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* PetTheDog: The twins make a tense, but unusually peaceful trip to the residence of a small rural family, taking the father's drying clothes but leaving behind their expensive car by way of payment.
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* FromBadToWorse: Walt's position in this episode is already pretty unenviable; Jesse's in rehab, Skyler intends to leave him and knows he's peddling meth, and he remains unsure of what he's going to do with his money. Then TheTeaser happens and shows us that he's become a target of the Salamanca Twins.

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* NewscasterCameo: The newscasters in the Wayfarer 515 broadcast montage include Ashleigh Banfield, Dana Cortez, Marla Tellez and Jeff Maher, all of whom are actual news anchors.



* NewscasterCameo: The newscasters in the Wayfarer 515 broadcast montage include Ashleigh Banfield, Dana Cortez, Marla Tellez and Jeff Maher, all of whom are actual news anchors.



* UnflinchingWalk: The cousins after setting fire to the truck that carried them across the border.

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* UnflinchingWalk: The cousins after setting they murder everyone in the truck they are using to cross the border into Texas, after which they set fire to the truck that carried them across aforementioned vehicle.
** This had to be done in one take, and Creator/BryanCranston, who directed
the border.episode, basically threatened the actors into not flinching, and also suggested a casual cigarette-drag as they walked away. It worked.

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As Walter White is torn between whether to dispose of his drug money, Skyler meets with a divorce lawyer to discuss her ending her marriage to Walt. When asked about finances, Skyler pauses, her lawyer pointing out that she had seen many couple hiding such information from each other.

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As Walter White is torn between whether to dispose of his drug money, Skyler meets with a divorce lawyer to discuss her ending her marriage to Walt. When asked about finances, Skyler pauses, her lawyer pointing out that she had seen many couple couples hiding such information from each other.



* DirectedByCastMember: This is one of three episodes to be directed by Bryan Cranston.
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* ThisIsGonnaSuck: When one of the immigrants riding with the Cousins while crossing the border notices the silver skulls on their boots, his look changes from eagerness at the prospect of coming to America to one of defeated resignation, for [[LeaveNoWitnesses he knows what's coming...]]

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* BewareTheQuietOnes: The cousins live and breathe this trope.



* BewareTheQuietOnes: The cousins live and breath this trope.



* TooDumbToLive: The truck driver should've played dead after getting shot the first time instead of trying to drag himself away.


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* TooDumbToLive: The truck driver should've played dead after getting shot the first time instead of trying to drag himself away.
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As Walt copes with the aftermath of the plane crash and Skyler's anger, Jesse comes to a new realization about himself. Skyler seeks advice on the state of her marriage and confronts Walt. Meanwhile, two mysterious men make it past the Mexican border, with the intention of killing the elusive "Heisenberg".

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As Walt copes In the Mexican countryside, a group of people are seen crawling along an adobe road. They are joined by two cousins arriving in a Mercedes, dressed in sharp suits. They eventually arrive at a shrine made for Santa Muerte, the Mexican god of death, where they make an offering of a crude sketch of a man with the aftermath a mustache dressed in a pork pie hat and sunglasses: "Heisenberg".

Albuquerque is shaken to its core as a result
of the plane crash midair collision between Wayfarer 515 and Skyler's anger, Jesse comes a charter plane. Everyone on-board both planes died instantly, and debris from the collision rained across the city, causing yet more destruction and pain.

As Walter White is torn between whether
to a new realization about himself. dispose of his drug money, Skyler seeks advice on the state of meets with a divorce lawyer to discuss her ending her marriage and confronts to Walt. Meanwhile, two mysterious men When asked about finances, Skyler pauses, her lawyer pointing out that she had seen many couple hiding such information from each other.

As Junior is distraught over his mother's perceived mistreatment of his father, Jesse attends group therapy at the rehabilitation center. Despondent at the group leader's nonchalance, Jesse asks him if he ever killed someone. The leader admits that he killed his daughter, having hit her with a car in the days when he abused cocaine and alcohol. He once hated himself, the same way Jesse hates himself because of Jane's death, but eventually decided that self-loathing interfered with changing himself.

Skyler visits Walt at the apartment he moved himself into after being kicked out of his own home. She states that Walt is a drug dealer, and demands to know what drug he was peddling. Walt finally admits to her that he makes methamphetamine, shocking her. She states that she will not contact the police, but only on the condition that he sign divorce papers.

Walt picks Jesse up from rehab. Jesse declares that he's done using, having decided that if he didn't use, Jane wouldn't have overdosed, and the Wayfarer accident wouldn't have occurred. Afterwards, Walt visits Los Pollos Hermanos and sits down with Gus. Walt declares that he is retiring from making meth. Gus tries to
make it past the Mexican border, with the intention him an offer of killing the elusive "Heisenberg".
three million dollars for three months' work, but Walt declines, stating that he has plenty of money, but he doesn't have his family.
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* BookEnds: The episode begins and ends with somebody crawling down a dirt road.
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* OhCrap: An eager young man crossing the Mexican border continually chats up the Cousins until he takes a look at the silver skulls on their boots, and ''immediately'' shuts up.
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* TooDumbToLive: The truck driver should've played dead after getting shot the first time instead of trying to drag himself away

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* TooDumbToLive: The truck driver should've played dead after getting shot the first time instead of trying to drag himself awayaway.
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As Walt copes with the aftermath of the plane crash and Skyler's anger, Jesse comes to a new realization about himself. A new adversary tracks the elusive Heisenberg, Walter White's kingpin alter ego. Skyler seeks advice on the state of her marriage and confronts Walt. Meanwhile, two mysterious men make it past the Mexican border, with the intention of killing the elusive "Heisenberg".

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As Walt copes with the aftermath of the plane crash and Skyler's anger, Jesse comes to a new realization about himself. A new adversary tracks the elusive Heisenberg, Walter White's kingpin alter ego. Skyler seeks advice on the state of her marriage and confronts Walt. Meanwhile, two mysterious men make it past the Mexican border, with the intention of killing the elusive "Heisenberg".
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* SarcasticConfession: Hank lifts Walt's duffle bag full of money and asks "What do you got in here, cinder blocks?" [[{{Beat}} Walt pauses]], looks him straight in the eye and says "Half a million in cash", deadpan. Another beat, and Hank laughs, complimenting Walt on keeping a sense of humor.

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* SarcasticConfession: Hank lifts Walt's duffle bag full of money and asks "What do you got in here, cinder blocks?" [[{{Beat}} Walt pauses]], looks him straight in the eye and says "Half a million "Half-million in cash", deadpan. Another beat, and Hank laughs, complimenting Walt on keeping a sense of humor.
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As Walt copes with the aftermath of the plane crash and Skyler's anger, Jesse comes to a new realization about himself. A new adversary tracks the elusive Heisenberg, Walter White's kingpin alter ego. Skyler seeks advice on the state of her marriage and confronts Walt.

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As Walt copes with the aftermath of the plane crash and Skyler's anger, Jesse comes to a new realization about himself. A new adversary tracks the elusive Heisenberg, Walter White's kingpin alter ego. Skyler seeks advice on the state of her marriage and confronts Walt.
Walt. Meanwhile, two mysterious men make it past the Mexican border, with the intention of killing the elusive "Heisenberg".
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* SarcasticConfession: Hank lifts Walt's duffle bag full of money and asks "What do you got in here, cinder blocks?" [[{{Beat}} Walt pauses]], looks him straight in the eye and says "Half a million in cash", deadpan. Another beat, and Hank laughs, complimenting Walt on keeping a sense of humor.
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* DirectedByCastMember: This is one of three episodes to be directed by Bryan Cranston.
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* NewscasterCameo: During the newscast montage of the Wayfarer 515 tragedy, a few real newscasters like Dana Cortez and Ashleigh Banfield appear.

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* NewscasterCameo: During the newscast montage of The newscasters in the Wayfarer 515 tragedy, a few real newscasters like Dana Cortez and broadcast montage include Ashleigh Banfield appear.Banfield, Dana Cortez, Marla Tellez and Jeff Maher, all of whom are actual news anchors.
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* NewscasterCameo: During the newscast montage of the Wayfarer 515 tragedy, a few real newscasters like Dana Cortez and Ashleigh Banfield appear.

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* BilingualBonus: "No More" in Spanish.

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* BilingualBonus: "No Más" means "No More" in Spanish.Spanish.
*BewareTheQuietOnes: The cousins live and breath this trope.



*TooDumbToLive: The truck driver should've played dead after getting shot the first time instead of trying to drag himself away



*LeaveNoWitnesses: The cousins shoot all the immigrants in the truck smuggling them after a young man identifies the two as gangsters by taking a look at their shoes.



* UnflinchingWalk: The two Mexican gangsters after setting fire to the truck that carried them across the border.

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* UnflinchingWalk: The two Mexican gangsters cousins after setting fire to the truck that carried them across the border.
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* CrossReferencedTitles: With "Más"
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* UnflinchingWalk: The two Mexican gangsters after setting fire to the truck that carried them across the border.
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* NeverMyFault: During a Wake at the High School, Walt attempts to downplay the tragedy of the plain in order to rationalize his role in the accident.

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* NeverMyFault: During a Wake wake at the High School, high school, Walt attempts to downplay the tragedy of the plain plane crash in order to rationalize his role in the accident.
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** IgnoredEpiphany: Jesse, upon coming to this realization, decides to embrace it.
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* NeverMyFault: During a Grief Assembly at the High School, Walt attempts to downplay the tragedy of the plain in order to rationalize his role in the accident.

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* NeverMyFault: During a Grief Assembly Wake at the High School, Walt attempts to downplay the tragedy of the plain in order to rationalize his role in the accident.
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* NeverMyFault: During a Grief Assembly at the High School, Walt attempts to downplay the tragedy of the plain in order to rationalize his role in the accident.
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* DoubleMeaningTitle: Walt pulls out of making meth.

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* DoubleMeaningTitle: Walt pulls out of making meth.wants "no more" business with meth making, and Skyler wants "no more" association with Walt.
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* CrossReferencedTitles: With "Más"

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* BilingualBonus: "No More" in Spanish.
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* DoubleMeaningTitle: Walt pulls out of making meth.
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--> '''Jesse:''' I'm the bad guy.

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--> '''Jesse:''' I'm the bad guy.guy.
* WhamLine: Skyler reveals she's figured everything out between seasons: "You're a drug dealer."
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As Walt copes with the aftermath of the plane crash and Skyler's anger, Jesse comes to a new realization about himself. A new adversary tracks the elusive Heisenberg, Walter White's kingpin alter ego. Skyler seeks advice on the state of her marriage and confronts Walt.

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* CrossReferencedTitles: With "Más"
* HeelRealization: Jesse comes to this after getting out of rehab, following Jane's death, which came after he tempted her into relapsing.
--> '''Jesse:''' I'm the bad guy.

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