History Recap / BreakingBadS3E1NoMas

* BaitAndSwitch: People crawling through dirt implies something really sinister is happening, like they're wounded, or being forced to do so, or hiding from some shooters; Cousins' ominous arrival only reinforces the assumption that something terrible is going on. Except that both immediately join the other crawlers, and this turns out to be merely a ritual of abasement to the god of death.

* NeverMyFault: During a wake at the high school, Walt attempts to downplay the tragedy of the plane crash in order to rationalize his role in the accident.

* CallBack: Walt [[Recap/BreakingBadS1E1Pilot once again]] lights matches and tosses them into his pool, but with Saul Goodman's snappy "three strikes" matchbook.

* InstantlyProvenWrong: The principal tells the assembly of students, "You can say anything and everything that's on your mind." Then a blonde female says "if there's a God and all why does he allow all those innocent people to die for no reason?" The principal asks her to "keep it secular."

* InstantlyProvenWrong: The principal told the assembly of student, "You can say anything and everything that's on your mind." but then one blonde female inappropriately tries to tie this all to religion. Seeing that discussing the existence of a god is not relevant to the air crash, the principal asks her to stay on topic.

Directed by Creator/BryanCranston

** IgnoredEpiphany: Jesse, upon coming to this realization, [[ThenLetMeBeEvil decides to embrace it]].

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* NiceJobBreakingItHero: The young Mexican guy who is crossing the borders with The Cousins notices their boots and, since he has a big mouth, comments them and realizes that they belong to the Cartel and immediately shuts up. The Cousins decides it is probably best to kill everyone there to leave no witnesses.

** IgnoredEpiphany: Jesse, upon coming to this realization, decides to embrace it.

* MoneyToBurn: PlayedForDrama. Walt piles his drug money into the BBQ grill and lights it on fire after Skyler begins divorce proceedings. About five seconds later, however, he reconsiders and dumps the money in the pool to put out the flames and salvage it.

--> '''Jesse:''' I'm the bad guy.

-->'''Jesse:''' I accept who I am.
-->'''Walt:''' And who are you?
-->'''Jesse:''' I'm the bad guy.

As Junior is distraught over his mother's perceived mistreatment of his father, Jesse attends group therapy at the rehabilitation center. Angry at the group leader's insistence that they accept themselves, Jesse asks him if he's ever actually hurt anyone. The leader admits that he killed his daughter, having accidentally hit her with his car in the days when he abused cocaine and alcohol. He once hated himself, the same way Jesse hates himself because of [[Recap/BreakingBadS2E12Phoenix Jane's death,]] but eventually decided that self-loathing interfered with "true change".

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 saint of death, where they make an offering of a crude sketch of a man with a mustache dressed in a pork pie hat and sunglasses: "Heisenberg".

Albuquerque is shaken to its core as a result of the midair collision between Wayfarer 515 and 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 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 couples 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 him an offer of three million dollars for three months' work, but Walt declines, stating that he has plenty of money, but he doesn't have his family.

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 a mustache dressed in a pork pie hat and sunglasses: "Heisenberg".

* UnflinchingWalk: The cousins after they murder everyone in the truck they are using to cross the border into Texas, after which they set fire to the aforementioned vehicle.
** This had to be done in one take, and Creator/BryanCranston, who directed the episode, basically threatened the actors into not flinching, and also suggested a casual cigarette-drag as they walked away. It worked.
* WhamLine: Skyler reveals she's figured everything out between seasons: "You're a drug dealer."

* WhamLine: Skyler reveals she's figured everything out between seasons: "You're a drug dealer."

* ItsAllAboutMe: Barry, who [[Recap/BreakingBadS2E7NegroYAzul got a 58% on a test in Walt's chemistry test]], tries exploiting the airliner crash and applies InsaneTrollLogic to his speech defining the air crash as a reason to give students with emotional hardships because of this incident an automatic A. The microphone is confiscated from him by the principal.

* ItsAllAboutMe: Barry, who got a 58% on a test in Walt's chemistry test, tries exploiting the airliner crash and applies InsaneTrollLogic to his speech defining the air crash as a reason to give students with emotional hardships because of this incident an automatic A. The microphone is confiscated from him by the principal.

* ItsAllAboutMe: Barry, who got a 58% on a test in Walt's chemistry test, tries exploiting the airliner crash as a reason to give students with emotional hardships because of this incident an automatic A.

* 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.