A No-Rough-Stuff-Type Deal

This episode of breaking bad starts with the school staff meeting about the missing science equipment that was stolen for the meth lab. We soon find out that Jessie is putting his house up for sale. They start to talk over the cooking situation and the deal they made with Tuco. They begin to realize that cooking as much as they agreed to cook wouldn’t be as easy as they thought due to a lack of ingredience. Jessie and Walter meet Tuco at the junkyard for a drug meet. Tuco comes to find out that they didn’t provide as much meth as they said they would. Tuco is frustrated and angry with this but Walter pushes the limits again telling Tuco they will provide 4 pounds weekly, instead of two pounds.

Next, they show the family at Skylar’s baby shower and when she opens up the gift from Marie, she sees that she got the baby a white gold tiara that Skylar didn’t seem to fond of and while this is going on, Hank and Walter are outside talking about the possibilities of drugs being legalized.

After the baby shower, Walter lies to Skylar and tells her that is going to a sweat lodge for a ritual healing, specifically for his lungs (which Skylar suggested), and Skylar is happy to see Walter taking different approaches to his lung cancer. But, instead of going to this sweat lodge, Walter goes to Jessie’s house and begins to figure out how they are going to make 4 pounds of meth for Tuco. Jessie gets all the things they need except for one ingredient that he cant seem to get anywhere so they come up with a plan to steal it from a factory and they do just that.

While Walter is out, Skylar decides to return the tiara back to the store because she doesn’t like it and wont use it. While she is trying to return it, she soon discovers that it was stolen and the store is keeping her and are pressing charges, but while they are on the phone with the police, she pretends to be in labor and they let her go. Skylar confronts Marie about the tiara and Marie doesn’t own up to the fact that it was stolen and that she even stole it. She denies it and pretends she knows nothing about what Skylar is talking about.

When Jessie and Walter get everything they need, they try taking the RV to start cooking the 4 pounds they need but they can’t seem to start up the RV. With no time to waste or nowhere to go, they decide to move the meth lab into Jessie’s basement to cook.

Finally, they meet up with Tuco to give him the 4 (plus some) pounds that they promised but Tuco is confused when he sees that the produce was blue (because of the improvise they did while cooking). Tuco sniffs some of it and realizes that it’s still the same and wants to continue business with Walter and Jessie. After that, one of Tuco’s men makes a comment “just remember who you work for” and Tuco becomes angry defending himself and Walter and Jessie. He becomes so angry that Tuco beats his own man to death. Walter and Jessie stand there in shock of what just happened and then Tuco leaves. 

One of the themes I noticed is that as things get deeper into a mess that many of the characters are facing, even when it is lying to each other, the family seems to grow closer together. I notices this specifically with Marie and her problem with stealing. This problem just came up but its obvious that Skylar is concerned with it and wants to talk to Marie about it. The other thing is still trying to figure out how to help Walter with his lung cancer. Skylar is encouraging him to do all that he can (ritual cleansing). Things are getting harder and even though the family is lying to each other, they seem to be getting closer. 

When I think about this, I think about how God loves us no matter what. No matter how many times I mess up he is still there to give me correction and to point me in the right direction. God will never turn his back on me nor will be let me fall. In Hebrews it says, "Keep your lives free from the love of money and be content with what you have, because God has said “Never will I leave you, never will I forsake you." Which is funny in terms of the context of the show but no matter what he will not leave us nor will he forsake us.