Breaking Bad Recap: Everybody Roomba!

Recaps

By Saint Clare of Assisi | Tuesday, July 24, 2012 | 8:09 pm | 7 Comments
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Mike tells her to calm down, take off her sunglasses, not worry about being spotted here, and finally, to tell him why she wanted this meeting. Now we’re down to business. She wants to know who killed Gus. Mike tells her to forget about it.  

We learn her name is Lydia. She’s somehow connected to Mike and to Gus. We don’t know how just yet. She’s brought a list of eleven names, all employees of Gus and Mike’s, who could potentially be swept up in an investigation and who could tell the cops about her. (One of them, “Mr. Chow”, is the guy in that small chemical storage facility that Mike shot in the hand for withholding some of the illicit shipments to Gus’s empire. You remember, the time when Mike used the balloons from his granddaughter to disable their power lines). She wants Mike’s “input”.

Mike surmises she wants him to kill these eleven guys. All eleven of them. Which is even more preposterous, he tells her, because all eleven of them are HIS employees. They were part of Gus’s syndicate, but MIKE vetted each of them and he knows they won’t talk to the cops. They’re even compensated for an event like the meth empire suddenly going belly up.

It all boils down to this: Lydia’s not from the criminal world. She’s letting her imagination run wild. Mike tells her, basically, to calm the hell down. But this won’t be the last we hear from Lydia.

WALT AND SKYLER’S HOUSE

Walt and Junior are having breakfast. Skyler is noticeably absent and Walt is bothered. He goes back to the bedroom and finds her still in bed. She’s not feeling up to work today. Basically, she’s depressed.

Walt urges her to get out of bed, gently but firmly. She finally staggers to her feet.

THE DEA

Mike enters the DEA lobby. On the way inside, he runs into the aforementioned Mr. Chow on his way out, with a lawyer. Apparently Chow has just been interrogated, just like Mike told Lydia he would be. It looks like Chow stood up to the heat, and now it’s Mike’s turn to do the same.

DEA INTERROGATION ROOM

Hank and Gus sit down with Mike for a confab. This is the first scene they’ve had together as far as I can remember.

I’ve been hoping these two would have a man-date forever now. Maybe they’ll be friends.

If you’re like me and you’ve been yearning to learn more about who Mike is, this scene is for you.

Mike waives his right to an attorney, so they get right down to the interrogation. The go over Mike’s job—he’s the head of corporate security for Los Pollos Hermanos. He does background checks and handles loss prevention. That’s his cover story, anyway. They also know he’s a private detective with a license to operate in New Mexico and other states, and a license to carry a concealed weapon in most states period.

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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.

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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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