History Recap / BreakingBadS4E3OpenHouse

* TheLastOfTheseIsNotLikeTheOthers: Jesse tries to decompress a bit by driving at a go-kart track. Several rapid cuts all show him dead-eyed to the world -- except for one where he's letting loose a primal scream.

* EvenEvilHasStandards: Skyler rules out using violence against Bogdan and refuses Saul's suggestion of calling an ICE raid on Bogdan, not wanting to get innocent immigrants in trouble.

Directed by David Slade

--> '''Saul:''' "Oh Agent Hoover, I've gotta tell ya, I've seen some real Islamic comings and goings over there at the car wash! I mean, guys in turbans pulling up in vans and stuff like that."
--> '''Walt:''' Saul, Bogdan is ''Romanian''.

* SoundtrackDissonance: You wouldn't think go-karting could ever be so existentially horrifying, but when it's got Fever Ray's haunting "If I Had a Heart" pulsing in the background...

* GladIThoughtOfIt: PlayedForLaughs. After buying the car wash, Walt (who had disapproved of the purchase all along) jokingly gives this one to Skyler.

Walt vents about the surveillance cameras in the lab to Jesse. Jesse isn't concerned, though: they had suspected the lab of being bugged in the past, and the cameras mean they can stop speculating that they are being watched. He invites Walt to join him for go-karts after work, but he has other plans. Noticing Jesse acting strangely, Walt asks him if there's anything they should talk about, but Jesse sees Walt's black eye and claims he could ask Walt the same thing.

When Walt returns to work, he finds the superlab outfitted with surveillance cameras. With nowhere to hide from Gus's ever-watchful eye, Walt takes a moment out of his work to let Gus know ''[[FlippingTheBird exactly]]'' what he thinks of the surveillance, and him.

* BigBrotherIsWatching: Gus has installed surveillance cameras all over the lab. Not only does this display the depth of Gus's distrust of Walt, Gus now has the means to learn Walt's recipe and methods just by playing back some videotape to a replacement if he ever needs to get Walt out of the picture.

As Tyrus surveils Jesse and reports back to Gus about his continuing downward spiral, Hank decides to take a look at Gale's notebook...

Walt vents about the surveillance cameras in the lab to Jesse. Jesse isn't concerned, though: they had suspected the lab of being bugged in the past, and the cameras mean they can stop speculating that they are being watched. He invites Walt to join him for go-karts after work, but Walt has other plans. He asks how Jesse is doing, but Jesse doesn't answer...

Meanwhile, Jesse goes to a go-kart track by himself and sadly drives his go-kart around. When he returns home, his house is in a state of chaos as a result of a meth party that had spiraled out of control: addicts who flocked to his party are stealing his belongings, vandalizing his walls, having rough sex on the floor in full view of others, and starting fights. Jesse, however, doesn't care: the activity in his house helps to keep his demons at bay, so he simply lights a cigarette and takes in the chaos...

After work, Walt meets with Skyler and Saul at his apartment. Saul is convinced that the car wash is a no-go and touts a spa, but Skyler is determined to buy the car wash. At first, Walt doesn't seem interested in the car wash anymore, but Skyler turns him around to her way of thinking when she plays to his pride, mentioning the disparaging comments Bogdan made about him.

As Marie gets caught stealing from open houses, drawing Hank's ire; a sanitation worker informs Bogdan that his wastewater containment systems have become faulty and need to be replaced, and his business has to shut down until it is repaired. Bogdan refuses to comply unless the sanitation worker can cite specific laws. He does, but what Bogdan doesn't realize is that this "sanitation worker" is Patrick Kuby, an employee of Saul Goodman, whom Skyler is feeding lines through a Bluetooth earpiece.

Tim Roberts, a detective with the Albuquerque police, visits Hank on his sickbed, and asks for his help in solving a peculiar case: the murder of Gale Boetticher. From the crime scene, Tim brings a notebook that Gale owned which seemed to contain notes on a meth-manufacturing superlab. Hank is resentful of the "charity" the APD is giving him, but agrees to look into the case. After Tim leaves, though, he sets the notebook aside and continues to peruse his minerals.

Back at the White residence, Walt and Skyler wait for Bogdan to call. Walt is convinced that their gambit failed, but Skyler persists. Eventually, Bogdan calls. Skyler offers to buy the car wash, but at a discount, because she didn't like Bogdan. Skyler hangs up on Bogdan, leaving Walt to think that she went too far, but he calls back and seems to accept Skyler's offer. The two celebrate their victory with a bottle of fancy champagne. When Skyler learns that the bottle costs over $300, she becomes cross with Walt, claiming that the bottle of fancy liquor contradicts their cover story of having modest means, which could spell disaster for them. As Walt pouts over the fact that he can't buy anything with his ill-gotten goods, Skyler quips how they should "destroy the evidence"...

As Marie, stressing over Hank acting aloof towards her, falls back into kleptomania; Walt vents about the surveillance cameras in the lab to Jesse. Jesse isn't concerned, though: they had suspected the lab of being bugged in the past, and the cameras mean they can stop speculating that they are being watched. He invites Walt to join him for go-karts after work, but Walt has other plans. He asks how Jesse is doing, but Jesse doesn't answer...

Skyler visits Walt's apartment after unsuccessfully trying to call him to discuss their [[Recap/BreakingBadS3E11Abiquiu goal to purchase Bogdan's car wash]] to launder their money and is shocked to see bruises he got from Mike [[Recap/BreakingBadS4E2ThirtyEightSnub the previous day.]] Walt dismisses Skyler's concerns, telling her that he just got into an altercation with a co-worker. Skyler is certain that there is more to the injury than Walt is letting on, and makes him promise to tell her if he ever finds himself in mortal danger as a result of his work.