Dead Freight

"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. Plot A young boy is seen riding on his 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. Walter White pays a visit to the recently promoted Hank Schrader at his new DEA office. During their conversation, Walt confesses that his marriage to Skyler White is failing, feigning tears. When Hank leaves momentarily to get coffee, Walt installs covert listening devices on the computer and inside a picture frame sitting on top of Hank's desk. Later, Walt, Jesse Pinkman, and Mike Ehrmantraut interrogate Lydia Rodarte-Quayle 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, but Jesse does not. 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. Although exonerated, Lydia is now useless to the trio, as all of the barrels in her warehouse are compromised. Desperate to avoid being killed, Lydia tries to prove her worth by asserting that she can access an "ocean" of methylamine, suggesting that the trio could heist a tremendous amount of methylamine from a transiting train. At first, the trio is skeptical, but with Jesse's motivation, they come up with a plan to stall the train in a dead zone, pump out the methylamine, and replace its weight with water, so that no one will know that the heist took place. Jesse informs Todd Alquist that neither he nor his crew can ever say anything to anyone about the heist, and that no one must find out about the heist under any circumstances.