Jesse tries to flee, but trips and knocks himself out on a rock.
Before he can answer, Emilio recognizes Walt from the bust and begins threatening him. The three then drive out to the RV, where Krazy-8 asks Walt if he wants to switch allegiances. Emilio, who was arrested in Hank's bust and is now out on bail, believes that Jesse ratted him out. Jesse takes a sample of Walt's meth to Krazy-8, a mid-level drug distributor who happens to be the cousin of Jesse's partner, Emilio Koyama. Jesse is astonished with the chemical purity of the product Walt has produced. Upon driving into the desert, Walt strips down to his underwear (so as not to contaminate his clothes with chemical odors) and cooks his first batch of crystal methamphetamine.
The following day, Walt steals boxes full of chemistry equipment from his high school, while Jesse arranges to buy a used RV so that will be used as the duo's mobile meth lab. Later that night, Walt visits Jesse's house and blackmails him into letting him become a partner in his meth operation, with Walt offering his knowledge in chemistry in exchange for Jesse's knowledge in drug dealing. As Jesse flees the scene, Walt realizes that he is the dealer whom Hank and Gomez are trying to catch. There, he unexpectedly spots a former student named Jesse Pinkman escaping through the window of a neighboring house. While Hank and Gomez raid a meth lab belonging to local dealer "Captain Cook", Walt waits outside in their car. Taking up Hank's offer, Walt joins him at a drug bust along with his partner, Steven Gomez. Walt makes a scene and screams obscenities at Bogdan as he storms out of the car wash. Upon returning to the car wash, Walt becomes angry when his boss, Bogdan, asks him to wipe down cars again. At the hospital, a doctor informs a detached Walt that he has inoperable lung cancer and has a couple of more years to live at best. While working at the car wash the following day, Walt suddenly collapses and is taken away by ambulance. Walter sees the mustard stain on his doctor's lab coat. Meanwhile, in the living room, Skyler talks to her sister Marie, Hank's wife, about her pregnancy. Hank then invites Walt to accompany him on another bust. Walt is impressed with the amount of money recovered from the dealers, and Hank discloses that he confiscated $700,000. Coincidentally, Hank is the subject of a local news report covering a methamphetamine lab bust. Among the guests is Walt's gregarious brother-in-law, Hank Schrader, a DEA agent. Returning home, Walt discovers that Skyler has organized a surprise birthday party for him. In class, Walt explains to his apathetic students how he regards chemistry as the study of change as well as matter.Īfter school, Walt performs his second job at a car wash, where he finds himself washing the convertible of a disrespectful student. Wynne High School, where Walt also works as a chemistry teacher. They banter with their handicapped son, Walt Jr., who complains about the veggie bacon. At breakfast, his pregnant wife, Skyler, hands him a plate of eggs topped by veggie bacon spelling out "50". Three weeks earlier, on his 50th birthday, Walt wakes up before dawn and exercises while contemplating of a plaque on his wall commemorating his contributions to research that won a Nobel Prize. Walt then walks onto the road and awaits the apparent approach of police, gun in hand. Recording a message on the camera, the man identifies himself as Walter White and bids a cryptic farewell to his wife and son as sirens are heard in the distance.
After crashing the RV in a ditch, the driver climbs out, dons a shirt hanging from the side view mirror, and retrieves a video camera and gun from the vehicle. In the passenger seat, another man is passed out, also wearing a gas mask. In the desert outside of Albuquerque, New Mexico, a man wearing nothing but his underwear and a gas mask erratically drives an RV down a desolate highway. Walter is recording a farewell to his family.