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Skyler continues getting into Walter's business. She already has him by the short hairs when it comes to Hank. She never considers for a moment that she would be in bankruptcy without the money going to Walter's cancer treatment. At the least they would be wards of the state. She continues to prosper on his dime. Now she wants to front him in a carwash business to engender money laundering. Meanwhile, Hank is getting no better and wants to be left out of anything but a significant cure. I just don't know. There is some stretching of reality here that blurs things.

First Jane, now Andrea, tempting them into using his meth. Both ladies cleaned up before they meet him. No mercy for Jesse.

I think this is generally a strong episode, but there are a few aspects that standout for me.

I love Saul's banter with the Whites which is very funny and incredibly well delivered by Odenkirk as always. Having a certain third character in one scene adds another layer of humour as the premise of them meeting him for the first time funny enough. It works right from the opening shot of the waiting room to the end. Plus the follow up scene and resulting "Danny" and "Kevin Costner" related dialogue is great.

On the theme of humour, I also think the concept of what happens with Badger and Skinny Pete is also funny and quite ironic. Their "steps" related banter with Jesse is hilarious.

It has plenty of drama, with the scenes involving Jesse and a newly introduced character being the strongest material for me. The writers cleverly link back to previous episodes and finish it on a pretty tense moment.

All actors excellent as always, with Odenkirk, Bryan Cranston, Anna Gunn, Dean Norris and Aaron Paul standing out for me.

I think it's an 8.5/10, but round upwards.

When the episode begins we see Jesse Pinkman and his former girlfriend's museum visit when they discussed about a painting of a door, then we cut to the present. Hank Schrader is starting rehabilitation while Walter White checks on the meth doses produced by Jesse, and Jesse and his friends try to sell meth among the members of the support group without success: during this time Jesse starts going out with a woman of the support group named Andrea but when he discovers that she has a child and is already married he leaves her. Gus Fring will give Walter some advice on how to spend the gained money and Hank has a possibility of leaving the hospital but doesn't want to leave it unless he does it on his own legs.

This was an ordinary episode in the sense that continues the events of the previous episodes, and the writing and acting are good. Not surprises but still good.

This episode was a nice chamge of pace as we qre starting to move forward from everything involving the cousins and Hank!

This episode have two major things going on that sets up how everything will develop from here!

Skyler finally commits to Walt being a criminsl and descides to play an active role in msking sure he doesn't get caught! This means laundring the money!

The scene with Saul, Walt and Skyler is something I always enjoy, and great how it goes back to Bogdan amd the car wash, showing how everything matters!

The stuff with Jessie qlso sets up the finale act perfectly as he learns the truth about Combo!