Walter is busy still trying to decide what to do with Krazy-8 (Max Arciniega), and even starts a list of the pros and cons of either letting him go, or killing him. In the especially riveting conversation between the two of them, Walter learns more about the guy, and we think that it's possible to like him, but Walter still has his doubts. He wants Krazy-8 to *sell* him on the idea of letting the prisoner go. What was fun was seeing them bond over learning that Krazy-8s' father runs a furniture store from which Walter once bought a bassinet, and hearing both of them laugh over the fathers' obviously cheesy late-night commercials.
While talking with Skylar, Marie (Betsy Brandt), Hanks' wife, comes to the mistaken belief that Walter Jr. Is smoking marijuana, and convinces Hank to talk to the kid. Hank relents, and one of the standout sequences here is seeing him take Walter Jr. To a notorious hotel that is a hang-out for meth heads and other lowlifes. (Hanks' conversation with a hooker (Julia Minesci) is interesting, since she won't come clean about her drug usage until he convinces her to show him and Walter Jr. Her teeth.) One of the best things about this entire excellent sequence is the revelation waiting back in a hotel room.
Things get off to a great and visually interesting start as Walter and Jesse clean up the big mess left at the end of the previous episode. It made for great entertainment the way that they went for each others' throats (figuratively), with Walter even threatening to flush a stash down a toilet. But the ending is powerful stuff, leading to what will be a critical revelation in the next episode.
This is definitely one of the best TV series that this viewer has seen over the last two decades.
Eight out of 10.