Let's go over the facts, shall we?
There are reports of methamphetamine with an unusual blue color popping up all over Albuquerque, New Mexico. No other places in the world have ever seen anything like it.
Except for those around Albuquerque. This makes it very likely that the meth lab, and by extension the cook, must reside in Albuquerque.
Yeah. Look at Sherlock Holmes over here; telling us what we already know.
You wanna say that again, you son of a bitch?
If you're all done bickering, answer me this.
What do we know about the cook? Who is he? Why does he do this?
If we knew who he was, we'd have him in cuffs by now, genius.
That's not what I meant when I asked you who he was. What I meant was: of all places, why did he pick Albuquerque? Why does he even do this to begin with? A man that created the world's best meth seemingly overnight, and on purpose.
To make a lot of money. Same as the rest of them.
Yeah, the 'why' never really changes around here. I'm not sure why that's even a question. It's fairly obvious, unlike that first question of yours. Albuquerque, Santa Fe; that SOB could've set up anywhere he wanted.
Alright then, uh...L, was it? What do you know fresh off the plane that my boys and I already don't?
It's not so much what I know, but what doesn't make sense to me.
To achieve a purity this high is no easy feat. The average cook achieves what...
By comparison, this Heisenberg produces...what was it again?
99.1 percent. Just shy of perfection.
Why go through the extra effort of producing meth that pure? Even just a 10% purity lead would set him apart from the competition.
And yet, he produces that over, and over, and over again; never to drop below that exact number.
I don't know. Maybe he's trying to get the meth high score.
Tell me, Agent Schrader. What does it mean to make product that pure?
It means your parents failed you if your passion is pure meth. I mean...what? You're really gonna obsess over every gram of the stuff?
Yes. A man that skilled would measure everything meticulously. Every gram weighed; every milliliter accounted for.
Add the fact that there's no shortage of cold medicine in the area, this tells us that he's using an alternative recipe. Likely with chemicals that are not easy to acquire, or even know to the layman.
Again. Telling me stuff I already know. Heisenberg's a genius in the lab. So what?
Doesn't it strike you as odd that a man with that much knowledge of chemistry is just...sitting here in your own back yard? I mean, I'm no chemist, but surely a mind that brilliant would have no issue synthesizing legal compounds that would net him millions of dollars.
So I ask again: why this? Why methamphetamine? Why go through the risk of being rich this way when he could just as easily do it without being a criminal? Why strive for the perfect meth?
Well, shit. When you put it like that, doing this for the money doesn't make any sense. And if that's the case, going for meth that pure is like a kid going for a high score in the arcade.
Yes. He's just as likely to be prideful as he is intelligent.
With him, it's not about the means and their benefits. It's all about being on top. And he doesn't care who he has to hurt to get there.
I say, we pull up a database of all known chemists in Albuquerque. A guy that good has to be educated.
Yes, I had that very thought myself.
All chemists, eh? Do high school teachers count? Maybe we'll see Walt in there.
Apparently Tumblr has an image limit so I'll have to do a part 2.
Awfully funny that I hit that limit right when Walt was mentioned. Talk about accidental cliffhanger.
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