Breaking Bad & Better Call Saul: 10 Characters Killed At The Perfect Time

It's hard to overstate the importance of Jane Margolis' death within the context of Breaking Bad's canon.

Jane's demise in the second season's penultimate episode signaled the beginning of a horrendously dark new era for the show, with the ensuing plane crash as a domino effect of her death being but one of several horrific results.

The truly heartbreaking aspect of the sequence depicting Jane's death is that while Walt shows up at Jesse's house intending to mend bridges, what follows ultimately proves to be the catalyst for the end of any semblance of a relationship between the pair. Walter allows an overdosing Jane to choke to death on her own vomit - having accidentally knocked her onto her back trying to rouse Jesse from his heroin laced sleep - showing the appalling lengths he is now willing to go to in order to further his own agenda.

While telling himself he is acting out of love and saving Jesse from eventually suffering the same fate, Walter's sobs as Jane's gut-wrenching gurgles subside tell the true story - he allowed her to die in order to cement Jesse's dependency on him, while retaliating to Jane's threats of exposing him. The final acts of the second season proved the perfect time to introduce audiences to the darkest iteration of Heisenberg to date, a man reduced to tears at what he has become.