Breaking Bad

Returns August 11

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Walter WhitePlayed by Bryan Cranston

Walter White, a high school chemistry teacher and father of two, learns he has inoperable lung cancer. To secure his family's financial future, he begins making top-quality meth with Jesse, a former student. The two become known for their top-quality blue meth, but success has its complications: Walt finds himself confronting hardened criminals and committing murder. A DEA team led by Walt's brother-in-law, Hank, is also pursuing "Heisenberg," Walt's drug-world alter ego.

Skyler, Walt's wife, demands a divorce when Walt reveals his new profession. Walt tries to retire from drug production, but his distributor, a respected businessman named Gus Fring, builds a superlab and lures Walt back.

Meanwhile, the Mexican drug cartel dispatches two killers, the Cousins, to murder Walt to avenge the death of his former distributor, Tuco Salamanca. To save Walt, Gus steers them to Hank, who survives their ambush but is severely injured. Sensing that Walt's drug activities are connected to the assault, Skyler offers to pay Hank's medical bills, telling her sister Marie that Walt won big money playing illegal card games.

Relations with Gus disintegrate after Walt kills two of Gus's dealers to protect Jesse, who later kills Gale, the chemist Gus grooms as Walt's replacement. Walt prepares poison for Jesse to slip to Gus. But Gus undermines Jesse's loyalty to Walt by elevating Jesse within the meth operation.

Hank renews his pursuit of Heisenberg after being asked by a police friend to review the Gale Boetticher murder case. In a prideful moment, Walt scoffs at Hank's notion that Gale was Heisenberg and suggests that Hank's quarry remains at large. The comment reenergizes Hank, who connects the dots between Gale and Gus.

Walt turns Jesse against Gus by falsely accusing Gus of poisoning a young boy and convinces Tuco's uncle, Tio, a former Cartel member now in a nursing home, to strap an explosive device to his wheelchair. Tio and Gus both perish when the bomb goes off.

"We're safe," Walt later tells Skyler. "I won."

Walter White Quotes

“I said f— you. And your eyebrows… wipe down this!”
Season 1, Episode 1: “Pilot”

“I am awake.”
Season 1, Episode 1: “Pilot”

“We are going to make a good product that does what it is supposed to, as advertised. No emulsifiers, no baking powder, no bleach, no chili powder.”
Season 1, Episode 1: “Pilot”

“I’m sorry, what were you asking me? Oh, yes, that stupid plastic container I asked you to buy. You see, hydrofluoric acid won’t eat through plastic; it will however dissolve metal, rock, glass, ceramic. So there’s that.”
Season 1, Episode 2: “Cat’s in the Bag…”

“I haven’t been myself lately, but I love you. Nothing about that has changed, nothing ever will. So right now, what I need, is for you to climb down out of my ass. Can you do that? Will you do that for me, honey? Will you please, just once, get off my ass, you know? I’d appreciate it, I really would.”
Season 1, Episode 3: “…And the Bag’s in the River”

“Look we all in this room, we love each other. We want what’s best for each other, and I know that; I am very thankful for that. What I want… what I want, what I need… is a choice.”
Season 1, Episode 5: “Gray Matter”

“How can you suggest that we kill a man, and you can’t even open the gun?”
Season 2, Episode 1: “Seven Thirty-Seven”

“We tried to poison you. We tried to poison you because you’re an insane, degenerate piece of filth and you deserve to die.”
Season 2, Episode 2: “Grilled”

“My wife is seven months pregnant with a baby we didn’t intend. My fifteen-year old son has cerebral palsy. I am an extremely overqualified high school chemistry teacher. When I can work, I make $43,700 per year. I have watched all of my colleagues and friends surpass me in every way imaginable. And within eighteen months, I will be dead. And you ask why I ran?”
Season 2, Episode 3: “Bit by a Dead Bee”

“You asked me what I want you to do. I want you to handle it.”
Season 2, Episode 5: “Breakage”

“The game has changed. The word is out. And you are a killer.”
Season 2, Episode 7: “Negro Y Azul”

“Sitting around, smoking marijuana, eating Cheetos and masturbating do not constitute ‘plans.’”
Season 2, Episode 9: “4 Days Out”

“All the lies — I can’t even keep them straight in my head any more.”
Season 2, Episode 9: “4 Days Out”

“It’s kind of funny. When I got my diagnosis – cancer – I said to myself, ‘Why me?’ And then, the other day, when I got the good news, I said the same thing.”
Season 2, Episode 10: “Over”

[Showing Holly the money hidden in the garage]“Want to see what your Daddy did for you? That’s right: Daddy did that. Daddy did that for you”
Season 2, Episode 12: “Phoenix”

“You come down and you wave these papers in my face when there is a whole other entire side to this. There’s your side and there’s my side, and you have not heard my side yet. You have not heard any of it at all.”
Season 3, Episode 1: “No Mas”

“Hellfire rained down on my house! Where my children sleep!”
Season 3, Episode 2: “Caballo Sin Nombre”

“But I brought dipping sticks.”
Season 3, Episode 2: “Caballo Sin Nombre”

“I’m in… you’re out.”
Season 3, Episode 5: “Mas”

“Name one thing in this world that is not negotiable.”
Season 3, Episode 6: “Sunset”

“Look, I feel like I’m running out of ways to explain this to you, but once more I shall try. This fly is a major problem for us: It will ruin our batch, and we need to destroy it and every trace of it so we can cook. Failing that, we’re dead. There’s no more room for error, not with these people.”
Season 3, Episode 10: “Fly”

“I’ve lived too long.”
Season 3, Episode 10: “Fly”

“The universe is random. It’s not inevitable. It’s simple chaos. It’s subatomic particles in endless, aimless collision. That’s what science teaches us, but what is this saying? What is it telling us, when on the very night that this man’s daughter dies, it’s me who’s having a drink with him? How can that be random?”
Season 3, Episode 10: “Fly”

“Murder is not part of your 12-step program.”
Season 3, Episode 12: “Half Measures”

“Run.”
Season 3, Episode 12: “Half Measures”

“I saved your life, Jesse. Are you gonna save mine?”
Season 3, Episode 13: “Full Measure”

“You might wanna hold off… Your boss is going to need me.”
Season 3, Episode 13: “Full Measure”

“Let us cook. Isn’t that what this whole thing is about?”
Season 4, Episode 1: Box Cutter

“What did you expect me to do? Just simply roll over and allow you to murder us?”
Season 4, Episode 1: Box Cutter

“You kill me, you have nothing. You kill Jesse, you don’t have me.”
Season 4, Episode 1: Box Cutter

“Get me in a room with him. Mike, just get me in a room, and I’ll do the rest.”
Season 4, Episode 2: Thirty-Eight Snub

“Let’s just say that I have a hell of a lot more on my mind right now than thinking about buying a damn car wash.”
Season 4, Episode 3: Open House

“I was, and am, providing for our family.”
Season 4, Episode 4: Bullet Points

“Where is the ‘I slept with my boss’ bullet point? I can’t seem to find that.”
Season 4, Episode 4: Bullet Points

“You should see his house. It’s, it’s like Skid Row. He has actual hobos living there.”
Season 4, Episode 4: Bullet Points

“I’ve got Mike, that grunting, dead-eyed cretin sucker punching me in the, in the face. I’ve got Gus wielding a box cutter. I mean, Western Union, message received.”
Season 4, Episode 4: Bullet Points

“Why am I the only person capable of behaving in a professional manner?”
Season 4, Episode 4: Bullet Points

“I want you to give her every last dollar. Do you hear me? I don’t care if you have to stuff it in trash bags. Just make it happen.”
Season 4, Episode 5: Shotgun

“This genius of yours, maybe he’s still out there.”
Season 4, Episode 5: Shotgun

“I am not in danger, Skyler. I am the danger. A guy opens his door and gets shot, and you think that of me? No, I am the one who knocks.”
Season 4, Episode 6: Cornered

“What is going on with me is not about some disease. It’s about choices. Choices I have made. Choices I stand by.”
Season 4, Episode 6: Cornered

“This whole thing. All of this. It’s all about me.”
Season 4, Episode 6: Cornered

“He says he see something in you. What kind of game is he playing? Does he think you’re that naive?
Season 4, Episode 7: Problem Dog

“The man looked you straight in the eye and told you no more children, but that very night, that little boy, he winds up–.”
Season 4, Episode 7: Problem Dog

“This is a simple division of labor: I bring in the money, you launder the money.”
Season 4, Episode 7: Problem Dog

“I swear to God, I thought I was driving the man to a gem and mineral show.”
Season 4, Episode 8: Hermanos

“I’ve got some math for you. Hank catching Gus equals Hank catching us.”
Season 4, Episode 8: Hermanos

“Is this going to be a regular thing now? Meth cooking and corpse disposal?”
Season 4, Episode 9: Bug

“I’ll give you advice: Go to Mexico, screw up like I know you will, and wind up in a barrel somewhere.”
Season 4, Episode 9: Bug

“I made a mistake. It’s my own fault. I had it coming. It’s all my fault. I’m sorry.”
Season 4, Episode 10: Salud

“I’m done explaining myself.”
Season 4, Episode 11: Crawl Space

“If you could kill me, I’d already be dead. But you can’t. You can’t kill me because Jesse wouldn’t cook for you if you did.”
Season 4, Episode 11: Crawl Space