At some point, he meets Jesse Pinkman, a childhood friend of his cousin Emilio Koyama. 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. But Jesse was not the only person to love Jane, and her death will have tragic consequences on a massive scale. 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. It wasn't hard to imagine that the series would end in a showdown between Walt and Hank, so his demise at the top of "Ozymandias," even after Walt tried to save him, was both shocking and incredibly upsetting. Jane falls off the wagon and soon the two of them are shooting heroin together. Walt and Jesse are at the superlab, held there by Mike and Victor. 2004 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. Hank states that Krazy-8 went missing "a while back" and no body has been found, but the DEA is sure that he was killed and then "probably chopped up into little pieces and fed to the buzzards." 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. 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. hide caption. ("Pilot", "Cancer Man"), Emilio dies as a result of the phosphine gas, but Krazy-8 manages to survive, shocking both Walt and Jesse. It isn't until Walt realizes that Krazy-8 has armed himself with a shard of broken dinner plate that his survival instincts kick in. When asked if he knows one, Jesse states that he did -- Krazy-8 -- until Walt killed 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. Jane, sleeping on her back, begins to throw up. Hank agrees to make Domingo his personal confidential informant as part of the deal, unknowingly giving Lalo a way to manipulate the DEA. Strangled to death with a bike lock by Walter White It matters, always. At the start of Season 4, in the aftermath of Gale's death, Gus is faced with a dilemma. 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. 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. Entertainment Television, LLC A Division of NBCUniversal. Hank Schrader and Steven Gomez realize that someone most likely killed their snitch since he wouldn't have left his car abandoned with the meth like that ("and the Bag's in the River")"). He sees Krazy-8 reaching into his pocket for the plate shard and questions him; "The moment I do are you going to stick me with that broken piece of plate". Age October 3, 2008 4. She asks if he's okay, and he tells her that Jesse is in the back of his truck. He makes it back to Jesse's house, where he's chained up to a pole in the basement and, agonizingly, forced to wait while Walt comes to terms with the fact that he will choose to kill this man. His one-word direction to Jesse: "Run.". In 2008, Krazy-8 became a meth distributor associated with his cousin Emilio, and Jesse Pinkman and Walter White. 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.
Fring's fixers Mike (Jonathan Banks) and Victor (Jeremiah Bitsui) take Walt to the superlab to kill him but not before Walt calls Jesse, who shows up at Gale's apartment with a gun. 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." 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. 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. Poor Gale Boetticher. Gus (Giancarlo Esposito), however, gets a 10 out of 10 on the awesome scale for his terrifyingly perfect tie-straightening/face-melting ending. Gale is a gentle, harmless, apparently nonviolent man who happens to work in the meth business and be good at it. Steven "Gomie" Gomez, "Ozymandias": Poor Gomie (Steven Michael Quezada). Were you glad Gus got away? "Pilot" It is those two bodies that immediately bind him to Jesse and, more tragically, bind Jesse to him. ("Grilled"). The truth, when finally revealed in the Season 2 finale, is something else, something unexpected yet at the same time unavoidable: A tragic accident set in motion by every decision Walt and Jesse ever made. 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. Mike decides to skip town, but needs his emergency getaway bag picked up from the airport. Remember, there's still the kid. Walt, meanwhile, feels little to no guilt, and doesn't reveal his role in her death to Jesse until the end of the series. Walt's misgivings only grow as he and Domingo make a personal connection; Domingo's family owns the furniture store where Walt bought the crib for his now-teenage son (R.J. Mitte). All these thoughts had time to begin to form before the switch was flipped and Walt's victory was revealed. The money is good, so Mike keeps working with him, but something's gotta give. Appearance in El Camino Mike Ehrmentraut, the fan favorite played by Emmy-nominee Jonathan Banks, was introduced at the end of Season 2 as Saul Goodman's cleaner, arriving at Jesse's apartment to take care of Jane's body and to make sure nothing incriminating is in the house. But it is distinguished by the intimacy and seriousness of its approach to the killing of one person by another. What's more, we don't know it yet in those opening moments, but he is stalked by death himself he has already been told he's dying of cancer. ("Off Brand"), Some days later, still injured, Domingo delivers yet another payment to Nacho who determines that Domingo gave him the correct amount and lets him go. In 2003, Krazy-8 was part of the Salamanca drug ring. Walt strangled him with the bike lock. The ubiquity of creatively disgusting murder in television drama can make your eyes glaze over. Actions on "Breaking Bad" often have wide-ranging, often unintended consequences. 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. And Jesse does. She was a recovering addict, working hard to provide for her young son. Krazy 8 is a different matter, of course. 1971 ("Gloves Off"), Domingo shows up at the restaurant to deliver another cash payment to Nacho, but this time with Don Hector watching. More new questions: What is your responsibility for the unforeseeable consequences of an immoral act? 3. ("and the Bag's in the River") Domingo's family was close with the Varga family, eventually leading to drug dealer Nacho Varga vouching for Domingo and taking him on as a dealer to work for his employer, Tuco Salamanca. The answer lies in a brutal intimidation move. Walt and Jesse flip a coin to decide who dissolves Emilio's corpse and who kills Krazy-8. 10. Krazy-8's House 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. The fight reaches a terrible conclusion in the standout episode "Ozymandias," directed by Rian Johnson ("Knives Out"). People in hazmat suits attend to dead bodies. He was an innocent kid, shot on impulse by the oddly mesmerizing country-frat-boy-psychopath also known as Todd (Jesse Plemmons). The rest of the season (which aired in 2013) concerns his fight to bring Walt to justice. 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. "The Guy For This" He was Hank's (Dean Norris) right-hand man, and the single significant casualty at the very start of "Ozymandias," the first loss after that torturous week of wondering about the results of the shoot-out. The coin flip determines that while Jesse will be in charge of "disincorporating" Emilio's body, Walt will be responsible for killing Krazy-8. Eventually Domingo got his own crew working for him, which included for example Mouse and Arlo. Portrayed by Of the three, Jesse is closest with Combo; in a Season 3 flashback scene, we even learn that the Winnebago van that he and Walt use to cook meth belonged to Combo's mother. After the deaths of Tomas and Fring's two dealers, Jesse goes into hiding. 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. He also has an uncle called Alex who wrote songs for the furniture store infomercial. There are times in the next 2 1/2 seasons when things seem to be better or worse for Jesse, but this is his point of no return. It didn't help that our beloved Jesse was the one forced to kill him, marking the first death that Jesse was directly responsible for. Were you glad Walt didn't kill Gus? After Tuco finishes counting, being mildly annoyed at a single dollar bill that was flipped, Tuco stares in silence at a confused Domingo for a long time before letting him go. 1. 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. At least he died while exacting revengewith his bell, natch. Emilio Koyama (cousin) Mr. Molina (father)Alex (uncle)Unnamed dog These are new complications: shared fault, acts versus omissions, and the difference between a dangerous person (Krazy 8) and an inconvenient one (Jane). The dealers (Mike Seal, Antonio Leyba) agree and take Gus' directions literally by killing Tomas. A mangled pink teddy bear floats in the White family pool. But the killings committed or attended by Walt and Jesse, the show's two leads, are consistently specific, not only narratively but also morally. 13. Walt gets almost to the end of the second season before he kills again. All rights reserved. He and Jane make pie-in-the-sky plans to get clean and move to New Zealand, but first, one more night of getting high.
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. 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. However, Krazy-8 awakens and Walt cannot find the courage to kill him and instead gives him water, food and toiletries. Let's take a look at some of the most devastating deaths on "Breaking Bad.". Does righting a past wrong count if you do not confess it? Bryan Cranston as Walter White on Breaking Bad. He takes a few weeks off from his job as an air traffic controller to recover from his grief.
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. How dare you kill the B in apartment 23! Jesse, meanwhile, devastated by Combo's death and hurt by Walt's all-business attitude, slips further into heroin addiction. How do prisons? It's been a long journey, and we've lost quite a few along the way. However while retrieving the key to the bike lock, he notices a shard of plate missing from when he fell unconscious and broke a plate in the basement while giving Krazy-8 food. Breaking Bad Wiki is a FANDOM TV Community. "and the Bag's in the River" Walt goes back to the basement and Krazy-8 assures him "You're doing the right thing". Jeez. But every time he tries to get out, Walt's gravitational pull brings him right back around for more punishment. Family Walt, who was begging for his life not moments before, now has the upper hand. The fact that Walt has a single tear fall down his cheek as he realizes he has to travel fully to the dark side makes this death much sadder than others that happen later in the series. What are the implications of an immoral act undertaken in part out of loyalty and perhaps to right a past wrong? Jesse goes to Walt for help, wanting to kill the dealers using Tomas.
9. However, the Cousins decide to do it all by themselves with just an injured Nacho for help. Saul negotiates a deal where Domingo will get his freedom after arrests are made and his identity as a snitch protected. Suddenly, Wayfarer 515 collides with another aircraft high above ABQ, sending bodies and debris flying all over the city, including straight into Walt's backyard a blunt but powerful metaphor for the destruction he has brought and will continue to bring upon his family. Cookies help us deliver our Services. Walt was a customer back then, and he speculated that he might have met Walt at that time. Unknown to Emilio, it was in fact Krazy-8 himself who snitched on his own cousin. ", The Most Devastating Deaths On Breaking Bad. 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. Tell us in the comments! Maximo Arciniega, "Hermanos": We didn't really know the character (named after the actor who played Krazy 8 and played by James Martinez) beyond what the flashback showed us, but it seemed like he was the Jesse to Gus's Walt (and maybe more than that, some speculate), and it was clear that Gus was devastated when Tio shot him in the head.
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And in the final episode of the fifth season's first half, Hank found evidence that seemed to put things together for him: Walt is Heisenberg. 2022 E! Domingo "Krazy-8" Molina (Max Arciniega) and his cousin Emilio (John Koyama) just wanted to sell a little meth with Emilio's friend Jesse Pinkman. What is your responsibility to know that killing has a comet's tail of unforeseeable consequences? It was gross, but an iconic sequence on the show, and the start of a long, bumpy, bloody road. But before Walt has even cooked his first batch, the specter of death already haunts him; his decision to break bad is rooted in providing money for his family after he receives a terminal cancer diagnosis. A shootout ensues that leaves Hank injured. Sad Scale: 3 out of 10. Seen in profile, he straightens his tie. Check out the hottest fashion, photos, movies and TV shows! But because Jesse cared about her, she and her son were constantly in danger. Even a good boy became a killer; even a good cop became corrupt. And after Mr. Crazypants was nice enough to give you ice cream, too! 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. Played by David Constabile, Gale is a gifted chemist, an all around sweet guy, a karaoke fan, and someone with the incredible misfortune to be caught between two of the coldest, most paranoid men alive, Walter White and Gus Fring. Gale, "Full Measure": Gale was great while he was alive, but got even better as his death was investigated. There is no saving this situation, no going back or keeping his family safe anymore. 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. At his console, he guides Wayfarer flight 515, but his mind begins to wander. But The Wire was largely uninterested in the morality of individuals; it was interested in the morality of systems: How do schools do violence? ("50% Off"). But in that moment, you as the viewer have time to think: Was I relieved? Ursula Coyote/AMC 8. 2008 2003 Obviously, spoilers below for those who are behind on the show! Those 167 deaths are, by far, the most the show has ever and probably will ever carry out at once. 