Walt's family attempts an intervention to persuade him to undergo chemotherapy he initially refuses, but relents the following day. Jesse attempts to cook meth on his own but cannot replicate the quality of Walt's product while Walter Jr. Walt declines an offer of financial help from an old grad school friend, Elliott, and his wife, Gretchen, with whom Walt used to have a relationship. Jesse covers for him, but is forced to leave his parents' house, as they believe the marijuana is his. Jesse visits his family and finds out that his younger brother, who is very successful in sports and music, is smoking marijuana to deal with the intense pressure from their parents. At a family barbecue, Walt reveals to Hank, Walter Jr., and sister-in-law Marie that he has cancer.
That night, Walter tells Skyler that he has something to tell her, and, off-camera, reveals his cancer diagnosis.Īs Jesse and Walt's meth begins to spread in Albuquerque, Hank starts looking for the new drug kingpin, unaware that it's Walt. When Walt confronts Krazy-8 with this information, Krazy-8 attacks him, and Walt strangles his prisoner with the bicycle lock restraint. Walt eventually decides to release Krazy-8, but while disposing of the shards of a broken plate he sees that a shard is missing, and realizes that Krazy-8 has concealed it to use as a weapon. When he wakes up, he tells Krazy-8 that he has lung cancer-the first person he tells-and they start sharing the unexpected things they have in common. Walt brings Krazy-8 food, but he collapses while descending the basement stairs. is smoking marijuana and asks Hank to scare him straight. Meanwhile, Marie believes that Walter Jr. Walt cannot decide whether to kill Krazy-8 or release him. Jesse disposes of Emilio's body using hydrofluoric acid as Walt instructs, but he ignores Walt's warning to use a plastic bin and uses his bathtub instead, resulting in a heavy clean-up when the acid eats through the floor below. She asks him about Jesse, whom she discovers after he calls Walt at their home, and Walt covers by telling her that Jesse sells him marijuana. Meanwhile, Skyler grows suspicious of Walter's recent behavior, and they learn that they're expecting a daughter. They eventually imprison him in Jesse's basement. Walt and Jesse try to dispose of the two bodies in the RV, which becomes increasingly complicated when one of them, Krazy-8, wakes up. Walt, knowing the dealers intend to kill them after learning his recipe, poisons them with phosphine gas. When Jesse tries to sell the meth they made, the dealers, one of whom, Emilio, is his ex-partner who got busted by the DEA, snatch him and make him show them the lab. Walt tracks down a former student-turned-meth cook/dealer, Jesse Pinkman, whose lab the DEA had raided, and enlists his help they begin cooking in Jesse's RV. After riding along with his brother-in-law, DEA agent Hank Schrader, on a raid of a methamphetamine lab, Walt realizes he can use his knowledge of chemistry to cook meth and make enough to support his family after he dies. Walter White, a 50-year-old high school chemistry teacher facing a midlife crisis, finds out he has Stage 3, inoperable lung cancer.
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