Breaking Bad Recap: Everybody Roomba!

Recaps

By Saint Clare of Assisi | Tuesday, July 24, 2012 | 8:09 pm | 7 Comments
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Of course, what REALLY happened was, Walt totally DID poison Brock, just not with ricin. Walt had Saul steal the cigarette from Jesse so it would look like Gus did it. Then Walt poisoned Brock with Lily of the Valley…if things broke right, Jesse would suspect Gus poisoned Brock and only later would Jesse think it was an accident when the toxicology report came back with Lily of the Valley instead of ricin. By that point, Gus would already be dead. Which is exactly how it turned out. 

This all might sound confusing to you. But not to me, a professional recapper. (I drink).

So here’s where we are now: Jesse is operating under the notion that this was all a big misunderstanding. Brock ingested Lily of the Valley by accident. Sure, he might have helped Walt kill Gus, but that was probably for the best. Now he and Walt have to move forward…but whatever happened to the missing ricin cigarette in the first place? Jesse figures he must have lost it. Which wouldn’t be a big deal if not for the fact that there’s now a cigarette filled with slow-acting deadly poison out there somewhere.

And right now, on the phone, he’s asking Walt to help him retrace his steps and find it before some dumbass finds it and smokes it. Where’s the damn ricin?

Walt tries to reassure Jesse. He tells Jesse that Jesse probably left it in the superlab, meaning the ricin is burned up, but Jesse won’t accept that. Jesse won’t rest until he knows where the ricin is. As we hear Walt and Jesse’s phone conversation, Walt looks at the ricin cigarette on his coffee table.

Walt decides he has to sneak the ricin cigarette back into Jesse’s house somehow, so Jesse will find it and be satisfied. He even volunteers to “help” Jesse look around. But rather than just return the ricin itself, Walt decides to make it EVEN MORE COMPLICATED and smuggle a cigarette full of table salt back into Jesse’s place instead. As for the ricin, Walt unscrews an electrical outlet cover (electricity again!) and hides it inside. If you’ve got a vial of deadly poison, who knows? Might come in handy.

JESSE’S HOUSE

Then Walt goes over to Jesse’s place to help him “look” for the missing ricin, but presumably to plant the cigarette-plus-salt back into the house somewhere when Jesse isn’t looking and finally tie off this goddamn loose end.

So we get a long montage of Walt and Jesse turning the house upside down to find the ricin cigarette. Even Jesse’s Roomba robot has joined the search. But they don’t find anything. Walt and Jesse sit on the couch, exhausted.

Hang on a second. The Roomba comes around the corner. Walt asks Jesse what the hell it is, like he’s never heard of one before. No. Walt couldn’t be using the ROOMBA for his nefarious deeds? Can he? OH YES HE CAN!

This robot has to be violating at least one of the Asimov directives, doesn’t it?

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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

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    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.

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    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.

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    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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