Breaking Bad: 10 Fates That The Remaining Characters Deserve

1. Walt

Breaking Bad1 At last, the outlaw legend Heisenberg has come to the end of his rule. With his family having rejected him and bitterly wished him dead, his once-vast empire and influence in ruins, and smarting from seeing his wildly successful former business partners Gretchen and Elliott publicly distance themselves and Gray Matter's success, it looks bleak indeed. So what better way than to go out in one last blaze of furious retribution before his lung cancer (Walt coughed an awful lot in "Granite State") finally kills him? We will finally get to see Walt use the M60 in his car trunk, and after dispatching the Nazis off, we will also see the ever-present ricin capsule used, probably right in Lydia's tea. At this point, Walt the teacher, the husband, the man, is gone, and only his alter ego Heisenberg remains in full-on kamikaze mode. So really, it's not a question of "What does Walt deserve?" because by now he has already suffered the worst punishment he could have imagined €“ the final severing of his family ties, which means everything he's accomplished over the course of the series, and all the deaths of many, many people necessary for this to happen, have been utterly in vain. "It can't all have been for nothing," he begs of his son on the phone, but Walt knows that's exactly what has happened. Completing his final revenge is the only thing keeping Walt alive at this point, and once that's over, he can finally allow himself to succumb to the cancer and make a graceful exit. That is, if Jesse doesn't get to him first.... So that's what I think. What do you think? Feel free to comment!
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