Fahrenheit 451 Week 3

When Skyler demands to know what Walt has been hiding, he admits that he has been cooking meth. Horrified, Skyler asks for a divorce in return for her silence, and demands that Walt move out. She ultimately comes to uneasily accept the situation and helps Walt launder his drug money, but refuses to have anything to do with him outside of business. The rift in their marriage worsens when Skyler sleeps with her boss, Ted Beneke (Christopher Cousins). Walt tries to get back at her by making a pass at the school superintendent, who puts him on indefinite suspension.

Needing money, Walt takes Gus up on an offer to produce meth in a state-of-the-art laboratory under an industrial laundry. Walt initially works with Gale Boetticher (David Costabile),

but worries that Gale will replace him, he then convinces Gus to hire Jesse. Two hitmen from the Mexican Cartel that employs Gus are ordered by drug kingpin — and Tuco's uncle — Hector Salamanca (Mark Margolis) to kill Walt. Gus protects Walt, however, and directs the assassins to Hank. Hank survives the ensuing assassination attempt, but is temporarily paralyzed from the waist down. Skyler strong-arms Walt into paying for Hank's care, and creates a cover story about Walt counting cards at casinos.

In the final episodes of season three, Jesse discovers that drug dealers in Gus' organization were responsible for the death of a friend, and that they had used Tomas (Angelo Martinez), the 11-year-old brother of his new girlfriend Andrea (Emily Rios), to commit the act.

When the dealers murder Tomas, Jesse plots revenge, but Walt intervenes by killing the dealers himself. Gus' cleaner Mike Ehrmantraut (Jonathan Banks) drags Walt to the laboratory and threatens to kill him unless he tells them where Jesse is hiding. Walt frantically calls Jesse and tells him to kill Gale to ensure that they don't outlive their usefulness to Gus. Jesse goes to Gale's house and shoots him

dead.

Season four[edit]
In the aftermath of Gale's murder, Gus brings both Walt and Jesse to the lab, and kills his associate Victor right in front of them in a gruesome show of force.

The tension of working under tighter security creates a rift between Walt and Jesse, and Gus uses the opportunity to bring Jesse to his side by having Mike train him in hopes of eventually replacing Walt. Walt figures out what Gus is up to and gives Jesse homemade ricin with which to poison Gus, but Jesse never goes through with it. Meanwhile, Walt buys the car wash where he used to work and uses it to launder his drug money.

After ridding himself of the Cartel's influence in the area, Gus fires Walt and warns him that if Hank gets any closer, he will have Walt's family killed. Walt tries to use one of Saul's connections to get him and his family relocated, but finds most of his drug money has been used by Skyler to pay off Ted's IRS fines to avoid having their own lives investigated. After arranging for his family's safety under the DEA, Walt resolves to kill Gus, but finds that the kingpin is far too protected. Walt begs for Jesse's help, but Jesse

refuses.

Andrea's son Brock falls desperately ill, and Walt convinces Jesse that Gus poisoned the boy with ricin, gaining his help to get rid of Gus. Jesse tells Walt that Gus is vulnerable when he visits Hector in his nursing home. Walt makes a deal with Hector to draw Gus in by setting up a meeting with the DEA. When Gus comes to the nursing home to kill him, Hector detonates a pipe bomb Walt made, killing both himself and Gus. Walt and Jesse torch the hidden lab, and Walt calls Skyler to tell her they are safe and that he has "won".

After Brock recovers, Jesse says that the boy had likely been poisoned by accidentally eating Lily of the Valley berries, and Gus was not responsible; Walt responds that killing Gus was still the right thing to do. The final scene of the season is of a potted Lily of the Valley plant in Walt's backyard, indicating that Walt poisoned Brock to goad Jesse into action and further his plan to kill Gus.

Season five[edit]