Last week I got a chance to check out Breaking Bad and wrote a little review on it for your reading euphoria. I loved the pilot episode and really enjoyed the sick side of it. It’s almost a dark comedy at times, as I laughed out loud on a few occasions at some pretty horrific stuff.
Episode two was no different. It was called Cat’s in the Bag and that was kind of the opposite of what actually happened.
From the first episode, Walt was baking crystal meth out in the desert and Jesse ended up being coersed into bringing two drug dealers out to the cook site: An RV.
Knowing the two drug guys would kill them both, Walt used a chemical reaction that was supposed to kill them. And you thought it worked, until this episode.
When they get the RV unstuck thanks to a local’s tractor, they find out one of the dead guys is still breathing.
What results is some hilarity as Jesse is paranoid and doesn’t know what to do while waiting for Walt the next day to finish teaching at school. They figured the guy was going to end up die anyways, so Jesse just left him in the RV out in his driveway.
So when suddenly the guy disappears, Jesse freaks out. Meanwhile Walt is headed to Jesse’s and sees the dead guy stumbling down the road. The dude recognizes Walt and tries to run but hits smack-dab in the middle of a tree.
They bring him back and put him in the basement, but there is still the task of getting rid of the OTHER body, which is ACTUALLY dead. Walt, being the chemistry teacher that he is, decides they are going to destroy the body with acid.
Jesse is responsible for going to get some plastic bins to do the job, but when he can’t find one big enough, he does the next best thing that his chemistry-failing head could think of: Do it in the bathtub.
When Walt comes back, Jesse tells him what he did:
“Why you got me running around town trying to find some stupid piece of plastic when I have a perfectly good tub I can use?”
Of course, the acid Walt buys wont melt plastic, but it does eat through pretty much everything else, including fiberglass.
The next scene is so disgusting, yet so hilarious. Walt realizes what Jesse did and goes to stand under the room that the tub is located. A small, red leak suddenly turns into a giant hole in the ceiling as blood and guts rain down and splash all over.
Covered in splashes of guts and blood, Walt turns to Jesse:
“I’m sorry, what were you asking me? Oh yes. That stupid plastic container I asked you to buy. You see, hydrofluoric acid won’t eat through plastic. It will, however, dissolve metal, rock, glass, ceramic. So, there’s that.”
Friggin’ hilarious.
In the meantime, the dead guy who lives wakes up in the basement and Walt gives him food, so now he’s having to deal with the fact that he’s supposed to kill him, but is going to have a much harder time.
I’m sure this recap isn’t doing it justice, but the show is fantastic. It’s disturbing, and funny and has some great writing. When Walt’s wife asks him why he’s talking to a known drug dealer, instead of telling him that he’s killed one guy and is cooking crystal meth, he decides to go with the fact that Jesse sells him pot.
And then he adds: “And I’d really appreciate it if you’d get out of my ass about it.”
So funny. The guy is dying from lung cancer and for the first time in his life is alive, even if it’s utterly wrong and criminal.
If you love shows that aren’t all happy go-lucky all the time, this is the one. And it’s also a serialized drama, much like the trend is these days, where each episode builds off the previous. My kind of show.
You truly have no idea where they are going with this. Which to me makes a show much more fun to watch.
I love this show. They could have gotten those plastic bins from Simplastics.
I guess that would have made for less drama and thats no good