Breaking Bad

The episode begins with a bloody mess covering the floor (with the camera underneath) being wiped off. Walt and Jesse are sponging the putrid mess up into buckets, wearing their biohazard suits and aprons. Walt empties an entire box of baking soda around the area to diffuse the reeking smell. An interesting flashback occurs while cleaning, with a much younger Walt and an unknown woman listing the chemical composition of the human body. While this occurs, Walt and Jesse are seen picking up bones and pieces of partially decomposed flesh. The first floor is leaking acid right through to the basement, where Krazy-8 is standing, still locked to the pipe. Walt empties a bucket into the toilet and flushes.



Meanwhile, Skyler and Walt Jr. are painting the new baby's room while Marie is over. Walt Jr. steps out to take a call and Marie wonders why Walt isn't helping. Skyler asks Marie if pot can have an effect on your mood but doesn't mention Walt. Marie jumps to conclusions and thinks it's Walt Jr. on pot. Next, we see Walt hosing down Jesse in an inflatable pool. Jesse then finds a stash of meth and smokes it. Walt, meanwhile, empties Krazy-8's toilet bucket and sprays air freshener all around. Krazy-8 asks Walt to let him go and warns him about Jesse having a big mouth. Walt finds Jesse upstairs and confronts him �" Walt grabs Jesse's stash (worth $40,000) and tries to flush it. Jesse throws it out the window and Walt can't run far enough before coughing up a storm. Walt eventually catches up and the two have an argument. Walt still has a job to do: kill Krazy-8.



In a store, Marie is looking at some shoes and gets a call from Hank, who's currently apprehending gang members. Marie tells Hank to talk to Walter Jr. about pot. Hank agrees to stop by after work to talk to him. Marie meanwhile, leaves her old running shoes on a small table and walks out of the store while the inattentive store clerk heads to the back. Hank, meanwhile, takes Walt Jr. to a place where druggies live. Hank tries to level with Walt Jr., saying that pot is a gateway drug to meth use. Hank calls over a woman so she can show her teeth, which are rotten from meth use. The woman heads back inside where Jesse is sitting. Walt makes a chart while sitting on the toilet: let him live or let him die and fills it in with reasons to do both. Walt calls Skyler to let her know he's staying late at the car wash, but Skyler has already called the car wash and knows that he quit two weeks ago. Skyler is pretty upset about him being out so long, so she tells him to stay there all night. Walt makes Krazy-8 another sandwich and heads down to the basement. Walt coughs up a fit as he goes downstairs and falls to the floor, breaking the ceramic plate.



When Walt wakes up, it has been some time (10-15 minutes). Walt picks up the pieces and heads upstairs to make another sandwich. He tosses the pieces out, makes a new sandwich, and grabs some beer. Walt starts talking to him and finds out Krazy-8's real name is Domingo. Walt asks him for any reasons to not kill him and Krazy-8 eventually states he has a B.A. in Business and is a musician. Domingo's father owned a discount furniture shop. Jesse doesn't know Walt has cancer yet and tells Domingo it's the reason he's cooking meth. Domingo eventually persuades Walt to get the key to the bike lock in order to let him go. Upstairs though, he suddenly gets an idea to place the pieces of the ceramic plate that broke back together. Laying them out on the kitchen island, he finds that a jagged dagger-like piece is totally missing! Walt checks the garbage one more time, but Domingo must have picked it up. Walt freaks out, because now the tables have turned �" he has to kill Domingo. Downstairs, Walt makes Domingo face away from him. He grabs the lock and sees Domingo's hand slide up into his jeans. Walt tugs the lock back hard, choking Domingo with powerful force. Domingo manages to slash Walt, however, and he begins to bleed. But Domingo is dead soon enough with Walt weeping.



The next day, Jesse returns, Walt's car isn't there. Jesse heads inside the RV to find the mess cleaned up, the basement clean, without a body in it, and the bloody mess we saw before mopped up. Jesse is pretty shocked. At school, Walt isn't there, a substitute saying that he is sick. Meanwhile, Hank has found Krazy-8's car in the desert. Inside, he finds a hidden tiny pack of meth �" the sample from Walt. It's crystal clear. Another DEA agent holds up the gas mask nearby. Walt is seen on a bridge, watching cars pass on a highway below. We see a flashback to the older Walt talking to the unknown woman �" the missing minute percentage of the human body is thought to be the soul. Walt heads home to find Skyler in the bedroom and tells her he has terminal lung cancer.