- There is a fly loose in the lab. Walt and Jesse must do whatever they can to kill it before it contaminates the meth.
- Walt is suffering from insomnia, worried about the choices he has made and the direction his life has taken. Unaware that Jesse has been skimming a bit of their product, he also worried that the numbers in his formulas don't add up and that they always seem to somewhere between 4 and 8 ounces short of what the batch should have produced. The meticulous Walt is also concerned - to the point of paranoia - when he discovers a housefly in the lab. Worried about contamination, he goes to extreme lengths to kill it. Jesse comes to his rescue in an interesting way.—garykmcd
- Walt, suffering from insomnia, stares up at his smoke detector's flashing light while trying to get back to sleep. Later, he arrives with Jesse at the super lab, where they begin making another batch of Meth. At the end of the day, Walt calculates that their yield, while above what they are required to produce, falls short of what he expects. Jesse suggests it may be from other losses from spillage, evaporation, condensation or vestiges but Walt insists there is another reason, Unaware that Jesse has been skimming a bit of their product. The output is off by 0.14% as per Walter's calculations. Walter reckons they are a quarter to a half pound shy on every batch.
After Jesse leaves for the day, Walt sees a housefly in the lab which he fears could contaminate the Meth-making process. He tries numerous means to swat it, even dangling precariously from the lab's catwalk, from which he slips and falls to the floor. When Jesse returns the next day, he finds Walt still in pain from the fall and demanding that they cannot start cooking until they get rid of the fly. Walter has created an area of positive pressure inside the lab to drive the fly out. Walter says that the lab is contaminated, and they cannot start production till the fly is taken care of. Jesse is worried that Walter is fussing over one fly. Walter has even created his own fly catcher net.
Jesse worries about Walt's lack of sleep and suggests they go outside to figure it out. However, when Jesse leaves, Walt locks him out of the lab and goes back to find the fly. Jesse argues that they have the most non picky customers in the world. They are dope heads and will never care about some little contaminant. Walter says that the fly will destroy their entire batch.
When Jesse disconnects the main power to the lab, Walt lets him back in so they can work together. Jesse gets some flypaper which they hang around the lab, as well as some sleeping pills that he secretly puts into Walt's coffee. He then recounts a story about his late aunt, who experienced auditory hallucinations as a result of her cancer spreading to her brain. Walt asserts that he is still in remission.
As they wait to catch the fly, the two talk about their families. Walt expresses that he should have died already and tries to think of the perfect moment to have done so: after he had enough money, after Holly was born, before his surgery and before Skyler knew what he'd been doing. He finally decides the perfect moment to die would have been the night Jane died, telling Jesse of his conversation with her father Donald. He tries to calculate the chances of meeting both father and daughter in different scenarios on the same night despite having never met either beforehand but finds the odds too astronomical to calculate.
While Walt sleeps Jesse cooks the batch on his own. Walter stopped short of telling Jesse that he saw Jane choke on her own vomit and did nothing to save her and watched her die helplessly.
In the parking lot the following morning, Walt refers to the missing half-pound of Meth and warns Jesse that there may be hidden cameras in the lab. Jesse denies taking anything and states that he isn't asking anyone to protect him. That night, Walt is again unable to fall asleep, and sees a fly landing on the smoke detector's flashing light.
Eventually the fly simply lands on a desk and Jesse is able to swat it with a newspaper.
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