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After what he witnessed Jesse is laying at home, trying to get over what he witnessed. Walt finds out that the rumor on the street is that Jesse is the one who killed that junkie and wants to use it to take over other territories in town. Sylar finds a job and Han deals with some intense situations at his.

Wonder what happened between Sylar and her boss, there must be more to it than said. Why would anyone hire someone who is pregnant and didn't work for 4 years for a decent job? Not that I care too much, it is not my most favorite storyline I liked the scene when Walt came over, his lie about being Jesse's father, reaction to "Jesse Jackson" and busting Jesse's mood up with the blow fish talk.

And the most intense moment is the Tortuga incident. Especially the aftermath of the explosion. Great scene.

This is yet again another great episode of Breaking Bad. We are seeing more of Jesse and his distractions and life. This is a transcending episode, where we are just seeing the characters' lives develop. Skyler also gets a new job, but how will this affect the family? I can only imagine that Walt will try and talk her out of it. Also, there are some great scenes with Hank and his final scene of the episode is shocking and magnificent. One has to remember that the drug life really is like this, and his character has come full-circle and has blended in with the rest of the characters in the show nicely. Let's just see what happen sin the future episodes.

"Dude's wife crushed his head with an ATM machine."

'Negro y Azul' features one of the most bizarre, yet brilliant openings the show ever did, as a Mexican band sing a song about the drug boss Heisenberg and how he's 'already dead'. After that, we follow Hank to El Paso, where he really struggles to fit in, but eventually becomes very important when things go bad. We also see Skyler return to work for a man named Ted Beneke (Christopher Cousins), where she worked four years previously, and we get to see how the ATM incident means Jesse has a reputation for violence now.

Of course, with the almost legendary reputation that Walt, or Heisenberg, now has, the pair of them make for quite a partnership. Jesse ends the episode by showing Jane his new TV, as she holds his hand. It's a nice moment for Jesse - Jane seems like she would be good for him.

Hank, on the other hand, doesn't get a nice moment here. Things go from bad to worse as at first, he isn't particularly liked by his colleagues, then Tortuga (Danny Trejo) makes fun of him, before he spots Tortuga's severed head on a tortoise and has a panic attack. Then, to top things off, the tortoise explodes and Hank is a hero - fastening a belt around what remains of his colleague's leg. Hank was already struggling after the death of Tuco, so it's likely that this will make him feel worse.

I write this almost every time I do a review, but this was another great episode.

9.2/10

A really strong episode once again. I did enjoy seeing Hank as a sympathetic fish out of water character and his sub-plot was greatly enhanced by Danny Trejo's enjoyable cameo. Jesse doesn't get beaten up for a change, but his new reputation is handled in some very funny scenes, and Walter is the usual reliable presence.

After what happened in the previous episode Jesse can't face the world; what he doesn't know is that everybody thinks he killed the man with the ATM; this is rumour Walt is happy to encourage; after all who is going to mess with a man who crushed another man's skull? Walt doesn't just see it as a way of solidifying their hold of their turf; he thinks it gives them the opportunity they need to take control of the methamphetamine supply for the whole of the city of Albuquerque and employ another layer of dealers. Hank as now started working in El Paso; it may have been a promotion but he has moved from being a big fish in a small pond to being a small fish in a big pond; the locals aren't impressed with his lack of Spanish either; something they consider essential given the cross border nature of their work. It isn't long before he learns that life on the border is more dangerous that that which he was used to. It isn't just the boys that are moving up in the world; Skyler returns to the job she had a few years previously; she will be working for the same boss that made improper advances to her; she is convinced that was just a one off though... although his behaviour suggests otherwise.

This was another great episode; I loved the surreal opening where a trio of mariachis sang of 'Heisenberg's' growing reputation and likely fate! I liked how we see that Walt sees every problem and opportunity; for him expanding and increasing his profits is all that matters; we also see how he has changed as a teacher; a pupil who tries to talk him into giving him a pass when he was a couple of marks short receives short shrift. It was interesting to see Hank's reaction to his move to El Paso as he gradually realises he isn't the big man any more; he continues to be one of my favourite characters; Dean Norris is great in the role. It isn't all business though; it was nice to see Jesse growing close to his attractive landlady Jane; no doubt their relationship will develop over upcoming episodes.

Meth cook/drug kingpin/high school science teacher Walter (Bryant Cranston) AKA Heisenberg, back in class teaching again as we catch up on the narrative has had no contact from Jesse (), his trafficker/underboss/former student for several days. The two had argued yet again after Walter had uncharacteristically given Jesse a gun and told him to "take care of it" in relation to the matter of one of their dealers getting robbed in an exchange gone wrong.

Confronting Jesse at his new apartment Walter is handed the missing money from the deal as well an added $3600 which came from Jesse's attempt to "take care of it" in the previous episode. Jesse's showdown with emaciated methheads at their dilapidated house resulted in the bizarre event of one of them having his head crushed like a watermelon by his wife, whom he had referred to as a "skank" a few times too often.

The improbable weapon was a stolen ATM machine the couple had liberated from a convenience store after slitting the throat of the proprietor. Jesse, knocked unconscious by the wife in a moment of distraction could only watch as she murdered her husband.

Jesse, whose habit of falling upwards has been his trademark after a streak of bad luck had the presence of mind to snatch the money from the stolen ATM retrieving the lost investment as well as a surprise dividend. Walter is initially disappointed yet again in Jesse's failings as pusher/enforcer and naturally aghast at the brutal events arising from the house confrontation with the methheads.

When he notices the reaction on the street to the events related to him by Jesse's crew of dealers Walter is pleasantly surprised. Jesse is now legend having evidently displaced maniac former associate Tuco (from whom Walter and Jesse narrowly escaped death) then wasting a methhead by crushing his skull with a stolen ATM acquired in a brutal convenience store heist. Scrawny slacker Jesse is considered more lethal, mean and warped than Tuco.

The trail of blood created merely by their own survival in a violent subculture has created carved out street cred not only as purveyors of particularly potent and pure meth shards and enforcers of swift, certain and severe reprisal when it comes to getting burned on deals. Walter looks to capitalize on all this by expanding the operation into different territories currently occupied by other meth pushers.

Exposing Walter's actions to scrutiny is revealing. His actions have involved him in mass murder committed by others but on the level of a kind of tourist. Nevertheless he is successful and likens Jesse's presence on the street as enforcer to that of a blowfish in that it can inflate itself to ward off predators.

Midway through the second season one notes the distance Walt's arc has gone - from superior-minded yet meek science teacher working part-time at a carwash to unlikely brutal drug-lord ordering his underboss to "take care of it" resulting in bloody circumstances is a long reach. His inadequacies, his DEA agent brother-in-law and the tumultuous nature of the trade mean that it will have come to an end sometime.

But his luck and ingenuity are taking him a long way. Much longer than they logically should.

First off, the intro is hilarious as much as it is frightening! Seeing it for the first time was so unexpected and out of the frame, but it really got a good laugh out of me! However, it shows that Tuco's cousins are aware about Heisenberg being involved in his death and they now want him off the streets.

Walt is however blissfully unaware of that at the moment as he tries to increase his meth sales by framing Jesse as a murderous drug lord with everyone believing that he crushed a customer's head with an ATM machine.

Meanwhile, Hank is out with the DEA, who find the severed head of criminal "La Tortuga" on a tortoise. Upon further inspection, the tortoise explodes, killing a lot of hanks comrades.

Hank is forced to maintain his cheeky character upon return to the DEA to uphold his status, while at the same time his humanity comes to shine.

Bussines is thriving,Pinkman and the boys up to scale up,exponential growth. While Schradder got going on in his new Job in New mexico.Skyler is back to work its nice to see our pregnant mom got active beside paranoid with his Husband doing all the time ,keep busy yo.