It's been a long wait between the end of Season 3 to getting Season 4 into my hands. How good is Breaking Bad? Within the first couple of minutes I was back into the zone of what it's like to watch this show. That's a credit to both the writing and the characters that populate the series. This episode literally picks up right where Full Measure left off. I kept running certain outs' for Jesse that would be away for him to not shoot and kill Gale. But at the end of the day, getting rid of him was the only option he and Walt had. Bummer he had to go the way he went, but that's how you write a show and do it right, especially if you want to keep the danger element that anyone on the show can go at anytime.

I'm gonna try and pace myself better with Season 4. I really don't want to burn through all the episodes in 3 days time. Gotta make it last because I have no idea how long it's gonna take to get Season 5 into my hands.

Jesse is clearly losing his grip on reality. It says a lot when he would rather sit in his own house with a room full of people he doesn't even know, destroying and stealing openly in front of him. He's lost it. The ending where he tosses the money in the living room shows that these people are literally rats scurrying for cheese and this is entertaining for Jesse. Sad.

I like that this episode gave some much need story time to Marie and Skyler. Watching Marie going back to her kleptomaniac ways was fun, especially with all the Open Houses she was hitting, coming up with insane stories about her life, etc...Not to be outdone, Skyler was just as cunning in her ability to con the Car Wash owner into selling the business to her and Walt. She's becoming more and more like Walt. Haha.

Oh Walt, you stupid, dumb motherf*cking idiot!!! He was in the clear. He had Hank and the rest of the Police force already assuming that Gale was the infamous Heisenberg (aka Walt). But I guess having to sit at the dinner table, listening to Hank go on and on about how Gale was this genius. Ego, baby! It's always gonna f*ck people up and sure enough, Walt pretty much says that Gale is not Heisenberg and that the real McCoy is still out there. Too bad Skyler couldn't do anything. She couldn't. She had to sit there, bite her lip and basically let Walt hang himself.

As for Jesse, pretty clever of Gus and Mike to set him up as the "Hero" to have him think that HE's now indispensable to the business and because of that will now toe the line....for the foreseeable future. I'm sure that Jesse will run into the 'Man with the shotgun' at some kind of function where Gus and/or Mike is at and put two and two together and realize that he was played.

It's been coming along slowly with Hank recuperating, but this is the one where he finally gets to shine this season as he closes in on piecing the information about Gale, Los Pollos Hermanos and Gus' connection with each other. I knew that when he was laying it out for the Police Chief and his former partner that they would just dismiss him as reaching, but there was a sense of glee watching him turn it around with hard evidence when he pulled out Gus' fingerprints at the scene of the crime. Nice.

But the biggest scene in this episode and for this season (so far) was Jesse's meltdown at his former recovery meeting where he lays it out for everyone in attendance to see when he tells them he is there for one reason and one reason only: to sell meth to them. The scene was incredibly powerful and it's no wonder why Aaron Paul who plays Jesse won an Emmy. Just....wow.

Holy sh*t! That was a brutal knockdown, drag out fight between Jesse and Walt. The fight, even though it's been expected for a while now since Jesse and Walt have been at odds for pretty much the entire season, still came as a shock when it happened. I actually flinched when Jesse threw the tracker at Walt, cracking him in the head. Everything that I've guessed in earlier episodes that would pan out, is not. It's never panned out the way I envisioned it. That's why this is one of the best TV series ever, because the writing is top notch and always gives us unexpected twist. The dinner between Gus and Jesse was also intense. The scene with Skyler was pretty funny with her channeling her inner Erin Brockovich.

Man, I said I wouldn't burn through these episodes as fast as before. But I'm finding it very difficult to just keep it to 2, maybe 3 a day. This season is ending too fast for me. Grrr!

Now I get why Season 4 is considered to be the best season of the series. These last few episodes, each one has been beyond amazing. They each in their own right have felt like Season Finales. You know when they ramp it up and make it a whirlwind, anything can happen, sh*t-hits-the-fan episode? Well, that's what it's been like and there are still 2 episodes left for me to watch. I can only imagine what's going to go down.

But this episode, damn, talk about laying it out there. The final scene when Walt realizes he is up sh*t creek with no place to go and everything closing in on him made for one crazy ass meltdown. You find out there is a hit on Hank and that leads him to finally put the call in to 'the man' that can make him disappear along with his family and that it's gonna cost 500K to make it happen only to find out the money he had stashed away in the crawl space it practically gone only to find out that Skyler gave most of it away to Ted, who by the way had one of the trippiest death scenes ever. So, watching Walt stuck between a rock and a hard place, his meltdown was long overdue.

I'm speechless after this one. It's episodes like this that make series like Breaking Bad extremely rare. If we could only have quality shows like this all the time, it would be sweet.

Daaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaamn! What an incredible season finale!! This was all about Walt and Jesse trying to dig out of the hole they created and it came down to one choice: Eliminate Gus. But how to do that when he has been 20 steps ahead of everyone else and no one could get to him. Who knew that the key to all this would be Hector Salamanca. As soon as Walt approached him in the nursing home, I immediately knew that his wheelchair would be the catalyst for the bomb and that they would use Gus' hatred of Hector to lure him out of his shell and get him into the kill zone. The entire lead up to this pivitol moment was intense. Beyond anything I've experienced. Even knowing what was coming, it didn't dilute it one bit. But the kicker was seeing Gus walk out of the room after the explosion, adjusting his tie like he always does and then tracking the camera to reveal the other side of his face, which was missing. Daaaaaaaaaaaaamn!!!!

But it's the ending that opens up what's to come with Season 5. Jesse's mentions that Brock was not poisoned with Ricin, but from a berry he ate from a flower that is poison. The final shot of the episode had a single tracking shot as the camera moves in for a close up of the same flower in the backyard of Walt. Yup, Walt poisoned Brock so that he could manipulate Jesse's to signing off on the idea of killing Gus. Also, there is the matter of Mike. Even though he wasn't in this episode and was still recovering from his bullets wounds a couple episodes back, I'm pretty confident that he will play a factor in Season 5. Either as a straight up 'Revenge' for Gus or he will help Jesse kill Walt for poisoning Brock. Whatever happens, Season 5 has a lot to live up to in matching this season.