History Recap / BreakingBadS2E3BitByADeadBee

** Following the shootout in the previous episode, Hank's use of force is immediately investigated as part of standard procedure to determine if the shooting was justified. Since Tuco approached Hank in a blood-covered shirt, visibly disheveled, and wielding an M16 assault rifle before opening fire on Hank unprovoked, it clearly was justifiable self-defense, but Hank is still forced to embellish the truth a bit so he can claim he followed correct police procedure.

* PyrrhicVictory: Jesse manages to successfully get himself an alibi for his whereabouts during Tuco's murder, but he forgot to remove his drug money from his car, leaving him penniless and broke. At the same time, Walt manages to reunite with his family, but Skyler has grown suspicious of him because of his potentially having a second secret phone.

Directed by Terry [=McDonough=]

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Directed by Terry McDonough

[[caption-width-right:350:"''He was naked. '''Naked'''. In a supermarket. It wasn't Whole Foods, was it?''"]]

!!This episode contains examples of:

->''"You still wanna cook? Seriously?"''\\
''"What's changed, Jesse?"''

* BeAsUnhelpfulAsPossible: When brought in to the station as a witness against Jesse following Tuco's death, Hector refuses to respond to any questions except those regarding the current location and date, and that was just to make sure he wasn't senile. He finishes his interrogation by shitting on the station floor. As Gomez points out, an "OG Latino gangbanger" would never help the feds.

* IncrediblyLamePun: After stripping naked in front of Skyler, Walt says he's going to the gas station and asks if she wants a "big gulp" or a "slim Jim".

** Badger says Jesse is [[Film/WillyWonkaandtheChocolateFactory "Willy Wonka and I've got the Golden Ticket!"]] upon seeing the lab in Jesse's basement.

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Walt is finally released from the hospital and allowed to return home. His relationship with Skyler becomes tense, however, when she questions him on whether he has a second phone...

* SurprisinglyRealisticOutcome: Following the shootout in the previous episode, Hank's use of force is immediately investigated as part of standard procedure to determine if the shooting was justified. Since Tuco approached Hank in a blood-covered shirt, visibly disheveled, and wielding an M16 assault rifle before opening fire on Hank unprovoked, it clearly was justifiable self-defense, but Hank is still forced to embellish the truth a bit so he can claim he followed correct police procedure.

* EnemyMine: of a sort. Hector ''hates'' Jesse and Walt for their involvement in Tuco's death and attempted poisoning of him, but he hates the feds more, and so refuses to rat out Jesse. [[PragmaticVillainy This also means]] that Jesse is free and outside prison for the rest of Hector's family to take cartel-style vengeance on him and Walt for Tuco.

* EnemyMine: of a sort. Hector ''hates'' Jessie and Walt for their involvement in Tuco's death and attempted poisoning of him, but he hates the feds more, and so refuses to rat out Jessie. [[PragmaticVillainy This also means]] that Jessie is free and outside prison for the rest of Hector's family to take cartel-style vengeance on him and Walt for Tuco.

* IncrediblyLamePun: After stripping naked in front of Skylar, Walt says he's going to the gas station and asks if she wants a "big gulp" or a "slim Jim".

With Tuco dead, Walt and Jesse bury his guns and devise a plan to explain their conspicuous disappearances. Walt catches a ride on a pick-up truck, then, once he's back in Albuquerque, walks into a grocery store and starts stripping off his clothes until he is standing naked with a vacant look upon his face.

While Walt is kept at the hospital to ensure he doesn't suffer from another fugue state, Jesse rents out a room with Wendy at a motel. The police barge in and apprehend Jesse. Hank interrogates Jesse, stating that he knew he was connected to Tuco, but Jesse claims to have been staying at the motel with Wendy the entire weekend. Wendy, who recognizes Hank from when he introduced him to Junior and thought he was trying to solicit her services for him, corroborates Jesse's story, mainly to spite Hank.

* SurprisinglyRealisticOutcome: Following the shootout in the previous episode, Hank's use of force is immediately investigated as part of standard procedure to determine if the shooting was justified. Since Tuco approached Hank in a blood-covered shirt, visibly disheveled, and wielding an M16 assault rifle before opening fire on Hank unprovoked, it clearly was justifiable self-defense, but Hank is still forced to embellish the facts a bit so he can claim he followed correct police procedure.

* SurprisinglyRealisticOutcome: Following the shootout in the previous episode, Hank's use of force is immediately investigated as part of standard procedure to determine if the shooting was justified.

Back at the hospital, Walt is informed by his doctor once more that he can't be released until they are certain he won't have another episode. Walt, taking advantage of doctor-patient confidentiality, admits that he made up the fugue state, claiming that he just wanted time to himself, away from his family.

!!This episode contains examples of

* WhamLine: Skyler asks Walt: "Do you have a second cell phone?"

* ArmorPiercingQuestion: After Walt lists off all of the stressful things in his life, capping off with the fact that he'll be dead in 18 months, Walt asks the doctor "you ask why I ran?" The doctor is noticeably shaken for a moment before continuing his questions.

* PyrrhicVictory: Jesse manages to successfully get himself an alibi for his whereabouts during Tuco's murder, but he forgot to remove his drug money from his car, leaving him penniless and broke.