Breaking Bad · Season 2, Episode 9
“4 Days Out” · Season 2, Episode 9
In this episode: Walter White (5), Jesse Pinkman (4), Saul Goodman (1)
Look, let's crunch some numbers. How much money are we laundering?
At this time...$16,000.
How long you been doing this?
We've had some extenuating circumstances.
Yeah, apparently. All right, $16,000 laundered at 75 cents on the dollar, minus my fee, which is 17%, comes out to $9,960. Congratulations, you've just left your family a secondhand Subaru.
[to Jesse on the payphone] Clear your social calendar. We have to cook.
What? Today?
No, you'll need today at least to gather supplies. Now, we're going to need all new glassware, heating mantles, about a hundred pounds of ice. Y-you have a paper and pencil? You should be writing this down.
Yo, you wanna go shopping, go do it yourself, alright? I got plans.
Smoking marijuana, eating Cheetos, and masturbating do not constitute plans in my book.
Well, screw you and your book, man, alright? I'm going to a museum in Santa Fe, not like you need to know.
You're going to a museum, huh?
Yeah. Georgia O'Keeffe.
Georgia O'Keeffe?
She's a painter, duh. She does these vagina pictures. Or paintings, or just painted. I don't know.
[After cooking a batch of meth and agreeing to stop at a hotel for the night, Jesse and Walter realize the RV's ignition has stopped working]
[after turning the keys several times] Battery’s dead.
Jesse, back when I asked you to put the keys in a safe place, where did you put them?
I left them right here. In the, um… in the ignition.
Son of a bitch!
Whoa, whoa. No, this is not my fault, alright? The buzzer didn’t buzz.
The what?!
The buzzer! The buzzer that buzzes when you put the keys in to, like, let you know that the battery’s on. I know that! It didn’t buzz. Look, I didn’t turn the key or anything, alright? I’m not stupid! Did you hear the buzzer buzz? I did not... It’s faulty, it’s a faulty mechanism.
Is this just a genetic thing with you? Is it congenital? Did you—Did your mother drop you on your head when you were a baby?!
The buzzer did not buzz! And you were the one that made me move the keys in the first place, remember?!
Yes, I see your point. Your imbecility being what it is, I should have known to say, "Jesse, don’t leave the keys in the ignition the entire two days!"
I wanted to leave them on the counter, bitch! Oh, I’m sorry, the "work station!" Jesus!
[Walter and Jesse are stranded without water in their RV in the middle of the desert]
I have this coming.
What?
I have it coming. I deserve this.
Snap out of it. All right, first off, everything you did, you did for your family. Right?
All I ever managed to do was worry and disappoint them. And lie. Oh God, the lies...I can't even...can't even keep them straight in my head anymore...
You know what? Screw this. I'm walking. You can come or not. Where's my other shoe?
Jesse. Jesse... Your body is running dangerously low on electrolytes. Sodium, potassium, calcium...and when they're gone, your brain ceases to communicate with the muscles. Your lungs stop breathing. Your heart stops pumping. You go marching out there, and within an hour, you will be dead.
You need to cut out all your loser crybaby crap right now and think of something scientific!
[laughs weakly] Something... Something scientific, right...
Like, come on! Man, you're smart! All right, you made poison out of beans, yo! Look, we've got an entire lab right here. How about you take some of these chemicals and mix up some... some rocket fuel, that way we could just send up a signal flare. Or you make some kind of robot to get us help... or a homing device... or building a battery... [Walt's eyes snap open] Or what if we just take some stuff off of the RV and build it into something completely different? You know, like a... like a dune buggy! And that way we could just dune buggy our... [Walt sits up] What? Hey... what is it? What?
Do you... do you have any money? Change, I mean, coins?
Yeah, yeah, I got a bunch of 'em!
Okay... [gets up]
Yes!
Gather them. And–and–and washers, and nuts and bolts and screws, and whatever little pieces of metal we can think of that is galvanized–it has to be galvanized–or–or solid zinc.
[heads outside] Solid zinc.
And–and–and bring me... brake pads! The front wheels should have discs. Take them off and bring them to me.
All right, all right...
[kicks a toolbox toward Jesse] Brake pads!
What are we building?
You said it yourself.
A robot?
...A battery.
And now, what shall we use to conduct this beautiful current with, hm? What one particular element comes to mind, hm? [Walter holds up a copper wire] Hmm?
Ooooh, wire.
...Copper.
Oh, I mean...
It's copper.
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