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’S DAUGHTER’S HOUSE

Mike is babysitting his granddaughter, the aforementioned Kalee. They’re playing Hungry Hungry Hippos! It’s freaking adorable.

Hmm…cartoon characters competing over a limited number of resources. Is this a metaphor? Or was it the only board game the production staff had on hand?

Mike gets a phone call. It’s Chow. His methylamine supplier is frantic. The DEA is calling him back in for another interrogation. Worse, they’ve taken his money. He needs to talk with Mike face to face. Mike agrees to come by in about two hours, looking annoyed to have to abandon his grandchild.

He hangs up. So does Chow. Only, over at Chow’s house, there’s also a gunman holding a silenced pistol to Chow’s head. Uh-oh, Mike…

CHOW’S HOUSE

Mike pulls up in his car outside Chow’s house, gets out, and walks up to the front door. It doesn’t look like he’s aware he’s walking into a trap.

Inside, the gunman sees Mike coming up the front walk. He puts his gun directly against the peephole and gets ready to wax Mike.

But he hears a strange thumping sound. He looks through the peep hole and sees some pink object thumping against the door. Outside, Mike has left a pink stuffed animal suspended from a motorized rotor.  Mike, you ol’ devil.

Behind the gunman, Mike raises his gun, also silenced. He knows the gunman. The guy’s name is Chris. This is apparently one of the people on Lydia’s list. Mike sounds pained, like he’s been let down. He tells Chris to sit down on the couch next to Chow, who we now see has been shot. Mike surmises what’s up. When he turned down Lydia’s offer, she went to the next guy on the list, Chris, and made him the offer instead. Chris tells Mike that Lydia is offering 10 grand a head to eliminate all potential witnesses who could rat her out. So far Chris has only knocked off Chow. But for Mike, the price was actually $30 G’s.

Chris apologizes. He did it because he needed the money because the Feds took all of his—probably he was on Hank and Gomez’s shit list. Mike is understanding, but he still has to kill Chris. He shoots him through the head.

Mike leans forward, looking glum. He’s killed people before, yeah, but this is different. His carefully built roster of reliable henchmen is falling apart under the pressure. Poor guy. And surely there’s more killing to be done.

ACT FOUR

LYDIA’S HOUSE

The following scenario is an utter mess.

A little girl is showing her nanny her doll. This is Lydia’s daughter. Both of them are innocents. And hiding in the shadows in the house, with black assassin’s gloves and a silenced gun, is Mike.

Lydia returns home and dotes on her daughter. As she walks back to the bedroom, Mike grabs her. Somehow, she manages to call out, telling the nanny she can go home and telling her daughter to go to bed. Mike takes Lydia to the bedroom to finish this.

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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.

  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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