History Recap / BreakingBadS2E2Grilled

Walt and Jesse, meanwhile, try to figure out a way to kill or incapacitate Tuco so they can make their escape. To make matters worse, Tuco believes that Gonzo is the guy who ratted him and his gang out, and Walt fears that the moment that he finds out the truth - that Gonzo is actually dead - he will no doubt blame either Walt or Jesse for his downfall. On top of that, Tuco's cousins will be joining up with him in a few hours, meaning that however they are going to get rid of Tuco, they have to do it quickly.

-->--'''Tio Salamanca'''

Tuco, having abducted Walt and Jesse at gunpoint, takes them with him to the residence of his uncle, Hector "Tio" Salamanca, near the Mexican border, where he tells them about his plan: namely, that he wants to bring Walt with him south of the border to forcibly employ him as his main meth cook. Walt is, of course, not thrilled about this, and neither is Jesse, as Tuco sees him as an expendable part of the plan.

Walt now tries to sneak the poisoned meth into Tuco's food, but Tuco's uncle, Tio, interferes and knocks the plate off the table. Noticing his uncle's strange behavior, Tuco tries to ask him what is wrong, and Tio, despite being old, wheelchair-bound, and only capable of communicating by ringing a bell, manages to convey to Tuco that Walt and Jesse are up to no good. Furious, Tuco grabs Jesse and drags him outside, overhearing Walt's protests and pleas for Jesse's life. Pointing a gun at Jesse, Tuco demands that Walt tell him what he is up to. Noticing that Jesse is about to pick up a rock, Walt attracts Tuco's attention by admitting, with no shortage of spite, that he tried to poison him, and tells him through gritted teeth, "You're an insane, degenerate piece of filth. And you deserve to die."

--->'''Jesse:''' You got the C-bomb, alright? You're as good as checked out anyway. You should be all "sacrificial", and stuff. So why don't you go step on a grenade, yo?\\

* WhamEpisode: Hank shoots Tuco, the established BigBad of the show, with Walt and Jesse about fifty yards away.

* HeroicSacrifice: Jesse suggests to Walt that he follow through with this trope in order to kill Tuco, using the argument that he is suffering from cancer as is. Walt is not amused.

At the DEA's offices, Hank briefs his colleagues on the status of Tuco's crumbling drug empire; the DEA has managed to effectively dismantle the organisation, and only needs to arrest one last suspect, Tuco himself. Despite ensuring his team that they will find him, he privately remarks to Gomez that Tuco in all probability is already out of their reach across the border. Hank then goes to meet with the rest of Walt's family, who are searching for Walt after he went missing last night. Hank, knowing that Walt has had contact with Jesse in the past, decides to check up on him and ask if he knows where to find Walt.

-->'''Walt''': [[TheReasonYouSuckSpeech We tried to poison you...because you're an insane, degenerate piece of filth]], ''[[TranquilFury and you deserve to die.]]''

* AwLookTheyReallyDoLoveEachOther: Walt shows he cares about Jesse as he tries to keep him from being killed by Tyco during the episode.

* AxCrazy: Tuco.

* HumiliationConga: The circumstances leading up to Tuco's death.

* InsistentTerminology: Jimmy points out to the officers that Daniel's "squat cobbler" videos aren't pornography, they're ''fetish videos''. Though this isn't so much Jimmy being nitpicky as the fact that the laws around producing actual pornography for money are a lot more stringent than those relating to fetish videos.

Tuco, having abducted Walt and Jesse at gunpoint, takes them with him to the residence of his uncle, Hector "Tio" Salamanca, near the Mexican border, where he tells them about his plan: namely, that he wants to bring Walt with him south of the border to forcibly employ him as his main meth cook. Walt is, of course, not thrilled about this, and neither is Jesse, as Tuco sees him as a expendable part of the plan.

* EvenEvilHasLovedOnes: Tuco dotes on his elderly crippled uncle, good-naturedly accepts to switch plates with him, and, knowing that despite being physically diminished he's still of sound mind, instantly listens to his warning against Walt and Jesse plotting his death.

** While both Jesse and Walt were living in fear of Tuco, Jesse was on the receiving end of all his abuse, and thus fittingly hits him in the head with a rock and shoots him with his own gun.

* ChekhovsGunman: The first mention of Tuco's cousins, who will be major antagonists in the first half of season 3.

* HowWeGotHere: The {{Cold Open}} shows Jesse's car bouncing around and the immediate aftermath of Hank's gunfight with Tuco.

* MissedHimByThatMuch: The show would have been much shorter if Hank had shown up at Tuco's compound even five minutes earlier.

* StallingTheSip: During lunch, Walt attempts to poison Tuco's burrito with some poisoned meth. After a particularly tense moment where Walt frantically folds the burrito back up while Tuco's back is turned, Tuco finally gets ready to eat the burrito...when his disabled uncle, who Walt had assumed was senile and not paying attention, begins frantically ringing a bell on his wheelchair. Tuco initially ignores this and almost bites into the burrito again, only for the uncle to ring the bell even more. Finally, Tuco assumes that the uncle wants the taco, and gives it to him instead.

* AxCrazy: Tuco again. He fires off his assault rifle at random desert animals while cackling.

-->'''Walt''': [[TheReasonYouSuchSpeech We tried to poison you...because you're an insane, degenerate piece of filth]], ''[[TranquilFury and you deserve to die.]]''

* {{Foreshadowing}}: The first mention of Tuco's cousins, who will be major antagonists in the first half of season 3.

-->'''Walt''': We tried to poison you...because you're an insane, degenerate piece of filth, ''[[TranquilFury and you deserve to die.]]''

* StallingTheSip: During lunch, Walt attempts to poison Tuco's burrito with some poisoned meth. After a particularly tense moment where Walt frantically fold the burrito back up while Tuco's back is turned, Tuco finally gets ready to eat the burrito...when his disabled uncle, who Walt had assumed was senile and not paying attention, begins frantically ringing a bell on his wheelchair. Tuco initially ignores this and almost bites into the burrito again, only for the uncle to ring the bell even more. Finally, Tuco assumes that the uncle wants the taco, and gives it to him instead.