History WhatAnIdiot / BreakingBad

'''Instead:''' He shows up with Gomez and a couple of guns and tells no one where they're going or why.\\

'''The Result:''' Mike decides to go retrieve the baseball cards so Pryce doesn't interact with the police anymore and flip. Pryce gets his baseball cards back, at the price of his beloved Hummer, which Nacho promptly sends to a chop shop. However, the damage is already done, and the police still want to talk to Pryce. Mike hires Jimmy to accompany him to the interrogation, who lies his way out of the situation on Pryce's behalf by spinning an embarrassing tall tale about the hidden cache in Pryce's home actually being a hiding spot for his fetish videos in which he sits and rubs his ass in pies while crying. To add insult to injury, Jimmy films a humiliating video of Pryce doing it for real so that the story is more believable. [[ForWantOfANail All because he didn't listen to Mike.]]

'''Instead:''' Jesse tells Walt, who informs Gus. Gus promises Jesse that he would punish the dealers and let Tomas leave the gang safely.\\

'''Result:''' They play right into Jimmy and Kim's strategy, as it's based around the assumption that Chuck would never in a million years pass up the opportunity. They are able to put their antics (bringing in Rebecca to unsettle Chuck, and hiring Huell to plant a charged cell phone battery in Chuck's pocket) into play, causing Chuck to break down on the stand when Jimmy cross-examines him and exposes his "illness" as fake. Everyone sees Chuck as a vengeful man with a petty grudge against his brother, and Jimmy gets a one year suspension of his law license, rather than the disbarment that Chuck had hoped for. This breach of document security also means Howard is forced to do damage control to retain HHM's clients, and eventually, the insurance company raises the malpractice premiums on HHM's attorneys when Jimmy informs them about Chuck's condition (and it's implied they would have found out anyway), forcing Howard to fire Chuck.

* Upon learning that retired judge Rand Casimiro is the designated mediator for the negotiations involving Sandpiper Crossing and the HHM-led class action suit, Jimmy and Kim come up with a plan to humiliate Howard and force him into settling up. To do this, they have an actor pose as Casimiro for some photographs that show him seemingly accepting a bribe from Jimmy, then have a bogus private investigator deliver the photos to Howard. Subsequently, Howard is suspicious when the actual Casimiro arrives to oversee the negotiations.\\

'''Result''': Jesse, who was upstairs in bed with a young woman, hears the commotion, escapes out the window and drives away from the scene. Walt meets with Jesse later that night and initiates their partnership, which ends up being one of the bloodiest operations in Albuquerque. Basically, ''Breaking Bad'' happened due to the DEA's sloppiness.\\

'''Result''': Jesse, who was upstairs in bed with a young woman, hears the commotion, escapes out the window and drives away from the scene. Walt meets with Jesse later that night and initiates their partnership, which ends up being one of the most blood-stained meth operations in Albuquerque. Basically, ''Breaking Bad'' happened due to the DEA's sloppiness.\\

'''You'd Also Expect:''' Walt to tell Jesse just ''why'' it has to be polyethylene, considering the consequences.\\