Anime, Series: Breaking Bad Season 4

Breaking Bad Season 4

Jesse Pinkman has killed Gale Boetticher under Walter White's orders, as Walter feared Gus Fring was grooming Gale to take his place in the methamphetamine (meth) production. In retaliation, Gus demonstrates that both Walter and Jesse are disposable, and demands they keep producing meth while under watch at all times. Meanwhile, DEA supervisor Hank Schrader, still recovering, is given evidence from Gale's murder, which includes a lab notebook detailing the production of meth inscribed with a message "To W.W.", and a wrapper from the Los Pollos Hermanos fast food restaurant chain owned by Gus. Realizing Gale was a vegetarian, Hank is led to believe Gus is involved with the meth distribution and convinces Walter to help him investigate more. Walter is able to keep Hank from discovering the industrial laundry that serves as a front for the meth lab, but Gus tells Walter not to worry about Hank's investigation.

Gus has his cleaner, Mike Ehrmantraut, take Jesse on dead-drop collection runs. Gus and Mike are impressed with Jesse's commitment. Walter realizes that they are looking to replace him with Jesse, and gives Jesse a ricin capsule in a cigarette to fatally poison Gus when he gets the chance. The Mexican Cartel, led by Gus's rival Don Eladio Vuente, start attacks on Gus' distribution truck. Gus, Mike, and Jesse fly to Mexico to meet with Don Eladio to try to arrange a deal. Instead, Gus uses the meeting to poison Don Eladio and other Cartel members, as revenge for his order to Hector Salamanca to kill his partner Max years prior. Jesse helps Gus and Mike escape from the Cartel guards, proving his loyalty to Gus. When Gus returns, he tells Walter he is fired from his job, and that he will deal with Hank himself. Walter, panicked, calls his lawyer Saul Goodman to simultaneously alert the DEA to a fake impending attack on Hank, and to arrange for identity relocation for himself, Skyler, and Walt Jr.. However, when Walter goes to get the required funds from his meth earnings, he discovers that Skyler had used nearly all of it to pay off a fee that her former boss, Ted Beneke, owed to the IRS as to prevent the IRS from investigating Ted and those that worked for him, including Skyler which would have revealed their illicit dealings.

Hank and his family, as well as Skyler and Walt Jr. are placed in DEA protective custody while Walter refuses and attempts to defuse the situation himself. Jesse discovers that his girlfriend Andrea's son Brock has fallen ill, and learning he might have been poisoned, finds the ricin-loaded cigarette missing. Jesse confronts Walter but Walter proves his innocence, and convinces Jesse that Gus must have done it. Walter creates a make-shift pipebomb and has Jesse lure Gus to the hospital by refusing to work, giving Walter time to plant it on Gus's car. However, when Gus leaves the hospital, he senses something amiss and walks away. Recovering the pipebomb, Walter then learns from Jesse that Gus is only vulnerable when he visits Hector at the nursing home. Walter meets Hector at the nursing home, aware he is furious at Gus, and convinces him to help. Hector initiates contact with the DEA, though does not tell them anything, forcing Gus to come to find out what he said. Once Gus is in the room, Hector activates Walter's pipebomb, planted on his wheelchair, killing himself and Gus. Walter and Jesse proceed to burn down the meth lab to prevent Hank from finding evidence, and Walter tells Skyler that he's "won". Jesse finds that Brock has recovered, likely eating some poisonous berries from a Lily of the Valley plant; the final scene of the season focuses on a Lily of the Valley in Walter's backyard.