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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.

Jesse arrives back at the lab the next day and as he opens the door he must force it open due to the increased the air pressure in the lab. Jesse asks Walt what is happening and Walt tells him he has turned up the air pressure because there is a contaminent in the lab. The air pressure is killing Jesse’s ears until Walt turns it down. When Jesse finds out from Walt that the contaminent is a fly, Jesse notices Walt is acting strange and wonders if Walt is in his right mind with so little sleep in the last two days. Walt starts chasing the fly with a giant makeshift flyswatter he created as Jessie looks on in disbelief. Jesse tells Walt “We make poison for people who don’t care”, he believes chasing after the fly is a waste of time, they need to be cooking meth before the current batch goes bad. When Jesse starts to cook meth, Walt hits his arm with the flyswatter. Jesse yells in pain and asks Walt what’s wrong with him. Walt feels the fly lands on his head and tells Jesse to hit him with the flyswatter, which Jesse is more than happy to do. Jesse hits Walt hard enough that he drops to the floor. Walt can’t find the fly’s body and continues to obsess about the fly. Walt tells Jesse “There is no more room for error. Not with these people.”

Jesse suggests they step outside so Walt can get some fresh air. At the top of the stairs Walt asks Jesse if he has his keys to the lab with him. When Jesse pulls them out of his pocket Walt grabs them and locks the door behind Jesse, yelling “If you’re not gonna help me, stay out of my way!” At this point Jesse is angry and switches off the main circuit breaker to the lab. Walt agrees to let Jesse back in if he powers up the lab again. Jesse goes to the store and brings back a bag of pest products, which Walt rejects. Jesse insists the yellow sticky strips will do the trick, Walt thinks the nontoxic glue strips are safe to use around the chemicals and he finally agrees to hang them around the lab.

Jesse makes coffee for them and slips sleeping pills into Walt’s coffee, so Walt can sleep while Jesse completes the batch of meth. Walt drinks his laced coffee as Jesse tells Walt a story about his aunt who died of cancer. Jesse’s aunt began to obsess about an opossum loose in her house even after it was captured because her cancer had metastasized in her brain. Walt assures Jesse his thought processes are fine. “I’m still in remission,” Walt tells Jesse. “I missed it,” he adds. “There was some perfect moment that passed me right by.” Jesse asks Walt if he wants to die. “I’m saying I’ve lived too long,” Walt says to Jesse. “It was the night Jane died,” Walt confides. He admits he stopped in a bar and sat next to Jane’s father, Donald. “What did you talk about?” says Jesse, startled by the news. “Family,” says Walt. “The universe is random,” Walt tells Jesse, explaining that fate put Jane’s father and he in the same place the night Jane died. Walt says he’s sorry about Jane, almost revealing his part in her death. Walt begins to feel groggy as he tells Jesse when he returned home from the bar that same night, he could hear Skyler singing Holly a lullaby over the baby monitor. “If I had just lived right up to that moment, and not one second more,” Walt says, “that would have been perfect.”

Jesse spots the fly up near the ceiling and is determined to kill it, saying “I’m gonna get that bitch”. Jesse balances a ladder unsteadily on top of two steel carts and starts to climb. Walt tells Jesse to forget it, “You’re gonna break your neck,” he says as he holds the base of the ladder while Jesse climbs up. Walt falls asleep as Jesse climbs down the ladder and spots the fly, hitting it and killing it. Jesse moves Walt to a couch and covers him up while he sleeps off the sleeping pills. At the end of their shift Walt and Jesse stand outside the industrial laundry. Walt checks with Jesse who assures him the batch of meth is packaged and complete. As Jesse climbs into his car, Walt stops him, letting Jesse know if he is skimming off the top of the meth he will eventually be found out and Walt will not be able to save him from Gus. Jesse responds “Who’s asking you to?” That night Walt lies in bed and once again notices the smoke detector on the ceiling above him. Walt is irritated to see that the light shining through the smoke detector shows the outline of a fly.