Hey, guys.
So if it's okay, l was thinking about using this one for the test.
Mom's brakes are very sticky...
...and you barely press down on them and it's like a screech.
Sure.
But l'm good?
Yeah, you're great. Why?
Are my feet okay?
I looked it up. New Mexico says aII I need is a note from a doctor.
I know it's not the right way and aII...
...but once l get my provisionaI, I can keep working at it.
WeIl, as long as it gets you safely from point A to point B...
...then who am l to argue?
Hi.
You're a sweet girI. Yes, you are. Yes, you are.
I know.
-Here you go. -Here you go.
-AIl right. -Thank you.
-Got it? -Yeah.
Okay. AlI right.
-So 9 a.m. Saturday? -Yes, 9 a.m. Saturday.
So which means pick me up about 8:30?
-I'lI be here with beIls on. -What?
It's just a saying. Don't worry, l won't be wearing beIIs.
-Hey. -Hey, Mom.
-Hi. Do you have a minute? -Yeah.
-Could you keep an eye on your sister? -Sure.
-Thanks. -See you, Dad.
-Bye, son. Hey, good work today. -Thank you.
Have you thought any more about what we discussed?
"Thought any more" meaning reconsidered? No.
So show me the fIaw in it.
Flaws, SkyIer. Flaws. PluraI, not singuIar.
Where do you want me to start?
Hey, I don't Iove this situation, aII right, that you put me in.
However, Iet's just stick with what makes sense here.
You took the money you won gambling...
...invested it in the car wash you heIped run.
You hired your wife as a bookkeeper, because she's actuaIly a bookkeeper.
That is a story an auditor can beIieve. What am I missing?
You shouId just take this money that I give you...
...and not Iook too cIoseIy at it.
So if, God forbid, I get caught...
...you maintain pIausibIe deniabiIity.
Okay, my estranged husband who, when he was working...
...made $43,000 a year, starts shoveIing money at me.
And when the police come, I'm supposed to say:
"I never thought about it, officers. Made sense to me." ReaIly?
That, in your mind, is pIausibIe deniabiIity?
I teIl you what, WaIt...
...l'd rather have them think I'm bonnie what's-her-name...
...than some compIete idiot.
So you're promoting caution here.
And you want a believable story.
That, it seems to me, is the safest way...
...to make the best out of a very bad situation, yes.
But l'm noting a IittIe hoIe in your pIot though.
Why wouId your estranged husband be doing aII this for you?
Because he Ioves his famiIy and desperately wants a reconciIiation...
...though it may be hopeIess and futiIe.
Then again, he'd try anything.
I'm just not buying it. No, I think it wouId be better...
...if the husband were no longer estranged.
Yeah. Maybe if he were back sIeeping in his own bed.
It's suddenly a fantasy story.
I am at least gonna be a part of this househoId.
Dinner with the famiIy every night of the week.
Not every night, no.
Six nights a week. One night off.
Dinner two nights. Not weekends.
With 24 hours' notice.
Five nights a week, with no notice.
Three. Six hours' notice.
-Five nights a week, two hours' notice. -Four.
Don't push it.
-And I want my own key to the house. -No.
For emergencies and appearances, yes.
I am going to babysit my own daughter, heIp my son with his homework.
I am going to be a part of this famiIy. That is how we'lI seII your Iittle fiction.
How about we stop somewhere afterward and get a beer?
No. Thanks, though. Maybe some other time.
Seriously.
Get a beer with me.
What?
What the heII are you doing?
That's ours, right?
Look at it and telI me if that's ours.
Yes, it's ours. Now put it away.
What the heII is wrong with you?
Where did you get that? Did you take it from the Iab?
I bought it from the two guys who kiIled Combo.
They had Combo shot down in the street...
...and now it's our product they're seIIing.
Which means they work for our guy. Right?
What? No. What is that? That's hearsay. Do you have any proof?
I heard it from the sister of the kid who shot him.
Hear how I just said "kid"?
This kid, he's 1 1 years oId.
Shot Combo on orders.
These two scumbags, they got him deaIing.
They got him--
And you know he's not the first.
They use kids because hey, why not? Easy to controI. Easy to fooI.
AIl they get is juvie if they get caught.
Hearts and minds, right?
Get them young and they're yours forever.
These guys kiIIed Combo.
They used this IittIe kid Iike some puppet.
They used him to shoot my friend.
So why are you teIIing me this?
I need your help.
How?
-I need ricin. -Oh, my God.
-Look, these two--
-Hey. -No.
Hey, they gotta go. AII right? I got the entire thing figured out.
-No. -The deIivery method, everything.
AIl I need from you is the poison, that's aIl.
-No-- -Look.
-Otherwise, you don't gotta Iift a finger. -No.
You don't know what you're talking about.
-Not even-- -Look, you don't get how right this is?
You don't get how the whole entire worId wouId be better off?
We're not taIking about this.
I know a woman who buys from these two once or twice a week.
They sit in their car alI day and they get hungry, so she brings them food...
...and they knock a few bucks off her price.
There's your deIivery system right there.
-I couId be a mile away. -Jesus.
A meth-head you're trusting to do this?
know what? That meth-head stood up to your brother-in-Iaw.
He questioned her for five hours. She didn't give it up.
know how you know? Because you're not in prison right now.
WeIl, I know l wouId be in prison after this.
Prison or worse. And I'd be right alongside you.
No, Jesse, you cannot be serious.
This is a ridiculous idea.
It's ridicuIous? What, so you're saying it's not gonna work?
How about back when it was your pIan?
When we were gonna use it on Tuco.
-AppIes and oranges. -Guy eats ricin...
...two or three days Iater he gets the fIu or a heart attack and he keeIs over.
That's what you said. Untraceable back to us.
To me.
Not even that other scumbag we work for is ever gonna figure it out.
It was a good pIan back when it was Tuco, and it's a good plan now.
Tuco wanted to murder us. These guys don't.
AppIes and oranges. Do I realIy have to sit here and explain the difference?
Combo was us, man.
He was one of us. Does that mean nothing?
Why didn't you go after these guys two or three months ago?
Because I just found out about them.
What's to find out?
It's a dispute over turf, right?
I mean, how hard couId it have been for you to track them down on their turf...
...and kiII them months ago?
Because back then, you were too busy getting high, feeling sorry.
Now, murder...
...is not part of your 1 2-step program.
This is not some amends that you have to make.
What you are talking about here is pointless.
This achieves nothing.
It accompIishes nothing.
If you don't see what it accompIishes...
...then there's no way I can expIain it to you.
Jesse, Iisten to me.
You are not a murderer.
I'm not, and you're not.
It's as simple as that.
Jesse.
I'm doing it.
With or without you.
knock, knock.
Chrissakes, Marie, you don't say "knock, knock," you...Iike that.
-I Iike saying it. -WeII, that's not the ruIes.
-Okay? -You knock your way, l'Il knock mine.
But Iook, see? I win.
Not so fast.
Christ, again? That's three in a row.
Got a fricking Paul Newman over here?
-Been playing cards with your dad? -No. Why?
How is your oId man?
Back teaching?
No. I don't think either of them are working...
-... right now. -How they swinging that?
-I don't know. -Hey...
...did you know the doctors told your UncIe Hank...
...he can get out of here anytime he wants?
Oh, yeah? That's great.
-Yeah, I'm not so sure about that. -Why not?
What? That's what they said.
Because they want the room.
They hit the sheets with LysoI, reset the meter...
...and wheel the next sIob in. We went over this, Marie. Drop it.
Are you not weIl enough?
Jesus, kid, you too? Do I look welI enough?
I'm shitting in pans, peeing in pitchers.
I can't move my Iegs. Got it?
So peopIe in wheeIchairs shouId be in hospitaIs?
What about peopIe on crutches? Maybe I should be in here too.
-Is that what you're trying to say? -ExactIy. DeaI, you Iittle prick.
Bitch.
You know I'm hourly, right?
He promised me that he would be here.
Oh, he promised.
Why didn't you teII me? Let's wait then. That's a joke. The kid ain't coming.
-Okay, so, what's pIan B? -I don't know.
-I reaIly don't. -WeII, Iet's brainstorm.
-You realIy think he's serious? -That's why I'm here, SauI.
The way he was taIking, he is going to do it. Or try, at least.
Okay, so we pay him off.
No, no, it's not about money. It's about getting him off the streets.
Getting him to caIm down.
Maybe....
What if we, maybe...?
Could you get him arrested?
You want your criminaI associate taken into poIice custody?
No, now Iisten. I know it sounds risky.
But it wouIdn't anything that wouId get him into real troubIe...
...and nothing that couId Iead back to our business.
Just some minor offense.
Pinkman in jaiI? I don't know. I'm picturing it and--
No, not jaiI as in "jail" jaiI.
I'm taIking about one of those situations...
...where you're in an orange jumpsuit picking up Iitter aIong the highway.
That's jaiI.
You're taIking about a IeveI-two joint.
Something that keeps him off the street for 30 days.
Then by the time he gets out...
...tempers have cooIed and hopefuIIy we can move on.
WeIl, RosweII CorrectionaI's pretty Iow impact, you know.
In the past, I've recommended Springer...
...but l'm hearing chancy things about their bathrooms since they renovated.
So....
So it's possibIe, right?
WeIl, it faIIs under my Premium Services Package...
...but you can afford that. I'II caIl my Pl.
You understand what you have to do?
And you can never taIk to anyone, right?
I mean, ever. Understand?
Yeah.
I found this stuff on the lnternet.
Takes days to kick in.
Just keep quiet and this won't ever come back to you.
You okay with this, right?
Just think of it Iike it's the same thing as always.
You're just deIivering some hamburgers.
It's not just delivering hamburgers.
Hey. You got a kid, right?
-What's his name? -Patrick.
AIl right, imagine these two guys had Patrick working as a muIe.
Making him kiII people.
WouIdn't you do anything to protect your kid?
Of course I wouId. I do aII kinds of things for him.
Okay, so...
...these guys are using kids Iike that.
They gotta go. Right?
Good.
Tomorrow.
I'II be in touch.
Yeah. l bet that tastes good, huh?
Hey.
Come here, baby.
Okay. Here we go.
Here we go.
What are you doing? If you need to taIk, use the phone.
This isn't a phone talk, Walter.
Your wife's out, right?
Isn't she something?
I got a granddaughter a few years older.
What can I do for you?
Have a seat, Walter.
I spoke to Goodman about Pinkman and this pIan of yours.
-And? -WeII, I'm not gonna do it.
-Why? -Because it's moronic.
SauI said you've done things Iike this before.
-That's not the moronic part. -Okay. So, what's the problem?
The probIem is the boss wouIdn't Iike it.
SauI?
My boss.
Your boss.
This is a professional courtesy. No one knows l'm here. Understand?
But our empIoyer wouId find out, Iike aIways.
And if Pinkman were arrested, he'd take it as a probIem.
WaIt...
...you got a good thing going here. We alI do.
You wanna risk it aII on one junkie?
Now, I reaIize you two have a history...
...but this kid's been on the bubble a whiIe now. lt's a long time coming.
What is?
I used to be a beat cop, a Iong time ago.
I'd get calIed on domestic disputes aII the time.
Hundreds, probably, over the years.
But there was this one guy, this one piece of shit that l wiII never forget.
Gordie. He Iooked Iike Bo Svenson. You remember him?
-Walking Tall? You don't remember? -No.
Anyway, big boy, 270, 280...
...but his wife-- Or whatever she was-- His Iady...
...was reaI smalI. Like a bird.
Wrists like IittIe branches.
Anyway, my partner and l'd get calIed out there every weekend...
...and one of us would puIl her aside and say:
"Come on, tonight's the night we press charges."
This wasn't one of those "deep down, he Ioves me" setups.
We got a lot of those, but not this. This girI was scared.
She wasn't gonna cross him. No way, no how.
Nothing we couId do but pass her to the EMT's, put him a car...
...drive him downtown, throw him in a drunk tank.
He sIeeps it off, next morning, out he goes.
Back home.
But one night...
...my partner's out sick, and it's just me.
The calI comes in and it's the usual crap.
Broke her nose in the shower kind of thing.
So l cuff him, put him in the car and away we go.
OnIy that night...
...we're driving into town...
...and this sideways asshoIe is in my back seat humming "Danny Boy."
And it just rubbed me wrong.
So instead of Ieft, l go right, out into nowhere.
And I kneeI him down and l put my revoIver in his mouth...
...and I told him, "This is it. This is how it ends."
And he's crying, going to the bathroom aII over himseIf.
Swearing to God he's gonna leave her aIone.
Screaming, much as you can with a gun in your mouth.
And I toId him to be quiet.
That I needed to think about what l was gonna do here.
And, of course, he got quiet...
...goes stiIl and reaI quiet.
Like a dog waiting for dinner scraps.
Then we just stood there for a whiIe.
Me, acting like I'm thinking things over...
...and Prince Charming kneeIing in the dirt with shit in his pants.
And after a few minutes, I took the gun out of his mouth...
...and I say, "So heIp me, if you ever touch her again...
...l wiII such and such and such, and bIah, bIah, bIah."
It was just a warning?
Of course.
Just trying to do the right thing.
But two weeks Iater he kiIIed her.
Of course.
Caved her head in with the base of a Waring bIender.
We got there, there was so much blood, you could taste the metaI.
MoraI of the story is...
...l chose a haIf measure...
...when I should have gone alI the way.
I'II never make that mistake again.
No more half measures, WaIter.
Man, I don't get this.
I don't get this at aIl. AIl I'm seeing is the kid.
So where are they?
I don't know. They're aIways around.
Burgers are getting coId.
So is it, Iike, fast?
Don't sweat it. You're just doing what you do.
Hey, nobody's gonna know anything.
-Can l have another bump? -Look, you had your bump.
Get this thing done, then you can have alI you want.
Gonna need you to come with me.
Take a walk.
Where we going?
Sit down.
I understand that you have a problem with two of my empIoyees.
It is true that they kiIled one of your associates.
It is possibIe they acted rashIy.
But, on the other hand, there was provocation.
The man was seIling on their territory.
There is bIame on both sides.
This wiII go no further.
It wilI be settIed right here, right now.
You told him?
Wait outside.
Listen to me. You have one friend in this room. This man.
Those men outside are my trusted employees.
And when I Iearned what you intended to do....
If it wasn't for this man and the respect I have for him...
...l wouId be deaIing with this in a very different way.
You don't Iook at him. You Iook at me.
This is what happens now. My men wiII come back inside...
...and you wilI shake their hands and you wiII make peace.
And that wiIl be the end of this.
No.
Jesse.
-Pardon me? -They use kids.
These asshoIes got an 1 1 -year-oId kid doing their kiIling for them.
You're supposed to be some kind of a reasonable businessman.
This how you do business?
You okay with this? You got anything to say here?
Bring them back.
No more children.
Understand?
And you...
...you keep the peace.
Say it.
Yeah. l'Il keep the peace.
Shake hands.
Jesse, your actions...
...they affect other peopIe.
Sometimes compromises have to be made...
...for the best of reasons.
Jesse. Jesse.
Marie, let the peopIe who get paid to do this do this.
The peopIe who get paid to do this do a Iousy job.
So l guess this is what you want, huh?
Just lying in a hospitaI bed getting sponge baths from nurses.
Marie.
It's time to go home, Hank.
How many times I gotta teII you, Marie? Not tilI l'm weII.
Hey, hey, hey. What are you doing?
I'm just seeing.
-Seeing what? -Seeing what l see.
-I'm not at my best here, Marie. -We'Il see.
Nothing's gonna happen.
I say it wiII.
No. I'm in this bed for a reason.
It's a waste of time.
Besides, what if someone comes in?
-I don't care if someone waIks in. -What's wrong with you?
I'II teII you what. lf I can get the groundhog to see his shadow--
Not gonna happen. I'm sorry.
I'm betting it wiII. And if he does, you check out of here.
I'm not gonna bet on whether I can get a boner.
-No bet. There's no bet here. No bet. -Afraid you'Il Iose?
You know, you're just-- You're just being foolish, you know?
Come on. What's the point?
The point is you're not compIeteIy hopeIess.
We have a bet?
You know what?
If it'lI get you out of here quicker. You got one minute.
-One minute? -Yeah.
AIl right. That's a cakewalk.
You know, this is just....
This is just sad. I mean....
I reaIly feeI sorry for you, Marie, you know? l realIy do. It's just....
-It's pathetic. -That's good, keep taIking.
Protest. StruggIe.
Marie, give up. I mean, seriousIy, it's...
...not...
...gonna happen.
Bad day?
I don't even know.
Anyway...
...it's better now.
TeII them you're busy.
HeIIo?
Grandma?
SIow down.
SIow down, l can't--
Oh, God.
Tomas!
No.
You have to Iet me in. PIease.
Hey, it's me. Wait for the thing.
Jesse, you are now 42 minutes Iate.
I'm starting without you.
-What is "wasabi"? -Wasabi. Right you are.
Four-letter word, 1 200.
Pilots and musicians know this word derives from--
Dinner's aImost ready, okay?
Okay.
-What is "soIo"? -This guy's good.
Four letter word, 2000.
"A loud, harsh cry, Walt Whitman's was barbaric."
-"YeII." -What is "yawp"?
-Kevin. -What is "yawp"?
-Yawp. -Tokyo, 1 200.
-This crustacean-- -What the heck's a yawp?
A yawp is a yelI. l'Il be right back.
That's what I said.
Okay to use your bathroom, right?
Yeah, okay.
Hey, it's me. Wait for the thing.
Look, l hope you're not waiting for an apology because I did not rat you out.
I was Iooking out for your best interests, as weII as my own.
And I stand by my decision 1 00 percent...
...so we'Il just have to agree to disagree.
Anyway, just caII me back.
-So the TV turns itseIf off, huh? -Yeah.
I'II get it.
--the beginning of an early coId snap. But first, more detaiIs on--
Where's the remote?
The murder of a young boy in the South ValIey.
Police have yet to reIease a statement...
...but sources indicate that 1 1 -year-old Tomas CantiIlo...
...may have been the victim of a gang-related execution.
An anonymous tip brought police to a playground...
...in the 4700 block of Eighth Avenue Iate last night.
Paramedics were calIed to the scene but were unabIe to revive the boy.
-A gruesome crime-- -Can you turn that off?
Yet another casualty in what appears to be...
-...the city's ongoing struggle-- -WaIt?
...against drugs and the gangs that peddle them. We'lI be passing--
Hand me your dad....
I'm sorry, it's just they've been talking about that alI day, and it's just....
No. Yeah.
Hey, did you know your dad and l...
...are thinking about starting a business together?
Seriously?
What kind of business?
We're thinking maybe a car wash.
What do you mean? Like the...?
I'm sorry, I have to go.
Oh, my God.
Run.