| Episode | Title | Synopsis | | :--- | :--- | :--- | | 1 | Pilot | Walt turns 50, watches a news report on a meth bust, and decides to enter the drug trade. | | 2 | Cat’s in the Bag… | Walt and Jesse struggle to dispose of two bodies in the RV while Walt lies to his family. | | 3 | …And the Bag’s in the River | Walt faces a moral dilemma: kill a captive Krazy-8 or let him go. | | 4 | Cancer Man | Walt breaks the news of his cancer to his family. Jesse’s parents kick him out. | | 5 | Gray Matter | Walt attends a birthday party for his former business partner, who offers to pay for his treatment. | | 6 | Crazy Handful of Nothin’ | Walt shaves his head and makes his first major play, using fulminated mercury to blow up Tuco’s office. | | 7 | A No-Rough-Stuff-Type Deal | Walt demands $1.2 million from Tuco, but the deal goes violently wrong. | The season is punctuated by mysterious cold opens of a pink teddy bear floating in a pool. Walt balances his double life as his wife, Skyler, becomes suspicious.

| Episode | Title | Synopsis | | :--- | :--- | :--- | | 1 | Box Cutter | Gus kills Victor with a box cutter to intimidate Walt and Jesse back to work. | | 2 | Thirty-Eight Snub | Walt buys a revolver. Jesse becomes a top earner for Gus. | | 3 | Open House | A paranoid Walt moves back in. Skyler buys the car wash. | | 4 | Bullet Points | Skyler crafts a story for Hank about the gambling money. | | 5 | Shotgun | Jesse trains with Mike as a bagman. | | 6 | Cornered | Walt buys a $300 bottle of tequila and confronts Gus at a restaurant. | | 7 | Problem Dog | Jesse struggles with killing Gale. Walt tries to poison Gus. | | 8 | Hermanos | Hank investigates Gus’s past in Chile. | | 9 | Bug | Hank plants a GPS tracker on Gus’s car. Walt hides a bomb under it. | | 10 | Salud | Jesse cooks in a cartel superlab in Mexico. Gus poisons the entire cartel leadership. | | 11 | Crawl Space | Skyler gives Ted all of Walt’s money. Walt laughs maniacally in a crawl space. | | 12 | End Times | Walt creates a pipe bomb. Jesse realizes Walt poisoned Brock. | | 13 | Face Off | Walt detonates the bomb at a nursing home, killing Gus. Walt says: “I won.” | Split into two parts (5A: 8 episodes, 5B: 8 episodes). Walt reaches the top, but the empire crumbles around him.

From a desperate high school chemistry teacher to the most notorious drug lord the Southwest has ever seen, Breaking Bad is widely regarded as one of the greatest television dramas ever written. Created by Vince Gilligan, the show ran for five seasons (62 episodes) on AMC from 2008 to 2013. Below is a complete guide to Walter White’s harrowing transformation. Season 1 (2008) – The Transformation Begins The pilot introduces Walter White, a overqualified chemist working at a car wash. After a terminal cancer diagnosis, he teams up with a former student, Jesse Pinkman, to cook crystal meth.

| Episode | Title | Synopsis | | :--- | :--- | :--- | | 1 | No Más | A traumatized Walt quits the business. Jesse enters rehab. | | 2 | Caballo sin Nombre | Walt moves back home. Jesse discovers his parents sold his aunt’s house. | | 3 | I.F.T. | Skyler admits to sleeping with Ted to hurt Walt. Jesse buys the house. | | 4 | Green Light | Walt is suspended from teaching. He tries to sell his methylamine to Gus. | | 5 | Más | Gus offers Walt $3M for 3 months of work. Walt demands Jesse as his partner. | | 6 | Sunset | Hank confronts Jesse at the RV. Walt destroys the evidence. | | 7 | One Minute | Hank kills the cousins (Tuco’s uncles) but is gravely wounded. | | 8 | I See You | Hank fights for his life. Gus visits him in the hospital. | | 9 | Kafkaesque | Walt’s new lab is a sterile superlab under a laundromat. Jesse learns to be an enforcer. | | 10 | Fly | Walt obsesses over a single fly in the lab, leading to a surreal confession to Jesse. | | 11 | Abiquiu | Walt learns Gus wants to replace him with Gale. Jesse meets Andrea. | | 12 | Half Measures | Walt runs over two drug dealers to save Jesse, forcing a showdown with Gus. | | 13 | Full Measure | Walt is trapped. He calls Jesse and gives him Gale’s address: “Do it.” | The central conflict: Walt vs. Gus. With Gale dead, Gus wants Walt dead. Walt must outsmart a man who feels no emotion.

| Episode | Title | Synopsis | | :--- | :--- | :--- | | 1 | Seven Thirty-Seven | Walt calculates exactly how much money his family needs. Tuco beats Jesse. | | 2 | Grilled | Walt and Jesse are kidnapped by Tuco at his remote desert abuela’s house. | | 3 | Bit by a Dead Bee | After escaping Tuco, Walt and Jesse fake injuries to establish alibis. | | 4 | Down | Skyler grows distant. Jesse is kicked out of his own house by his parents. | | 5 | Breakage | Walt becomes the new supplier for a local dealer named Skinny Pete. | | 6 | Peekaboo | Jesse goes to retrieve stolen meth from a junkie couple and finds a neglected child. | | 7 | Negro y Azul | The cartel takes an interest in Walt’s blue product. Hank investigates a rival’s murder. | | 8 | Better Call Saul | Walt and Jesse hire a shady lawyer, Saul Goodman, to protect Badger. | | 9 | 4 Days Out | Walt miscalculates his prognosis and cooks a massive batch in the desert while the RV dies. | | 10 | Over | At a party, Walt drunkenly tells Hank that Gale’s “Heisenberg” is still out there. | | 11 | Mandala | Walt uses children as dealers. Jane (Jesse’s landlord) relapses. | | 12 | Phoenix | Walt watches Jane choke on her own vomit and does nothing to save her. | | 13 | ABQ | Jane’s death triggers a massive plane crash over Walt’s house. The pink teddy bear lands in his pool. | Walt and Jesse deal with the fallout of the plane crash. Walt is forced to work for Gus Fring, a meticulous drug lord hiding in plain sight as a chicken franchise owner.