Breaking bad season 1 episode 1 recap
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But fundamentally, he’s an excellent DEA agent and capable of putting together clues in a way that no one else ever has. It would be easy to classify Hank as the bumbling detective, a man whose brother-in-law ran a vast drug ring right under his nose. This sequence is effective but telling reiterating two key points: One, that Hank is a hell of a cop. In one of the few moments of levity in an episode largely defined by moments of white-knuckle suspense, Huell breaks down, crying, and tells Hank about loading the money into plastic barrels and loading them into a rental truck. Hank suggests that Saul ( Bob Odenkirk) has sold him out and that Walt is going after him next. In order to figure out where the money is, though, Hank has to put the squeeze on Huell ( Lavell Crawford) with the help of a faked photo of Jesse, gooey clumps of his brains sprayed all over Hank’s linoleum kitchen tiles. When the episode returns to Jesse and his beleaguered FDA cohorts Hank ( Dean Norris) and Gomez ( Steven Michael Quezada), Jesse outlines his plan, in his words to obtain “evidence that greedy asshole would never destroy.” That’s right: the seven giant barrels of money that Walt buried out in the desert. Before their awkward, pseudo-sexual moment together, stretched beautifully by director Michelle MacLaren, can go any further, Lydia departs and Todd answers the fateful phone call from Walt. And while Todd offers a halfhearted apology, guessing that he might have overheated the blue color out of the meth, Lydia is skeptical. But Lydia is adamant: it’s what her customers in Europe want. “It’s got a bluish hue,” one of the knuckleheads suggests. While there is a slight improvement on the quality of the meth, it’s missing a key ingredient: the blue color. Lydia Rodarte-Quayle ( Laura Fraser) was there to inspect her product, her face-mask pulled tightly over her equally tight face. This week’s “ To’hajiilee,” written by longtime “ Breaking Bad” principle George Mastras (who penned last season’s crackerjack “ Dead Freight” episode), picked up on the other side of one of those calls.īut before we got to that phone call, answered by Todd, there was a lengthy sequence involving Uncle Jack and twitchy Neo Nazi Kenny ( Kevin Rankin), as they prepared a batch of meth. Moments later, Walt, made a call of his own, to Todd ( Jesse Plemons), informing him that the services of his skuzzy Uncle Jack ( Michael Bowen), co-architect of last season’s massive prison murder, would be needed once more. Last week’s episode, the sublimely conflicted “ Rabid Dogs,” ended with a pair of calls: Jesse ( Aaron Paul), consumed with paranoia, dialed Walt ( Bryan Cranston) with a promise: he’d be coming for him where it really mattered.