History Recap / BreakingBadS3E2CaballoSinNombre

On his way to work, Walt is pulled over by a patrol car. The police officer writes a ticket for Walt due to him driving with a cracked windshield. Walt tries to explain that the windshield was damaged due to the [[Recap/BreakingBadS2E13ABQ Wayfarer 515 collision]] and the ensuing debris raining down, but the officer is not interested in excuses. Walt becomes increasingly belligerent, paying no heed to the officer's warnings as he rants about how "''Hellfire'' rained on my head! There were body parts in ''my yard''!" Eventually, Walt is arrested and thrown into the back of the police car, sobbing in pain from the pepper spray in his eyes.

On his way to work, Walt is pulled over by a patrol car. The police officer writes a ticket for Walt due to him driving with a cracked windshield. Walt tries to explain that the windshield was damaged due to the [[Recap/BreakingBadS2E13ABQ Wayfarer 515 collision]] and the ensuing debris raining down, but the officer is not interested in excuses. Walt becomes increasingly belligerent, paying no heed to the officer's warnings as he rants about how "''Hellfire'' rained on my head! There were body parts strewn ''everywhere''!" Eventually, Walt is arrested and thrown into the back of the police car, sobbing in pain from the pepper spray in his eyes.

* ContrivedCoincidence: Walter decides to move back home against Skyler's wishes. He happens to be breaking in through the crawlspace at the same time Mike is bugging Walter's house. Mike slips away to his car unnoticed and just as he's about to leave he sees the Salamanca cousins show up (within several seconds of Walt entering the house), carrying their trademark chrome-plated axe, making their intentions clear. Walter has decided to take a shower after his crawlspace entrance, so the cousins sit on the bed to wait for him to come out. Mike calls Victor, Victor talks to Gus, and Gus texts "POLLOS" to the cousins. They leave the house before Walt exits the shower, and Walter gets to live.

* DramaticIrony: Walt Jr. thinks Walt's puffy eyes and refusal to drive him to school anymore are Skyler's fault, believing his father was crying his eyes out due to the divorce and Skyler didn't want him driving to their house anymore. In reality, the puffy eyes were because Walt got pepper sprayed for aggressively confronting a cop during a traffic stop, and he can't drive anymore after being cited by the same cop for the car's broken windshield (which renders it legally unroadworthy). He also thinks that Skyler is one in the wrong, and Walt is the one in the right, when it's pretty much the opposite.

* PostStressOvereating: Implied. After his attempt at reconciliation is rejected by Skyler, it cuts to Walt the next morning lying face-first on the floor in his underwear surrounded by [[DrowningMySorrows beer bottles]], a soda cup from a burger place (the same one Hank, Flynn and Skyler ate) and on top of spilled popcorn.

* ChekhovsGun: The crawl space entrance that Walt installed in the water heater room back in "[[Recap/BreakingBadS2E10Over Over]]" allows him to break into his own house after being kicked out by Skyler and she changed the locks. It also indirectly saves his life, as being forced to crawl through the dirt and dust of the house's underside makes Walt take a shower, which keeps him from encountering the Salamanca Twins, who are out for his blood.

* ContrivedCoincidence: Walter decides to move back home against Skyler's wishes. He happens to be breaking in through the crawlspace at the same time Mike is bugging Walter's house. Mike slips away to his car unnoticed and while he's checking reception on his bugs he sees the Salamanca cousins show up, carrying their trademark chrome-plated axe, making their intentions clear. Walter has decided to take a shower after his crawlspace entrance, so the cousins sit on the bed to wait for him to come out. Mike calls Victor, Victor talks to Gus, and Gus texts "POLLOS" to the cousins. They leave the house before Walt exits the shower, and Walter gets to live.

* ExplainExplainOhCrap: While listing off the renovations that have been done to the house to his son, Jake mentions that the [[Recap/BreakingBadS2E4Down basement]] was fumigated and stops talking until Jesse changes the subject.

* ChekhovsGun: The crawl space entrance that Walt installed in the water heater room back in "[[Recap/BreakingBadS2E10Over Over]]" allows him to break into his own house after being kicked out by Skyler and she changed the locks. It also indirectly saves his life, as being forced to crawl through the dirt and dust of the house' underside makes Walt take a shower, which keeps him from encountering the Salamanca Twins, who are out for his blood.

Meanwhile, Jesse visits Saul, who gives Jesse his share of the money from [[Recap/BreakingBadS2E12Phoenix Walt's big meth sale]] to Gus as per Walt's instructions. He then rants about Walt refusing to cook, and asks Jesse if he can talk sense into Walt. Jesse, however, has a proposition for Saul...

At Beneke Fabricators, Skyler confronts Ted [[Recap/BreakingBadS2E11Mandala once more]] on cooking his books. Since he is dead set on committing fraud, Skyler agrees to help him so he isn't as conspicuous in his bookkeeping. She asks him how he would explain his illegal activities to his children were they to find out about them. Ted answers that he would explain to them that, illegal though his actions were, he had the best intentions: keeping his business aloft, and supporting his family. This answer gives Skyler pause...

As Junior visits Walt and Walt vaguely tries to explain to him that his mother had her reasons for the way she treated him, Saul meets with Mr. and Mrs. Pinkman and their lawyer. Saul explains that he has a client who is interested in buying Jesse's aunt's old home. The buying price is approximately $800,000, but Saul's client has a counter offer: $400,000 in cash. Before the Pinkmans can walk out in disgust at the offer, claiming to have spent almost that much renovating the house, Saul explains that they had committed a felony by excluding the existence of a [[Recap/BreakingBadS1E7ANoRoughStuffTypeDeal meth lab on the premises]] in the house's disclosure statement, and that if they refused the offer, Saul could sue them and have the residence encumbered. Mr. and Mrs. Pinkman and their lawyer are left speechless.

* ChekhovsGun: The crawl space entrance that Walt installed in the water heater room back in "[[Recap/BreakingBadS2E10Over Over]]" allows him to break into his own house after being kicked out by Skyler and she changed the locks. It also indirectly saves his life, as being forced to crawl through the absolutely filthy underside of the house makes Walt take a shower, which keeps him from encountering the Salamanca Twins, who are out for his blood.

* LaserGuidedKarma: Downplayed. Jesse's parents selfishly [[Recap/BreakingBadS2E4Down kicked their own son out of a house]] that's not even theirs. Here, Jesse gets back at them with Saul's help by buying the house after having Saul insure that the house stays substantially below market value.

* PostStressOvereating: Implied. After his attempt at reconciliation is rejected by Skyler, it cuts to Walt the next morning lying on the ground in his underwear surrounded by snack food wrappers and [[DrowningMySorrows beer bottles]], and covered in popcorn.

* {{Foreshadowing}}: At one point when talking with Walter in his office, Saul mentions the Czech Republic as a place Walt could relocate as a place to start cooking meth without Skyler interfering. [[spoiler:Season 5 has Walter get involved with Lydia Rodarte-Quayle, who has connections to the Czech Republic, and wants to sell Walter's meth there.]]