S4E11
Crawl Space
⚠ Spoiler alert This recap gives away what happens in this episode.
Episode Summary & Review
Summary
Walt moves to protect his secret and Gus; Skyler is stymied in her attempt to help Ted with his financial problem.
Our Take
The crawl space. Skyler, cornered by Ted’s IRS problem, sends the laundered money to Ted, most of it, and when Walt, fleeing Gus’s death threat, crawls under the house to get the escape fund, he finds the hole where $600,000 used to be. The laugh that follows, full body, unhinged, rising from the dirt, is the most terrifying sound in the series: sanity leaving the building. The episode’s crosscutting (Ted’s accident by Huell and Kuby, Skyler’s frozen face, Walt under the house) is a masterclass.