Breaking Bad Season Two, Episode Four

Original Air Date: March 29,2009

Director: John Dahl      Writer: Sam Catlin

Breaking Bad Season Two  Episode Four “Down” Spoilers

So Jesse (Aaron Paul) is broke now since the DEA took his money, so he hits up his partner Walt (Bryan Cranston) for some of his cash but only gets about 600 bucks.

Back at the White house, Walt still tries to convince Skyler (Anna Gunn) that he does not have another cell phone. While his back is to her, she slips out the house.

Meanwhile, Jesse has problems of his own as his parents give him 72 hours to vacate his aunt’s house. He refuses to leave but that doesn’t last long. No place to go, he asks a few friends for a place to crash, but that fails. He then sneaks into the junkyard where the RV is stored, falls into a porta-potty, and passes out in the RV covered in blue goo.

The next morning, Clovis finds Jesse in the RV and wants his money. Refusing to pony up the dough, Clovis threatens to sell the RV and when he disappears, Jesse drives the RV straight through the gate and to Walt’s house.

Skyler keeps taking off on Walt, giving him no explanation to where she is going. They get into an argument in the driveway. She takes off and he attempts to follow but sees the RV parked up the street. Inside, he and Jesse get into a fight where Jesse gets the upper hand, grabbing Walt by the throat. Walt tells his young partner to go ahead and do it, but Jesse refuses. They both head into his house where Walt gives him a share of their money and they have breakfast together.

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Breaking Bad Season Two, Episode Three

Original Air Date: March 22, 2009

Director:  Terry McDonough Writer: Peter Gould

Breaking Bad Season Two  Episode Three “Bit by a Dead Bee” Spoilers

So Walt’s big plan to explain his disappearance is to get naked and walk through a grocery store. Hospitalized, Walt tells  Skyler (Anna Gunn) and Walt Jr. (RJ Mitte) that he doesn’t remember a thing about the last few days.

Meanwhile, Jesse (Aaron Paul) sits in front of his house and watches as the police look at his property. He hatches a plan with his homeboy to get rid of the meth lab and the RV by having Badger’s cousin tow it away. Jesse puts himself in a motel room with a jnki and has Badger drop a dime on him so that the DEA arrest him, but he now has an alibi and denies knowing anything about his car’s whereabouts and the money inside.

Hank (Dean Norris) tries to get Jesse to confess that he was out in the desert with Tuco, but Wendy, the prostitute in his motel room backs up his story. Hank tries to get the old man in the desert to recognize the young drug dealer but he refuses to cooperate. Having no choice, Hank releases Jesse.

Walt and Jesse touch base and Walt remembers the gun and the money sitting in the diaper box. He sneaks back home to hide the money and then catches a bus back to the hospital.

At the DEA”s office, Hank begins to link the warehouse burglary to the blue-colored dope found in Tuco’s shack. As a gift, his friends give him tuco’s glittering grill which he shows to Walt.

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Breaking Bad Season Two, Episode One

Original Air Date: March 8, 2009

Director:  Bryan Cranston    Writer: J Roberts

Breaking Bad Season Two  Episode One “Seven Thirty-Seven” Spoilers

Season Two starts off by showing us the drug deal between Walt (Bryan Cranston), Jesse (Aaron Paul) and Tuco (Raymond Cruz). We get a recap of what went down and the brutal beating Tuco gave to his henchman. As walt and Jesse try to leave, Tuco comes back and wants Walt to perform some miracle operation to try to revive the dead henchman, but nothing they can do helps. The duo leave the junkyard on uneasy terms with the psychotic drug dealer and Walt heads home to his pregnant wife.

At the White residence, Skyler (Anna Gunn) continues to ignore her sister Marie (Betsy Brandt) after their fallout over the stolen tiara Maria gave to her pregnant sister.  Maria seems to have anger management issues as she drives away from her husband, Hank (Dean Norris) and runs over the neighbor’s toy car. Hank, working with his partner Gomez (Steven Michael Quezada), watch a grainy video of Walt and Jesse’s robbery of chemicals last season and put together that there is a new force in the ABQ for crystal meth.

With Tuco on their tail, Walt and Jesse come up with a plan to deal with the crazed dealer by giving him some ricin-laced crystal meth. Before they can hatch this plan, Tuco kidnaps Jesse ad shows up at Walt’s house, forcing the chemistry into the car while his pregnant wife waits inside for him to respond to her questions.

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Breaking Bad Season Two, Episode Two

Original Air Date: March 15,2009

Director: Charles Haid       Writer:  George Mastras

Breaking Bad Season Two  Episode Two  “Grilled” Spoilers

Hank (Dean Norris) briefs his DEA team about the upcoming raid on Tuco’s headquarters after they find his dead henchmen in the junkyard., but Tuco (Raymond Cruz) is not there. He is out in the desert with Walt (Bryan Cranston) and Jesse (Aaron Paul).

Over at the White residence, Skyler (Anna Gunn) talks to detectives about the disappearance of her husband. She and her sister, Marie (Betsy Brandt) start to pass out flyers. Marie starts to explain about the tiara, but Skyler tells her now is not the time.

In a ramshackle shed out in the desert, Tuco holds the duo at his uncle Tio’s place. He finds the ricin-laced meth and Jesse tries to convince him that it is the bomb ass meth, but Tuco stays away from the poison. His plan is to kill Jesse and smuggle Walt into Mexico to become a full time cook and they are just waiting for his cousins to show up.

Hank gets a tip about Jesse from Marie about Walt’s second cell phone and the fact that Jesse is his weed dealer. Hank tracks down Jesse’s mother and she tells him what kind of car he drives. Hank gets an idea to track it down through the LoJack system.

Out in the desert, Walt tries to poison Tuco’s food, but his mute uncle gets involved. Things get out of hand, where Tuco drags Walt outside and Jesse clubs the dealer on the back of the head. The duo end up with the dealer’s guns and end up shooting him in the side. As a vehicle approaches from the distance, Walt and Jesse fear it is the cousins, so they split.  Tuco heads towards Jesse’s car where he is met by an approaching Hank. The two end up in a gunfight where Tuco is fatally shot.

Walt and Jesse take off into the desert.

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Breaking Bad Season Two, Episode Six

Original Air Date: April 12, 2009

Director: Peter Medak         Writer:  J Roberts and Vince Gilligan

Breaking Bad Season Three Episode Six “Peekaboo” Spoilers

Upon Walt’s commands, Jesse (Aaron Paul) decides to handle the situation with the robbery of Skinny Pete. Waiting patiently , Jesse waits for Pete to show up with the name and address of the robbers. They are a couple of junkies who live in a ramshackle house. Outside the house, Jesse takes out the pistol and psyches himself up for what he has to do. The junkies aren’t home, so he breaks a window and enters the garbage-strewn, ripped furniture hovel of the dope fiends. He quickly finds that they are not home but instead finds a small half-dressed dirty boy who sits on the couch and watches the shopping channel with Jesse.

At the White residence, Walter (Bryan Cranston) returns to school as Skyler (Anna Gunn) calls Gretchen to thank her for paying the hospital bills. Gretchen decides that she needs to come down and talk to Skyler that afternoon. Walt finds his first day back a little difficult due to everyone in the school knowing about his fugue state and loss of pants, while the assistant principal comes to him and offers help if he ever needs it. Leaving school, he finds a flyer on his car about him “Missing”, except it now reads “I’m MISSING My Pants!”

Inside the junkie’s house, Jesse finds some food for the child and plays peekaboo with the boy. When the addicts finally come home, Jesse hides the child before he confronts the junkies  about his missing meth. To prove his point, he bashes the male, Spooge, in the head with the gun.

After arriving home, Walt finds a surprise as Gretchen has driven down to talk directly to Skyler who has thanked Gretchen for her generosity. Walt escorts er out to her car where she drives away without saying anything.

Back at the junkies’ house, Jesse gets the meth heads to hand over what is left of his drugs. they have no money but can get him some as soon as they can break into an ATM that they boosted. While trying to break into the ATM, the junkies turn the table on Jesse as he plays with the boy. With Jesse knocked out, the female takes his gun. Later, as Spooge tries to break into the ATM while arguing with his women, she gets mad and crushes his skull by dropping the heavy machine on him. Jesse wakes up to the female passed out and Spooge dead. He gathers his gun, clears his prints, and takes the boy outside to wait for the police as he calls 911 and leaves.

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Breaking Bad Season Two Recap:

For those that have missed this Emmy award winning AMC series, this is a good time to get caught up before the new season begins March 21. Below is a quick recap of the first season. I would suggest you buy the first two seasons of Breaking Bad and have a late night marathon getting caught up with television’s most realistic bad guy since Tony Soprano.

Just follow this link to order Season One and Two of Breaking Bad on DVD or Blu-Ray.

The Rundown (the official recap from AMCTV.com)

In an abandoned auto junkyard, Tuco buys meth from Jesse and Walt, and then kills his henchman No-Doze for speaking out of turn. Jesse purchases a gun to protect himself from Tuco, but Walt proposes they kill Tuco with poison instead. Hank sends Walt a cell phone photo of No-Doze and Gonzo, Tuco’s other associate, dead in the junkyard. Shortly afterwards, Tuco abducts Walt and Jesse at gunpoint.

Hank briefs his DEA team about a raid on Tuco’s headquarters, and then takes a leave of absence to search for Walt. Marie tells Skyler that Walt might have a second cell phone and suggests Hank visit Jesse’s mother. Mrs. Pinkman tells Hank about Jesse’s low-rider car, which Hank tracks to Tuco’s place using LoJack.

Trapped in a desert hideaway, Walt and Jesse try to slip Tuco the poison, but his ailing uncle, Tio, tips Tuco off. Jesse and Walt escape and are hiding nearby when Hank approaches Tuco and kills him in a shootout.

To cover for their disappearance, Walt fakes amnesia and is hospitalized while Jesse removes meth evidence from his house, persuades Badger’s cousin Clovis to tow away the RV, and gets himself arrested. Hank, interrogating Jesse, accuses him of working with Tuco, but releases Jesse when Tio refuses to ID him. Walt returns home where Skyler quizzes him about the second phone.

A broke Jesse asks Walt for half their remaining money, but Walt refuses. Jesse’s parents, aware of the meth lab, force him to vacate his house. He breaks into Clovis’s repair yard and sleeps in the RV, stealing it back after Clovis threatens to sell the cooking supplies. Walt eventually shares some of his remaining cash with Jesse.

Meanwhile, a suspicious Skyler keeps her distance from Walt and smokes to relieve tension. Walt confronts Skyler about the cigarettes. “This is so unlike you,” he says. “How would you know?” she retorts.

Jesse rents a duplex apartment from Jane (who lives next door), and assembles a meth-dealing crew. All goes well until a junkie couple robs Skinny Pete. Walt demands retribution.

Jesse, lying in wait for the junkies, discovers a small boy at their house. The junkies return some meth and promise Jesse the proceeds of a stolen ATM, but the woman knocks Jesse out. After Spooge, the male junkie, taunts his woman, she crushes his head with the ATM. Jesse grabs some cash, calls 911 and hurries the boy out of the house.

Skyler, meanwhile, thanks a bewildered Gretchen for funding Walt’s chemo; Walt begs Gretchen not to admit the truth. Gretchen calls Skyler to say they’re cutting the money off, so Walt tells Skyler that Elliott is broke.

The news of Spooge’s murder shocks Walt, who takes advantage of Jesse’s newfound street cred to expand their territory.

Skyler returns to Beneke Fabricators, her former employer, where her boss Ted once flirted with her. Skyler assures Marie the incident won’t recur, but the two later share an intimate moment when Skyler opens up about Walt’s cancer.

Hank gets promoted to work part-time in the DEA’s El Paso office, but suffers anxiety attacks over his encounter with Tuco. His anxiety hits new highs during a stakeout in Mexico when a tortoise bearing the head of an informant explodes, maiming several DEA agents. Walt eventually councils Hank to face his fears, and Hank returns to work.

After an undercover cop busts Badger, Walt and Jesse hire a shady attorney named Saul Goodman. Hank tells Badger he’ll go free if he identifies “Heisenberg,” Walt’s drug-world alter ego, so Saul arranges for an ex-con to take the fall for Walt.

Back at the duplex, Jesse and Jane develop a romance. Jesse suggests he and Jane share a joint, but she tells him she’s been sober for 18 months. Jane later treats Jesse brusquely in front of Donald, her dad, causing Jesse to feel demoralized until she slips him a sketch of a superheroine named “Apology Girl.”

Walt, awaiting test results he’s certain will be discouraging, tricks Jesse into participating in a meth-cooking marathon. It’s successful, but several mishaps leave the RV disabled and the two men stranded without water in the desert heat. Walt cobbles together a working battery and they return to Albuquerque, where Walt is surprised to learn his cancer is in remission.

Skyler hosts a party to celebrate Walt’s good news. Hank and Walt nearly come to blows after Walt pours Walter Jr. tequila shots. After apologizing for his behavior at the party, Walt consumes himself with home improvements.

Combo is shot and killed. Spooked by Combo’s death, Skinny Pete quits dealing and Jesse gets heavy into drugs with Jane, who introduces him to heroin.

Later, Saul offers to put Walt and Jesse in touch with a low-profile narcotics distributor, Gus, who will buy their product in bulk. But Jesse scares Gus off by arriving high for a meeting. Walt persists, and Gus gives Walt an hour to deliver his meth.

Skyler meanwhile discovers accounting irregularities at Beneke. Ted admits to fraud, but Skyler makes the choice to stay anyway — just before going into labor. Walt, rushing to retrieve the meth from his passed-out partner’s apartment, ignores Skyler’s calls and misses his daughter’s birth.

Jesse calls Walt, freaked that their meth has been stolen. When Jesse figures out the truth, Walt says he’ll hold Jesse’s $480,000 share until he’s clean. Saul figures out a way to launder Walt’s take through SaveWalterWhite.com, the website Walter Jr. establishes to raise money for his dad’s surgery.

Jane, who has promised her father Donald she’ll enter rehab the next day, blackmails Walt for Jesse’s money. Walt turns it over, but a coincidental bar chat with Donald inspires him to return to Jesse’s apartment, where he watches as a drugged-up Jane chokes to death on her own vomit.

The next morning, Jesse calls Walt, who arranges for an operative to remove drug evidence from Jesse’s apartment. “I killed her,” Jesse later sobs. Walt checks Jesse into rehab.

Before undergoing surgery, Walt unwittingly reveals to Skyler that he has a second phone. His surgery is successful, but a few weeks later Skyler leaves him. Donald returns to work as an air-traffic controller. Distracted by thoughts of his daughter, he inadvertently causes two planes to collide in the sky over Walt’s house.



Breaking Bad Season Two, Episode Seven

Original Air Date: April 19, 2009

Director: Felix Enriquez Alcala  Writer: John Shiban

Breaking Bad Season Two  Episode Seven “Negro y Azul” Spoilers

After not being able to call his partner, Walter White (Bryan Cranston) heads to Jesse’s duplex. After pounding on the door, he attracts the attention of Jane, the neighbor and landlord of the apartment, who then refuses him access after he claims to be Pinkman’s father. Finally, his partner opens the door and lets him in.

Jesse (Aaron Paul) tells Walt about what went down at the junkie’s house and how Spooge was killed by his woman and not Pinkman. Walt uses this information later on when he meets with Jesse’s gang. He tells Badger, Skinny Pete, and Combo that it was Jesse who killed the junkie to help build up the street credibility of his partner. He also reveals to them that he is Heisenberg.

Skyler White (Anna Gunn) decides to go back to work to help bring money into the household and goes by her old employer to get a simple data-entry job. When getting the brush-off from the receptionist, Skyler darts past her to chat with Ted Beneke, the owner, who after some small talk , offers Skyler her old job back.

Back at Jesse’s apartment, Walt talks about about expanding their territory to fill the void left by Krazy-8 and Tuco. He explains to his young partner that they can use his new street cred to grow their crystal meth operation by scaring off competition. Jesse eventually agrees with Walt’s plan.

Down in El Paso, Hank has trouble fitting in with his new DEA partner’s, especially in the way they play kiss ass to an informant name Tortuga (Danny Trejo). During a stakeout in Mexico, Tortuga returns bodiless, with his head riding on the back of a turtle with the words “HOLA DEA” painted on the shell. Hank edges away from the scene, ready to vomit as his new partners find amusement in his discomfort. But their laughter turns to screams as the turtle explodes.

Meeting with his crew, Jesse announces the new plans of selling crystal meth wherever and whenever they want. Once the plan shows fruition, Walt tells Jesse to raise the price as they corner the ABQ marketplace.

Later, Jesse tells Jane the truth about his and Walt’s relationship and she tells him as long as he pays the rent and leaves his business away from the house, she really doesn’t care. He invites her inside to watch his new flat-screen TV where they then sit in lawn chairs anw await  for a signal to be aquirred. Eventually, Jane reaches over and holds his hand.

Breaking Bad Season Two  Episode Seven “Negro y Azul” Spoilers

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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.

Breaking Bad Season Two  Episode Five  “Breakage” Spoilers

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