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Breaking Bad Season 4 Episode 1: Box Cutter

At the opening of season 4, the life of Walt and Jesse on the ropes as Gus takes some costly measures to ensure that follows a provision of a "pure" product. Meanwhile, Skyler is concerned about the whereabouts of Walt and Marie put on a happy face in dealing with a depressed Hank.

Emmy Award-winning AMC drama Breaking Bad is back with a vengeance on 17 July. At the end of Season 3, Jesse (Aaron Paul) was in the race, Mike (Jonathan Banks) in pursuit, while Walt (Bryan Cranston) negotiated for his life with Gus (Giancarlo Esposito). In a desperate attempt to escape certain death, Walt drew a disturbing plan - to kill his former lab assistant Gale - providing for their safety and that of Jesse.

The scheme finally forced Jesse Gale doors with a gun, while Walt was taken hostage in SuperLab. This season, Walt and Jesse must deal with the consequences, both personally and professionally. Tension mounts as Walt is facing a real confrontation with his employer, Gus, with neither side willing or able to reverse. Walt must also adapt to a new relationship with Skyler (Anna Gunn), who at the same time reconciling his relationship with Walt, is committed to properly Walt money-laundering and ensuring her sister Mary (Betsy Brandt) and a sick Hank (Dean Norris) is financially stable.

Breaking Bad follows protagonist Walter White (Bryan Cranston), a chemistry teacher who lives in New Mexico with his wife (Anna Gunn) and teenage son (RJ Mitte) who has cerebral palsy. White is diagnosed with stage III cancer and given a prognosis of two years of life. With a new sense of fearlessness based on his medical prognosis, and a desire to ensure your family's financial security, White chooses to enter a dangerous world of drugs and crime and ascends to power in this world. The series explores how a fatal diagnosis such as White releases a typical man of the daily concerns and constraints of normal society and follows his transformation from family man, from mild to a drug lord.