Breaking Bad (TV Series)

Buyout (2012)

Aaron Paul: Jesse Pinkman

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• Jesse Pinkman : I, uh, I eat a lot of frozen stuff. It's usually pretty bad. I mean, the pictures are always so awesome, you know? It's like, "Hell yeah, I'm stoked for this lasagna!" And then you nuke it, and the cheese gets all scabby on top, and it's like... it's like you're eating a scab... I mean, seriously, what's that about? It's like, yo, what ever happened to truth in advertising?

  [chuckles] 

  Jesse Pinkman : You know?

• Jesse Pinkman : Look, when you, uh, when you started this thing, did you ever dream of having $5 million? I know for a fact that you didn't. I know for a fact all you needed was 737 000, 'cause you worked it all out, like, mathematically.

• Jesse Pinkman , Walter White , Skyler White : [awkward silence] 

  Jesse Pinkman : So hey, how's business? The car wash? Mr. White says it's going really well. He says, like, you're great manager.

  Skyler White : He did, huh?

  Jesse Pinkman : Yeah he says you've got it running like a... Like a machine. Like, well-oiled. Yeah.

  Skyler White : What else did he tell you about me?

  Jesse Pinkman : Oh, you know. Just eh, just good stuff. Just really, you know, really good, good stuff. We don't really talk that much about, you know, personal things.

  Skyler White : Did you also tell him about my affair?

  Jesse Pinkman , Walter White , Skyler White : [awkward silence] 

  Skyler White : May I please be excused?

  [leaves the room] 

  Walter White : You know my kids are gone?

  Jesse Pinkman : Thank God.

• Walter White : Jesse, have you heard of a company called "Gray Matter"?

  Jesse Pinkman : No.

  Walter White : Well, I co-founded it in grad school with a couple of friends of mine. Actually, I was the one who named it. And back then, it was just... oh, it was just small-time. We had a couple patents pending, but nothing earth-shattering. 'Course, we all knew the potential. Yeah, we were gonna take the world by storm. And then... This, uh... Well, something happened between the three of us. And I'm not gonna go into detail, but for personal reasons, I decided to leave the company and I sold my share to my two partners. I took a buyout for $5000. Now at the time, that was a lot of money for me. Care to guess what that company is worth now?

  Jesse Pinkman : Millions?

  Walter White : Billions. With a "b". Two point one-six billion as of last Friday. I look it up every week. And I sold my share, my potential, for $5000. I sold my kids' birthright for a few months' rent.

• Jesse Pinkman : Are we in the meth business, or the money business?

• Walter White : Jesse you asked me if I was in the meth business or the money business. Neither. I'm in the empire business.

  Jesse Pinkman : Mr. White, is a meth empire really something to be that proud of?