History WhamEpisode / BreakingBad

* What, no love for "ABQ"? [[spoiler:Syler finds out Walt's a drug dealer and leaves him]]. But that pales in regards to how the episode ends [[spoiler: and the reveal of the pink teddy bear's origins]]: Jane's father, Donald, makes a tiny slip up at work [[spoiler:thanks to being distraught over his daughter's death]] and can't undo it in time. [[spoiler:He's an air traffic controller. As in, ''tells planes where to go'']].

** "Confessions": [[spoiler:Walter makes a "confession tape" saying that he was coerced by Hank who was the true mastermind behind everything in the series. Meanwhile, right before getting a new life and identity, Jesse finally realizes that Walt was the one who poisoned Brock, beating a confession out of Saul and going to Walt's house and pouring gasoline over everything.]]

* Season five has given us "Dead Freight", where [[spoiler: Walt and Jesse assemble a crew to pull off a train heist, and just barely get it done in time. While celebrating, a kid riding through on a dirtbike sees them, causing one of the heist workers to quickly pull out his pistol and shoot the kid as Jesse protests, following the creed of "no witnesses."]]

** "Buried": [[spoiler:Marie learns that Walt is Heisenberg, and Skyler learns that Hank and Marie know. Despite Hank's best efforts, Skyler decides to protect Walt rather than cooperate with the DEA, while Walt buries his drug profits in the New Mexico desert. Jesse has had a nervous breakdown and is now being questioned by the DEA about his drug money, and Todd and Lydia have taken over Declan's operation.]]

** "Crawl Space": [[spoiler: Jesse replaces Walt as Gus' cook, Gus puts a hit out on Hank and threatens to kill Walter's entire family, Ted is severely injured and Walt loses his escape money.]]

** "Buried": [[spoiler:Marie learns that Walt is Heisenberg, and Skyler learns that Hank and Marie know. Despite Hank's best efforts, Skyler decides to protect Walt rather than cooperate with the DEA, while Walt buries his drug profits in the New Mexico desert. Jesse has had a nervous breakdown and is now being questioned by the DEA about his drug money, and Hank is preparing to go public with his knowledge of Heisenberg.]]

* "Buried": [[spoiler:Marie learns that Walt is Heisenberg, and Skyler learns that Hank and Marie know. Despite Hank's best efforts, Skyler decides to protect Walt, rather than cooperate with the DEA, while Walt buries his millions in drug profits in the New Mexico desert in a location only he knows. Jesse has had a nervous breakdown and is now being questioned by the DEA about his drug money, and Hank is preparing to go public with his knowledge of Heisenberg. Lydia, Todd, and his uncle Jack murder Declan's crew and retake control of the meth supply to the Czech Republic]].

* "Buried": [[spoiler:Marie learns that Walt is Heisenberg, and Skyler learns that Hank and Marie know. Despite Hank's best efforts, Skyler decides to protect Walt, rather than cooperate with the DEA, while Walt buries his millions in drug profits in the New Mexico desert in a location only he knows. Jesse has had a nervous breakdown and is now being questioned by the DEA about his drug money]].

* "Buried": [[spoiler:Marie learns that Walt is Heisenberg, and Skyler learns that Hank and Marie know. Despite Hank's best efforts, Skyler decides to protect Walt, rather than cooperate with the DEA, while Walt buries his millions in drug profits in the New Mexico desert, in a location known only to him. Jesse has had a nervous breakdown and is now being questioned by the DEA about his drog money]].

** "Blood Money". [[spoiler: Hank starts to put together his own investigation of Walter, Walter realizes this and finds a tracking device on his car that Hank put there. The episode ends with Walt and Hank confronting eachother at Hank's house, both fully aware of what the other knows. Oh and there's fact that Walter's cancer is back and he has six months left to live.]]

** "Gliding Over All". [[spoiler: All loose ends were successfully whacked and Walt decides to leave the meth business. Then, Hank finally puts it all together and realizes who Walter ''really'' is. Good thing he was already sitting down. On a ''toilet.'']]

** "Gliding Over All". [[spoiler: All loose ends were successfully whacked and it's implied that Walt's cancer is back, causing him to leave the meth business. Then, Hank finally puts it all together and realizes who Walter ''really'' is. Good thing he was already sitting down. On a ''toilet.'']]

** ''Salud'': [[spoiler:Gus singlehandedly wipes out the entire cartel in one move. Walter has an emotional breakdown and calls his son "Jesse".]]
** ''Crawl Space'': [[spoiler: Jesse replaces Walt as Gus' cook, Gus puts a hit out on Hank and threatens to kill Walter's entire family, Ted is severely injured and Walt loses his escape money.]]
** And, above all, ''Face Off'': [[spoiler:Walter finally kills Gus in an impressive BatmanGambit, concluding the longest story arc in the show to date and signalling the fist major overhaul of the status quo. On top of that a TwistEnding revealing Walt poisoned Brock in order to bring Jesse back on his side.]]
* Season five has given us ''Dead Freight,'' where [[spoiler: Walt and Jesse assemble a crew to pull off a train heist, and just barely get it done in time. While celebrating, a kid riding through on a dirtbike sees them, causing one of the heist workers to quickly pull out his pistol and shoot the kid as Jesse protests, following the creed of "no witnesses."]]
** ''Say My Name''. [[spoiler: Mike's operation is busted and he's on the run, and Fring's men that he's been paying to keep quiet are now loose ends. Walt confronts him about it and in his anger shoots him, only to realize later that he could have gotten the information about them from Lydia. Mike tells Walt to let him die in peace.]]
** ''Gliding Over All''. [[spoiler: All loose ends were successfully whacked and it's implied that Walt's cancer is back, causing him to leave the meth business. Then, Hank finally puts it all together and realizes who Walter ''really'' is. Good thing he was already sitting down. On a ''toilet.'']]

** ''Salud'': [[spoiler:Gus singlehandedly wipes out the entire cartel in one move.]]

* The penultimate episode of the second season, "Phoenix", in which Jane's relationship with Jesse is discovered by her dad, which drives her to blackmailing Walt into turning over the money he owes Jesse. With this in mind, when Walt finds himself watching Jane die via heroin overdose, he does nothing and lets her die.

** In the first, Tomas is executed by his gangster employers, leading Walt to run over them with his car and shoot one in the head, against Gus' wishes.
** In the next episode, to prevent Gus from killing them both, Jesse goes to Gale's apartment to kill him. [[CliffHanger The final shot of the episode is Jesse pulling the trigger]].

* {{Breaking Bad}}
** The penultimate episode of the second season, "Phoenix", in which Jane's relationship with Jesse is discovered by her dad, which drives her to blackmailing Walt into turning over the money he owes Jesse. With this in mind, when Walt finds himself watching Jane die via heroin overdose, he does nothing and lets her die.
** And then topped by the [[IncrediblyLamePun double-whammy]] of the penultimate and final episodes of Season 3: "Half-Measures" and "Full Measure".
*** In the first, Tomas is executed by his gangster employers, leading Walt to run over them with his car and shoot one in the head, against Gus' wishes.
*** In the next episode, to prevent Gus from killing them both, Jesse goes to Gale's apartment to kill him. [[CliffHanger The final shot of the episode is Jesse pulling the trigger]].
** Season Four's whammers:
*** ''Salud'': [[spoiler:Gus singlehandedly wipes out the entire cartel in one move.]]
*** ''Crawl Space'': [[spoiler: Jesse replaces Walt as Gus' cook, Gus puts a hit out on Hank and threatens to kill Walter's entire family, Ted is severely injured and Walt loses his escape money.]]
*** And, above all, ''Face Off'': [[spoiler:Walter finally kills Gus in an impressive BatmanGambit, concluding the longest story arc in the show to date and signalling the fist major overhaul of the status quo. On top of that a TwistEnding revealing Walt poisoned Brock in order to bring Jesse back on his side.]]

*** ''Salud'' [[spoiler:Gus singlehandedly wipes out the entire cartel at once.]]
*** ''Crawl Space'' [[spoiler: Jesse replaces Walt as Gus' cook, Gus puts a hit out on Hank and threatens to kill Walter's entire family, Ted is severely injured and Walt loses his escape money.]]
*** And, above all, ''Face Off'' [[spoiler:Walter finally kills Gus in an impressive BatmanGambit, concluding the longest story arc in the show to date and signalling the fist major overhaul of the status quo. On top of that a TwistEnding revealing Walt poisoned Brock in order to bring Jesse back on his side.]]

*** ''Salud'' [[spoiler:Gus wipes out the entire cartel at once.]]

*** In the first, Tomas is executed by his gangster employers, leading Walt to run over them with his care and shoot one in the head, against Gus' wishes.

** And then topped by the [[IncrediblyLamePun double-whammy]] of the penultimate and final episodes of Season 3: "Half-Measures" and "Full Measure". In the first, Tomas is executed by his gangster employers, who are later plowed down by Walt in his car, with the survivor getting shot in the head for good measure. Then in the next episode, Jesse kills a harmless and relatively innocent man in cold blood, on Walter's orders after he emotionally blackmails Jesse into it. In the process, metaphorically spitting in the face of his kingpin employer. Talk about your MoralEventHorizon.

*** ''Salud'' [[spoiler: Gus kills off the Cartel's leaders, Mike gets shot, Jesse kills again.]]

*** And, above all, ''Face Off'' [[spoiler: Walt talks Hector into killing himself, Gus and Tyrus with a bomb, Walt and Jesse destroy the superlab and it's revealed that Walt poisoned Brock.]]

** ''Gliding Over All''. [[spoiler: Hank finally puts it all together and realizes who Walter ''really'' is. Good thing he was already sitting down. On a ''toilet.'']]
*** Let's not forget [[spoiler: that all loose ends were successfully whacked and it's implied that Walt's cancer is back, causing him to leave the meth business.]]

*** Let's not forget [[spoiler: that all nine guys were successfully whacked and it's implied that Walt's cancer is back, causing him to leave the meth business.]]

** ''Gliding Over All''. [[spoiler: Hank finally puts it all together and realizes who Walter ''really'' is. Good thing he was already sitting down. On a ''toilet.'']]

** ''Say My Name''. [[spoiler: Mike's operation is busted and he's on the run, and Fring's men that he's been paying to keep quiet are now loose ends. Walt confronts him about it and in his anger shoots him, only to realize later that he could have gotten the information about them from Lydia. Mike tells Walt to let him die in peace.]]

*** ''Crawl Space'' [[spoiler: Jesse replaces Walt as Gus' cook, Gus puts a hit out on Hank and threatens to kill Walter's entire family, Ted dies and Walt loses his escape money.]]
*** And, above all, ''Face Off'' [[spoiler: Walt talks Hector to killing himself, Gus and Tyrus with a bomb, Walt and Jesse destroy the superlab and it's revealed that Walt poisoned Brock.]]

** The penultimate episode of the second season, "Phoenix", in which Jane's relationship with Jesse is discovered by her dad, which drives her to blackmailing Walt into turning over the money he owes Jesse. With this in mind, when Walt finds himself watching Jane die via heroine overdose, he does nothing and lets her die.