BREAKING BAD 5.5 Recap

Breaking Bad gives us another extremely cold open as we see the coolest kid you will never be dirt biking through the desert and then befriending a cuddly tarantula. Opening Credits! Who is this kid? I don't know, but I'm guessing he's going to be revisited somewhere this episode. Walt pays Hank a visit at his new fancy boss man office and breaks down about Skyler. Hank, being an uncomfortable straight man around other straight man tears, leaves. Giving Walt the opportunity to plant a bug in Hank's office. What is he going to use that for I wonder? Down in some basement somewhere, Mike, Jesse and Walt kidnap Lydia to try and get to the bottom of the whole methlymine bugging incident. Jesse is on her side, not wanting to spill blood, trigger happy Mike is looking to shoot someone in the head and all Walt cares about is keeping the meth juice flowing. Lydia snivels and bit and promises it wasn't her. Mike offers her a deal, call Hank, ask him if one of his guys put the bug on the barrel during the investigation or he shoots her in the head. Lydia obliges but to her misfortune, Hank knows nothing about it. The three baldies put it to a vote and all but Jesse want her dead. But heavens! The bug Walt put in Hank's office picks up Hank talking to some out of town cops who stupidly put the bugs on every single barrel in plain sight. And Lydia lives another day! Now the problem lies in stealing the methlymine barrels that are all traceable. Lydia, with the hail Mary idea, suggests they rip off the shipment of meth juice. And so the gang devises a plan to rob a train! Oh lordy, we've gone into the wild west! Follow free wheelin' Jesse through the JUMP! Image and video hosting by TinyPic Mike, in all his year of killing people and robbing stuff, know there's no way to do this job without leaving any witnesses, unless they want to kill the two conductors on board. Walt is really okay with that as long as they get the methlymine, but Jesse again protests popping people in the name of blue crystal. So Jesse devises a plan to take the juice without anyone knowing. One of Mike's guys parks his truck on the railroad tracks, stopping the train, just long enough for Jesse, Walt and some rando Vamanos Pest guy to swap out 1,0000 gallons of methlymine with water. The great train robbery goes off smoothly, but a good samaritan Native with an awesome pick up truck comes along and offers to give the halted truck a push off the tracks. Mike warns Walt to get his guys off the train but Walt's greed for methlymine suppresses his care for human life as he vows to get to 1,000 gallons before the train moves on. Just as Walt gets to 1,000 gallons, the train begins to move, Jesse must wait in between the tracks for the train to pass as the rando Vamonos Pest guy jumps off the side of the moving train. The train passes and everyone is fine and it seems they have gotten away with stealing 1,000 gallons of meth juice without any witnesses and then they turn around... And it's that damn pesky spider kid from the cold open. I knew he would come back to bite this episode in the ass somehow! The boy waves to our heroes, the rando guy waves back and then pulls out his gun and shoots the kid in the head before anyone has a chance to say anything. End credits!

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