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So, how will Breaking Bad end?

If you haven't seen up till episode 13 of Season five, and intend to watch the series at some point, then it won't be a good idea to read any further.

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FP Archives|Sep 13, 2013, 16:20:23 IST

By Vipul Agarwal & Pulasta DharSPOILER ALERT: If you haven't seen up till episode 13 of Season five, and intend to watch the series at some point, then it won't be a good idea to read any further. Really, you don't want to spoil it.AMC's Breaking Bad is in it's final season, with just three episodes remaining. Mentioned below are various scenarios on how the series will end. We'd love to read your suggestions too in the comments section.Nobody wanted episode 13 to end the way it did. We mean, who ends an episode in the middle of a massive shootout with nothing clear on who's dead? Or is going to die? Well, the makers of Breaking Bad do.Those who've watched one of the most popular series over the last five years know the storyline, so we won't go into that. Straight to the possible endings then:- Hank, Gomie and Jesse die in the shootout. Walt (Heisenberg) walks away with the money and lives happily: Boring but probably what everyone wants. Walt will have his way, Skyler and kids benefit from the money and life goes on. Of course, he has to beat the cancer for this.[caption id="attachment_1104329" align="alignleft" width="380"]Jesse and Walt during their meth-making days (amctv.com). Jesse and Walt during their meth-making days (amctv.com).[/caption]- Skyler has a hand in this current face-off in the hope that everyone dies: Skyler is fed up, but she's also transformed from crying pestering wife to cold-blooded accomplice who suggested Walt kill Jesse. She hopes that somehow everyone dies, and she and her kids be left alone. She may not know where the drug-money is, but come on, she has a car-wash and from the looks of it, it's A-One!- Hank, Gomie and Jesse die in the shoot out and nobody ever gets to the bottom of the case. Walt walks away with the money but can't get on with life, comes back, consumes ricin and dies: This would explain the arms in the back of Walt's car (shown in episode nine), which look eerily similar to the guns which went off in episode 13. It would also explain him coming back to his abandoned house to get the ricin. However, it may well be he's getting it to kill someone else — maybe Jesse survives this?-  Jesse, Walt, Hank and Gomie all get killed in the shootout. Saul was behind the actual setup since he knew the kind of money that was involved. He walks away with the money and he's clean too: Hmmm now this! This is a good one isn't it? However, it doesn't take into account the scenes in episode nine (which we think was put in to confuse the living daylights out of us). If they manage to piece it together somehow, then Saul, a fan-favourite, wins everything.- Jesse and Walt survive the shootout. Jesse then comes back at later date to kill Walt. He now knows where the money is. But he lets the blood money stay buried and walks away: Jesse has killed before (Gale the assistant) so he's got the guts to put a bullet in someone's head. Fans don't want Jesse, however naive he may seem, to die. So this ending suffices that but gets rid of Walt. The money, which is the crux of the issue, gets nowhere. Or maybe Jesse gives it to Skyler?- Lydia insists that the shootout happen (Walt had called it off) in the hope that everyone but Walt dies: This means Walt can show Todd how to make the best product and the meth dealing continues. Judging by the scenes of episode nine, Walt lives, so that means he does the cook and leaves the business forever. Lydia and Walt become the meth-kings of America.- Hank, Gomie, Jesse die. Walt survives but loses/escapes with his family: It's clear that the family isn't living in the same house, so either they all escaped or Walt gives them some money and asked them to leave him. He may also have run away and come back a few years later to his old house. That'd explain episode nine too. Slightly lame, but looks very likely.Note: There may be some endings which just don't fit the storyline, but when has anything fit into the storyline of Breaking Bad? Also, all the confusion stems from one fact — how episode nine started. It shows Walt alive, which means someone else has to die. Everyone surviving will just be boring. Let us know your endings — we're sure there are lots of other possibilities.

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First Published:Sep 13, 2013, 16:20:21 IST
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