1. In the
first season, Walt's partner in the meth business, Jesse Pinkman, has a line on
a major buyer for their product who could take their business to the next
level. Unfortunately, the buyer, Tuco Salamanca, is a psychopath who refuses to
pay upfront for the product and beats Jesse so badly that he winds up in the
hospital. Walt, who previously wanted nothing to do with the distribution side
of the business, is forced to confront Tuco himself, adopting the pseudonym
"Heisenberg."
When Tuco laughs off his demand, Walt detonates a chunk of
fulminated mercury, which Tuco mistook for meth, blowing out the top floor of
the drug dealer's headquarters. Impressed as much by Walt's "balls"
as by his high-quality product, Tuco agrees to buy two pounds of meth a week
from Walt and Jesse.
Lesson: Sometimes you have to do things yourself instead of
delegating. And when pitching an important client, don't take no for an answer.
In the
second season, Walt and Jesse's crooked lawyer, Saul Goodman, puts them in
touch with a major distributor named Gustavo Fring. Fring has doubts about
Jesse, who is in a downward spiral from drug use due to a friend's death at the
hands of rival drug dealers. Nevertheless he offers to buy a few dozen pounds
of Walt and Jesse's meth for $1.2 million, but gives them only one hour to
deliver the goods.
Walt rushes to Jesse's house, where the drugs are stashed, only to
receive no answer when he rings the doorbell and calls Jesse's phone. He breaks
in and finds Jesse and his girlfriend catatonic from injecting heroin. He
manages to rouse Jesse long enough to find out where the meth is hidden. While
scrambling to meet Fring's deadline, Walt learns via text message that his
wife, Skyler, is about to give birth. With no time to spare, he makes the hard
choice, earning the $1.2 million and missing the birth of his daughter.
Lesson: Make sacrifices when necessary to meet your stretch goals
-- although you should probably be present at the birth of your child.
1. In the
third season, Jesse discovers that Tomás, the kid brother of his new girlfriend,
is the one who killed his friend. The boy is being used by drug dealers who
work for Gus Fring. Jesse announces a rash plan to murder the dealers in
revenge. Walt advises against it, but is rebuffed.
He goes to Gus, and together they organize a reconciliation
between Jesse and the dealers. Gus says he will stop using children in his
criminal enterprise. But then Tomás is found dead, apparently murdered by the
dealers. Jesse goes to confront them, gun in hand. Just as a shootout is about
to begin in the middle of the street, Walt appears out of nowhere, smashing
into the dealers with his car. He kills them both, one in the collision and the
other with the dealer's own gun, while Jesse looks on, not believing his eyes.
Lesson: Have your partner's back. Be there when the strain of work
gets to be too much for him or her.
1. Walt's
relationship with Gus deteriorates in the fourth season following his murder of
the dealers. Gus, however, is forced to keep him around as a chemist while he
grooms Jesse, now clean and sober, to replace him.
Matters with Gus grow desperate when the drug lord informs Walt
that he is going to eliminate Hank Schrader, Walt's brother-in-law who is an
agent with the Drug Enforcement Administration [DEA], and that he will kill the
rest of Walt's family if Walt intervenes. Scared for their lives, Walt forges
an unlikely alliance with the wheelchair-bound Hector Salamanca, Tuco's uncle
and a once-powerful member of the Mexican cartel who is a blood enemy of Gus.
Together they trick Gus into believing that Hector is informing on
him to the DEA. When Gus shows up at Hector's nursing home to kill him
personally, he encounters Walt's surprise: a pipe bomb rigged to Hector's
wheelchair. The resulting explosion kills both men, after which Walt storms
into the meth lab where Gus's henchman are holding Jesse and frees his partner.
They burn down the lab to destroy any evidence. When the dust settles, Walt
stands alone as heir apparent to Gus's criminal empire.
Lesson: Think creatively and form alliances to stay ahead of the
competition. Eliminate rivals before they eliminate you.
1. In the
fifth season, Mike Ehrmantraut, formerly Gus's right-hand man, becomes an equal
partner in Walt and Jesse's meth business following Gus's death and the
freezing of Mike's assets. But he and Jesse, alarmed by Walt's growing
volatility and callousness, soon decide they want out. Mike sets up a meeting
with a distributor who is willing to buy them out of the meth trade for $5
million apiece. But Walt refuses the deal, preferring to continue cooking.
Mike takes matters into his own hands; he zipties Walt to a
radiator so that he can sell their entire supply of raw materials for $15
million without the other man's permission. But Walt frees himself, stripping
electrical cord with his teeth and sparking the wires to burn through the
ziptie, badly scorching his flesh in the process. Earlier in the episode, after
Jesse asks, "Are we in the meth business or the money business?" Walt
answers: "Neither. I'm in the empire business." Only now do his
partners see just how far he is willing to go to keep his throne.
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