- Walter White: ...that leaves us with a total of two choices. We go into business with yet another homicidal lunatic... or you and I start - You selling whatever you can.
- Jesse Pinkman: There's a third way.
- Walter White: And what would that be?
- Jesse Pinkman: We got to be Tuco.
- Walter White: [showing up at Jesse's house] You asked me what I want you to do.
- [placing Jesse's revolver on the counter]
- Walter White: I want you to handle it.
- Jesse Pinkman: This is how it goes. I front each of you an ounce. All right? You sell it for 2,500. I keep the two, you keep the five. No cutting it. You sell it as is, all right?
- Combo: 2,500 an ounce? That's kind of hopeful, bro.
- Skinny Pete: Yeah, Jesse, street's maybe 17, 18.
- Badger: Seventeen.
- Jesse Pinkman: Okay. A, this is the best shiz ever. All right? Everybody and their mother's gonna want a taste. And second, who else is selling right now, huh?
- Skinny Pete: It's dry out there, that's for sure.
- Combo: Church.
- Jesse Pinkman: So you point it how you want, okay? Quarter, half, teener, whatever. But I make what I make. Two large. No exceptions. Short me, you're out. Cut it, you're out. Period. This is a big opportunity I am giving you. Understand? Badger, what is this?
- Badger: Um... a big opportunity.
- Jesse Pinkman: Exactly. All right? This is the ground floor. Gentlemen, how far you go is up to you.
- Hank Schrader: Hey, you wanna grab lunch?
- Steven Gomez: Oh, hell, yeah. 'Cause you're buying.
- Hank Schrader: Done. I'll meet you morons downstairs. Try not to get lost on the way.
- Dr. Delcavoli: Well, we've come a long way, Walt. Here at the end of round one, I'm gonna recommend cautious optimism. We'll check back in two months, see how you've responded, reassess and decide our next move, if any. That's, uh, right around the time the baby's due, correct?
- Walter White: Uh... yeah.
- Dr. Delcavoli: Well, try to think of this as good timing. Uh, you'll start feeling better soon, more like yourself. And your hair should start to come back.
- Walter White: Oh... kind of gotten used to the old cue-ball look.
- ASAC George Merkert: Bring me up to speed on Tuco Salamanca.
- Hank Schrader: Dead.
- ASAC George Merkert: Still?
- Hank Schrader: Completely.
- ASAC George Merkert: Okay, then. Well, thanks for stopping by.
- Skyler White: [on the phone] Okay, well, then what about the MRI? Can you... can you please explain to me the distinction between diagnostic and exploratory? Yeah, but either way, his doctor ordered it. Okay, you know, uh, it-it should be covered. You bet I will. Yeah, in triplicate. Okay. Well, I'm sorry you couldn't be of more help, too. Yeah. Okay.
- [hanging up]
- Skyler White: Bitch.
- Hank Schrader: So, things are quiet, you know. Not a lot of crystal on the streets now.
- ASAC George Merkert: Good.
- Hank Schrader: Of course, that's not gonna last. Waiting to see who rallies the roaches now that turf's up for grabs.
- ASAC George Merkert: No takers so far?
- Hank Schrader: Well, we keep hearing a name. Heisenberg. Lately, pretty much every dime-bagger we come across.
- ASAC George Merkert: Heisenberg?
- Hank Schrader: Yeah, I know. Maybe it's a tweaker urban legend. Still, somebody somewhere is cooking that big blue we keep finding.
- Hank Schrader: [after receiving a promotion at work] What you gonna do without me, Gomey?
- Steven Gomez: Celebrate. I won't have to look at your ugly mug six days a week.
- Walter White: Wasn't sure it was you. New car?
- Jesse Pinkman: Yeah, keeping things on the DL.
- Walter White: I'm guessing this one doesn't bounce.
- Jesse Pinkman: Your half. 15K. That's what I'm talking about.
- [Walt looks inside, a little confused]
- Jesse Pinkman: Uh, you're welcome. Jesus.
- Walter White: Help me understand the math, okay? I gave you one pound, correct? You and I split $2,000 per ounce. $1,000 each. One pound, that's sixteen ounces. Sixteen ounces should net to me $16,000. Sixteen. Not fifteen.
- Jesse Pinkman: Something came up.
- Walter White: Something came up?
- Jesse Pinkman: One of my guys got held up by a couple junkies. Lost an ounce. But it's cool, okay? Skinny Pete's cool.
- Walter White: [sardonic laugh] Oh. So you're saying that your guy got robbed, or rather you got robbed, but it doesn't matter.
- Jesse Pinkman: Dude, it's called breakage, okay? Like K-Mart. Shit breaks.
- Walter White: And you're thinking this is acceptable?
- Jesse Pinkman: It's the cost of business, yo.
- Jesse Pinkman: Look, I know some guys. All right? I can create a network. Look, we control production and distribution. That way, we stay off the front lines while moving some serious glass. I mean, the point here is to make money, right? Sky-high stacks.
- Walter White: No.
- Jesse Pinkman: No? That's not the point?
- Walter White: No, I am not willing to do that.
- Jesse Pinkman: Who said anything about you?
- Walter White: I don't vote for this plan. I'm not comfortable bringing in unknown entities into our operation.
- Jesse Pinkman: Yeah? Well, you don't get to vote.
- Walter White: I beg your pardon? This is a partnership, remember?
- Jesse Pinkman: I rem... oh, I remember. Yeah, you cook, I sell. That was the division of labor when we started all this. And that's exactly how we should have kept it. 'Cause I sure as hell didn't find myself locked in a trunk or on my knees with a gun to my head before your greedy old ass came along. All right?
- Walter White: All right, I will admit to a bit of a learning curve.
- Jesse Pinkman: [sardonic laugh] Oh.
- Walter White: And perhaps I was overly ambitious. In any case, it's not gonna happen that way anymore.
- Jesse Pinkman: Yeah, damn straight. Know why? 'Cause we do things my way this time, or I walk. You need me more than I need you, Walt.
- Jesse Pinkman: Hey.
- Clovis: You got some nerve coming back here. Or you're even dumber than I thought.
- Jesse Pinkman: Yeah, well, maybe both.
- [gives Clovis a wad of cash]
- Jesse Pinkman: Balance for the uh, Tow. The repairs. And extra for damages and stuff, the gate. The.. Toilet. Look, like I said.. My word, is my bond.
- Jesse Pinkman: You're sweating me over a grand?
- Walter White: Hey, look, I'm just the chemist here. I'm not the street guy, yo. But it seems to me that what you call breakage is just you making a fool of yourself. I've got another technical term for you. Non-sustainable business model.
- Jesse Pinkman: You're focusing on the negative. Six grand a day we're making. What's your problem?
- Walter White: What happens when word gets out and it's open season on these clowns you've hired, huh? Once everyone knows that Jesse Pinkman, drug lord, can be robbed with impunity.
- Jesse Pinkman: Man, come on.
- Walter White: You think Tuco had breakage? I guess it's true, he did. He broke bones. He broke the skull of anybody who tried to rip him off.
- Jesse Pinkman: You want another grand? Is that it?
- Walter White: That's not my point.
- Jesse Pinkman: [tossing a stack of bills to him] Take it. Here.
- [Walter throws it back]
- Jesse Pinkman: Look, you got 15,000 you didn't have yesterday. Hey, we're making bank. Shit happens. My guys get what they're up against, and they're careful. So am I. And you're all tucked in at night with your precious family. So why don't you just stop being such a freak about everything?
- Walter White: You've made the division of labor very clear.
- Jesse Pinkman: Yo, I mean, seriously... what the hell do you want me to do, huh?
- ASAC George Merkert: Know why sharks are at the top of the food chain, Hank?
- Hank Schrader: 'Cause they have three sets of teeth and will take a bite out of anything?
- ASAC George Merkert: Some of those suckers travel thousands of miles in pursuit of their prey.
- Hank Schrader: Yeah, I, uh, I think I heard that.
- ASAC George Merkert: You, my friend, are a great white. How does Albuquerque liaison, Tri-State Border Interdiction Task Force sound?
- Hank Schrader: Like one hell of a promotion.
- Walter White: Criminals, like the one you... .I mean, what do you think it is that makes them who they are?
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