Dead Freight (Breaking Bad)
| "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 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 pays a visit to the recently promoted Hank at his new DEA office. During their conversation, Walt confesses that his marriage to Skyler is failing, 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. Later, Walt, Jesse, and Mike interrogate Lydia 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 decide to kill her. After forcing Lydia to contact Hank and report her discovery, the crew eavesdrops on Hank's next phone call, learning that it was actually placed by a DEA team in Houston that epoxied tracking devices to all of the methylamine barrels in Madrigal's warehouse.
Although exonerated, Lydia is now useless to the trio, as all of the barrels in her warehouse are tracked. Desperate to avoid being killed, Lydia tries to prove her worth by asserting that she can access an "ocean" of methylamine. In exchange for Walt's promise of safety, she reveals that Madrigal's methylamine is transported through New Mexico via freight train, and that the train passes through a three-mile stretch of "dark territory" in McKinley County where its communications go dead. Lydia explains she has access to the train’s final manifest when it is uploaded to her company’s server, which reveals exactly which train car contains methylamine, and giving them about six hours' lead time to prepare a robbery.
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