History TearJerker / BreakingBad

->''[[TheReasonYouSuckSpeech "Ever since I met you, everything I ever cared about is gone! Ruined, turned to shit, dead, ever since I hooked up with the great Heisenberg! I have never been more alone! I HAVE NOTHING! NO ONE! ALRIGHT, IT'S ALL GONE! GET IT? No, no, no, why...why would you get it? What do you even care, as long as you get what you want, right? You don't give a shit about me! You said I was no good. I'm nothing! Why would you want me, huh?"]]''

--->'''Jesse:''' Ever since I met you, everything I ever cared about is gone! Ruined, turned to shit, dead, ever since I hooked up with the great Heisenberg! I have never been more alone! I HAVE NOTHING! NO ONE! ALRIGHT, IT'S ALL GONE, GET IT? No, no, no, why...why would you get it? What do you even care, as long as you get what you want, right? You don't give a shit about me! You said I was no good. I'm nothing! Why would you want me, huh? You said my meth is inferior, right? Right? Hey! You said my cook was GARBAGE! Hey, screw you, man! Screw you!

--->'''Jesse:''' Just drop the whole concerned dad thing and tell me the truth. I mean, you're- you're acting like me leaving town is- is all about me and turning over a new leaf, but it's really- it's really about ''you.'' I mean, you need me gone, cuz your dickhead brother-in-law is never gonna let up. ''Just say so!'' Just ask me for a favor! Just tell me you don't give a shit about me! And it's either this... it's either this, ''or you'll kill me the same way you killed Mike!'' I mean, isn't that what this is all about?! Huh?! Us meeting way the hell out here [in the desert]? ''In case I say no?''

** In a fit of petty revenge, Walt reveals Jesse's hiding place to the Neo Nazis, and they drag him out kicking and screaming, with Jesse almost being shot execution-style. Todd stops them by saying that Jesse should tell them what he told the DEA, and after that, he can die. Jack agrees, and Walt agrees as well. They drag Jesse again, but Walt asks them to wait. You think that maybe he has a change of heart, but then: [[WhamLine I watched Jane die]]. He goes into more and more detail about how he could have saved her, and how she died. And then he walks away, with a numb and shellshocked Jesse being dragged away [[FateWorseThanDeath to god knows what]]. Jesse looks absolutely ''broken'' when he hears it and looks like an abused puppy when the car drives away.

** When Walt Jr. asks Skyler why she would go along with Walt's schemes, she tearfully says, [[MyGodWhatHaveIDone "I'll be asking myself that for the rest of my life"]].

* The video of Gale singing "[[Music/DavidBowie Major Tom]]" in "[[Recap/BreakingBadS4E4BulletPoints Bullet Points]]", as it confirms that he was an innocent man killed because of Walt's ego.

** Even sadder when one realizes that there's only a handful of people who'll ever have even an inkling of why Walt really came back to Albuquerque. We know that he did all this to at least ''try'' and make things right, securing his nest egg and saving Jesse. But to the rest of the world, Walter "Heisenberg" White showed up in town on his 52nd birthday, and later that night, he was found dead from a bullet wound to the abdomen in the meth lab on Jack's compound. Since Jesse is the only survivor, the conclusion will likely be that Walt went there and killed everyone simply to stop them from selling ''his'' meth before he died. Meaning not only does he die alone and hated by his family, but history will remember him as a petty, vindictive and violent man.

** Walt does successfully get his remaining nest egg to his family, by coercing the Schawarz's into setting up a trust fund Flynn will recieve on his 18th birthday with the remaining cash he has. Then during Walt's final meeting with Skyler, he claims he spent the rest of his money getting back to Albuquerque. This is because, as Flynn made clear the previous episode, they want nothing to do with Walt or his cash after all the crimes he's committed. While they will get the nest egg in a little less than two years, they'll believe the money came from a philanthropist couple's act of charity, making them believe Walt's actions to get them money were AllForNothing. Combined with them ending up worse off due to Walt's crimes (Hank's death, the Whites losing their house, all of them being associated with a drug lord), this will give them even more reason to hate him.

** Not to mention how extra-heartbreaking this comes off after watching ''Better Call Saul'' and realising that Saul himself is just as manipulated and betrayed a person as Jesse, and still couldn't do anything to stop him from being used and discarded by Walt, just as Jimmy McGill was by his brother.

** A meta example related to this episode, but [[http://twitter.com/KayleeEhrms this fan made version of Kaylee's twitter is just heartbreaking]].

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* "[[Recap/BreakingBadS5E8GlidingOverAll Gliding Over All]]": After Walt orchestrates the systematic murder of 10 witnesses in jail, he speaks to Hank at his house, who's spent several days dealing with the fall-out of every single one of his leads to the mysterious Heisenberg ending up as a bloodied corpse in under two minutes. Hank sadly reminisces back to his college days, when he had a simple minimum wage job marking trees in the forest for woodcutter crews. He admits he hated it, but it was a lot better than "chasing monsters". Even Hank, who's seen his fair share of awfulness during his career as a DEA agent, is frightened of Heisenberg's depravity. And Walt's just sitting there, taking in Hank's misery as if he's enjoying it.

* Though Gus certainly ended up a monster, seeing the flashback of his utter despair at his partner/likely lover being shot in the head in front of him by Hector in "[[Recap/BreakingBadS4E8Hermanos Hermanos]]" makes you want to give him a big hug. As long as he isn't within reach of a box cutter..

* Jesse crying to Walt in "[[Recap/BreakingBadS5E2Madrigal Madrigal]]", "I don't know what's wrong with me, Mr. White?"

** Steve Gomez's death doesn't even get shown on screen, we followed him the whole show, but our friend was ''already gone'' when the episode opens up. Least with Hank we knew what happened.

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[[caption-width-right:350:"I loved her. I loved her more than anything."]]

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[[caption-width-right:350:"I loved her. I loved her more than anything."]]

** When Walt kidnaps Holly to "punish" Skyler. Plays into a normal AdultFear, but what brings it over the edge is when we hear Holly's first word: Mama. At that point, Walt [[HeelRealization realizes]] [[MyGodWhatHaveIDone that]], because of his own actions, his family will never love him again, and returns Holly.

* Walt bluntly telling Dr. Chavez how shitty his life is. It is notable, because as Walt tells the cover story about hitch-hiking away from home because it he couldn't take it away, he is avoiding eye contact with the doctor, instead looking out the nearby window. But when he talks of the state of his life, he is being entirely sincere, and turns to look Chavez straight in the eye.

*** Compounded by Walt screaming [[VillainousBreakdown "What the hell is wrong with you? WE'RE A FAMILY!"]] and then sees Skyler and Walt Jr. cowering in fear of him, as Holly wails in the background. He then hopelessly whispers "We're a family". It was the inevitable conclusion that the show had been building to, Walt destroying the family he had been trying to protect. In fact, this Youtuber's comment sums the above line best.
---> '''DocSkribblez:''' At that moment, the apostrophe was forever removed.

** Walt burning his money to stay warm. This was his life's work, but now that he's staring death in the face it's just a bunch of worthless paper, and when he dies in a couple of months, he won't even be able to get it to his family.

* Jesse's breakdown when Hank stops him from burning down Walt's house.

* "[[Recap/BreakingBadS3E9Kafkaesque Kafkaesque]]": Jesse's speech to his rehab group about the wooden box he made in high school, and then gave away for some weed. The speech really drives home the fact that Jesse's self-destructiveness prevents him from feeling better about himself.

** The instant Jesse enters their trash-filled wreck of a home, he learns Spooge and his girlfriend living in crushing poverty, and soon sees for himself that they are filthy, emaciated, and covered in sores as a result of their drug addictions. Even if you hate them ([[HateSink and you probably do,]] given their repulsive personalities, horrible neglect of their son, their murder of the cashier during the ATM theft, and [[ArsonMurderAndJaywalking how they giggled like childish idiots while they were robbing Skinny Pete]]), you still have to wonder what wretched circumstances could've led them to such an absolute rock bottom in life.