History Recap / BreakingBadS1E3AndTheBagsInTheRiver

* EarWorm: InUniverse example: the jingle from Tampico's Furniture store.

* FlushingTheEvidence: Liquified remains of the bodies are flushed.

* {{Foreshadowing}}:
** Hank takes Walter Jr to a SRO to try and scare him straight about marijuana, and it sounds like something out of the worst after-school special ever, with all his bullshit about gateway drugs. Only look at what's happened to Walter over the last five seasons and ask yourself, "What did Hank say about gateway crimes again? How they ruin your lives?"
** Jesse called Walt 'Hitler' after Walt asked regarding the hydrofloric acid. A year and four seasons later, Jesse finds himself as a literal slave to Neo-Nazis.

* {{Foreshadowing}}: Hank takes Walter Jr to a SRO to try and scare him straight about marijuana, and it sounds like something out of the worst after-school special ever, with all his bullshit about gateway drugs. Only look at what's happened to Walter over the last five seasons and ask yourself, "What did Hank say about gateway crimes again? How they ruin your lives?"

* EarWorm: {{In-Universe}} example: the jingle from Tampico's Furniture store.

Marie tells Hank about Junior's apparent weed use, and Hank tries to scare Junior straight by taking him to the Crystal Palace, a shady motel, and introducing him to Wendy, a meth-abusing prostitute. The lessons Hank try to impart on Junior don't really reach through to him (since he doesn't light up) as Wendy returns to her motel room, where Jesse is waiting to solicit her services...

As Skyler tries (and fails) to subtly get Marie's insight on Walt's apparent marijuana use and accidentally implies that Junior smokes weed, Walt goes to check on Krazy 8. To his horror, Crazy 8 not only knows his name, but knows of his family, apparently from Jesse. Walt storms in on Jesse as he tries to take the edge off in the restroom with some meth, and the two get into a scuffle over Jesse's baggy of meth before Jesse leaves, calling Walt out on not honoring his end of the bargain they struck by flipping a coin and offing Krazy 8.

Back at Jesse's house, Walt struggles with whether to kill Krazy 8, jotting down a list of reasons to either spare him or kill him. He comes up with several reasons to let him go, and only one to kill him: "He'll kill your entire family if you let him go." With the day growing late, Walt calls Skyler and tells her that he'll be working overtime at the car wash. Skyler, however, has found out that he quit working at the car wash, and dismissively tells him to do as he please.

Walt prepares a sandwich for Krazy 8, but when he goes to deliver it to him, suffers a coughing fit and loses consciousness. When he comes to, he reveals to Krazy 8 that he has lung cancer. When he returns with a second sandwich, Krazy 8 advises him that it would be easier in the long run just to kill him. Walt, still undecided as to what to do with him, implores him; "Sell me."

Walt and Krazy 8 bond over the latter's musical aspirations, as well as his father being the owner of a furniture store with a catchy commercial jingle, the same furniture store where Walt bought the crib for his son. Krazy 8 learns that Walt hasn't told his family about his illness, and realizes Walt's reason for getting into the meth trade: to make money for his family, so that they could get by after he was gone.

As Walt returns upstairs to get the key to the bike lock confining Krazy 8 to a support column in the basement, however, something occurs to him. He digs out the pieces of the broken plate from when he passed out and tries to piece it together, only to find that one shard of the plate was missing! Krazy 8 had taken the shard, and was no doubt planning to kill him with it if given the chance.

When Walt returns to the basement, he prepares to unlock the bike lock, but before he does so, he asks Krazy 8 if he intends to kill him. Krazy 8 immediately tries to kill Walt, but Walt pulls on the bike lock and chokes Krazy 8 to death, apologizing all the while.

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Walt and Jesse continue to clean up the aftermath of their first drug deal. Skyler seeks help from Marie and Hank gets involved.

* CompoundTitle: With the previous episode. "The Cat's In The Bag...And The Bag's In The Rive"

* StickyFingers: Marie steals a pair of shoes from a shoestore with an annoying clerk.

* CompoundTitle: With the previous episode. "TheCat's In The Bag...And The Bag's In The Rive"

* ChekhovsGun: The broken dish. Krazy-8 takes a shard while Walt is unconscious to attack him

* AffablyEvil: Krazy-8 treats Walt with a lot of politeness and is even willing to reminisce about his upbringing with his captor. [[spoiler: It turns out that he's attempting to use his amiability as a ploy in order to get Walt to free him, and then exact revenge on him.]]

* TheReveal: That plate that Walt broke when he fell in front of Krazy-8? [[spoiler: There's a piece of it missing that Krazy-8 will use to kill Walter once free.]]

* {{Ear Worm}}: {{In-Universe}} example: the jingle from Tampico's Furniture store.
* {{Its For a Book}}: Skyler claims she's asking Marie about weed for a "character in a short story she's writing". Marie is not fooled.
* {{Police Are Useless}}: Averted with Hank and Gomez quickly determining what took place at the cook site.
* {{Reality Ensues}}: Continuing from episode 2, Walt and Jesse are forced to deal with realistic consequences of murdering two people and hiding the evidence.
* {{The Reveal}}: That plate that Walt broke when he fell in front of Krazy-8? [[spoiler: There's a piece of it missing that Krazy-8 will use to kill Walter once free.]]
* {{Scare Em Straight}}: Hank pulls this on Walter Jr. to discourage him from smoking pot. Hilarious because Walter Jr. is not using any illegal drugs and is very confused as to why Hank is suddenly making such a big issue of it, while Hank thinks Junior is just trying to play it cool and gets even ''more'' over the top to make his point.
* {{Sequel Hook}}: Walt's line to Skyler: "There's something I have to tell you."

Walt and Jesse continue to clean up the aftermath of their first drug deal. Skyler seeks help from Marie and Hank gets involved

!This episode provides examples of:

* {{Sequel Hook}}: Walt's line to Skyler: "There's something I have to tell you."

* AffablyEvil: Krazy-8 treats Walt with a lot of politeness and is even willing to remissness about his upbringing with his captor. [[spoiler: It turns out that he's attempting to use his amiability as a ploy in order to get Walt to free him, and then exact revenge on him.]]

* {{Scare Em Straight}}: Hank pulls this on Walter Jr. to discourage him from smoking pot. Hilarious in that Walter Jr. has never smoked pot and is very confused what they're doing.
* {{Sequel Hook}}: Walt's line to Skyler: "There's something I have to tell you."

* {{Early Bird Cameo}}: Gretchen makes an unnamed appearance in a {{Flashback}} a full two episodes before she enters the story.

* {{Early Bird Cameo}}: Gretchen makes an unnamed appearance in a {{Flashback}} a full two episodes before she enters the story

* {{Reality Ensues}}: Continuing from episode 2, Walt and Jesse are forced to deal with realistic consequences of murdering two people and hiding the evidence
* {{The Reveal}}: That plate that Walt broke when he fell in front of Krazy-8? [[spoiler: There's a piece of it missing that Krazy-8 will use to kill Walter once free]]
* {{Scare Em Straight}}: Hank pulls this on Walter Jr. to discourage him from smoking pot. Hilarious in that Walter Jr. has never smoked pot and is very confused what they're doing.