Breaking Bad Season 3 Episode 10: Fly
Walt starts to unravel as the weight of what he has done begins to sink in. Walt has insomnia at 2:00 a.m., he looks above him to see the smoke detector and its light blinking back at him. Walt sits thinking and brooding until his alarm goes off. Walt gets ready and heads into work in a daze. As Walt sits staring off into space in his car, Jesse smacks Walt’s window, startling him. They enter the lab and begin to clean the equipment, a back breaking job. Jesse continues to complain about how they aren’t being paid enough while Walt ignores him. Walt adds up the amount of meth and tells Jesse they are short every batch recently. As Walt obsesses over the amount of meth missing, Jesse leaves for the evening. Walt hears a buzzing sound and sees a fly on his paper with meth calculations. Walt aims his hand at the paper and slams it down on the counter but has missed the fly. Walt turns his obsession from meth irregularities to the fly, considering the fly a contaminant in the lab.
Walt follows the fly trying to smash it from each area in the lab until the fly settles in on the ceiling. Walt considers throwing his clipboard up but instead takes off one of his shoes and throws it a number of times up to the ceiling. Walt’s final throw hits and breaks the overhead light but catches the shoelace of his shoe. Walt’s shoe dangles above him from the light fixture and the fly is still alive. Walt grabs a broom and climbs up the stairs near the light fixture, where he swings at the shoe to release it from the light. Walt manages to release the shoe, as it falls to the floor he sees the fly and tries to hit it while leaning out from the railing. Walt hits at the fly and loses his balance, falling on top of a metal lab container then onto the floor on his back. As Walt lies there with the wind knocked out of him and in pain, the fly rests itself on the lens of Walt’s glasses.
