Breaking Bad Episode 1

    Walter White is your average family man, chemistry teacher, car wash cashier, blue collar American doing whatever he can to scrape by and support his family. But all of that seems to change after finding out he has Cancer.
   
   We first meet Walter/Mr. White as he's commonly referred to barreling through the desert in beat up Winnebago Motor Home. After he manages to crash the vehicle and get out , stand in the middle of the dirt road with a pistol drawn and pointed in the direction of where he believes Cop cars to coming from. The story then switches back a few weeks where he is teaching as a chemistry teacher and afterwards works at a local car wash as a cashier who often gets take advantage of by his manager by constantly being put out on car cleaning duty. After work that night he comes home to find his wife (Skyler  White) and son (Walter Jr.) have thrown him a surprise birthday for his 50th birthday. At the party, he learns from his DEA brother in-law about the money one can get making meth. After another seemingly boring day at work he gets put on car cleaning duty again to pass out on the job and find himself getting tests at the hospital. When He finds out he is dying of cancer he decides to go on a ride along with his brother in-law to see more about meth makers and how they're busted. When the bust goes down, he winds up seeing one of his old high school students (Jesse Pinkman) slipping out of a neighbors second story window just to drive away from the scene of the crime. We find out that Jesse is involved in helping to make meth and is recruited by Mr.White to help him.
    The two then buy a Winnebago motor home and begin cooking meth in the middle of the New Mexico desert. After making a nice batch Jesse goes to sell it to a friend, who is the cousin of the individual Jesse was helping make meth with before he got arrested after Jesse ratted him out to the DEA. The cousin and his friend end up taking Jesse and go to the motor home where they try to deal with Walter and incorporate him into their business but by a sudden change in plans to try to kill both Walter and Jesse. Fortunately Walter is able to turn the situation around and seemingly kill the drug dealers and make it out with his and Jesse's life. Later we find out that while one of the drug creating cousins is dead the other is still alive. Walter decides that while he can't be allowed to live they will take care of him for the time being until he can actually kill him. They lock him up in Jesse's basement. Eventually the episode ends with the drug dealer sitting in the basement and the Winnebago in Jesse's driveway while Walter goes home to make love to his wife.

    We often see Walter have a value for life and others. He loves his family and wants to leave them money so they won't have to struggle. He is doing all of this for his family because he knows that he will not be around too much longer to be a support for them. As for his value of life, while he was able to make the chemical mixture to kill the two drug dealing cousins he is unable to kill the one of them that somehow made it and didn't die. When he does decide to kill him he looks around the kitchen for a knife to stab him with, then a hammer to bludgeon him, the guns to shoot him and then finally settling on the bag to use so as to suffocate him. Even then once he goes down stairs to actually do it once the man wakes up he suddenly loses nerve and can't. Even then, when the drug dealer, who tried to kill them and is locked up in the basement, ask for water Walter gives him two jugs, a sandwich and means to use the restroom.

   One of the most important phrases that really leads you to understanding that Walter is really thinking about things is when Jesse asks him why he's wanting to make Meth and he replies that he's awake. It seems to point out that Walter is no longer blind to the simpleness of his life and that his situation has put him in dire need to do something for his family. Are we awake to what's going on in our lives? I think we constantly have to be reminded of the need for us to be active intentional Christians who should understand that we don't have all the time in the world and that we have to start investing in peoples lives now! We have to be unconventional about it. I.E. I have associates at work who need Jesus, at this point I'm not just okay sitting there and just praying for them but that I'm trying to actively be someone who impacts their lives, someone who is fasting and praying for them, who is trying to make opportunities to hang out and leave an impact. The time has come for us to get unconventional.