Breaking Bad Explained — Episode by Episode

<p>Walt and Jesse are confined to the superlab for a bottle episode built around a single fly that Walt declares a contamination threat. Running on two days without sleep, Walt obsessively hunts the insect while Jesse...

<p>Hank Schrader is executed in the Tohajiilee desert after Walt's $80 million offer fails to save him. Walt betrays Jesse's hiding spot, leading to Jesse's capture and forced enslavement at Jack's compound. An...

<p>Walt executes his last-ditch plan to kill Gus Fring by enlisting the one person who hates Gus more: Hector Salamanca. After wiring a bomb to Hector's wheelchair, Walt orchestrates a fake DEA visit to bait Gus into...

<p>Breaking Bad’s cast came into the series through unexpected paths, from Bryan Cranston’s X-Files connection with Vince Gilligan to Anna Gunn’s prestige-TV background, Dean Norris’s law-enforcement typecasting, Aaron...

<p>Walter White returns from being sidelined to find every exit closing simultaneously. Gus fires Walt in the desert and announces he will have Hank killed, warning that the entire White family dies if Walt interferes...

<p>Hank Schrader beats Jesse Pinkman unconscious outside his home, a consequence of the RV humiliation from the previous episode. Jesse responds by threatening litigation, continued cooking, and using Walt as a DEA...

<p>Walter White turns fifty working two jobs in Albuquerque, his past as a gifted chemist reduced to a high school classroom nobody listens in. A Stage 3 lung cancer diagnosis — kept secret from his pregnant wife and...

<p>The 10 most essential episodes of Breaking Bad — landmark moments, fan favorites, and major turning points — plus a cast & creators bonus. Jump between episodes using your podcast app's chapter navigation.</p>

<p>Walter and Jesse escalate their operation to meet Tuco's demand for two pounds of meth weekly, but their usual pseudoephedrine supply can't support that volume. They steal methylamine from a chemical warehouse and...

<p>The 10 most essential episodes of Breaking Bad — landmark moments, fan favorites, and major turning points — plus a cast & creators bonus. Jump between episodes using your podcast app's chapter...

<p>Walter, Jesse, and Mike face a methylamine supply crisis when a GPS tracker is discovered on their shipment barrels. Mike wants to kill supplier Lydia, believing she planted it, but she proposes an alternative...

<p>Jack's neo-Nazi crew arrives in the desert where Hank has arrested Walter, leading to a devastating shootout that kills both Hank and his partner Gomez despite Walter's desperate pleas and offers of eighty million...

<p>Walter White returns to Albuquerque as a dying fugitive with final objectives to complete. He coerces former colleagues to fund his children's future with drug money, poisons distributor Lydia with ricin, and...

<p>Walter returns from Mexico to discover Jesse has successfully operated the meth lab independently, making Walter expendable to Gus Fring. When Gus fires Walter and explicitly threatens his family by name to prevent...

<p>In the season four finale, Walter and Jesse attempt to kill Gus Fring but their car bomb plan fails when Gus senses danger and walks away. Walter recruits wheelchair-bound Hector Salamanca as a suicide bomber...