When creator Vince Gilligan pitched Breaking Bad to AMC, he mentioned, “We’re going to take Mr. Chips and we’re going to show him into Scarface.” And that’s exactly what he did: as highschool chemistry trainer Walter White, star Bryan Cranston remodeled himself into maybe the world’s very unlikely meth kingpin.

It took a little bit of time for viewers to heat as much as Breaking Dangerous, doubtlessly due to Walt’s sluggish descent into ruthlessness, however as soon as they did, they had been — appropriately sufficient — addicted.

The Breaking Dangerous universe expanded after the unique collection’ closing episode, exploring the origin story of unscrupulous lawyer Saul Goodman (Bob Odenkirk) in Better Call Saul. That spinoff, nevertheless, has achieved nothing to taint the present that spawned it. If something, Breaking Dangerous has solely gotten higher with age, and its conclusion is thought to be among the finest collection finales of all time.

As such, Leisure Weekly is taking a deep dive into Breaking Dangerous’s ending with Gilligan formally clarifying Walt’s destiny when the closing credit rolled.

How did we get right here?

After the whole lot that’s gone down in Albuquerque, together with Jack (Michael Bowen) killing Hank (Dean Norris) and Steve Gomez (Steven Michael Quezada), Walt escapes custody and contacts a person referred to as “The Disappearer” to safe a brand new id someplace far-off.

Upon spending a number of months at a distant cabin in New Hampshire, Walt — now with a full head of hair and a giant ol’ beard — makes his manner into city and tries to achieve out to his son, Walt Jr. (RJ Mitte), who’s now calling himself Flynn. Walt intends to ship a package deal crammed with $100K to Flynn, however the dialog goes poorly, which is to say that Flynn asks his father, “Why are you continue to alive? Why don’t you simply die already?”

Realizing that he’s really on their own and that his crimes had been all for nothing, he calls the DEA, tells them who he’s, and leaves the telephone off the hook in order that they will discover him. And they might have, too, if the bar the place he was ready hadn’t been displaying an interview along with his former startup companions, Gretchen (Jessica Hecht) and Elliott Schwartz (Adam Godley) on The Charlie Rose Present. By the point the DEA arrives, nevertheless, he’s lengthy gone.

The place did Walt go after evading arrest… once more?

After seeing Gretchen and Elliott’s interview, by which they publicly undersold his involvement with their firm, Grey Matter Applied sciences, Walt out of the blue decides on a brand new plan: to confront his former companions. It could have been a spur of the second concept, however by the point he arrives at their home again in New Mexico, it’s clear that he’s spent his cross-country drive arising with an elaborate — however finally extraordinarily efficient — plan of motion.

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How does Walt ensure that his children obtain his cash?

After scaring the dwelling hell out of Gretchen and Elliott once they discover him standing quietly of their lounge, Walt produces exactly $9,720,000 in money, inflicting Gretchen to understandably ask two crucial questions: “The place did it come from, and why is it right here?” Walt replies, “I earned it…and also you’re going to provide it to my youngsters.”

Extra particularly, on Walt Jr.’s 18th birthday — sorry, on Flynn’s 18th birthday — they’re to provide him the cash within the type of an irrevocable belief with the hope that he makes use of it for his school schooling and the betterment of his household. By having it come by the Schwartzes, it appears to be like much less suspicious, to not point out that Flynn wouldn’t settle for any money instantly related to his father.

How do Badger and Skinny Pete determine into Walt's plans?

Walt is aware of that the Schwartzes will want somewhat…added incentive, let’s say, to maintain their phrase. As Elliott vows to make good on Walt’s request, Walt gestures in the direction of the window, at which level Gretchen and Elliott discover two purple dots beamed onto their chests by the home windows.

Walt explains that he’s given $200K “to the 2 greatest hitmen this aspect of the Mississippi,” assuring them that if his son doesn’t get the cash on his 18th birthday, a countdown will start, and once they least count on it… effectively, you get the image.

In actuality, Walt is enjoying them. The purple dots didn’t come from two rifles however from Jesse’s (Aaron Paul) previous friends Badger (Matt Jones) and Skinny Pete (Charles Baker), who Walt has paid handsomely (however far lower than two hitmen would value) to goal laser pointers into the Schwartz home.

Why does Walt danger returning to his previous home?

It’s not a prolonged go to, however it’s nonetheless a harmful one, provided that Walt is a very needed man within the eyes of the legislation. However he takes his possibilities as a result of he must retrieve the ricin that’s saved behind {an electrical} outlet within the previous master suite. It was all the time a given that somebody would discover themselves on the receiving finish of the poison, however we’re lastly about to search out out who.

What occurs throughout Walt's espresso store encounter with Lydia and Todd?

Walt’s tone is quiet and pleading as he explains that he is aware of they’re working low on methylamine as he’s working on cash, which is why he’s providing to promote them a method that may enable them to supply their product with out utilizing methylamine. Todd (Jesse Plemons) doesn’t need any a part of it, however Lydia (Laura Fraser) appears , not less than till Walt leaves. Then it’s clear that the one motive she’s enjoying alongside is as a result of she is aware of Jack will kill Walt if she units up a gathering.

The scene closes with Lydia stirring her stevia into her tea, which — as she discovers upon falling sick — Walt has spiked with the aforementioned ricin, thereby making certain that he will get his closing revenge on her irrespective of how issues go together with Jack.

How does Walt ostensibly assist Skyler to safe a good future?

First, Walt offers Skyler (Anna Gunn) some directions: name the DEA, inform them that he pressured his manner into her new house, and clarify how he gave her a lottery ticket containing GPS coordinates to the place Hank and Steve Gomez are buried. All she has to do, Walt says, is commerce that info for a cope with the prosecutor to get herself out of the state of affairs that she’s in.

Earlier than he goes, Walt admits that for all of his claims on the contrary, he didn’t actually do all of it for his household; he did it as a result of he preferred it, he was good at it, and it made him really feel alive. It’s honest to say that that is probably the most sincere he’s ever been with Skyler in your complete collection, and you may inform from the look on her face that she is aware of it. With that, he says a tragic closing goodbye to his child daughter, Holly, and walks out the door.

What goes down when Walt confronts Jack on the compound?

At first, it appears to be like just like the confrontation will certainly end in Jack dismissing Walt’s supply and killing him on the spot. However Walt stalls by snapping at Jack for supposedly partnering with Jesse Pinkman — pure, blue meth continues to be on the streets, in spite of everything. Jack scoffs on the suggestion of partnership and calls for that Todd retrieve Jesse, whom he’s been conserving underneath (literal) lock and key as an enslaved cook dinner.

When Walt sees Jesse (in a really unhappy state), he out of the blue tackles him, sending each males to the ground. Virtually concurrently, Walt presses a button on his automotive key, inflicting a machine gun to come out of his trunk and spray bullets into the room. His contraption seemingly kills everybody however Walt, Jesse, Todd, and Jack.

With most of his captors now useless, Jesse wraps the chains on his wrists round Todd’s neck and chokes him to dying. Walt, gun in hand, then approaches Jack with a gun, who tells him that if he pulls the set off, he’s by no means going to know the place his cash is… however Walt shoots him within the head anyway. Finish of story, proper?

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What’s Jesse's closing destiny?

Having watched Walt kill Jack in chilly blood, it’s clear that Jesse thinks he awaits the identical destiny. (In spite of everything, Walt did order these Neo-Nazis to cap Jesse after he threatened Walt’s household and ratted to the DEA.) As a substitute, Walt units the gun on the bottom and slides it over to Jesse, ordering, “Do it. You need this… I need this.” Jesse, nevertheless, refuses, retorting again, “Then do it your self,” then driving off within the El Camino, laughing in a manic, panicked manner now that he’s lastly free.

For extra particulars on what occurs after that, you may try the post-series movie El Camino: A Breaking Bad Movie. However that’s a dialogue for one more time.

Is Walt alive or useless on the finish of the episode?

Properly, one factor’s for certain: Walt appears to be like horrible after Jesse drives off, which is when he discovers that he took a a lot worse hit to the stomach from the machine gun than he’d beforehand realized.

Walt then heads — the place else? — into the meth lab, wandering round and searching on the gear with distinct fondness. As he picks up the fuel masks, Badfinger’s “Child Blue” kicks in with its apropos opening line: “Guess I bought what I deserved.” With sirens sounding off within the background and flashing lights from approaching police vehicles, Walt leaves a bloody handprint on a tank and collapses on the ground, eyes huge open as an aerial shot zooms out and the authorities shut in.

There isn’t any additional movement from Walt as cops encompass him, so… are we to presume that he’s useless?

Yeah, really, we’re. And we all know that is the case as a result of Gilligan mentioned as a lot through the promotion for El Camino. Whereas on The Wealthy Eisen Present, Gilligan mentioned outright, "Yeah, I'm gonna offer you that one, Wealthy, as a result of I really like you a lot. Sure, Walter White is useless. Sure."

However that wasn’t all the time a stable conclusion for the Breaking Dangerous writing employees.

"We didn't really feel an absolute want for Walt to run out on the finish of the present,” Gilligan told Entertainment Weekly in the wake of the series finale. “Our intestine advised us it was proper. Because the writers and I labored by all these totally different potentialities, it felt proper, however I don't suppose it was a necessity for us. There was a model we kicked round the place Walt is the one one who survives, and he's standing among the many wreckage and his complete household is destroyed… We talked a couple of model the place Jesse kills Walt. We talked a couple of model the place Walt roughly will get away with it. There's no proper or mistaken manner to do that job — it's only a matter of: You get as many sensible folks round you as potential within the writers' room, and I used to be very fortunate to have that. And when our intestine advised us we had it, we wrote it.”

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