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This Article examines the award-winning television show, Breaking Bad, to illustrate how the idea of a contract in popular culture can become inflected with a style of retrograde masculinity. Deals in Breaking Bad take place in the classic contract imaginary, which resembles the classic Western shootout: two antagonists face each other down in a duel. The show interrogates the frontier thesis, with its links to the American Dream and dangerous masculinities, through the ruthless contracts of Walter White. I celebrate myself, and sing myself, And what I assume you shall assume, For every atom belonging to me as good belongs to you.-Walt Whitman, Song of Myself 1 * Professor of Law, St. Thomas University School of Law; JD, University of 2. The show, which aired on AMC from 2008-2013, garnered numerous accolades and awards, including sixteen Emmy Awards, and was one of the highest-rated television series of all time. See Breaking Bad, IMDB,