Episode 1: Live Free or Die

In a flash-forward, Walt sits in a diner and arranges his bacon into the number 52: it's his birthday. The waitress tells him that meals are free on birthdays, so Walt flashes her a New Hampshire driver's license with his photo on it. A man walks in it's Lawson, the gun dealer from whom Walt purchased his .38 revolver. Walt follows him into the bathroom, where he hands Lawson a thick envelope in exchange for a set of keys. Lawson asks for Walt's assurance that the acquisition won't wind up in Mexico, and then leaves. Walt coughs and pops some pills. As he leaves the restaurant, the waitress calls out, "Happy birthday, Mr. Lambert." In the parking lot, Walt opens the trunk of a white Volvo and takes out a duffel bag. Using the clicker he got from Lawson, he finds a nearby car and opens the trunk: inside, there's an M60 machine gun. He scans the lot, tosses in the duffel and slams the trunk. Backing up from where we left off last season, Walt calls Skyler shortly after Gus's death. "I won," he tells her. At home, Walt gathers the bomb-making materials in a trash bag and stuffs it in his car trunk. Afterwards he pours himself a drink, but stops short when he remembers the Lily of the Valley plant which he then gets rid of as well. Walter, Jr. and Skyler arrive. Jr. chatters excitedly about Gus's death, boasting that Uncle Hank is gonna be a hero, even more so than before. Walt joins Skyler in the bedroom, where she's quietly unpacking. He asks if she's relieved to see him alive. She says she is, but also scared. "Scared of what?" Walt asks. "You," she answers. Alone, Walt coos at baby Holly, calm... until he suddenly rushes from the bedroom. Whatever he just remembered, it's urgent. Hank and Gomez sift through the remains of the superlab: Hank's moment of triumph. Hank spots an object mounted on the wall and speculates it's a melted security camera. Mike is convalescing in Mexico when the doctor who'd treated Gus after the Cartel bloodbath informs him that Gus is dead. Later, he speeds down a dusty road. Another car barrels toward him. They pass each other then screech to a halt. Walt and Jesse jump out of the other car. Mike points his gun at Walt but Jesse stands between them. Walt tells Mike that the footage from Gus's security cameras will give them away. Mike says the video files would be on a laptop Gus kept in his office. At Los Pollos, Hank watches the police bag Gus's laptop and label it for evidence. At Jesse's house, Mike calls the police pretending to be a USPS employee investigating Gus for meter fraud. He learns that the police have the laptop and scoffs at Walt's thought that they could retrieve it, explaining the evidence room is guarded around the clock. Jesse repeatedly suggests using a magnet, which eventually gives Walt an idea... Later, Walt, Jesse and Mike talk to Old Joe the junkyard owner that destroyed the RV who declares their plan "doable, but expensive." Walt asks Jesse to spot his share of the cost. Although Mike expresses skepticism about the plan, Jesse insists they need him. Saul visits Skyler at the car wash and cryptically and solemnly warns her the police may call her about Ted. "Ted's dead?" she asks, tearing up. "No, he just woke up," Saul says.

Back at the junkyard, Joe has loaded an old cube van with a lifting crane magnet wired to twenty-one car batteries. Jesse stands at a distance from the rigged truck holding a laptop while Walt turns the dial on a control box. As Jesse walks closer, the laptop dies, then flies out of his hands and slams into the van. "Yeah, bitch! Magnets!" Jesse cheers. Walt instructs Joe to increase the amperage. Skyler visits Ted in the hospital and finds he's been confined to a halo brace. She tries to apologize, but he cuts her off, terrified. He tells her he reported his fall as an accident, swearing, "I will never breathe one word of this." "Good," she replies. That night, Mike hotwires the police station security gate, allowing Walt and Jesse to park the cube van outside the evidence room. Walt turns the magnet dial. Inside the evidence room, metal objects fly off shelves and stick to the wall. Walt cranks the dial to its max and the van topples over. Police officers rush outside but find the van empty. As they flee the scene, Mike chastises Walt and Jesse for leaving the van behind, but Walt insists it's untraceable. "How do we know?" Mike asks. "Because I say so," says Walt. The police inventory the evidence room, declaring Gus's laptop damaged. An officer then studies a framed photo of Gus. He notices that it had broken during the chaos and now reveals a list of secret bank accounts hidden beneath the broken frame. At Saul's office, Walt scolds Saul for giving Skyler $622,000 to pay off Ted's tax debt. Saul reminds Walt that he put himself on the line by participating in Brock's poisoning. Thrusting the Rican cigarette at him, Saul tells Walt that their business relationship is done. Walt bridles at that, backing Saul into a corner of the office. "We're done when I say we're done," he says. Walt returns home to find Skyler changing Holly's diaper in the bedroom. "I heard what happened to Ted," he says. Skyler tries to assure Walt that Ted won't talk, but Walt just wraps his arms around her. "I forgive you," he says, and Skyler is left to endure his menacing embrace.

Episode 2: Madrigal
At a test kitchen in Germany, Madrigal Electromotive executive Peter Schuler glumly tastes a variety of dipping sauces. His secretary interrupts to inform him the police have arrived. On his way to face his fate, Schuler grabs an automatic defibrillator and locks himself in the bathroom. As the authorities pound on the door, Schuler places one of the AED contacts in his mouth and electrocutes himself. Panicked, Jesse tells Walt over the phone that the Rican cigarette is still missing, fearing an innocent bystander might find it. After promising to help Jesse look for it, Walt fills a similar vial with salt and creates a duplicate cigarette. He then stashes the real Rican which he retrieved from Saul previously behind a wall outlet cover in his bedroom at the White house. Walt and Jesse toss his house, searching desperately for the cigarette. On the verge of giving up, Jesse heeds Walt's suggestion to check the Roomba where he finds the fake Rican cigarette. Devastated, broken, Jesse apologizes for accusing Walt of poisoning Brock. Walt and Jesse visit Mike and announce plans to start cooking again, but Mike refuses to partner up. "You are a time bomb," he tells Walt. "I have no intention of being around for the boom." Hank, Gomez and Merkert meet with Madrigal executives. The head of Madrigal is shocked at Schuler's death, and remorseful. He pledges Madrigal's cooperation with the DEA investigation. Hank and Gomez share a drink with Merkert, who has been quietly pushed out for his personal relationship with Gus and for failing to sniff out Gus's drug empire. Hank says he managed to peek at the laptop before the evidence room debacle, but it was encrypted he doubts theyd have gotten much off it anyway. "So Hector Salamanca killed Fring, but who gave Salamanca the bomb?" Merkert asks. Gomez mentions APD's discovery of Gus's secret offshore bank accounts as a possible lead. Mike meets Lydia, one of the Madrigal executives, at a diner. She hands him a list of eleven men who were on Gus's payroll and suggests Mike kill them before they can implicate either of them. Mike shoots down the idea, vouching for his men. At home, Skyler refuses to get out of bed, insisting someone else can open the car wash for her. Walt suggests she take a shower to feel better, and she wordlessly obliges: after his eerie absolution, she seems like a shadow of herself. Mike walks into the DEA offices as Chow, the proprietor of Gus's chemical warehouse, walks out. "You know they talked to me," Chow says nervously. If Mike is unnerved by that news, he doesn't show a hint of it. In an interrogation room, Mike tells Hank that he worked for Los Pollos as head of corporate security. Hank doesn't buy his story, but admits he doesnt have enough evidence to arrest Mike. As Mike leaves, Hank mentions that they traced Gus's offshore accounts to eleven men including a $2 million account in Mike's granddaughter Kaylee's name. Mike pauses, but then says he has no idea what theyre talking about: even though the Feds have seized his money, he still won't crack. Walt and Jesse visit Saul to discuss finding a new venue for the lab, preferably nearby and not in an RV. Saul says an in-town venue will be difficult, but Walt snaps, "If Gus can manage it, then so can we." Jesse reports that he was able to find all the precursor chemicals except for methylamine. Walt encourages Jesse to keep looking for methylamine, but Jesse doubts he'll be able to scare any up. When Saul advises they pull out of the meth business, Walt snaps back that he's broke. "Does that seem like an acceptable stopping point to you?"

Mike is playing a board game with his granddaughter when Chow calls to say the DEA threatened to take his money. "We gotta talk, not on the phone," Chow says. "Can you come to my house?" Chow hangs up and looks at Chris one of Mike's former henchmen who's holding him at gunpoint: someone is setting a trap for Mike. From inside Chow's house, Chris watches Mike walk toward the front door and puts his gun muzzle to the peephole. He hears a strange sound and looks through the peephole, where he sees a suspended toy pig Mike borrowed from Kaylee's old toys at his apartment. Suddenly, Mike is behind Chris and orders him to drop the gun. Chris admits that Lydia was going to pay him $30,000 to kill Mike and $10,000 for each man on the list, starting with Chow who's already dead on the couch. Mike shoots him dead with a sigh. Later, Mike travels to Houston, sneaks into Lydia's house and pulls her into a bedroom at gunpoint. Lydia begs him to leave her body in the house so that her daughter won't think she was abandoned. On the verge of shooting her, something stops him. He hesitates and asks if she can still get her hands on methylamine. "Maybe," she says. "Why?" Clearly in a corner, and not happy about the decision he's about to make, Mike calls Walt and agrees to a partnership. "Good," Walt says and hangs up. He washes the dishes and then climbs into bed with Skyler, who refuses to face him. "What you're feeling right now, about Ted, everything. It'll pass," he says, caressing her arm and kissing her. "When we do what we do for good reasons, then we've got nothing to worry about," he continues. "And there's no better reason than family." Skyler, shell-shocked and unable to bring herself to stop him, stares silently ahead as Walt fondles her unresponsive body.

Episode 3: Hazard Pay

Posing as a paralegal, Mike visits Dennis, the manager of Gus' industrial laundry, in jail. During the meeting, Dennis's lawyer, Dan, tunes out and listens to music: he doesn't want to hear what Mike has to say to Dennis about their ongoing collusion. Mike reassures Dennis that the deal he had with Gus is still in place and he should stay quiet. Dennis swears he's loyal to Mike but since the feds took his hazard pay, and everyone else's, "Sooner or later someone's gonna flip." Mike guarantees everyone will get paid, and they shake on it. In the hallway, Mike and Dan go through the list of Mike's guys and where they're being held. It's going to be a long, tiring day, but the two of them are going to see all of them. Skyler finds Walt in high spirits as he unpacks boxes in the bedroom. It's official: he's decided to move back in. When she questions whether this is a good idea, he doesn't pay her any mind. Mike waits outside Saul's office while Huell guards the door. Inside, Walt and Jesse assuage Saul's doubts about working with Mike, who once threatened to break Saul's legs. They let Mike in and he lays down ground rules: He runs the business, Walt and Jesse cover production. Saul privately asks Walt if he's okay with the arrangement, but Walt's unfazed: "He handles the business, and I handle him." Saul takes the team on a tour of potential new lab venues, but Walt, Jesse, and Mike nix them all, spotting logistical problems with each. Jesse and Mike are ready to dismiss the final venue, a pest control business, but Walt demurs, declaring, "It's perfect." The next day, the four watch the pest-control team as it tents an infested home. Walt explains his plan: If they cook inside houses undergoing fumigation, no one will bother them or question strange smells. They can hide in plain sight. Saul says the pest crew, run by a man named Ira, runs a burglary operation on the side and knows how to keep secrets. Mike suggests a vote. "Why?" asks Walt: he's already convinced, and so is Jesse. Skinny Pete and Badger purchase four giant roadie cases from the local guitar store and wheel them into the pest control headquarters the cases have been stenciled, "Vamonos Pest." They ask Jesse to get in on his new business, but Jesse doesn't bite. Mike debriefs the pest control crew and forbids stealing from the houses. He also orders them never to engage with Walt and Jesse without an invitation. "On the other hand, if they tell you to jump, you don't ask what for," he says. "You jump." At Jesse's house, Walt and Jesse finalize plans for the mobile lab. They're interrupted by Andrea, who stops by with Brock and invites Walt to stay for dinner. Walt sits uncomfortably with Brock on the couch; it's impossible to say if the boy recognizes Walt as the man who poisoned him, but Walt is certainly uncomfortable in Brock's presence. After the homeowners leave, Walt and Jesse pull up to an infested house in a Vamonos truck. An employee, Todd, tells Walt that he disabled a nanny-cam in the living room. Walt and Jesse assemble the lab from the roadie cases and cook in a sealed tent inside the house. During a break, they watch TV and drink beer on the living room couch. Walt inquires about Andrea and says Jesse can decide for himself whether to tell her about their work if he can't confide in her, then there's no way they can keep going. "Seriously?" Jesse asks. "I know you'll make the right call," Walt says. "If she loves you, she'll understand." A seed of consternation and discontent nearly effortlessly planted by Walt.

At the car wash, Marie tells Skyler that Hank is back at work and insists Skyler plan a party for Walt's birthday. When Skyler takes out a cigarette, Marie chastises her. "Shut up!" Skyler screams. "Shut up! Shut up! Shut up!" she repeats, breaking down in tears. Marie is concerned and baffled by the outburst. In the new "lab," Jesse and Walt weigh the meth and Walt admires the yield. As they leave the house, Jesse sets off the fumigation system to finish the pest control work. Walt finds Marie waiting for him at home. Skyler is resting in the bedroom as Marie recounts Skyler's breakdown and presses Walt for a reason, concerned for her sister's well being. Walt tells her the half-truth that Skyler had an affair with Ted Beneke, who is now in the hospital. Marie is shocked, but Walt, manipulating Marie, begs her to keep it a secret from Hank. At Jesse's house, Andrea and Brock play video games while Jesse zones out. Andrea asks if he's okay. "I'm good," he says, but he's clearly unsettled. The seed Walt planted is starting to grow After rousing herself from bed, Skyler finds Walt and Walter, Jr. watching Scarface in the living room. She stares silently as the two revel in Al Pacino's shooting rampage. Like Jesse was with Andrea, she's unsettled by this tableau. Back at the Vamonos office, Mike divides the profit into three piles $367,000 each. He takes money from each pile to pay for distribution drivers and Ira's crew. But Walt balks when Mike takes additional money from each pile to pay his nine jailed men. Jesse offers to cover Walt's share but Walt finally relents, bitterly laughing at his net reduced profit. "It's less than with Fring," he notes. "Just because you shot Jesse James don't make you Jesse James," Mike replies. After Mike leaves, Walt asks Jesse how he's feeling. Jesse glumly reports that he broke up with Andrea. Walt cuts him short; he was asking about the money. Jesse reasons they're ultimately getting a bigger piece of the pie, so they shouldn't complain. Walt disagrees, and brings up Victor. Maybe, he surmises, Gus didn't just kill Victor to send a message. "Victor trying to cook that batch on his own, taking liberties that werent his to take?" Walt says. "Maybe he flew too close to the sun &38212; got his throat cut." Jesse watches Walt walk away, thinking about exactly what that means for their fledgling new enterprise.

Episode 4: Fifty-One
Walt and Walter, Jr. pick up the Aztec from an auto repair shop, getting an impromptu history of all the repairs the beleaguered vehicle's been through this year. Still, the mechanic says the sturdy car has a lot of miles left in it. Walt retrieves his Heisenberg porkpie hat from the front seat, and not thrilled at the prospect of driving this car until the day he dies sells the car to the mechanic for $50. Afterward, Walt pulls into the driveway in a brand-new Chrysler. Walter, Jr., watching from his PT Cruiser, gives the car mild approval. Walt gets the message: it's hard to love your dad's new ride when youre cruising in a mommobile. A few hours later, Walt pulls into the driveway followed by Jr. in a new Dodge Challenger the same model Skyler insisted go back to the dealership months ago. They both rev their engines, giddy with exhilaration. At Madrigal in Houston, Lydia receives a call from Mike, who warns that the police are about to arrive. A few seconds later, Hank and Gomez enter with officers in tow. Lydia escorts them to the Madrigal warehouse and points out Ron, the foreman. Ron stares daggers at her as the officers arrest him: she's thrown one of her own to the wolves. Back in her office Lydia calls Mike, hysterical about Ron's arrest. He reassures her that Ron won't talk, but she says she cannot continue to supply methylamine without someone in the warehouse. "I'll send a new guy," Mike says simply. Skyler pulls up to the driveway and finds that she's forced to park on the street thanks to Walt and Walter, Jr.'s new cars. At dinner, Walt and Walter, Jr. playfully debate whose car is faster. Walt boasts of doing donuts while a silent Skyler looks on, not happy with this ostentatious new development. As they prepare for bed, Walt assures Skyler that the cars can still fit their gambling story since they're only leases, not purchases. He then lays a small stack of bills on the bathroom counter. "You're back at it?" she asks. "Have to make up that $600,000 we lost," he says, getting in a dig about her relationship with Ted. In bed, Skyler suggests sending the kids to boarding school to offer them a change of environment. When Walt asks what's wrong with their current environment, she clams up. Brazen, he promises "clear sailing" from here on out. Rubbing her shoulders and trying to set her at ease, he suggests maybe the best way to get back to normalcy is for her to throw him a birthday party. The next morning, Skyler presents Walt with a bacon-and-eggs breakfast, impassively arranging the bacon into the number 51 only after Walter, Jr. insists. Hank and Gomez are examining a flowchart of Gus's empire when SAC Ramey arrives. Complimenting Hank on his police-work, Ramey offers Hank the position of ASAC that Merkert has vacated, though he warns it'll mean giving up his pursuit of Heisenberg to a field agent. Hank accepts. On the way to the White house, Marie lets slip to Hank that she's learned something troubling about Skyler, but promised Walt she wouldn't say any more. "It involves infidelity and that's all I'm going to say," she bursts out, then clarifying that it's not Walt who was unfaithful, but Skyler. Hank is surprised. That evening, Walt, Skyler, Walter, Jr., Hank and Marie finish a low-key birthday dinner in the Whites' back yard. After Walter, Jr. excuses himself, Walt points out that it's been a year since his cancer diagnosis. As he reminisces about the early days of his treatment, Skyler slowly descends into the pool, fully-clothed, and sinks to the bottom. Panicked, Marie and Hank rush around the edge of the pool until Walt plunges in to pull her out. In Houston, Lydia opens a loading bay door to find Jesse outside. She takes him to the warehouse, where he uses a forklift to grab a barrel of methylamine. As Jesse lowers the barrel, Lydia yells for him to stop. "Please tell

me that's not what I think it is," she says, pointing her flashlight at a GPS tracker affixed to the bottom of the barrel. As Skyler rests in the bedroom, Walt tells Hank about his marital issues, confirming Marie's story. Marie suggests she and Hank look after the kids until their issues are resolved. At Walt's prodding, Marie admits the plan is Skyler's idea. In the bedroom, Walt tells Skyler that Marie took the kids but asserts it is only a temporary situation. Skyler puts her foot down and says that even though she herself has been compromised, "I will not have my children living in a house where dealing drugs and hurting people and killing people is shrugged off as 's happens.'" Skyler threatens to claim spousal abuse if Walt brings the kids home, but Walt argues she wouldn't want the police involved, nor would she want to hurt Walter, Jr. with that assertion and taunts her to come up with a better plan. She finally breaks down. "All I can do is wait," she says. "Wait for what?" Walt asks. "For the cancer to come back," she replies. Walt recoils as if he's been slapped in the face. The next day at Vamonos Pest, Jesse and Mike discuss the GPS device while Walt listens silently. Suspicious of the GPS's sloppy installation, Mike learns that Lydia was the one who spotted it and concludes she planted it to extricate herself from the business. Mike vows to kill her, even if it means slowing down business for a while. Jesse turns to Walt for a vote to spare Lydia's life. Walt doesn't care about Lydia, but the supply problem does bother him: "Nothing stops this train," Walt finally says. It's clear that this is the end of the discussion. Outside, Jesse compliments Walt on his plan for dealing with Lydia, then hands him a birthday present: an expensive wristwatch. Returning home, Walt tries to make small talk with Skyler and informs her that there's more money coming. When she makes no reply, Walt shows off Jesse's gift. "The person who gave me this present wanted me dead, too," he tells her. "He changed his mind about me, Skyler, and so will you." In bed, Walt looks at his watch on the bedside table, then turns off the light. The watch ticks in the darkness, growing louder and louder as the seconds go by.

Episode 5: Dead Freight

A boy on a dirt bike zips through the desert, pausing to marvel at a tarantula. As it crawls across his hand, he hears a train whistle in the distance. He puts the tarantula in a glass jar, jumps back on his bike and zooms off. Hank is settling into his new office, following his promotion to ASAC, when Walt stops by. Walt thanks Hank for taking the kids, then breaks down and tearfully confides that Skyler doesn't love him any more. Uncomfortable with this upwelling of emotion, Hank closes the office blinds and offers to fetch them both some coffee. As soon as Hank exits the room, Walt springs into action. He pulls open a framed photo of Hank and Marie, and plants a tiny electronic listening device inside. As Hank walks back in, Walt hurries to reassemble the frame. "You two are so great together," Walt tells Hank, still holding the photo and feigning a nearly tearful state. Mike, Walt, and Jesse kidnap Lydia and bring her to an abandoned warehouse, where they handcuff her to a table. At Mike's orders, she calls Hank to report that she spotted what looked like a GPS device on one of Madrigal's methylamine barrels, and to ask how she should handle that development. On a laptop, Jesse taps into the bug Walt planted in Hank's office, and they all listen as Hank and Gomez puzzle over who planted the GPS device supporting Mike's belief that it was Lydia who did. As Lydia protests her innocence, Hank calls the Houston DEA office and learns that his colleagues in Texas did indeed tag the methylamine barrels not just the one that Lydia spotted, but all of them. Still, Mike maintains they should kill Lydia. "She's a loose cannon," he says. "The woman put a hit out on me." Besides, her barrels of methylamine are now all useless to them. Desperate, Lydia blurts out that she can direct them to "an ocean" of methylamine. Walt talks one-on-one with Lydia, who demands a guarantee that she wont be killed once she reveals the methylamine source. When Walt asks why she went after Mike, she says she couldn't abide his decision to pay off rather than kill his nine men in prison, a complaint Walt definitely shares. She asks him to swear on his children's lives that she won't be harmed, then reveals how Walt can obtain 24,000 gallons of methylamine. Once Walt brings Mike and Jesse back into the warehouse, Lydia lays down a map revealing the route for a train carrying a tanker car full of methylamine. She zeroes in on a three-mile stretch of "dark territory" a dead zone for all lines of communication and suggests they rob the train there. Mike points out that in order to get away with the robbery, they'll have to kill the innocent train crew, which deeply troubles Jesse. Stymied, the guys head back to Albuquerque. At the Schrader residence, Hank and Marie play with Baby Holly and discuss Walter, Jr.'s sullen behavior. Junior briefly emerges to grab a soda from the kitchen, but retreats back to his guest room with a snide comment: he's clearly not thrilled to be living in exile. At Jesse's house, Mike advocates foregoing methylamine altogether and scrounging cold pills again. Walt argues that they would have to take a loss on their new equipment and a pseudo cook would drastically reduce their output, darkly reminding him that they have to keep cooking to cover the hazard pay for Mike's men. As the two bicker, Jesse speaks up: "What if we can rip off that train and no one ever knows it got robbed?" Starting from the crossroads of train tracks, Walt, Jesse and Mike measure a span of railroad track with a surveyor's wheel. Jesse reads out distances as they walk, then stops at a low trestle bridge. "We do it here," he declares. Later, a bulldozer digs a shallow pit under the trestle into which two large and empty containers are lowered. As Walt smoothes dirt over the freshly-buried containers, Todd from Vamonos Pest arrives with a water truck.

As Todd fills one of the containers, Jesse and Walt explain their plan to siphon the train's methylamine tank and refill it with water so that the cargo will weigh the same at both the train's origin and terminus. The batch will be only slightly diluted, Walt says, which Madrigal will blame on the supplier in China. Walter, Jr. has returned home against his mother's wishes, and Skyler unsuccessfully tries to coax him out of his room. When Walt arrives, Walter, Jr. demands to know why he's being forced to stay at his aunt and uncle's house. Walt lays down the law, and an embittered Junior dutifully obeys his father and heads out. Walt expects Skyler to thank him for holding the line with Junior and kicking him out, but instead she coldly reiterates that as long as Walt is in the drug business, the kids must never return. "You agree to that, and I will be whatever kind of partner you want me to be," she says. Wryly noting Walt's dirty pants, Skyler asks, "Out burying bodies?" "Robbing a train," Walt coolly replies. The next day, Walt, Jesse and Todd wait by the trestle bridge. With a hidden Mike standing guard nearby, Saul's henchman Kuby parks a dump truck directly on the train tracks at the crossroads, pretending the truck has broken down. The train is forced to stop. With Kuby distracting the train crew, our guys jump into action beneath the trestle bridge. As Todd climbs to the top of the tanker with the water hose, Jesse siphons methylamine out the bottom. Back at the crossroads, a "Good Samaritan" arrives and offers to push Kuby's truck off the tracks. Mike alerts Walt to abort, but Walt refuses and insists that Jesse and Todd keep going until they've obtained the targeted 1,000 gallons of methylamine. Just as they finish, the train starts moving again. Todd jumps down from the side of the tanker car, but Jesse is forced to lay flat as the train rolls right over him. The heist a success, the three begin cheering. The noise dies down as Walt turns off the water pump, allowing the guys to become aware of the purr of a small engine. It's the boy on his motorized dirt bike, idling nearby. The boy waves at them. Todd waves back, then immediately pulls out a gun. Jesse cries out to stop him, but it's too late: Todd fires. The boy topples off the bike and falls to the ground, his glass jar rolling out beside him. As the boy lies motionless in the sand, the trapped tarantula claws at the walls of its cage.

Episode 6: Buyout
At Vamonos Pest, Walt, Mike and Todd silently unload the train heist equipment from a dirt-filled dump truck. Like surgeons, they dismantle the motorbike ridden by the boy that Todd shot, placing all the parts into a barrel, then pouring hydrofluoric acid over them in order to dissolve the evidence. As Walt readies another barrel, Todd digs through the dirt, uncovering the boy's arm. The guys wince, dreading the task ahead. Todd joins a tormented Jesse outside for a cigarette. "Shit happens, huh?" Todd offers. Enraged by Todd's attempt to make conversation, Jesse punches Todd in the face. Later in the Vamonos office, Todd tries to justify his actions: "It was him or us," Todd insists, "and I chose us." Before he leaves, Todd pleads to be allowed to stay in the operation, boasting that his uncle's prison connections could help them out. Alone with Mike and Jesse, Walt reviews their options: fire Todd, dispose of him, or keep him working for them under close watch. Walt and Mike vote for option three, despite Jesse's protests. Mike informs Todd that he's still on the crew, for now. "The next time you bring a gun to a job without telling me," he warns, "I will stick it up your ass sideways." Back in his car, Todd breathes a sigh of relief, then takes the dead boy's tarantula out of his bag and marvels at it. Gomez and another DEA agent surveil Mike, who's at the park with his granddaughter. They watch Mike stow a note under a garbage can. Gomez, thinking it's a dead drop, excitedly retrieves the note after Mike leaves. His face falls when he sees the message: "F you." Mike listens in via the bug planted in Hank's office as Gomez reports on the incident to Hank. Hank predicts that Mike is bound to make a mistake eventually. While visiting Holly at Hank and Marie's house, Skyler tears up. She misses the kids, but knows she needs to stay away to keep them safe. "Safe from what?" Marie asks. "From Walt and me," she explains. Marie urges Skyler to unburden herself, promising that there isn't anything Skyler couldn't talk to her about. Right as Skyler seems about to let the floodgates open, Marie blurts out that she knows about Skyler's affair with Ted. Realizing that Walt has already gotten to Marie, Skyler coolly plays along. While taking a break from cooking, Walt and Jesse catch a TV news report about the dead boy, who's been reported missing. Noting Jesse's distress, Walt turns off the TV and sensitively assures him there will be "plenty of time for soul-searching" once theyve exhausted the methylamine and made their money. Walt offers to finish the cook alone, a proposal that Jesse gratefully accepts. However, as Jesse leaves, he overhears Walt whistling happily. Jesse pauses, shocked at his partner's apparently upbeat attitude in the wake of their role in this boy's death. Later, Walt drops off the latest batch of meth at Vamonos Pest, where he finds Mike and Jesse conferring in the office. Mike tells Walt that the DEA is tailing him, and declares that he's quitting the business. Barely concealing his pleasure at this news, Walt tells Mike that he'll have to teach Jesse how to manage the distribution end of the business. Jesse, unable to look Walt in the eye, says that he's out, too. Mike outlines a plan to sell his and Jesse's share of two-thirds of the methylamine to a Phoenix connection for $5 million apiece. Walt accuses Jesse of selling out, but Jesse disagrees. "Are we in the meth business or the money business?" he argues. Out in the desert, Mike and Jesse give their potential buyer, Declan, a methylamine sample. Declan agrees to the $10 million price if it means getting the blue meth off the market, but quickly deduces that they have a third

partner who still intends to cook. He calls the deal off unless they agree to sell all 1000 gallons of methylamine to him. At the White residence, Jesse begs Walt to sell his share, insisting $5 million is more than enough. Walt refuses and recounts how he sold his share of Gray Matter now worth $2.16 billion for a mere $5,000. "I sold my kids' birthright for a few months' rent," he says, declaring that he's in neither the meth nor the money business, but rather in the empire business. Skyler arrives home and Walt brazenly re-introduces her to Jesse. He insists that Jesse stay for dinner. Skyler grudgingly obliges. During dinner, Jesse makes small talk while Skyler drinks copious amounts of wine. When Jesse mentions he's heard great things about Skyler from Walt, she pointedly asks Jesse if Walt told him about her affair, then excuses herself from the table. Walt confides in Jesse that Skyler forced him to send the kids away, and that she is counting the days until his cancer returns. "This business is all I have left now," he mourns, "And you want to take it away from me." Later in the evening, a desperate Walt rushes to the Vamonos garage, seeking to steal the tank of methylamine before Jesse and Mike can sell it. Mike, predicting that Walt would try this, catches him in the act. He holds Walt at gunpoint for the rest of the night so that Walt doesn't have a chance to ruin Mike's plan. In the morning, Mike tells Walt that he needs to leave Vamonos for a short while to take care of an errand. Not trusting Walt to be left alone, he zip-cuffs Walt to a radiator and exits. Seeing no way to wrest himself loose from the zipcuff, Walt tries to knock a nearby coffee pot off a filing cabinet hoping to use the broken glass to cut himself free. Unfortunately, the pot doesn't break, and the only thing left within his reach is the coffee maker's power cord, which is plugged into a surge protector. Using his teeth, Walt strips the power cord down to the wire. Bracing himself, he turns the surge protector on, creating an electric arc between the wires that burns through the plastic cuff on his wrist. Finally free, he runs to a nearby water cooler and pours cold water over his badly injured wrist. Meanwhile, tending to his errand, Mike visits the DEA offices with Saul. Saul tells Hank and Gomez that their ongoing surveillance of Mike is tantamount to stalking, and that he's filed for a Temporary Restraining Order with a sympathetic judge. Afterward, Saul tells Mike that the TRO won't hold up long, and Hank will be back on his tail with a vengeance within twenty-four hours. "It's enough," Mike says. Back at Vamonos, Mike goes looking for the tanker of methylamine, but finds the garage cleaned out. He angrily storms into the office, where Walt and Jesse wait. Mike shoves a gun in Walt's face, demanding to know where the methylamine is. Jesse cries out that Walt has a plan that will make everyone happy. "Is that true, Walter?" Mike asks. Walt stares back at Mike. "Everybody wins," he promises.

Episode 7: Say My Name

Mike, Jesse and Walt meet Declan in the desert. Walt squelches the methylamine deal but offers Declan a 35% stake in the business if he agrees to distribute Walt's meth and pay Mike his $5 million as a finder's fee. Confounded by Walt's galling demands, Declan asks, "Who the hell are you?" Walt declares that he's the cook the man who killed Gus Fring. "Say my name," Walt demands. "You're Heisenberg," says Declan, finally putting the pieces together. "You're goddamn right," Walt growls. After Declan leaves, Jesse reminds Walt that he wants out, too, and asks when he'll get his $5 million. Walt evades the question and asks for more time to get set up with the new crew. At Vamonos, Mike reiterates that he'll pay the legacy costs out of his own pocket, but that the last outstanding threat is the bug in Hank's office. He curtly tells Walt to retrieve it. Walt storms off when Mike refuses to thank him for brokering the deal with Declan. Jesse says good-bye to Mike, repeating that he's leaving the business. Mike clearly doesn't buy it. As they shake hands, Walt eyes them from the office. Walt and Jesse retrieve the methylamine from the car wash. Fearing it will attract danger, Skyler demands to know what it is and why Walt was hiding it. Walt deflects Skyler's questions and suggests she return to the office. Jesse stares sadly after her. Dan Wachsberger the lawyer for Mike's imprisoned guys visits a bank and stacks money in various safety deposit boxes. He puts the remaining cash in a larger box, along with an envelope that reads, "To Kaylee on her 18th birthday." Dan joins Mike in his car. "I guess this is it for a while," he says, assuring Mike that his men's families will continue to get their hazard pay. Out in the desert, Mike listens to Hank's bugged office via his laptop and learns that a search warrant for his home has just been expedited. Mike uncovers a hidden and abandoned well and tosses the laptop inside, along with a large cache of guns: he's clearing the decks and closing up shop. At an airport parking lot, Mike stores a duffel bag in his trunk, hides the car keys nearby and hails a cab home. Shortly after, Hank and a crew of DEA agents arrive to search Mike's apartment, but find nothing. Hank glares at Mike, stymied. At Vamonos, Jesse again tells Walt he's ready to collect his money and quit. Walt tries to change Jesse's mind, offering him his own lab. When that fails, Walt asks why Jesse would squander his cooking skills. "What have you got in your life? Nothing, nobody," Walt taunts. Jesse angrily asks how many more people have to die at their hands. Walt counters that if Jesse is concerned about that, he has no business wanting any blood money. "Whatever man, you don't wanna pay me? I don't care. It's on you, Jesse says, abandoning Walt. Walt impotently flings a few more words at Jesse, but he's gone. Walt's alone. Via teleconference, SAC Ramey chastises Hank for obsessing over the Fring case and shirking his new duties as ASAC. To prevent further waste, he kills the budget for the surveillance of Mike Ehrmantraut. Undeterred, Hank instructs Gomez to trail Dan Wachsberger. Gomez is reluctant to tail a lawyer, but concedes: "You're the boss." Walt suits up and enters the cooking tent, where Todd awaits as his new assistant. Todd takes copious notes as Walt explains the cooking process. When they finish the batch, Todd admits he's overwhelmed. "You applied yourself, that's as much as I can ask," Walt encourages, then brings up money. Todd says they can talk money once he gets the job right.

Back at the bank, Gomez and his men walk in on Dan as he makes another round of legacy payments. Dan's caught, red-handed; Gomez can't help but grin. Walt visits Hank at work and again sobs about his marital problems, asking Hank for coffee. Walt removes the bug before Hank returns, then overhears Gomez briefing Hank on the Wachsberger interrogation: "He's willing to give us Ehrmantraut," Gomez says, celebrating with Hank. While watching Kaylee play in the park, Mike receives a call from Dan, who requests a meet. Mike senses something wrong, but doesn't notice anything amiss in the park. Walt then calls and frantically warns that the DEA is coming for him. A patrol car drives up, and cops flank Mike's car, searching for him. Mike steals one last look at Kaylee before fleeing the cops who are closing in. In his office, Saul worries that Mike will flip if captured. "He won't flip," Jesse insists, but Walt worries that one of his nine men will. Mike then calls, asking Saul to fetch his go-bag. With the police watching Saul's movements, and Jesse out of the business, Walt volunteers to retrieve it. At the airport, Walt grabs the duffel bag from Mike's car and opens it, finding cash, a passport, and a holstered revolver inside. Walt meets Mike in a remote area near the Rio Grande. Handing over the duffel, Walt insists Mike reveal the names of his nine men. Mike refuses, ranting at Walt for ruining a "good thing" by destroying Gus's empire. "It was perfect, but no you just had to blow it up," Mike sneers. "You and your pride and your ego, you just had to be the man. If youd done your job, known your place, we'd all be fine right now." Walt storms off, infuriated, but quickly doubles back toward Mike. Meanwhile, Mike opens the duffel bag in his car and finds the revolver missing from its holster. Immediately Walt appears outside his window and fires. Mike slams the car into gear and drives off, but quickly crashes into a nearby rock. Walt, in shock, cautiously approaches the car and finds it empty. He follows Mike's blood trail into the reeds by the Rio Grande, where Mike is sitting quietly on a rock, bleeding to death. Walt gently takes another gun from Mike's hand and looks off, dazed. "I just realized that Lydia has the names," Walt says. "I'm sorry, Mike, this whole thing could've been avoided if" Mike cuts him off: "Shut the f up and let me die in peace," he says. Walt and Mike stare silently at the river until Mike slumps over, dead.

Episode 8: Gliding Over All

Lost in his thoughts at the empty Vamonos Pest office, Walt stares at a fly that has landed on the desk in front of him. Transfixed, he doesn't seem to notice when Todd enters the office. "The car has been dealt with, sir," Todd says softly, confirming that Old Joe crushed Mike's car at the junkyard. "Should we deal with this other thing now?" Grimacing, they open the trunk of Walt's car. Mike's body lies motionless inside. "It had to be done," Walt insists as they prep a barrel and hydrofluoric acid. "Okay," says an agreeable Todd. Right before they get started, the garage door unexpectedly rolls open. Todd slams the trunk shut as Jesse walks in, demanding to know if Mike got away. "He's gone," Walt evades. Worried that Mike's men are liable to talk to the DEA now that their hazard pay is gone, Jesse wonders what their plan of action should be. "There is no 'we,' Jesse. I'm the only vote left," Walt chides. "And I'll handle it." With that, Walt closes the garage door in Jesse's face. Dennis and a public defender meet with Hank and an Assistant U.S. Attorney. The public defender states that his client is willing to give up details of Fring's operation, but only if the DEA drops all charges and offers him immunity. Hank refuses, boasting that he has eight other guys like Dennis locked up, not to mention Mike's lawyer. At a coffee shop, Walt asks Lydia for the names of Mike's men. Concerned that Walt will kill her once she gives up the list, Lydia argues for her continued usefulness by proposing he use Madrigal's resources to expand the business into the Czech Republic. Walt hears her out, and agrees to a trial run of her plan. Pleased, she shakes his hand and gives him the names. After she exits, Walt uncovers the Rican vial that he'd intended to poison her with: she'd been right about his intentions after all. Walt returns home to hide the Rican once again. He calls Todd, requesting to set up a meeting with Todd's prison-connected uncle. In a motel room, Walt sits quietly while Todd's uncle Jack and his crew debate the logistics of killing Mike's men in prison. Finally, Jack tells Walt he can take out all ten guys but not in two minutes as Walt requested. "Figure it out," Walt orders. "That's what I'm paying you for." At home, Walt stares out a window and consults his watch. Over the course of the next two minutes, all ten men scattered across three jails are murdered by other inmates. At the DEA, Gomez informs Hank of the killings. Meanwhile, Walt's cell phone rings. "It's done," Jack tells him. As Walt plays with Holly at the Schrader home, a TV news anchor reports that authorities are investigating a coordinated sequence of prison attacks. Hank comes home despondent. After pouring himself and Walt a stiff drink, Hank reminisces about a summer job tagging trees. That would be a better line of work than "chasing monsters," he sighs. Weeks pass as Walt and Todd cook batch after batch. While Todd drops meth off with Declan's driver, Lydia labels contraband-filled barrels bound for Europe. Walt and Todd count money as it rolls in, and Skyler balances the car wash ledger. Everything is going according to plan though the relentlessness of the process seems to be taking a toll on Walt. Two months later, at the Schrader house, Marie carefully approaches Skyler about moving the kids back home. "Maybe at this point the best way to help repair the family would be to repair the family," Marie suggests. Uneasy, Skyler considers. At home, Skyler finds Walt staring solemnly at the swimming pool. "Take a drive with me," she implores.

Skyler brings Walt to a storage unit and reveals a massive cube of stacked cash. Walt is speechless as she explains that there's too much money to count, and far too much to launder. "I want my kids back. I want my life back," she pleads. "How big does this pile have to be?" Walt gets a CAT Scan. In the bathroom of Dr. Delcavoli's office, he washes his hands and stares at the dented metal towel dispenser that he pummeled months earlier upon learning that he was in remission. Jesse, looking worse for wear, dozes off holding a lit cigarette in his filthy house. Walt stops by, and Jesse greets him warily. As he's hiding his bong, Jesse admits that Saul told him that Walt took care of Mike's men. Even with that knowledge, he still has no intention of returning to the business. The two reminisce about the old days in the RV. Jesse wonders why, even after they had money, they chose to keep it. "Inertia," Walt muses. When Walt leaves, Jesse finds he's left behind two black duffel bags. He nervously unzips a bag and finds it's filled with cash. Jesse breathes deeply and collapses to the floor. He takes out a gun he'd been hiding in his waistband and slides it away across the floor looks like he shared Lydia's fears about Walt's homicidal streak. Upon his return home, Walt approaches Skyler, who's washing dishes in the White kitchen. "I'm out," he announces. She stares at him, incredulous. "I'm out," he confirms. Walt smiles bitter sweetly, and leaves Skyler standing in the kitchen, a glimmer of hope flickering in her eyes. Later, Walt, Skyler, Marie and Hank enjoy a family meal poolside while Walter, Jr. plays with Holly. Marie and Skyler talk about hair preferences past and present, while Walt and Hank discuss Hank's homebrew, Schraderbrau. Walt and Skyler share a small smile at this apparent return to normalcy. Hank excuses himself from the table, and heads to the bathroom. Searching for reading material, he picks up a copy of Walt Whitman's Leaves of Grass from a magazine basket. Inside the front cover, Hank notices an inscription: "To my other favorite W.W. Its an honor working with you. Fondly, G.B. A flicker of recognition crosses Hank's face. Hank flashes back to the time he consulted Walt about Gale Boettichers lab notebook. Hank reads a note "To W.W. My Star, My Perfect Silence" and jokes that the initials correspond with Walt's. "You got me," jokes Walt, putting his hands up. Back in the present, a look of horror crosses Hank's face as the realization sinks in: Walt is Heisenberg.