Dead Freight
| "Dead Freight" | |
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| Breaking Bad episode | |
| Episode no. | Season 5 Episode 5 |
| Directed by | George Mastras |
| Written by | George Mastras |
| Original air date | August 12, 2012 |
| Running time | 48 minutes |
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"Dead Freight" is the fifth episode of the fifth season of the American television drama series Breaking Bad, and the 51st overall episode of the series. Written and directed by George Mastras, it originally aired on AMC in the United States on August 12, 2012.
A young boy (Samuel Webb) rides on a dirt bike through the desert. Encountering a wild tarantula, he allows it to crawl over his hands before placing it in a jar. He hears a distant freight train and rides toward it.
Walt (Bryan Cranston) pays a visit to the recently-promoted Hank (Dean Norris) at his new DEA office. During their conversation, Walt confesses that his marriage to Skyler (Anna Gunn) is failing and that she doesn't love him anymore, feigning tears. When Hank leaves momentarily to get coffee, Walt installs eavesdropping bugs on the computer and inside a picture frame sitting on top of Hank's desk.
Walt, Jesse (Aaron Paul), and Mike (Jonathan Banks) interrogate Lydia (Laura Fraser) about the tracking device found affixed to the bottom of one of Madrigal's methylamine barrels. Mike and Walt believe that she planted it and resolve to kill her. After forcing Lydia to contact Hank and report her discovery, the crew eavesdrops on Hank's next telephone call, learning that it was actually placed by a team in Houston that epoxied tracking devices to all of the methylamine barrels in Madrigal's warehouse.
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