History Recap / BreakingBadS1E6CrazyHandfulOfNothin

->''"Let me get this straight. I steal your dope, hmm? I beat the piss out of your mule boy! And then you walk in here, and you bring me more meth? That's a brilliant plan, ese. Brilliant."''

* ArtisticLicenseChemistry: the confrontation in Tuco's office was "busted" on an episode of ''Series/MythBusters'', when the team attempted to replicate Walt's feat, but discovered: 1) mercury fulminate appears as a coarse, yellowish powder, not the crystalline substance that Tuco mistakes for methamphetamine; 2) 50g of mercury fulminate (the approximate weight of the nugget Walt throws to the floor) does not produce enough explosive force to blow out the walls or windows of a room; 3) while mercury fulminate is extremely unstable, a man cannot throw a 50g nugget onto a wooden floor with enough force to detonate it; and 4) an explosion powerful enough to blow out the walls and windows would have certainly killed Walt, and likely everyone else in the room as well[[note]](And that's before you get to the fact that, if Walt could detonate one of the chunks just by throwing it at the floor, the ensuing explosion should have produced enough force to detonate the ''rest'' of the mercury fulminate that Walt was holding)[[/note]]. The show attempts to HandWave (1), (2) and (3) by saying Walt applied "a tweak of chemistry" to produce a "special" variety of mercury fulminate, but this fails to account for (4).

Meanwhile, Jesse finally figures out that Walt has cancer after seeing the chemo "dot" on Walt's chest at the RV.

* DumbassHasAPoint: [[{{MinionWithAnFInEvil}} Jesse]] point's out that selling the whole bulk of meth isn’t so simple, nor is finding a distributor that either they can trust, or who trusts them. He advises Walt against trying to go into business with Tuco. Given how Tuco assaults Jesse and steals his meth without pay, Jesse’s worries prove entirely correct.

* ArtisticLicenseChemistry: the confrontation in Tuco's office was "busted" on an episode of ''Series/MythBusters'', when the team attempted to replicate Walt's feat, but discovered: 1) mercury fulminate appears as a coarse, yellowish powder, not the crystalline substance that Tuco mistakes for methamphetamine; 2) 50g of mercury fulminate (the approximate weight of the nugget Walt throws to the floor) does not produce enough explosive force to blow out the walls or windows of a room; 3) while mercury fulminate is extremely unstable, a man cannot throw a 50g nugget onto a wooden floor with enough force to detonate it; and 4) an explosion powerful enough to blow out the walls and windows would have certainly killed Walt, and likely everyone else in the room as well;
** The show attempts to HandWave (1), (2) and (3) by saying Walt applied "a tweak of chemistry" to produce a "special" variety of mercury fulminate, but this fails to account for (4).

* {{Foreshadowing}}: Walt talks about fulminated mercury in his chemistry class ¿Or about his own life?

Directed by Bronwen Hughes

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->''"This...is not meth."''
-->-- '''Walter White / Heisenberg'''

-->'''Walt''': (to Jesse) No matter what happens... no more bloodshed.
-->(cut back to the aftermath and the man walking away)
-->'''Walt''': (voiceover) [[UnreliableVoiceover No violence]].
-->(music builds up to a crescendo as we cut to the man's face... [[InMediasRes and it's Walt]])

->''"No matter what happens, no more bloodshed. No more violence."''

[[caption-width-right:350:Heisenberg is born!]]

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* BaldOfAwesome: The first time we see Walt without his hair, he's storming out of Tuco's blazing office with the deal money in hand. Said office is burning because Walt set off a mercury bomb partly to get Tuco to take him and Jesse seriously, and partly in revenge for Jesse's beating, counting it as this...
* BaldOfEvil: ...''and'' this, as the attack and deal with Tuco is another step in the dark direction Walt's life is taking. This episode starts his iconic bald look for the rest of the series.

-->-- '''Walter White/Heisenberg'''

->''"This...is not meth"''
-->-- '''Walter White'''

Hank meanwhile follows the gas mask lead back to the high school, where he shows his findings to Walt. Walt then shows him around the chemical equipment room, where Hank discovers that several items are missing. Fortunately for Walt, Hank's main suspect is a school janitor, Hugo Archuleta. But when Walt joins him for a poker game, he informs Walt that all he was able to pin on Hugo was carrying a small amount of marijuana, and he was very likely not the one who stole the equipment.

Tuco, while loving the hell out of Walt and Jesse's product, is very opposed to paying the $35,000 Jesse demands up front. This outrages Jesse, which in turn angers Tuco, and Jesse is beaten within an inch of his life.