Cancer Man (Breaking Bad)
| "Cancer Man" | |
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| Breaking Bad episode | |
| Episode no. | Season 1 Episode 4 |
| Directed by | Jim McKay |
| Written by | Vince Gilligan |
| Original air date | February 17, 2008 |
| Running time | 48 minutes |
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"Cancer Man" is the fourth episode of the first season of the American television drama series Breaking Bad. Written by Vince Gilligan and directed by Jim McKay, it aired on AMC in the United States and Canada on February 17, 2008.
Hank Schrader (Dean Norris) and his team have a meeting to discuss what they found in the desert. They reveal that Domingo "Krazy-8" Molina was their snitch (turning in Emilio, his own cousin), but both he and Emilio Koyama have gone missing. The meth they found was 99.1% pure, and although they have no leads, they believe the product is good enough to make someone Albuquerque's new meth kingpin.
Walter White (Bryan Cranston) tells Hank, Marie Schrader (Betsy Brandt) and Walter Jr. (RJ Mitte) that he has cancer when Skyler White (Anna Gunn) begins to cry during a barbecue. Marie suggests that Walter get a second opinion from a top oncologist. Meanwhile, Jesse Pinkman (Aaron Paul) smokes Walter's meth with two friends. A paranoid Jesse flees his house the next morning when he hallucinates that two religious evangelists at his door are armed bikers.
Skyler makes an appointment with one of the top oncologists in the country, however he is not in the family's HMO and the appointment costs $5,000. Walter says he will take the money out from his pension, but he actually will use some of the money Krazy-8 offered him in the desert, which he took and now keeps hidden in an air-conditioning duct at his home. Walter Jr. nearly catches his father when the air conditioning turns on and sucks some of the money away. He berates him for acting so weird and nonchalant about his cancer. When Walter goes to the credit union to put the cash in a cashier's check, his parking spot is stolen by a rich, obnoxious man named Ken (Kyle Bornheimer). Ken annoys Walter and the rest of the customers with his loud cell phone conversation.
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