After the plane crash it has emerged that Jane's father was the air traffic controller in charge of that flight and Walter is clearly aware of his part in the tragedy as is Jesse; although Walt tries to think of every excuse possible to absolve them of the responsibility. The crash hasn't changed Skyler's determination to leave Walt, in fact in this episode she presents him with the divorce papers, saying she can't continue living with a drug dealer... she believes Walt must have made the money selling marijuana with Jesse. At this point the truth comes out and she can't get away from him fast enough. This prompts Walt to make the decision to get out of drug manufacturing once and for all although Gus makes him the sort of offer that might be impossible to refuse... three million dollars for three months work. Intercut with scenes of familiar characters there are a series of mysterious scenes involving two tough looking Mexicans who get out of their Mercedes, crawl to a sinister shrine and pin a picture of 'Heisenberg' to the wall; later they exchange their clothes with farm labourers clothes, hang the car keys on the horn of a goat and head to Texas; we can guess what they are planning to do and they are clearly very dangerous as they kill everybody on the lorry that brought them over the border.
This episode gets the third series off to a fine start; I particularly enjoyed the scenes with the mysterious Mexicans; there was something ominous about the way it was shot; everything looked strangely orange. The scenes back in Albuquerque followed on well from the end of the last season; it was good to see Jesse cleaning up his act after his time at rehab; this should lead to some good character development. Walt is also likely to undergo some character changes too now that he has come clean to Skyler although I can't see his decision to stop making methamphetamine lasting very long... the series wouldn't last very long if he did! The story continues to mix humour with the dark side of the drug trade; in this episode we see Walt telling Hank that his bag contains half a million dollars... Hank obviously takes this truth as a joke; and in another scene we see the two Mexicans slaughter a lorry load of people before setting it on fire and casually walking off.
This episode gets the third series off to a fine start; I particularly enjoyed the scenes with the mysterious Mexicans; there was something ominous about the way it was shot; everything looked strangely orange. The scenes back in Albuquerque followed on well from the end of the last season; it was good to see Jesse cleaning up his act after his time at rehab; this should lead to some good character development. Walt is also likely to undergo some character changes too now that he has come clean to Skyler although I can't see his decision to stop making methamphetamine lasting very long... the series wouldn't last very long if he did! The story continues to mix humour with the dark side of the drug trade; in this episode we see Walt telling Hank that his bag contains half a million dollars... Hank obviously takes this truth as a joke; and in another scene we see the two Mexicans slaughter a lorry load of people before setting it on fire and casually walking off.