"He really did a number on you, didn't he?"- Hank Schrader
After the slam shut ending of last week, we open with...Todd, smoking a cigarette outside a diner and leaving a message for Walter about the recent "change in management." Just after, he regales Uncle Jack and his minion, whom I know as Devil on Justified, but we apparently we know as Kenny, with the tale of the Great Methylamine Train Heist, and how he and Jesse barely escaped with their lives and their haul. I'm not sure what upsets me more, the fact that Todd conveniently leaves out the bit about shooting Drew Sharp, or that I'm not sure Jack and Kenny would care all that much. After shiftily eyeing the waitress and asking for the check, Jack and Kenny head into the bathroom and have a quick discussion about America's degradation into a "nanny state." Very socially conscious of Neo-Nazis, in all honestly. While washing, Jack notices some blood on his boot. He cleans it, they leave, and soon after cross the border into the Land of Opportunity.
After that, we get right back to the interrogation room, this time from Jesse's perspective. The door clacks shut. Hank turns off the camera, and tells Jesse that he wants to ask him about his partner, whom he now knows is Walt. Jesse's eyes light up, the first sign of life we've seen from him all season. Hank offers to make all Jesse's problems go away if he tells him everything he knows, correctly guessing that, given Jesse's recent activities, things aren't exactly smooth between Jesse and Heisenberg. Jesse sneers, and asks Hank why he doesn't just beat the information out him. Hank is unfazed, and begins to tries to reach Jesse, telling him how Walt's ruined both their lives, and how he knows Jesse wants to see Walt pay. That he wants to talk. "Not to you," Jesse whispers, and in busts the Saul Goodman-shaped cavalry.
At the White Estate, Walt fields a call from Saul while Walt Jr arrives. As Walt retreats into the bathroom in an attempt to apply makeup to his black eye, Junior tells him that Aunt Marie asked for his help with "some computer thing." Panicking that she's trying to take another of his children, Walt leaps into action, and confesses something to his son. That the wound on his face is from briefly passing out, and that's he back in treatment (although his doctor says that he's "doing great"). After requesting that everyone stays positive, he tells his son to go help his aunt and that they'll talk about it later. Junior flatly denies, saying that he's staying, and little smile crosses Walt's face as he grabs his son's hand. Hank and Marie might be against him, Skyler might be afraid of him, and Jesse might despise him, but at least Flynn's left under his sway. At least someone else still follows the Church of Heisenberg.
After a quick scene where Hank, drink in hand, tells Marie that he didn't bring his case to the DEA and that he's chasing down some leads, we cut to Walt, drink in hand, sitting down on his bed and responding to Skyler asking if he's "sure he wants to do this" by saying it's the only way. Cue a camera shift to reveal: a video camera set up on a tripod, which, after Skyler starts recording, Walt again speaks the first words he ever uttered on the show. "My name is Walter Hartwell White. I live at 308 Negra Arroyo Lane."
After the break, we pick up with Walt and Skyler in the blandest, most Middle American outfits they have, at a (very) tacky Mexican restaurant. Hank and Marie sidle in, each sitting across from their declared foe in the clandestine war launched when Hank found Leaves of Grass. "So you here to confess?" Hank grumbles, staring daggers into Walt, who rolls his eyes and says that there's nothing to confess. They're here to talk about the children, whom they want left out of this. "Hearing these things. You realize what it's going to do to him?" Walt muses, trying to an uncle's love for his nephew into precious time. "He's going to hear it when I kick in your front door and arrest you,*" Hank snarls. Walt recoils, and restates that Hank has no evidence. Poor Trent, their server, steps in and tries pushing guacamole, before wisely backing off upon seeing the general mood. The battle then shifts to Marie vs. Skyler, who insists that the children are safe. "You're the one who sent them out of the house" Marie cries. "And I brought them back," Skyler declares. She tries to nail home the fact that whatever might have happened is in the past. After Walter asks what it will take for them to believe him, Marie simply, almost matter of factly states that he should kill himself. Skyler states that that isn't a solution, and Hank agrees. "You're not gonna negotiate you way out of this thing," he barks, asking Walter to be a man and "step up." Walt sighs, shares a look with Skyler, gets out of his chair, grabs his coat, and slides a CD across the table to Hank. His confession.
*Someone kicking down the White's front door pays off a lot quicker than I expected it to*
We pick up in the Schrader's living room, where Hank and Marie stand, listening to Walter state that if they're watching this tape, then he's probably dead. "Murdered, by my brother in law Hank Schrader,
who according to Walt, has been building a Meth empire for the better part of a year. Walt then relates the major beats of his story, adding Hank in where it would incriminate him most, including his partnership with businessman Gustavo Fring, with whom Hank sold Walt into servitude, and with whom Hank had an eventual falling out that resulted in Hank being shot and Gus having half his face blown off. Walt admits that Hank gave him no option, and that he often contemplated suicide. On the verge of breaking down into tears, Walt relates that Hank put him in hell, and that he hopes the contents of this tape will help show the world how much of a monster Hank has become. What's most insidious about the confession is that so much of it is the truth. Hank took Walt on a ride along. Walt did pay Hank's medical bills. Walt did build the bomb that killed Gus Fring. Hank did punch Walt in the face. It's as masterful as it is horrible. The ultimate trump card. The video ends, and Marie asks who else Walt has shown it to. "No one, it's a threat," Hank correctly surmises, and after she demands that he show it to Ramey to "get ahead of it," he wonders what Walt is talking about with the medical bills, and Marie almost immediately shrinks into a chair and tries to hide. "They told me it was gambling money," she says, and Hank launches into the best "Jesus Christ Marie" of the entire series, wondering why he wasn't told, and why his insurance couldn't have paid. She replies that with the care their insurance was providing, he might not ever have been able to walk again. Hank, too, shrinks down. "You killed me," he says. That's it for him. There's no way he can prosecute Walt and not incriminate himself now, too. Marie asks him what they're going to do, and he doesn't answer.
After the break, we're treated to Jesse and Saul sitting next to Saul's car in the middle of the desert, waiting to meet someone. Saul bailed Jesse out with the money Walt left him, and sure enough, it's Walt they're waiting to meet. Walt meticulously checks Saul's car for bugs, and then asks Jesse what, if anything, Hank knows. Jesse states that he knows about Heisenberg, but not much else, and that he probably hasn't told any at the DEA. Saul chimes in and asks what they're going to do about Jesse's little breakdown, and Walt tells him to take a walk. Turning his attention to Jesse, he tells him that perhaps it's time for a change, and that Saul knows a guy who can make him disappear into a new life. "I really think that would be good for you. Clean slate," and the more he drones on, the more we realize that this is less about helping Jesse out of his rut and more about getting him out of the way. After he presents his case, Jesse slowly walks away and asks that Walt for once stop jerking him around. "Just drop the whole concerned dad thing, and tell me the truth." During last year's episodes, we saw Jesse start to realize just how Walt manipulates him. He started to see the strings. Now, he sees the fingers that operate them. "Just ask me for a favor," he cries. "Just tell me that you don't give a shit about me and that it's either this, or you kill me the same way you killed Mike." Walt is taken aback, seemingly dumbstruck that his old paternal bond with Jesse isn't enough to keep him wrapped around Heisenberg's little finger. Slowly, almost menacingly, he starts walking up to Jesse, before wrapping him in a hug that Jesse eventually collapses into. What's saddest about the abusive relationship they have (and it is, for all intents and purposes, just that) isn't that Jesse keeps coming back; it's that Walt does obviously care for him, at least a little. If that weren't true, then Walt would have buried him in that desert.
Back at the carwash, Walt, framed in a shadowy doorway like a monster of fable, asks Skyler to take over for him at the register while he goes to his chemo. When she doesn't respond, he steps forward, into the light, even more terrifying. "It worked," he says. "We're fine." All shall be sheltered under the watchful eye of Heisenberg and be saved. Back at the DEA, Hank is flipping through his daily papers when Gomez steps in and asks why two of his guys are sitting on Saul Goodman's place, waiting for Jesse Pinkman, who would be liable to sue if he knew the DEA was on him again. Hank acquiesces, and soon after leaves to "take a walk." In Saul's office, Jesse's criminal lawyer asks him if he's ready to make his escape, and calls up the vacuum repair man to make a pickup. Jesse lights up, to which Saul objects, as the guy apparently won't make the pickup if he's high. He demands the dope, which Jesse of course pockets. Saul leaves to get some "money sized bags" from Francesca, and returns, flanked by Huell, who's going to drop Jesse off at the spot. He hands Jesse one of his burner phones (the Hello Kitty one, of course) and gives Huell the directions, and tells Jesse not to move when he's at the drop off. Jesse asks if he gets a say in where he gets to go, and Saul suggests Florida. Jesse asks about Alaska, which seems to be about as far away from Heisenberg as the moon. They shake hands and Jesse goes to leave, bumping into Huell in the doorway on the way out.
Jesse stands at the drop off point, in front of what, from this angle, appear to be tombstones. Bored, he reaches into his pocket for his weed. He can't find it. Starting to panic, he reaches into another pocket, pulling out only a crumpled pack of cigarettes. Slowly, he starts to realize. Huell picked him clean, on Saul's orders. The more damaging realization is that this isn't the first time this has happened. His intial suspicion, at the end of Season 4, was correct. Huell swiped his ricin cigaratte. The Disappearing Man's van pulls up. Jesse stares in disbelief. He has a choice to make. He can walk away. He can be done with this, forever. He stares down at his pack of cigarettes, and starts shaking. He grabs his money and walks away. The van pulls away. When this episode started, Jesse was all but dead. Catatonic, with the world speeding and spinning in front of his eyes. Now, he's awake. And he is PISSED. Unlike the field of tombstones behind him, Jesse Pinkman will not stay buried.
After the break (which I really though was the end), we head back to Saul's office. Jesse, the Avenging Angel, bursts in, running past Huell and locking the door. When Saul gets up to greet him, worried that the guy was a no-show, Jesse clocks him, and when Saul tries to get a piece from his desk, Jesse takes it. As Huell bursts in, Jesse levels a gun at them both in succession, demanding that Saul tell him about Huell's thievery. Confused, Saul admits that he had him take Jesse's pot, but that's not what he means. Saul admits it, but states that that he didn't know what Walt had planned (which is essentially true, as we saw in the "we're done when I say we're done" scene from last summer's premiere). "I didn't want any of this" Saul shrieks, and Jesse gives pause. Taking Saul's car keys, he leaves, and Saul, sure as rain, immediately calls Walt.
Back at the carwash, Skyler flubs and gives a customer a $5 instead of a $1. He calls her on it, strangely, and she switches the bills (as an aside, I wonder if this Skyler's attempts to launder some of the unlaunderable money Walt accrued). In the background, Walt's car screeches to a stop, he gets out, and pauses for a moment to collect himself before casually walking in. Stopping to make smalltalk, he looks much older than he did the last time we saw him. His black eye looks sunken and the lines on his forehead look like gashes. Jesse's revolt has taken him from the all-powerful Heisenberg and thrown him back into the guise of the panicky, shell-shocked Walter White of the past. Just like that Walter White, he's not going to tell Skyler anything. Coming up with an excuse to fiddle with the Coke machine, Walt reaches in and retrieves a pistol, frozen over with ice and hidden away for emergencies. Making up another excuse, he leaves. The Heisenberg we saw in this episode is a masterful, calculating liar. The Walter White we see now is awful. Luckily for him, Skyler doesn't seem to notice.
During last year's excellent "51," Skyler told Walt that she wanted the kids out of the house because there might come a time when a man knocks on their door looking to hurt him or the kids. That time is now, and that man is Jesse Pinkman, burdened with glorious purpose and aflame with righteous fury. Screeching into the White's driveway, he opens Sauls' trunk and pulls out a gas tank (that I assume he bought on the way. Not like he's short on money). He kicks down Walt's door and starts spraying the gasoline all over the living room, and eventually all over the camera. Now, we know from the Mr. Lambert flashforwards that Jesse probably doesn't go through with burning down the entire house, but that doesn't really matter, in the moment. What matters is that after five seasons, we finally come to the point where Jesse cannot be convinced, or swayed away from killing Walt. There just ain't enough room in this town the both of them, anymore.
Monday, August 26, 2013
Monday, August 19, 2013
Respect the Chemistry: A Breaking Bad Recap, Episode 56- Buried
"Please don't let me have done all this for nothing."- Walter White
It seems as though whenever this show has a one word title, they do everything in their power to hammer home how every character on the show fits into that title. Sometimes, it's too on the nose. Sometimes, it's so subtle that making the connections feels like a sort of conspiracy theory, trying too hard to make thematic resonance where there is none.
Tonight, we have another of these episodes, one with maybe the most apt and chilling one word title yet: Buried.
Jesse is buried. Our cold open begins with an unknown man, presumably leaving for work in the wee hours of the morning, coming across one of Jesse's discarded wads-o-cash. Then he comes across a few more. Then a few more, until finally, he comes across Jesse's car, abandoned in a park. Then he sees Jesse himself, idly spinning himself on a roundabout. The camera tracks him as he stares blankly into the sky. He is, for lack of a better term, the walking dead. Buried.
Walt is buried. After the credits, he walks out of Hank's garage and, after turning around to have a good old fashioned stand-off, gets in his car and immediately calls Skyler. After being told that she's already taking a call and will not be disturbed. As Walt demands to be heard, Hank's garage door re-opens, and ASAC Schrader struts out, holding his cell phone. Walt asks Mariano (apparently someone who works at the car wash) who, exactly, Skyler is on the phone with, before hanging up and peeling out. When he gets to the car wash, he is told that Skyler has already left, without saying where she was going. His wife might be about to turn on him. Walt is done. Buried.
Skyler is buried. Walking into a diner to meet with Hank, she is greeted with an awkward hug. Hank's never really been able to...connect with Skyler, so when he starts things off by explaining how "everything makes sense now" and that she is "done being his victim," she asks if Marie knows, only to be rebuffed by Hank, her self-appointed savior. Then, he pulls out a tape recorder, and asks her to go on the record. Hank tells her that he has to get something concrete before Walt "runs out the clock." When Skyler asks what he means, he tells her that Walt offhandedly mentioned his cancer's return. After this, Skyler shuts down and asks if she should get a lawyer. On one hand, she's trying to protect herself from Hank finding out about the things she's done. On the other, she sees a potential escape vector, perhaps a way to get away. So she turns the tables on Hank and his good cop routine, asking him if she's under arrest, which before long evolves into Skyler screaming and panicking, a long time Skyler White fall back plan in periods of crisis. It has yet to fail her. Hank is desperate, and he overplayed his hand. He doesn't have anything. Skyler has everything, but she doesn't know what to do with it. Buried.
Saul is buried. After the break, we're treated to Huell and Kuby at the storage facility, uncovering Mount Money and almost immediately "channeling Scrooge McDuck," (maybe the best pop culture reference this show has ever had). Huell suggests Mexico, Kuby suggests Heisenberg having ten men killed in a two minute window. We cut to Walt and Saul in the latter's office, commiserating over what to do with Skyler's perceived turn. Saul suggests that she doesn't have any real evidence outside of the money, which is being taken care of. Saul suggests, in the most Saul way possible, that maybe they should give some thought to "sending Hank on a trip to Belize," where Mike went to. Walt flatly refuses, stating that Hank is family, and family is off limits. Huell and Kuby show up, with Walt's money in plastic barrels in the back of a van. Walt inspects his haul, fills a tote for Saul and his men, and tells him to find Jesse. We don't get much out of Saul, here, but what we do get is the portrait of a man who always has a way out slowly realizing that his way out was buried with Gus Fring.
Marie is buried. At the White residence, Skyler is trying to get in contact with either Saul or Walt, when Marie shows up and demands to come in. Skyler lets her, and Marie asks if what Hank says is true. She wants to know when, exactly, Skyler knew, and the farther back she goes without a reaction, the more their sisterly bond is destroyed. Marie finally asks is Skyler since "before Hank was shot," and Skyler apologizes. Marie slaps her, and what was once a heartbreaking slow burn of a scene erupts, as Marie accuses her sister of trying to ensure Walt gets away with it, storms out, and grabs baby Holly in the ultimate payoff to the old "Marie is a kleptomaniac" storyline from seasons past. Marie pounds on the window, and Hank runs into the middle of an out and out shouting match between the sisters, with poor baby Holly screaming in the middle. Eventually, Hank gets his wife to stop and return the child, and as they go to leave, Marie tells her husband that he "has to get him," meaning Walt. This is all too much for Marie to take (her status as the most in the dark character on the show now surreptitiously passed to Walt Jr), and it is burying her.
Heisenberg is buried. Walt spends what appears to be the rest of the day painstakingly digging a hole big enough for a half dozen barrels, shoving them in, covering them up and memorizing the coordinates (in a manner oddly similar to how the man in the cold open peered at the money he'd found: with the headlight of his vehicle), before destroying his GPS tracker, buying a lottery ticket with the numbers, heading home, and collapsing in the bathroom as Skyler questions what happened. One of the biggest potential pieces of evidence against him is now, well, buried. He wakes up the next morning, Skyler babying him on the bathroom floor, and his wife asks him if the cancer really has come back. "Does that make you happy?" he asks, and Skyler responds that she can't remember the last time she was happy. He tells her that he knows she made a deal, and that he'll give himself up if she promises to keep the money and leave it to their kids. She asks how this happened, how Hank found out, and Walt admits that he "screwed up." Skyler, seemingly emboldened by this, tells her husband that all Hank has is his suspicions, and that if Walt gives himself up, no one will get the money. She finishes by saying that perhaps their best move is to keep quiet. To bury it.
Lydia is buried. After being driven, blindfolded, to a meet with Declan at some sort of junkyard, she demands to inspect his meth cook. He signals for his men to move a beat up truck, revealing the meth lab he had buried. Lydia scoffs at the shoddiness of his operation, which looks like a nastier version of Walt and Jesse's Crystal Ship. Declan scoffs right back, saying that the Heisenberg standard doesn't matter anymore, and Lydia argues that while quality might not matter his customers, it matters to her Czech buyer. Declan says that without Heisenberg, there's nothing he can do, and Lydia retorts that they still have Todd, whose experience cooking with the master himself led to a slightly higher quality than what Declan's guy is currently pumping out. Declan flatly states that he doesn't trust Todd, and as one of his guys yells down from above that they've got a problem, Lydia mutters that she wishes that he'd given Todd a chance, and surreptitiously sends a text message. Gunfires erupts from above, and casing start raining down through into where Lydia is buried. Seconds later, Todd calls down and tells her it's over. After climbing back up, Lydia admits that she doesn't want to see her handiwork, and Todd helps her away while she clasps a hand over her eyes, while his uncle Jack and his goons execute Declan and begin raiding the cook site. Lydia is dangerous, just as Mike told us last season, and while her twitchy refusal to look after she's ordered the murder of a dozen men is amusing, but it's also a sign that while she's ahead of the game now, she still doesn't know exactly what she's doing. She's like Walt in the early seasons, except instead of Tuco Salamanca and Krazy-8, she's got a sociopath in Todd to deal with. She's clever, but not nearly as clever as she thinks she is, and that's probably going to end up getting her buried for good.
Hank is buried. Going through the evidence he has in his kitchen, Marie staggers out and says that he has to go back into work and tell the DEA his suspicions. He refuses, at first seemingly out of pride, and then out of fear. "The day I go in with this is the last day of my career," he admits. He's not going in until he has proof, he says. "At least I can be the man that caught him." Marie almost immediately retorts that if he waits, and someone else catches Walt, they'll find out that he knew and didn't say anything. Cut to the office, and Hank's slithering, avoidant return to work (complete with Epic Mustache Guy Who is Obviously Going to be the One to Catch EVERYONE). Hank's ruminations are broken up by Gomez, who welcomes him back and tells him that they have a budget meeting in an hour. Hank asks for that meeting to be rescheduled, and for Ramey (his boss) to be brought in on a conference call. We know where this is going, but before it gets there, Gomez asks if Hank has heard about the "money thing" with his old pal Jesse Pinkman. Hank's interest is piqued, and we cut to Jesse being interrogated by our old FBI friends about why he was chucking millions of dollars around the streets like Robin Hood. Jesse, essentially catatonic at this point, doesn't see Hank sidle into view behind him. Hank gestures for the agents to come out, and asks them if he can jump in with Jesse for a couple minutes. They agree, and Hank walks in. The door closes, and the episode is done. Buried.
It seems as though whenever this show has a one word title, they do everything in their power to hammer home how every character on the show fits into that title. Sometimes, it's too on the nose. Sometimes, it's so subtle that making the connections feels like a sort of conspiracy theory, trying too hard to make thematic resonance where there is none.
Tonight, we have another of these episodes, one with maybe the most apt and chilling one word title yet: Buried.
Jesse is buried. Our cold open begins with an unknown man, presumably leaving for work in the wee hours of the morning, coming across one of Jesse's discarded wads-o-cash. Then he comes across a few more. Then a few more, until finally, he comes across Jesse's car, abandoned in a park. Then he sees Jesse himself, idly spinning himself on a roundabout. The camera tracks him as he stares blankly into the sky. He is, for lack of a better term, the walking dead. Buried.
Walt is buried. After the credits, he walks out of Hank's garage and, after turning around to have a good old fashioned stand-off, gets in his car and immediately calls Skyler. After being told that she's already taking a call and will not be disturbed. As Walt demands to be heard, Hank's garage door re-opens, and ASAC Schrader struts out, holding his cell phone. Walt asks Mariano (apparently someone who works at the car wash) who, exactly, Skyler is on the phone with, before hanging up and peeling out. When he gets to the car wash, he is told that Skyler has already left, without saying where she was going. His wife might be about to turn on him. Walt is done. Buried.
Skyler is buried. Walking into a diner to meet with Hank, she is greeted with an awkward hug. Hank's never really been able to...connect with Skyler, so when he starts things off by explaining how "everything makes sense now" and that she is "done being his victim," she asks if Marie knows, only to be rebuffed by Hank, her self-appointed savior. Then, he pulls out a tape recorder, and asks her to go on the record. Hank tells her that he has to get something concrete before Walt "runs out the clock." When Skyler asks what he means, he tells her that Walt offhandedly mentioned his cancer's return. After this, Skyler shuts down and asks if she should get a lawyer. On one hand, she's trying to protect herself from Hank finding out about the things she's done. On the other, she sees a potential escape vector, perhaps a way to get away. So she turns the tables on Hank and his good cop routine, asking him if she's under arrest, which before long evolves into Skyler screaming and panicking, a long time Skyler White fall back plan in periods of crisis. It has yet to fail her. Hank is desperate, and he overplayed his hand. He doesn't have anything. Skyler has everything, but she doesn't know what to do with it. Buried.
Saul is buried. After the break, we're treated to Huell and Kuby at the storage facility, uncovering Mount Money and almost immediately "channeling Scrooge McDuck," (maybe the best pop culture reference this show has ever had). Huell suggests Mexico, Kuby suggests Heisenberg having ten men killed in a two minute window. We cut to Walt and Saul in the latter's office, commiserating over what to do with Skyler's perceived turn. Saul suggests that she doesn't have any real evidence outside of the money, which is being taken care of. Saul suggests, in the most Saul way possible, that maybe they should give some thought to "sending Hank on a trip to Belize," where Mike went to. Walt flatly refuses, stating that Hank is family, and family is off limits. Huell and Kuby show up, with Walt's money in plastic barrels in the back of a van. Walt inspects his haul, fills a tote for Saul and his men, and tells him to find Jesse. We don't get much out of Saul, here, but what we do get is the portrait of a man who always has a way out slowly realizing that his way out was buried with Gus Fring.
Marie is buried. At the White residence, Skyler is trying to get in contact with either Saul or Walt, when Marie shows up and demands to come in. Skyler lets her, and Marie asks if what Hank says is true. She wants to know when, exactly, Skyler knew, and the farther back she goes without a reaction, the more their sisterly bond is destroyed. Marie finally asks is Skyler since "before Hank was shot," and Skyler apologizes. Marie slaps her, and what was once a heartbreaking slow burn of a scene erupts, as Marie accuses her sister of trying to ensure Walt gets away with it, storms out, and grabs baby Holly in the ultimate payoff to the old "Marie is a kleptomaniac" storyline from seasons past. Marie pounds on the window, and Hank runs into the middle of an out and out shouting match between the sisters, with poor baby Holly screaming in the middle. Eventually, Hank gets his wife to stop and return the child, and as they go to leave, Marie tells her husband that he "has to get him," meaning Walt. This is all too much for Marie to take (her status as the most in the dark character on the show now surreptitiously passed to Walt Jr), and it is burying her.
Heisenberg is buried. Walt spends what appears to be the rest of the day painstakingly digging a hole big enough for a half dozen barrels, shoving them in, covering them up and memorizing the coordinates (in a manner oddly similar to how the man in the cold open peered at the money he'd found: with the headlight of his vehicle), before destroying his GPS tracker, buying a lottery ticket with the numbers, heading home, and collapsing in the bathroom as Skyler questions what happened. One of the biggest potential pieces of evidence against him is now, well, buried. He wakes up the next morning, Skyler babying him on the bathroom floor, and his wife asks him if the cancer really has come back. "Does that make you happy?" he asks, and Skyler responds that she can't remember the last time she was happy. He tells her that he knows she made a deal, and that he'll give himself up if she promises to keep the money and leave it to their kids. She asks how this happened, how Hank found out, and Walt admits that he "screwed up." Skyler, seemingly emboldened by this, tells her husband that all Hank has is his suspicions, and that if Walt gives himself up, no one will get the money. She finishes by saying that perhaps their best move is to keep quiet. To bury it.
Lydia is buried. After being driven, blindfolded, to a meet with Declan at some sort of junkyard, she demands to inspect his meth cook. He signals for his men to move a beat up truck, revealing the meth lab he had buried. Lydia scoffs at the shoddiness of his operation, which looks like a nastier version of Walt and Jesse's Crystal Ship. Declan scoffs right back, saying that the Heisenberg standard doesn't matter anymore, and Lydia argues that while quality might not matter his customers, it matters to her Czech buyer. Declan says that without Heisenberg, there's nothing he can do, and Lydia retorts that they still have Todd, whose experience cooking with the master himself led to a slightly higher quality than what Declan's guy is currently pumping out. Declan flatly states that he doesn't trust Todd, and as one of his guys yells down from above that they've got a problem, Lydia mutters that she wishes that he'd given Todd a chance, and surreptitiously sends a text message. Gunfires erupts from above, and casing start raining down through into where Lydia is buried. Seconds later, Todd calls down and tells her it's over. After climbing back up, Lydia admits that she doesn't want to see her handiwork, and Todd helps her away while she clasps a hand over her eyes, while his uncle Jack and his goons execute Declan and begin raiding the cook site. Lydia is dangerous, just as Mike told us last season, and while her twitchy refusal to look after she's ordered the murder of a dozen men is amusing, but it's also a sign that while she's ahead of the game now, she still doesn't know exactly what she's doing. She's like Walt in the early seasons, except instead of Tuco Salamanca and Krazy-8, she's got a sociopath in Todd to deal with. She's clever, but not nearly as clever as she thinks she is, and that's probably going to end up getting her buried for good.
Hank is buried. Going through the evidence he has in his kitchen, Marie staggers out and says that he has to go back into work and tell the DEA his suspicions. He refuses, at first seemingly out of pride, and then out of fear. "The day I go in with this is the last day of my career," he admits. He's not going in until he has proof, he says. "At least I can be the man that caught him." Marie almost immediately retorts that if he waits, and someone else catches Walt, they'll find out that he knew and didn't say anything. Cut to the office, and Hank's slithering, avoidant return to work (complete with Epic Mustache Guy Who is Obviously Going to be the One to Catch EVERYONE). Hank's ruminations are broken up by Gomez, who welcomes him back and tells him that they have a budget meeting in an hour. Hank asks for that meeting to be rescheduled, and for Ramey (his boss) to be brought in on a conference call. We know where this is going, but before it gets there, Gomez asks if Hank has heard about the "money thing" with his old pal Jesse Pinkman. Hank's interest is piqued, and we cut to Jesse being interrogated by our old FBI friends about why he was chucking millions of dollars around the streets like Robin Hood. Jesse, essentially catatonic at this point, doesn't see Hank sidle into view behind him. Hank gestures for the agents to come out, and asks them if he can jump in with Jesse for a couple minutes. They agree, and Hank walks in. The door closes, and the episode is done. Buried.
Sunday, August 11, 2013
Respect the Chemistry: A Breaking Bad Recap, Episode 55- Blood Money
Since Digital Refrain apparently no longer exists (pour one out), I'm continuing my BrBa recaps on my personal blog. Previous entries from last summer can be found here.
"What's wrong with Hank?"- Walter White
Another Breaking Bad season premiere, another strange, apocalyptic cold open. This one takes place first in the White's abandoned pool, where a cadre of skaters are shredding some sick lines (the super rad skate video camera angles that looked like they were ripped straight from Lords of Dogtown were a treat). Soon after, Beard Walt arrives, grabs a crowbar, jimmies his way into the fence surrounding the obviously condemned property, stares at the "HEISENBERG" graffiti on his former living room wall, and promptly heads into his old bedroom, removing Chekhov's ricin from it's resting place for purposes currently unknown (although I'd imagine he might use it for poisoning someone). Walt's really gathering what remains of his inventory. Back outside, Walt prepares to leave before he notices his former neighbor, Carol, staring at him as though he's literally Satan. He greets her hello, and she drops that fresh new shipment of oranges she was bringing to Francis Ford Coppola.
After the intro, we return to Walt and Skyler's bedroom, in the halcyon days of Walt's blissful retirement, slowly panning in on the bathroom door that holds Hank. Soon enough, he slowly creeps forth, excuses himself and Marie, and has a panic attack on the drive home, crushing some poor sod's mailbox, but not before carefully stashing Walt's copy of Leaves of Grass in Marie's bag. Upon returning home, Hank immediately sets about comparing the handwriting of Gale's dedication in Leaves of Grass to the samples he has from his case. Sure enough, they're a perfect match. Hank stares at the wall blankly.
Cut to Walt managing the ever-loving shit out of the A1A carwash. He might be retired from meth-making, but he's not retired from his obsessive need to fix. After pitching his idea to buy more carwashes to Skyler in an effort to put more of a dent in the mountain of money they now have in storage, he returns to the counter, only to have Lydia Rodart-Quayle approach him after checking her car in. She asks him to return, "for a few days," bemoaning the poor quality of the "viable operation" he left her. Walt is surprisingly uninterested. His refutation while still maintaining his smiling businessman persona is so Gus Fring that I was almost shocked he didn't tell her to smile and shake his hand. If this show were from Lydia's perspective, Walt might be the most terrifying man in existence. Once she leaves, Skyler inquires why she would be washing a rental car, and Walt, again surprisingly, admits who she is and that she wanted him back. Skyler confronts her and tells her never to come back, and considering that Skyler has what appears to be a four foot height advantage on her, I can't blame Lydia for doing just that. She's not gone, though. Not by a long shot. She said Walt's refusal to come back was putting her in a box, and that he knows what could happen if he does that. Not like she hasn't put a hit out on an uncooperative business partner before.
Back at Shraderbrau International Headquarters, Hank has apparently decided to take some time off work, or at least actually going to work. Some DEA agents drop off what appears to be all of the files on The Fring Case (tm), and Hank gets going on some good old fashioned police work in our first montage of the final episodes. It's fun to note that even surveillance photos of Mike Ehrmantraut are blurry. Even cameras were afraid of him. The man was a pro. One of the best bits of this montage is Hank re-watching the old security tapes from the methylamine heist in Season 1 and seeing the blurry figures slowly crystallize into Jesse and Walt in his mind. Dean Norris is on point in this episode. The other best bit is saved for last, when he holds up the Cousins' old drawing of what is now obviously Walter White.
What we get next is the king and champion of the ongoing "Badger and Skinny Pete argue about pop culture while Jesse Pinkman sinks into an existential hole" series. After discussing the existential crises inherent in a teleporter system (and Pete goes all "The Prestige" on it), Badger launches into his soon to be written script about the original Star Trek, which is too brilliant to be uttered here. Jesse gets up and leaves in the middle, obviously too moved by the brilliance and majesty of Badger's strangely accurate Star Trek knowledge, and pays a visit to Saul Goodman. While being stonewalled in the waiting room, he whips out a doobie and stares laconic daggers at poor Huell until Saul lets him in. Jesse brought his two giant bags o' money, and he wants Saul to give one to Kaylee, Mike's granddaughter, and one to Drew Sharp's parents. Saul scoffs at the sheer lunacy of giving money not only to the parents of a missing child, but to someone who's already had drug money snatched up by the DEA not once, but twice. Nevertheless, Saul agrees to do it, but not before digging through his drawer of phones and giving Walt a call, who says he'll handle it. Cut to the reveal that Walt is receiving treatment again.
Next, we have Walt arriving at Jesse's and carefully, painfully, explaining to Jesse that Mike can take care of his own affairs. Jesse throws Walt's old "Blood Money" quip back at him, which Walt chalks up to "the heat of the moment," again surprisingly admitting that he was wrong in that particular moment. Walt tells Jesse that they both need to stop focusing on the past, revealing to his former partner that he, too, is out of the game. When he asks why Kaylee needs this money, and that Mike is "perfectly capable of looking after his own granddaughter," Jesse reveals that he thinks Mike is dead, since Walt's offing of the remnants of the Fring men in jail would mean Mike is coming for him, and that's not how Walt does business. Jesse states that not only does he think Mike is dead, but that he thinks Walt knows that. Walt practically begs Jesse to believe him, lying directly to his face and pulling out every stop he has in the "Manipulate Jesse Pinkman" playbook. Jesse seems to relent, telling Walt that it's "like you said. He's alive." Walt agrees, and Jesse's face goes cold. If he's learned one thing throughout all of this, it's that you should generally believe the exact opposite of whatever Walter White says.
During the White family dinner, Walt excuses himself to the bathroom, where he throws up (after meticulously folding a towel for his knees in a nearly perfect imitation of Gus Fring). While recovering, he scrounges around in the fateful magazine bin and doesn't see Leaves of Grass. He asks Skyler if she's seen it, shrugs it off and goes to sleep. Or does he? Heading out to his car in his full Tony Soprano regalia, he starts searching around his car, eventually finding the same bug he and Hank put on Gus' car in Season 4. Looking around in fear, Walt realizes what I myself realized: he went to Saul's. He went to Jesse's.
Lesser shows (and even lesser Breaking Bad episodes, ones focused on telling a longform, slow burn, 13 episode final season) might have ended here, but this episode thankfully, gloriously, magnificently does not. First, we're treated to local street tough Jesse Pinkman lounging outside the Dog House (where he bought a pistol in fear way back when Tuco Salamanca was hunting him in Season 2. Jesse wishes for a monster as tame as Tuco Salamanca). A homeless man raps on his window, asking for change. Jesse doesn't respond, and the man walks away. Suddenly, Jesse rolls down his window and tells the man he has something for him: a clump of bills, probably thousands of dollars, of his ill gotten gains. Going full Lady Macbeth, Jesse drives away and starts firing clumps of bills into people's yards and off their porches and into storm drains. He's finally done.
Then, we're treated to the episode's centerpiece scene, and probably what you've been thinking and talking and yammering about since it aired: Hank, talking with some delviery cronies in his garage, when Walter White shows up. Panicking, Hank shovels his files away and greets his brother in law with the shred of good will he still has towards him. Both men vaguely probe one another through small talk, with Walt slipping in a few suspicious grimaces when Hank looks away. Walt gives the old "if there's anything I can do" platitudes, and starts to head out, when, like he did with Mike, he stops. He pauses. He stews. He turns around, and instead of a snub-nose, he's got a simple question. And a tracking bug. He asks Hank if he would happen to know anything about it, and Hank simply stares ahead, not responding and not reacting. After a few seconds, Hank reaches for his garage door remote, and closes it. Walt asks if he's okay, and that he "doesn't like the way you're looking at me right now." Hank continues to stare. Walt starts to stare back, the stare he only breaks out for the big guns. For the enemies. For a brief moment, both men are standing at their full height, wordlessly acknowledging one another as foes, it would seem.
And then, Hank acknowledges it with his fist upside Walt's face. Hank picks Walt up and holds him to garage door, sneering that all along, "it was you." He begins to rail off the evidence: Walt drove into traffic to keep Hank away from the laundromat. Walt used Hank's cell phone to draw him away from the Crystal Ship. Walt killed ten witnesses. Walt bombed a nursing home. Heisenberg. Heisenberg. "I will put you under the jail," he snarls, and Walt begins to stammer that the wild accusations he is making will destroy their family. Hank replies that he doesn't give a shit about family, and Walt pulls out his trump card: the cancer is back. His one, true implacable foe. "Good," Hank replies, saying that he hopes Walt rots. "I'm sorry you feel that way," Walt retorts, explaining that in six months, there won't be a Heisenberg to prosecute, and Hank doesn't have enough time to prove it. Walt will never see the inside of a jail cell.
"What's the point?" he asks, nearly begging. He really is out. He wants to be done. Hank suggests that Skyler brings the kids over to their house and then they'll talk. Walt snaps that that isn't going to happen. Hank responds that he doesn't even know who he's talking to, Walt responds that, if Hank doesn't know who he's talking to, then perhaps his best course would be to "tread lightly." He delivers this not in his Heisenberg snarl, but in the whispered tone of a desperate, dying man, which of course makes it all the more terrifying. We pan out to the two of them staring at one another in a darkened garage, both of them ready to deliver some scorched Earth, motherfucker. We know from the cold open that one of them does. We'll see just which one over the next seven episodes.
"What's wrong with Hank?"- Walter White
Another Breaking Bad season premiere, another strange, apocalyptic cold open. This one takes place first in the White's abandoned pool, where a cadre of skaters are shredding some sick lines (the super rad skate video camera angles that looked like they were ripped straight from Lords of Dogtown were a treat). Soon after, Beard Walt arrives, grabs a crowbar, jimmies his way into the fence surrounding the obviously condemned property, stares at the "HEISENBERG" graffiti on his former living room wall, and promptly heads into his old bedroom, removing Chekhov's ricin from it's resting place for purposes currently unknown (although I'd imagine he might use it for poisoning someone). Walt's really gathering what remains of his inventory. Back outside, Walt prepares to leave before he notices his former neighbor, Carol, staring at him as though he's literally Satan. He greets her hello, and she drops that fresh new shipment of oranges she was bringing to Francis Ford Coppola.
After the intro, we return to Walt and Skyler's bedroom, in the halcyon days of Walt's blissful retirement, slowly panning in on the bathroom door that holds Hank. Soon enough, he slowly creeps forth, excuses himself and Marie, and has a panic attack on the drive home, crushing some poor sod's mailbox, but not before carefully stashing Walt's copy of Leaves of Grass in Marie's bag. Upon returning home, Hank immediately sets about comparing the handwriting of Gale's dedication in Leaves of Grass to the samples he has from his case. Sure enough, they're a perfect match. Hank stares at the wall blankly.
Cut to Walt managing the ever-loving shit out of the A1A carwash. He might be retired from meth-making, but he's not retired from his obsessive need to fix. After pitching his idea to buy more carwashes to Skyler in an effort to put more of a dent in the mountain of money they now have in storage, he returns to the counter, only to have Lydia Rodart-Quayle approach him after checking her car in. She asks him to return, "for a few days," bemoaning the poor quality of the "viable operation" he left her. Walt is surprisingly uninterested. His refutation while still maintaining his smiling businessman persona is so Gus Fring that I was almost shocked he didn't tell her to smile and shake his hand. If this show were from Lydia's perspective, Walt might be the most terrifying man in existence. Once she leaves, Skyler inquires why she would be washing a rental car, and Walt, again surprisingly, admits who she is and that she wanted him back. Skyler confronts her and tells her never to come back, and considering that Skyler has what appears to be a four foot height advantage on her, I can't blame Lydia for doing just that. She's not gone, though. Not by a long shot. She said Walt's refusal to come back was putting her in a box, and that he knows what could happen if he does that. Not like she hasn't put a hit out on an uncooperative business partner before.
Back at Shraderbrau International Headquarters, Hank has apparently decided to take some time off work, or at least actually going to work. Some DEA agents drop off what appears to be all of the files on The Fring Case (tm), and Hank gets going on some good old fashioned police work in our first montage of the final episodes. It's fun to note that even surveillance photos of Mike Ehrmantraut are blurry. Even cameras were afraid of him. The man was a pro. One of the best bits of this montage is Hank re-watching the old security tapes from the methylamine heist in Season 1 and seeing the blurry figures slowly crystallize into Jesse and Walt in his mind. Dean Norris is on point in this episode. The other best bit is saved for last, when he holds up the Cousins' old drawing of what is now obviously Walter White.
What we get next is the king and champion of the ongoing "Badger and Skinny Pete argue about pop culture while Jesse Pinkman sinks into an existential hole" series. After discussing the existential crises inherent in a teleporter system (and Pete goes all "The Prestige" on it), Badger launches into his soon to be written script about the original Star Trek, which is too brilliant to be uttered here. Jesse gets up and leaves in the middle, obviously too moved by the brilliance and majesty of Badger's strangely accurate Star Trek knowledge, and pays a visit to Saul Goodman. While being stonewalled in the waiting room, he whips out a doobie and stares laconic daggers at poor Huell until Saul lets him in. Jesse brought his two giant bags o' money, and he wants Saul to give one to Kaylee, Mike's granddaughter, and one to Drew Sharp's parents. Saul scoffs at the sheer lunacy of giving money not only to the parents of a missing child, but to someone who's already had drug money snatched up by the DEA not once, but twice. Nevertheless, Saul agrees to do it, but not before digging through his drawer of phones and giving Walt a call, who says he'll handle it. Cut to the reveal that Walt is receiving treatment again.
Next, we have Walt arriving at Jesse's and carefully, painfully, explaining to Jesse that Mike can take care of his own affairs. Jesse throws Walt's old "Blood Money" quip back at him, which Walt chalks up to "the heat of the moment," again surprisingly admitting that he was wrong in that particular moment. Walt tells Jesse that they both need to stop focusing on the past, revealing to his former partner that he, too, is out of the game. When he asks why Kaylee needs this money, and that Mike is "perfectly capable of looking after his own granddaughter," Jesse reveals that he thinks Mike is dead, since Walt's offing of the remnants of the Fring men in jail would mean Mike is coming for him, and that's not how Walt does business. Jesse states that not only does he think Mike is dead, but that he thinks Walt knows that. Walt practically begs Jesse to believe him, lying directly to his face and pulling out every stop he has in the "Manipulate Jesse Pinkman" playbook. Jesse seems to relent, telling Walt that it's "like you said. He's alive." Walt agrees, and Jesse's face goes cold. If he's learned one thing throughout all of this, it's that you should generally believe the exact opposite of whatever Walter White says.
During the White family dinner, Walt excuses himself to the bathroom, where he throws up (after meticulously folding a towel for his knees in a nearly perfect imitation of Gus Fring). While recovering, he scrounges around in the fateful magazine bin and doesn't see Leaves of Grass. He asks Skyler if she's seen it, shrugs it off and goes to sleep. Or does he? Heading out to his car in his full Tony Soprano regalia, he starts searching around his car, eventually finding the same bug he and Hank put on Gus' car in Season 4. Looking around in fear, Walt realizes what I myself realized: he went to Saul's. He went to Jesse's.
Lesser shows (and even lesser Breaking Bad episodes, ones focused on telling a longform, slow burn, 13 episode final season) might have ended here, but this episode thankfully, gloriously, magnificently does not. First, we're treated to local street tough Jesse Pinkman lounging outside the Dog House (where he bought a pistol in fear way back when Tuco Salamanca was hunting him in Season 2. Jesse wishes for a monster as tame as Tuco Salamanca). A homeless man raps on his window, asking for change. Jesse doesn't respond, and the man walks away. Suddenly, Jesse rolls down his window and tells the man he has something for him: a clump of bills, probably thousands of dollars, of his ill gotten gains. Going full Lady Macbeth, Jesse drives away and starts firing clumps of bills into people's yards and off their porches and into storm drains. He's finally done.
Then, we're treated to the episode's centerpiece scene, and probably what you've been thinking and talking and yammering about since it aired: Hank, talking with some delviery cronies in his garage, when Walter White shows up. Panicking, Hank shovels his files away and greets his brother in law with the shred of good will he still has towards him. Both men vaguely probe one another through small talk, with Walt slipping in a few suspicious grimaces when Hank looks away. Walt gives the old "if there's anything I can do" platitudes, and starts to head out, when, like he did with Mike, he stops. He pauses. He stews. He turns around, and instead of a snub-nose, he's got a simple question. And a tracking bug. He asks Hank if he would happen to know anything about it, and Hank simply stares ahead, not responding and not reacting. After a few seconds, Hank reaches for his garage door remote, and closes it. Walt asks if he's okay, and that he "doesn't like the way you're looking at me right now." Hank continues to stare. Walt starts to stare back, the stare he only breaks out for the big guns. For the enemies. For a brief moment, both men are standing at their full height, wordlessly acknowledging one another as foes, it would seem.
And then, Hank acknowledges it with his fist upside Walt's face. Hank picks Walt up and holds him to garage door, sneering that all along, "it was you." He begins to rail off the evidence: Walt drove into traffic to keep Hank away from the laundromat. Walt used Hank's cell phone to draw him away from the Crystal Ship. Walt killed ten witnesses. Walt bombed a nursing home. Heisenberg. Heisenberg. "I will put you under the jail," he snarls, and Walt begins to stammer that the wild accusations he is making will destroy their family. Hank replies that he doesn't give a shit about family, and Walt pulls out his trump card: the cancer is back. His one, true implacable foe. "Good," Hank replies, saying that he hopes Walt rots. "I'm sorry you feel that way," Walt retorts, explaining that in six months, there won't be a Heisenberg to prosecute, and Hank doesn't have enough time to prove it. Walt will never see the inside of a jail cell.
"What's the point?" he asks, nearly begging. He really is out. He wants to be done. Hank suggests that Skyler brings the kids over to their house and then they'll talk. Walt snaps that that isn't going to happen. Hank responds that he doesn't even know who he's talking to, Walt responds that, if Hank doesn't know who he's talking to, then perhaps his best course would be to "tread lightly." He delivers this not in his Heisenberg snarl, but in the whispered tone of a desperate, dying man, which of course makes it all the more terrifying. We pan out to the two of them staring at one another in a darkened garage, both of them ready to deliver some scorched Earth, motherfucker. We know from the cold open that one of them does. We'll see just which one over the next seven episodes.
Thursday, August 1, 2013
Every Breaking Bad Episode to Date, Ranked in Order.
So we're less than two weeks from the start of the final 8 episodes of Breaking Bad, my favorite television show ever to have aired. Instead of sloppily throwing together some sort of countdown on twitter, I have decided to sloppily throw together some sort of countdown on my woefully neglected personal blog. Here we go.
54. Open House (Season 4, Episode 3):
53. I.F.T. (Season 3, Episode 3): .
52. Mandala (Season 2, Episode 11):
51. Abiquiu (Season 3, Episode 11):
50. Cancer Man (Season 1, Episode 4):
49. Cornered (Season 4, Episode 6):
48. Thirty-Eight Snub (Season 4, Episode 2):
47. Negro y Azul (Season 2, Episode 7):
46. Gray Matter (Season 1, Episode 5):
45. Breakage (Season 2, Episode 5):
44. Madrigal (Season 5, Episode 2):
43. Caballo sin Nombre (Season 3, Episode 2):
42. A No-Rough-Stuff-Type Deal (Season 1, Episode 7):
41. Shotgun (Season 4, Episode 5):
40. Buyout (Season 5, Episode 6):
39. Bug (Season 4, Episode 9):
38. Cat's in the Bag... (Season 1, Episode 2):
37. Green Light (Season 3, Episode 4):
36. Peekaboo (Season 2, Episode 6):
35. Kafkaesque (Season 3, Episode 9):
34. Seven Thirty Seven (Season 2, Episode 1):
33. Hazard Pay (Season 5, Episode 3):
32. Problem Dog (Season 4, Episode 7):
31. ...and the Bag's in the River (Season 1, Episode 3)
30. Over (Season 2, Episode 10):
29. Bit By a Dead Bee (Season 2, Episode 3):
28. End Times (Season 4, Episode 12):
27. Bullet Points (Season 4, Episode 4):
26. No Mas (Season 3, Episode 1):
25. Better Call Saul (Season 2, Episode 8):
24. Phoenix (Season 2, Episode 12):
23. Hermanos (Season 4, Episode 8):
22. Say My Name (Season 5, Episode 7):
21. Grilled (Season 2, Episode 2):
20. Breaking Bad (Season 1, Episode 1):
19. Live Free or Die (Season 5, Episode 1):
18. Salud (Season 4, Episode 10):
17. Box Cutter (Season 4, Episode 1):
16. I See You (Season 3, Episode 8):
15. Mas (Season 3, Episode 5):
14. Down (Season 2, Episode 4):
13. Dead Freight (Season 5, Episode 5):
12. Face Off (Season 4, Episode 13):
11. ABQ (Sesaon 2, Episode 13):
10. Fifty-One (Season 5, Episode 4):
9. Half Measures (Season 3, Episode 12):
8. Crawl Space (Season 4, Episode 11):
7. One Minute (Season 3, Episode 7):
6. Crazy Handful of Nothin (Season 1, Episode 6):
5. Gliding Over All (Season 5, Episode 8):
4. Sunset (Season 3, Episode 6):
3. 4 Days Out (Season 2, Episode 9):
2. Full Measure (Season 3, Episode 13):
1. Fly (Season 3, Episode 10):
54. Open House (Season 4, Episode 3):
53. I.F.T. (Season 3, Episode 3): .
52. Mandala (Season 2, Episode 11):
51. Abiquiu (Season 3, Episode 11):
50. Cancer Man (Season 1, Episode 4):
49. Cornered (Season 4, Episode 6):
48. Thirty-Eight Snub (Season 4, Episode 2):
47. Negro y Azul (Season 2, Episode 7):
46. Gray Matter (Season 1, Episode 5):
45. Breakage (Season 2, Episode 5):
44. Madrigal (Season 5, Episode 2):
43. Caballo sin Nombre (Season 3, Episode 2):
42. A No-Rough-Stuff-Type Deal (Season 1, Episode 7):
41. Shotgun (Season 4, Episode 5):
40. Buyout (Season 5, Episode 6):
39. Bug (Season 4, Episode 9):
38. Cat's in the Bag... (Season 1, Episode 2):
37. Green Light (Season 3, Episode 4):
36. Peekaboo (Season 2, Episode 6):
35. Kafkaesque (Season 3, Episode 9):
34. Seven Thirty Seven (Season 2, Episode 1):
33. Hazard Pay (Season 5, Episode 3):
32. Problem Dog (Season 4, Episode 7):
31. ...and the Bag's in the River (Season 1, Episode 3)
30. Over (Season 2, Episode 10):
29. Bit By a Dead Bee (Season 2, Episode 3):
28. End Times (Season 4, Episode 12):
27. Bullet Points (Season 4, Episode 4):
26. No Mas (Season 3, Episode 1):
25. Better Call Saul (Season 2, Episode 8):
24. Phoenix (Season 2, Episode 12):
23. Hermanos (Season 4, Episode 8):
22. Say My Name (Season 5, Episode 7):
21. Grilled (Season 2, Episode 2):
20. Breaking Bad (Season 1, Episode 1):
19. Live Free or Die (Season 5, Episode 1):
18. Salud (Season 4, Episode 10):
17. Box Cutter (Season 4, Episode 1):
16. I See You (Season 3, Episode 8):
15. Mas (Season 3, Episode 5):
14. Down (Season 2, Episode 4):
13. Dead Freight (Season 5, Episode 5):
12. Face Off (Season 4, Episode 13):
11. ABQ (Sesaon 2, Episode 13):
10. Fifty-One (Season 5, Episode 4):
9. Half Measures (Season 3, Episode 12):
8. Crawl Space (Season 4, Episode 11):
7. One Minute (Season 3, Episode 7):
6. Crazy Handful of Nothin (Season 1, Episode 6):
5. Gliding Over All (Season 5, Episode 8):
4. Sunset (Season 3, Episode 6):
3. 4 Days Out (Season 2, Episode 9):
2. Full Measure (Season 3, Episode 13):
1. Fly (Season 3, Episode 10):
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