Back at the arcade, Jesse receives Walt's call and is instructed to kill Gale. Mike demands to know Jesse's whereabouts, but Walt explains that since he moves around, Walt must call him to arrange a meeting. At the industrial laundry, Walt sees Mike and knows he's about to be executed. That night, as Walt is leaving his house to go kill Gale, Victor pulls up and tells him to get in, claiming there is a chemical leak in the lab. After Jesse states he doesn't want to be a murderer, Walt says that he will kill Gale instead. They decide that they have to kill Gale, and debate over who should do it. Speaking privately with Jesse, Walt says that he is only safe until Gale feels confident enough to take over the lab. Saul warns both of his clients that Mike will soon realize the Virginia address is a decoy. Once inside, it is revealed that Jesse is hiding out in the laser tag. Later, Saul drives Walt to the laser tag business, unknowingly being followed by Victor. Saul initially invokes attorney-client privilege, but when Mike threatens him, Saul lets Mike sneak a peek at a notebook containing the name of a trailer park in Virginia.
Mike heads to Saul's office in order to find Jesse's whereabouts.
He tells Gale that he plans on keeping Walt as long as he wants, but asks Gale to learn how to master Walt's cooking process in the event that he dies. Later, Gus surprises Gale at his apartment and tells him about Walt's diagnosis. Alluding to previously upsetting Walt, Gale promises to follow his instructions exactly and to be the perfect lab assistant. In the superlab, Walt and Gale cook while Victor observes them from the catwalk. At Gus's office, Mike and Gus examine the gunmen's passports and agree that the cartel is looking for weaknesses to exploit in Gus's operation. He then shoots Chow through the hand and orders him to have his assistant drive him to the hospital - the wound is Chow's penalty for not informing Gus about the situation. Mike appears and effortlessly kills all four of the hitmen. When Walt reports to the superlab the next morning, he is surprised to see that the locks have been changed and that Gale has been reinstated as his assistant.įour cartel hitmen go to a warehouse owned by Gus's chemical supplier, Duane Chow, and take him and his secretary hostage. Gus accedes, but insists on choosing Walt's new lab assistant. Walt suggests that Gus has two options: kill Walt and spend months searching for Jesse, or overlook the incident and continue their partnership. Walt explains that Jesse wanted revenge against Gus's dealers for killing Tomás, and perhaps thought Gus had given the order.
Soon he is confronted by Gus, who demands to know why he put them all at risk for Jesse, a "worthless junkie". Meeting him halfway, Walt is frisked by Mike. Mike phones Walt and instructs him to walk toward the SUV. In the present, Walt sits in his car in the desert until an SUV arrives. Walt, then working at the prestigious Sandia Laboratory and envisioning a bright future with three children, worries they aren't setting their sights high enough with this house.
Sixteen years previously, a realtor shows a younger Walt and Skyler (pregnant with Junior) the house where they will eventually live.