Breaking Bad but due to the 2007–2008 Writers Guild of America strike only seven episodes were filmed. It ran from January 20 to March 9, 2008. A struggling high school chemistry teacher, Walter White (Bryan Cranston), is diagnosed with inoperable, advanced lung cancer. On a ride-along with his DEA agent brother-in-law Hank Schrader (Dean Norris), Walter sees a former student of his, Jesse Pinkman (Aaron Paul), fleeing the scene of a meth lab. He later contacts Jesse and devises a scheme to become partners in an attempt to combine their skills to manufacture and distribute methamphetamine, with Walter cooking the product and
Walter White (Breaking Bad) sees Gretchen and Elliott on "Charlie Rose" dismissing his contributions to Gray Matter, and he is determined to return to Albuquerque to put things right. When Walter arrives in Albuquerque – on his 52nd birthday – he intimidates Gretchen and Elliott into putting his remaining money into a trust fund for Walter Jr. He then visits Skyler and gives her the location of Hank's body so she can clear herself as a suspect in his death, and finally admits to her that he entered the meth business for himself, not his family. As a token of appreciation, Skyler lets him