Breaking Bad (TV Series)
...And the Bag's in the River (2008)
Jessica Hecht: Gretchen Schwartz
Quotes
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Walter White : Let's break it down. Hydrogen. What does that give us?
Gretchen Schwartz : We're looking at 63%.
Walter White : Sixty-three, that is a big bite. My next step's gotta be oxygen.
Gretchen Schwartz : Oxygen, 26%.
Walter White : Twenty-six. There you have your water.
Gretchen Schwartz : Carbon, 9%.
Walter White : Carbon, 9.
Gretchen Schwartz : For a total of 98%.
Walter White : Right.
Gretchen Schwartz : Nitrogen, 1.25%.
Walter White : One-point-two-five.
Gretchen Schwartz : That brings you to 99 and a quarter. Which only leaves you with the trace elements down where the magic happens.
Walter White : Oh, wait a minute. What about calcium? Calcium's not a trace. Got a whole skeleton to account for.
Gretchen Schwartz : You would think, right? Calcium's only 0.25%.
Walter White : What? That low? Seriously? Damn, I never would've thought that. Okay, so where does iron fit in.
Gretchen Schwartz : Iron. 0.00004%
Walter White : What? You can't have hemoglobin without iron.
Gretchen Schwartz : Apparently, it don't take take much. No doubt. Go figure.
Walter White : Sodium.
Gretchen Schwartz : Sodium, 0.04%. Phosphorus, 0.19%.
Walter White : Point-one-nine. There we go. So the whole thing adds up to... 99.888042%. We are 0.111958%. Shy.
Gretchen Schwartz : Supposedly that's everything.
Walter White : Yeah? I don't know, it just... it seems like something's missing, doesn't it? There's got to be more to a human being than that.
Gretchen Schwartz : What about the soul?
Walter White : The soul? There's nothing but chemistry here.