The second episode of Breaking Bad continues with Walter and Jessie getting the RV out of the ditch and deciding that they want to be done before every really starting cooking meth. Once they decide this, they realize that one of the guy in the back is still alive. They take him back to Jessie’s house where they keep him in the RV, where they expect him to die shortly but he doesn’t. Jessie calls Walter to inform him that this guy isn’t dying and Skyler become suspicious of what Walter has been hiding, so she does a little investigating and finds out who Jessie is. Later, Walter goes to the house to decide what to do with the body and with the guy that is still alive but as he is driving to Jessie’s house, he sees the guy walking in the street; he had escaped the RV, but Walter takes him back and put him in the basement of the house. They both decide that they need to kill the guy in the basement and get rid of the body in the basement by dissolving him in acid. They decide that Walter will kill the man in the basement, where he tries to work himself up to doing it, but ends up giving the man food, water, and a bucket to use the bathroom instead, and Jessie will talk care of the body. Walter instructs him to buy a specific container that wont dissolve when the acid touches it, but he doesn’t listen and when Walter isn’t there, he puts matters into his own hands, but while bringing the body from outside to the inside, Skyler shows up at his house because Walter told her that Jessie was just a guy he bought weed from. She tells him not to sell him any more weed and when she leaves, he goes back to taking the body back inside and does the job in the bathtub where it dissolves the whole bathtub bottom and breaks through the 2nd story where all the remains of the body fall to the first floor.
One of the themes that stood out the most was life. The significance of life is first shown when Walter is faced with the fact that he has to end the life of someone he doesn't know, just to save himself and those around him from harm. The thought about doing what he has to do is really getting to him and consumes his thinking. When it comes times for him to actually do it, he is finding all sorts of ways to end this mans life; where nothing seems to settle well with him. It seems as though he wants him to feel as little pain as possible and wants something easy. He eventually looks at a plastic bag but never gets around to doing it. The man eventually wakes up and instead of killing him, Walter gives him water, food, and even a bucket to use the bathroom. It is interesting how he is supposed to kill this man but ends up preserving his life till he "works himself" up to killing him. Later, when Skyler and Walter are at the doctor, they finally find out that they are having a baby girl. Walter becomes excited, expressing that he hoped it was a girl, but then something unsettling comes to him and its noticeable that he is reminded of the life that he is supposed to take, while at the same time, he is bringing this little girl into the world.
The biblical stand point of this is that we are created with value. Although man can take the life of a person, we as Christians know that we are secure in the fact that our soul will not be put to death. Matthew 10:28 says "Do not be afraid of those who kill the body but cannot kill the soul." This is why we are to be missional. We are required to go out into the world and preach the good news because there is a world where people are suffering and their souls are not yet right with God.
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