Pilot (Breaking Bad)
| "Pilot" | |
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| Breaking Bad episode | |
| Episode no. | Season 1 Episode 1 |
| Directed by | Vince Gilligan |
| Written by | Vince Gilligan |
| Produced by | Karen Moore |
| Featured music | "Come on Home and Have Your Next Affair With Me" by Stonewall Jackson "Dirty South Hustla" by Carolina Slim "Tamacun" by Rodrigo y Gabriela "Mango Walk" by The In Crowd "Dead Fingers Talking" by Working for a Nuclear Free City "A Gosar" by SDK ft. Tori Papa "Get Low" by Pudge "Apocalypshit" by Molotov "Out of Time Man" by Mick Harvey |
| Cinematography by | John Toll |
| Editing by | Lynne Willingham |
| Original air date | January 20, 2008 |
| Running time | 58 minutes |
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"Pilot" is the first episode of the American television drama series Breaking Bad. It originally aired on AMC on January 20, 2008, and was written and directed by series creator and showrunner Vince Gilligan.
Walter White (Bryan Cranston) is a high school chemistry teacher living in Albuquerque, New Mexico with his pregnant wife, Skyler (Anna Gunn), and their son, Walter Jr. (RJ Mitte), who has cerebral palsy. He supplements his low teaching salary by working part-time at a local car wash, where he is often humiliated in front of the students he teaches. After being humiliated by a student at the car wash, Walter returns home to a surprise birthday party arranged by his henpecking wife Skyler. Shortly after his 50th birthday, Walter collapses at the car wash and is raced to the hospital, where he is told that he has developed inoperable lung cancer and has only a few years to live. He opts to keep this news from his family and from Skyler's sister, Marie (Betsy Brandt) and her husband and DEA Agent Hank Schrader (Dean Norris), a close friend of Walter.
After returning to work, Walter has a fit of rage at the car wash and walks off the job. To relieve his tension, Walter takes up Hank's offer to go on a ride-along as he and his partner Steven Gomez (Steven Michael Quezada) raid a known meth lab. As the DEA agents clear out the house, Walter observes his former student Jesse Pinkman (Aaron Paul) sneaking out a back window. Later, Walter tracks down Jesse's address and blackmails him to helping him produce crystal meth, without revealing why. Walter turns over his life savings to allow Jesse to purchase a Bounder RV to use as a mobile lab, while he steals supplies from the high school chemistry lab needed for the process.
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