Breaking Bad 5x01 Live Free or Die

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4.47/5 (19 votes)

First Aired: Jul. 15, 2012 on AMC

Summary: As Walt deals with the aftermath of the Casa Tranquila explosion, Hank works to wrap up his investigation of Gus' empire.

Main Characters in this Episode

Walter White	played by Bryan Cranston
Hank Schrader	played by Dean Norris
Marie Schrader	played by Betsy Brandt
Walter White	played by RJ Mitte
Jr.	played by RJ Mitte
Ted Beneke	played by Christopher Cousins
Steven Gomez	played by Steven Michael Quezada
Lawson	played by Jim Beaver

Mike Ehrmantraut: Keys, scumbag. It's the universal symbol for keys.

Jesse Pinkman: Yeah, bitch! Magnets!

Goof (factual errors): The magnet is powered by a series of DC batteries, yet is controlled by an AC Variac. This is impossible. Also, the magnet would be nowhere near powerful enough to do what is shown.
Goof (plot holes): Old Joe states before the magnet is put to test in the junkyard, "Remove anything metal." How do the officer's gun, belt, badge, ect. not get pulled by the magnets force when he opens the door to the evidence room?

At the start of the episode, Walt breaks his bacon into pieces and makes it into 52, referring to his age. In the pilot episode, he made his veggie bacon into a 50, where he turned 50.
SPOILER: In the Season 5 premiere's opening scene, Walter White is shown having a gloomy 52nd birthday breakfast at a Denny's in Albuquerque while showing a New Hampshire drivers' license with the last name Lambert, coughing and taking medicine, not wearing a wedding ring, and paying a gun dealer who was seen in Season 4's "Thirty Eight Snub" for a heavy-machine gun. In an August 2012 Rolling Stone article about the 5th and last season of the show, Bryan Cranston revealed that Vince Gilligan told him a few key facts about this scene: Walt was returning to New Mexico from New Hampshire by himself, he had come back and gotten the machine gun to protect someone, and his cancer is "possibly" no longer in remission.