Breaking Bad Season Two, Episode Five

Original Air Date: April 5,2009

Director: Johan Renck  Writer: Moira Walley-Becket

Breaking Bad Season Two  Episode Five “Breakage” Spoilers

Walt’s (Bryan Cranston) chemo sessions are going well until he gets hit with the bill. Add to this the bill for his three-day hospital bill for his fugue state and Skyler (Anna Gunn) wonders if his friends will cover the extra expense. Walt counts out his remaining drug money and realizes that he has nothing left to show for his actions.

Hank gets a promotion with the Tri-State Border Interdiction Task Force which will split his time with El Paso and Albuquerque since he is now the big hero after slaying Tuco. Leaving the office, hank suffers a panic attack in the elevator.

Meanwhile, Jesse (Aaron Paul) now has to find a place to live and in the process meets Jane, a goth chick who manages a duplex for her father. Jesse does not have the necessary information for the application but manages to convince Jane to cut him a break.  With a new lease on life, Jesse heads to the junkyard and squares up with Clovis for the RV and makes a deal for storing the vehicle there on a regular basis.

Out in the desert, Walt and Jesse begin cooking again but have no real plan on how they will make money. Walt wants to sell slow but Jesse has a better plan. He tells Walt that they need to be the distributors now. He calls his homeboys to his apartment and hatches a plan to front them all crystal meth in exchange for a quantity of the profit. Everything goes fine until Skinny Pete gets robbed by a couple of dope fiends. Walt wants Jesse to handle the issue and Pinkman claims they should chalk it up as breakage.

Walt asks, “Did Tuco accept breakage?”

Later, Walt shows up at Jesse’s apartment and hands him a gun telling him to handle the problem.

Hank, suffering from anxiety from shooting Tuco, tosses the dead dealer’s grill into the river.

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