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"Pilot" is the first episode of the American television drama series ''Breaking Bad''. It originally aired on AMC on January 20, 2008, and was written and directed by series creator and showrunner Vince Gilligan. == Plot == A man (Bryan Cranston) wearing underwear and a gas mask drives a Bounder RV recklessly down a desolate road in the New Mexico desert. Another, younger man (Aaron Paul) with a gas mask covering a severely bruised face, unconscious, occupies the passenger seat. As the vehicle swerves down the dirt road, two bodies slide across the RV floor until the vehicle veers into a ditch. The hyperventilating driver climbs out with a video camera, wallet, and gun. Identifying himself as Walter Hartwell White, he records a cryptic, handheld farewell to his wife, son, and unborn child while sirens echo in the distance. Walt then steps onto the roadway, with the gun in his hand. Three weeks earlier, Walt has his 50th birthday. He lives in Albuquerque with his pregnant wife, Skyler (Anna Gunn), and their son, Walter Jr. (RJ Mitte), who has cerebral palsy. He is a committed but ineffectual high school chemistry teacher, providing instruction to uninterested and disrespectful students. Walt's work at the school pays poorly, so he also works as a cashier at a local car wash for additional income, which proves to be particularly humiliating when he has to clean the cars of his own students. Walt returns home where Skyler has organized a surprise birthday party for him. Among the guests are Walt's gregarious brother-in-law, DEA Agent Hank Schrader (Dean Norris) and his wife, Marie (Betsy Brandt). Later in the evening, Hank appears in a news report documenting his bust of a local methamphetamine lab. Walt, intrigued, asks Hank how much money was recovered at the crime scene, to which Hank replies "$700,000. Not a bad haul." Hank invites Walt to accompany him on a bust as a ride-along. The following day, Walt collapses at the car wash and is taken away by an ambulance. At the hospital, a doctor verifies that Walt has developed inoperable lung cancer and has only a few years to live. Back home, Walt keeps the news from Skyler. At the car wash, Walt loses his temper, insults his boss and storms out. Walt then takes up Hank on his offer and accompanies him on a bust. As Hank and his partner Steven Gomez (Steven Michael Quezada) sweep the scene, Walt waits in the squad car and notices one of his former students, Jesse Pinkman (Paul), escaping through a window of the house next door, while his partner Emilio Koyama (John Koyama) gets arrested. Later, Walt tracks Jesse to his home and gives him a choice: either partner with him in making crystal methamphetamine, or go to jail. Walt returns to the high school and steals beakers, flasks, two full face respirators, and protective aprons from a chemistry stock room. Jesse arranges to buy a used Bounder motorhome so that their laboratory can be mobile and harder to detect. After retrieving $7000 from his credit union, Jesse tells Walter that "his guy" wants $8500, to which Walter replies that it is "all the money he has in the world". The two drive the motorhome out to the desert where Walt strips down to his underwear and, using his exceptional knowledge of chemistry, meticulously produces what Jesse calls the purest crystal meth he has ever seen. Jesse takes a sample to Krazy-8 Molina (Maximino Arciniega), a drug dealer who happens to be the cousin of his former partner, Emilio. Out on bail, Emilio believes Jesse abandoned him. To disprove him, the three drive out to the desert where Krazy-8 offers Walt cash and asks him if he wants to switch allegiances. Before he can answer, Emilio recognizes Walt from the police bust and assumes it is a set-up, at which point Krazy-8 pulls out a gun. Jesse attempts to flee, but trips and knocks himself out on a rock. Walt barters for his life by promising to reveal his formula. In the RV, as Walt prepares the ingredients, Emilio throws a cigarette out the window and unknowingly ignites a brush fire. Walt makes his escape by mixing chemicals that produce deadly phosphine gas before he dashes out. Walt holds the door closed with the drug dealers inside. Untying Jesse, Walt puts a gas mask on him and drops him in the passenger seat, still unconscious. The brush fire has since gotten out of control, and unable to put it out, Walt drives away in the RV with the bodies of the dealers inside. After crashing into a ditch, and with the sound of sirens closing in, Walt stands in the middle of the road and tries to shoot himself. To his dismay, the safety is on. He struggles with the gun and misfires. A moment later, Walt is relieved to see that the sirens came from fire trucks, not police cars. Walt stashes the gun in the back of his underwear. Jesse, sporting a black eye, crawls out of the wreck to join him. Later that night, Walter returns home and meets his wife's troubled queries with a new sexual vigor, which leaves her asking, "Walt, is that you?" 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Pilot (Breaking Bad)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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