- After being diagnosed with terminal lung cancer, a struggling high school chemistry teacher makes a drastic choice to secure his family's future--turning to the drug trade with a former student.
- Days after his 50th birthday, chemistry teacher Walter White's life of quiet desperation completely transforms when he's diagnosed with inoperable lung cancer. To support his pregnant wife and their son, he partners with Jesse, a former student, to turn an old RV into a mobile meth lab. But their first attempt at unloading their product takes a deadly turn when Jesse introduces Walt to his unstable business associates.—Anonymous
- In Albuquerque, New Mexico, high-school chemistry teacher Walter White lives with his pregnant wife Skyler and their handicapped teenage son Walter Jr. and has a second job at a car wash. On his 50th birthday, he faiths and is diagnosed with lung cancer, and the doctor gives the maximum of two years to live. When he asks his brother-in-law Hank Schrader, a DEA agent married to Skyler's sister Marie, if he can come with him on a drug raid, he discovers that a former student, Jesse Pinkman, is a drug dealer but he keeps the secret. Later Walter seeks Pinkman out and tells him that he wants to cook and sell crystal meth to secure his family's future, thus beginning a criminal life.—Claudio Carvalho, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
- Unassuming high-school chemistry teacher Walter White discovers he has lung cancer. Desperate to secure his family's financial future, and finally free from the fear that had always inhibited him, Walt teams up with a former student to turn a used RV into a mobile drug lab.—TheDearHunter1878
- Walter White is a high school chemistry teacher who learns that he has lung cancer. With a new lease of life, Walter sets up a mobile meth lab with a former student and becomes a drug dealer in order to secure his family's financial security.
- Walter White (Bryan Cranston) is a 50-year-old high school chemistry teacher living in Albuquerque, New Mexico, with his pregnant wife Skyler and their teenage son Walter Jr. (RJ Mitte), who has cerebral palsy. Walt supplements his low teaching salary by working part-time at a local car wash, where he ends up being humiliated in front of two of the students he teaches. On his 50th birthday, Walt returns home to a surprise party arranged by Skyler (Anna Gunn). The following day, he collapses at the car wash and is raced to the hospital, where he is told that he has developed inoperable lung cancer and has, at best, two years to live. Walt opts to keep this news from his family and from Skyler's sister Marie Schrader (Betsy Brandt) and her husband Hank (Dean Norris), a DEA agent.
After returning to work at the car wash, Walt suddenly lashes out at his boss and walks off the job. Having earlier seen a news report showing a large amount of money recovered from one of Hank's drug busts, Walt takes up a previous offer to go on a ride-along as Hank and his partner Steven Gomez (Steven Michael Quezada) raid a known Meth lab. As the DEA agents clear out the house, Walt observes his former student Jesse Pinkman (Aaron Paul) sneaking out a back window. Later, Walt tracks down Jesse's address and blackmails him into helping him produce crystal Meth without revealing why. Walt turns over his life savings to allow Jesse to purchase a Fleetwood Bounder RV to use as a mobile lab. Walt then steals supplies from the high school chemistry lab needed for the process.
Walt and Jesse drive the RV into the desert and begin to cook. Walt's expertise in chemistry enables them to create crystal Meth that Jesse claims is the purest he's ever seen. Jesse drives back into town to show a sample to his distributor, Krazy-8 Molina (Maximino Arciniega). He realizes too late that Krazy-8 is a cousin of Emilio Koyama, his partner that was busted on the earlier raid and now free on bail. Emilio believes Jesse abandoned him, but Jesse promises to prove his loyalty by driving them to the RV. When they meet Walt, Emilio recognizes him from the raid and thinks that he is an informant, leading him and Krazy-8 to hold the two at gunpoint. Jesse tries to run but trips and falls and hits his head on rock, knocking himself out. Walt barters for his life by offering to show them how he produced the Meth. As they watch Walt inside the RV, Emilio flicks away a cigarette outside, which causes a brush fire to ignite. Walt surprises Emilio and Krazy-8 by synthesizing deadly Phosphine gas, flees the RV, holds the door shut which causes Emilio and Krazy-8 to pass out.
Hearing sirens in the distance, Walt quickly dons a gas mask and puts one on Jesse before pulling him into the RV's passenger seat, still filled with Phosphine fumes. Walt frantically drives the RV away from the spreading brush fire. As shown in medias stories at the start of the episode, Walt drives the RV into a ditch and stumbles out of the vehicle, discarding his gas mask. Believing that he is about to be captured by the police, Walt records a video message to his family before trying to shoot himself with a pistol, unaware the safety is still on.
As the sirens near, Walt is relieved to find they are only fire engines responding to the fire, and quickly hides his weapon. Jesse wakes up and joins Walt as they watch the fire engines race by. The two have the RV extracted from the ditch by a Native American man with a front-end loader and then drive back into town, making sure Emilio and Krazy-8 are secured in the RV before leaving it at Jesse's home. Later that night, Walt returns home and meets his wife's troubled queries with a new sexual vigor, which leaves her asking, "Walt, is that you?"
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