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ABQ (Breaking Bad)
"ABQ" is the thirteenth and final episode of the second season of the American television crime drama series ''Breaking Bad''. The episode aired on AMC on May 31, 2009. This episode introduces cleaner and hitman Mike Ehrmantraut (Jonathan Banks). Along with Gus Fring and Saul Goodman, he was promoted to main cast in Season 3, and subsequently returned in the prequel Better Call Saul. Plot Jesse Pinkman wakes from his heroin-induced sleep to find Jane Margolis dead, having choked on her own vomit. He attempts CPR, to no avail, as she had already been dead several hours. Horrified and distraught, Jesse contacts Walter White. Walt calls Saul Goodman, who sends a cleaner, Mike Ehrmantraut, to remove evidence of drugs from Jesse's apartment. Jane's father Donald arrives at the apartment and discovers she has died. Jesse blames himself for Jane's death and runs off to a crack house. Walt locates an anguished Jesse and attempts to comfort him, before taking him to a rehab clinic ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Breaking Bad
''Breaking Bad'' is an American crime drama television series created and produced by Vince Gilligan for AMC (TV channel), AMC. Set and filmed in Albuquerque, New Mexico, the series follows Walter White (Breaking Bad), Walter White (Bryan Cranston), an over-qualified, dispirited high-school chemistry teacher struggling with a recent diagnosis of Cancer staging, stage-three lung cancer. White turns to a life of crime and partners with a former student, Jesse Pinkman (Aaron Paul), to produce and distribute methamphetamine to secure his family's financial future before he dies, while navigating the dangers of the criminal underworld. The series also stars Anna Gunn, Dean Norris, RJ Mitte, Betsy Brandt, Giancarlo Esposito, Jonathan Banks, and Bob Odenkirk. ''Breaking Bad'' Pilot (Breaking Bad), premiered on AMC on January 20, 2008, and Felina (Breaking Bad), concluded on September 29, 2013, after List of Breaking Bad episodes, five seasons consisting of 62 episodes. ''Breaking Bad' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Steven Michael Quezada
Steven Michael Quezada (; born February 15, 1963) is an American actor, comedian and politician. He played Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) agent Steven Gomez, the level-headed partner of Hank Schrader, in the AMC series ''Breaking Bad'' from 2008 to 2013 and reprised his role in its spin-off, ''Better Call Saul'' during season 5. As a touring comedian Quezada has headlined at The Laugh Factory and George Lopez's Punchliner Comedy Club for Carnival Cruise Line, he has a 2022 comedy special on Amazon Prime titled ''The New Mexican'' and, in December 2023, he opened Quezada’s Comedy Club and Cantina in Santa Ana Star Casino. From 2017 to 2025, he served on the Bernalillo County Board of Commissioners. Early life and education Quezada was born in Albuquerque, New Mexico. He graduated from West Mesa High School in 1981. After graduating from high school, Quezada attended Eastern New Mexico University where he studied theatre arts, but did not earn a degree. Career Beside ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Better Call Saul
''Better Call Saul'' is an American legal crime drama television series created by Vince Gilligan and Peter Gould for AMC. Part of the ''Breaking Bad'' franchise, it is a spin-off of Gilligan's previous series, ''Breaking Bad'' (2008–2013), to which it serves primarily as a prequel, with some scenes taking place during and after the events of ''Breaking Bad''. ''Better Call Saul'' premiered on AMC on February 8, 2015, and ended on August 15, 2022, after six seasons consisting of 63 episodes. Set primarily in the early to mid-2000s in Albuquerque, New Mexico, several years before ''Breaking Bad'', ''Better Call Saul'' examines the ethical decline of Jimmy McGill ( Bob Odenkirk), an aspiring lawyer and former con artist who becomes the egocentric criminal-defense attorney Saul Goodman alongside his romantic interest and colleague Kim Wexler ( Rhea Seehorn), while dealing with conflicts with his brother Chuck McGill ( Michael McKean) and his law partner Howard Hamlin ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Breaking Bad Season 3
The third season of the American television drama series ''Breaking Bad'' premiered on March 21, 2010, and concluded on June 13, 2010. It consisted of 13 episodes, each running about 47 minutes. AMC broadcast the third season on Sundays at 10:00 pm in the United States. The complete third season was released on Region 1 DVD and Region A Blu-ray on June 7, 2011. Season 3 saw actors Bob Odenkirk, Giancarlo Esposito and Jonathan Banks, who play Saul, Gus and Mike respectively, upgraded to main cast status after guest starring the previous season, although they are not credited for every episode until season 4. Cast Main * Bryan Cranston as Walter White, a terminally ill former high school chemistry teacher who is secretly cooking meth. * Anna Gunn as Skyler White, Walt's wife who learns about Walt's criminal activity. * Aaron Paul as Jesse Pinkman, Walt's former student who helps him cook. * Dean Norris as Hank Schrader, Walt's brother-in-law who is a Drug Enforcement Administr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Cleaner (crime)
A fixer is someone who is assigned or contracted to solve problems for others. The term has different meanings in different contexts. In British usage (and in other Commonwealth countries) the term is neutral, referring to a person, such as a special adviser, "who...gets things done". Use in American English implies that the methods used are of questionable morality and legality. In organized crime, cleaners remove incriminating physical evidence, including the disposal of bodies or witnesses. In sports, the term 'fixer' describes someone who makes arrangements to manipulate or pre-arrange the outcome of a sporting contest. In journalism, a fixer is a local person who expedites the work of a foreign correspondent. Facilitator Fixers may primarily use legal means, such as lawsuits and payoffs, to accomplish their ends, or they may carry out unlawful activities. The White House Plumbers have been described as fixers for Richard Nixon; their methods included break-ins a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
AMC (TV Channel)
AMC (an abbreviation of the channel's original name, American Movie Classics) is an American basic cable television channel that is the flagship property of AMC Networks. Launched in late 1984, the channel aired classic films prior to the 1970s, similar to Turner Classic Movies, the channel's former rival, until 2002, when AMC retired the American Movie Classics name as a result of a Channel drift, major shift in List of programs broadcast by AMC, its programming, and today airs original shows that are mainly dramas and documentaries, while airing theatrically released films, and acquired television programming. As of December 2024, AMC was available in approximately 60 million U.S. pay-TV households. This marks a decline from 65.1 million households in December 2023 and 94.8 million in July 2015, reflecting the broader trend of cord-cutting and the shift toward streaming platforms. History 1984–2002: Focus on classic films American Movie Classics, as AMC was originally kn ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Crime Drama
Crime film is a film belonging to the crime fiction genre. Films of this genre generally involve various aspects of crime and fiction. Stylistically, the genre may overlap and combine with many other genres, such as Drama (film and television), drama or gangster film, but also include Comedy film, comedy, and, in turn, is divided into many sub-genres, such as Mystery film, mystery, suspense or Film noir, noir. Screenwriter and scholar Eric R. Williams identified crime film as one of eleven super-genres in his Screenwriters Taxonomy, claiming that all feature-length narrative films can be classified by these super-genres. The other ten super-genres are action, fantasy, horror, romance, science fiction, slice of life, sports, thriller, war and western. Williams identifies drama in a broader category called "film type", mystery and suspense as "macro-genres", and film noir as a "screenwriter's pathway" explaining that these categories are additive rather than exclusionary. ''China ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Breaking Bad Season 2
The second season of the American television drama series ''Breaking Bad'' premiered on March 8, 2009, and concluded on May 31, 2009. It consisted of 13 episodes, each running approximately 47 minutes in length. AMC broadcast the second season on Sundays at 10:00 pm in the United States. The complete second season was released on Region 1 DVD and Region A Blu-ray on March 16, 2010. Cast Main * Bryan Cranston as Walter "Walt" White, a terminally ill high-school chemistry teacher in Albuquerque, New Mexico. Walt runs a methamphetamine business with his partner Jesse Pinkman. * Anna Gunn as Skyler White, Walt's pregnant wife and a bookkeeper for Beneke Fabricators. * Aaron Paul as Jesse Pinkman, a former student of Walt's and his current business partner. * Dean Norris as Hank Schrader, Walt and Skyler's brother-in-law and a DEA agent. * Betsy Brandt as Marie Schrader, Skyler's sister and Hank's wife. She is a radiologic technologist. * RJ Mitte as Walter White Jr., Walt and S ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
No Más (Breaking Bad)
"No Más" (Spanish for "No More") is the first episode of the Breaking Bad season 3, third season of the American television drama series ''Breaking Bad''. Written by Vince Gilligan and directed by Bryan Cranston, it aired on AMC (TV channel), AMC in the United States on March 21, 2010. This episode introduces assassins Marco and Leonel Salamanca. Plot Leonel and Marco Salamanca make a pilgrimage to a Mexican shrine to Santa Muerte, making an offering and leaving a drawing of Heisenberg at the shrine. After a Mid-air collision, mid-air plane collision, all of Albuquerque are in shock. A depressed Walter White (Breaking Bad), Walter White is living in his home alone following the departure of his wife, Skyler White, Skyler, who has moved out with their Walter White Jr., son and newborn List of Breaking Bad and Better Call Saul characters#Holly White, daughter to give Walt a chance to pack his things. Walt has pieced together that Donald Margolis inadvertently caused the plane c ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Phoenix (Breaking Bad)
"Phoenix" is the twelfth episode of the second season of the American television crime drama series ''Breaking Bad''. The episode aired on AMC on May 24, 2009. Plot Walter White barely delivers the inventory of drugs to Gus Fring in time, but misses his daughter Holly's birth. He arrives at the hospital, where he finds that Ted Beneke drove Skyler White there. At Jesse Pinkman's apartment, Jane Margolis wakes up when she is phoned by her father, Donald, because she is late for a Narcotics Anonymous meeting. At lunch afterward, she does not mention that she has started using heroin again, and acts as though she does not know Jesse when her father asks about him. Jesse, seeing the aftermath of Walt's search, initially believes he was robbed, but then listens to the phone messages Walt left. Walt, unable to tell anyone else in his family about the money, privately shows Holly the stacks of cash hidden in the garage walls. Later, Jesse shows up at Walt's classroom to ask for his ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
George Merkert
''Breaking Bad (franchise), Breaking Bad'' is a crime drama franchise created by American filmmaker Vince Gilligan. It started with the television series ''Breaking Bad'' (2008–13), and is followed by a prequel/sequel series, ''Better Call Saul'' (2015–22), and a sequel film, ''El Camino: A Breaking Bad Movie'' (2019). The following is an abridged list of characters appearing across the productions. Main characters Cast table Introduced in ''Breaking Bad'' Walter White Walter Hartwell White (also known by his alias Heisenberg) (played by Bryan Cranston) is an overqualified high school chemistry teacher from Albuquerque, New Mexico. After being diagnosed with lung cancer, he starts manufacturing methamphetamine to provide for his family upon his death. Knowing nothing about the drug trade, he enlists the aid of his former student, #Jesse Pinkman, Jesse Pinkman, to sell the meth he produces. Walter's scientific knowledge and dedication to quality leads him to prod ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Michael Shamus Wiles
Michael Shamus Wiles (born October 27, 1955) is an American character actor of film and television onscreen since the 1980s who has appeared in over 100 films and television shows. Early life Wiles was born in Everett, Washington, and raised in Bangor, Michigan. Career He portrayed Marc Mitscher in ''Pearl Harbor'' and Mr. Parmagi in '' Hellraiser: Inferno''. He is also known for recurring roles as ASAC George Merkert on ''Breaking Bad'' and as Jury on ''Sons of Anarchy''. Other notable appearances include ''Puppet Master 4'', '' Lost Highway'', ''Fight Club'', '' Rock Star'' and ''Transformers''. In 2011, he appeared in ''Rockstar Games Rockstar Games, Inc. is an American video game publisher based in New York City. The company was established in December 1998 as a subsidiary of Take-Two Interactive, using the assets Take-Two had previously acquired from BMG Interactive. Foun ...'' hit detective game '' L.A. Noire'' as Fire Chief Albert Lynch. He appeared in a 2015 produ ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
