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Without turning this into a how-to video, we watch as: -- Powdered sinus tablets get soaked in a solvent, separated out as a paste and a liquid, then reduced down over heat. -- Veterinary iodine is transformed into hydriodic acid. -- The striker strips of dozens of matchbooks get scraped off with a razor blade, forming a pile of red phosphorus. -- Red phosphorus is combined with hydriodic acid and mixed with the pseudoephedrine culled from the sinus pills. The whole mess gets cooked into freebase meth oil. Salt, muriatic acid, and bits of aluminum foil are mixed in a gas can. It gets connected to a length of garden hose. hydrogen chloride gas bubbles through the hose and down into a big bucket full of freebase. White methamphetamine hydrochloride crystals float to the top and get skimmed off. Throughout all this, Walt is working with the utmost gravity and attention to detail -- as if he were a scientist on the Manhattan Project. As the cook progresses, we get little hints that Dupree is taking it more seriously, too. Seeing the way Walt works, seeing that he really knows his stuff, Dupree acts more respectful. He even starts wearing his safety gear. Clearly, he's learning from walt. EXT. WINNEBAGO - AFTERNOON The little RV sits hidden in the woods. Toxic-looking YELLOW SMOKE wafts through a vent in the roof. It curls up into the trees, filtering through shafts of red afternoon sunset. End MUSIC. End MONTAGE. INT. WINNEBAGO - EVENING It's getting dark outside. The cook is done. Walt sits in his apron, tired. He rubs at the red line around his face left by his respirator, trying to make it go away.
They've made about a pound Dupree carefully dips into lifting out a tiny sample. paper, swirling it around.
of fat, snowy white crystals. their product with a razor blade, He taps it onto a sheet of yellow His eyes are wide.
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