I think the main reason he didn't shoot him was because he has finally escaped Walts control. He knows how often he has successfully manipulated Jesse and made him do things which Walt wanted eg. Why? Walt sensed that Jesse would be emotionally destroyed by the murder, even though he hated the two guys, so took the matter out of his hands in a most definite and non-negotiable way. Sure, he used him occasionally to get stuff done but there is no doubt that he loved him. this link is to an external site that may or may not meet accessibility guidelines. But on the other hand, the family emotionally is scarred forever. The reason for handing him over the neo nazis was at first cause he thought Jesse wanted to kill him. Walter played that one very close to the chest. Chief among these was how the writers handled Jesses final showdown with his partner turned nemesis Heisenberg. Ricky Hitler, as we like to call him. Why did Walt change his mind about Jesse "handling" the stolen drug money? Which, now that I think about it, is the same fate Walt deemed appropriate for Tuco. It was premeditated. But at least he takes a few steps along that path.
We were all of one mind when we were saying, 'Oh man, she's got to go.' Throughout the majority of the show Walt had Jesse under his control. Why the police do not keep an eye on Jesse after Hank is attacked? Jesse did intentionally kill Gale, did he not? You want this. "Ours is nothing if not a definitive ending to the series," says the show's mastermind, who also wrote and directed the episode. Walt DEFINITELY cared for Jesse! You've now had a few minutes to gather your breath, wipe away the tears and start to process that brutal and poignant series finale of Breaking Bad. He doesn't want to kill Walt, even if Walt is asking for it as he doesn't like blood on his hands. But Lydia? By the time Jesse and Walt have their final confrontation at Uncle Jacks white supremacist compound, Walt most likely deserved to for Jesse to kill him. The important explaining moment is when Jesse noticed Walt was shot by the machine gun. This show is phenomenal in the way it demonstrates human mind. ", On the decision to spare Jesse and allow him to escape, "We found over the years that the way we can please the majority of the audience most of the time is to tune out as much extraneous factors as possible and please the eight of us in the writers room. And if miracle of miracles, you manage to get it past the cops, your family is not going to take it because it's from you and they hate you. So instead, Jesse ruins his gesture by forcing him to admit the selfish side of it, and then leaves him alone to die of a bullet in the stomach. Then he poisons a child and frames Gus Fring to convince Jesse that Fring must die. ThisIsGuernsey.com 2017 - 2022. Announcing the Stacks Editor Beta release! He forfeited that plan in order to save Jesse. Even his wife Skyler White used the income to clean up messes like the $621,000 needed to pay off Ted Benekes IRS problem. Could a license that allows later versions impose obligations or remove protections for licensors in the future? The sequence with Gretchen and Elliott at their house was the hardest thing of all for the writers and I to figure out. Fans werent thrilled to hear the Emmy Award-winning series was ending after five seasons. An answer this short is consider low quality.
He can murder on impulse or emotion but not on some purpose. The first time he did it was to save Mr. White as well as himself, and it's not a natural fit for him, and it's something that's stolen a big, important piece of his soul. Gilligan spoke with EW about the fates for Walt and Jesse, the possible alternate endings, the classic Western movie that turned out to be a huge influence on the ending and the most structurally important scene of the finale. Then Jesse ratted him out to Hank + inevitably caused Hanks death (in walts perspective), so he wanted Jesse dead (this time not to protect his family, but for revenge). Because Jesse finally figured out that Walt uses people to get what he wants!
Amazon and the Amazon logo are trademarks of Amazon.com.uk, Inc. or its affiliates. Every time hes tried to form a significant connection outside of Walt Jane, Andrea, Brock, Mike Walt has taken every single one of them away, either through direct or indirect means. Hell-raisers: The Boys season 3 shakes up prestige TV with superhero debauchery, Just because they're Emmy nominated doesn't mean The Boys are pulling their punches. Like their relationship itself, a bit of a gray area. When it comes to the scene where Jesse has the oppurtunity to kill Walt, Walt hands him the gun and asks him to shoot him. Walter White descends into the criminal underworld. Walts wrong, of course.
And also, honestly, the actress who plays Lydia [Laura Fraser] is a wonderful, warm, sweet person but the character of Lydia we were all champing at the bit to see her get her just desserts much more than Todd even. Gus Fring hired Walter White after Gale praised a sample of Walts blue meth as the purest hed ever seen. You know for the whole movie that this is the major drama between these two characters looking for Natalie Wood. Ready for takeoff!
Jesse, however, was left with $5 million that Walt gave him out of guilt. Walt thought of Jesse as a son beginning with the advice from Donald Margolis. At first, Walt becomes like a mentor to Jesse, helping him create a superior product with their signature blue meth. "Let him bleed.". And indeed it is. At the end of the hour, the audience needs to see Walt get revenge against the guys who killed Hank. "I think plenty of people out there will have had a different ending for this show in their mind's eye and therefore we're bound to disappoint a certain number of folks," he says, "but I really think I can say with confidence that we made ourselves happy and that was not remotely a sure thing for the better part of a year. Todd is actually in a weird way kind of likable, but he just had to go. Whether your predictions were on the money barrel or off-base, you will most certainly want to read what series creator Vince Gilligan had to say about this satiating last-ever episode, which saw the fall of meth kingpin Walter White (Bryan Cranston). Jesse: Then do it yourself. Why didnt Jesse kill Walt? The gang members drag Jesse out and put him on his knees, Jack points his gun at his head and Walt gives Jack the nod to kill Jesse. Gus knows he cant kill Walt and Jesse at this point because theyre the most qualified cooks he knows. He gives the ricin to its most worthy recipient, Lydia. It's a heady challenge to wrap up five seasons of one of TV's most daring, beloved and obsessed-over dramas in a manner that's provocative andsatisfying, and Gilligan was keenly aware of it as he and his writers toiled away for endless hours in search of the perfect ending. rev2022.7.21.42638. Walt has failed on so many levels, but he has managed to do the one thing he set out to do, which is a victory. Story: man purchases plantation on planet, finds 'unstoppable' infestation, uses science, electrolyses water for oxygen, 1970s-1980s.
This poor guy has wound up having to kill over and over again. [Laughs]", On whether Walt's death means that heultimatelypaid for his sins, "It's in the eye of the viewer.
The last time Walt, Jesse and Jack were together in Ozymandias, Walt explicitly asked Jack to kill Jesse, so it makes sense this was still his intention when he went back to Jacks in Felina until he saw what sorry state Jesse was in (as basically a slave, not a partner of Jacks). The series ends with Jesse driving away in a fit of emotion and paved the way for his new chapter to begin. He wants no, he needs Jesse to stay on because he needs to see that Jesse has broken bad, too. Of course, Walt for years now has been looking through the wrong end of the telescope. In the previous episode, Saul Goodman (Bob Odenkirk) lays it out for Walt.
He doesnt care about feeding his family; he cares about feeding his ego. And we thought to ourselves, 'You know what? When Walts wife pursuades him to help Hank, Walt hatches up this plan to replace Gale with Jessie. Todd is so likable, you almost have these ambivalent feelings when he's being choked to death. That said, season 5 revealed that Walt earned over $80 million in cash, which he kept in a storage unit. However, most agreed that showrunner Vince Gilligan and his talented team of writers gave Walter White a worthy sendoff. Jesse knew that if he shoots Walter, he will execute yet another bloody favor Walter prepared for him, meaning once again Jesse's abeyance admitting that Walter is still in control. Press question mark to learn the rest of the keyboard shortcuts. Jesse also assumed Walt killed Mike, who Jesse really cared about. The two are acquainted because Jesse was a former student of Walts. We kept talking about that in the writers room saying, 'Jesus, Saul's right on the money, no pun intended. Well 1st in Rabid Dog, Walt just wanted to talk. It makes me think, through quite a bit of good luck being involved, we really did pick the right moment to exit the stage, and I feel even more confident of that now than I did before.". I certainly hope it's not, because the nicest people that have ever lived are going to die eventually. So, it's always a matter of stealing from the best. The Gretchen and Elliott scheme is structurally the most important sequence in the episode, when Walt pulls that scam on Gretchen and Elliott and he intimidates them into giving his family money so that it'll ride past the DEA without the DEA knowing it's drug money and then it'll be accepted by Skyler and Walt Jr. as largesse, as charity and not as money from their patriarch.
Once he found he was working for Hank who died as a a result, Walt blamed Jesse for his death and handed him over to them out of spite. He teases Jesse about Jane's death as well when he got him caught by the Nazis. [Jesse] had said a long time ago, in a previous episode, Im never doing what you tell me to do ever again, so when he says no and drops the gun and says, Do it yourself, to Mr. White, its as much a refusal to do what Walt tells him. He realizes that Walt did care for Jesse after all, even though Jesse was may a time an unwilling part of Walt's plan. Although he knew that Jesse is cooking for them, he never anticipated to meet him at that place at that time. He was young, unconscious and stupid enough not to understand this.