10. Walt's Comeuppance
It is safe to say that the dangerous nature of Walt's work combined with his increasingly unlikeable persona makes it inevitable that a character will end up putting him in the frame, and the audience is by and large going to want him to face up to his actions. What form this will take is the real question - will Jesse be the one who pulls the trigger? Perhaps the German firm investigating Gus Fring's demise will set their sights on Walt? Maybe he'll go the route of The Wire's Omar, and end up downed by one of Fring's distraught children? Or perhaps Skyler, fearing for her children, will see only one way to find peace for the family. Then again, nature could very well take its course, and Walt's cancer could return, leaving Walt to see out his final days in agony and misery.The solution that would arguably be most rewarding is to follow the uncompromising path set by the magnificent The Shield. To simply kill Walter White for his transgressions is too easy. He is a family man with things to lose - for him to go the Vic Mackey route, cut off from his family, perhaps even priced out of the Meth trade somehow, would be a far more savage and poignant punishment for the man, maybe accompanied by a malignant, slow cancer diagnosis that would eat away at what is left of him off-screen. What's clear is that, with Vince Gilligan's brave efforts to turn White from a sympathetic, beleaguered man into an arrogant, morally fractured one, we are not likely to want or receive a happy ending for him.