Breaking Bad | Hank Gets in a Bar Fight (Dean Norris)

Still traumatized from his shocking experience at El Paso, Hank (Dean Norris) looks for any way possible to distract himself from those thoughts.

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From Season 3, Episode 3: "I.F.T."

Breaking Bad follows protagonist Walter White (Bryan Cranston), a chemistry teacher who lives in New Mexico with his wife (Anna Gunn) and teenage son (RJ Mitte) who has cerebral palsy. White is diagnosed with Stage III cancer and given a prognosis of two years left to live. With a new sense of fearlessness based on his medical prognosis, and a desire to secure his family's financial security, White chooses to enter a dangerous world of drugs and crime and ascends to power in the world. The series explores how a fatal diagnosis such as White's releases a typical man from the daily concerns and constraints of normal society and follows his transformation from mild family man to a kingpin of the drug trade.

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[murfdog]

All because he'd never seen a human head on a tortoise before.

[Jamolioz]

When Hank came in and said “ITS SCHRADIN TIME” and just Schraded all over. Truly one of the scenes of all time.

[masterzombie]

Biggest issue with Hank is the same with Walter, Chuck McGill etc is that they always felt they could never be wrong. Even when they do something very clearly wrong they always try to justify it themselves.

[cogitatione]

Lot like the fight with the Salamanca twins: sitting in his car, realizing he's going to fight against high odds without a gun.

[maulrat]

Gould: "If we don't put some kind of dive bar altercation in this show we won't get any respect." Vince: "You're god damned right."

[munisahmed]

This is the moment Dean Norris became Chuck Norris

[darrenwendroff]

I didn't even remember this scene, it was amazing, so subtle. The dark bar, his partner saying obviously there's drugs here, the who gives a fuck attitude with his dumbass need to be a hero and the bartender looksl ike the salvage yard guy. Crazy scene.

[mulehead]

Every main character on this show never thought they were in the wrong so many times, they'd justify their actions over and over.

[revivesyourgolder]

i love how gomez says "this is the kind of place you get knifed"
and in this same episode in the beginning it shows us tortuga being decapitated in a bar

[dbbrowne]

A shame what happened to John Fetterman in this scene. Hope his head is okay.

[silkoth]

He is not in danger. He IS the danger.

[H.K.]

This was such a well-choreographed fight scene.

[Pratikmayekar]

One of the best depictions of PTSD on TV

[rustyz]

That's a great scene but I think people are missing the point here. I'm reading about PTSD comments, like huh? Yeah, El Paso tour really messed with Hank, sure it could be a PTSD. But what's more important is to understand that Hank is not battling the PTSD, he is battling himself and the fact that he is not the tough guy he thought he was when he accepted the job in El Paso. He wasn't as smart, as tough, and as funny as he thought he was when he moved there. Remember the scenes when he was working for El Paso DEA. After he went back home, he had to face himself. This particular scene is him trying to reclaim his masculinity and machismo that he has lost. As the saying goes, "not the man I thought I was", that's Hank. So selecting this particular bar he was looking for trouble to reclaim his tough guy persona. His ego got hurt in El Paso, but here he had to show himself, others, and Gomez, that he is still a tough DEA agent. There's nothing more to it. It's not PTSD, it's Hank trying to reclaim back his masculinity, machismo, reputation as a tough DEA agent.

[kidnamedfingerreal]

Plot twist: Hank beat them up because the weren't drinking Schraderbrau

[Trevor_Bolin]

Hank was a gangster for this one. "Your move" even let them take this first shot.

[Davian]

fun fact, the bald taller guy in the jacket is Keith Jardine, he's a legit UFC fighter

[gingerninja]

I hated hank my first watch through of the show, and this scene is a perfect reason why. He wasn’t a straight shooter like his wife believed he was. He clearly insinuates this fight, and those guys go to jail simply because they threw the first punch. plus assaulting a cop gets you like 10 years minimum. hank was such a flawed character in his own right

[Zeddyboi]

I will still always remember him as Twitchell from the Tremors series, the first thing I saw him in. When I discovered Breaking Bad, where he is kind of a badass, I found it so funny! :)

[basicallyjustjohn]

Strangely think hank and Mike would get along in this regard