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’Bullet Points’Breaking Bad episodeEpisode no.Season 4Episode 4Directed byColin BuckseyWritten byMoira Walley-BeckettProduced byBryan Cranston, Diane Mercer, Moira Walley-BeckettFeatured musicDave PorterCinematography byMichael SlovisEditing byKelley DixonOriginal air dateAugust 7, 2011Running time45 minutesGuest appearance(s)
*David Costabile as Gale Boetticher
*Jeremy Howard as Sketchy
*Ray Campbell as Tyrus KittEpisode chronology← Previous’Open House’Next →’Shotgun’Breaking Bad (season 4)List of Breaking Bad episodes
’Bullet Points’ is the fourth episode of the fourth season of the American television drama series Breaking Bad, and the 37th overall episode of the series. It originally aired on AMC in the United States on August 7, 2011.Plot[edit]
The episode opens with Mike riding in the back of a Los Pollos Hermanos refrigerator truck on a meth delivery run. The truck suddenly screeches to a halt as it is forced off the road by a pair of hijackers. Mike quickly pulls out his gun and listens as the gunmen pull the driver from the cab and shoot him in the head. He then takes cover as the gunmen raise Heckler & Koch MP5K submachine guns and shoot up the trailer. After firing two volleys, the gunmen break into the truck, only to be promptly shot dead by Mike. Only after he steps out of the truck does Mike find that one bullet has grazed his right ear.
The Breaking Bad movie El Camino isn’t Walt’s story. It picks up where the show left off with Jesse. And while a Cranston cameo via flashback would be a welcome sight for fans, it’s time to accept.
Walter and Skyler prepare an elaborate story about Walter having a gambling addiction and a successful card counting method. They hope it will explain how they can pay for Hank’s medical bills and purchase a car wash (that will actually be used to launder Walter’s meth profits). Walter remains too distracted to put much effort into the charade and is worried how Walter Jr. will perceive him. During a family dinner at Hank and Marie’s, Skyler and Walter tell everyone the gambling addiction story, but Hank and Walter Jr. turn out to be impressed by it.
Later, Walter is shocked to learn that Hank is investigating Gale’s murder. Hank says that he believes that Gale was the elusive Heisenberg and expresses regret that he was not able to arrest him. When asked by Hank to read about a chemical process written in Gale’s lab notes, Walt notices a line from a Walt Whitman poem and a dedication: ’W.W. My Star, My Perfect Silence.’ When Hank chuckles at the initials matching Walt’s, Walt jokingly admits ’you got me,’ before telling Hank that ’W.W.’ refers to the poet. When Walt asks Hank about the investigation, he learns that the only leads are some fingerprints and an eyewitness spotted at the scene. Hearing about this evidence, Walt is spooked and worries that the police will connect Jesse to the murder.
Walter goes to Jesse’s house and is disgusted by its condition, as it is now being used as a drug den by addicts and vagrants. Jesse is adamant nothing can connect him to Gale’s murder, but when he is asked if he picked up the shell casing from the gun (which could have his fingerprints on it), it is revealed he did not. When he is further questioned about the murder, Jesse starts to panic due to the memory of it and pays two druggies to kick Walter out of the house. Walter later laments to Saul about how the meth business is falling apart because no one is acting professionally, and rejects an offer to go into hiding.
Jesse’s detached complacence eventually leads to all of his meth money being stolen from his house, but Mike quickly recovers it and warns Jesse that he’s on thin ice. Jesse is apathetic about the loss and recovery, leading Mike to tell Gus that Jesse’s lack of professionalism is a problem for the organization, and they must intervene. Jesse does not show up to the lab the next day and Walter realizes that he has been kidnapped. The episode ends with Mike driving Jesse to an unknown destination. When he asks Jesse if he would like to know where they are going, the only reply is a simple ’nope.’
*Walt telling Skyler who he issrc Walter Hartwell ’Walt’ White Sr., also known by his clandestine pseudonym ’Heisenberg’, was an American drug kingpin. A former chemist and high school chemistry teacher in Albuquerque, New Mexico, he started manufacturing crystal methamphetamine after being diagnosed with terminal lung cancer, in order to pay for his treatments and secure his family’s.
*With Walt making plenty of money and Hank’s hospital bills stacking up, Skyler agrees to pay for his recovery, with the cover story that Walt’s meth money is actually earnings from a gambling.
*A subreddit for fans and critics of the hit television series Breaking Bad on AMC. Here you will find discussions and speculations about the show, pictures from the show, AMA’s with the cast, and anything else Breaking Bad related.Production[edit]
’Bullet Points’ was written by Moira Walley-Beckett and directed by Colin Bucksey, the third Breaking Bad episode he directed after ’Phoenix’ in season two and ’I See You’ in season three.[1] During the cold open scene, one of Gus’ drug-smuggling trucks is attacked by members of a Mexican drug cartel. This is a reference to what series creator Vince Gilligan refers to as a brewing ’cold war’ between Gus and the cartel due to Gus’ actions against them during the third season. The scene in ’Bullet Points’ is the first reference to this storyline since the third-season finale ’Full Measure’, when Mike killed several cartel henchmen who had taken over one of Gus’ chemical supply warehouses.[2] To create the bullet holes that strike the truck Mike is hiding inside, the special effects department drilled, wired and hand-planted 380 squib explosives onto the truck, including 150 on each side of the vehicle and 80 for the back door. Two sets of the back door were used, one for the view of shots being fired at the exterior of the door and one for the view of the interior.[3]
For the scene with Mike waiting inside the refrigeration truck, series creator Vince Gilligan wanted audiences to be able to see his breath so they would know how cold it was. To create that effect, the special effects crew designed a tiny plastic box with holes in it and placed dry ice inside, which Banks kept inside his mouth to create condensation when he exhaled.[4] The idea was based on a similar device film director Frank Capra previously used with his actors in one of his films, which Gilligan read about in Capra’s autobiography.[5] The device worked, but had to be adjusted because it initially created an effect that looked more like cigarette smoke.[4] Also for that scene, a bloody chunk of skin can be seen dangling from Mike’s ear after he is shot. For that effect, special effects creators Greg Nicotero and Howard Berger, who are part of the company KNB Efx Group, made a mold of actor Jonathan Banks’ ear and made an application for him to wear during filming. It was applied onto Banks by Breaking Bad make-up artists Corey Welk and Frieda Valenzuela.[6]
David Costabile briefly reprised his role as Gale Boetticher.[7] When Hank first reveals to Walter that he is investigating Gale’s murder, he shows him a DVD of Gale singing karaoke with Thai subtitles. The idea was that Gale participated in a karaoke booth in Thailand and kept the DVD as a souvenir; Breaking Bad music supervisor Thomas Golubic specifically found someone who could translate the song lyrics into Thai for the video. A similar joke was featured in the HBO comedy series Flight of the Conchords, which also features Costabile in a supporting role. Gilligan said he was not aware of that joke at the time, but watched it after conceiving of the Gale joke and researching karaoke. He said of it: ’It was freaking hilarious. It’s brilliant. And then I was thinking, ’Oh shit, should we even do this now, because how can it be as good as those guys?’ Gale sings the Peter Schilling song ’Major Tom (Coming Home)’, which Gilligan chose because he felt it was appropriate for the character: ’It felt right. It’s a bit cheesy, it’s earnest, but it also kind of sticks in your head and it’s fun.’[8]
In the background of the karaoke performance, stock footage from the science-fiction television series Quark was visible in the background. Gilligan was a fan of the show during childhood and recognized it while reviewing available stock footage.[9] The full karaoke video was made available on the official Breaking Bad website after the episode was first broadcast.[10] The scene when Walter looks through Gale’s notebook at Hank’s behest features a montage of quick cuts between the notebook pages and Walter’s face as he read. The montage was conceived by Gilligan, who wanted to express Walter’s stress over reading the notebook to the viewers without overtly showing those emotions on Walter’s face and arousing Hank’s suspicion.[11] It was difficult to shoot because the actors had to display these emotions without overtly expressing them, and the scene had to be reshot a second time as a result.[12]
Jeremy Howard made a guest appearance in ’Bullet Points’ as Sketchy, a drug addict who speaks non-stop during scenes at Jesse’s parties. Howard was acquainted with Bryan Cranston, who had cast him in an episode of the comedy series Malcolm in the Middle that Cranston directed.[13] Howard was originally only slated to play Sketchy in the Breaking Bad episode ’Open House’, but Gilligan liked him so much he brought the character back for ’Bullet Points’.[14] During one scene, Sketchy walks off-screen and accidentally knocks over several beer bottles, making a loud noise. The moment was accidental and unscripted, but the crew found it so funny they included it in the final cut of the episode.[15] During a different scene at Jesse’s party, Jesse shaves the heads of several of his long-haired guests. MacLaren said it was difficult to find extras willing to have their heads shaved because those with long enough hair were so conscious of their hair that they did not want it cut. Several extras who signed up for the part dropped out before they finally found those willing to do it.[16] Jesse also has his head shaved, which was actor Aaron Paul’s idea because he felt it was appropriate for the inner turmoil his character was experiencing.[17]Reception[edit]
The episode received positive reviews. Seth Amitin of IGN awarded the episode an 8 out of 10 calling it ’a solid building block for future story lines’.[18] Alan Sepinwall of HitFix gave the episode a positive review calling it ’very oddly-structured, but never uninteresting’.[19] Matt Richenthal of TV Fanatic awarded the episode 4.9 out of 5 calling it ’phenomenal’.[20] Donna Bowman reviewing for The A.V. Club gave the episode an ’A-’.[21]
In 2019 The Ringer ranked ’Bullet Points’ 59th out of the 62 total Breaking Bad episodes.[22]References[edit]
*^Gilligan, Vince (August 9, 2011). Breaking Bad Insider 404 (Audio commentary). Breaking Bad Insider Podcast. Event occurs at 32:18–32:23.
*^Gilligan, 5:33–7:28
*^MacLaren, Michelle (August 9, 2011). Breaking Bad Insider 404 (Audio commentary). Breaking Bad Insider Podcast. Event occurs at 7:56–9:11.
*^ abMacLaren, 11:00–11:30
*^Gilligan, 9:25–11:00
*^MacLaren, 11:35–12:49
*^Gilligan, 24:47–25:18
*^Gilligan, 22:57–24:15
*^Gilligan, 25:28–26:20
*^MacLaren, 25:18–25:28
*^Dixon, Kelley (August 9, 2011). Breaking Bad Insider 404 (Audio commentary). Breaking Bad Insider Podcast. Event occurs at 27:45–28:06.
*^Cranston, Bryan (August 9, 2011). Breaking Bad Insider 404 (Audio commentary). Breaking Bad Insider Podcast. Event occurs at 28:08–28:20.
*^Cranston, 30:30–30:50
*^Gilligan, 31:10–31:50
*^MacLaren, 30:55–31:08
*^MacLaren, 29:08–29:33
*^MacLaren, 29:35–30:00
*^Amitin, Seth (August 8, 2011). ’Breaking Bad: ’Bullet Points’ Review’. IGN. Retrieved April 9, 2013.
*^Sepinwall, Alan (August 7, 2011). ’Review: ’Breaking Bad’ - ’Bullet Points’: House of cards’. HitFix. Retrieved April 9, 2013.
*^Richenthal, Matt (August 8, 2011). ’Breaking Bad Review: Why Am I Ashamed?’. TV Fanatic. Retrieved April 9, 2013.
*^Bowman, Donna (August 7, 2011). ’Bullet Points’. The A.V. Club. Retrieved April 9, 2013.
*^Shaker Samman (September 30, 2019). ’The Ringer’s Definitive ’Breaking Bad’ Episodes Ranking’. The Ringer.External links[edit]
*’Bullet Points’ at the official Breaking Bad site
*’Bullet Points’ on IMDb
*’Bullet Points’ at TV.comRetrieved from ’https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Bullet_Points_(Breaking_Bad)&oldid=978671350’YouTube / AMC
Money Shot analyzes the best scenes from TV and film. Today, we’re talking about Breaking Bad’s most underrated moment.
The best part about Breaking Bad was when, as an audience member, you had no earthly idea how the characters could get out of a particular situation. The show excelled at not only always being one step ahead of its viewers, but also pulling off a plausible conclusion to the downright absurd holes the characters — mostly Walt — dug for themselves. This kind of open-ended action that simultaneously gave the audience enough narrative closure but enough of a reason to want to immediately tune in to the next episode to see what happens was never pulled off with more ecstatic insanity than in “Crawl Space.”
Specifically, the final shot of the eleventh episode of the show’s fourth season represented the show in one insane nutshell. In a single, slow, cacophonous pull-back of the camera, everybody in Breaking Bad was doomed. And it was glorious.
Two specific story-beats inform the impact of the final shot of “Crawl Space.” Walt (Bryan Cranston) ferries Hank (Dean Norris) around trying to innocently lead his brother-in-law in the wrong direction because the former DEA agent wants to uncover Gus Fring’s drug operation, which Walt fuels with his potent blue meth. Hank is actually doing his by-the-books sleuthing perfectly, and has accurately pieced together the puzzle that connects the disparate points of Fring’s operation. After Walt tries to throw Hank off with a stakeout of Fring’s chicken farm, Hank unexpectedly asks Walt to drive him to the industrial laundry that secretly hides Fring’s superlab. “We’ve got one hell of a place to hide a meth lab,” Hank says, before a panicked Walt drives past the entrance and deliberately causes a car accident to neutralize the situation.Breaking Bad Walt Gambling Stories
This is the first time Walt puts his immediate family in danger to save himself, a selfish flaw that would haunt the character up until the end of the series. Walt’s decisions, mistakes and all, here begin to pull his secrets apart at the seams.
Hank, recovering in his bed, informs Walt that he’s getting a “gimp mobile,” a car with hand controls so he won’t have to drive him around anymore. Walt suddenly finds himself becoming expendable to Hank, but also to Jesse (Aaron Paul). He’s been able to replicate Walt’s meth formula on his own, and also informs Walt that Fring (Giancarlo Esposito) knows he’s been bringing Hank to snoop around. Fring’s cronies then kidnap Walt and bring him to the middle of the desert for the second key story beat.
Walt, thinking he’s about to be executed, faces something far worse. In another of the episode’s iconic shots, Fring stands over a kneeling Walt in a wide open tableaux of clouds crawling above the New Mexico desert. Instead of killing Walt in cold blood, Fring fires him, demanding that he cannot interfere with the drug empire anymore or face retribution.
“I will kill your wife. I will kill your son. I will kill your infant daughter,” Fring threatens, coldly. It’s among the most chilling moments of the entire series, and forces Walt to an extreme. He calls crooked lawyer Saul Goodman to get a guy who knows how to disappear people. Once given instructions to be prepared to leave within an hour, along with about a half-million dollars for the service, Walt rushes home to gather his family and the fee only to discover that his wife Skyler (Anna Gunn) has given most of their hidden meth money to her boss, Ted Beneke. Unbeknownst to Walt, Skyler has forwarded the money to Ted so he can pay an IRS debt that could expose Skylers implication in Walt’s meth money.Breaking Bad Walt Gambling Games
Cue: the final shot.Breaking Bad Walt Gambling Quotes
The way that a bruised and battered Walt deals with the situation is, weirdly enough, to laugh. The pulsating music gives way to a feedback screech worth of the best Sonic Youth records, and then the shot cut to black. The camera move, performances, sound design, and music all serve the moment. Its a perfect bit of mise en scene that should be taught in film classes.Breaking Bad Walt Gambling Show
Breaking Bad was a show defined by its tension, drama that could immediately be alleviated by a bit of black comedy. This scene, and this shot, is the show’s comedy at its bleakest. Walt is seen through the open door of the crawl space, while the camera slowly pulls up. It’s here that Walt realizes, because of the Hank and Fring incidents, he is no longer in control. He almost looks like he’s being buried alive, delaying the inevitable death that he’s caused by his manipulations of everyone around him. It’s no surprise that this shot foreshadowed the final shot of Walt’s death in the series finale.
Its Walt’s moment of self-realization, and it’s the lowest point of his life. But he doesn’t resort to silent introspection or outwardly weeping. He can’t help but laugh at the absurdity that he’s wrought. The audience and the characters in the show don’t know how to feel except absurdly energized, and that’s what Breaking Bad did best. And while the show would continue to reach other highs, it didn’t get any better than ‘Crawl Space.”
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’Bullet Points’Breaking Bad episodeEpisode no.Season 4Episode 4Directed byColin BuckseyWritten byMoira Walley-BeckettProduced byBryan Cranston, Diane Mercer, Moira Walley-BeckettFeatured musicDave PorterCinematography byMichael SlovisEditing byKelley DixonOriginal air dateAugust 7, 2011Running time45 minutesGuest appearance(s)
*David Costabile as Gale Boetticher
*Jeremy Howard as Sketchy
*Ray Campbell as Tyrus KittEpisode chronology← Previous’Open House’Next →’Shotgun’Breaking Bad (season 4)List of Breaking Bad episodes
’Bullet Points’ is the fourth episode of the fourth season of the American television drama series Breaking Bad, and the 37th overall episode of the series. It originally aired on AMC in the United States on August 7, 2011.Plot[edit]
The episode opens with Mike riding in the back of a Los Pollos Hermanos refrigerator truck on a meth delivery run. The truck suddenly screeches to a halt as it is forced off the road by a pair of hijackers. Mike quickly pulls out his gun and listens as the gunmen pull the driver from the cab and shoot him in the head. He then takes cover as the gunmen raise Heckler & Koch MP5K submachine guns and shoot up the trailer. After firing two volleys, the gunmen break into the truck, only to be promptly shot dead by Mike. Only after he steps out of the truck does Mike find that one bullet has grazed his right ear.
The Breaking Bad movie El Camino isn’t Walt’s story. It picks up where the show left off with Jesse. And while a Cranston cameo via flashback would be a welcome sight for fans, it’s time to accept.
Walter and Skyler prepare an elaborate story about Walter having a gambling addiction and a successful card counting method. They hope it will explain how they can pay for Hank’s medical bills and purchase a car wash (that will actually be used to launder Walter’s meth profits). Walter remains too distracted to put much effort into the charade and is worried how Walter Jr. will perceive him. During a family dinner at Hank and Marie’s, Skyler and Walter tell everyone the gambling addiction story, but Hank and Walter Jr. turn out to be impressed by it.
Later, Walter is shocked to learn that Hank is investigating Gale’s murder. Hank says that he believes that Gale was the elusive Heisenberg and expresses regret that he was not able to arrest him. When asked by Hank to read about a chemical process written in Gale’s lab notes, Walt notices a line from a Walt Whitman poem and a dedication: ’W.W. My Star, My Perfect Silence.’ When Hank chuckles at the initials matching Walt’s, Walt jokingly admits ’you got me,’ before telling Hank that ’W.W.’ refers to the poet. When Walt asks Hank about the investigation, he learns that the only leads are some fingerprints and an eyewitness spotted at the scene. Hearing about this evidence, Walt is spooked and worries that the police will connect Jesse to the murder.
Walter goes to Jesse’s house and is disgusted by its condition, as it is now being used as a drug den by addicts and vagrants. Jesse is adamant nothing can connect him to Gale’s murder, but when he is asked if he picked up the shell casing from the gun (which could have his fingerprints on it), it is revealed he did not. When he is further questioned about the murder, Jesse starts to panic due to the memory of it and pays two druggies to kick Walter out of the house. Walter later laments to Saul about how the meth business is falling apart because no one is acting professionally, and rejects an offer to go into hiding.
Jesse’s detached complacence eventually leads to all of his meth money being stolen from his house, but Mike quickly recovers it and warns Jesse that he’s on thin ice. Jesse is apathetic about the loss and recovery, leading Mike to tell Gus that Jesse’s lack of professionalism is a problem for the organization, and they must intervene. Jesse does not show up to the lab the next day and Walter realizes that he has been kidnapped. The episode ends with Mike driving Jesse to an unknown destination. When he asks Jesse if he would like to know where they are going, the only reply is a simple ’nope.’
*Walt telling Skyler who he issrc Walter Hartwell ’Walt’ White Sr., also known by his clandestine pseudonym ’Heisenberg’, was an American drug kingpin. A former chemist and high school chemistry teacher in Albuquerque, New Mexico, he started manufacturing crystal methamphetamine after being diagnosed with terminal lung cancer, in order to pay for his treatments and secure his family’s.
*With Walt making plenty of money and Hank’s hospital bills stacking up, Skyler agrees to pay for his recovery, with the cover story that Walt’s meth money is actually earnings from a gambling.
*A subreddit for fans and critics of the hit television series Breaking Bad on AMC. Here you will find discussions and speculations about the show, pictures from the show, AMA’s with the cast, and anything else Breaking Bad related.Production[edit]
’Bullet Points’ was written by Moira Walley-Beckett and directed by Colin Bucksey, the third Breaking Bad episode he directed after ’Phoenix’ in season two and ’I See You’ in season three.[1] During the cold open scene, one of Gus’ drug-smuggling trucks is attacked by members of a Mexican drug cartel. This is a reference to what series creator Vince Gilligan refers to as a brewing ’cold war’ between Gus and the cartel due to Gus’ actions against them during the third season. The scene in ’Bullet Points’ is the first reference to this storyline since the third-season finale ’Full Measure’, when Mike killed several cartel henchmen who had taken over one of Gus’ chemical supply warehouses.[2] To create the bullet holes that strike the truck Mike is hiding inside, the special effects department drilled, wired and hand-planted 380 squib explosives onto the truck, including 150 on each side of the vehicle and 80 for the back door. Two sets of the back door were used, one for the view of shots being fired at the exterior of the door and one for the view of the interior.[3]
For the scene with Mike waiting inside the refrigeration truck, series creator Vince Gilligan wanted audiences to be able to see his breath so they would know how cold it was. To create that effect, the special effects crew designed a tiny plastic box with holes in it and placed dry ice inside, which Banks kept inside his mouth to create condensation when he exhaled.[4] The idea was based on a similar device film director Frank Capra previously used with his actors in one of his films, which Gilligan read about in Capra’s autobiography.[5] The device worked, but had to be adjusted because it initially created an effect that looked more like cigarette smoke.[4] Also for that scene, a bloody chunk of skin can be seen dangling from Mike’s ear after he is shot. For that effect, special effects creators Greg Nicotero and Howard Berger, who are part of the company KNB Efx Group, made a mold of actor Jonathan Banks’ ear and made an application for him to wear during filming. It was applied onto Banks by Breaking Bad make-up artists Corey Welk and Frieda Valenzuela.[6]
David Costabile briefly reprised his role as Gale Boetticher.[7] When Hank first reveals to Walter that he is investigating Gale’s murder, he shows him a DVD of Gale singing karaoke with Thai subtitles. The idea was that Gale participated in a karaoke booth in Thailand and kept the DVD as a souvenir; Breaking Bad music supervisor Thomas Golubic specifically found someone who could translate the song lyrics into Thai for the video. A similar joke was featured in the HBO comedy series Flight of the Conchords, which also features Costabile in a supporting role. Gilligan said he was not aware of that joke at the time, but watched it after conceiving of the Gale joke and researching karaoke. He said of it: ’It was freaking hilarious. It’s brilliant. And then I was thinking, ’Oh shit, should we even do this now, because how can it be as good as those guys?’ Gale sings the Peter Schilling song ’Major Tom (Coming Home)’, which Gilligan chose because he felt it was appropriate for the character: ’It felt right. It’s a bit cheesy, it’s earnest, but it also kind of sticks in your head and it’s fun.’[8]
In the background of the karaoke performance, stock footage from the science-fiction television series Quark was visible in the background. Gilligan was a fan of the show during childhood and recognized it while reviewing available stock footage.[9] The full karaoke video was made available on the official Breaking Bad website after the episode was first broadcast.[10] The scene when Walter looks through Gale’s notebook at Hank’s behest features a montage of quick cuts between the notebook pages and Walter’s face as he read. The montage was conceived by Gilligan, who wanted to express Walter’s stress over reading the notebook to the viewers without overtly showing those emotions on Walter’s face and arousing Hank’s suspicion.[11] It was difficult to shoot because the actors had to display these emotions without overtly expressing them, and the scene had to be reshot a second time as a result.[12]
Jeremy Howard made a guest appearance in ’Bullet Points’ as Sketchy, a drug addict who speaks non-stop during scenes at Jesse’s parties. Howard was acquainted with Bryan Cranston, who had cast him in an episode of the comedy series Malcolm in the Middle that Cranston directed.[13] Howard was originally only slated to play Sketchy in the Breaking Bad episode ’Open House’, but Gilligan liked him so much he brought the character back for ’Bullet Points’.[14] During one scene, Sketchy walks off-screen and accidentally knocks over several beer bottles, making a loud noise. The moment was accidental and unscripted, but the crew found it so funny they included it in the final cut of the episode.[15] During a different scene at Jesse’s party, Jesse shaves the heads of several of his long-haired guests. MacLaren said it was difficult to find extras willing to have their heads shaved because those with long enough hair were so conscious of their hair that they did not want it cut. Several extras who signed up for the part dropped out before they finally found those willing to do it.[16] Jesse also has his head shaved, which was actor Aaron Paul’s idea because he felt it was appropriate for the inner turmoil his character was experiencing.[17]Reception[edit]
The episode received positive reviews. Seth Amitin of IGN awarded the episode an 8 out of 10 calling it ’a solid building block for future story lines’.[18] Alan Sepinwall of HitFix gave the episode a positive review calling it ’very oddly-structured, but never uninteresting’.[19] Matt Richenthal of TV Fanatic awarded the episode 4.9 out of 5 calling it ’phenomenal’.[20] Donna Bowman reviewing for The A.V. Club gave the episode an ’A-’.[21]
In 2019 The Ringer ranked ’Bullet Points’ 59th out of the 62 total Breaking Bad episodes.[22]References[edit]
*^Gilligan, Vince (August 9, 2011). Breaking Bad Insider 404 (Audio commentary). Breaking Bad Insider Podcast. Event occurs at 32:18–32:23.
*^Gilligan, 5:33–7:28
*^MacLaren, Michelle (August 9, 2011). Breaking Bad Insider 404 (Audio commentary). Breaking Bad Insider Podcast. Event occurs at 7:56–9:11.
*^ abMacLaren, 11:00–11:30
*^Gilligan, 9:25–11:00
*^MacLaren, 11:35–12:49
*^Gilligan, 24:47–25:18
*^Gilligan, 22:57–24:15
*^Gilligan, 25:28–26:20
*^MacLaren, 25:18–25:28
*^Dixon, Kelley (August 9, 2011). Breaking Bad Insider 404 (Audio commentary). Breaking Bad Insider Podcast. Event occurs at 27:45–28:06.
*^Cranston, Bryan (August 9, 2011). Breaking Bad Insider 404 (Audio commentary). Breaking Bad Insider Podcast. Event occurs at 28:08–28:20.
*^Cranston, 30:30–30:50
*^Gilligan, 31:10–31:50
*^MacLaren, 30:55–31:08
*^MacLaren, 29:08–29:33
*^MacLaren, 29:35–30:00
*^Amitin, Seth (August 8, 2011). ’Breaking Bad: ’Bullet Points’ Review’. IGN. Retrieved April 9, 2013.
*^Sepinwall, Alan (August 7, 2011). ’Review: ’Breaking Bad’ - ’Bullet Points’: House of cards’. HitFix. Retrieved April 9, 2013.
*^Richenthal, Matt (August 8, 2011). ’Breaking Bad Review: Why Am I Ashamed?’. TV Fanatic. Retrieved April 9, 2013.
*^Bowman, Donna (August 7, 2011). ’Bullet Points’. The A.V. Club. Retrieved April 9, 2013.
*^Shaker Samman (September 30, 2019). ’The Ringer’s Definitive ’Breaking Bad’ Episodes Ranking’. The Ringer.External links[edit]
*’Bullet Points’ at the official Breaking Bad site
*’Bullet Points’ on IMDb
*’Bullet Points’ at TV.comRetrieved from ’https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Bullet_Points_(Breaking_Bad)&oldid=978671350’YouTube / AMC
Money Shot analyzes the best scenes from TV and film. Today, we’re talking about Breaking Bad’s most underrated moment.
The best part about Breaking Bad was when, as an audience member, you had no earthly idea how the characters could get out of a particular situation. The show excelled at not only always being one step ahead of its viewers, but also pulling off a plausible conclusion to the downright absurd holes the characters — mostly Walt — dug for themselves. This kind of open-ended action that simultaneously gave the audience enough narrative closure but enough of a reason to want to immediately tune in to the next episode to see what happens was never pulled off with more ecstatic insanity than in “Crawl Space.”
Specifically, the final shot of the eleventh episode of the show’s fourth season represented the show in one insane nutshell. In a single, slow, cacophonous pull-back of the camera, everybody in Breaking Bad was doomed. And it was glorious.
Two specific story-beats inform the impact of the final shot of “Crawl Space.” Walt (Bryan Cranston) ferries Hank (Dean Norris) around trying to innocently lead his brother-in-law in the wrong direction because the former DEA agent wants to uncover Gus Fring’s drug operation, which Walt fuels with his potent blue meth. Hank is actually doing his by-the-books sleuthing perfectly, and has accurately pieced together the puzzle that connects the disparate points of Fring’s operation. After Walt tries to throw Hank off with a stakeout of Fring’s chicken farm, Hank unexpectedly asks Walt to drive him to the industrial laundry that secretly hides Fring’s superlab. “We’ve got one hell of a place to hide a meth lab,” Hank says, before a panicked Walt drives past the entrance and deliberately causes a car accident to neutralize the situation.Breaking Bad Walt Gambling Stories
This is the first time Walt puts his immediate family in danger to save himself, a selfish flaw that would haunt the character up until the end of the series. Walt’s decisions, mistakes and all, here begin to pull his secrets apart at the seams.
Hank, recovering in his bed, informs Walt that he’s getting a “gimp mobile,” a car with hand controls so he won’t have to drive him around anymore. Walt suddenly finds himself becoming expendable to Hank, but also to Jesse (Aaron Paul). He’s been able to replicate Walt’s meth formula on his own, and also informs Walt that Fring (Giancarlo Esposito) knows he’s been bringing Hank to snoop around. Fring’s cronies then kidnap Walt and bring him to the middle of the desert for the second key story beat.
Walt, thinking he’s about to be executed, faces something far worse. In another of the episode’s iconic shots, Fring stands over a kneeling Walt in a wide open tableaux of clouds crawling above the New Mexico desert. Instead of killing Walt in cold blood, Fring fires him, demanding that he cannot interfere with the drug empire anymore or face retribution.
“I will kill your wife. I will kill your son. I will kill your infant daughter,” Fring threatens, coldly. It’s among the most chilling moments of the entire series, and forces Walt to an extreme. He calls crooked lawyer Saul Goodman to get a guy who knows how to disappear people. Once given instructions to be prepared to leave within an hour, along with about a half-million dollars for the service, Walt rushes home to gather his family and the fee only to discover that his wife Skyler (Anna Gunn) has given most of their hidden meth money to her boss, Ted Beneke. Unbeknownst to Walt, Skyler has forwarded the money to Ted so he can pay an IRS debt that could expose Skylers implication in Walt’s meth money.Breaking Bad Walt Gambling Games
Cue: the final shot.Breaking Bad Walt Gambling Quotes
The way that a bruised and battered Walt deals with the situation is, weirdly enough, to laugh. The pulsating music gives way to a feedback screech worth of the best Sonic Youth records, and then the shot cut to black. The camera move, performances, sound design, and music all serve the moment. Its a perfect bit of mise en scene that should be taught in film classes.Breaking Bad Walt Gambling Show
Breaking Bad was a show defined by its tension, drama that could immediately be alleviated by a bit of black comedy. This scene, and this shot, is the show’s comedy at its bleakest. Walt is seen through the open door of the crawl space, while the camera slowly pulls up. It’s here that Walt realizes, because of the Hank and Fring incidents, he is no longer in control. He almost looks like he’s being buried alive, delaying the inevitable death that he’s caused by his manipulations of everyone around him. It’s no surprise that this shot foreshadowed the final shot of Walt’s death in the series finale.
Its Walt’s moment of self-realization, and it’s the lowest point of his life. But he doesn’t resort to silent introspection or outwardly weeping. He can’t help but laugh at the absurdity that he’s wrought. The audience and the characters in the show don’t know how to feel except absurdly energized, and that’s what Breaking Bad did best. And while the show would continue to reach other highs, it didn’t get any better than ‘Crawl Space.”
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