chemicals that went into each one, but Schuler is just munching away, seemingly not even registering anything.

Then, an admin comes in and whispers a message to Schuler. There are “three this time”. What the hell does that mean? Visitors? Schuler tells her to tell them he’ll be with them in a moment.

He motions for the rest of scientists to leave him, and he polishes off the tots.

MADRIGAL FOOD COURT

Schuler steps out into a polished, futuristic kind of food court with a variety of different restaurants. Some workers are taking down the sign on one of the units. It’s for Los Pollos Hermanos. Schuler watches this happen, looks a little disappointed.

He walks toward a reception area and spots three cops waiting to see him. In the office, the camera finds a framed photo of Schuler with Gus.

Rather than join them, Schuler takes a blue portable defibrillator off the wall.

BATHROOM

Schuler goes into the bathroom and strips to his waist. The admin knocks outside. The cops are getting impatient. Then one of the cops knocks and insists they be let in. Schuler ignores all this. He wires up the defibrillator onto his body—one paddle on his chest, the other in his mouth—and turns it on. The electricity courses through his body and sends him to the floor

ACT ONE

WALT AND SKYLER’S HOUSE

Two things going on here. A phone conversation is playing between Walt and Jesse, having to do with the ricin cigarette. (If you’ll remember to last season, when Gus and Walt were at odds, Walt and Jesse were going to kill Gus with the ricin, but Jesse got cold feet because he was starting to turn over to Gus’s side. Then the cigarette went missing, and shortly after that, Brock was in the hospital with poisoning. Jesse suspected Walt took the ricin and gave it to Brock and confronted him about it, but Walt managed to convince Jesse that Gus was behind it, not Walt himself. So Jesse and Walt teamed up to take Gus down. Later, Jesse learned that Brock hadn’t even ingested ricin, but Lily of the Valley, a common houseplant. So it was all a big misunderstanding. Or so Jesse thinks.

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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.

7 Comments

  1. 1
    someguy
    Posted July 24, 2012 at 9:33 pm

    So glad you are back. Your recaps add so much to the show for me. I was thinking the women Mike met at the coffee shop was Gus’s wife. I liked how Hank will take help from his partner with. His. Walking and treating Gomez like a friend and partner without the macho BS.I always have to watch the episode again after your recaps to pick up all the detail you caught and I missed. I want to know what Brook says about what he ate to get sick. He isnto old to eat plants. Thanks for you great insights

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    mjhhawk
    Posted July 25, 2012 at 6:10 am

    Mike was watching “Caine Mutiny”, which is actually quite symbolic to the storyline as I believe the scene was was on they were just about to vote out the Captain (Gus) to replace him with another (Walt). Or it was another scene, but that does happen.

  3. 3
    mjhhawk
    Posted July 25, 2012 at 6:41 am

    I think Walt is and will always be the main character, but they are not afraid to turn the focus on other characters for development. In the past they have focused on Jesse, Skyler, Hank, Marie and did an entire episode on Gus’ roots. This is what helps keeps the viewers so engaged in the show. You have true feelings about every character. When things like Hank and Mike have their first confrontation you are completed conflicted, as you are pulling for both guys. I personally really hope they do an episode on Mike’s days as a Philly cop.

  4. 4
    timgunnssister timgunnssister
    Posted July 25, 2012 at 10:52 am

    Two things I LOVE about this episode: 1) Mike drinking an Ensure with a beer back – priceless! and 2) Merkert saying that “It was right in front of me the whole time” or words to that effect talking about Gus being the criminal overlord. Do you suppose that gets Hank wondering what’s been in front of HIM this whole time?

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    timgunnssister timgunnssister
    Posted July 25, 2012 at 11:05 am

    Oh, and wasn’t Lydia sitting with the Madrigal executives in the DEA office? I assumed that’s how she knew Mike – she is/was a Madrigal employee and Gus’s local go-between/finder of stuff.

    And in the final scene, it sounded to me as though Walt said something about ‘family being the most important thing’. It sounded all creepy and Godfather-y to me. And Skyler looked absolutely terrified.

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    annie anniedawg25
    Posted July 25, 2012 at 12:16 pm

    @timgunssister…yeah totally creepy! as was the boob grab.
    Sky is terrified of him….he knows it, and doesn’t give a shit. If anything, he likes it! EEK

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    maryedith
    Posted July 27, 2012 at 8:09 pm

    Awesome recap as usual. Two things: I think Walt’s flaw is not just that he thinks other people are stupid but that he’s gotten greedy. It’s not about paying for cancer treatment anymore; it’s about the big payoff. Nobody who wants a big payoff for the sake of a big payoff ever gets the big payoff. Also, I don’t know if you mentioned this after the first episode, but when Walt popped those pills in the cold open I wondered if his cancer had come back? We don’t normally see him popping pills, do we?

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