10 Greatest 'I'm Dead And I Know It' Moments In TV History
6. Hank Schrader - Breaking Bad
Many avid TV viewers classify Breaking Bad as the absolute greatest show in the history of modern television. And even if you don't fully agree with that viewpoint, it's hard to dispute that the series - and likely Better Call Saul, too - is at least in that conversation.
In amongst a show brimming with quality, Ozymandias - the series' third-off-last offering - is viewed as absolute perfection. One key reasoning for this, of course, is how the episode gets off to a shocking bang as Dean Norris' Hank Schrader is killed within the first ten minutes.
With the cat out of the bag that Hank and his partner Steve Gomez are DEA agents, Jack Welker toys with Schrader while Walter White - Hank's brother-in-law - tries to bargain with Jack. While Jack humours Walt and listens to his pleas, Hank takes a slightly different approach.
Schrader finds himself being questioned by Jack on whether he should let him live, while Walter begs his family member to play along with Welker. Instead, Hank has already long realised that he's a dead man.
As he puts it to White, seconds before being murdered, "You want me to beg? You're the smartest guy I ever met, and you're too stupid to see - he made up his mind ten minutes ago."