Walter (2024)

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What does Walter say in his confession tape? ›

As the Whites leave, Walt gives his in-laws a DVD of his "confession." Playing it at home, Hank and Marie discover they are being blackmailed. Walt's "confession" states that Hank masterminded the Heisenberg empire and forced Walt to cook meth for him.

I am the one who knocks! Walter White : I am the one who knocks! Skyler White : Walt, I've said it before, if you are in danger we go to the police...

Walt's biggest mistake (beyond not just taking the job Elliot offered him) was not letting Jesse get killed by the two drug dealers after they killed Tomas.

Upon learning of Walters' cancer, Elliott immediately offers to pay for his treatment, but Walter is resistant to the idea; he'd rather the cancer had remained private family business. Walter Jr.

Of course, we're wrong. Nothing in Breaking Bad is ever that simple. As we later find out, the tape is indeed a confession, but a fake one Walt has created in order to stop Hank from reporting him to the DEA.

Whatever was left of Walt's good nature had been overtaken by his need for control of his remaining life. The reason Walt confessed to Jesse about Jane's death ties into this steady downfall of Walt's morals and motivations.

“I am the one who knocks.”

The most famous Walt quote has been celebrated by fans and inspired an homage by Samuel L. Jackson. Breaking Bad writer Gennifer Hutchison, who wrote the episode, told THR she didn't realize the monologue would become iconic.

Why Walter White Called Himself Heisenberg. The name of Walt's alter ego came from Werner Heisenberg, a German physicist known as a pioneer of quantum mechanics. As a chemist, Walt would be familiar with famous scientists; likely, he took Heisenberg as an inspiration.

At heart, Breaking Bad is a tragedy in the most classical sense, and "Live Free or Die" sees Walter White in the throes of his fatal flaw: hubris.

And while, of course, Walter White is evil, too, (himself being an antagonist who makes numerous questionable decisions), it's no secret that fans root for him over the course of the series. Anyone who gets in his way is deemed an antagonist, but only a few Breaking Bad villains stand out as genuinely evil characters.

How did Walter lose all the money? ›

How does Walter lose the insurance money? Walter loses the insurance money to Willy, a crook that he mistakes for a friend. Mama entrusts Walter with all the money that remains after the down payment on the new house.

Vince Gilligan stated in an interview that Elliot and Gretchen never stole anything from Walt and that he chose to leave Gray Matter himself due to his ego being damaged after meeting Gretchen's wealthy family.

Walt's world crumbles even more after finding out that Skyler is cheating on him. Jesse tries to set up a meeting with Gus to try and sell his own version of the blue meth.

In 2016, Vince Gilligan finally revealed the true reason why Walter broke up with Gretchen and left Gray Matter: he felt inferior to her and her wealthy family, confirming that it was due to his ego and pride.

After the scan, Walt sees the X-ray in the reflection of a painting, and it looks like there's a huge white mass in one lung. Uh-oh. He tells Skylar that he's going to visit his mother, though really he's going to cook up a whole mess of meth in order to make some money before that big scary tumor kills him.

Although it took some viewers (including this one) a while to catch on, most everyone agrees that Walt's call to Skyler was intended for the police he knew would be listening, that in casting her as a terrified woman under the thumb of a homicidally violent drug kingpin, he was trying to exonerate her, to absorb her ...

Season 3. In the third season, Walt has moved out of the house. Skyler appears at his apartment, having deduced that he is in the drug trade. When she confronts Walt with her idea that he is selling cocaine, he admits instead that he is a meth cook.

Early on, in the pre-credits scene that paid off on last week's “Everybody wins” cliffhanger, Walter doesn't merely want to make the rival meth dealers agree to his terms, he wants them to say his name — that is, his Big Super-Brain Master Criminal Villain Alter Ego name, “Heisenberg” — to feed his own ego, to bend his ...