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Having survived their run in with Tuco, Walt and Jesse must think fast to avoid trouble; Walt must find a reason to have disappeared to give his wife and Jesse must create an alibi as he knows that the DEA found his car at Tuco's place. Walt's plan is simple... he hitches a lift out of the desert, walks into a supermarket, strips naked then tells everybody he has absolutely no memories of the previous two days. This works a charm until his psychiatrist says he may have to stay in hospital while they investigate his amnesia. Jesse's plan is even more risky; after clearing the gear out of his basement he goes to a motel with a prostitute and gets his friend Badger to tell the police his whereabouts. He just has to hope they can't prove he wasn't in the room for the last three days. Hank still has no idea who is making the new high grade methamphetamine but he is starting to suspect that there must be a connection between Krazy-8's disappearance, the events and Tuco's place and the theft from the chemical store; he just can't quite see the link.

There may have been relatively little action in this episode but it was still pretty good; I really liked how Walt and Jesse came up with very different ways to get out of their immediate predicament. Of course they still have problems; Jesse lost all his earnings as his money was in his car and he couldn't admit it was his to the DEA, Walt still can't explain the second mobile phone and with Tuco dead they will have to find another way to shift their product. Despite the lack of violence there were still tense moments; it looked as if Jesse's alibi would be blown apart when Tuco's uncle was brought in and asked about him... even though he didn't say a word Mark Margolis did a great job in the role.

"My wife is seven months pregnant with a baby we didn't intend. My fifteen-year old son has cerebral palsy. I am an extremely overqualified high school chemistry teacher. When I can work, I make $43,700 per year. I have watched all of my colleagues and friends surpass me in every way imaginable and within eighteen months, I will be dead. And you ask why I ran?"

'Bit by a Dead Bee' is another important episode of Breaking Bad. It is a prime example of how this show really mastered the art that is creating good television. In the first episode of this season, we saw the build-up to the big events that happened in the top quality 'Grilled'. Now, in the third episode of the season, we see the fall-out from those events. Bryan Cranston does more excellent work here as Walt hatches a plan to explain his disappearance, while also knowing that Jesse needs a good alibi.

This is the first time that Hank and Jesse meet and it's an excellent scene for both Dean Norris and Aaron Paul. Hank seems sure that Jesse is lying about his three-day party with Wendy, but cannot prove it - yet. He thinks he can break Wendy, but this goes wrong when she remembers him from when he visited with Walter Jr. and she thought he wanted her to 'do that kid!'. Despite this, Hank and Gomez have one more card to play - Tio Salamanca. It's great to see Tio's return, especially as we realise that he is old school and would never talk to the DEA. So, Jesse is let off the hook.

Walt, meanwhile, reveals to his psychiatrist a certain degree of the truth in the speech I quoted at the top of the review. Of course, he fails to mention that they were kidnapped by a psychopathic drug dealer. The most heartbreaking scene of the episode is surely when Walt visits his house in the night and catches a glimpse of what his family's life would be like without him. The question that keeps coming up is whether or not what he is doing 'for his family' is actually worth it. Is he in fact losing them in the process?

Just as when Krazy-8 was killed in '...And the Bag's in the River', it's unclear where the story will go now. Tuco's grill is all that remains of him, so who will Walt and Jesse partner up with next? This was a slower episode, but it was still full of quality, as this show always is.

9.2/10

After the craziness of the past two episodes the show provides us a slower one to calm our nerves. Still a great episode that has many great moments.

Walt and Jesse return back, but they need to come up with ideas of what they say happened to them. Walt ends up naked in some supermarket pretending it was a sort of a medical situation and Jesse tries to find good alibi, although Hank makes it hard for him.

My favorite scenes in this episode was Jesse being questioned by Hank. Dean Norris is a great actor, because I still like Hank even though he is so nasty to my favorite character on the show! It was all very amusing, especially when Tuco's uncle comes and proves that he knows on what planet he is. I am just wondering, why did he not say that he saw Jesse?

After the powerful second episode in Breaking Bad, the story calms down a little bit in a sense. This episode is all about making excuses and how Walt derived a plan to keep what happened in the desert a secret from his family. The episode has a little more comedy added to the story, which I found completely grateful after the searing intensity of the previous episode. Despite that, I was still on the edge of my seat for the entire episode because of some questions I had. How will Walt make an excuse plausible enough for his family and professionals looking over him? Will Jesse get away clean or will Hank break him down? Was Hank's shooting of Tuco justifiable? All these questions were answered somewhat here, but there were some good twists that is worth every moment.

In this episode, "Bit by a Dead Bee," Walt and Jesse now have to return home after escaping the clutches of Tuco. Walt comes up with an incredible plan that could easily backfire. Walt goes to the supermarket where he strips himself naked in the middle of the store and claims he has no idea how he got there. Jesse goes home where he cleans out his house and gets rid of the RV. However, the DEA tracks him down where Jesse tries to convince them that he was with a prostitute for three straight days. Despite these issues, Walt is very keen on cooking again.

There are many parts to Walt's plan that could have easily failed, and almost did so at certain points. Walt was taken to the hospital where he blamed his medication for his naked outburst, but the doctors do not buy it. They make him stay overnight and even brought in a psychiatrist to help out. For Jesse, there was 68 thousand dollars sitting in the car, which should have been the end for him. He caught two lucky breaks. Firstly, the hooker was the same hooker Hank has used to scare Walt Jr. Secondly, they brought in Tuco's bell-ringing uncle as a witness but he refused to testify because he hates the police more than Walt and Jesse. But oh my, the look on Tio's face says it all.

Take a look at this quote, "My wife is seven months pregnant with a baby we didn't intend. My fifteen-year old son has cerebral palsy. I am an extremely overqualified high school chemistry teacher. When I can work, I make $43,700 per year. I have watched all of my colleagues and friends surpass me in every way imaginable and within eighteen months, I will be dead. And you ask why I ran?" This is a quote from Walter that makes up his mindset on why he wants to cook again. He wants to provide for his family after he is gone, and he feels there is nothing he can do as a "over-qualified" high school teacher.

This episode is a must-watch. The story has funny moments, intensity, and some very fine acting. This is where Hank Schrader meets Jesse for the first time, and it seems Hank may be inching closer and closer to Walt's secret life. The ending is a kicker! When Skylar discovers that Walt has a second cell phone, then it's right back to the beginning for Walter White. We know he is in big trouble.

My Grade: A-

A slower character-based episode after the drama of the last one. This one's about the alibis of both Walter and Jesse and the likeable Hank figures predominantly, which is always a good sign. The performances are carefully carried out and generally very effective, particularly Anna Gunn who might well be the best actor in the whole thing.

This episode was better than the last for me. The episode begins with both Walter nd Jesse returning to Albuquerque and the different scenarios they face. Walt goes into a supermarket and get's naked to fashion a lit that he was in an almost hypnotized state of being and can't remember the past couple of days. Jesse on the other hand is raided and then questioned by Hank and Steve (Hank's partner) about the fact his car was found where Hank killed Tuco.

They both got away with little consequence. Jesse fathomed a lie with a girl and got to walk out with lack of evidence. Walt however had the fact Skyler asked (right at the end of the episode) about Walt's supposed second phone. He state's to her that he has no second phone and she doesn't seem to believe him. Besides form that however it doesn't seem like Walters place majorly backfired in any significant way.

The scene where Hector (thh man in the wheelchair) didn't tell the DEA about Jesse being at the location Tuco was killed at when asked about it was class. Showing us that this (reoccurring) character isn't too friendly with law enforcement. We also get Hank's partner Steve tell us he is an OG and he would never tell the feds nothing. I wonder if this will ever be explored ;)

Also Hank made a connection between Tuco and Crazy Eight (one of the men Walter killed). He mentioned Walter's (heisenbug's) product when talking about the two. Obviously not knowing it's Walter who made it but he now believes that there is a new man on the block cooking meth and it's neither Crazy Eight nor Tuco. The fact he talks about Walter without knowing he is talking about Walter is cool as it show's (in a strange way) Walter is starting to make a name for himself in the drug business.

Overall a decent episode with not shed loads to unpack. A solid 7/10.

Jesse's car was at the crime scene where Hank killed Tuco in a gunfight. Jesse's sought after by the cops for his potential dealings with Tuco, the drug dealer. After hiking it across hot desert, hitching a ride in a truck, Walt is soon found in a grocery store…naked. Walt is hospitalized and plays up having a physiological "incident" to his cancer doctor and nursing staff. Jesse, in the mean time, removes the meth cooking items and drugs (back in the Winnebago, having a guy tow it to a safe location) and is soon arrested in a motel room with hooker/addict, Wendy, by Hank and the DEA. Walt will need to be tested and go through therapy in order to analyze and determine what caused his "fugue state". Walt tells a "medical practitioner" (a psychologist with the pen and notepad) about simply wanting to 'get out of the damn house' and walk as far as he could, explaining that with all the accumulating troubles (his son with cerebral palsy, his cancer, an unplanned pregnancy) he felt he needed to escape for a while. Tio, and the bell, return, with Hank hoping he'll implicate Jesse. But Tio hates cops so this little idea doesn't go according to plan! Tio gives the DEA an answer regarding Jesse…he passes gas in the interrogation room! Stroke or no stroke, Tio isn't about to give Hank or the DEA jack squat. Walt had slickly escaped from his hospital room, taking a quick trip back home to hide his meth loot, and then trekked back without getting caught. There was a cool moment where Walt looks up and sees a Missing poster with his face and name…irony, gotta love it. Though, Jesse gets off with no strong evidence tying him to Tuco, Hank is celebrated and recognized by his colleagues at the office. Walt still plans to cook, much to Jesse's surprise. Walt's release from the hospital with no Tuco in the way opens new doors for him (the "grill" on Tuco's front teeth were given to Hank encased in a cube for his job taking the drug dealer down by the DEA!), while Hank tries to piece together the circumstances revolving around the warehouse heist (involving Jesse and Walt). Skyler can't shake the "second cell phone", and Walt denies having one when questioned. The lies continue.

After having fled from Tuco successfully, Walter and Jesse need to come up with alibis.

Walt strips naked in a supermarket to sell the lie that he was in a fuge state.

Jesse meanwhile has to come up with a cover-story on his own to convince Hank.

Overall, this episode is a good way to cool things down after the characters being in immediate life or death situations, but the tension is held up by the at some ends fragile web of lies Walt is spinning.

I especially like the scene in which Walt talks to his doctor and due to confidentiality presents him a semi-truth of the events that occured.

Having successfully gotten the Hell out of Dodge (without Hank spotting them), Walter and Jesse return home, where one of Walters' first orders of business is to strip naked inside a supermarket in order to sell the idea of a "fugue state" and the idea of his supposed amnesia. The two of them manufacture cover stories to try to explain their disappearances, although Jesses' doesn't hold water with Hank, who unsuccessfully tries to grill him.

Hank even brings in wheelchair-ridden Tio Salamanca (Mark Margolis, "Requiem for a Dream") to influence the interrogation, which works (and gives Jesse a temporary uneasiness) until we can see how far gone Tio is.

One of my favorite bits has Walter realize that the psychiatrist (Harry Groener, "About Schmidt") conferring with him cannot divulge almost anything they discuss, so Walter "comes clean" - to a degree. He certainly doesn't tell the guy that he's cooking crystal meth, or that he's living this double life. Another element I enjoyed was the "Gods' eye" perspective as we watch Walter & Jesse making the long trek home by foot (although Walter eventually is able to hitch a ride).

Jesse, meanwhile, is working hard to remove the evidence from plain view, cleaning out his basement and paying to have his RV taken away.

As always, I'm struck by the visual tricks that the directors of these episodes are able to incorporate, as well as the musical choices.

This series really is "pulp fiction" taken to another level. As such, it's incredibly entertaining from beginning to end.

Eight out of 10.

Walt and Jesse escaped from murderous Tuco,they planning their comeback from dissapearence. Tbh the plan was walt for Jesse to get himself alibi and then get arrest,i mean really walt?And unfortunately our beloved DEA agent Hank didnt buy it but cant proof it either way neither.In this episode Walt also came up with alibi of his vanishing,got short memory loss and butt naked in store lol,really?and skyler and everyone else is buying that either.

I don't think the situation will get any better after all those