The Cat's in the Bag

Infobox Television episode
Title = The Cat's in the Bag


Caption =
Series = Breaking Bad
Season = 1
Episode = 2
Airdate = January 27, 2008
Production =
Writer = Vince Gilligan
Director = Adam Bernstein
Episode list = Episode chronology
Prev = Pilot
Next = ...and the Bag's in the River

The Cat's in the Bag is the second episode of the American dramedy "Breaking Bad".

ynopsis

Walter and Jesse have their RV towed out of the ditch by a good Samaritan who does not speak English. They decide to bring the RV to Jesse's house and deal with disposing the bodies of Krazy-8 and Emilio later. To their shock, one of them is still barely alive. The next day, Jesse calls Walter's home and demands he come over to help think of a plan to dump the bodies. The call draws suspicion from Skyler, who has been concerned with Walter's behavior and with him coming home very late the previous night. She begins searching online for the number that called the house, stumbling onto Jesse's "MyShout" page.

Walter grows paranoid about the deaths he caused, causing him to lose concentration while teaching. Meanwhile, Jesse discovers that one of the dealers has escaped the RV. When Walter drives to Jesse's house, he sees Krazy-8 walking in the middle of the street, barely conscious and breathing terribly. Upon seeing Walter, Krazy-8 runs into a tree and knocks himself out. Walter carries Krazy-8 into Jesse's basement, where they lock him to a pipe with a bicycle lock. Walter and Jesse decide to flip a coin over what must be done: the winner will dump Emilio's body into a vat of hydrofluoric acid while the loser kills Krazy-8. Walter loses the coin toss.

Walter decides to suffocate Krazy-8 with a plastic bag, but he fully regains consciousness, causing Walter to retreat. Instead, Walter gives him food, water and a bucket for a toilet. Jesse returns empty-handed because no store sells a plastic container large enough for a body. Walter decides to return the following day.

Skyler gets a sonogram and finds out the baby is a girl. She asks Walter about Jesse, who responds that Jesse sells him marijuana. Meanwhile, Jesse grows impatient waiting for Walter and decides to rid himself of Emilio. As he drags Emilio's wrapped, rotting corpse from the RV, Skyler arrives to his house. She berates Jesse about selling Walter marijuana and never discovers the body, much to his relief. Jesse puts Emilio's body into the upstairs bathtub and fills it with the acid. When Walter arrives, he is horrified to hear about this since the hydrofluoric acid eats through anything except low-density polyethylene (or Teflon). The bathtub is completely eaten away, followed by the floor itself, causing bloody bits of Emilio to fall to the first floor.

In the desert, two children stumble upon a gas mask that Walter left behind.

Allusions

*The title to this episode and the next ("The Cat's in the Bag..." and "...the Bag's in the River") form a quote from the film "Sweet Smell of Success" (1957)

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