History Recap / BreakingBadS5E16Felina

* BondVillainStupidity: Downplayed. Jack doesn't consider Walt's offer at all and pretty much immediately orders his goons to take him out back and shoot him, but when Walt then accuses Jack of working with a snitch, it wounds Jack's pride enough for him to put Walt's summary execution on hold and have Jesse brought in just so he can clarify the point to Walt that Jesse is not actually working ''with'' him, but being forced to work ''for'' him. This hesitation on Jack's part is what allows Walt to pull off his plan.

[[caption-width-right:350:Guess he got what he deserved.]]

-> ''[[Music/GunfighterBalladsAndTrailSongs ♫ Maybe tomorrow a bullet may find me\\
Tonight nothing's worse than this pain in my heart... ♫]]''

-->'''Jack:''' You want your money, right? You wanna know where that is? You pull that trigger, you'll never-- ''([[KilledMidSentence Walt shoots him in the head]]'')

-> ♫ ''Guess I got what I deserved''\\
''Kept you waiting there, too long my love''\\
''All that time without a word''\\
''Didn't know you'd think that I'd forget, or I'd regret''\\
''The special love I had for you, my baby blue.''\\
''All the days became so long''\\
''Did you really think, I'd do you wrong''\\
''Dixie, when I let you go''\\
''Thought you'd realize that I would know''\\
''I would show the special love I have for you, my baby blue.'' ♫

* ABirthdayNotABreak: Walt dies on his [=52nd=] birthday, with his drug empire wiped out for good, but not before getting back at his enemies and securing his family's future.

* KarmaHoudini: Of the show's main cast, the only surviving criminal who both evades legal justice and doesn't get emotionally scarred-for-life -- not counting Badger and Skinny Pete, whose crimes were pretty low down on the scale compared to everyone else -- is Saul, though he is technically absent from this final episode, and didn't exactly make it out of the series unscathed since he lost his highly lucrative law practice and was left with what was confirmed in ''Series/BetterCallSaul'' to be a much more mundane life - one filled with paranoia over being found by someone from his past.

* KarmaHoudini: Of the show's main cast, the only surviving criminal who both evades legal justice and doesn't get emotionally scarred-for-life -- not counting Badger and Skinny Pete, whose crimes were pretty low down on the scale compared to everyone else -- is Saul, though he is technically absent from this final episode, and didn't exactly make it out of the series unscathed since he lost his highly lucrative law practice and was left with what was confirmed in ''Series/BetterCallSaul'' to be a much more mundane life - one filled paranoia over being found by someone from his past.

* AlasPoorVillain: Walter in his last moments. He is now left a broken man desperately trying to make up for the damages he has caused. Throughout the episode, he ensures his family's future will be financially secured, makes sure his wife will be free from charges, takes out the remaining bad guys, and pulls a HeroicSacrifice to save Jesse at the [[DeathEqualsRedemption cost of his own life]]. He then dies in a meth lab, surrounded by the things he liked to do.

Now alone in the New Mexican desert, Walt is seen putting together some sort of contraption in the trunk of the car he got from Lawson, using the M60, a car battery, and a garage door opener. By a press on his car lock remote, the device springs to life and starts rotating back and forth. Walt smiles in approval at this, before he turns his attention to his wedding ring, still hanging from his makeshift necklace...

* VillainsDyingGrace: The entire episode can be summed up as this.

* WillingSuspensionOfDisbelief: Taking out a room full of people with a homemade sentry gun isn't the likeliest outcome, but who cares when the alternative is neo-Nazis not getting their comeuppance?
** {{Subverted}} to the surprise of the fans, the ''Series/{{Mythbusters}}'' and ''Creator/VinceGilligan'' himself when they tested how the sentry gun would actually function, and ''it worked just like it did in the show!''

* ABirthdayNotABreak: Walt dies on his [=52nd=] birthday, with his drug empire wiped out for good.

* TheAtoner: Walter ends up being an extremely dark version of this; while he's unapologetic for his actions, he does his best to fix the consequences.

** If Jack hadn't been stung by Walt's accusation that he partnered up with Jesse, he'd have taken Walt outside to be executed right then. His insistence to bring Jesse in to show him how mistaken he was gave Walt the opportunity to pick up his car keys (with the remote for his machine gun rig) on the pool table. Just like many of Walt's actions and mistakes over the course of the series were born out of pride, Jack shared this mortal sin with him, which ultimately caused his own undoing.

* HesBack: Heisenberg is back one last time to atone for his sins, launder rest of his money to his family, and to avenge Hank.

** Walt's stated motivation for going into drug dealing, from the very first episode, was to earn enough money via the trade that his family could live comfortably without him. In this episode, the last villain of the series and the last distributor of the blue meth (Jack) tries to bargain with Walt by offering him his lost drug money. Walt [[NoSell completely ignores the offer]] and kills Jack anyway, finally ending the business.

* TheGreatestStoryNeverTold: Skyler, Jesse, Elliot, Gretchen, Badger and Skinny Pete are the only people who'll ever know what Walt's final day was really like. To the police and the rest of the world, it'll look like Walter White died alone in a meth lab after gunning down a group of neo-nazis, his actions seemingly AllForNothing.

* TheGreatestStoryNeverTold: Given that Skyler and Jesse are the only surviving people who know what Walt's final act was about, it's unlikely the police or the world at large will ever know what really happened at the compound.

* {{Irony}}: Walt refused Eliot and Gretchen's offer to work at their company at the beginning of the series because he didn't want to depend on their "charity". Now the only way Walt can get the money he recieved through his crimes to his family without them rejecting it or the police confiscating it is to coerce the Schwartzes into taking the nest egg and giving it to Flynn once he turns eighteen so it looks like the money came from one of their philanthropic acts.

** SeriesFauxnale: Well, ''almost'' all the loose ends. Six years later, it turns out that [[Film/ElCamino the story isn't quite over]] for Jesse Pinkman.

* WhamLine: "How are you feeling? A little under the weather, like you've got the flu? That would be the Ricin I gave you, I slipped into that Stevia crap that you're always putting in your tea".

* EarnYourHappyEnding: The White family's financial future is secured, Jack, Lydia, and Todd got their thoroughly deserved punishments, and the lottery ticket gives Marie and Skyler a chance to give Hank a proper funeral and keep Skyler out of prison. Walt dies, yes, but 1) [[KarmicDeath he definitely had it coming]], and 2) as Jesse's conversation with him makes clear, [[DeathSeeker Walt welcomed it]].

* BittersweetEnding: Walt dies, having finally dismantled his drug empire and giving Jack, Todd and Lydia their comeuppance. Jesse is freed from the drug trade for good, Skyler has information on where Hank and Gomez are buried, implying she will use this info to avoid trial and Walt ensures that Gretchen and Elliot will help secure his family's financial future through Flynn's trust fund. However, everybody that survived the series still has to live with the devastation Walt caused by getting involved in the meth trade, and he remains unapologetic about his actions. Walt also still [[DyingAlone dies alone]] and hated by his family, meaning the White family will never know that the money from the trust fund came from Walt instead of one of the Schwartz's acts of charity.

** Thanks to the White family not wanting any of Walt's drug money, he decides to coerce the Schwarzes into setting up a trust fund Flynn will recieve on his 18th birthday with the remaining cash he has to make it look like the money came from a philanthropist couple's act of charity. Then during Walt's final meeting with Skyler, he claims he spent the rest of his money getting back to Albuquerque. This means that the White Family will believe that Walt's actions were AllForNothing, even though the audience and Walt know that their financial future will be secured in less than a year.

** It is also a reference to the Marty Robbins song "El Paso", whose plot -- a wanted man goes back to the scene of his crime to see someone he misses (a woman named Felina) and is fatally shot in the process -- [[WholePlotReference the episode directly parallels]]. In Walt's case it's not initially clear what the "Felina" he's really after is, but given the last scene it's probably his blue meth.