Breaking Bad Season 5: [extra Quality]
Jesse, drowning in guilt over Drew Sharp, tries to give his money to the boy’s family. He learns that Walt had actually witnessed Todd kill the boy and did nothing—and worse, Walt helped the Nazis dispose of the body using hydrofluoric acid. Jesse realizes Walt has been manipulating him from the start, including the poisoning of Brock (Season 4). In a rage, he goes to Walt’s house with a can of gasoline, intending to burn it down. Hank arrives, intercepts Jesse, and convinces him to become an informant. The DEA now has a witness.
Their methylamine is running out. Declan cuts off supply. Lydia suggests stealing a tanker car of methylamine from a passing train. The plan is a masterpiece of precision: Walt, Jesse, and Todd (a bug-eyed, polite, sociopathic pest control worker Jesse brought on) must drain the car while the train is moving, replace it with water, and vanish within 90 seconds. They succeed perfectly. As they celebrate, a kid on a dirt bike, Drew Sharp, appears from the desert, having witnessed everything. Before anyone can react, Todd calmly draws a pistol and shoots the boy dead.
Walt, Jesse, and a resentful Mike go into business together. They need a new distribution network. Walt approaches Lydia Rodarte-Quayle, a nervous, high-strung Madrigal Electromotive executive (Gus’s parent company). She connects them with Declan, a local Phoenix kingpin. Declan laughs at Walt’s proposal of $15 million for the methylamine. Walt coldly retorts, "Then I’ll just cook my own." He buys a Vamonos Pest control company as a front, cooking in the tents of fumigated houses while the owners are away. breaking bad season 5
Walt is alone in a remote New Hampshire cabin. He has cancer again, back with a vengeance. He pays for a single, pathetic hour of company. Meanwhile, Jesse is a prisoner of Jack’s gang, forced to cook meth in a cage. Todd, who has a creepy crush on Lydia, treats Jesse with a bizarre, polite sadism. Jesse learns of Andrea, Brock's mother, and is forced to watch as Todd murders her on her doorstep as a warning not to escape.
Jesse is shattered. He has a full-blown breakdown. Walt tries to rationalize it as "necessary," but Jesse sees the truth: they are now monsters. Walt tries to get Todd’s uncle, Jack Welker (a white supremacist prison gang leader), to handle the methylamine distribution, cutting Mike out. Jesse, drowning in guilt over Drew Sharp, tries
Mike decides to "retire" by selling his share of the methylamine to Declan for $5 million. Walt demands Mike give him the names of the nine lawyers who handle the hazard payments. Mike refuses. A heated argument ends with Walt pulling a gun. Mike taunts him: "You just had to be the man. You just had to win. You couldn't let it go. You're not half the man Gus was." Walt shoots him. Then, in a moment of haunting humanity, Walt realizes he could have gotten the names from Lydia. Mike dies alone by a river, telling Walt to "shut the fuck up" and let him die in peace.
Walt’s ego explodes. He buys a fleet of luxury cars, including two flashy new Chrysler 300s. He bullies Saul into taking a huge cut. He demands that Jesse take on the role of his partner, not his equal. The partnership with Mike frays. Mike is the professional; Walt is the arrogant chemist. After a tense desert deal where Walt kills a rival dealer just to prove a point, Mike tells Jesse, "You’re a time bomb ticking. I’m telling you, sooner or later, you’re going to realize you’re standing next to the guy who killed Gus Frier… and you’re going to want to kill him." In a rage, he goes to Walt’s house
Walt races home. He tells Skyler to pack. She refuses. He forces her at knifepoint to give him the knife, then takes Holly. In a desperate, heartbreaking scene, he leaves Holly at a fire station and calls Skyler, knowing the DEA is listening. He pretends to be a monster, snarling that he did it all for himself, that she was just a hostage. He takes all the blame, clearing Skyler of any charges. He then disappears, using the vacuum repair man to get a new identity.
