Breaking Bad Season One, Episode Six
Original Air Date: march 2,2008
Director: Bronwen Hughes Writer: George Mastras
Breaking Bad Episode Six “Crazy Handful of Nothin” Spoilers
Now that Walt (Bryan Cranston) and Jesse (Aaron Paul) are back in business together, Walt decides to lay down some ground rules. He wants to be the silent partner in this operation, where he only deals with making the product and Jesse deals with the distribution.
Later, Walt starts his first treatment of chemotherapy. Skyler (Anna Gunn) goes with him and expresses concern about whether or not his friend Elliot has sent the check for the deposit. Walt assures her everything is alright, and asks her to leave. Once gone, he asks the clinic’s clerk to hold off depositing his check until Monday.
Walt is teaching class the next day when he suddenly leaves class to go vomit in the bathroom as a side effect to the therapy. Walt and Skyler begin attending a support group for cancer patients and their families. While there, Skyler tells him that she feels he doesn’t want her around and she wonders where he disappears to sometimes. Walt lies and tells her he needs to be alone with nature.
The nature happens to be Walt out in the desert in the mobile meth lab. while making a new batch, Walt struggles to breathe underneath the respirator and stumbles out of the trailer. Jesse, having dealt with an aunt who had cancer, recognizes the marks from his therapy. “I’m your partner, man,” he says. “You shoulda told me.”
Walt sends Jesse back in to finish the meth.
Meanwhile, Gomez (Steven Michael Quezada), Hank’s DEA partner traces the respirator back to Walt’s high school where they end up arresting the janitor Hugo (Pierre Barrera) on suspicion of manufacturing crystal meth.
When Jesse fails to move all the meth, Walt is dissatisfied with how the meth is selling. He asks Jesse if he knows any distributors, and Jesse says that they killed the only ones he knows. Jesse gets an idea to go talk with another major dealer in the area named Tuco (Raymond Cruz).
The deal goes bad, Jesse gets robbed for the dope and Walt’s hair begins to fall out in the shower. Walt finds out the Jesse is in the hospital where he goes and visits. In there, he meets Skinny Pete (Charles Baker), Jesse’s friend and they talk about Tuco.
The next day, Walt shaves his head and heads to Tuco’s headquarters with a bag of crystal in hand. He demands 50,000 for the stolen dope and what’s in his bag. Confused, Tuco laughs and asks why he is gonna give him more crystal meth after he just got robbed?
Walt informs him that the bag does not contain meth and he tosses a crystal to the ground which explodes blowing out all the windows.
This convinces Tuco to pay the money. Walt makes a deal for his next batch and leaves.
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