History Recap / BreakingBadS2E2Grilled

* EarlyInstallmentWeirdness: Hector Salamanca sports a rather grizzly-looking beard in this episode, a sharp contrast to his clean-shaven look that he would have for the rest of the series and [[Series/BetterCallSaul the prequel to it]].

* WorfHadTheFlu: Tuco's stomach wound prevents him from being his most dangerous when he fired on Hank.

Hank then goes to meet with the rest of Walt's family, who are searching for Walt after he went missing last night. Skylar speaks about Walt's strange behavior and the phone call he got last night. After a bit of pushing from Marie, Hank reluctantly admits that he checked up on said phone call, and that no record of it exists, meaning that Walt must have a second phone and therefore must be keeping some kind of secret from the family. Skylar wonders if this secret has something to do with Walt's disappearance, and she mentions that Walt recently had contact with Jesse in the past, and wonders if he is connected to it somehow. Hank promises to check up on Jesse and ask him if he knows where to find Walt.

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 assuring 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.

Hank continues his hunt for Jesse and visits his parents. Mrs. Pinkman is worried that Jesse is in trouble with the law, but Hank assures her that his reasons for wanting to talk with her son are purely private. She informs Hank that Jesse no longer lives with her and her husband, and directs him to his current address, the house of Jesse's aunt. Being unable to find Jesse there either, Hank decides to check up on his car, since Mrs. Pinkman told him that Jesse drives a red Monte Carlo that he converted to a lowrider. He calls Gomez to find out if Jesse installed a [=LoJack=] car-tracking system, and, if so, to try to get a fix on the vehicle's location.

Walt's distraction works, and Tuco takes his eyes off Jesse long enough for him to slam the rock down on Tuco's head. During the ensuing scuffle, Walt grabs Tuco's assault rifle and Jesse ends up with his pistol, shooting the drug dealer in his side. He proceeds to kick the wounded Tuco into a hole, but Walt tells him to leave him there to bleed, as they head for Jesse's car.

But they soon realize that they don't have the keys to the car, and then spot an approaching vehicle. Believing it to be Tuco's cousins, Walt drops the assault rifle as he and Jesse decide to get away as quickly as they can. But as they have gotten to a vantage point at a distance, they can't see that the arriving car is actually Hank. Tuco, meanwhile, has managed to drag himself out of the hole and hobbles bleeding over to Jesse's car to lean against it. Hank disembarks from his car and addresses him, believing him to be Jesse, but then realizes that the person front of him is actually Tuco. Hank and Tuco are for a short moment stunned in mutual disbelief, but Tuco snaps out of it first and quickly grabs the dropped assault rifle and fires away at Hank, who jumps into cover and returns fire.

Tuco, however, is too wounded to shoot straight, and Hank manages to shoot and kill him. Walt, watching from a distance as his brother-in-law emerges victorious and unharmed from the firefight, grabs Jesse's arm and the two run into the desert. As Hank walks over to inspect Tuco's body, he suddenly hears the ringing of a bell...

* SouthOfTheBorder: Where Tuco plans on taking Walter to make him cook in a Mexican Superlab.

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

->''*ding*''

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* BottomlessMagazines: Both Tuco and Hank fire more bullets than their respective guns hold without reloading.

* ImperialStormtrooperMarksmanshipAcademy: Tuco unloads an entire M4 magazine at Hank and doesn't hit him once, Hank manages to shoot him in the head [[CombatPragmatist while he was reloading]]. Justified because at the time Tuco had a severe gunshot wound to the abdomen, and was probably high on drugs as well. He was also blazing away on fully automatic from the hip while jerking around, while Hank actually crouched and used his gun's sights. No surprise he hit nothing but air.

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'''