Bit by a Dead Bee

Episode Summary & Review

Summary

Walt and Jesse attempt to cover their tracks and distance themselves from Tuco, but they soon find that business is taking a hit along with their financial situation. Meanwhile, Hank and his DEA investigation into the meth ring get a major break that just might put Walt and Jesse in their crosshairs.

Our Take

Walt manufactures a cover story — a fugue state, wandering naked in a supermarket — and the show explores its central figure’s double life through hospital beds and household suspicion. Skyler’s distance hardens into cold detective work. And in the episode’s back half, Badger’s arrest introduces a shingle on a strip mall: Saul Goodman, attorney at law, who fixes Badger’s problem with a body double and delivers the series’ greatest new character in three scenes.