Recap – Breaking Bad S05E13 To’hajiilee
With only three
episodes left in the series, TV’s hit drama Breaking
Bad leaves its viewers on the edge of their seats with yet another
nail-baiting chapter.
The 59th episode kicks off with
the familiar (and maybe too familiar) look of freshly cooked methamphetamine
being emptied into a cooling pan. Todd, with the help of his Neo Nazi uncle
Jack, has seized full reign over the international drug trade that Walter White
has recently left behind. Unfortunately, with only 76% purity and a brownish
hue, Todd’s product comes nowhere close.
It is at this moment that Walt comes on
over the phone, repeating the line from last episode that gave Breaking Bad fans everywhere chills down
their spine: “Todd. I think I might have another job for your uncle.”
Todd’s uncle was the man who carried out
Walter’s prison sting, in which he killed 10 people in 3 different prisons
within 2 minutes. But this time, Walt is
looking for a low-scale operation: “Just one target. Not currently in jail…
Jesse Pinkman.”
Hence the chills. All of season 5 has shown
Walt and Jesse’s relationship deteriorating, but now the all-star meth-cooking
team that fans have come to know and love has reached what seems to be a fatal
end.
Uncle Jack and his men, in need of a better
cook, refuse to help Walter unless he pays in the form of one training cook
with Todd. He agrees.
Walt is not the only one with a plan,
however. Just as he is sealing Jesse’s fate in a touching conversation with
Uncle Jack and the Aryan Brotherhood, Hank is setting up a trap for Walt. For
much of the series we have seen Walt’s genius at play, but this episode leaves
him down and beaten.
By luring him into the desert, Hank, Jesse,
and Gomez hoped to trick Walter into uncovering his money. Using a cell phone
to pinpoint his exact location, they cornered him, and one of the biggest
scenes in Breaking Bad history began.
Walt steps out of hiding, drops his gun,
and puts his hands in the air. Face wrought out of an expression of pure
exhaustion and acceptance all at once. All three express their own form of
appreciation as Hank pulls out a pair of silver cuffs and slaps them on the
wrists of a kneeling Walter. Walter then
stares Jesse down while being read his Miranda rights, to which his only
response is: “Coward.”
Jesse spits in his eye.
Hank then calls home to tell of his
victory, and he and Marie share a more intimate moment then they’ve ever had on
the show. There are tears of joy, followed by an extremely heartfelt “I love
you.” But could this personal moment really just be Hank saying goodbye,
forever?
You see…you remember the Aryan Brotherhood
hit on Jesse? Well Walt tried to call it off, but they still come for him after
he is arrested. Upon finding two DEA agents, Jack and his men hesitate, guns
drawn. An intense moment follows, which builds up into a gunfight with shotguns
in slow motion. Outnumbered and out-armed, what is to happen to Steven Gomez
and Hank Schrader?
Plenty of fans personally like to see Walt
suffer. He is a fresh new sociopath who is extremely manipulative, and rarely
seems to experience guilt. In this episode, however, we see a lot of Walt’s
“human” side. His passion when driving as fast as possible to reach his money, showing
he’d risk his life just to provide for his daughter. The water in his eye when
he realizes in the desert that this is the end. His inability to even discuss
killing Jesse for more than a few minutes. After nearly 5 seasons of breaking
bad, Walter still has some good in him.
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