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?
Friday, October 12, 2012
Sunday, September 30, 2012
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.
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.
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