Breaking Bad (TV Series)

A No-Rough-Stuff-Type Deal (2008)

Bryan Cranston: Walter White

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• Jesse Pinkman : Four pounds? Four pounds? As if two pounds wasn't bad enough? We're talking two, three hundred boxes of sinus pills! There ain't that many smurfs in the world.

  Walter White : We're not going to need pseudoephedrin. We're going to make phenyl acetone in a tube furnace, then we're going to use reductive animation to yield methamphetamine. Four pounds.

  Jesse Pinkman : So, no pseudo?

  Walter White : No pseudo.

  Jesse Pinkman : So you do have a plan. Yeah, Mr. White! Yeah, science!

• Skyler White : [after intense sex in the car]  Where did that come from? And why was it so damn good?

  Walter White : Because it was illegal.

• Jesse Pinkman : What's this stuff called again?

  Walter White : Thermite.

  Jesse Pinkman : And that'll cut through a lock? Because this is supposed to be one big-ass lock.

  Walter White : In World War Two, the Germans had an artillery piece - it's the biggest in the world - called the Gustav Gun, and it weighed a thousand tons. And the Gustav was capable of firing a seven-ton shell and hitting a target, accurately, twenty-three miles away. I mean, you could drop bombs on it every day for a month without ever disabling it. But, drop a commando - one man - with just a bag of this, and he could melt right through four inches of solid steel and destroy that gun forever.

  [He tosses the bag of thermite to Jesse, who flinches as he catches it] 

  Jesse Pinkman : Jeez!

  Walter White : So yes, I think it will cut through any lock we're likely to find.

• Tuco Salamanca : [about Walter and Jesse's latest batch of meth]  What is this? It's blue.

  Walter White : We used a different chemical process, but it is every bit as pure.

  Jesse Pinkman : It may be blue, but it's the bomb.

  Tuco Salamanca : [sniffs a sample and gasps]  Tight, tight, tight! Oh... blue, yellow, pink! Whatever, man, just keep bringing me that!

• Jesse Pinkman : A junkyard? Let me guess, you, uh, you picked this place?

  Walter White : What's wrong with it? It's... private.

  Jesse Pinkman : No, this... this is like a non-criminal's idea of a drug meet. This is like "Oh, I saw this in a movie. Ooh, look at me."

  Walter White : Yes. So where do you transact your business? Enlighten me.

  Jesse Pinkman : I don't know, how about Taco Cabeza? Half the deals I've ever done went down at Taco Cabeza. Nice and public. Open 24 hours. Nobody ever gets shot at Taco Cabeza. Hell, why not the mall? You know, wait at the Gap. "Hey, it's time for the meet." You know, I'll put down the flat-front khakis, head on over, grab an Orange Julius. Skip the part where psycho-lunatic Tuco, you know, comes and steals my drugs and leaves me bleeding to death.

  Walter White : [noticing him start to freak out as they see Tuco's SUV approach]  Look, you don't have to be here for this. Okay? I mean, seriously.

  Jesse Pinkman : Nah, I'm no pussy. I'm good.

• Jesse Pinkman : You didn't actually go see Tuco.

  Walter White : [handing him an envelope]  Here. That is 17,500. Your half of the 35,000. Plus, there's an extra 15 in there. It's all yours. You've earned it.

  Jesse Pinkman : You got this money from Tuco?

  Walter White : Yeah.

  Jesse Pinkman : So Tuco gave you this is what you're saying.

  Walter White : Well, we made a deal.

  Jesse Pinkman : You made a deal?

  Walter White : That's right.

• Walter White : Listen, I-I visited you in the hospital, but you were asleep.

  Jesse Pinkman : Yeah, Skinny Pete said you wanted Tuco's address. Acting like you're all out for blood. But you are alive, so obviously you wised up.

  Walter White : No, I did go see him.

  Jesse Pinkman : Bullshit.

• Walter White : How you feeling?

  Jesse Pinkman : About as good as you look. Jeez, you look like Lex Luthor.

• Skyler White : You know that, uh, tiara that Marie gave us?

  Walter White : Yeah.

  Skyler White : Well, she stole it. Yeah. I practically got arrested trying to return it at the store.

  Walter White : Oh, my god.

  Skyler White : I mean, she refuses to admit it. She refuses to apologize. I-I don't know what to do.

  Walter White : Hmm. People sometimes do things for their families.

  Skyler White : "People sometimes do things for their families"? And what, that justifies stealing?

  Walter White : Well...

  Skyler White : Wow. That must have been some sweat lodge. Are you even listening to the words coming out of your mouth?

  Walter White : What would you do if it were me?

  Skyler White : What... what do you mean if it were you?

  Walter White : Well... if it were me, what would you do? Would you divorce me? Would you turn me into the police?

  Skyler White : [coyly]  You don't want to find out.

• Tuco Salamanca : You're doing business like a couple little bitches.

  Walter White : I want all of it. 70 grand.

  Tuco Salamanca : What did you say?

  Walter White : You like this product. And you want more. Consider it a capital investment.

  Tuco Salamanca : [getting in his face]  Look, old, bald motherfucker. Fifty-two and a half, 25 points vig.

  Walter White : Vig?

  Jesse Pinkman : Interest, weekly.

  Walter White : Okay. That's $65,625 with interest. 1.875 pounds.

  Tuco Salamanca : No, two pounds. Next Friday, and no production problems.

  Walter White : Can you handle four pounds?

  Tuco Salamanca : Listen, old man. Talk is talk. But owing me money, that's bad.

  [he hurls a wad of bills at Walt, then dumps the rest on the ground] 

  Jesse Pinkman : [watching Tuco and his thugs leave]  What did you just do?

• Jesse Pinkman : Why would you make a deal with that scumbag? You see what he did to me?

  Walter White : Because I think that we can do business together. We came to an understanding.

  Jesse Pinkman : No way, man! Okay? No understanding.

  Walter White : Take a look at the money in your hand. Now, just imagine making that every week. That's right. Two pounds a week, 35,000 a pound.

  Jesse Pinkman : Without even talking to me, you told this insane ass clown, dead-eyed killer that, uh... that we would give him two pounds a week.

• Walter White : Jesse, listen to me. Today is the first day of the rest of your life.

• Hank Schrader : Yeah, well, sometimes forbidden fruit tastes the sweetest, doesn't it?

  Walter White : It's funny, isn't it? How we draw that line.

  Hank Schrader : Yeah. What line is that?

  Walter White : Well, what's legal, what's illegal. You know, Cuban cigars, alcohol. You know, if we were drinking this in 1930, we'd be breaking the law. Another year, we'd be okay. Who knows what will be legal next year.

  Hank Schrader : You mean like pot?

  Walter White : Yeah. Like pot. Or whatever.

  Hank Schrader : Cocaine? Heroin?

  Walter White : I'm just saying it's arbitrary.

  Hank Schrader : Well, you ought to visit lockup. You hear a lot of guys talking like that. "Hey, man, what you busting me with these 14 bales of ganja? It's all going to be legal next year when Willie Nelson's president." Say it, buddy. It don't only go one way either. I mean, some other stuff is legal that shouldn't be. I mean, frigging meth used to be legal. Used to sell it over every counter at every pharmacy across America. Thank God they came to their senses on that one, huh?

• Tuco Salamanca : Hahaha, what is this? It's blue!

  Walter White : We used a different chemical process, but it is every bit as pure.

  Jesse Pinkman : It may be blue, but it's the bomb.

  Tuco Salamanca : [Sniffs] 

  [Chokes] 

  Tuco Salamanca : ARH! TIGHT! TIGHT TIGHT! YEAH! Arh, blue, yellow, pink, whatever, man! Just keep bringing me that!

  Tuco Salamanca : You're alright! We're gonna make a lot of money together!

• Tuco Salamanca : Haha! What is this? It's blue!

  Walter White : We used a different chemical process, but it is every bit as pure.

  Jesse Pinkman : It may be blue, but it's the bomb!

  Tuco Salamanca : [Groans]  TIGHT! TIGHT TIGHT! YEAH! Arh, blue, yellow, pink, whatever, man, just keep bringing me that.

  Tuco Salamanca : You're alright! We're gonna make a lot of money together.