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This commodity is nigh the pilot episode for Breaking Bad. For the Better Call Saul pilot, see Uno.

"Pilot" (titled "Breaking Bad" on the DVD and Blu-Ray release) is the kickoff episode of the get-go flavor of Breaking Bad and the first episode of the series altogether.

1 Summary
- i.1 Teaser
- 1.2 Act I
- 1.three Act Two
- 1.4 Act Three
- ane.5 Deed IV
two Official Photos
3 Trivia
iv Cultural references
5 Product
- 5.1 Credits
- 5.2 Filming Locations
- 5.3 Featured Music
6 Memorable Quotes

Summary

Teaser

Walter is recording a farewell to his family.

In the desert outside of Albuquerque, New Mexico, a man wearing nothing but his underwear and a gas mask erratically drives an RV downwardly a desolate highway. In the passenger seat, another man is passed out, also wearing a gas mask. In the dorsum of the RV are ii bodies. Afterwards crashing the RV in a ditch, the driver climbs out, dons a shirt hanging from the side view mirror, and retrieves a video photographic camera and gun from the vehicle. Recording a message on the camera, the man identifies himself as Walter White and bids a cryptic farewell to his wife and son every bit sirens are heard in the distance. Walt then walks onto the road and awaits the apparent approach of police, gun in hand.

Act I

Three weeks before, on his 50th birthday, Walt wakes upwards earlier dawn and exercises while contemplating of a plaque on his wall commemorating his contributions to research that won a Nobel Prize. At breakfast, his significant wife, Skyler, easily him a plate of eggs topped past veggie bacon spelling out "l". They banter with their handicapped son, Walt Jr., who complains most the veggie bacon. Afterwards, Walt drops off Junior at J. P. Wynne High Schoolhouse, where Walt also works as a chemistry teacher. In grade, Walt explains to his apathetic students how he regards chemistry as the study of change as well equally thing.

Human action Ii

After school, Walt performs his second chore at a machine wash, where he finds himself washing the convertible of a disrespectful educatee. Returning home, Walt discovers that Skyler has organized a surprise birthday political party for him. Amongst the guests is Walt's gregarious blood brother-in-constabulary, Hank Schrader, a DEA agent. Coincidentally, Hank is the subject of a local news report roofing a methamphetamine lab bust. Walt is impressed with the amount of coin recovered from the dealers, and Hank discloses that he confiscated $700,000. Hank so invites Walt to accompany him on another bust. Meanwhile, in the living room, Skyler talks to her sis Marie, Hank's wife, about her pregnancy.

Walter sees the mustard stain on his medico'south lab coat.

While working at the auto wash the following day, Walt suddenly collapses and is taken away by ambulance. At the hospital, a medico informs a detached Walt that he has inoperable lung cancer and has a couple of more years to live at best. Upon returning to the car launder, Walt becomes angry when his boss, Bogdan, asks him to wipe down cars again. Walt makes a scene and screams obscenities at Bogdan equally he storms out of the car wash.

Taking up Hank'due south offer, Walt joins him at a drug bust along with his partner, Steven Gomez. While Hank and Gomez raid a meth lab belonging to local dealer "Captain Melt", Walt waits outside in their automobile. There, he unexpectedly spots a former student named Jesse Pinkman escaping through the window of a neighboring house. Every bit Jesse flees the scene, Walt realizes that he is the dealer whom Hank and Gomez are trying to catch. After that night, Walt visits Jesse'south house and blackmails him into letting him go a partner in his meth performance, with Walt offering his knowledge in chemistry in exchange for Jesse's cognition in drug dealing.

Walt stealing equipment from the school.

Act 3

The post-obit day, Walt steals boxes full of chemical science equipment from his high school, while Jesse arranges to buy a used RV and so that volition exist used equally the duo's mobile meth lab. Upon driving into the desert, Walt strips down to his underwear (so as not to contaminate his wearing apparel with chemical odors) and cooks his first batch of crystal methamphetamine. Jesse is astonished with the chemical purity of the product Walt has produced.

Jesse takes a sample of Walt'southward meth to Krazy-8, a mid-level drug distributor who happens to be the cousin of Jesse's partner, Emilio Koyama. Emilio, who was arrested in Hank'south bust and is at present out on bail, believes that Jesse ratted him out. The three and so drive out to the RV, where Krazy-8 asks Walt if he wants to switch allegiances. Before he can reply, Emilio recognizes Walt from the bust and begins threatening him. Jesse tries to abscond, but trips and knocks himself out on a rock. Walt barters for his life by promising to reveal his meth formula.

Act 4

Emilio ties upward Jesse, so joins Krazy-eight in watching Walt cook. Equally Walt prepares the ingredients, Emilio absent-minded-mindedly throws a cigarette out the window, thereby starting a brush burn. Inside, Walt mixes chemicals that produce a deadly vapor earlier he dashes out of the RV. Krazy-8 and Emilio begin firing bullets through the door of the RV over Walt'south head, but are eventually overcome by the fumes. Walt unties Jesse, puts a gas mask on him, and props him in the rider seat earlier making his attempt to escape in the opening scene.

With the audio of sirens closing in, Walt tries to shoot himself just to find that the gun's safe is on. However, he soon realizes that the sirens he is hearing are not coming from constabulary cars, just from fire trucks responding to the brush burn down. Walt hides the gun in the back of his underwear while Jesse, sporting a black eye, comes out to join him. Walt's first twenty-four hours as a meth melt leaves him spent, shaken, but also invigorated. Returning home, he meets Skyler's troubled queries with atypical sexual aggression which leaves her stunned.

Official Photos

Trivia

Extended and uncensored on abode video. Later ambulation for the first time, AMC edited the episode so it could fit into an hr time slot (including commercials), meaning the episode was cutting down to roughly 45 minutes, whereas the version on the DVD and Blu-ray release runs near 58 minutes. Occasionally, AMC will yet run the 58-minute long episode. Uncensored on home video, Walt says, "Fuck you, Bogdan. I said, 'Fuck y'all.' And your eyebrows." Hank asks, "Do you work at the fucking Pottery Befouled?" And, finally, Emilio says, "You rata snitch motherfucker." A detailed analysis of the additions in the extended version tin constitute here.
When introduced to the audience for the offset fourth dimension, both Walt and Jesse are nude down to their underwear and are struggling to get dressed in a hurry. Walt had taken off his clothes earlier cooking in the RV and exits afterward crashing information technology, while Jesse is putting his dress on as every bit he bound'due south out the "sexy neighbor'southward" window.
The show was supposed to exist set in Riverside, California. However, Albuquerque was giving incentives to the production crew to pic in that location.
- They nevertheless had the option of setting the series in Riverside, given the surface area's status a eye of meth production, only the need to e'er film away from the Sandia Mountains led them to cull Albuquerque as a both the setting and filming location.
Studio executives wanted the Walter White character to be played by John Cusack or Matthew Broderick. Both actors turned down the role.
Originally, Walter White was to be xl years sometime. AMC requested his historic period be changed to l. They idea 40 was as well young for the crisis that Walt was facing.
The 1985 winners of the Nobel Chemistry prize were Herbert Hauptman and Jerome Karle, for their development of methods to determine crystal structures.
Walt was washing a Chevrolet Corvette C6.
While Hank and Gomez take Walt on a bust, civilians are really not allowed into DEA vehicles by police.
An actual DEA agent was on gear up to provide instructions on how to synthesize methamphetamine.
The cigarette brand, Morley, is a common prop shared past various Telly shows. It is a parody of Marlboro, a.k.a. "Marley". On "The X-Files", where Vince Gilligan was an acquaintance producer, they were the make associated with the mysterious character The Cigarette Smoking Man.
The handicap license for Walt'south auto was registered on 27 December 2008.
The frame around Jesse'south "THECAPN" license plate reads "Save a Tree, Eat a Beaver".
Among some of the chemicals Walt was working with are: denatured alcohol, methanol, ruddy phosphorus, iodine, ephedrine HCl, toluene, acetone and isopropyl alcohol.
With this episode, Vince Gilligan was nominated for an Emmy Laurels all-time direction in a series and won a WGA award for best dramatic episode. John Cost, was nominated for an Emmy Award for All-time Cinematography in a series of ane-hour.
"Pilot" can also refer to the pilot light used to light a stove and outset the reactions needed to cook.
This episode ends with sirens coming at Walt. Ironically, in the end (Felina) sirens came past Walt again.
Walt has total grown hair on both the beginning and last episode.
For an unknown reason, Walt was exercising on some sort of a stairmaster. This does non contribute to his cancer in any way (He finds out that he has cancer afterwards). This stairmaster is simply seen one other time, in a deleted scene from 3x13 "Total Mensurate". Along with the airplane pilot, another episode written and directed past Vince Gilligan.
I of the first times we see Skyler in the series she lies to a beak collector near sending in their payment. Skyler is the first 1 to prevarication in the whole series. She is also established as a creative writer--it explains her zeal for the gambling story in Bullet Points of season 4.
Due budget constraints, information technology was non possible to hire additional extras to fill the school jitney seen during the scene where Walter accompanies Hank on a drug bosom. Co-executive producer Melissa Bernstein volunteered to play the last student in the bus.
Walt is told in this episode on the day after his 50th birthday that he'll live maybe another couple of years. Ironically, Walt's death in Felina comes on his 52nd birthday, near ii years to the day later he receives this news.

Cultural references

Hank calls Walt "Keith Richards with a glass of warm milk." Richards was co-founder, guitarist, secondary vocalist, and co-principal songwriter of the Rolling Stones, and very hard living person considered an alcoholic. This is meant to suggest that Walt seemed very out of place with a gun.
Jesse sarcastically tells Walt that "this ain't Welcome Back, Kotter," a reference to a television show where a onetime high school teacher returns his former high school and teaches a remedial class.

Production

Credits

Co-Starring

Uncredited

Christopher Dempsey equally Paramedic
Edward A. Duran every bit DEA Agent #one
Andrea Good as Laundry Worker
Sergio Kato as DEA Agent Tom

Benjamin Lax every bit Chemistry Student
William E. Marshall equally Parent
Peggy Ann O'Neal as Pedestrian
Melissa Bernstein equally Student in bus

Filming Locations

The A1A car wash makes its offset appearance, located at 9516 Snow Heights Circle, Albuquerque in existent life. It has been named the "Octopus" and the "Mister" by multiple owners.
The offset cook location is at the same site Walter buries the money barrels. Its located just off trail 7089 on the Tohajiilee indigenous reservation. The existent GPS coordinates are (35.101972, -107.137222).

Featured Music

"Unknown Track #1" by Unknown Artist (during the opening sequence)
"Cruisin" by Eric Chun (at the carwash)
"Come on Dwelling house and Accept Your Next Matter With Me" by Stonewall Jackson (during Walt'due south birthday party)
"Unknown Track #ii" by Unknown Artist (at the carwash)
"Unknown Rail #3" by Unknown Creative person (at the carwash the next day)
"Matches In The Pool" by Dave Porter (playing as Walter throws lit matches into his puddle)
"Ride of the Valkyries" composed by Richard Wagner, performed by Dean Norris (as Hank) (during the DEA raid on Captain Cook'south lab)
"Dingy Southward Hustla" past Carolina Slim (equally the DEA bear out the raid)
"Tamacun" by Rodrigo y Gabriela (every bit Jesse escapes from the scene of the raid)
"Mango Walk" by The In Crowd (as Walt takes equipment from the school'south lab)
"Expressionless Fingers Talking" by Working for a Nuclear Free Metropolis (during the first cook)
"A Gosar" by FDK (feat. Tori Papa) (Marc Ferrari, Jonaty Garcia, and Josh Kessler) (playing as Jesse goes to meet Krazy-8)
"Get Depression" by Pudge (playing in Krazy-8'due south car as he, Jesse and Emilio arrive at the melt site)
"Apocalypshit" by Molotov (as Walt escapes the cook site with Jesse)
"Out Of Fourth dimension Man" Mick Harvey (during the final scenes of the episode)

Memorable Quotes

"My name is Walter Hartwell White. I alive at 308 Negra Arroyo Lane, Albuquerque, New Mexico, 87104. To all law enforcement entitles, this is not an access of guilt. I am speaking to my family unit at present. Skyler, you lot are the dear of my life. I hope you know that. Walter Inferior, you lot're my big man. At that place are going to be some things–things that yous'll come to acquire about me in the next few days. I just want you to know that no matter how it may look, I just had y'all in my middle. Good-cheerio."

―Walter recorfing a ambiguous, handheld cheerio to his wife and son as sirens can be heard in the distance.

Walter Jr.: "So, how's it feel to be old?"

Walter: "How does it experience to be a smart ass?"

―Junior teasing his begetter.

"Well, technically, chemistry is the written report of thing. But I prefer to see it as the study of change."

―Walter introducing chemistry to his students.

Walter: "Hank, how much money is that?"

Hank: "It's about 700 g. It was a pretty good booty."

Walter: "Well, that's unusual, isn't it? That kind of cash?"

Hank: "Mm. Well, it's not the most we ever took. Information technology's easy coin, till we catch you. Walt, but say the word and I'll take y'all on a ride-forth. You can lookout man us knock downwards a meth lab, huh? Go a little excitement in your life."

Walter: "Yeah, anytime."

―Walter and Hank at Walter's birthday party.

Dr. Belknap: "You understood what I've just said to yous?"

Walter: "Yes. Lung cancer, inoperable – all-time case scenario with chemo, I'll alive maybe another couple of years."

―Dr. Belknap informs Walt of his diagnosis.

Walter: "Fuck you, Bogdan."

Bogdan: "What?"

Walter: "I said, FUCK YOU. AND YOUR EYEBROWS."

―Walter to Bogdan.

Walter: "You lost your partner today. What's his proper name - Emilio? Emilio is going to prison house. The DEA took all your money, your lab. You got nothing. Square i. Just you lot know the business and I know the chemistry. I'm thinking...maybe you and I could partner up."

Jesse: "You, uh...yous want to cook crystal meth? Yous. You and, uh...and me?"

Walter: "That's correct. Either that...or I turn you in."

―Walter blackmailing Jesse into cooking meth with him.

Walter: "Did you larn nothing from my chemistry class?"

Jesse: "No. Yous flunked me, think?"

Walter: "No wonder."

Jesse: "Prick! And let me tell you something else. This ain't chemistry – this is art. Cooking is art. And the shit I cook is the flop, so don't be telling me."

Walter: "The shit you cook is shit. I saw your set-upwards. Ridiculous. You and I volition not make garbage. We will produce a chemically pure and stable product that performs as advertised. No adulterants. No baby formula. No chili powder."

Jesse: "No, no, chili P is my signature!"

Walter: "Not anymore."

―Walter dismayed by Jesse'due south laboratory and his method of cooking his drug.

Jesse: "Nah, come on! Man, some straight like you, giant stick upwards his donkey, all of a sudden at age, what, lx, he'due south just going to break bad?"

Walter: "I'g 50."

Jesse: "Information technology's weird is all, okay? It doesn't compute. Listen. If you've gone crazy or something I mean, if y'all've if you've gone crazy or depressed, I'm just saying that'due south something I need to know virtually. Okay? I hateful, that affects me."

Walter: "I am awake."

Jesse: "What?"

―Jesse, incredulous about Walter'due south motivations and explanations.

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