Breaking Bad: 10 Best Characters Who Appeared After Season One

There are many tragic characters in Breaking Bad. Most notable is Jesse, who goes through the ringer and then some across five seasons and a movie, but the short, shocking arc of his erstwhile girlfriend Jane is a grim tale of its own.

Played by the beguiling Krysten Ritter, Jane is Jesse’s landlord and dream woman in season two; a tough, smart tattoo artist with a sensitive side. She’s reticent to allow the clearly sketchy Jesse into her home, but eventually mellows, and the two fall in love.

Her concern quickly proves to be correct. The recently clean Jane falls straight back into her addictions, first via Jesse’s steady supply of meth, then onto heroin. In one of the most gruelling scenes of all, she throws up in her sleep - Walter, there to reason with Jesse, watches, considers intervening, then ultimately lets her perish.

She only occupies a few episodes of the show physically, but her ghost haunts Jesse for the remainder of the story. Far more than a plot device, though, she’s a well drawn character (in a show that suffers a deficit of important women) with a deeply moving arc.