90-898: Walter White may refer to: Fictional characters [ edit ] Walter White ( Breaking Bad ) , a character in the television series Breaking Bad Walter White Jr. , character in the television series Breaking Bad In sports [ edit ] Walter White (American football) (1951–2019), American football player for the Kansas City Chiefs Walter White (Scottish footballer) (1882–1950), Scottish footballer for Bolton Wanderers, Everton, Fulham and Scotland Walter White (English footballer) (1864–?), English footballer for Wolverhampton Wanderers Walter White (boxer) (1894–1968), British Olympic boxer In government or electoral politics [ edit ] Walter L. White (1919–2007), American politician in
180-399: A U-lock around his neck, and Walt struggles with the decision on whether to kill him. After realizing Krazy-8 has hidden a piece of plate broken when Walt passed out due to a coughing fit, he realizes he has no choice and must kill Krazy-8. Walt goes to unlock Krazy-8's lock and as Walt does so, he confronts him about the plate, causing Krazy-8 to grab the plate to stab Walt with as soon as he
270-448: A protagonist that turned into an antagonist over the course of the show, or as he described, turning Mr. Chips into Scarface . In the aftermath of the death of James Gandolfini (who portrayed Soprano) in 2013, Gilligan said, "Without Tony Soprano, there would be no Walter White." Gilligan needed to have this character come into a midlife crisis that would put him into seeking risky options and lead to more criminal activities. As
360-401: A "second cell phone" – the one he uses to deal drugs – makes Skyler suspicious, leading her to uncover many of his lies and leave with their children. Just after her departure, two passenger planes collide directly above Walt's house; the accident was caused by Donald, who works as an air traffic controller and was so overcome with grief that he was not paying attention to his work. Walt watches
450-577: A 50 percent share of the profits. Jesse finally accepts the job, and Walt fires Gale from the lab and gives Jesse the assistant's job. Assuming that Skyler will not turn him in to the police because it would traumatize their children, Walt returns to his house. Skyler eventually comes to uneasily accept the situation and helps Walt launder his drug money, but refuses to have anything to do with him outside of business. The rift in their marriage worsens when Skyler sleeps with her boss, Ted Beneke ( Christopher Cousins ). Walt attempts to get back at her by making
540-685: A Drama Series , three of them being consecutive. He is the first man to win a Critics' Choice , Golden Globe , Primetime Emmy, and Screen Actors Guild Award for his performance. Cranston reprised the role of Walt in a flashback for Breaking Bad ' s sequel film El Camino , and again in the sixth and final season of the prequel series Better Call Saul , making him one of the few characters to appear in all three, alongside Jesse Pinkman, Mike Ehrmantraut ( Jonathan Banks ), Ed Galbraith ( Robert Forster ), and Austin Ramey (Todd Terry). You're going to see that underlying humanity, even when he's making
630-508: A burden and a helpless invalid, much as he remembers his own father. Later he reluctantly agrees to undergo treatment but refuses Gretchen and Elliott's offer to pay for it, choosing to re-enter the drug trade with Jesse. He shaves his head to hide his chemotherapy-induced hair loss. Dissatisfied with Jesse's slow pace of selling the meth, Walt pushes him to sell it in bulk to local drug lord Tuco Salamanca ( Raymond Cruz ), who has taken over Krazy-8's former territory. Discovering that Tuco stole
720-564: A divorce in return for her silence and demands that Walt have nothing to do with their children. After he discovers Jesse is cooking and selling his own version of the blue meth, Walt agrees to cook his meth for Gus. He is assisted by accomplished chemist Gale Boetticher ( David Costabile ) and the business begins running smoothly. Jesse continues to cook his own version of the blue meth, with his friends Skinny Pete ( Charles Baker ) and Badger ( Matt Jones ) as his distributors, but this leads to Hank nearly catching Jesse and Walt while following
810-547: A fact he already shared with Skyler before, Jr. berates him for acting weird and nonchalant about his cancer. He also becomes upset at his father's decision of not choosing chemotherapy . Over the weekend, Jr. and two friends are waiting outside a convenience store, waiting for somebody to buy them beer. The friends run away when Jr. approaches an off-duty cop. The cop tells him he got his "first and last warning." At an intervention held by Skyler for Walt, Hank, Jr., and Marie argue over what to do. While Skyler and Jr. want him to take
900-555: A fit of rage. Obtaining a list of the prisoners from Lydia, he enlists Todd's uncle Jack Welker ( Michael Bowen ), a criminal with ties to the Aryan Brotherhood prison gang, to kill the ten men simultaneously at multiple prisons to prevent the DEA from realizing that they were being targeted until it was too late. After a few months, Walt has earned more than $ 80 million from meth, and Skyler convinces him to stop. Walter leaves
990-425: A former student, Jesse Pinkman ( Aaron Paul ), to ensure his family's financial security after his death. Due to his expertise, White's "blue meth" is purer than any other on the market, and he is pulled deeper into the illicit drug trade. White becomes increasingly ruthless and unsympathetic as the series progresses, as series creator Vince Gilligan wanted him to turn from " Mr. Chips into Scarface ". He adopts
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#17327768370781080-435: A heroin stupor. Walt attempts to wake Jesse and inadvertently rolls Jane onto her back; she subsequently vomits and begins to choke. Walt does nothing to help her and watches her die. Walt contacts Saul for help, who sends Mike over to clear any connection Jesse has to Jane's death. Walt convinces Jesse to enter rehab . Walt undergoes an operation to remove the remaining cancerous growth. Walt's anesthesia-induced references to
1170-522: A lab and forced to cook meth since his abduction, Walt dives atop him and knocks them both to the ground. Now out of range, he activates a remote machine gun mounted in his car that injures Jack and kills all of his men except for Todd, whom Jesse strangles to death with a chain. Jack pleads with Walt to let him live, offering him the rest of his money, but Walt executes him with a gunshot to the face. Walt then asks Jesse to kill him, but Jesse tells him to do it himself. Walt then finds that he has been wounded by
1260-523: A lead on an RV he believed was being used to cook meth. To avoid being discovered hiding in the RV, Walt and Jesse, aided by Saul, place a phone call to distract Hank, making him believe his wife Marie ( Betsy Brandt ) has been injured in a car accident. Hank decides to leave the pursuit of the RV only to find out that Marie is fine, allowing Walt and Jesse to dispose of the vehicle. This enrages Hank enough to storm into Jesse's house and beat him so severely that he
1350-438: A life outside of cooking meth in the future. He suggests that Jesse should study business and marketing, remarking that Jesse has a natural talent and that he "could practically teach the class" himself using his vast knowledge. Afterward, Walt tells Jesse: "You're really lucky, you know that? You didn't have to wait your whole life to do something special." In the present, Jesse, Skinny Pete, and Badger see various news reports on
1440-475: A mustache he described as "impotent" and like a "dead caterpillar". Cranston also repeatedly identified elements in scripts where he disagreed with how the character was handled, and would go so far as to call Gilligan directly when he could not work out disagreements with the episode's screenwriter(s). Cranston has said he was inspired partially by his father for how Walter carries himself physically, which he described as "a little hunched over, never erect, [as if]
1530-663: A pass at the principal at his school, who puts him on indefinite suspension. Tuco's cousins Marco and Leonel Salamanca ( Luis and Daniel Moncada ) seek revenge against those responsible for his death and find out Walt's identity from their uncle Hector Salamanca ( Mark Margolis ). Believing that Walt betrayed Tuco, they go to his house and prepare to kill him with a silver axe. Gus discovers this, and to protect his investment in Walt, he convinces them to instead target Hank, who actually killed Tuco. The cousins die in their attempt to kill Hank, but they manage to temporarily paralyze him from
1620-457: A relocation program. While waiting to be picked up, Jesse figures out that Walt poisoned Brock. Jesse attempts to burn Walt's house down in retaliation, but Hank stops him and suggests they work together to bring down Walt. With Hank's help, Jesse lures Walt into a trap by claiming to have found his money. Walt makes arrangements with Jack and his men to kill Jesse, in exchange for promising to help teach Todd how to cook meth. When Walt realizes Jesse
1710-426: A ricocheted bullet. He answers a call from Lydia on Todd's phone and coldly informs her that she is going to die as a result of the poisoned drink she consumed. He exchanges a knowing nod with Jesse, who escapes the compound. Walt calmly walks around Jack's lab and admires the equipment that Jesse had been using, as well as the perfect batch of his product that Jesse had produced. As the police arrive, Walt collapses to
1800-494: A second job at a local car wash to supplement his income, which proves to be particularly humiliating when he has to clean the cars of his own students. Walter and his wife Skyler ( Anna Gunn ) have a teenage son named Walter Jr. ( RJ Mitte ), who has cerebral palsy . Skyler is also pregnant with their second child, Holly , who is born at the end of season two. Walt's other family includes Skyler's sister, Marie Schrader ( Betsy Brandt ); her husband, Hank ( Dean Norris ), who
1890-451: A suicide attempt to persuade Hank and Marie to take temporary custody of Walter Jr. and Holly. Hank connects Mike to the blue meth and begins pressing several of his associates, who are now in prison, to give information on the blue meth operation. When Walt delivers Mike's share of Declan's payment, Mike refuses to reveal these prisoners' identities and insults Walt, blaming him for all the problems they have encountered; Walt shoots him dead in
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#17327768370781980-618: A team win a Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1985. Using some of the prize money, Walter then founded the firm Gray Matter Technologies with Elliott Schwartz ( Adam Godley ), his former classmate and close friend. Around this time, Walter began a relationship with his lab assistant, Gretchen ( Jessica Hecht ), who soon after became a partner at Gray Matter. However, after a disastrous 4th July Party, where they had intended to announce their engagement, Walter instead left both Gretchen and Gray Matter Technologies, selling his financial interest in
2070-526: A technology firm before he accepted a buy-out from his partners. While his partners became wealthy, Walter became a high school chemistry teacher in Albuquerque , barely making ends meet with his family: his wife Skyler ( Anna Gunn ) and son Walter Jr. ( RJ Mitte ). At the start of the series, the day after his 50th birthday, White is diagnosed with Stage III lung cancer . After this discovery, White decides to manufacture and sell methamphetamine with
2160-542: A trust fund for Flynn. The next day, after visiting Skyler for the final time, before leaving Walt solemnly watches from afar as Flynn arrives home from school, accepting the fact that he wants nothing more to do with his father. Walt Jr. is portrayed by RJ Mitte and is the son of protagonist Walter White and his wife Skyler. When asked why so much of the character's screen time is shown in scenes eating breakfast, creator Vince Gilligan commented that his "love of breakfast indeed seems to know no bounds". Walt Jr.'s Flynn alias
2250-494: A visit, only to find him bloodied and on painkillers and alcohol. Concealing his fight with Jesse Pinkman , Walt blames it on gambling; he tearfully apologizes but later accidentally calls Jr. "Jesse" before drifting off to sleep. The next morning, Walt finds Jr. on his couch and apologizes for his drugged state, saying he does not want to be remembered that way after he is gone. However, Jr. seems to be more satisfied with his father's apparent truthfulness than with his double life for
2340-670: A wave of fictional "donations" drawn from Walt's drug money, in order to launder it and also make Jr.'s efforts appear successful. Jr.'s website gains media attention due to its apparent success; Walt is uncomfortable in the spotlight. Skyler and Walt separate. Jr., given no explanation by either parent, assumes that Skyler has inexplicably thrown his terminally ill father out of the house, and he takes his father's side. He later experiences severe difficulty understanding why his mother (who already knows about Walt's double life) refuses to let Walt back in, eventually snapping at her over dinner. Jr. goes to visit his father, who also does not tell him
2430-433: A writer. Cranston played an antisemite with a terminal illness who took Fox Mulder ( David Duchovny ) hostage. Gilligan said the character had to be simultaneously loathsome and sympathetic, and that "Bryan alone was the only actor who could do that, who could pull off that trick. And it is a trick. I have no idea how he does it." AMC officials were initially reluctant with the casting choice, having known Cranston only as
2520-465: Is a DEA agent; and his mother, who is never seen . The following appearances are based on the chronological narrative in Breaking Bad . Scenes from Better Call Saul fit into this chronology and are denoted appropriately. On his 50th birthday, during his surprise party , Walt watches a news report about Hank arresting methamphetamine dealers. Walt is impressed by the monetary returns from
2610-547: Is back and he will likely be dead in six months, making an arrest pointless. Hank says they can talk if Walt gives custody of his children to Skyler, Marie and Hank, but Walt refuses and tells Hank to "tread lightly". Walt attempts to discourage Hank from investigating him further by crafting a fake confessional videotape claiming Hank is Heisenberg. Walt buries his money in seven barrels on the Tohajiilee Indian Reservation and convinces Jesse to go into
2700-484: Is being targeted for assassination again so that his family would be protected by the DEA, Walt resolves to kill Gus. When Andrea's young son Brock (Ian Posada) falls desperately ill with ricin-like symptoms, Jesse attacks Walt, believing that he poisoned the boy. Walt manages to convince Jesse that Gus is the one responsible. After an attempt to kill Gus with a car bomb fails, Walt discovers from Saul that Gus has been visiting Hector in his nursing home, to taunt him about
2790-466: Is confident that Walt is in Hank's custody) forces Skyler to reveal the whole truth to her son. Upon learning of his father's connection with Hank's death, Jr. mistakenly concludes that he killed Hank. Feeling betrayed, Jr. calls 9-1-1 when Walt fends off Skyler's knife attack, forcing Walt to leave and eventually end up on the most wanted list . Disillusioned by his father's criminal activities, Jr. adopts
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2880-465: Is different from Wikidata All article disambiguation pages All disambiguation pages Walter White (Breaking Bad) Walter Hartwell White Sr. , also known by his alias Heisenberg , is the fictional antihero turned villain protagonist of the American crime drama television series Breaking Bad , portrayed by Bryan Cranston . White is a skilled chemist who co-founded
2970-428: Is freed. Walt panics and garrotes him to death with the lock while Krazy-8 wildly attacks behind him in an attempt to harm Walt. The experience shakes Walt, and he tells Jesse he will not cook meth anymore. Walt eventually tells his family about his cancer diagnosis, and they urge him to undergo expensive chemotherapy . He initially does not want to go through the treatment, fearing that his family will remember him as
3060-454: Is hospitalized. Walter visits Jesse in the hospital and apologizes for Hank, while also urging him to leave the meth business for good. Jesse replies that he will continue to cook meth on his own and that he will sue Hank for all the money he has. He also tells Walt that if he is caught, he will make a deal to give up "Heisenberg". In an attempt to save Hank's career, Walt convinces Gus to hire Jesse to replace Gale as his assistant and give him
3150-576: Is in remission, and plans to leave the meth business again after selling the final 38 lb (17 kg) of meth. He hires unscrupulous criminal attorney Saul Goodman ( Bob Odenkirk ) to cover his involvement in the drug trade and launder his drug money. The Better Call Saul episode " Breaking Bad " expands on Walt and Saul's first meeting where Saul quickly deduces Walt is Heisenberg and urges him to seek higher goals with his meth business. Saul also has his fixer, Mike Ehrmantraut ( Jonathan Banks ), investigate Walt's background; Mike warns Saul that Walt
3240-782: Is involved in the blue meth business. With the DEA skeptical and Hank being unable to drive due to his condition, he enlists Walt's help in the investigation as a driver and tracker. Walt attempts to sabotage the investigation, but Gus blames him for drawing Hank's attention. Gus rids himself of the Mexican cartel's influence in the area with the help of Mike and Jesse. He then fires Walt and threatens to kill Walt's entire family if he causes any more trouble. Walt tries to use one of Saul's connections to get him and his family relocated but finds that Skyler has used most of his drug money to pay off Ted Beneke's IRS fines to avoid having their own lives investigated. After arranging for Saul to report that Hank
3330-489: Is one of his former students, Jesse Pinkman ( Aaron Paul ). Looking to secure his family's well-being by producing and selling meth, Walt tracks Jesse down and blackmails him into selling the meth that Walter will cook. Walt gives Jesse his life savings to buy an RV that they can use as a rolling meth lab . After their first cook in the RV, Jesse brings a sample of the extremely pure meth to distributor Domingo "Krazy-8" Molina ( Max Arciniega ) and then brings Krazy-8 and
3420-450: Is successful, but Todd Alquist ( Jesse Plemons ), one of the pest control workers, kills a young boy who had seen them. Horrified, Jesse and Mike resolve to leave the business. A Phoenix -based drug lord named Declan ( Louis Ferreira ) offers to buy out the operation for $ 15 million in order to remove his competition. Walt convinces him to pay off Mike and begin distributing Walt's meth instead. Skyler becomes terrified of Walt and stages
3510-463: Is unnerved. Walt tells his son he is not moving back home and buys a flashy new Dodge Challenger car for him, but when Skyler comes back she demands Walt return it, lest he blow his cover. Rather than return Jr.'s car, Walt takes it on a joyride, crashes it, and blows it up. On Jr.'s birthday, Walt never arrives to help Skyler present his birthday gift, a Chrysler PT Cruiser which he is less than excited about. Concerned about his father, Jr. pays him
3600-433: Is unreliable and a bad risk, but Saul goes into business with him anyway. Seeing that Walt and Jesse need a new distributor to sell the large quantity of product they have remaining, Saul arranges a meeting at a local restaurant with a mysterious meth kingpin. Jesse shows up for the meeting high on heroin , and leaves when the kingpin does not show. Walt realizes that the restaurant owner, Gus Fring ( Giancarlo Esposito )
3690-520: Is using both feet to work the pedals. When Walt tries to get him to only use the right foot, Jr. gets upset and accidentally hits a safety cone. Around this time, Jr. adopts a new alias: "Flynn". Jr. later creates a website so that people can donate to his father's cancer surgery, unaware that Walt lives a double life as meth kingpin Heisenberg and has enough money which he does not want to reveal to his family. Walt's lawyer Saul Goodman arranges for
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3780-515: Is with Hank, he tries to call off the deal to protect Hank but is subdued by Hank and his DEA partner Steven Gomez ( Steven Michael Quezada ). Just then, Jack and his men arrive and fire on the group, killing Gomez and wounding Hank; Jack then executes Hank, despite Walt pleading for his brother-in-law's life. Jack's men take all but one barrel of Walt's money and abduct Jesse; as Jesse is taken away, Walt spitefully tells him that he watched Jane die. Walt tries to persuade Skyler and Walter Jr. to go on
3870-469: Is working on a new short story with a stoner character in it, she asks her about marijuana. Marie assumes that Skyler thinks Walter Jr. is smoking pot, but Skyler insists that she was just talking about her story. Marie asks her husband Hank , a DEA agent, to scare Walter Jr. straight . Hank brings Walter Jr. to a motel to show how meth has corroded the teeth of a prostitute . After Walter White reveals to Hank, Marie, and Walter Jr. that he has cancer,
3960-441: The "Flynn" alias permanently. Months later, Walt learns that Skyler and Flynn have left their house for a small apartment. He telephones Flynn and says that he is going to send money to Flynn's friend Louis, who should give it to Flynn, who should give it to Skyler. However, an enraged Flynn refuses, tells his father to hurry up and die, then hangs up. Walt coerces Gretchen and Elliott Schwartz to place his remaining $ 9.72 million in
4050-510: The DEA and gives himself up. As he waits for them, however, he sees Gretchen and Elliott on Charlie Rose downplaying his contributions to Gray Matter and resolves to return to Albuquerque to put things right. When Walt arrives in Albuquerque – on his 52nd birthday – he confronts Gretchen and Elliott at their home and coerces them into putting his remaining money into a trust fund for Walter Jr. He then visits Skyler and provides her with
4140-535: The DEA has seized all of Saul's assets and is even following Francesca in an attempt to find him. Francesca admits that she does not know what has become of Patrick Kuby , another one of Walt's associates and she does not answer Saul's questions about Ira and Danny. Saul is eventually discovered and interrogated by DEA agents. During their initial questioning, they bring in Marie, who is bitter at Saul for enabling Walter and leading to Hank's death. Saul shrewdly asserts he
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4320-414: The accident in horror, unaware that he is indirectly responsible for it. Walt decides to get out of the meth business, refusing Gus' offer to produce meth in a state-of-the-art laboratory hidden under an industrial laundry for a million dollars a month. Now separated from Skyler and living in an apartment, Walt admits to her that he has been financing his treatment by cooking meth. Horrified, Skyler asks for
4410-547: The actor's past performance in The X-Files episode " Drive ", which Gilligan wrote. Cranston contributed greatly to the creation of his character, including White's backstory, personality, and physical appearance. Both the character and Cranston's performance have received critical acclaim, with Walter White frequently being mentioned as one of the greatest and most iconic television characters of all time. Cranston won four Primetime Emmy Awards for Outstanding Lead Actor in
4500-467: The aftermath of Gale's murder, Mike holds Walt at the lab to await Gus' arrival. Victor arrives with Jesse and proceeds to start the cooking process himself to show Gus that Walt and Jesse are not indispensable. Gus, however, kills Victor in front of Walt, Jesse and Mike in a gruesome show of force. Gus puts the pair under tighter surveillance, including a camera being installed in the lab to monitor them. A rift slowly forms between Walt and Jesse, and Gus uses
4590-565: The aftermath of Walt's massacre. In a news report Jesse listens to, Walt is confirmed to be dead with the same report mentioning an investigation of a Houston woman poisoned by Walt – presumably Lydia – who is in critical condition and not expected to survive. Walt is briefly mentioned in passing by Saul Goodman (now going by the alias Gene Takavic) as he attempts to explain to Jeff how crazy his life had become and how much money he could earn by getting into "the game". Francesca Liddy later tells Saul that Walt's death only made things worse for
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#17327768370784680-529: The alias "Heisenberg", which becomes recognizable as a kingpin figure in the Southwestern drug trade. White struggles with managing his family while hiding his involvement in the drug business from his brother-in-law, DEA agent Hank Schrader ( Dean Norris ). Although AMC officials initially hesitated to cast Cranston due to his previous comedic role on Malcolm in the Middle , Gilligan cast him based on
4770-487: The cartel's defeat and the end of the Salamanca family. Walt makes a deal with Hector to draw Gus in by setting up a meeting with the DEA. When Gus comes to the nursing home to kill Hector for apparently turning informant, Hector detonates a pipe bomb Walt built, killing himself, Gus's henchman Tyrus Kitt ( Ray Campbell ), and Gus. Walt rescues Jesse, who had been kept as a prisoner in the lab, and together they destroy all
4860-411: The cartel. After a failed attempt to poison Tuco, they manage to escape on foot. Hank, who had been searching for Jesse, spots his car at the house and kills Tuco in a gunfight. Walt takes off all his clothes in a grocery store in order to explain his disappearance by claiming that he had gone into a fugue state as a result of his cancer medication and simply wandered off. Walt finds out that his cancer
4950-405: The company for $ 5,000. Gretchen and Elliott later married and made billions, much of it from Walter's research. Though they remain friendly, Walter secretly resents both Gretchen and Elliott for profiting from his work. At the age of 50, Walter works as a high school chemistry teacher in Albuquerque, New Mexico , providing instruction to uninterested and disrespectful students. Walter has
5040-541: The donations made to this website were directed to the National Cancer Coalition. Gilligan had plans for Walt Jr. to be killed off early in the series, much like Jesse Pinkman . Mitte even said that he himself wanted the character to be "bludgeoned and beaten to death". When conceiving the story for El Camino: A Breaking Bad Movie , Gilligan considered including Walt Jr., feeling that his inclusion would have been great, but ultimately desisted from
5130-638: The evidence and burn down the lab. After Brock recovers, Jesse learns that the boy had likely been poisoned by accidentally eating lily of the valley berries, not ricin. Walt responds that killing Gus was still the right thing to do. Walt calls Skyler to tell her they are safe and that he has "won". The camera pans to a potted Lily of the Valley plant next to Walt's pool, revealing that Walt had poisoned Brock in order to regain Jesse's loyalty and spur him into action as part of Walt's plan to kill Gus. Walt disposes of
5220-399: The evidence linking him to Gus' death and Brock's poisoning. Mike intends to kill Walt in retaliation for Gus's death, but Jesse intervenes and convinces them to work together to eliminate their connection to the destroyed lab. The trio use an electromagnet to wipe the lab camera footage off of Gus's laptop, which is in police custody. The three eventually start a new meth production system with
5310-482: The final Better Call Saul episode " Saul Gone " shows Walt accusing Saul of always being a con artist and having no trust in him anymore. Eventually, Ed helps to set up Walt to live in isolation in New Hampshire . After several months alone, Walt goes to a local bar, where he calls Walter Jr. and tries to give him money. Walter Jr. angrily rejects the gesture, however, and hangs up. Feeling hopeless, Walt calls
5400-457: The floor and dies with a smile on his face. Cranston reprises his role in the movie El Camino: A Breaking Bad Movie in a flashback scene, taking place during the events of the episode " 4 Days Out " from the show's second season. Walt and Jesse are sitting down at a buffet breakfast talking about how they are going to move a batch of recently cooked meth. Walt asks Jesse what he would like to study if he went to college and encourages Jesse to find
5490-423: The future. Walt revels in his success and adopts the Heisenberg alias in his business dealings going forward. In order to make larger batches of meth to take advantage of their new arrangement with Tuco, Walt and Jesse switch from using pseudoephedrine to methylamine as a precursor. This tints their meth blue, which becomes a signature of Walt's product. The pair begin to fear for their lives when, after testing
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#17327768370785580-414: The help of a corrupt pest control company, using residents' homes to cook meth while they are fumigated, using methylamine provided by Lydia Rodarte-Quayle ( Laura Fraser ), a representative for the conglomerate that owned Gus's chicken franchise. When her supply is discovered to be tracked by the police, she leaks them information about a train carrying the chemical so they can plan a robbery. The robbery
5670-471: The location of Hank and Steve's unmarked grave, which he suggests she use to barter for a deal with the prosecutor, and finally admits to her that he entered the meth business for himself, not his family. As a token of appreciation, Skyler lets him see his daughter one last time. Walt then arranges to see Lydia, surreptitiously poisoning her drink with ricin. Walt drives to Jack's compound and demands to see Jesse. When they bring Jesse, who has been chained up in
5760-408: The meth and makes the delivery on time, but misses the birth of his daughter. Walt initially refuses to give Jesse his share of the drug money until he is clean, but Jane blackmails him into handing it over. After talking to a stranger at a bar about family – not knowing that the man is Jane's father Donald ( John de Lancie ) – Walt again breaks into Jesse's apartment to find the lovers passed out in
5850-476: The meth and savagely beat Jesse, Walt visits Tuco's lair with another bag of crystals, claiming to be "Heisenberg" (a reference to the theoretical physicist Werner Heisenberg ). After Tuco mocks Jesse, refuses to pay for the bag, and implies that Walt will suffer the same fate as Jesse, Walt blows up part of the lair; the bag contained fulminated mercury , not meth. Impressed by the boldness of "Heisenberg", Tuco reluctantly agrees to pay for his meth upon delivery in
5940-626: The meth business, and the kids return home. During a family barbecue, Hank finds a copy of Walt Whitman 's Leaves of Grass in the bathroom, the same copy given to Walt by Gale; upon reading Gale's handwritten inscription referring to Walt as "the other W.W." Hank realizes that Walt is the drug lord he has been pursuing. Realizing his copy of Leaves of Grass is missing and that a tracker has been placed on his car, Walt deduces Hank has discovered his criminal activities. After confronting Hank at his house, Hank accuses him of being Heisenberg, which Walt neither confirms nor denies. Walt says that his cancer
6030-419: The meth operation, and Hank offers to take him as a ride-along to a DEA bust. The next day, Walt faints at the car wash and is taken to a hospital; there, he is told he has inoperable lung cancer and will likely die within the next two years. During the ride-along, Hank busts a crystal meth lab, taking cook Emilio Koyama (John Koyama) into custody. Walt sees Emilio's partner fleeing the scene, and realizes it
6120-552: The most devious, terrible decisions, and you need someone who has that humanity – deep down, bedrock humanity – so you say, watching this show, 'All right, I'll go for this ride. I don't like what he's doing, but I understand, and I'll go with it for as far as it goes.' If you don't have a guy who gives you that, despite the greatest acting chops in the world, the show is not going to succeed. — Vince Gilligan , about Bryan Cranston Inspired by Tony Soprano , Breaking Bad creator Vince Gilligan had wanted his lead character to be
6210-409: The night to slur his speech and learning to walk on crutches so his walking would not look fake. He drew inspiration from people having cerebral palsy he knew from Shriners Hospital, Shreveport , and named the fictional character Forrest Gump as his "representation". The website that Walt Jr. creates to collect donations for his father's cancer treatment also exists as a real website, and as of 2013
6300-424: The now-released Emilio to see the cook site. Emilio recognizes Walter as accompanying the DEA during the bust and believes he is an informant. Krazy-8 forces Walter to show them how he cooked such pure meth or risk being killed. Walt pretends to start a cook but instead produces toxic phosphine gas which kills Emilio and incapacitates Krazy-8. Walt and Jesse secure Krazy-8 to a structural post in Jesse's basement with
6390-527: The opportunity to bring Jesse to his side by having Mike train him. Walt deduces that Gus plans to eventually kill him and replace him with Jesse. He gives Jesse homemade ricin with which to poison Gus, but Jesse never goes through with it. Walt shows up at Jesse's house and tries to convince him to betray Gus, but Jesse refuses and tells Walt they are finished. Meanwhile, Skyler buys the car wash where Walt used to work and uses it to launder his drug money. Evidence from Gale's murder leads Hank to suspect that Gus
6480-464: The over-the-top character Hal on the comedy series Malcolm in the Middle and approached actors John Cusack and Matthew Broderick about the role. When both actors declined, the executives were persuaded to cast Cranston after seeing the X-Files episode. Cranston contributed a great deal to the character's persona. When Gilligan left much of Walter's past unexplained during the development of
6570-477: The past year. Gus Fring , for whom Walt works, takes him to the desert and fires him, informing him that Hank will be killed and that Walt's entire family, including Jr., will be murdered if he interferes. Skyler, Jr. and his sister Holly go under DEA protection at Hank and Marie's home. Jr. later watches a news report about Fring's death, unaware that his father caused it. After Skyler, Jr., and Holly return home, Jr. explains that Fring's illicit activities are
6660-463: The premise of Breaking Bad was based on a humorous idea that he and his fellow writer from The X-Files , Thomas Schnauz had come up with of driving around in an RV making methamphetamine , Gilligan made White a chemistry teacher, one who, until the start of the show, would have never violated the law. Gilligan cast Bryan Cranston for the role of Walter White based on having worked with him in " Drive " from The X-Files , on which Gilligan worked as
6750-466: The purity of the meth they delivered by snorting some of it, Tuco senselessly beats to death one of his own men, No-Doze (Cesar Garcia). Walt's "blue meth" becomes incredibly popular, to the point that Hank takes notice and raids Tuco's operation. A paranoid Tuco evades the bust, carjacks Jesse, and kidnaps Walt. He brings them to an isolated house in the desert, planning to take them deep into Mexico where they would be forced to cook their blue meth for
6840-431: The run with him, but they refuse. He kidnaps Holly, but has a moment of conscience and leaves her to be found and returned. He calls Skyler, knowing that the police are listening in, and berates her for failing to follow his orders, as a way of clearing her of involvement in his crimes. Walt then goes into hiding, along with Saul, waiting for Ed the "Disappearer" ( Robert Forster ) to set up a new identity for Walt. A scene in
6930-406: The same term This disambiguation page lists articles about people with the same name. If an internal link led you here, you may wish to change the link to point directly to the intended article. Retrieved from " https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Walter_White&oldid=1258393990 " Category : Human name disambiguation pages Hidden categories: Short description
7020-469: The series ending, Cranston foresaw it as "ugly [with no] redemption", although earlier, Gilligan divulged his plans to "end on a high note, in a way that will satisfy everyone". When Walter White was six years old, his father died of Huntington's disease . He studied chemistry at California Institute of Technology and, after graduate school, worked as a researcher at Sandia National Laboratory . There he conducted research on proton radiography that helped
7110-446: The series, the actor wrote his own backstory for the character. At the start of the show, Cranston gained 10 pounds to presage the character's gradual physical deterioration. He had the natural red highlights of his hair dyed brown. He collaborated with costume designer Kathleen Detoro on a wardrobe of mostly neutral green and brown colors to make the character bland and unremarkable, and worked with makeup artist Frieda Valenzuela to create
7200-410: The son of protagonist Walter White and his wife Skyler . He has cerebral palsy , as manifested in speech difficulties and impaired motor control, for which he uses crutches. His younger sister is Holly White . Walter Hartwell White Jr. is the teenage son of chemistry teacher Walter White Sr. and writer Skyler White , and has cerebral palsy. When Skyler tells her sister Marie Schrader that she
7290-491: The subject of a media frenzy and that the DEA believes the danger against Hank and Marie Schrader has abated. Walt and Jr. retrieve Walt's Pontiac Aztek from an auto repair shop. Walt impulsively sells the Aztek to the mechanic for $ 50, leases a new Chrysler 300 for himself, and later leases a new Dodge Challenger for Jr. Jr. remains oblivious to his father's criminal activities until Marie (who already knows, along with Hank, and
7380-405: The surviving low-level players connected to his meth empire rather than better. As Walt had hoped, Skyler had succeeded in getting a deal with the federal prosecutors and the DEA was ultimately forced to release Huell Babineaux , leaving only Jesse and Saul left for them to go after. Although Jesse has successfully managed to escape to Alaska while tricking the public into thinking he fled to Mexico,
7470-422: The treatment, Marie, and later Hank, feel Walt should be given the choice to decline the treatment if he wants; Walt ends the intervention by saying he will not do the treatment. Jr. and Skyler are disturbed when Walt cheerily makes breakfast despite his condition. Hoping to reconnect with his son, Walt offers to give Jr. a driving lesson while Skyler is out. Jr. shows his skill at driving, but Walt notices that he
7560-415: The truth, eventually calling Skyler about his whereabouts. Walt takes his son home, where he tries to appease Skyler with pizza, to no avail. After Walt moves back into the house and tells Skyler he has no intention of leaving, Jr. is thrilled that his father is back, while Skyler's attempt to have Walt thrown out fails. When Jr. tells his father that Skyler already set the date for Walt to move back in, he
7650-416: The waist down before he dispatches them. Skyler forces Walt into paying for Hank's care and creates a cover story about Walt counting cards at casinos to explain how he made his money. Walt's relationship with Gus becomes strained when he kills two of Gus's dealers to protect Jesse, who planned to kill them in retaliation for murdering his new girlfriend Andrea Cantillo 's ( Emily Rios ) little brother, who
7740-471: The weight of the world is on this man's shoulders". Gilligan has said it has been difficult to write for Walter White because the character is so dark and morally questionable. As the series progressed, Gilligan and the writing staff of Breaking Bad made Walter increasingly unsympathetic. Cranston said by the fourth season : "I think Walter's figured out it's better to be a pursuer than the pursued. He's well on his way to badass." Regarding White's fate in
7830-401: Was also manipulated by Walt to goad the agent to start a plea bargain for a significantly reduced sentence until Saul learns that his involvement with Howard Hamlin 's death was already given to them by Kim Wexler . Walter White Jr. Walter Hartwell White Jr. , also known as Flynn , is a fictional character in the crime drama series Breaking Bad . Played by RJ Mitte , Walt Jr. is
7920-400: Was derived from actor Errol Flynn . Mitte said the character is much like his real self since they are roughly the same age, have the same type of attitude, and "mostly like to be treated the same way". Like the character, Mitte too has cerebral palsy, but a milder variation, and does not use crutches. He stated he had to regress from his therapy to portray the character, staying up late into
8010-417: Was the man they were supposed to meet. Walt meets with Gus, who says that he will not do business with an addict. However, a few days later he gives Walt a chance to prove himself by delivering all the meth to a truck stop within an hour. Walt breaks into Jesse's apartment where the meth is stored and finds him passed out with his girlfriend and fellow heroin addict Jane Margolis ( Krysten Ritter ). Walt finds
8100-453: Was working for them. Gus responds by putting a hit on Jesse and re-hiring Gale as Walt's assistant, with the intention of replacing Walt as soon as possible. Walt plots to kill Gale to avoid becoming disposable, but Gus' henchman Victor ( Jeremiah Bitsui ) lures Walt to the laundry facility, where Mike is waiting to kill him. Walt frantically calls Jesse, telling him that he is about to be killed and Jesse will have to take out Gale himself. In
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