He's seen them and what they did. It's been a long journey, and we've lost quite a few along the way. Crystal meth distributorDEA informant Employee at Tampico Furniture (former) Jane was Jesse's last tether to a life outside of Walt, the cartels, and meth, and his guilt will linger for the remainder of the series. Walt and Jesse flip a coin to decide who dissolves Emilio's corpse and who kills Krazy-8. Some still did. Let's take a look at some of the most devastating deaths on "Breaking Bad.". A while later, DEA Agents Hank Schrader and Steven Gomez arrive at the station to interrogate Domingo who, per Saul's instructions, offers up information on dead drops with half a million dollars. ("50% Off").

Mike decides to skip town, but needs his emergency getaway bag picked up from the airport. Jesse shoots Gale point blank, but in this moment, they are both Walter White's victims. Creator Vince Gilligan's oft-quoted goal to "turn Mr. Chips into Scarface" was always bound to leave bodies on the ground, as Albuquerque high school chemistry teacher Walter White (Bryan Cranston, in a multiple Emmy-award winning performance), alongside his former student Jesse Pinkman (fellow Emmy-winner Aaron Paul), wades into the violent world of crystal meth production and distribution, and eventually bends it to his will. But in that moment, you as the viewer have time to think: Was I relieved? 2022 E! They have hired a young new assistant, Todd (Jesse Plemons) who is eager to impress. Krazy-8 becomes suspicious of Jesse when Jesse attempts to sell him a new product after Emilio's arrest, and Krazy-8 forces Jesse to take him to Jesse's new partner. Walt could roll her over, but he doesn't; instead, he watches Jane choke to death. His body took two more episodes to fully be rid of, after Walt and Jesse dissolved him in acid. Lalo is the one to nickname Krazy-8 "Ocho Loco" (Spanish for "Crazy Eight") based on his misplaying of a hand during a poker game. Walt, who was begging for his life not moments before, now has the upper hand. Walt's actions become even more indirect but the consequences even more devastating when Jane's father, an air traffic controller, is so devastated by her death that he inadvertently causes a plane crash that kills 167 people. A mangled pink teddy bear floats in the White family pool. ", The Most Devastating Deaths On Breaking Bad. When Emilio recognizes Walt from accompanying Hank on the drug bust, Krazy-8 furiously believes that Walt is involved with law enforcement and plans to kill him until Walt offered to teach him his meth formula.

A shootout ensues that leaves Hank injured. Hank began as a jerk and a blowhard, but one of the best decisions Vince Gilligan and the other writers have made for this story is to slowly teach that he was a good cop and a good man, smart and savvy, loving to his wife as Walt tormented and terrorized his, and infinitely more trustworthy and humane than Walt will ever be again. Walt apologizes to the dead Krazy-8 for having killed him. Those 167 deaths are, by far, the most the show has ever and probably will ever carry out at once. He makes a conscious decision to interrupt his instinctive reaction to a choking person because it's expedient for him largely because she's meddling in his dealings with Jesse for her to die. Krazy-8 is an extreme liability and needs to be dealt with in a more permanent fashion than being chained to a pole, but at this point neither men are killers.

But Walt grows concerned that Gale may be there as his replacement rather than his assistant, and fabricates reasons to fire Gale and replace him with Jesse. So grab some Kleenex and join us as we honor those characters who are no longer with us and the show we're already crying over. Hank, "Ozymandias": Hank was pretty obnoxious in the beginning, but that was when it was still not unreasonable to root for Walt. Emilio and Krazy-8 watch as Walt cooks a batch of meth. Andrea looks after her young son Brock, as well as her younger brother Tomas (Angelo Martinez) who is mixed up in gang activity. However, Krazy-8 awakens and Walt cannot find the courage to kill him and instead gives him water, food and toiletries. Walt later killed Mike, who had been his associate, and then had a dozen guys murdered in prison, all just to keep people from talking. The coin flip determines that while Jesse will be in charge of "disincorporating" Emilio's body, Walt will be responsible for killing Krazy-8. ("and the Bag's in the River"), The day after his death, Krazy-8's car is found by the DEA at the cook site along with a hidden sample of Walt's meth. Occupation Something terrible is going to happen at the end of Season 2, teased from its first episode by a series of cryptic flash-forwards shot in stark black and white. And even some of those violent criminals receive a punishment that they do not necessarily deserve. Walt, as is his way, tries to talk Jack out of killing Hank, but Hank shuts him down: "You're the smartest guy I ever met, but you're too stupid to see he made up his mind ten minutes ago." His one-word direction to Jesse: "Run.". Jane falls off the wagon and soon the two of them are shooting heroin together. And after Mr. Crazypants was nice enough to give you ice cream, too! It was into this atmosphere of a completely amoral Walter White, transformed completely into the self-described empire builder known as Heisenberg, that Breaking Bad set up the confrontation that most of us could not have anticipated would be the fulcrum of the series' final sequence: Walt versus Hank. Krazy-8 is arrested when one of the Salamanca drug houses is discovered by the local police, leading Nacho to seek Jimmy McGill's legal services to help free him. In these first two episodes, these two specific acts of killing form a downward swoop, with the second part of the same sequence of events as the first, and yet so different. The opening credits roll on this Season 5 episode, and the boy won't be seen again for nearly another hour. What have you begun rooting for? The history of literature and the history of film teach that there are other ways to achieve high stakes. More new questions: What is your responsibility for the unforeseeable consequences of an immoral act? Someone has to be punished for this, but at the same time, meth production must continue. Seen in profile, he straightens his tie. Krazy 8, "and the Bag's in the River": While he was trapped in the basement with a bike lock around his neck, Walt got to know Krazy 8 (Max Arciniega) pretty well, while Krazy 8 got to know Walt. Cause of death Krazy-8's House But one of the many reasons Breaking Bad will be remembered the way it will, eulogized the way it will, and missed the way it will is that its killings always mean something. While mixing chemicals, Walter creates a small explosion that produces phosphine gas which appears to kill both Emilio and Krazy-8. Steven "Gomie" Gomez, "Ozymandias": Poor Gomie (Steven Michael Quezada). Walt, meanwhile, feels little to no guilt, and doesn't reveal his role in her death to Jesse until the end of the series. We didn't get to attend their funerals, so we did the next best thingwe ranked the show's major deaths in terms of how sad they made us. We even give them a score of one to 10 on the Sad Scale, because we lovealliteration. Relationships In 2008, Krazy-8 became a meth distributor associated with his cousin Emilio, and Jesse Pinkman and Walter White. Characters from Breaking Bad in Better Call Saul, Deceased Characters from Season 1 (Breaking Bad). Alpha male DEA agent Hank Schrader loves his family, including his brother-in-law Walter White, even if he and White don't always understand each other. "and the Bag's in the River" Appearances in Better Call Saul Domingo promises that he will make up to it next time and Nacho lets him off easy, but Hector comments on it, forcing Nacho to drag Domingo back into the restaurant and beating him up as punishment. Portrayed by What follows is a marvelously suspenseful heist sequence, as Walt, Jesse, and Todd (with some assistance from a sometime-accomplice played by comedian Bill Burr) conspire to bring the train to a halt in the middle of the desert, drain the methylamine into an underground tank, replace it with water, and get out without getting killed or caught. Walt's associate, Todd, who was working for him during a chemical heist meant to facilitate meth manufacturing, shot and killed a completely innocent, uninvolved child for simply coming on the scene at the wrong time. Walt makes a deal to forget about Jesse and to continue cooking for Gus, with Gale reluctantly returning as his assistant. But alas, Walt is a jerk, and his only punishment was a bunch of debris in his pool and yard. Residence But a man who, in that moment unlike Emilio presents no instant threat and could, in theory, be given to the police if Walt were willing to take responsibility for those things he'd already done. In a rage, Walt shoots Mike in the gut. Later, while investigating the respirator from the cook site which he traces to J. P. Wynne High School, Hank reveals to a surprised Walt that Krazy-8 was one of the DEA's snitches. While she turns to look, Todd shoots her in the back of the head. Walt returns later that night to make amends with Jesse and finds the two of them strung out. But it is distinguished by the intimacy and seriousness of its approach to the killing of one person by another. ("Coushatta"), When homeless customers accuse Domingo's crew of diluting their cocaine, Lalo visits their stash house and determines that some of the product given to the Salamanca organization by Gus Fring wasnt the same product that Fring had been smuggling across the border for the Cartel. Similar to what happened to Domingo himself previously, Blingy comes up short on his payment and promises to make it up next time, being allowed to get off easy, but not before Nacho calls Blingy to his table to rip off one of his ear piercings as punishment. While Emilio would normally be considered the prime suspect due to Krazy-8 ratting him out, he is also considered missing by the authorities. Domingo goes to El Michoacno and delivers Tuco and Nacho a cash payment from his crew's sale of drugs. Now bent on revenge for both Andrea's brother and Combo, Jesse sets out to gun down the two dealers, and probably get himself killed in the process. By the Season 5's mid-season finale in 2012, Hank has finally discovered that the drug kingpin Heisenberg, who he has been hunting for nearly two years, is in fact his brother-in-law. Jesse kills again at the end of the fourth season, when he has to shoot two guards to get out of a shootout. Why would you do that, Jesse?

Were you happy to see that the man's face was, in fact, blown off? That night, Nacho is able to narrowly recover the remainder of the stash before the DEA can discover it. Over the course of the series after he kills these two men, Walt will sit with his conscience again and again, and he will find its leaky valves again and again, and he will give himself permission to ignore it, then conclude it's a weakness, then stop hearing it speak at all.

A young boy (Sam Webb) is out in the desert alone on his bicycle. He takes a few weeks off from his job as an air traffic controller to recover from his grief.

Aliases Walt gets almost to the end of the second season before he kills again. Gus Fring is a man of great passions raging underneath a stoic exterior. Walt searches desperately for reasons to avoid killing Krazy-8 and has a long conversation with him and ends up bonding with him and decides that he will let him go. At some point, Domingo leaves the employment of the Salamanca drug business and establishes himself as a solo drug dealer and manufacturer, taking on the identity of Krazy-8. First The ensuing fight and death scene is brutal and ugly, a tragedy not just for a young man with the bad luck to have crossed Walt's path, but for Walt himself, as he has now crossed a line he can never return from. Nacho then pretends one of Domingo's bills is marked, buying him the chance to switch out Hector's pills with fakes as he intended. A bad man, a dangerous man, a man who started it, and a man Walt believes will only come back for his family otherwise. Artist and recovering drug addict Jane Margolis (Krysten Ritter) is trying to piece her life back together when she rents the other side of her duplex to Jesse in Season 2. Bodies cut in half, flayed, burned, eaten. After the explosion, there is the indelible scene in which Gus walks out of the bombed room and appears to have survived. Even a good boy became a killer; even a good cop became corrupt. ("Cancer Man"), Walt later pressures Jesse to move their product faster such as through a distributor. He kills Emilio with chemistry, with school, when he finds himself with what he believes is no choice. Emilio and Krazy-8 follow Walt into the RV and force him to show them his recipe at gunpoint. The end of Season 5 has Jesse suffer to an almost absurd degree, as he is kidnapped by Todd and Uncle Jack after Hank's death and forced to cook meth. Everything Walt will become is certainly there in some form from the beginning, but it is activated and provoked and spills over whatever levees of morality there are in him. Walt's path over the first season of the show, in fact, is fixed in that opening sequence, both because of the death he's caused and because of the death he will cause after leaving himself no alternative he can accept. Gus calls a meeting and declares that the gang is to no longer use children in their business. He insists he hasn't said anything incriminating to the police about where the drugs come from, but Saul tells him not to worry about it and gives him a script. Status Remember: In the opening shots of the first episode, Walt is already driving at breakneck speed with two bodies in the back of his RV: The man he has already killed, and the man barely alive he will kill later. They need an industrial amount of methylamine to continue production, and the only way to get it is to rob a freight train. But Albuquerque is a small town, and Jesse soon makes a terrible discovery: Tomas is the young boy who shot Combo to death in the street, and the gang he is running with is affiliated with Gus Fring, Walt and Jesse's ruthless distributor. Almost exactly a season later, Walt kills two drug dealers up close, on purpose but his immediate concern is Jesse, who was in the middle of confronting them with a gun and planning to kill them for murdering his girlfriend's young brother. The dealers (Mike Seal, Antonio Leyba) agree and take Gus' directions literally by killing Tomas. After that, it's easier: He kills some of Gus' men while destroying the superlab and simply treats it all as part of the game. Main Could it be that Walt blows up his own house, or perhaps the cartel takes its revenge on Walt's family? VIDEO: Anna Gunn and Betsy Brandt talk final episodes of Breaking Bad. After Krazy-8 unsuccessfully tries escaping from Jesse's house, Jesse and Walt imprison him in Jesse's basement by securing him to a pole with Jesse's bike lock. Without a second thought, Todd pulls a pistol and shoots the boy dead. In the pilot, he wouldn't even get his good clothes dirty. Were you glad Gus got away? Disappointed? The car honks twice and, before he knows what's happened, Combo has been shot by the young boy on the bicycle. 4.

Walt was a customer back then, and he speculated that he might have met Walt at that time. VIDEO: Bryan Cranston Teases Breaking Bad's Series Finale at Emmys. It was gross, but an iconic sequence on the show, and the start of a long, bumpy, bloody road. All these thoughts had time to begin to form before the switch was flipped and Walt's victory was revealed. Introduced in Season 1 as a meathead jock gone to seed, Hank and actor Dean Norris bloomed over the course of the series, revealing hidden depths and turning into someone the audience could root for especially as Walt slipped further and further into outright villainy. 8. NEWS: Breaking Bad cast celebrates Emmy win: Vince Gilligan says "pinch me" so Bryan Cranston slaps him. Gus arrives and calmly dresses in protective gear as Walt talks a mile a minute trying to save himself and (to a lesser extent) Jesse. 2003 In order to maintain a firm grip over the local drug trade, he takes advantage of his position as Hank and Gomez's personal snitch and often blows the whistle on rival dealers and steals their former customers for himself. As he bleeds out by the creek, Mike delivers his last words: "Shut the f*** up and let me die in peace.". ("Pilot", "Cancer Man"), Emilio dies as a result of the phosphine gas, but Krazy-8 manages to survive, shocking both Walt and Jesse. Domingo leaves the game to deal with an issue at his stash house, where a mishap with their makeshift delivery system results in him being arrested with a small quantity of cocaine by a suspicious beat cop. ("Cat's in the Bag"), Walt discovers that Krazy-8 knows his real name, where he works and that his son is disabled due to Jesse flipping on him and is absolutely furious at Jesse, who leaves Walt to deal with Krazy-8 alone. Strangled to death with a bike lock by Walter White And it's then that the camera swings around to show you that the other half of his face is gone, his skull exposed, and he drops dead to the floor. October 3, 2008 167 Unnamed Passengers, "ABQ": We didn't know any of them, but a whole lot of people died as the result of Donald Margolis' (John de Lancie) grief over losing his daughter Jane (more on that later), which could have been prevented if Walt weren't such a jerk. What is your responsibility to know that killing has a comet's tail of unforeseeable consequences? Deceased Months after Jane's death, Jesse has kicked his heroin habit (but still enjoys a little weed and meth), and has found a new partner in young mom Andrea Cantillo (Emily Rios). It showed a little of Gus's well-hidden humanity. At least he died while exacting revengewith his bell, natch. The answer lies in a brutal intimidation move. But just as in chemistry, and many of the show's most devastating deaths are not of violent criminals, but ordinary people who had the massive misfortune to cross paths with Walt and Jesse. Breaking Bad Wiki is a FANDOM TV Community. A few days later, much to Nacho's surprise and horror, Lalo Salamanca arrives in Albuquerque to take over for Nacho and Domingo has to work counting money with him. Hank and Gomez subsequently brief the rest of the DEA agents on how Krazy-8 would steal the customers of the small-time dealers he turned in and state that Krazy-8 is considered missing, presumed dead. Walt tells Krazy-8 to turn around and for the last time questions whether he is angry or not and Krazy-8 assures him he just wants to go home to which Walt says the same. Walt takes the street name "Heisenberg" and Jesse recruits his goofball stoner friends Badger (Matt Jones), Skinny Pete (Charles Baker), and Combo (Rodney Rush) to handle sales. Jesse reveals to Walt that Tuco Salamanca took over from Krazy-8, but insists that they can't just approach a high-level distributor without an introduction of some kind. At some point, he meets Jesse Pinkman, a childhood friend of his cousin Emilio Koyama. If anything, The Wire believed that the morality or immorality of the system was always both more socially important and more narratively consequential than the morality of any one person. Walt refuses to help and goes directly to Gus instead. In 2003, Krazy-8 was part of the Salamanca drug ring. "Gloves Off" 9.

Gomez comments to Hank that Domingo is on the street again and who knows what kind of information he will come up with for them while celebrating their victory.

The meth found in Krazy-8's car leads the DEA to discover Walt's new 99.1% pure meth and the existence of new players in town. He was an innocent kid, shot on impulse by the oddly mesmerizing country-frat-boy-psychopath also known as Todd (Jesse Plemmons). Death is baked into the premise of AMC's hit series "Breaking Bad." This time, it's Jesse's girlfriend Jane, who chokes on her own vomit as Walt willfully chooses not to intervene. Again, tension: This is both Walt's first planned, active murder and the most important step he's taken to protect Jesse. The deaths are ranked from ones we didn't really drum up much emotion for to the ones that still haunt us to this day. hide caption. He was like a badass grandfather to all of us, and he only died because Walt is the worst. Social life He has a degree in Business Administration from the University of New Mexico. As he is about to confront them, however, Walt plows his Pontiac Aztek into the two, and finishes one off with a bullet to the head. Bryan Cranston as Walter White on Breaking Bad. Domingo Molina was born in Albuquerque. Walt arguably chooses to kill the dealers himself rather than have Jesse confront them and potentially be killed or do the killing. Hank slaps handcuffs on Walt, but his triumph is short-lived as Walt's new business partners, a gang of neo-Nazis led by Todd's uncle Jack (Michael Bowen), show up as well. Brought on as Walt's assistant in the Fring-built superlab at the beginning of Season 3, Gale and Walt have a fruitful partnership at first.

Jimmy, as Saul Goodman, creates a ploy that draws Hank to see Krazy-8, and through Saul's machinations, secures Krazy-8's release by assuring that he will be Hank's confidential informant. ("Namaste"). Jane, sleeping on her back, begins to throw up. He was just a karaoke-singing, tea-drinking, poetry-loving meth cook who didn't deserve to die. Lalo later asks Nacho to hire a lawyer to represent Domingo, with Nacho choosing Saul Goodman. When Jesse tries to sell Walt's new product to Krazy-8, he forces Jesse to take him to his new partner, as Krazy-8's cousin Emilio suspects Jesse of ratting him out to the DEA. It was pretty easy to predict that he wouldn't survive, but it was sad all the same. Tell us in the comments! Hank sarcastically orders the agents to put their hats over their heart for Krazy-8 while Steven Gomez states that they brought Tuco in for questioning on Krazy-8's disappearance, but they couldn't make it stick.

On the other, Walt was technically passive, not active, and Jane died because of her own drug use. As these things often go, a somewhat prickly business relationship warms into a friendship, and then to something more. Initially one of the dealers, he takes on a lieutenant role under Nacho Varga after Hector Salamanca has a stroke and becomes paralyzed, and continues in this position when Lalo Salamanca arrives from Mexico to oversee operations. He is put through the wringer in every season, whether it's getting beaten to a pulp, reeling with guilt over the deaths of Jane, Tomas, and Gale, or nearly dying from drug use. The payment is light due to one of Domingo's dealers being scared off by a police cruiser. But the killings committed or attended by Walt and Jesse, the show's two leads, are consistently specific, not only narratively but also morally. And for those who are faint of heart, there are some graphic images and videos ahead. 7. Todd, who at this point has revealed himself as a full-bore psychopath, knows this, and in the series' penultimate episode "Granite State," he moves to snuff out that hope. Terrified that Gus is about to have him killed and replace him in the meth operation with Gale, Walt plans to kill Gale to secure his own safety. When Domingo compliments Nacho's attitude, Nacho berates him for not doing it himself. But this is primarily the warm-up to the season-ending sequence of events that turns Walt into a monster forever. One morning Combo is working a street corner when a black muscle car parks nearby with two men inside, watching him. Walt even later adopted Krazy 8's habit of cutting the crusts off of his sandwiches. Realizing that Krazy-8 stole the shard and has manipulated him in to freeing him and will kill him immediately once freed, Walt realizes he has no choice but to kill him. He does not die. Did you feel frustrated that Walt was foiled? That moral code is consistently offended by Walter White. Last

Hector "Tio" Salamanca/Gus Fring/Tyrus Kitt, "Face Off": They weren't good guys, of course, but good old Hector Salamanca (Mark Margolis) could always be counted on for bell-related comedy. Those two killings set the course of the show's investigation of morality. How do governments and economies? A young boy bicycles around. Victor, who had been spotted by witnesses at Gale's apartment, is ultimately expendable in a way that Walt and Jesse are not at this moment. There is a mirror between this killing and Jane's a season before: That was a brutal betrayal of Jesse (who had so little and loved her) and this is saving Jesse's life. After the fiery death of Gus Fring at the end of Season 4, Walt, Jesse, and Mike are now their own bosses in the meth game, with all the responsibility that entails. "The Guy For This" And it wouldn't be heroic intervention; it would just be rolling her over. Season 2 is perhaps the most explicit example of this, culminating in a series of small- and large-scale tragedies that happen as a result of Walt and Jesse's fledgling meth operation. His father owns Tampico Furniture on Menaul and he used to work in the store before quitting. When he finally returns to work at the Albuquerque airport, he is shaky, but ready to get back to his routine. At the start of Season 4, in the aftermath of Gale's death, Gus is faced with a dilemma. There are indeed times when killing is merely a mark of senseless brutality the Cousins of Seasons 2 and 3 committed a string of killings that mostly stood for the very limitlessness of their violence. ("Slip"), While preparing to assault the Espinosa Gang with the Cousins, Nacho suggests calling in Domingo and his crew as backup along with Javier and his crew. 1971

Walt stood idly by while she choked on her own vomit after a drug session, and come the morning Jesse found his girlfriend, and any hope for an actual relationship, dead. Even in the company of geniuses like Gus and Walt, Mike tends to be the smartest guy in the room, a Philly ex-cop whose seen-it-all attitude hides a deep moral code. Uncle Jack in the front seat, issues a chilling command: "Hey, settle down. ("Gloves Off"), Domingo shows up at the restaurant to deliver another cash payment to Nacho, but this time with Don Hector watching. Mike, "Say My Name": Sure, the guy did some pretty illegal things in his life, but he never stopped trying to provide for Kaylee, his adorable granddaughter. Some deaths were sad, some weren't quite so sad, and some were just plain awesome and/or terrifying. The Nazis chain him to their makeshift lab by day and imprison him in an underground cage by night. The deaths of Emilio and Krazy-8 are in many ways the show's original sin, and its consequences reverberate all the way to the final episode and beyond.