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7The drug trade is known for its violence and brutality towards innocents and criminals alike. But in the ruthless criminal world of ''Breaking Bad'', with vicious and ruthless criminals in the region, everyone from cartel members to citizens should tread lightly. ''Very lightly.''
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14* '''[[VillainProtagonist Walter White.]]''' While not initially terrifying as he starts off as a meek, middle-aged high school teacher, his [[FromNobodyToNightmare progression into villainy]] is what's truly scary. We see him cross the [[MoralEventHorizon Moral Event Horizon]] so many times it's hard to recognize that the Walt at the beginning of the series and the Walt at the end is still the same person. His character highlights how [[ParanoiaFuel even the most morally decent person in the world can do terrible things if given the proper motivation and mindset]].
15** What's more disturbing is that it's never really clear if Heisenberg was born as a result of Walt's immersion into the criminal underworld or if he was latent in Walt's mind and the cancer diagnosis just gave the persona the chance to come out. It's hard to tell which possibility is worse - the idea that he was a genuinely good person who, in less than a year, becomes a ruthless monster, or that Heisenberg was always inside him and he was just really good at hiding it.
16* '''[[ProfessionalKiller The Cousins]]'''. Their stoic, AxCrazy nature, their brutal murders, and their thirst for revenge for the sake of family... both packaged with a giant silver axe. These are two people you ''do not'' want to cross. It doesn't help that given their LeaveNoWitnesses policy, they end up [[KickTheDog murdering an innocent civilian]] (or in one case, a whole truck of them) in almost ''every one'' of their appearances aside from the family they leave their belongings with.
17* Tuco Salamanca. He's a {{Moodswinging}} PsychopathicManchild who beats Jesse to a pulp when he first meets him, murders [[BadBoss his own enforcer]] [[DisproportionateRetribution for finishing his sentence]] without a shred of guilt, and kidnaps Walter and Jesse and intends to force them to make meth for the cartel, probably for the rest of their lives. He is, in Walt's own words, [[AxCrazy "an insane, degenerate piece of filth"]], and almost ''always'' hopped up on meth. If it isn't obvious already, this is definitely ''not'' a man you would ever want to cross paths with, or even ''attempt'' to piss off. It says a lot that he is considered one of the most brutal villains on the show.
18* Gus Fring. Philanthropist, businessman, community member, [[BreadEggsMilkSquick drug kingpin, sociopathic murderer, the devil in sheep's clothing]].
19* Todd Alquist is NightmareFuel made flesh. Behind this average-looking man hides a cold-blooded killer with no sense of empathy. His second appearance is him shooting a kid on the spot, without warning, without so much as asking his bosses' permission. Several episodes later, he beats Jesse to a pulp, imprisons him in an underground dungeon, and enslaves him to meth-cooking, all while holding Andrea and Brock, two innocent civilians, hostage. When Jesse tries to escape, instead of shooting him just as Jesse begs him to do, he shoots Andrea as a warning while leaving Brock alive as leverage. And all after giving him ice cream for a good day's work.
20* The Neo-Nazis, and [[BigBad Jack Welker]] himself. They're... they're just too good at what they do. Shank ten different people all locked up in prison within a 2 minute window? No problem. Execute Declan's entire drug gang in a matter of seconds? Easily pulled off. Murder two DEA agents and bury them in the desert? Done. Torture a man and enslave him to force him to cook meth? Piece of cake. Break into Skyler White's house to blackmail her despite the fact that there are police watching the house and getting away without being caught? Did it already. Murder Andrea Cantillo directly in front of her house and saying they'll have no problem tracking down her son Brock and doing the same to him? They'll do it.
21** Want to know something else? The Aryan Brotherhood, the group that Jack Welker's gang is based on, is the most vicious prison gang in the United States. They only make up 0.1% of the prison population, they are responsible for up to '''30 percent''' of murders in the federal prisons. [[TruthInTelevision Truth In Television]], indeed.
22* [[DrugsAreBad Meth, more specifically, Walt's Blue Sky]]. It is ''insanely'' addictive, takes over the drug market in under a year, is at least three times as powerful as the usual product, and turns its users into absolute monsters. Tuco, someone with an already high tolerance for meth, brutally murders No-Doze (his friend) after having one bump, and quickly goes on a downward spiral. Besides that, every other person we see who is addicted to Blue Sky looks downright grotesque, and [[AxCrazy are completely insane.]]
23* [[AcidPool Hydrofluoric Acid]] has some pretty unsettling results, as described below, but it's also how it's presented. Several characters are not only disposed of with no trace, [[NeverFoundtheBody as if they never existed]]. While Emilio's demise is played for morbid laughs, others, like Krazy-8 and Victor are disposed of like common waste, practically nothing being left behind. Season 5 adds a gut-punch with Drew Sharp and Mike, a Youtube commenter describing the former's demise best:
24--> "This was a kid who had a mother and father, went to school, had friends, had dreams of maybe one day becoming an electrician or lawyer or soldier or something. And now he’s a pool of gel inside a barrel that’s going to be dumped into a toxic waste disposal place. His parents will never know what happened to him, they’ll never find his body, he’ll never be buried. I know this isn’t real but this one scene literally makes my skin crawl."[=-@Marshmellow3971=]
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28* Walt and Jesse, after killing a drug dealer, attempt to dispose of his body by dissolving it in hydrofluoric acid. Unfortunately, Jesse is too impatient to go out and buy a plastic bin to use as per Walt's advice, preferring to use the bathtub instead. What results is the acid eating through the bathtub and the floor beneath it, resulting in a vile little pile of half-dissolved, '''gelatinized''' drug-dealer remains (with chunks of '''bone''') falling right through into the hallway below. It says a lot about this show that this same moment is listed under SugarWiki/FunnyMoments.
29* Walt strangling Krazy-8 with a bike lock. Although the way he deduced what he'll do was awesome, it still gives a scary glimpse of Walt's inner ego, Heisenberg.
30** Speaking of Krazy-8, just him surviving the explosion and escaping is scary. Just imagine seeing a disheveled, injured man, [[ZombieGait wandering down the street]], gasping in short breaths. [[NotAZombie You'd be forgiven for thinking he's a zombie.]]
31* Jesse's meth-induced hallucination where he thinks two violent-looking biker thugs have come to his house to kill him with a grenade and machete, while Jesse frantically escapes his house by running out the back door and climbing over the fence. Becomes a [[SugarWiki/FunnyMoments funny moment]] when it cuts back to the front door and it turns out it was just two neatly-dressed Mormons on bicycles.
32* Tuco beating No Doze to death for talking out of turn. Along with him nearly beating Jesse to death when it seemed like he would act compliant before.
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36* The opening teaser of the season. The eye sucked into the filter, the charred teddy bear, [[LightIsNotGood the impure whiteness of the pool]], [[NothingIsScarier the lack of explanation]], [[FridgeHorror the sirens wailing in the background...]] Similar scenes are shown in other cold opens throughout the season with the same features, revealing a little more with each time it is shown before culminating in the season finale, when we are shown workers in hazmat suits working in the area around Walt's house, with two corpses covered up nearby, suggesting that Walt and Jesse died in an accident while cooking meth. The fact that Walt and Jesse survive to the end of the season and what we saw was the aftermath of a mid-air collision between two planes, indirectly caused by Walt, brings little comfort.
37* [[RapeIsASpecialKindOfEvil Walt's borderline rape of Skyler.]] He stops, thank God, but [[FridgeHorror just imagine if that was in Season 5 and his Heisenberg side fully took over.]]
38* Jesse pulls up to Walt's house in the middle of the night. Walt wonders what the hell he's thinking showing up to his family's home. Jesse seems very shaken-up and unresponsive. Walt notices something in the backseat..
39-->'''[[BehindTheBlack Tuco]]:''' ''([[ClickHello pointing a gun at Jesse's head]])'' Get in.
40* "[[Recap/BreakingBadS2E7NegroYAzul Negro y Azul]]". "What's the matter, Schrader?! You act like you never saw a severed human head on a tortoise before!", The taunt by the fed saying "Welcome to-", then '''BOOM'''. And Hank gets a big [[HeroicBSOD BSOD]] as a result.
41** The aftermath of the explosion is horrifying to watch as well.
42*** We see several officers on the ground, bloody and injured/dead.
43*** The most disturbing part has to be the anguished, agonized screams of Vanco after getting his leg blown off at the knee.
44*** Also, the audio is dampened, implying Hank has been temporarily deafened by the blast as he rushes to put a tourniquet on Vanco's stump.
45* The couple who rob Skinny Pete in "[[Recap/BreakingBadS2E5Breakage Breakage]]" and own the creepy, disgusting house in "[[Recap/BreakingBadS2E6Peekaboo Peekaboo]]". Doubles as a TearJerker since the couple has a small child who lives in these terrible conditions and is blissfully unaware of it. Spooge and his lady basically are an idea of how drugs can ruin your physical health too, given their appearances.
46** The way Spooge's Lady [[EvilLaugh cackles in delight]] as her husband has Skinny Pete at knifepoint...
47** Also, the room where the child sleeps has a padlock on the outside of the door.
48** That horrible noise when the woman drops the ATM on her husband's head...
49* In "[[Recap/BreakingBadS2E10Over Over]]", the way that Walter says "Stay out of my territory", and the facial expression that goes along with it are not just scary to the drug dealers to whom he says it, but to the audience as well. It’s one of the first major signs of how much Walt is changing.
50* The opening of "[[Recap/BreakingBadS2E11Mandala Mandala]]". Combo gets stared down by a pair of thugs from their car, starts getting nervous, and then gets shot by a little kid, not even in his teens, who was biking around the neighborhood. They share a horrified expression, then as Combo tries to run, the kid guns him down in the street.
51* Jane's death. Holy crap. It comes out of ''nowhere'', with Walt attempting to wake up Jesse and accidentally moving Jane onto her back in the process. We then get to witness 30 seconds of Jane spasming and choking on her own vomit, while Walt just stands there, unwilling to do anything.
52* That. '''Fucking.''' Teddy Bear. [[OneSceneWonder It only appears in four episodes,]] and only for a few brief moments in the opening every time, but it makes a hell of an impression. And then we learn [[TheReveal where it came from and what happened to it,]] and the context just makes it infinitely worse.
53* [[MidairCollision The plane crash.]] As improbable as it may be, it's still terrifying to behold, especially when you consider that it only happened indirectly because of Walt's negligence at saving Jane.
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57* The season premiere and the EstablishingCharacterMoment for the cousins. They enter what is clearly a cartel controlled village where the meth cooks are crawling. Okay, they must be subjugated, but then the cousins join them crawling to church. Okay, they must be wrapped up in some religious fever, which they are, praying to Santa Muerte for the death of Walter. Okay...that took a turn, and shows just what heavy hitters we are dealing with.
58* During the meeting at the school gym about the crash, one student mentions that his neighbor found a plane chair standing perfectly upright in his driveway, with a pair of human legs still buckled in. It's enough to make [[EvenEvilHasStandards even Walt]] let out an audible "Jesus H. Christ". This may have also been because of how the student was clearly using a real tragedy as a form of attention-seeking, not showing an ounce of trauma at this event.
59* "[[Recap/BreakingBadS3E3IFT I. F. T.]]": Tortuga's CruelAndUnusualDeath in where we get to watch his head being severed in gruesome fashion by the cousins, earlier in season 2 you get to see what happens to him with his head attached to the tortoise that was originally offered as a gift.
60* The cousins ambushing an innocent old wheelchair-bound lady to steal her vehicle for Hector, with the strong implication that they killed her.
61* "[[Recap/BreakingBadS3E6Sunset Sunset]]": The cousins' penchant for dog-kicking continues as a police officer stumbles upon the corpse of an old lady whose house the cousins took over as a hideout. And then one of them comes from behind him and hacks him to death with an axe.
62** The rotting corpse of Mrs. Peyketewa; it's thankfully mostly obscured by a cloth, but just the sight of her discolored feet covered in flies...
63* "[[Recap/BreakingBadS3E7OneMinute One Minute]]":
64** [[PoliceBrutality Marie tries to talk Hank into lying about his attack on Jesse]], even suggesting that he claim Jesse attacked him with a pipe. Hank says no, but it’s pretty unsettling how quickly Marie is willing to encourage [[DirtyCop police corruption]] in order to keep her husband out of trouble, even if it means sending an innocent person to prison for nothing.
65** The shootout between Hank and the Cousins. Dear God. Hank is unarmed, vulnerable, and is given a ''minute'' to try and escape from two cartel hitmen. Ramming Leonel into the back of a car, he is shot to hell before Marco decides to try and kill him with an axe. He ''barely'' survives after [[BoomHeadshot shooting him in the head]] and the episode ends.
66* "[[Recap/BreakingBadS3E8ISeeYou I See You]]":
67** TheReveal that Leonel had his legs amputated. And then he starts crawling across the floor...
68** Gus' chilling phone conversation with Juan Bolsa, where we fully see the extent of his plans, as well as the sense of calm satisfaction as he hears Bolsa's VillainousBreakdown and being gunned down by the federales. At this point, his AffablyEvil persona starts to disappear, and the MagnificentBastard that lies beneath and eventually becomes Walt's greatest enemy begins to emerge.
69* They may have [[AssholeVictim deserved it]], but in "[[Recap/BreakingBadS3E12HalfMeasures Half Measures]]", the drug dealers get [[CarFu ran over]] by Walt when Jesse tries to kill them. You get to see their bodies get dislocated as they are ran over, and a quick glimpse of their [[OhCrap faces]] beforehand.
70** Also counting as a TearJerker, Mike's beat cop story ends with the abusive man he threatened murdering his wife/fiancé by caving her head in with the base of a waring blender. The way Mike describes the scene when he arrives is ''not'' pretty.
71--->'''Mike:''' We got there, [[BloodyHorror there was so much blood you could taste the metal.]]
72* Walt at the end of "[[Recap/BreakingBadS3E13FullMeasure Full Measure]]" when he plays his bargaining chip and orders Gale's death. The way Walt goes from seemingly afraid and pleading to being fully confident, dominant and in control is as sudden as it is frightening. The OhCrap face Mike has as he desperately tries to call Gale says everything. Mike finally met Heisenberg.
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77* Gus in "[[Recap/BreakingBadS4E1BoxCutter Box Cutter]]", climaxing with him slitting Victor's throat with the titular instrument, grasping him tightly all while giving a cold, emotionless, [[Film/TheTerminator Terminator]]-like stare to everyone. It's obvious that Victor was probably going to be killed seeing how he was witnessed at Gale Boetticher's apartment, but the way he does it is enough to unsettle the audience and everyone in the room (even including Mike).
78** What really makes this scene extremely cringe-inducing is just how ''[[ViolenceIsDisturbing realistic]]'' Victor's death looks. Instead of [[InstantDeathStab simply dropping dead]] or writhing for a bit like you see in most media, his SlashedThroat treatment consists of him thrashing and squirming for a long, uncomfortable amount of time, all while he emits ''incredibly'' disturbing gasping noises and the gaping gash in his neck is deliberately held open to ensure that he bleeds out.
79** To top it off, Gus' words afterwards show how little his deeds have affected him emotionally.
80--->'''Gus:''' Well? ''Get back to work.''
81* From "[[Recap/BreakingBadS4E6Cornered Cornered]]":
82** The opening truck heist. Like in "[[Recap/BreakingBadS4E4BulletPoints Bullet Points]]", you have the ruthless cartel hitmen ambush a Los Pollos Hermanos refrigerated truck. The way they off the guards in this one (seeing how the previous attack was foiled by Mike) is to lock them in the back of the truck, hook up a tube from the exhaust pipe to the ventilation system, then lay on the gas pedal to suffocate them to death. You can see the guards' desperation as they make a last-ditch attempt to shoot out the doors to escape only to be overcome by the fumes.
83** Walter White's defining "The One Who Knocks" speech. At this point, Skyler is initially scared out of her mind that her husband has gotten in way too deep in this "meth business" and has doomed himself and their entire immediate family. Walt, his pride offended by his wife's clueless yet perfectly reasonable assumption that Walt is still just a timid, basically harmless high school chemistry teacher who couldn't possibly understand, let alone overcome, the evil forces arrayed against them, reasserts his dignity and sets Skyler straight with the BadassBoast of all Badass Boasts. The shocked, utterly horrified look on Skyler's face when it's over tells you all you need to know: she no longer has any idea who the hell she's married to.
84** Walt pays three of Gus' Spanish-speaking laundromat workers to clean his meth club [[EvilIsPetty just to spite Gus]]. Then, Tyrus comes to put the women on a "bus to Honduras." Of course, Walt immediately senses something off and pleads Tyrus to have Gus only blame him and not take it out on the workers. Tyrus responds "he does," implying that Gus may be sensible enough to not ''blame'' the three innocent workers but he will probably kill them due to circumstances.
85* "[[Recap/BreakingBadS4E7ProblemDog Problem Dog]]": Jesse's flashbacks to killing Gale as he tries to play ''VideoGame/{{Rage}}'', accompanied with flashing lights and a high-pitched ringing sound. The sight of Gale falling backwards as he is shot interspersed with footage of Jesse's in-game kills is startling and really highlights his SanitySlippage.
86* "[[Recap/BreakingBadS4E8Hermanos Hermanos]]": Gus' friend and co-founder of Los Pollos Hermanos Max Arciniega being [[BoomHeadshot headshotted]] and KilledMidSentence by Hector right before his eyes. Not only is Gus restrained from attacking him, but he is practically tortured and forced to look at his dead companion. One can imagine the pain that he lived with for the next 20 years.
87* "[[Recap/BreakingBadS4E10Salud Salud]]":
88** Don Eladio:
89--->"If you spill even one drop, I will cut off your hand."
90** The sight of Don Eladio and his captains dropping like flies at poolside from the poisoned tequila is quite disturbing, [[SugarWiki/MomentOfAwesome even if it is a moment of triumph for Gus]]. The women's screams and how they book it out of there only adds to the horror. [[AssholeVictim Sure, they are Cartel and had murdered Gus' former partner in the exact same spot 20 years earlier]], but the way Gus and Mike orchestrate a mass execution of nearly 20 men will leave you speechless. [[DeerInTheHeadlights Jesse's reaction]] (even though he is on THEIR SIDE), reflects this.
91* "[[Recap/BreakingBadS4E11CrawlSpace Crawl Space]]":
92** The ending, commonly regarded as not only one of the best scenes of the series but one of the most harrowing scenes put to TV. Rushing home to retrieve his hidden cache of money, Walter tears apart his and Skyler's hiding place -- under the house -- to find a fraction of the money he needs. Skyler then tells him she had to give the money to Ted Beneke. Walter then [[HeroicBSOD realizes]] that, as that money was the only thing standing between his wife and children and their murder at the hands of Gus, the death of his family has been sealed, and he has no apparent way out. He screams as if watching his family die right in front of his own eyes, tenses in a fetal position and appears to be sobbing, but reveals himself to be [[LaughingMad maniacally laughing his ass off]]. This is followed by Skyler taking a phone call from a panicked and terrified Marie who has just learned that assassins are coming after Hank, while Walt is still laughing in the background. The final shot of the episode chillingly moves up from Walter lying motionless in the crawl space as if [[BuriedAlive buried alive]], and a piercing whistle over the soundtrack sounds like the last bit of air leaving his lungs. It's no wonder that many fans call this [[DespairEventHorizon the moment where Walter White "dies" and permanently becomes Heisenberg.]]
93*** All of the props in the world ''must'' be given to Creator/BryanCranston's performance for making this scene so haunting; his depiction of a man going through a complete psychological collapse in real time is enough to haunt the viewer for a long time, from the first noise he makes once reality sets in to the very end.
94*** Of additional note is Creator/AnnaGunn's performance in Skyler's reaction to Walt's breakdown, especially the small, horrified ''"Walt..."'' she sobs while watching him break into laughter.
95*** Dave Porter's score for the scene is just as disturbing, starting with the thumping industrial beat that plays over Walt racing home before turning into dark, anxiety-inducing ambience as Skyler tells him the truth, which progressively morphs into a shrill, ''deafening'' wall of noise over the final shot.
96** Gus' threat to Walt before his mad dash back home is especially chilling.
97--->'''Gus:''' I will kill your wife. I will kill your son. ''[[WouldHurtAChild I will kill your infant daughter.]]''
98** Let's not forget the entire situation with Ted Beneke from being bullied into signing a cheque to then falling and breaking his neck in the same episode. Imagine the situation from Ted's point of view. He's at home, minding his own business when two thugs show up at his house and proceed to enter uninvited. The men intimidate him and force him to sign a cheque. Yes, Ted is a bit of a jerkass, but having people show up at your house, force their way in and then bully you. Nobody should have to experience that. Then the poor guy decides to run for it, falls and crashes head first into the counter, breaking his neck. The crunching sound. Then it is unclear whether Ted is alive or dead. All the viewer sees is Ted's hand twitching, possibly for the last time. Nice.
99** The [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-KfC7Nl8V4E&t=1124s closing credits music]] caps this off by being initially almost silent, before segueing into a heavily distorted and atonal version of the show's main theme... that then simply abruptly ends.
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101* "[[Recap/BreakingBadS4E13FaceOff Face Off]]":
102** The WhamShot, revealing that [[ManipulativeBastard Walt]] [[MoralEventHorizon poisoned]] [[WouldHurtAChild Brock]]. It's quite unnerving watching earlier episodes in the series after this, knowing how much of a ruthless monster Walt eventually becomes. The fact that it's punctuated by the G minor chord at the end of [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l3yAx2uCoHs ''Black'']] does ''not'' help with the creepiness.
103** The ultimate fate of Gus: ''Half of his face gets blown off'', but we "get" to see him walk out of an exploded room looking like [[Film/TheDarkKnight Harvey Dent]] before he suddenly drops dead. The entire right half of his skull is exposed, covered only by a [[ChunkySalsaRule bloody, chunky]], torn stretch of flesh, [[EyeScream his eye socket entirely hollow]] -- [[NauseaFuel save for a twitching severed muscle cord.]] Not only that, but the entire right side of his jaw is completely obliterated, with only a few cracked, barely visible top teeth visible.
104** After Gus drops dead, the camera shows a brief glimpse of the carnage in the room. There are no signs of whatever remains of Tyrus and Hector, except for a single severed leg lying in the middle of the room.
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108* Peter Schuler's suicide in "[[Recap/BreakingBadS5E2Madrigal Madrigal]]"; he puts one end of a defibrillator on his heart and the other end in his mouth. Yeesh.
109* Skyler's attempted drowning in "[[Recap/BreakingBadS5E4FiftyOne Fifty-One]]". Made all the more disturbing by the DissonantSerenity with which she does it.
110** Walt and Skyler's argument after the pool incident where Walt stalks Skyler around the room as she frantically retreats as she tries to come up with something, ''anything'', to keep the dangerous, murderous drug kingpin she's married to away from their kids, and Walt continuously shoots each and every one of her suggestions down in increasingly harsh manners. This isn't a domestic dispute between Walt and Skyler like had been in the other seasons, this is Heisenberg trying to get Skyler to "behave" and back under his control.
111* Almost everything Walt says to Skyler in Season 5, sounds more like a kidnapper attempting to induce Stockholm Syndrome, [[FauxAffablyEvil especially the lines meant to sound loving.]] It is disturbing, to say the least. Lampshaded by Skyler: "[[ShutUpHannibal I don't need to hear any of your bullshit rationales.]]"
112* The death of the boy in "[[Recap/BreakingBadS5E5DeadFreight Dead Freight]]" who accidentally stumbles upon a heist. Not to mention that he's dissolved in acid in the beginning of the next episode, meaning that his body will never be found and his family will never know what happened to him.
113** An overlooked moment from that same episode: Mike, Jesse, and Walt kidnapping Lydia, taking her to an abandoned building, and Mike threatening to kill her if she doesn't get the information they need from Hank. Not only that, but Walt is on the same page as Mike [[TeethClenchedTeamwork probably for the first time ever]], with Jesse being the only one of the trio who doesn't want to kill her.
114* Walt during "[[Recap/BreakingBadS5E7SayMyName Say My Name]]". Intimidating two experienced drug-dealers to work for him, by using Gus Fring as an example? Check. Getting a HairTriggerTemper during Jesse's calm reasoning why they need to leave the drug business? Check. Him shooting Mike in cold blood when Mike gives a well deserved TheReasonYouSuckSpeech? '''Check.'''
115* The Prison Montage in "[[Recap/BreakingBadS5E8GlidingOverAll Gliding Over All]]": nine gang-stabbings topped off by a man being burned alive. There's not even a single GoryDiscretionShot, either. You see every second of the killings, including the awful first shanking that seems to last forever. Additionally, the last victim is ''[[ManOnFire set alight in his own cell]]'', with his cries for help going unanswered. [[SoundtrackDissonance The]] [[Music/NatKingCole song]] [[SoundtrackDissonance that's playing]] does ''not'' make it better. And topping it all off is Walt gazing stone-faced out of his window as it's all taking place, showing just how remorseless he's become up to this moment.
116* From the beginning of "[[Recap/BreakingBadS5E9BloodMoney Blood Money]]": Hank leaving Walt's house [[HeroicBSOD after realizing he was Heisenberg, and the massive panic attack he has on the drive home that, at first, seems like a heart attack!]]
117** The last sentence in the exchange between Walt and Hank after the latter notes that he doesn't even know who he's talking to.
118--->'''Walt:''' If you don't know who I am, [[ImpliedDeathThreat then maybe your best course would be to tread lightly.]]
119*** Made lighter by the fact that the worst Walt wants to do to Hank is to force him to be quiet, implied by the confession tape. He would never kill Hank no matter what.
120** When Walt asks Jesse why he tried to give his cut to Kaylee, as there's no clear reason why he should do so, Jesse -- absolutely exhausted and emotionally raw to the point of tears -- reveals that he's already realized that Walt killed Mike simply for posing a threat to him. After lying that Mike is alive and well, Walter delivers this chilling line: "I need you to believe this. It's not true; it's just not." Under normal circumstances this would be a clumsy attempt at reassuring someone, [[TroubleEntendre but the context and his tone of voice make the meaning very clear]] -- ''"I don't want to have to kill you, but if you ever become a problem, I'' '''''will,''''' ''so push this out of your mind."'' Jesse, having no real choice, plays along, and is left to contemplate the depths his friend has sunk to.
121* The last few minutes of "[[Recap/BreakingBadS5E11Confessions Confessions]]". Seeing Jesse totally fly off the handle and attempt to burn down Walt's house is utterly terrifying. It's made all the more intense by the [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=phqd9YYGilQ music that plays]] during that particular scene.
122* In "[[Recap/BreakingBadS5E12RabidDog Rabid Dog]]", Jesse firmly establishing the outside view of Walt as TheDreaded to Hank and Gomez. Considering Jesse originally thought of Walter as nothing more than an annoying {{Jerkass}} teacher who randomly decided to break bad, this is pretty unsettling.
123-->'''Jesse:''' What if it's about... killing me? Y'know, getting me out in the open? Hire some uh, some clock tower guy or have me sit on a poison needle, y'know?\
124''' Hank:''' Nothing's going to happen to you. I mean, the plaza is one of the most wide open public places in all of Albuquerque, it's the middle of the day and Agent Gomez and I will be there with you.\
125'''Jesse:''' Look, you two guys are just... guys, okay? Mr. White? He's The Devil. Y'know, he is -- he's smarter than you, he's luckier than you. Whatever you think is supposed to happen, I'm telling you, the exact, reverse, opposite is gonna happen! Okay?"
126* Almost every minute of "[[Recap/BreakingBadS5E14Ozymandias Ozymandias"]]:
127** Hank and Gomez's deaths as their corpses are dragged into a grave carelessly. And the people involved plan to keep that a secret.
128** The fate of Jesse, who is tortured and forced into slavery by Uncle Jack and Todd. His worn-out clothing, his untamed hair and beard, his broken spirit... if you didn't have a fear of being kidnapped, you probably do now.
129** [[NeverMyFault Walt blaming Jesse for the shootout at To'hajiilee]], having him dragged kicking and screaming from under his car and almost executed before his eyes. [[EvilIsPetty Then he gives Todd his blessing to torture any information given to Hank and Gomez out of Jesse]] [[BlatantLies before killing him.]] ''Then'' [[KickTheMoralityPet telling Jesse that he let Jane choke to death when he could have saved her.]] Realizing how much Walt has betrayed him and for how long takes all the strength out of Jesse. This is all especially jarring after the cold open in which we are given a flashback to their first cook at the same location a year earlier, reminding us of the now ancient teacher-student relationship they once had and how simple their situation was then in comparison to the present.
130** The knife fight between Skyler and Walt. Given how far the show has been willing to go before, one could spend the whole scene terrified that Skyler, Walter Jr., or even Walt is going to end up with a knife in their gut.
131** Just the shot of Skyler and Walt Jr. cowering on the ground in front of Walt, one of Jr.'s arms flung protectively in front of his mother, looking up at Walt like he's some sort of monster -- which by this point, ''he is''. To be fair, Skyler ''did'' attack him first, but Walt went into Hyde mode pretty quickly.
132*** How about ''the kidnapping of Holly'' by Walt? Skyler, screaming and crying, bangs on Walt's truck while Holly stares at her, crying as well, and then Walt drives off backing into Skyler's car and out of the neighborhood, possibly for the rest of his life from Skyler's knowledge.
133* "[[Recap/BreakingBadS5E15GraniteState Granite State]]": When Walt hears the Schwartzes badmouthing him on TV. He instantly turns from depressed and suicidal, to ice-cold determined. It's like a non-physical Literature/DrJekyllAndMrHyde transformation. All with the extended ''Breaking Bad'' theme playing. Heisenberg is back!
134** The worst part was Skyler being confronted by Todd and two Neo-Nazis in balaclavas in Holly's room. Todd threatens her and her children, all while remaining eerily calm and polite.
135** Walt's homemade chemo treatment. People with a fear of needles should stay far away. It's even worse that his assistant's only training came from Website/YouTube videos.
136** At one point, Jesse tries to escape to escape the Neo-Nazi compound but is caught. Instead of simply killing him on the spot, Todd and Jack drive Jesse to Andrea's house. They lure Andrea out, then Todd shoots her in the back of the head. To top it off, Jack tells Jesse that if he tries to escape again, they'll kill Brock next.
137* The final episode, "[[Recap/BreakingBadS5E16Felina Felina]]":
138** How Walt ensures Walter Jr, will receive his inheritance. He breaks into the Schwartz home, looking at their belongings while Elliot and Gretchen cook and banter unaware. He then has Badger and Skinny Pete use laser pointers on them, making them think that they are in the sights of two snipers, and convinces them that they'll live under constant supervision and fear until Walter Jr. receives Walt's money through them, possibly for the rest of their lives as well.
139*** Walt gives them a rather chilling speech that just oozes ParanoiaFuel:
140--->'''Walt:''' Just this afternoon I had an extra $200,000 that I would've loved dearly to leave on top of this table. Instead, I gave it to the two best hitmen west of the Mississippi. Now, Whatever happens to me tomorrow... I'll still be out there... Keeping tabs. and ''if'' for ANY reason that my children do not get this money... A kind of "countdown" will begin. Maybe a day or so, later. Maybe a week, a year, when you're going for a walk in Santa Fe or Manhattan, or Prague, wherever. And you're... talking about your stock prices... Without a ''worry'' in the world... And then suddenly... You'll hear the scrape of a footstep behind you, but before you can even turn around- ''[[JumpScare POP!]]'' '''...Darkness.'''
141** Walt entering Skyler's apartment. In an [[NothingIsScarier unnervingly-calm]] scene shot in [[TheOner a specific angle]], Skyler sits in the kitchen and talks with a panicked Marie over the phone about Walt being back in Albuquerque, with Marie worrying that Walt may plan to do ''something'' horrible to the either of them, or the police. After reaffirming Marie that she's looking out for herself, she hangs up the phone... and says "Five minutes." The camera then pans slowly forward, revealing that Walt has been standing in the kitchen ''[[HeWasRightThereAllAlong the whole time]]'', hidden by a banister in the shot. Even though he actually snuck into the house with benevolent intentions, it's still very discomforting how he is simply... ''there'', almost like an abusive ex breaking into someone's apartment.
142** Todd's death. While he dodges the machine gun, Jesse seizes the opportunity to wrap his shackles around Todd's neck and strangle him to death. They spend over a minute writhing on the floor as Jesse screams in rage, and the struggle is punctuated with the nauseating sound of Todd's neck snapping at the end. [[AssholeVictim It couldn't have happened to a nicer guy.]]
143** From Lydia's perspective: Imagine calling Todd to ask if Walt had been killed, only to hear from Walt himself that not just Todd, but the entire Aryan Brotherhood gang is dead and that cold you thought you had is actually an incurable poison that he slipped into your favorite tea sweetener. Imagine learning that you have have only days to live, knowing that you cannot be cured, from somebody who treats this as simple collateral.
144** Hell, [[BadassBookworm Walter White himself]] is NightmareFuel incarnate in this episode. [[HesBack He has come back]] to Albuquerque even ''more'' dangerous than ever before, and, in a matter of ''hours'', killed Jack Welker and his extremely evil gang, killed Lydia, set Jesse free, and [[AnOfferYouCantRefuse guaranteed]] that Elliott and Gretchen will donate the rest of his money to his family. All of this, while looking like [[NotSoHarmlessVillain an absolute wreck who can't do any more damage than he has already done]].
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