Say My Name (Breaking Bad)
| "Say My Name" | |
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| Breaking Bad episode | |
| Episode no. | Season 5 Episode 7 |
| Directed by | Thomas Schnauz |
| Written by | Thomas Schnauz |
| Produced by | Bryan Cranston, Diane Mercer |
| Featured music | Dave Porter |
| Cinematography by | Michael Slovis |
| Editing by | Skip MacDonald |
| Original air date | August 26, 2012 |
| Running time | 47 minutes |
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"Say My Name" (originally titled "Everybody Wins") is the seventh episode of the fifth season of the American television drama series Breaking Bad, and the 53rd overall episode of the series. Written and directed by Thomas Schnauz, it aired on AMC on August 26, 2012.
The title of the episode is a phrase repeatedly spoken by Walt (Bryan Cranston) during his encounter with Declan (Louis Ferreira).
This episode marks Jonathan Banks's final appearance as a series regular. Banks and Bryan Cranston both received high praise from critics for their performances. Banks later returned as Mike for the Breaking Bad prequel spin-off, Better Call Saul, and currently stars as a series regular.
Walt, Mike (Jonathan Banks), and Jesse (Aaron Paul) meet with Declan, their Phoenix-based competitor. Instead of agreeing to Declan's offer to purchase the heisted methylamine for $15 million in exchange for removing Walt's blue meth from the drug market, Walt offers a counterproposal: to sell his superior product through Declan's southwest distribution network in exchange for a substantial share of the business and a one-time, $5 million payment to Mike for his share. Frustrated with having to negotiate with Walt, Declan demands to know who he is. Refusing to back down, Walt insists that Declan already knows his name and demands that Declan say it. When Walt informs him that it was he who killed Gus Fring, Declan resignedly realizes and acknowledges Walt as Heisenberg.
As Mike leaves with his $5 million, he informs Walt that he will continue to pay the legacy costs of hazard payments to Fring's men out of his own money, but that Walt must remove the eavesdropping bugs planted earlier in Hank's (Dean Norris) office before a sweep is performed by the DEA. Walt avoids Jesse's attempts to get his share of the money and leave the business. Meanwhile, Mike learns through the bugs that the DEA has a search warrant for his house. He gets rid of his weapons and stashes a go bag with cash, a passport, and a gun in an airport parking lot. When Hank and Gomez (Steven Michael Quezada) search his house, they find nothing. Later, Hank is instructed by his superior that he must end his surveillance of Mike and proceed with other cases due to budgetary considerations. Not being instructed otherwise, Hank decides to have Gomez follow Mike's attorney, Dan (Chris Freihofer), who has been placing cash in various safe deposit boxes to facilitate the transfer of the hazard payments and to set aside money for Mike's granddaughter Kaylee (Kaija Roze Bales). Gomez successfully catches Dan in the act and apprehends him.
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