He even manages to ruin the lives of the corrupt individuals around him. The man is a wrecking ball. Even though Walt is smart and logical, he lacks insight into the psychological rationale behind what he is doing. This makes for a dangerous combination. As he makes his dire choices, he blinds himself to the truth of his actions and ensures his final fate. Despite the chaos that surrounds him, Walt is able to approach situations analytically and come out on top.
However, Walt begins to emulate the powerful individuals around him. In their world, power is maintained through fear. Choices that he makes begin to show that he is not the kind, helpless man we first thought he was. His decisions begin to severely affect the lives of those around him, displayed in a destructive manner by the airplane crash over Albuquerque.
This plane crash, which plops a symbolically-loaded charred teddy bear into Walt's pool, is a direct result of his decision to stand by and watch Jesse's girlfriend choke to death in a heroin overdose. Up until this point, most of the choices he's made are to save his own life.
Now, his decisions are made in an attempt to maintain control. It'd be nice to think that every decision Walt makes is to survive in an incredibly dangerous, drug-fueled world. But in reality, there's always been another route for him — an option that could have avoided all the turmoil he endures. It's an escape from the world of drugs most meth kingpins could only dream of. And he drinks beer with him on the weekends. In the case of a lot of criminals in Breaking Bad , you can understand the trap they have fallen into.
These people need to continue down their path in order to survive, having no other route available to them. They have a choice between death or a lifetime in prison — no choice at all, in practical terms. Walter White, however, constantly has a way to get out of the predicament in which he has landed himself. Hank Schrader , the incorruptible DEA agent, is always in the mix as his lovable brother-in-law. The more we see from Hank the more we know that given the circumstances and their relationship, Walt could pull the rip-cord at any time.
Hank is an important aspect of the show's dynamic. He shows that the possibility of virtue is alongside Walt the entire way. He chooses to actively ignore that choice. Hank's death displays that choice being removed from the equation — redemption, at that point, is no longer an option.
Walt's pursuits are hindered by the drug kingpin known as Gus Fring. The man is smart and has years of experience in a world to which Walt is a newbie. Rather than seeing a moment to profit and continue doing what he loves through a mutually beneficial relationship, Walt only sees competition in Gus.
This is another display of his ego running rampant. The drug operations that run behind the scenes of Los Pollos Hermanos, the restaurant chain Fring owns, are a streamlined operation run by level-headed individuals.
Walt, however, hates not being in control. Moreover, due to Gus' stoic nature and Walter's being sequestered in an underground lab, working with Gus means being deprived of the praise over his product that he's enjoyed. Add to all this the fact that his power over Jesse is removed: Gus sees Jesse as an unstable factor that does not need to exist in the equation.
Walt refuses to accept this because it would remove what little control he has. Like the master of logic that he is though, he masks this all in a thick cloud of supposed loyalty. The end result shows that there is no one whose life can't be destroyed by Walter White. By the halfway point of the series, it is beginning to become apparent that we may not be rooting for the good guy. Walt continues to be offered routes with positive outcomes for most parties involved. He does not choose them. Walt does not see these other routes presented to him as viable for the simple reason that he himself did not think of them.
He has become a powder keg of emotions. His ego will not let him see any situation as a win if there isn't somebody else losing. Having spent a lifetime devoid of any control, the idea of losing any power is only seen as a loss entire. In the best option offered him, Walt brings in vast quantities of money making meth, Jesse is stable, and Walt's family situation is secure. Walt gave Jesse the opportunity to take him out later on, but Jesse seemed content to let nature take its course as he saw Walt's bullet wound.
But we'll get to Jesse when we talk about the survivors. In the meantime, Walt had one last look at a meth lab before dying on the floor as the cops pulled in, a day late and millions of missing dollars short.
Seriously, where's the money?! Uncle Jack and the nazis - As mentioned, the nazis were sprayed with bullets thanks to Walt's mechanical abilities and a car alarm keychain. Jack actually survived the worst of the shooting and Walt had the pleasure of putting a bullet in him just as Jack was trying to bargain with him about where the rest of the money was.
Walt shot Jack in the face mid-sentence, which was kind of poetic justice when we consider that Jack did the same thing to Hank. Todd - Creepy Todd got what he had coming to him, courtesy of Jesse. Let's pause to flashback to Todd shooting that kid on the bike and killing Andrea.
He was polite, but he was not a good guy. The sight of Jesse taking Todd down is just a bit sweeter with that in mind. Todd's last words were "Mr. RIP Todd. You were creepy, but you'll be with Lydia soon.
Lydia - Lydia got the ricin! Walt snuck it into her precious Stevia. Considering Lydia's always been a creature of habit and routine, it was almost too easy for Walt to know exactly where to put the ricin. He even made sure there was just one packet. I think last week's episode actually teased this moment when Lydia requested more Stevia from the server at the coffee shop when she and Todd were meeting.
We saw Lydia put the Stevia in her mug and the zoom-in seemed to imply that the ricin was in there, so I wondered if we'd actually get to check in with Lydia again to show us that she was, in fact, dead or dying.
And sure enough, we did, as Lydia called Todd to see if Walt was dead and got a rude awakening when Walt answered Todd's phone, delivered the bad news and told her he poisoned her. I'm still dead, Walter White, I don't know what [could happen.
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