Breaking Bad Recap: Everybody Roomba!

Recaps

By Saint Clare of Assisi | Tuesday, July 24, 2012 | 8:09 pm | 7 Comments
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Walt just smiles. Tells Mike to think about it.

THE DEA

Meanwhile, there’s another meeting going on, this one at the DEA. Hank limps into the office and is met by Gomez. They banter a little about Hank’s impressive recovery. Two episodes ago Hank was basically immobile. Last week he was getting around on a cane and climbing down ladders into the superlab. Now he’s moving around without a cane. Pretty badass.

Today the CEO of Madrigal and a whole bunch of his lackeys have come to Albuquerque to sort things out. In the wake of Schuler’s suicide it’s become clear at Madrigal that he was involved with some serious wrongdoing. Now the CEO wants to know the extent of it, and he’s come to help the APD and the DEA get to the bottom of it so he can do just that.

MERKERT’S OFFICE

After the meeting with Madrigal, Hank and Gomez sit down with George Merkert, the guy who runs the Albuquerque DEA office. Merkert pours Hank a drink and congratulates him on the Gus investigation, but congratulations come with a heavy heart. Apparently Merkert is “retiring”. Or more accurately, he’s being forced out. This is because he didn’t failed to catch Gus himself, and because he didn’t listen to Hank when he had the chance. Someone else is gonna take over for Merkert, depriving us of his soothing basso profundo vocals.

With that out of the way, they discuss the latest on the unraveling of Gus’s meth empire. We learn that Gus’s laptop was indeed destroyed in the scheme Walt, Jesse, and Mike pulled off last week at the APD station, but that the laptop was encrypted anyway, so Hank doesn’t think they would have pulled anything off it.

As far as the cops know, Hector Salamanca is the one who killed Gus, but they have no idea who supplied the bomb. Probably a dead end as far as they’re concerned. Gomez brings up the Cayman bank account info found last week…but they haven’t learned anything new yet.

But Merkert isn’t really interested in the small stuff right now. He’s on his way out, and even more than that, he’s agonizing over not catching Gus. He and Gus used to be friends, actually. He even had Gus to dinner on the 4th of July one time! And now he knows Gus was living a lie.

Makes you wonder how it’s going to affect Hank when he finds out the truth about Walt, don’t it?

ACT TWO

A DINER

Mike is sitting in a diner somewhere reading a paper, but clearly waiting for a meeting with someone. Sure enough, a sharp, well-dressed woman in sunglasses comes through the door and takes the booth directly behind his. She is clearly out of place. She wants chamomile tea with soy milk from the waitress, but the waitress only has Lipton. This is a greasy spoon, after all. Mike listens on with disgust.

The waitress leaves, and Mike speaks up. She tells him to come over to her booth, and he does. When the waitress returns, the woman tries to explain why she and Mike are suddenly sitting together, and says he’s her old friend Dwayne…but Mike is a regular here and the waitress knows it’s a lie. Clearly Mike uses this place all the time for his illicit dealings and the waitress is hip to it. And clearly the well-dressed woman is no good at spycraft.

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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.

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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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