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Breaking Bad · 2008

Breaking Bad

S1

A chemistry teacher turns to cooking meth

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Yes. It's in the Main story, the list of only what moves the plot forward to the end of the saga.

Where it falls in the order

  • Main story1 of 6
  • Chronological7 of 13

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Spoilers for this title

Quick recap

Walter White, a 50-year-old Albuquerque chemistry teacher, learns he has terminal lung cancer. To leave money for his family, he teams up with former student Jesse Pinkman and starts cooking meth in an RV in the desert. Their first sale goes wrong: dealers Krazy-8 and Emilio try to kill them, and Walt ends up killing both. At home, his pregnant wife Skyler grows suspicious of his lies, while his brother-in-law Hank, a DEA agent, investigates the new meth in town. Walt agrees to treatment. He blows up Tuco Salamanca's office and introduces himself as Heisenberg. It ends with Walt and Jesse closing a deal with Tuco, who beats one of his own men to death in front of them.

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3 easter eggs

Hidden details

  1. Behind the scenesWalter White started on The X-Files

    Vince Gilligan wrote The X-Files episode "Drive," casting Cranston as a villain the audience had to feel sorry for. AMC knew him from Malcolm in the Middle and came around after seeing that episode.

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  2. Behind the scenesIt was meant to be California

    The show was first set to film in Riverside, California, before moving to Albuquerque, New Mexico. The writers' strike also cut the season from nine episodes to seven.

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  3. ReferenceHeisenberg and Cool Hand Luke

    Walt introduces himself to Tuco as "Heisenberg," after physicist Werner Heisenberg. The title "Crazy Handful of Nothin'" comes from Cool Hand Luke: a weak poker hand you can only win by bluffing.

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