Blood Money (Breaking Bad)
| "Blood Money" | |
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| Breaking Bad episode | |
| Episode no. | Season 5 Episode 9 |
| Directed by | Bryan Cranston |
| Written by | Peter Gould |
| Featured music | "Wordmule" by Jim White "If I Didn't Love You" by Squeeze |
| Original air date | August 11, 2013 |
| Running time | 47 minutes |
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"Blood Money" is the ninth episode of the fifth season of the American television drama series Breaking Bad, and the 55th overall episode of the series. Written by Peter Gould and directed by Bryan Cranston, it aired on AMC in the United States and Canada on August 11, 2013 as the mid-season premiere.
The episode received high critical acclaim, with critics praising the flashforward scene in the beginning, the ending scene and the performances from Bryan Cranston and Dean Norris. For his performance in the episode, Norris was called "Performer of the Week" by TVLine.
In a flashforward, a 52-year-old Walter White (Bryan Cranston) arrives at his abandoned and fenced off house, following the events of "Live Free or Die". Walt enters and sees "HEISENBERG" spray-painted on the living room wall. Observing the house's dilapidated state, which includes a group of teenagers using his emptied pool to skateboard, he retrieves the hidden vial of ricin from his bedroom. As he leaves he greets his former neighbor, Carol, who is shocked by his presence.
In the present, Hank Schrader (Dean Norris) reels from finding Gale Boetticher's handwritten dedication found in Walt's copy of Leaves of Grass, finally realizing that Walt, his brother-in-law, was Heisenberg all along. After excusing himself and his wife Marie (Betsy Brandt) from the party at Walt's house, Hank swerves his car off the road on the way home while suffering a panic attack. Hank feigns an illness to work from home and takes the opportunity to review case files on Heisenberg and Gus Fring. Hank links people, events, and circumstances, as well as matching the handwriting in the Leaves of Grass dedication with that of the bullet points from Gale's lab notebook, to confirm that Walt is Heisenberg.
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