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** The look on Walt's face when Jesse calls him. His prodigal son is now his enemy who he has to get rid of, you can see his heartbreak. Plus, fans now know the great Walt/Jesse team which has been the dynamic of the entire show is now over.

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** The look on Walt's face when Jesse calls him. His prodigal son is now his enemy who he has to get rid of, you can see his heartbreak. Plus, fans now know the great heartbreak evident. The Walt/Jesse team which has dynamic that had been the dynamic whole center of the entire show is now dead and over.



** Flynn's (previously known as Walt Jr.) last conversation with Walt over the phone. The look of sadness on Walt, unbearable. Flynn blaming Walt for Hank's death, for everything that happened, and for abandoning Skyler (who he now believes was never a willing accomplice in Walt's crimes) as TheScapegoat. Flynn ends the conversation screaming "Just leave us alone! YOU ASSHOLE! Why are you still alive? Why won't you just die already?! Ju-Just DIE!" Walt's last words before the phone is hung up? Don't let what he did mean nothing. Walt's face looked like a man who truly had nothing left. [[HatedByAll A man whose son despises him to the point where he legally changed his first name because of how ashamed he is to share his original name with his criminal father, the world hates him for being a monster, and he hates himself for letting it get out of control.]]

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** Flynn's (previously known as Walt Jr.) last conversation with Walt over the phone. The look of sadness on Walt, unbearable. Flynn blaming Walt for Hank's death, for everything that happened, and for abandoning Skyler (who he now believes was never a willing accomplice in Walt's crimes) as TheScapegoat. Flynn ends the conversation screaming by screaming, "Just leave us alone! YOU ASSHOLE! Why are you still alive? Why won't you just die already?! Ju-Just DIE!" Walt's last words before the phone is hung up? Don't let what he did mean nothing. Walt's face looked like a man who truly had nothing left. [[HatedByAll A man whose son despises him to the point where he legally changed his first name because of how ashamed he is to share his original name with his criminal father, the world hates him for being a monster, and he hates himself for letting it get out of control.]]



** Lydia was definitely a SmugSnake with a ChronicBackstabbingDisorder, but [[EvenEvilHasLovedOnes the love she has for her daughter]] is probably the only redeeming quality she has. Think about this from Kiira's perspective; your loving mother has just been poisoned with ricin and is not expected to survive, which means she has to spend the next few days by her mother's side crying at the fact that she's dying very soon. Sure, Lydia's a bitch and a half and [[AssholeVictim she definitely deserves to die]], but it's hard not to feel sorry for her daughter losing the only known family she has left!

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** Lydia was definitely a SmugSnake with a ChronicBackstabbingDisorder, but [[EvenEvilHasLovedOnes the love she has for her daughter]] is probably the only redeeming quality she has. Think about this from Kiira's perspective; your loving mother has just been poisoned with ricin and is not expected to survive, which means she has to spend the next few days by her mother's side crying at the fact that she's dying very soon. Sure, Lydia's a bitch and a half and [[AssholeVictim she definitely deserves to die]], but it's hard not to feel sorry for her young daughter losing the only known family she has left!her mom.



*** 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, tracked down the wife he abused into complicity with his crimes to terrorize her further by forcing her to make him breakfast, 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 and he disappears for good into Alaska, 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 vindictive and violent drug lord whose final act was done out of pettiness and spite.

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*** 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 a nest egg for his kids and saving Jesse. But to the rest of the world, Walter "Heisenberg" White showed up in town on his 52nd birthday, tracked down the wife he abused into complicity with his crimes to terrorize her further by forcing her to make him breakfast, 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 and he disappears for good into Alaska, 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 vindictive and violent drug lord whose final act was done out of pettiness and spite.
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** Earlier in the same episode, we're treated to a shot in Hector's room where he keeps a photograph of himself in his younger days clutching baby twin boys (the Cousins) and posing with a boy only slightly older (Tuco), with [[Recap/BreakingBadS4E11CrawlSpace Don Eladio's necklace]] draped around it. Even though we know Hector was as much a ruthless merciless gangster in life as Gus is, it's still a sobering reminder that now he's just a broken and crippled old man who's utterly and completely alone in the world. Everyone he ever loved is dead and everything he worked his whole life for is gone, all dismantled at the hands of his worst enemy, and he could do nothing but sit there powerless as it all happened. No wonder he had zero qualms about dying in the explosion with Gus.
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** It's equally miserable for Jesse too. In the first episode of the season, he dismisses himself as a "bad guy" that caused the deaths of Jane and the 167 people in the plane crash. But once Walt tells him that they need Gale dead, Jesse slowly realizes that, though he may be a bad guy, he's not soulless enough to do ''bad things'', and implores Walt to find a different way. Being told to do the deed is what finally gets it to set in that he's not the heartless monster he accused himself of being. As Gale begs for his life, Jesse's eyes fill with tears and his arm trembles, and he takes no joy in ultimately pulling the trigger.

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** It's equally miserable for Jesse too. In the first episode of the season, he dismisses himself as a "bad guy" that caused the deaths of Jane and the 167 people in the plane crash.crash, and in the previous episode, he was willing to kill two drug dealers that employed a child. But once Walt tells him that they need Gale dead, Jesse slowly realizes that, though he may be a bad guy, he's not soulless enough to do ''bad things'', and implores Walt to find a different way. Being told to do the deed is what finally gets it to set in that he's not the heartless monster he accused himself of being. As Gale begs for his life, Jesse's eyes fill with tears and his arm trembles, and he takes no joy in ultimately pulling the trigger.

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