Episode 2 starts off exactly where episode 1 left off, with Walter White and his wife having marital relations. Afterwards White goes into the bathroom and passes out on the floor until morning. At breakfast he has an awkward conversation with his family when Jesse calls posing as a salesman to get White to address the issue of the body and the other injured individual. Later we see the injured guy crawl out of the motor home and limp down the street trying to get away. Walter runs into him on the street and while trying to get his attention scares the guy into running into a tree. With the man knocked out Walter takes him back to the house and locks him to a post in the basement. Walter and Jesse then go back upstairs to discuss what they should do about locked up guy and the dead guy. It becomes their plan that they will kill the man in the basement and put the body of the dead individual in a specific kind of acid and dissolve it. Being that the two are very uncomfortable with the project and neither one of them wants to take part in it the flip a coin seeing who will get what job. The Coin toss leaves Walter to finish off the man downstairs and Jesse to dispose of the body.
Later Jesse goes out to buy a particular type of plastic container that will not dissolve due to the acid while Walter is back at Jesse's house trying to figure out how to kill the guy downstairs. Here we see Walter struggle as he looks at several different means and deems them all too cruel ultimately settling on asphyxiation. When he goes down to the basement to kill him, having found the guy awake and begging for water he gives him two jugs, a sandwich, a bucket for a toilet, toilet paper and purell hand sanitizer. Finally Jesse gets home having found no container big enough and not wanting to desecrate the body too much he is frustrated. Walter leaves deciding that he will take care of the task the next day. Walter is also confronted by his pregnant wife about his weird behavior and tells her what he has "been up to" giving her the excuse that he has been buying Marijuana from Jesse. The next day while Walter is at school teaching Jesse works up the courage to dispose of the boy when he is interrupted by Skyler telling Jesse not to sell anymore Marijuana to Walter. Fortunately Skyler does not see the body and Jesse is able to continue. He finally gets the body in the upstairs tub and loads it with the acid when Walter arrives back at the house. After berating Walter for not killing the guy downstairs he mentions that at least he he did his part and started disposing of the body and didn't need a plastic bin when he had a perfectly good tub. Walter shocked by this walks into the hall followed by Jesse just to see the ceiling give way and the acid, tub material, and chunks of undissolved body spill onto the floor. He explains that the acid will eat through steel, rock, glass and fiberglass but not plastic. The seen switches over to two children playing in the desert near where the motor home had previously crashed when the girl picks up the lost gas mask and begins playing with it.
In this episode we see a value on human life, as well as kindness. We see this mainly in Walter's hesitation to kill the man downstairs. He is constantly hesitating and trying to make excuses for not wanting to kill him. We can plainly see that he is not the killer type. We also see kindness in that when the man asks for water Walter gives him two water jugs, a sandwich, bucket to use for a toilet, toilet paper and hand sanitizer. We see that in that particular case he goes above and beyond what was requested of him and shows the man kindness, even in noticing the guy doesn't like the crust on his sandwich.
In scripture we see that there is a value for human life. Genesis two talks about the creation of man and how God breathed life into him. Man is made in God's image. We see a lot of hesitation from Walter in having to deal with the man which I like to contribute to the strong conscious understanding of murder as wrong. We also see kindness in how Walter treats the man in the basement which is reminiscent of Luke 6:27-31 which basically talks about being kind to your enemies and those that would harm you. I think reflecting on this, I can't imagine that any of us would really have a problem with murdering someone, but we can learn something by that. We need to understand that "every" life is precious to God and knowing that we should treat every life as precious to Him. How are you treating the lives around you as precious?
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