History Recap / BreakingBadS5E5DeadFreight

We open on a young teenage boy riding his dirtbike over rural desert in New Mexico. He comes across a tarantuala and allows it to harmlessly crawl over his hands, then places it in a glass jar and puts in in his pocket. Way off in the distance, we hear a freight train, which draws the boy to ride over to it. Cue the title card.

* CallBack: Walt uses the word “spillage” for spilled methylamine while planning out the heist with Jesse and explaining it to Todd. This is the same term Jesse used in “The Fly” as a possible explanation (lie) for why their numbers were down when they worked for Gus.

* YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness: In one of the rare occasions in which [[TeethClenchedTeamwork Mike and Walt]] are on the same page, both want to do this to Lydia when she becomes unable to supply the methylamine she she promised.

[[caption-width-right:350:'''[[ExactWords "The point is, no one other than us can ever know that this robbery went down."]]''']]

[[caption-width-right:350:'''''[[ExactWords "The point is, no one other than us can
ever know that this robbery went down."]]''''']]

[[caption-width-right:350:'''''[[BigNo "NO!"]]''''']]

* MoodWhiplash: Walt, Jesse, and Todd have just barely managed to pull off the train heist without getting caught. They are celebrating, everything is triumphant ... and turn to notice they were being watched by a kid on a dirtbike. Which Todd then kills.

->Written and directed by George Mastras

[[caption-width-right:350:"'''''[[BigNo NO!!!]]'''''"]]

!!This episode contains examples of:

-->'''Skyler:''' ''(seeing Walt with dirt on his pants)'' Out burying bodies?\\

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* EvilThanThou: Todd does ''not'' hesitate to kill the child witness to their crime.

[[caption-width-right:350:"'''''[[BigNo NO!!!]]'''''"

[[caption-width-right:350:"'''''[[BigNo NO!!!]]'''''" [[note]] This is right before Todd shoots a child witness dead. [[/note]]]]

Afterwards, Walt, Jesse, and Mike pay a visit to Houston, where they abduct Lydia and take her to an abandoned building. Mike explains that he is giving Lydia a chance to redeem herself on behalf of his associates; he asks her to quickly memorize a script while he calls the Albuquerque DEA to figure out whether [[Recap/BreakingBadS5E4FiftyOne they had really placed tracking devices on Lydia's methylamine inventory, or whether Lydia had planted them herself to scare Mike off of her supply.]] If he didn't like what he heard, or she deviated from the script or started crying, he would pull out his pistol and shoot her in the head.

Lydia, reading off the script, asks Hank about the tracking devices, but Hank claims to know nothing about them. While he puts Lydia on hold to double check with the Houston DEA office, Mike reiterates that they would be better off killing Lydia and sparing themselves any further trouble. Jesse tries to convince Mike otherwise, but unfortunately, Walt agrees; the vote is two to one to kill Lydia.

* GoneHorriblyRight: Mike states there's only two kinds of heists: unsuccessful ones, and ones successful because they leave no witnesses. This is a successful heist... And it's horrible why.

* InsistentTerminology: If Lydia makes a wrong move, Mike will take his ''pistol'' and shooter her in the head, not his gun.

On the day of the heist, Patrick Kuby, one of Saul's employees, blocks the train's path with a "broken-down" truck. As Mike serves as lookout while the conductor and engineer try to get the truck running again, Jesse runs under the tanker to syphon the methylamine while Todd pumps water in from the top and Walt monitors their progress at the tanks. But the plan is derailed by a Good Samaritan who offers to push Kuby's truck out of the way, which Kuby can't decline without drawing suspicion. Mike tells Walt to abandon ship with the hundreds of gallons of methylamine they've already gotten, but Walt insists on keeping Jesse and Todd on the train until they get exactly 1000 gallons. They cut it so close that Todd has to jump off the moving train, which runs over Jesse while he stays flat against the tracks, but the heist is ultimately a success and the train crew is none the wiser.

The boy waves at Walt, Jesse, and Todd.

* AnyoneCanDie: [[spoiler:Even a kid who has nothing to do with the plot of the episode.]]

* CallBack: Walt uses the word “spillage” for spilled methlamine while planning out the heist with Jesse and explaining it to Todd. This is the same term Jesse used in “The Fly” as a possible explanation (lie) for why their numbers were down when they worked for Gus.