The next episode in this AMC critical-darling began exactly where the first ended, with Walter and Sklyer being all naked and stuff in bed. From there, we're taken on an episode that is essentially a clean-up, a clean-up of the disaster that occurred in the first episode. Jesse and Walter have two glaring problems, a dead body (Emilio) and a not-so dead body (Krazy-8). Naturally, the problem solving Walter decides they should flip a coin to decide who deals with what. Jesse "takes care" of his situation by throwing Emilio and the guns in a bathtub of acid. Of course, the whole time you're cursing him for being an idiot, and what do you know, at the end of the episode, that situation only gets messier. Walter spends the whole episode trying to build up to killing Krazy-8, but he can't do it, and instead ends up giving him essentials he'll need to live in the basement. These scenes were truly gut-wrenching, and though sometimes you feel horrible and conflicted watching Dexter, the killing is less emotional with Dex, because he's so practiced and doesn't really care. In Breaking Bad, you feel more attached because you can see it weighing on Walter.
There was other stuff that is worth mentioning. Walter went another episode without telling his wife he has terminal lung cancer, and because Sklyer went all sleuth on him and found out about Jesse, Walter told her Pinkman is his pot dealer. I really think it would've been easier just to say he was a former student that was trying to blackmail Walter or scam him or he simply wanted a reference letter! But, if Walter hadn't said he was his dealer, we wouldn
't have got the scene where Sklyer yo, lets Pinkman know what's what, yo. Finally, three more thoughts on this episode. We saw very little of Walter Jr, though we didn't really need to; we saw little of Hank, which is unfortunate because there is a lot to explore there, but he wasn't really needed this episode. And, we were given a lead-in to next episode, when some little girl finds one of their gas masks on the ground. After all that happened in the episode, it didn't feel very "cliff-hangery" or give you the "oh no!" feeling.
All in all it was once again a very well-executed, well-acted episode; an episode of resolution, where nothing was resolved and even some regression took place.
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