Monday, August 9, 2010

Breaking Bad 3x06

The Cousins are back. They kill a police officer who’s investigating the disappearance of the elderly lady living in the house they’ve occupied on a reservation outside Albuquerque. Skyler continues having second thoughts about the divorce. If she goes ahead, she will be blamed for ruining their marriage. Yet she is troubled accepting Walt’s drug money, even if that’s what has been paying their bills for the past half year. Walt for his part has bought a new condo. He brings Walter Jr. to school and then goes to work in his state-of-the-art underground laboratory to manufacture methamphetamine with his new assistant Gale. Meanwhile, Hank is staking out at Jesse’s house, waiting for him to lead him to the RV (the camper van he uses as meth lab). Then his wife Marie reminds him that Walt knows Jesse. So, Hank calls Walt and asks him if he happens to know something about the RV. Walt of course fears that his fingerprints are still all over the van, thus he has to get rid of it, but also has to make sure Jesse doesn’t lead Hank to it. Naturally, disaster magnet as he is, Jesse leads Hank straight to the RV on the junk yard!

Walt and Jesse are now stuck inside the camper. Hank wants to break in, but the owner of the lot walks up to Hank asking about a warrant. With a little more time on their hands, Walt figures out a way to get rid of Hank. He asks Saul to let his secretary call Hank pretending to be an officer informing him that his wife was in a car accident. Hank rushes off to the hospital, only to realize he was tricked. At the junk yard, the RV is already crushed into a tin box. The Cousins show up at Gus’ fried chicken diner, Los Pollos Hermanos. And they won’t budge – even if they don’t order anything. Eventually, Gus tells them to meet him at sunset in the desert. There, Gus tells them it wasn’t Walt who killed Tuco, but DEA officer Hank Schrader and he allows them to satisfy their vengeance on him. The pitch is really building up now: a great episode such as this is how I enjoy the show, with the right combination of depth and drama.

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