Breaking Bad (TV Series)

Cancer Man (2008)

Dean Norris: Hank Schrader

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• Hank Schrader : Operation Ice-breaker. How you likin' that? We never used that before, did we?

  Steven Gomez : Isn't that the name of a breath mint?

  Hank Schrader : What?

  Steven Gomez : Ice-breakers, right? Breath mint?

  Hank Schrader : Nobody's gonna be thinkin' that. Be thinkin' about some big-ass ship at the North Pole, breakin' ice!

  Steven Gomez : Says you. I'm gonna be thinking "Operation Breath Mint".

  Hank Schrader : I'm thinking "Operation Breath Mint" every time you and me are on a stakeout together, all right? Breath could knock a buzzard off a shitwagon. All right! Operation... TBD. Thanks for nothing, Gom.

• Walter White, Jr. : Hey, I want a beer.

  Hank Schrader : Yeah. I want Shania Twain to give me a tuggy. Guess what. It ain't happening either.

• Walter White : Hank? Need another beer?

  Hank Schrader : Does the Pope shit in his hat?

  Marie Schrader : You know, I don't think that he does, Hank. And I think everybody would like it if you'd stop saying that.

• Hank Schrader : Say hello to Domingo Gallardo Molina, AKA Krazy-8. Way smarter than your average cheese eater. I turned him out when he was street-level, but this dude's like "The Jeffersons", moving on up.

  Steven Gomez : Every small-time dealer he'd throw at us, he'd end up snaking all their customers.

  Hank Schrader : Now it turns he's missing, presumed dead. Found his car out in the boonies. Last guy he ratted out was none other than his cousin, Emilio Koyama.

  DEA Agent : You thinking the cousin found out and took revenge?

  Hank Schrader : Could be. Turns out he's missing, too. And normally I'd say someone did the world a favor. But our snitch's car, turns out we find two grams of meth in it, we take it to the lab, they come back, they tell us it is the purest they've ever seen.

  Steven Gomez : 99.1%

  [impressed whistle] 

  Hank Schrader : I mean, our chemist is blown away. Said he couldn't do the same thing better. Worse yet, it didn't come out of some super lab in Mexico; we're thinking this was cooked right here in the Land of Enchantment. Car was abandoned at what appears to be a, uh, cook site.

  [holding up a baggie with Walter's gas mask inside] 

  Hank Schrader : This is the, uh, only other thing left behind. Now, we're sending it off to Quantico, see if they can pull something off it. Meantime, our guys swabbed the filter element and found the same 99.1 meth. So be on notice. We got new players in town. Now, we don't know who they are, or where they come from, but they possess an extremely high skill set. Me, personally, I'm thinking Albuquerque just might have a new kingpin.

• Hank Schrader : Anyway, how about your dad here? That there's a good story, Walt. Tell him how you met Skyler.

  Walter White, Jr. : Mom was a waitress in Los Alamos, and dad said that thing to you.

  Walter White : [as he talks, Skyler begins crying to herself]  Well, actually, your mother wasn't a-a waitress; it was a summer job, and, um, she was the hostess, and she also worked the cash register. And I used to go in there a lot because it was close enough to the lab where I could ride my bicycle, you know? And once I noticed her, it got to be so that I would only go in when I knew she was working. When it was slow, she would lean against the counter, doing her crossword puzzles, but-but kind of hiding it. Right? Pretending that she was still working, and once I caught on to that, I would do crossword puzzles while I ate my grilled cheese sandwich. It got so that every day at lunch, we would both be doing the New York Times crossword puzzle ten feet from each other. And, uh... eventually, I caught her looking over at me, so I began saying "Excuse me, um, 14 across, seven-letter word for whatchamacallit. Uh, may I ask what... what you wrote down?". And, uh, well, that got us talking, and, uh... well, I tell you, I was... I was terrible at those puzzles. I don't think that I finished even one of them. But your mother would do them in ink.

  Hank Schrader : Very smooth. I bet you didn't think your old man had it in him, huh? But that's what I'm talking about. That's persistence, you see? Once you set your cap for something, or somebody, you gotta just, you know...

  [noticing Skyler sobbing] 

  Hank Schrader : Whoa. Skyler.

  Walter White, Jr. : Mom, a-are you all right?

  Marie Schrader : Hey, hey. Shh. Honey, it's okay. What's the matter? What is it?

  Skyler White : [standing to leave, she gestures to Walter]  Ask him.

• Walter White, Jr. : No.

  Hank Schrader : What, are you kidding me? You look like a damn movie star, man. Girls gotta be lining up left and right. Tell him how good-looking he is.

  Marie Schrader : He's adorable.

  Hank Schrader : Well, he don't want to be freakin' adorable, he wants to be hot. Anyway, see what I'm talking about? That's female perspective.

  Walter White, Jr. : She's supposed to say that.

  Hank Schrader : Look, a guy doesn't got to look like, uh, you know, Charlton Heston - I'm talking Moses days - to get a girl, all right? You just gotta have confidence. Confidence and, uh... and persistence. Okay? That's what I'm talking about. I chased your Aunt Marie here all over creation. I mean, I kept bugging her for a date, she kept saying no. What, I asked you, like, 50 times?

  Marie Schrader : Yeah, it was before they tightened the stalking laws.