Due to Walt's expertise in chemistry, Jesse claims their crystal meth is the purest he has ever seen. The pair drive the RV into the desert and begin to cook. After Walt steals chemistry supplies from the high school, he asks Jesse to purchase an RV to use as their meth lab. As DEA agents clear out the house, Walt observes his former student Jesse Pinkman sneaking out, whom he later tracks down and blackmails into helping him produce crystal meth. Having seen a report showing large amounts of money recovered from one of Hank's drug busts, Walt takes up a previous offer to go on a ride-along as Hank and his partner Steven Gomez raid a meth lab. Returning to work, Walt lashes out at his boss Bogdan Wolynetz and walks out. Walt opts to keep the news from his family and from Skyler's sister Marie Schrader and her husband Hank, a Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) agent. Shortly after his 50th birthday, Walt collapses while at the car wash and is taken to the hospital, where he is told that he has developed inoperable lung cancer and has, at best, two years to live.

Walt is heavily dissatisfied with his life, feeling overqualified as a high school teacher and resenting his degrading part-time job at a car wash.

Walter White is a high school chemistry teacher in Albuquerque, New Mexico living with his pregnant wife Skyler and their teenage son Walter Jr., who has cerebral palsy. At the 60th Primetime Emmy Awards, the episode received various nominations, with Cranston winning the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actor in a Drama Series, and Gilligan earning a nomination for Outstanding Directing. In its initial airing, the pilot received mostly positive reviews from critics, who praised Gilligan for his script, and Cranston for his performance. After going on a drug bust with his brother-in-law and DEA agent Hank Schrader ( Dean Norris), Walt spots his former student Jesse Pinkman ( Aaron Paul), and later blackmails him into helping him cook meth in an RV. ( RJ Mitte), Walt decides that he wants to spend his last years saving money for his family. Keeping it a secret from his pregnant wife Skyler ( Anna Gunn) and their teenage son Walter Jr. In the episode, chemistry teacher Walter White ( Bryan Cranston) is diagnosed with terminal lung cancer. Written and directed by series creator and showrunner Vince Gilligan, the episode originally aired on AMC on January 20, 2008. ' Pilot' (titled ' Breaking Bad' on DVD and Blu-ray releases) is the series premiere of the American television drama series Breaking Bad.

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