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As Skylar (Anna Gunn) winds a single strand of floss tighter and tighter around her finger, wincing with the comfort created by pain, creator Vince Gilligan gives us several object lessons in episode four, titled \u201cFifty-One.\u201d With this episode we are officially a quarter of the way through Breaking Bad\u2019s final season; four more episodes to go this summer and eight remaining for the summer of 2013.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>Walt\u2019s (Bryan Cranston) Pontiac Aztek <\/strong><\/em>opens the episode, operating as an analogy for Walt. It\u2019s been continually beaten and bruised, but restored at the expense of someone else; a shiny exterior covers the broken, apparently unbeatable interior. This is a car that\u2019s unwilling to die. The mechanic brags about the car\u2019s indestructibility while Walt knows its hardly worth $50. Lydia\u2019s mismatched shoes<\/strong><\/em> carry the weight of a woman losing control of her own life. A clue that only Hank (Dean Norris) picks up on, trying to weave the object into the unfinished lines of the story. We see Skylar\u2019s unwinding in the scenes with the floss<\/strong><\/em> and her escape into the pool<\/strong><\/em>. As she\u2019s submerged in the water \u2013 signifying freedom, cleansing, baptism, new life, and drowning \u2013 we see her smile for the first time of the season. And in the final scene Jesse (Aaron Paul) gives Walt a watch<\/strong><\/em>; an all-to-telling reminder that time is running out.<\/p>\n

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With the reemergence of Walter Jr.\u2019s (R.J. Mitte) snazzy red sports car, Walt\u2019s 51st birthday \u201ccelebration,\u201d and the anniversary of Walt\u2019s dismal cancer diagnosis, Vince Gilligan brings us through one full year of breaking bad<\/em> in the life of Walter White.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>As Walt\u2019s house gets darker and darker, physically and relationally, he insists that he is just getting started. \u201cNothing stops this train. Nothing.\u201d Not Gus Fring (Giancarlo Esposito), not paranoid women or tracked barrels of Methylamine, not Jesse, Beneke, or Mike (Jonathan Banks). Not the DEA. Not his cowardly wife who tries to pronounce the end of his bullshit rationalizing. Not infidelity or boarding school. Not even cancer.<\/p>\n

What\u2019s the next move? How do you take on a man who has lost his soul?<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>With Skylar, we wait. We watch as the clock ticks, more characters unwind, and Walt ramps up. We hope that Hank ties the story together faster. That Skylar snaps. That Mike kills Lydia so their meth production has to slow down. We hope that the cancer returns.<\/p>\n

And we wonder, whose bad is being broken now?<\/p>\n

Follow along with Breaking Bad\u2019s<\/em> Season Five: episodes\u00a0One<\/a>, Two<\/a>, and Three<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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