To provide for his family's future after he is diagnosed with lung
cancer, a chemistry genius turned high school teacher teams up with an
ex-student to cook and sell the world's purest crystal meth. Plot:
Following Walter White's order to Jesse Pinkman to murder Gale Boetticher, the chemist whom their boss, methamphetamine distributor Gus Fring,
had planned on using to replace Walt, Gus responds by killing one of
his own men and taking steps to secure the lab. He installs cameras to
monitor Walt and Jesse's movements in the lab at all times. Upon
searching Gale's apartment, the police find two clues: refuse linking
the vegan Gale to Gus's fast food chicken restaurants, and a lab
notebook with detailed steps for cooking meth with an inscription "To
W.W." The police give recovering and off-duty DEA supervisor Hank Schrader
copies of this evidence. Hank starts to suspect that Gus is a major
player in the meth operation and tries to investigate on his own,
eliciting his brother-in-law Walt's assistance. Hank believes Gus's
background as a Chilean national is sketchy at best, and his suspicions
lead him to eventually connect Gus to the industrial laundry service
that fronts the meth laboratory. Meanwhile, Skyler
tries to convince her husband Walt to avoid excess spending in order to
reduce the risk of exposing their money laundering scheme: their new
car wash business at which Walt was formerly employed. When Walt
splurges on a new car for Walt Jr.
against her warnings, Skyler tries to leave but ends up returning to
help her family. As the season unfolds, Skyler learns that her former
boss Ted Beneke
had concealed business revenue in earlier tax returns, and would face
an IRS investigation that would likely reveal Skyler and Walt's illicit
wealth. Skyler convinces Walt's attorney Saul Goodman
to fake an estate inheritance from a fictitious aunt, which she uses to
divert more than $600,000 to Ted to pay Ted's IRS fine to end that
investigation.
Jesse cleans up his act and is surprised when Mike Ehrmantraut,
Gus's "cleaner", takes him as protection for picking up several
dead-drops. One attack is staged (unknown to Jesse) and Jesse is able to
thwart it, giving him confidence in supporting Mike and Gus. They learn
that the Mexican cartel has been attacking Gus's trucks as a message,
and after they attempt to attack Gus directly, Gus agrees to meet with
them. Walt, learning of this meeting, gives Jesse a capsule of ricin,
a deadly poison, to use to kill Gus. Jesse hesitates and doesn't follow
through, infuriating Walt. Jesse is invited by Gus to join him and Mike
in traveling to Mexico, where they have Jesse teach the cartel
scientists how to cook the blue meth. A flashback reveals that Gus has a
long-standing feud with the head of the Cartel, Don Eladio Vuente, as he had ordered Hector Salamanca
to kill his partner, Max, while they were trying to arrange an amicable
meth trade. Gus is able to poison Don Eladio and the heads of the
cartel, while Jesse helps him and Mike to escape the few guards that
survived. On Jesse's return, Walt finds himself again being rendered
useless, and later is tasered and taken to the outskirts of town where
Gus tells him that he is fired, and that he will take care of Hank. He
tells Walt that if he tries to interfere, he will kill Walt's wife and
children. Walt tips off the DEA to an imminent attack on Hank while
trying to arrange to get his family relocated, but finds without the
$600,000 that Skyler gave to Ted, he cannot pay the fee.
Hank and his family, as well as Skyler and Walt Jr., are placed in
DEA protective custody; Walt refuses, trying to deal with the situation
himself, realizing that Jesse is the key piece. Sometime later, Jesse
learns that his girlfriend Andrea's son has suddenly fallen ill; he
discovers the cigarette containing the ricin capsule missing and
immediately assumes the boy had been purposely poisoned. Jesse confronts
Walt, ready to kill him for it, but Walt insists he couldn't have done
it and that it was likely Gus's fault. Jesse believes Walt and returns
to the hospital, refusing to return to work. Gus comes to the hospital
to learn of this from Jesse, but agrees to allow Jesse to remain and
come back to work in the week. This meeting has given time for Walt to
plant a bomb on Gus's car, but as Gus returns, he appears uneasy, and
simply walks away from the car. Walt learns from Jesse that the only
place where Gus is vulnerable is when he is visiting the
wheelchair-bound Hector at a local nursing home. Walt talks to Hector;
and then Hector asks to be taken to the DEA. Gus decides to kill Hector
for ratting out to the DEA, but Hector is ready to sacrifice himself; he
detonates Walt's bomb, killing himself and Gus. Walt returns to the
lab, kills Jesse's guards, and informs Jesse that Gus is dead. Knowing
Hank is closing in, they torch the lab and walk away. Walt calls Skyler,
letting her know that he "won." The final scene reveals that Walt used
berries from the Lily of the Valley at his home to poison Andrea's son, and thus goad Jesse into action.
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