The Skyler we see there is a haunted shell of her former self. Walt and Jesse meet up with Sklyler at the car wash, where the tanker of methylamine was stored to keep Mike from selling it.
Mike understands better than Jesse how reluctant Walt will be to let anyone go, especially his prize pupil, but there are aspects of Walt that even Mike has always underestimated.
“Kid, just take care of yourself,” Mike urges. He also stays quiet when Jesse reminds him that he’s done with the meth game as well. Walt leaves, but stays watching from the window, fully in his scheming Heisenberg mode, with murderous jealousy in his eyes. When they return to Vamanos HQ, Mike takes his money and turns to go, not offering the “thank you” that Walt feels he’s owed. Jesse saves his protestations for later, but he and Mike share a meaningful glance. The empire is dying before it even begins, and everyone but Walt sees it.ĭuring the desert meeting Walt brags that he can offer Declan’s crew the two best meth cooks in the country, indicating Jesse in addition to himself. But that shiny surface covers a hollow core. Fring killed the cartel, Walt killed Fring, and now Walt’s neutralized the threat from Arizona, while keeping his empire intact. On the surface, Walt has every reason to feel the bursting pride he holds in his operation. For the time being, Walt keeps his promise - everybody wins.
Why push Walt’s far superior product (91.1% purity versus a middling 77%) out of the market, when you can control the distribution of that product yourself? Would you rather be Coke, dominating the marketplace in brand recognition and customer loyalty, or some pathetic off-brand struggling to catch up? It’s an excellent point, and one that Declan can’t argue. ‘Say My Name,’ the penultimate episode of this first half of the final season of Breaking Bad, begins with our clearest vision yet of Heisenberg, the confident, calculating alter-ego that Walter White created to separate his life of crime from his bumbling domestic realities, and ends with a sad reminder of just how out of his element Walt remains.Īs Heisenberg, Walt deftly controls the meeting with Declan and the Arizona crew. “This whole thing could have been avoided.”
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