Walt Thinks He and Jesse Are Caught | Pilot | Breaking Bad

A high school chemistry teacher resorts to selling drugs in order to provide for his family.

Season One - Episode One: "Pilot"

Episode Description:
Unassuming high school chemistry teacher Walter White (Bryan Cranston) discovers he has lung cancer. Desperate to secure his family's financial future and finally free from the fear that had always inhibited him, Walt teams up with a former student to turn a used RV into a mobile drug lab.

Episode Overview:
Formerly a successful research chemist at a prestigious government laboratory, Walter White has been reduced to teaching apathetic high school students in Albuquerque while holding down a part-time job at a car wash in order to make ends meet. Along with his wife, Skyler, who has carved a modest career out of buying and selling items on eBay, he’s raising a son, Walter, Jr., a strong-willed seventeen-year-old whose cerebral palsy challenges the family. Yet all of these difficulties pale in comparison to Walter’s latest discovery. The day after his fiftieth birthday party where his brother-in-law, DEA Agent Hank Weld, steals the show with anecdotes about life on the front lines of the drug war, Walter collapses at the car wash. Ending up in the emergency room, he’s diagnosed with cancer and given two years to live, but chooses to keep the bad news to himself.

With his family’s future as his top priority, Walter seizes upon an offer to ride along with Hank for a meth lab raid. After seeing a former student, Jesse Lee Pinkman, narrowly escape arrest at the ramshackle drug lab, and recalling Hank’s tales of the large amounts of cash confiscated during the raids, Walter approaches the skeptical Jesse with an offer to become partners. So, after raiding his high school stockroom for some first-rate equipment, he cashes in his retirement fund to buy a used RV to use as a mobile lab that can operate out of view of nosy neighbors, their competition, and the police.

Although it isn’t long before the pair possesses the purest crystal meth that Jesse has ever seen, things quickly sour once Jesse turns to a local drug dealer, Krazy-8. While Krazy-8 is eager to make a deal, his cousin Emilio, who took the fall when the old lab was busted, is bent on revenge. And things only get worse when, after taking Jesse hostage and returning to the RV, Emilio recalls seeing Walter with the DEA on the night he was arrested. Facing the end to his audacious plan before it can get off the ground forces Walter to think fast. With a fearlessness borne from the knowledge of his death sentence, he calls on his chemist’s experience and engineers a daring escape – one that leaves Krazy-8 and Emilio dead and Walter and Jesse repairing their damaged lab before resuming their quest to become drug kingpins.

[abohachuk]

Mad props to Krazy 8 for carrying his gun with the safeties on.

[bladesmith]

I like how he still does little whimpers and yelps here and their like he did back in the Malcom in the Middle days.

this series would ended if the gun's safety were off.

[unrealgaming]

I always forget that Walter started out like this. Season 1 Walt and Season 5 Walt are like 2 completely different people

[facund]

It's crazy to see how he was so scared and about to kill himself and then all the things he did after. How different things would had been for everybody if the gun's safety were off. What a brilliant series.

[aramfingal]

I guess firefighters don't think hearing a gunshot and then passing a guy in his underwear on the side of the road is a big deal.

[officerspooder]

Breaking bads succes is its brilliant pilot episode that gets you hooked on whats to come

[OarsmanPower]

Best pilot ever.
Talk about setting a hook...

[bagratshincuba]

This show is a part of me.I just can't describe how much I love it

[Account-cqnl]

0:06 *safety is off*

Roll the credits

[DanielCh]

Some people think season 1 is kind of weak, but I love this episode so much. I actually consider this as one of the best episodes of the series along with ozzymandias and Felina.

[stroud]

0:06 some of the best acting of all time

[rastas]

It's surprising just how FUNNY the first season is. It's why I like more than the later ones; not that they're bad of course.

[KevinHuangPhasorQuantaG]

I love how the song Apocalypshit really adds to the relatively light hearted tone in this episode.

[dougg]

I bet one of those firefighters thought what they passed was weird and watched the news 2 years later and realized that they had passed Heisenberg.

[tankdogization]

“Just when you think you’ve got him, you don’t. The exact opposite happens.”

[KobaAM]

These scenes in the ads prior to the show starting really made you think it was just Hal doing a dark comedy. Even when you see the full episode it still feels that way despite Walt being so much smarter than Hal.

“...And The Bags In The River” changed everything. I’ll never forget 13 years later being so into the flashback to Gretchen and Walt discussing what makes a person as present day Walt and Jesse clean up what was a person. But Walt and Krazy 8s talk, Walt looking for the plate piece, and him choking Krazy 8 and crying absolutely captivated me and made me realize this was way more than what I had thought a couple weeks prior.

[Netstation]

When nothing goes right everything is breaking bad :)

[EhCanadianGamer]

2:25
"We gotta."
*Hand gestures*
"We gotta...clean this up."
*Jeese starts thinking "what the fuck did I just get into?"*

[phillipsantana]

Gosh Walt is ready to take on the cops on his first cook or so he thought its no wonder it went on for six seasons.Close calls but never caught.