Over five seasons, Breaking Bad told the complex, character-driven story of a man diagnosed with cancer who cooks and sells meth to support his family. The show introduced viewers to a full criminal underworld in a fictionalized version of Albuquerque, New Mexico. There you have ridiculously capable "fixers," sophisticated fast food franchise owners, and an international structure for drug trafficking around the world. 

Creator Vince Gilligan and his incredible writing team have managed to produce one of the most consistently high-grossing shows on the air. Despite the show's simple and advanced concept, Breaking Bad has never been easy. With news of a movie sequel to the series looming, we explain what happened when a shy chemistry teacher decided to make a mistake

Spoiler alert if you haven't finished watching the show yet.

In the first episode of "Breaking Bad," high school chemistry teacher Walter White is diagnosed with terminal lung cancer. After learning from DEA agent brother-in-law Hank Schrader how lucrative cooking meth can be, Walt teams up with his former student, Jesse Pinkman, to support his family. Trying to make enough money to die. 

Unfortunately, Jessie and his freshly made meth get caught by two dealers named Krazy-8 and Emilio. They coerce Jesse into showing him the RV where Walt and Jesse were cooking, presumably to kill them and take the ingredients. Walt poisons them, but Crazy-8 survives, forcing Walt to kill the drug dealer himself.

Soon, Walt's family intervenes...but not because Walt secretly cooked meth. Instead, they want him to undergo chemotherapy rather than simply accept that his cancer is terminal. Eventually, Walt agrees to treatment, even if the cost puts his family in more debt. Later, during a former colleague's birthday party, Walt briefly walks out of the drug business. He was given the promise of a good job, health insurance, and full payment for his cancer treatment. Unfortunately, Walt will have to admit he needs help and forgive him for allowing his ex-partners Gretchen and Elliott Schwartz to acquire the company they founded together. Instead, Walt rejects her and dives deeper into her drug-cooking business.      

An explosive introduction to Tuco :

Walt and Jesse formalize their partnership through a simple division of labor.
Walt cooks and Jesse sells. Unfortunately, Walt soon learns how expensive chemotherapy is and urges Jesse to increase sales. Jesse approaches local crime boss Tuco Salamanca and asks if he's interested in buying large quantities of high-quality meth to help fund Walt's cancer treatment. Instead, Tuco hits Jesse and comes up with a better idea to steal the meth Pinkman was trying to sell. Walt takes care of Tuco and uses his chemistry skills to prepare an explosion to blackmail Tuco. Impressed and amused, Tuco agrees to work with Walt and Jesse.

The two make a deal with Tuco to make and sell meth while paying them enough to make themselves worthwhile (and that Walt will have to undergo chemotherapy to fight cancer). ). To keep his identity a secret, Walt has assumed the role of "Heisenberg," named after the famous theoretical physicist known for Heisenberg's Uncertainty Principle, and for the time being his "second job." seems to be able to continue A secret to his family. Unfortunately, Tuco is as stable as his meth boss, despite being addicted to meth himself. The first season of Breaking Bad ends with Tuco brutally murdering one of his underlings for what he sees as an insult, leaving Walt and Jesse terrified of what their current partners will do to them.

Serious problems between partners :

Walt and Jesse's issues with Tuco soon escalate to more than personality differences. After a paranoid fit that makes him believe the DEA is after him, Tuco kidnaps Walt and Jesse and forces them to continue making meth for himself. While held hostage, Walt and Jesse nearly succeed in poisoning Tuco with ricin, but Tuco's wordless, wheelchair-riding Uncle Hector warns them of their plan.

 Luckily, they are saved as Hank follows the information and runs into Tuco while searching for Jesse, shooting him dead during a shootout. After narrowly surviving an encounter with a real criminal gang (and narrowly avoiding Hank's discovery), Jesse and Walt take a break from the meth business. Jesse enlists a prostitute friend to provide an alibi for the police search, while Walt fakes stress-induced amnesia to explain his long disappearance.  

Walt attempts to reunite with his family, who are concerned about Walt's health after his "fugue state," but it only creates more serious problems with his wife, Skyler. With a baby soon to come and Walt's ongoing instability, not to mention his secretive demeanor, she doesn't trust him, even though he seems fine. Meanwhile, Jesse is kidnapped, homeless, and left with friends, drawing the attention of the DEA. As a result, he urged Walt to continue cooking. On the flip side of the law, Hank's murder of Tuco gets him a sizeable promotion, but it also causes him a lot of stress and anxiety after the shooting. 

Heisenberg rises to power :

Walt and Jesse work as cooks and traders in Tuco's former realm, trying to establish themselves in the power vacuum created by Tuco's death. Unfortunately, with this increased power came increased surveillance when one of the drug dealers was robbed. Walt gives Jesse the gun and tells him to take control of it, and Jesse in a way he does. A series of random events left Jesse with a reputation as a cold-blooded killer, which seems to have established "Heisenberg" as a true powerhouse. 

At home, it became more and more troublesome. Walt tells Skyler that Gretchen and Elliot paid for his cancer treatment to cover all the meth money. However, when Gretchen learns of the lie, he tells Skyler that he won't pay for his treatment anymore, and Walt looks for another cover story. Additionally, Walt and Jesse eventually find themselves targeted by justice after one of the drug dealers, Badger, is arrested. 

With the help of local criminal defense attorney Saul Goodman, they devise a plan to have the DEA arrest the fake "Heisenberg", free Badger, and take the pressure off Walt. The plan goes smoothly, but Heisenberg and his blue meth-obsessed Hank are convinced something is wrong.

But Walt is making money, and while Jesse's romance with neighbor and landlord Jane Margolis is going well, she finds out he's a drug dealer and he too needs to recover from his addiction. I know there is. So maybe all will be well… right?  

Jane's Death: A Shocking Twist 

After one of Jesse's drug dealer friends is killed by a rival gang, Jesse and Walt find themselves unfit to lead a team of drug dealers. With Soul's help, Walt and Jesse find surplus meth dealers, but the mysterious buyer, Gus Fring, owner of a fast food franchise and exemplary citizen, is the owner of Los Polos Hermanos. He uses his role as a public face to cover up illegal activities. 

This level of confidentiality extends to employees, and when Jesse shows up for a meeting, Gus doesn't think Jesse is competent enough to do her job. And the kingpin may be right. When Walt learns that Gus needs the medicine on a short-term basis, he finds Jesse completely incapacitated by his drug use and unable to dispense it.

Unfortunately, Walt is also needed at the hospital, where Skyler is in labor to give birth to her daughter. After missing the birth of his child, Walt finally decides to have the baby, but scrapes together over $1 million to break up with Jesse. However, Jesse and Jane are accustomed to sharing heroin in their free time, so Walt refuses to pay Jesse her share until she is cleared. Jane, desperate for cash when her father almost puts her in rehab, blackmails Walt into giving him the money now. 

Walt does so, but returns to check on how Jesse is doing and enlist her help. In shaking Jessie in her sleep, Walt accidentally pushes an unconscious Jane onto her back and watches her die without intervention as she begins to choke on her own vomit. . A few weeks later, Jane's father, an air traffic controller, grieved and crashed two planes over Albuquerque, demonstrating the far-reaching and devastating consequences of Walt's actions. 

Back at it again at Los Pollos Hermanos : 3 rd season

In Breaking Bad season 3, two meth chefs who have always had bad luck have all but gone out of business. Jesse is in rehab and blames himself for her Jane's death, while Skyler takes her kids and leaves home, leaving Walt to wonder what else he's going to do. . Skyler uncovers the truth that Walt is a meth chef and gives him an ultimatum to tell Hank if he doesn't agree to a divorce. Things get more complicated when Gus shows up with a new offer.
$3 million for his three months of study in a state-of-the-art lab. Walt refuses at the moment, but trouble comes from Mexico in the form of bloodthirsty twins who want revenge on Heisenberg.

No one encourages Walt's attempts to get out of the drug business. Saul wants him to cook again, but Skyler is appalled at what he has done. Unknown to Walt, Gus makes a deal with Tuco Salamanca's cousin twins in revenge to keep Walt alive for Gus' own ends. Meanwhile, Jesse makes his own meth and offers to sell it to Gus against Walt's wishes. Gus, fully aware that Walt's pride will return to the meth cooking business, that prediction ultimately proves correct and accepts the deal. Walt accepts Gus' offer and puts Jesse out of business, while Hanks slowly uncovers clues that lead him to Jesse.

New lab, same Walt :

Walt feels like a newcomer with his own apartment and a hidden meth cooking lab, but even better, he has a kind new research project that seems really advanced over Jesse's. We have a room assistant, Gail Bettycher. Unfortunately, Hank accidentally warns Walt that he's approaching an old RV, which ends up sending Walt back into Jesse's orbit. Walt and Jesse manage to distract Hank from the old stove by making a fake phone call that his wife Marie is in the hospital. 

Hank's situation worsens when Gus, forced to negotiate with the twins, offers Hank's life to the twins instead of Heisenberg's because it was Hank who actually killed his cousin Tuco.  

Hank, who believed Jesse was behind the fake call, attacks and brutally beats Jesse. After Jesse illegally beats Hank and threatens to make his life miserable, Walt tries to placate Jesse by offering her a job at the meth lab. Jesse accepts her deal, which means Walt must fire Gail. Meanwhile, the Salamanca twins attack Hank, but DEA agents kill one and take the other to the hospital, where Hank himself is wounded.

Walt and Jesse continue cooking for Gus, but Jesse begins selling some of his surplus produce as his side business. With Walt making a lot of money and Hank's hospital bills mounting, Skyler agrees to pay for his recovery with a cover story that Walt's meth money is actually income from his gambling addiction. But things don't go smoothly for long in Breaking Bad. After getting involved with a woman named Andrea Cantillo at a Narcotics Anonymous meeting, Jesse learns that the drug dealers who killed his friend last season used Andrea's 11-year-old brother to sell meth. She is astonished to find out that.

Aggravation in the workplace :

After discovering Walt's criminal activity, Skyler plans to launder money safely at the car wash where Walt used to work. Meanwhile, Jesse takes action against the drug dealers, first asking Walt to prepare ricin poison, then threatening to kill them by any means, with or without Walt's help.

His plan is interrupted by Gus Fring, who knew of Jesse's plan from the beginning. The three hold a meeting and Gus orders the drug dealers to stop abusing children. In response they kill Andrea's brother and Jesse responds with his own gun to avenge him. He is rescued by Walt, who kills the dealers and jeopardizes his relationship with Gus. 

Jesse hides, but Walt suspects Gale (who has returned to replace Jesse) is completely replicating Walt's meth formula on Gus' orders, allowing the Boss to eliminate Walt for good. . Walt enlists Saul's help to set a trap for Gus, giving Jesse enough time to kill Gale so that the drug lord cannot kill her without interrupting her meth operation. Their plan more or less works, but Gus responds by completely isolating himself from Walt and Jesse. Instead, all communications are handled by his "fixer", Mike Ehrmantraut. As a result, both Walt and Jesse fall into darkness. Walt decides to buy a gun in case he needs to kill Gus before he kills him, and while Jesse endures the heavy guilt of killing Gale, he literally spends the money. Start throwing it into the wind.

Gus Meets Walt :

Jesse's awkward and depressed demeanor is bad news for Mike and Gus, so Mike starts taking errands to the young chemist to give Jesse's life a little more meaning. But Jessie isn't the only one she's acting out of the ordinary with. When Gale's body is found, law enforcement assumes Gale is Heisenberg and nearly throws Hank off track, but Walt's ego gets in the way and he tells him that Heisenberg is still alive outside. to persuade his brother-in-law.

 While Hank reopens his investigation of Heisenberg and Gus Fring, Walt spends a lot of money, including buying a sports car for his disabled son Walt Jr. However, Hank is still worried about Gus' revenge, and Walt persuades him to kill Gus, who hid Jesse and Risin. She smokes, but Jesse misses his chance. 
But Gus has more fish to catch than Walt. Meeting with the cartel involves completing a decades-long quest for revenge after Hector Salamanca murdered Gus' business partner years ago. The cartel is soon destroyed in a massacre, but Jesse proves useful in his travels, so Gus asks him to take over the lab in Walt's place. Gus then gives Walt two very bad news. First, Walt is outside and he realizes that the only reason he's alive is because of Jesse's intervention. Second, Gus ends up killing Hank in order to investigate him, but if someone intervenes, it's going to make things worse for Walt and his family. 

Meanwhile, Andrea's son Brock is hospitalized with a flu-like illness, and Jesse discovers that the ricin hidden in his cigarettes is missing, believing Walt to poison the child. Walt convinces them it's Gus, and the two agree to kill the drug lord, eventually succeeding with the help of Hector Salamanca and an explosive wheelchair.

Walter White is the new king of Albuquerque :

Gus dies and the underground lab is destroyed, but both Walt and Jesse manage to survive. However, Gus had a laptop with surveillance footage of the lab, which was confiscated by the police after Gus' death. Walt teams up with Jesse and a reluctant Mike, who has recovered from the cartel shooting, to erase the laptops and keep everyone out of jail. Things go smoothly, but the use of a giant magnet accidentally reveals part of Gus' hidden bank account, giving the police new leads on Fring's secret meth empire. It also turns out that Walt really poisoned Brock to turn Jesse against Gus, and that Walt has no intention of stopping his criminal activities.

With Gus gone, Walt sees a possible replacement in the criminal underworld. Gus runs a large multi-state sales organization, and Walt believes he, Jesse, and Mike are the ones who can follow in his footsteps. Mike refuses at first, but when the police confiscate Gus' secret account, his savings are at stake and he is forced to work with Walt and Jesse. With the help of Lydia Rodarte-Quayle, an executive at Madrigal, an international conglomerate with ties to Gus' old organization, the three men plan to take over Gus's share of the empire.

New operation :

With Lydia, Mike, and Saul, Walt and Jesse set up a new business and move meth labs from door to door under the guise of a pesttrol company. But the crowned head is intolerable, and even though Walt is now the boss of a mega-corporation, it includes payments to pest control companies, his partners, and former Gus employees. There will be a cost. Her sentenced husband sits in jail to keep her silent. Walt is hesitant about these payments, but Jesse eventually convinces him to let it lie. But as successful as Walt is in business, he suffers failures in his personal life. Skyler becomes increasingly depressed and appalled by Walt, and the disconnect between Walt's own identity as "Heisenberg" and his everyday life becomes more and more blurred.

When the DEA begins tracking one of the key ingredients in the meth business in Madrigal, Lydia offers them an alternative. It's a daring train robbery that, if done right, yields enough methylamine for many cooks. To keep things running smoothly, Walt and Jesse bring in one of their exterminators, Todd Alquist. The robbery seems to go smoothly but ends in tragedy when the three discover that a boy is watching them as they celebrate the robbery in the desert. Todd quickly shoots the boy, forcing Walt, Jesse, and Todd to put the body in a barrel of Muriatic acid.

Everything starts falling apart :

The team manages to obtain the required amount of methylamine, but the boy's death weighs heavily on Jesse. Mike tries to buy the company because he can't stand the increased drug enforcement surveillance, but Jesse tries to leave as well. Mike's buyer, however, is obliged to dispose of Walt's blue meth, and thus receives all or none of it for his share of methylamine. Walt refuses to give up his own criminal empire while Skyler becomes more and more scared of Walt, leaving him with no choice but money and criminal reputation. 

Walt eventually convinces his buyer to take over the distribution of his own meth, as well as Mike's methylamine shares. Mike agrees to continue paying Gus' inmates out of his share, but the plan is thwarted when the DEA finds the lawyer dropping the money.

Mike is forced to flee town, but Walt won't let him go unless Gus' men are named. The two men argue and Walt shoots Mike dead before he can remember that Lydia also has access to this information. With the help of Todd's uncle, who runs a neo-Nazi troupe, Walt has Gus' men killed before Hank can leak information about Heisenberg. With the business secured and Todd proving to be a skilled research assistant, Walt makes money for several months before eventually retiring. Until Hank finds the book Gale gave Walt in the bathroom and finally puts all the pieces together.

The vicious end :

Walt is retired and has a lot of money, but Hank is keen on his path. In response, Skyler and Walt concoct a lengthcover story, using the fact that Hank's medical bills were paid for with methamphetamine, claiming that Hank was actually Heisenberg from the beginning. But just before she leaves town to start her new life, Jesse discovers that Walt was behind Brock's poisoning, and Jesse is forced into a crusade against her ex-partner.

Hank picks up Jesse before he burns down the white house, and the two work together to gather evidence to take down Walt. Together, they force Walt to expose a cache of drug money, and Walt desperately enlists his former neo-Nazi partner for help. The Neo-Nazis arrive, murder Hank and kidnap Jesse, intending to use him to cook blue meth for their own criminal organization.

Walt embarks on a witness protection program that amounts to a crime, but returns to answer unanswered questions after seeing him on television denying any involvement in a company co-founded by Elliott and Gretchen Schwartz. 

He coerces Elliott and Gretchen to launder the rest of the drug money for his family, and confesses to Skyler that it was all for himself, not for his family as he has repeatedly claimed. He then makes his way to the neo-Nazi compound and murders the skinheads, ultimately saving Jesse's life. Walt, dying from blood loss from a stray bullet (and inevitable death from cancer), collapses in a neo-Nazi meth lab surrounded by chemical devices when the police arrive. And really, for a guy who loved making meth, it's the perfect ending to the Breaking Bad story.