Breaking Bad · Season 4, Episode 5
“Shotgun” · Season 4, Episode 5
In this episode: Walter White (3), Jesse Pinkman (2), Hank Schrader (2), Walter White Jr (2), Skyler White (1), Mike Ehrmantraut (1), Marie Schrader (1)
You are not the guy. You're not capable of being the guy. I had a guy, but now I don't. You are not the guy.
Then what the hell am I doing here?
I don't know! It's not my call! I just do what I'm told and now you're gonna do what you're told, which is to sit here, shut up, and stay in the car until we finish our pickups! You got it?
Hey, Mom? Dad?
[from the bedroom] Hey, son!
Where are you?
Uh, we're... We're back here. We'll be out in a minute.
[realizes his parents are having sex] Oh, God.
Jesse, Jesse! What happened yesterday? Where were you?
I was out with Mike helping make pickups.
Picking up what?
Cash, dead drops. Mike made the pickups and I guarded him.
You... guarded Mike? What is this, some kind of a joke?
And you know what? Two dudes tried to rob us and I saved the stash. I took care of business, just like I'm taking care of business right now. You want to stand there dicking around or do you want to suit up and get to work? Get in gear, yo, if you want to do this because I'm meeting up with Mike this afternoon.
What, again? Why?
Guess I have two jobs now.
This guy Gale Boetticher, he was eccentric. Real character, y'know? He's, uh, he's dead now.
Who was he?
He was a meth cook.
Uh, he was a meth chef. We're talking five-stars, candles and white tablecloth, y'know? I can't believe these words are coming out of my mouth, but he was a genius, plain and simple. I mean, uh–Boy, if he applied that big brain of his to something good, I dunno, who knows? He could've helped humanity or something like that. I mean, how many actual geniuses are there in the world? If he'd have taken his life in a different direction, who knows?
Hank, not to tell you your business, but I'm not sure I agree.
What do you mean?
Well, you showed me that notebook and from what I saw–and this is just my humble opinion–from what I saw on those papers... genius? Not so much. I mean, there was no reasoning, no deductions in those pages, so to my eye, all this brilliance looks like nothing more than just simple rote copying, probably of someone else's work. Believe me, I have been around enough students to know. So this genius of yours, maybe he's still out there.
[Hank is looking through Gale's case file]
You find something?
Oh, just this... this guy I'm looking at. You know, everything he buys and eats is organic, fair trade, vegan. [looks at a Los Pollos Hermanos napkin with notes on it found in Gale's apartment] Since when do vegans eat fried chicken?
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