Breaking Bad: Cat's in the Bag... (2008)
Season 1, Episode 2
9/10
Breaking Bad - Cat's in the Bag...
12 August 2013
Warning: Spoilers
"Milf…what the hell is a Milf?"

Oh, boy, does the duo of amateur meth cookers have a big problem on their hands! One of the drug dealers didn't die! In fact, Walt is driving to Jesse's house after school (his guilt over this whole situation regarding his use of Phosphine Gas to poison them in the Winnebago has him hearing a student in his Chemistry class say "murder" instead of what he actually said, "midterm") and sees "Krazy-8" walking the street, wheezing, and barely alive…running right into a tree when he sees Walt in his van! Held captive in Pinkman's basement, the two try to determine what to do with him…and the dead body in the Winnebago. So the plan is to acidify the dead body in the Winnebago and figure out how to kill Krazy-8 (Pinkman takes a bicycle locking device, using it to hold 8's head to a pole!). The flip of the coin decides which person will do either the acid job or the killing in the basement. Jesse lucks out (well, dissolving a body in acid isn't exactly worthwhile, but at least the body is dead) while Walt is having a really hard time doing the deed to 8. A subplot points out that WW's wife is pregnant. The "extra-curricular activities" of Walter White psychologically torment him while in the classroom.

Aaron Paul's reactions to acid-melting a body (or how he responds to WW's suggestion if he should have bought two bins, chopping him into pieces to melt the body easier!) are priceless. I delight in the absurdities that complicate matters for these two bumbling amateurs (seriously, killing and getting rid of bodies isn't exactly something they prepared for), and that unpredictability fuels interest in seeing where the show goes. Oh, and when WW just tires of his wife, Skyler's (Anna Gunn) nagging (she wants to know why Pinkman is calling him; checking his website, she is disturbed at why such a cretin would call her husband), he asks her to crawl out of his ass for once! Haha! And when Pinkman catches Walt smoking his weed…his expression is hilarious. Paul is just a breakout in only his second episode; how he manages to suck it up after taking a hit from his bong pipe, pulling the body out of the Winnebago, only to be confronted by Skylar about selling Mary Jane to her husband, is aces! To cap it all off: the bathtub acid incident…sometimes plastic is preferable to metal. Yo.
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