She even, sweet relief, finally guesses that he’s in the drug trade. Meanwhile, Skyler has finally decided to divorce Walt, now that she has safely squeezed the baby out, and it’s oh-so-clear that her husband’s a bad man. We’d call this convenient, but after just one stint processing his addiction, is Jesse really going to have absorbed his lessons? The upshot? Jesse surrenders himself to being a “bad” man. The counselor can work with this: He backed over his 6-year-old daughter in the driveway, trying to make it to the liquor store before it closed. Haunted by the death of girlfriend Jane and her excellent bangs, he asks his counselor whether he knows what it’s like to hurt someone. We assume they’re not praying for his continued success as a drug producer. Once arrived at the creepy shrine - ah-ha! - the Twins tack up the Unabomber-like sketch of Walt. Finally, two seemingly identical twins in suits step out of a lovely Mercedes, give each other a glance, and drop to the ground themselves.
Is he injured? Perhaps he dropped a cuff link? Then we see that he’s one among many, crawling, zombielike, to Dios knows where.
( Bryan Cranston directed this episode.) Somewhere in Mexico, a man slithers along a dirt road, ignored by the people he passes. Here’s where we have to talk about the season’s opening set piece, an almost absurdly bold bit of filmmaking that speaks as well as anything to the show’s elegant aspirations. Shit, he’s still driving that god-awful Pontiac Aztek. Last season started with a kidnapping and ended with a plane crash, with an OD and a crushing by ATM in between, but those things just formed the grim backdrop to Walt pissing off his wife and pushing Jesse Pinkman to the brink. Honestly! Where other programs express their ambitions by layering on new characters and story lines, hurling lightning bolt after lightning bolt at their protagonists, this one has simply taken a long, hard look at Walter White as his understandable desperation has turned to cold-eyed determination. Breaking Bad isn’t like all the other critically adored hour-long cable dramas.