- Walt and Jesse realize how dire their situation is. They must come up with a plan to kill Tuco before Tuco kills them first.
- Having completed their deal with Tuco in the junkyard, Walt and Jesse realize just how crazy and violent he can be. Jesse is convinced that he's seen Tuco's black SUV going up and down his street. Walt puts it down to paranoia - until he sees a black SUV parked just down the block from his house. Jesse's solution is to shoot Tuco before he kills them but Walt has a better idea. However, panic sets in when they think Tuco is killing his associates. Hank reviews the security surveillance footage of the warehouse break-in without realizing it's Walt and Jesse. Skyler tells Hank about Marie's shoplifting and gets a surprising reaction.—garykmcd
- In the junkyard, after his purchase of Meth from Walter White (Bryan Cranston) and Jesse Pinkman (Aaron Paul), drug kingpin Tuco Salamanca (Raymond Cruz) viciously assaults his lieutenant, No-Doze, after he speaks to Walt in Tuco's place. After Tuco departs, Walt calculates the amount of money he will need to provide for his family, concluding that the figure is $737,000. That means 11 more drug deals to get to his goal. Tuco suddenly returns demanding that Walt saves an unresponsive No-Doze. After he dies, Gonzo, the other man in Tuco's employ, states that they should move the body, but Tuco refuses and leaves it in the junkyard.
Walt parts ways with Jesse and goes home. Skyler White (Anna Gunn) finds him standing at the television, and he subsequently forces himself on her. After she makes him stop, Walt sits by the pool and is later found by Walter Jr. (RJ Mitte) who thinks Walter is beating Skyler. Meanwhile, Jesse acquires a firearm at a hot dog restaurant. The next day, he tells Walt that he believes Tuco poses a threat that must be taken care of. Walt points out that shooting him would end badly, and the pair seems despondent. Elsewhere, Skyler refuses to answer phone calls from her sister, Marie Schrader (Betsy Brandt). Marie and her husband Hank (Dean Norris) argue about whether or not she attempted to schedule a dinner with Skyler in a way that conflicts with another appointment that she has for therapy, revealing that Marie reluctantly goes to therapy for unspecified problems.
At the DEA field office, Hank's partner Steven Gomez (Steven Michael Quezada) shows him footage of Walt and Jesse's Methylamine robbery without realizing he's watching Walt and Jesse. Hank dismisses their ability as thieves, but is intrigued by the fact that the unknown pair stole Methylamine and used Thermite to enter the warehouse. Gomez speculates they may be college-aged chemistry students, and Hank hints that the two will encounter difficulty from the drug cartels for disrupting the Meth trade.
Walt becomes worried when he notices an SUV parked near his house and spends the night watching the street. Jesse encourages Walt to also purchase a gun, hoping to "double their chances" of success in the event of a shooting. Instead, Walt proposes that they kill Tuco in a more clandestine way, using Ricin made from castor beans. Hank visits Skyler and asks her to make up with Marie. Skyler responds angrily, stating that her situation is worse than her sister's. Hank and Skyler both realize that the other knows about Marie's shoplifting.
Walt and Jesse produce the Ricin, hoping to trick Tuco into poisoning himself by placing it in the next Meth delivery. As they finish their work, Walt receives a phone call from Hank, who is at a crime scene. Hank says that he screwed up in speaking to Skyler, and Walt forgives him.
It is revealed that the crime scene Hank is investigating is the junkyard, and that Gonzo has accidentally died in a botched attempt to move No-Doze's body. Walt and Jesse infer that Tuco killed Gonzo, and Walt insists that Jesse leave town. Panic sets in when they think Tuco is killing his own associates. Hank calls Walter with pics of 2 dead men brutally murdered, who Walter knows are Tuco's men. But later Hank figures out that the men were not murdered, they simply died due to an accident in the junkyard. Walt returns home, where he avoids answering questions from Skyler. He receives a phone call and goes outside, where Jesse is being held at gunpoint in his car by Tuco. Tuco forces Walt to enter the car.
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