- Walt and Jesse's little empire begins to crumble. Saul tries to set them up with a mysterious distributor.
- With the rapid improvement in his medical condition, Walt's doctors now recommend surgery as the final step to making him cancer free. It will all cost $170,000 however. Walt and Jesse have another problem when one of their dealers is shot on the street and Jesse believes someone is trying to take over. With only Skinny left as a dealer, Jesse and Walt have to find a solution to selling their product. Their lawyer-partner, Saul Goodman, suggests they get someone more experienced in the trade to help them out with the large quantities they have on hand. Jesse finally tells Jane, a recovering drug addict, what he does for a living. Skyler's doctor recommends that she have a C-section and they schedule the birth for the following week. At work however, she discovers her boss has been fiddling with the accounts.—garykmcd
- Doctors advise Walter to have his lung removed & replaced with a donor lung to give him the best long term chance of survival. The surgery will cost $170-200,000. Walter agrees for the surgery in 4 weeks time.
Jesse & Walter had cooked 40 pounds of Meth in their last cook, but are having a lot of trouble moving their product on the street. They only are able to sell 2 pounds. Combo (Rodney Rush) is selling drugs on a corner when he notices two rival dealers staring him down; he is then killed by a young boy working for them. Skinny Pete, spooked by his death and Badger's recent brush with the law, decides to quit the drug trade as the killing puts a dent in the "tough guy" image of Jesse. Walt and Jesse meet with Saul to discuss their next move; he tells them that they are incompetent distributors, and need a businessman who is more restrained than Tuco and will buy their product in bulk. He offers to reach out to the only distributor of that kind he has heard of, but it will be difficult, as the man is extremely cautious. Jesse is distraught that he got Combo killed, and that night tells Jane to leave his apartment so that he doesn't harm her recovery when he smokes Meth. Jane reluctantly decides to stay with him, abandoning her 18 months drug free effort.
The next day, Walt waits at a local chicken restaurant called Los Pollos Hermanos, where the distributor has arranged to meet them; Jesse comes in late, still high, and leaves quickly afterwards. Nobody talks to Walt, but he realizes later that the distributor saw him and has refused to work with him.
Meanwhile, Jane relapses into drug addiction and introduces Jesse to heroin. The next day, Walt goes back to the same restaurant and waits until closing. He eventually realizes that the man he assumes is the restaurant manager is in fact the distributor, and asks for a meeting. The manager eventually reveals that he is the distributor, and that he cannot work with a drug addict like Jesse. Walt assures him that his product is the best there is, and that he only uses Jesse because he can count on his complete obedience. The manager assures Walt that he will be in touch if he decides to work with the duo, and warns Walt never to trust a drug addict. The Meth distributor is named Gus (Giancarlo Esposito)
Skyler helps the company celebrate her boss Ted's birthday, where she sings him a sultry version of "Happy Birthday to You". She later finds, while investigating the accounts, that there are many inaccuracies in the payments to the company. Ted admits that he has faked millions of dollars of revenue to keep the company afloat and support its employees. Skyler says she will not turn him in, but cannot be a part of his illegal doings; however, she later comes back to work.
Walt gets a message telling him to come to the restaurant, where he learns from the actual manager that the man he met is the owner of several stores, and that his name is Gus Fring. Just as Walt is about to leave, an associate of Gus named Victor (Jeremiah Bitsui) blocks him from exiting and tells him to deliver the Meth to a truck stop within the next hour. Walt rushes to Jesse's apartment and breaks in while Jesse and Jane are in a heroin-induced haze. A t the same time, Skyler goes into labor and tries to contact Walt. Walt is tortured about his choice, but decides to meet with Gus anyway. The order from Gus was to deliver the 38 pounds of Meth in 1 hour for 1.2 million USD.
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