It’s the American dreamexcept for the corpse in the bathtub.

Gus Fring (Giancarlo Esposito) takes over as distributor.

Jesse’s girlfriend, Jane (Krysten Ritter), blackmails Walt.

What Happens? Chemistry teacher Walt (Bryan Cranston) gets a cancer diagnosis and starts cooking meth with ex-student Jesse (Aaron Paul) to provide for his family

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He repays her by letting her choke to death on her own vomit.

Best episode:‘‘Phoenix’’ (212)Actions have consequences.

And the less Walter White faces them, the more other people sufferor die, like Janefor his choices.

What Happens? Walt’s DEA-agent brother-in-law, Hank (Dean Norris), kills Tuco. Gus Fring (Giancarlo Esposito) takes over as distributor. Jesse’s girlfriend, Jane (Krysten Ritter), blackmails Walt.

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Buried treasure:Jane foreshadows her own death.

Too bad that advice doesn’t work for Jane.

Season 3

What happens?Walt comes clean to his wife, Skyler (Anna Gunn).

What Happens? Walt comes clean to his wife, Skyler (Anna Gunn). Hank gets shot by the Cousins, two Mexican dealers. Jesse kills Gus’s intended replacement

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Hank gets shot by twin Mexican dealers, known as the Cousins.

Jesse kills Gus' intended replacement for Walt, the Walt Whitman-loving Gale (David Costabile).

Best episode:‘‘Fly’’ (310)Yes, some people hate this episode.

What Happens? The intellectual chess match between Walt and Gus escalates. Gus wants to kill Walt but can’t murder his cook. ‘‘Tio’’ (Mark Margolis), the

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There are no shoot-outs.

Just Bryan Cranston and Aaron Paul in a room, in the best one-act play ever written about meth.

Jesse and Walt spend the day in the lab, trying to kill a fly.

What Happens? Walt kills foe/partner Mike (Jonathan Banks). Also, in a flash-forward, we learn that Walt has an M60 in his trunk. Who’s his target?

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Buried treasure:Walt fishes a plastic eyeball out of his pool filter.

Gus is watching Walt, and it’s only making Walt more evil.

Season 4

What happens?The intellectual chess match between Walt and Gus escalates.

Gus wants to kill Walt, but can’t murder his cook.

But he helps Walt kill Gus anyway.

And, in one final jaw-dropping twist, we learn that Walt almost killed a kid.

But the most shocking twist?

Even with our last shred of sympathy destroyed, most of us would keep rooting for Walt.

That’s the name of anX-Filesepisode.

Season 5

What happens?Walt kills foe/partner Mike (Jonathan Banks).

Also, in a flash-forward, we learn that Walt has an M60 in his trunk.

Who’s his target?

Meth distributor Lydia (Laura Fraser)?

The ex-con family of new cook Todd (Jesse Plemons)?

Cancer is Walt’s biggest enemy, though.

Buried treasure:There’s a theory that color points to character motivations.

And pink, like the teddy bear that fell into Walt’s pool, seems to symbolize death.

Is it curtains for baby Holly?