BREAKING BAD – Recap of Season 5, Episode 5: “Dead Freight”

Continuing with the rare guest post in this blog, you are all in for yet another huge treat this week. With the success of AMC’s “Breaking Bad” (Sundays at 10PM EST), every major–and minor–media outlet seems to be running a recap of each episode. Well, 12631 member @a_bh_a has generously offered his thorough and highly entertaining thoughts on last evening’s second episode of season five.

Enjoy the top shelf recap and analysis, and be sure to follow @a_bh_a on Twitter. 

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It’s going to be hard to top the melancholy that transpires for viewers at the end of this week’s Breaking Bad but we’ll get to that in due time.

We start off with a scene in the desert where a motorbiking kid comes across a tarantula and decides to pick it up with his bare hands (kid’s these days!!!). He likes what he sees and scoops it up and into a glass bottle and proceeds to return home from what we can presume. That’s it. Not much insight given into the scene as we fade to the opening credits. I do have to say, the writers have taken the opening scenes to a whole new level this season. Bravo to Vince Gilligan and company!

Meanwhile in the Breaking Bad universe we do know, Hank Schrader has become the bossman and is now running the bureau. He doesn’t seem so upset anymore and he’s busy in his fancy new office that looks to be the size of the average NYC apartment. Walt stops by to congratulate his brother in law, but we know better. He puts on his sad face claiming Skylar doesn’t love him and that she claims he’s not a good father. Hank, being the alpha male that he is doesn’t want any part of this and vacates his office to get coffee for the both of them. Bravo Heisenberg!

This is where Heisenberg gets all creative and plants a interceptor on Hanks network cable along with a hidden voice recorder in a picture frame of Hank & Marie. We then see that Lydia has been brought to an isolated warehouse of some kind with Mike, Walt & Jesse hovering around her. She knows she’s in trouble and pleads for her life, proclaiming that she’s innocent. Turns out she was, with some asshat in another DEA bureau doing a shoddy job of planting the trackers. Despite Lydia being innocent in this, Walt & Mike do decide to execute her, but she worms her way out of yet another near execution. Bravo to Lydia!

She lays out a plan to rob a train full of methylamine in a dead zone where nothing can be tracked, communicated or monitored. The plan essentially revolves around draining a tanker of the methylamine while replacing the liquid weight with water, leaving everyone none the wiser. The plan once again is the brainchild of Jesse who once again is showcasing that he isn’t just your run of the mill stoner kid. In fact, he’s responsible for 90% of the elaborate & mind blowing plans this season. Bravo to Jesse!

So basically the plan comprises of stopping the train for just long enough to drain 1000 gallons of methylamine while replacing it with 900.24 gallons of water. While this would seem suspect, Walt boldly states that the Chinese will be blamed for providing a watered down product. That does make sense. Thos god damn Chinese with their elaborate ruses and misdirections! The idea is to plan the water in barrels buried underground and connected via industrial tubing with the help of a portable pumper. The hired help is so impressed with this, he congratulates the pair by saying “You guys thought of everything!” with Walt & Jesse giving themselves a telepathic Oh Yeah! (Bitch)

Meanwhile Junior is throwing a temper tantrum over being kicked out of the house without a good reason, Skylar proclaims herself to be Walt’s hostage and still trying to passive aggressively trying to kill him with second hand smoke while Hank & Marie are wanting a child of their own from the overwhelming cuteness of baby Holly. Skyler does make a verbal deal with Walt in that if he agrees to the kids never staying in their home, then she would be “whatever kind of partner you want me to be.” Let’s just say, Heisenberg doesn’t agree to deals, he just does whatever the hell he wants to do. All this stuff is boring….moving on.

Anyways, minus an unforeseeable aboriginal helping to speed up the obstacle placed on the track (Bill Burr’s dirt truck) the plan goes off without a hitch with everyone high fiving, shaking hands and grinning at each other over a flawless plan that was executed as near perfectly as possible…but wait. The gang notices the boy from the intro on his bike standing there looking at him. He looks as confused as they do and like any innocent kid waves at them. They all wave back, but the hired gun Todd decides to just shoot the kid in the head. WTF! Jesse has another emotional roller coaster to ride with this dead kid now. The second the kid is shot, you hear Jesse scream “No No” and the scene abruptly cuts to Black just like when Jesse shot Gale at the end of Season 3. Dark stuff! How much darker can it get. Not sure but I have my theories. This was by far the best episode of the season. Bravo to everyone!

Quote of the Night

“There are two kinds of heists: Those where the guys get away with it, and those that leave witnesses.” – Mike

PREVIEW OF NEXT WEEK’S EPISODE:

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