Gliding Over All
| "Gliding Over All" | |
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| Breaking Bad episode | |
| Episode no. | Season 5 Episode 8 |
| Directed by | Michelle MacLaren |
| Written by | Moira Walley-Beckett |
| Featured music | "Pick Yourself Up" by Nat King Cole "Crystal Blue Persuasion" by Tommy James and the Shondells "Up the Junction" by Squeeze |
| Original air date | September 2, 2012 |
| Running time | 47 minutes |
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"Gliding Over All" is the eighth episode of the fifth season and the mid-season finale of the American television drama series Breaking Bad, and the 54th overall episode of the series. Written by Moira Walley-Beckett and directed by Michelle MacLaren, it aired on AMC in the United States on September 2, 2012.
The episode is named after poem 271 in Walt Whitman's Leaves of Grass, a book which is featured prominently in the series.
With Mike's (Jonathan Banks) dead body stuffed in the trunk of Walt's (Bryan Cranston) car, Walt and Todd (Jesse Plemons) prepare a barrel of hydrofluoric acid. When Jesse (Aaron Paul) arrives, Walt informs him that Mike is "gone." When asked by Jesse how they will deal with Mike's nine henchmen now that they will not be receiving their hazard payments, Walt tells Jesse that he will address the issue by himself now that Mike and Jesse have left the business.
Walt meets with Lydia (Laura Fraser) at a coffee shop to obtain the names of Mike's henchmen. Suspecting that Walter will see her as a liability and kill her, Lydia proposes a partnership in which Walt expands his distribution overseas to the Czech Republic, which has a high percentage of meth users. When asked why she didn't pitch her idea to Gus, she claims that he had approved her idea before he was killed. When Walt agrees with her proposal, Lydia provides him with a list of nine names. After Lydia leaves, Walt removes his hat from the table, revealing the vial of ricin from his and Jesse's plot to kill Gus, which he then re-hides in his house.
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