History Recap / BreakingBadS1E3AndTheBagsInTheRiver

** During Walt and Jesse's fight, Walt angerly snatches Jesse's expensive bag of meth and flushes it down the toilet to punish him for revealing personal information about him to Krazy-8. Jesse, however, kicks Walt out of the way and reaches into the flushing toilet to pull the meth bag out. Downplayed as it's to punish Jesse and not to hide evidence.

* SurprisinglyRealisticOutcome: Continuing from episode 2, Walt and Jesse are forced to deal with realistic consequences of murdering two people and hiding the evidence.

* EarlyInstallmentWeirdness: This is the only episode in which the opening sequence has the word "Bad" further to the right.

* SpottingTheThread: Walt notices the broken shards of the plate he previously threw out, which gives him a hunch. He pulls them out of the trash and tries to assemble them together, leading to the unmistakable fact that one of them is missing and has been pocketed by Krazy-8. If Walt had any doubts about the necessity of killing Krazy-8, they're completely gone at that point.

Directed by Adam Bernstein

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.

* IfYouKillHimYouWillBeJustLikeHim: Walt is faced with this choice when he has Krazy 8 chained up in a basement. Hilariously he makes a pros and cons list, balancing "Judeo-Christian values" versus "He will kill you and your family"

->''"Walter, I don’t know what you think you’re doing here, but trust me, this line of work doesn’t suit you."''

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, though these are exclusively arguments based in morality. In turn, he can only one to kill him, though it is a much more pragmatic one: "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.

* ItsForABook: Skyler claims she's asking Marie about weed for a "character in a short story she's writing". Marie is not fooled.

As he and Jesse clean up the liquefied remains of Emilio, Walt's thoughts go back to his time working as a scientist. He and a female assistant count the percentages of elements in the human body, but after taking into account every known element, still come up less than one percent short of an entire body, with Walt musing that there must be more to a human than their chemical makeup...

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.

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 with the shard of the plate he stashed. Krazy-8 immediately tries to stab Walt, but Walt pulls on the bike lock and chokes Krazy-8 to death, apologizing all the while.

As Hank investigates Walt's original cook site, Walt is parked under an overpass, thinking back to his time at the lab, still pondering what was still missing in the chemical makeup of the human body. When his lab assistant ponders if maybe what they were missing was a soul, he dismisses the notion, stating "There's nothing but chemistry here."

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 stab Walt, but Walt pulls on the bike lock and chokes Krazy-8 to death, apologizing all the while.

* BottleEpisode: The episode takes place mostly in Jesse's house.

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* SequelHook: Walt's line to Skyler: "There's something I have to tell you."

* FlushTheEvidence: Liquified remains of the bodies are flushed.

-->--'''Krazy-8/Domingo'''

->''"Walter, I don’t know what you think you’re doing here, buy trust me, this line of work doesn’t suit you."''

* RealityEnsues: Continuing from episode 2, Walt and Jesse are forced to deal with realistic consequences of murdering two people and hiding the evidence.

* AffablyEvil: Krazy-8 treats Walt with a lot of politeness and is even willing to reminisce about his upbringing with his captor. 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.

* MoralDilemma: Walt tries to come to a decision about Krazy-8 by writing down a list of reasons to kill or spare him. While the "let him live" column contains several arguments, all related to the moral wrongness of murder and the weight it'd have on his conscience, the "kill him" column only has a single but major one: ''"He'll kill your entire family if you let him go"''.

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.

* SympatheticMurderer: Walter kills a man but the guy definately had it coming and Walt only resorted to killing after exausting every other option.