Breaking Bad (TV Series)

Cat's in the Bag... (2008)

Bryan Cranston: Walter White

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• Walter White : [after Jesse's ceiling caves in]  I'm sorry, what were you asking me? Oh, yes, that stupid plastic container I asked you to buy. You see, hydrofluoric acid won't eat through plastic; it will however dissolve metal, rock, glass, ceramic. So there's that.

• Walter White : [to Skyler]  Right now, what I need, is for you to climb down out of my ass. Can you do that? Will you do that for me honey? Will you please, just once, get off my ass? You know? I'd appreciate it. I really would.

• Walter White : [Walt and Jesse are talking about what to do with Krazy-8. Walt thinks that he could reason with Krazy-8, so he asks Jesse]  Do you think that he is capable of listening to reason?

  Jesse Pinkman : What kind of reason? You mean like: "Hey, dear Krazy-8, hey, if I let you go, will you promise not to come back and waste my entire family? No Colombian neckties? You mean that kind of reason? Nah, man, I can't say as I have high fucking hopes where that's concerned.

• Walter White : After we finish cleaning up this mess... we will go our separate ways. Our paths will never cross and we will tell this to no one. Understood?

  Jesse Pinkman : Oh, what I can talk now?

• Jesse Pinkman : You got a brother in the god damn DEA?

  Walter White : What?

  Jesse Pinkman : You said you were just doing some ride-along. Yes or no, do you have a brother in the DEA?

  Walter White : Brother-in-law.

  Jesse Pinkman : [sarcastic]  Oh, well, there's a load off my mind.

  Walter White : Where did you hear that?

  Jesse Pinkman : Your freaking wife told me when she was here all up in my shit. Yeah, that's right. She almost caught me moving Emilio. Good job on wearing the pants in the family. And why'd you go and tell her I was selling you weed?

  Walter White : Because somehow it seemed preferable to admitting that I cook crystal meth and killed a man.

• Jesse Pinkman : Yo, what kind of plastic, man?

  Walter White : Polyethylene.

  Jesse Pinkman : Well, how the hell am I supposed to know that?

  Walter White : Because I told you. Look, just... look at the bottom for a triangle stamped LDPE. It should be molded right into the plastic.

  Jesse Pinkman : Yeah, yeah, yeah, LDPE. Right on, got it. I don't know, man. This feels kind of flimsy. Any decent acid's gonna eat right through this.

  Walter White : Not hydrofluoric.

  Jesse Pinkman : Why not?

  Walter White : Look, you skipped, clowned around, or otherwise jerked off through every lecture I ever gave. As far as I'm concerned, your chemistry education is over.

  Jesse Pinkman : Oh, okay, be a dick about it. Jesus.

• Skyler White : Who is this Jesse Pinkman to you?

  Walter White : He sells me pot.

  Skyler White : He sells you... pot?

  Walter White : Marijuana, yeah. Not a lot. I mean, I don't know. I kinda like it.

  Skyler White : Are you out of your mind? What... what are you, like, sixteen years old? Your brother-in-law is a DEA agent! What... what is wrong with you?

  Walter White : Look, Skyler... I just... haven't quite been myself lately.

  Skyler White : [sarcastic]  Yeah. No shit. Thanks for noticing.

• Walter White : So, what'd you end up buying?

  Jesse Pinkman : Nothing. No store in town sells a plastic bin big enough for a body.

  Walter White : I don't suppose you could buy two bins? And, just, uh...

  [he pantomimes cutting up a body] 

  Walter White : Legs in one, torso in the other?

• Walter White : So the term "chiral" derives from the Greek word "hand." Now, the concept here being that just as your left hand and your right hand are mirror images of one another, right, identical and yet opposite well, so, too, organic compounds can exist as mirror-image forms of one another all the way down at the molecular level. But although they may look the same they don't always behave the same. For instance. Thalidomide. The right-handed isomer of the drug thalidomide is a perfectly fine, good medicine to give to a pregnant woman to prevent morning sickness. But make the mistake of giving that same pregnant woman the left-handed isomer of the drug thalidomide and her child will be born with horrible birth defects. Which is precisely what happened in the 1950s.

• Walter White : I guess the only other fair way to go about this would be that one of us deals with the body situation while the other one of us deal with the Krazy-8 situation. In a scenario like this I don't suppose it is bad form to just... flip a coin. Heads or tails?

  Jesse Pinkman : No, I'll do the body in the acid OK?

  Walter White : Heads or tails?

  Jesse Pinkman : Heads... heads.

  Walter White : [flips coin, shows heads]  Best two out of three?