Breaking Bad- Too Easy

Unknown Caller- "Two men are coming to kill you. They are approaching your car. They’re coming."

The title of this week's episode was so aptly named. Hank had One Minute before the Two Suits would arrive to kill him. In that minute, as Hank sat in his car nervously hesitating to do anything, I went through so many emotions. I was excited, I was terrified, I was nervous, I was joyful. What happened after that clock turned to 3:18 might have been the best action sequence I've seen in a long while.

As my anticipation grew larger and larger I honestly expected one of two outcomes. 1) The Two Suits sneak up on Hank and shoot him to death or 2) Hank surprises them and shoots them dead before they know what happened. Why did I think it would be so simple? I was not expecting Hank to slam his car into reverse smashing one cousin to pieces while being shot only to have the other cousin right in front of him shooting at him as well, and survive that moment.

When the second cousin was all well and good and Hank was fighting for his life to stay alive after being shot three or four times, I was ready to let Hank go. Silly for the second cousin that shooting Hank in the face was "too easy", because in the time it took for him to walk ever so slowly to get his axe, Hank had just enough time to reach for the Devil Bullet that we were introduced to earlier in the episode. After former DEA Agent Schrader shot the cousin through the head with the Devil Bullet, the crane shot showing the three bloody bodies in a normal looking parking lot was so darkly comedic that I couldn't help but laugh.

The great thing about this episode was that everything leading up to that moment was also fantastic. Just as most had predicted, Walt was finally forced to take Jesse on as his lab partner because of his fear of how good Gale was getting at the chemistry. In the first scene between them, Gale was explaining how much he had already done without Walt and it was so easy to tell how irked Walt was about this. Later on we see the whole thing start to unravel when Walt makes up a mistake so that he can have a reason to complain about Gale ruining an entire batch.

Combine this with Jesse telling Walt that if he ever gets caught cooking meth that he will simply make a deal by giving up the great Heisenberg, and Walt had no choice but do everything he could to get Jesse to partner up again. How does the man go about doing this? Well by simply giving Mr. Pinkman some words of encouragement. "Your meth is good Jesse. As good as mine." Two minutes later a phone call from Jesse asking if 50/50 is good, in which he concludes, "okay partners." The two guys back together again.