When he tries to convince his family to flee with him, his wife and son attack him, and Walt kidnaps his infant daughter. But the higher he rises, it gets harder and harder for him to argue that he's just leaving a nest egg for his family. About Us | Copyright Inquiry | Privacy Policy | Contact Us, Watch Breaking Bad Season 4 Episode 13 Online, About Us | Copyright Inquiry | Privacy Policy | Contact Us. Walt doesn't care about the money, he doesn't care about his family (do you really think his next stop is Hank's house... or to wherever he'll construct a super lab of his own?) and come up with something truly diabolical – as diabolical as Gus’s threat to murder his infant daughter. Press question mark to learn the rest of the keyboard shortcuts. Is it the best ever? Before Walt arrived in the winner's circle, of course, a death as gruesome as any in televised memory gave an entirely different meaning to the title of the finale. It's the undeniable subtext (or even the actual text) of the show. An agreed-upon plan between Hector and Walter, which is not revealed until the finale’s final moments, serves to brilliantly highlight Vince Gilligan’s intentions of putting the characters (and their stories) before any superfluous reveal forced by the need to placate impatient viewers. Recap, The coronavirus pandemic may have put a halt to The Walking Dead’s zombie, er, pandemic, but the AMC series is finally returning to close out season 10 o, The zombie apocalypse is nearing its end… kinda. Walt is the only other person that Jesse knows of who knows about ricin/the ricin they made. I think I speak for us all when I say we’re sorry to see Gus and by extension Giancarlo Esposito go. He's ostensibly a family man (although there's never proof that his "family" actually exists), and he's deeply connected to public life. He gets to accomplish everything that he left his mountain retreat to do. It was the story of Walt actually coming up with, and following through with, a careful, intelligent, winning plan. Forced to seek help outside of his familiar confines, Walter leads the charge in attempt to accomplish the duo’s predetermined goal of killing Gus by aligning himself with his former enemy, Hector Salamanca. His final shot in the show is him laughing and screaming as he drives away to supposed safety. Margaret Qualley’s Real-Life Mom Is Playing Her On-Screen M... We Never Spotted These People On Gilmore Girls Until Now, Aya Cash Plays A White Supremacist Monster On. Walt isn't just a villain...he's a monster. Walt did seem legitimately relieved Brock will survive, but the fact that he took the step with that deadly flower is all we need to know. The fourth season of the American television drama series Breaking Bad premiered on July 17, 2011 and concluded on October 9, 2011. Walt, unsurprisingly, does not see their side of things. Walt ends up in a remote cabin where his only company, Ed "the Disappearer", comes by just once a month to drop off supplies. He needs it to feel empowered. But, even if Gus’s connections don’t come back to haunt him, or he can salvage some of his money, and Jesse has no more questions about Brock, and Skyler is cool with him blowing up a nursing home, and Hank’s satisfied he’s got his Heisenburg: we know that that’s not going to happen. 90 Day Fiancé: What Happened To The Season 2 Couples After The Show, 'Breaking Bad' Season 4 Finale Review & Discussion, 90 Day Fiancé: Why Brittany Banks Is Bragging About Private Jet Ride During Pandemic, Marvel's Version of The Ghostbusters Are Led By She-Hulk, Are The Halloween Movies On Netflix, Prime, Or Hulu? As for Walt, most monster movies end with the monster dead (before a last-minute revival), so it's fitting when Walt finally bites the dust. How many actual, real people keep their car keys in the sun visor for anyone to find? By the time he's working for Gus Fring, he's about as close to a mainstream chemistry position as he's ever likely to get, with the added bonus of an absurd amount of money. Walt betrays Jesse completely by giving his former partner up to the white supremacists he's been working with (Mr. White working with white supremacists, get it?). Here you will find discussions and speculations about the show, pictures from the show, AMA's with the cast, and anything else Breaking Bad related. He has to be as sick and ruthless as Gus was. When he watches Jane choke to death without intervening, the fallout of her death leads to an entire passenger plane exploding over Albuquerque. There’s a real glee about the way Breaking Bad is plotted that is hard to articulate; it’s this element of playfulness than means that its payoffs, when they come, are satisfying in a way that I’ve never experienced in a television show before. Despite conquering a powerful enemy and reassuring his family that “it’s all over”, the man that Walter White has now become is not something he can simply walk away from. Each of the final three episodes—"Ozymandias," "Granite State," and "Felina"—can function as a kind of ending for the show. I expect and hope Gus’s mysterious past in Chile will be revealed at some stage, because he’s too fascinating to dispose of completely. And he certainly can’t have a boss. Follow Den Of Geek on Twitter right here. 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With a little help from Saul and a surprise confederate, will the duo's deathly plan succeed? That terrifying primal scream that Walt gave as his efforts to save his family with his money failed, before he succumbed to hysterical laughter, may well have been the last shred of humanity exiting his body. Follow him on Twitter and on Google+. He ends the show hobbling out to the meth shed to be with what he truly loves—a meth lab. When a wounded Jack survived, Walt shot him, despite Jack's promise that he could take Walt to his money. In a Charlie Sheen-like sense of the word, of course. Objectively, these people are probably right. "Felina," the finale episode of Breaking Bad, is basically a victory lap for Walt. From the beginning of the series, Walter has continued to traverse a dark and mysterious path – all while attempting to present a morally sound conviction. Walt lied to himself for so long that he believed his own lies for most of the show. We finally understand the ending of Breaking Bad, © 2020 Looper.com. As Gilligan put it, "This is a story about a man who transforms himself from Mr. Chips into Scarface." They'd started a business together, and when Walt needed a buy-out, Gretchen married Elliott, their other business partner, and the two became absurdly rich, partly through innovations that Walt had invented. By using our Services, you agree to our use of cookies. The demise of Gus, both beautiful and shocking, was as rewarding as it was tragic. And Face Off never stopped paying off, from its opening minutes to the final shot. He encouraged her to use the information to ensure that she would not be prosecuted by the DEA for his own crimes. 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He can't stand to accept pity, and he doesn't want to build a good life for his family if he's not the one who truly created it. He threatened to have them killed  if they didn't give it to his family after his death. Walt has the money to flee into a kind of witness protection program for criminals, but he's giving up the family that he pretended to do so much for. Didn't the doctor say Brock ate a poisonous flower? He's also a man of his word and usually pretty loyal to his employees. Vince Gilligan and company didn't even attempt to make Gus' murder a surprise. Jesse had no knowledge of ricin before Walt's plan to poison Tuco with it. When Walter learned that Todd and Jack were forcing Jesse to cook meth for them, he concocted a plan to free Jesse. By focusing the choices that the characters make, the effect that these choices have, and reveling in journey that these choices take each character on, it ultimately presents a more earnest conclusion, when one does eventually occur. So how did Brock get the ricin? Twitter: @anthonyocasio, All the latest gaming news, game reviews and trailers. If you need a helping hand to understand that final episode of Breaking Bad, well then, let's cook. What if…what if Walt uses Gus’s one emotional connection left against him to bring him down, once and for all?” “Guys… what if Hector blows up Gus with a bomb using his bell as the trigger?” “Oh yeah? But Walt rigged a machine gun in his car trunk which he set off, killing all the men there. | I think it was The Lilly of the Valley, the same flower at Walt's house, right? I alone should suffer the consequences of those choices." In Jesse's eyes, Walt was the only person that knew about the ricin cigarette. A one-stop shop for all things video games. And then Walt has to watch as Uncle Jack and his white supremacist gang take away all his earnings, except one single barrel of cash. - I wrote that Heisenberg was dead. The ongoing stand-off between Walter, Jesse, and Gus will reach its breaking point tonight, in the Breaking Bad season 4 finale. They pretend to be interested in order to lure Walt to the white supremacist compound and kill him that night. So when he walks out, the immediate reaction as a viewer (I know I’m not alone in this) was that they’d pushed it too far – there’s no way he’d survive that. For one thing, it was preceded by that glorious spaghetti western aping walk to the nursing home (to the excellent soundtrack of the aptly named Goodbye by Apparat), then that magnificently tense scene between him and Hector – but the kicker is when Gus walks out of the room. He murders Fring's old employees after they're sent to prison because it's cheaper to kill them than to keep paying for their silence.