Breaking Bad recap: 'Rabid Dog'

Jesse Pinkman: Biting the hand that betrayed him

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In last week's episode of Breaking Bad, Jesse asked Walter to "drop the whole concerned dad thing." Well, tonight's "Rabid Dog" found Walt still desperately clinging to the role. "Jesse! You show yourself right now!" screamed Walt as he stomped through the house like a parent with an unruly toddler. But Jesse didn't spill a glass of milk or fail to clean his room; he poured gasoline all over Walter's living room. (It's not immediately clear why he didn't drop a match into it.)

Breaking Bad's fifth season has been unusually heavy on callbacks to key moments from the show's history, and the title "Rabid Dog" deliberately hearkens back to "Problem Dog," in which Jesse disguised his emotional breakdown over killing Gale Boetticher by describing him as a "problem dog" — not sick, not vicious, just in Jesse's way — that he decided to put down.

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Scott Meslow

Scott Meslow is the entertainment editor for TheWeek.com. He has written about film and television at publications including The Atlantic, POLITICO Magazine, and Vulture.