So the laurels - win drama has finally finished its incredible five - year run and it did the show — and its character — justice . Let ’s recap and analyze last night ’s historic instalment , “ Felina , ” with series - stop pamperer to follow .
Though a number of loose death were enclose up in the precede instalment , there were some major matter still left to resolve , include the fate of Walter ’s money , the on-going collaboration between Todd and Lydia , and the sick post between Jack ’s gang and Jesse Pinkman .
And of course , there was the ultimate fortune of Walter White to moot .
That was a lot to cover in an installment featuring an air - sentence of 75 minutes , but the author got it veracious . It never felt rushed , nor did it get mired down in pure narrative . The installment still managed to throng an aroused punch as thing finally reach a hearty and fitting climax — one that did n’t affront the intelligence of the show or its audience .
Mercifully , there was no outre braid ending or deus ex machina turn of events . Rather , it was a soft and tasteful finish that , if anything , could be consider a well-chosen ending ( all thing considered — excepting the decease of Hank and Andrea and all the wretchedness that add up before ) . There was a kind of justice to it all , disregarding of where one sits on the whole Walt affair .
No doubt , not everyone will be felicitous with this ending , with some multitude perhaps curb out for a darker , more violent conclusion to it all . Walt ’s comparatively passive and introspective destruction is intelligibly infuriate throw his offence . But it was also touching and highly personal ; it would have been insulting — and even discrepant — to have had the instalment end on a different tone give the intimate journeying we took with Walt over the past five seasons .
The episode opens with a rather major issue getting solve : What should Walt do with his $ 9 million ?
And it ’s here — by having the Schwartzes hold the money in an irrevokable trust under the false menace of death — that we can say Walt has sincerely “ won . ” Barring something unanticipated , Walt has successfully found a way to extend his halfway digit to his former business partner while also ensuring that his money will eventually feel its way to his family .
“ urge on up beautiful mass , this is where you get to make it correct , ” he tells the Schwartzes .
In the end , given Walt ’s concluding illness , was n’t this the whole peak of it all ? It ’s for the most part mission fulfil .
It was also good to see Badger and Pete in the final sequence — laser pointers and all . A overnice final wind of the cap to those two .
Walt , now formally class from his money , then sets upon the task of wrapping thing up . Violently .
First up is Lydia , who he tracks to a coffee bar owe to her “ docket orient ” ways . With Todd also demonstrate , Walt presents a system about cooking deoxyephedrine without methylamine — a patch that finally gets him into Jack ’s compound . But it also affords him the opportunity to dislocate some ricin toxin into Lydia ’s tea .
Which was a very Heisenberg thing to do . Walt really did n’t need to kill Lydia . Certainly not when you consider his plans for Jack ’s mob of Neo Nazi thugs . Her meth supply would have stop , and by consequence , her speculation in Europe . This was just Walt being filthy .
We also catch a bit of Marie in this episode , now widowed . She seemed surprisingly pollyannaish . Sure , it ’s been several months since Hank ’s death , but it ’s clear that she ’s locomote on .
Walt and Skyler then have their final conversation .
“ It ’s over and I needed a proper goodbye — not our last phone call , ” he tells her , refer to the tap call that mostly exonerate her . He then fall in Skyler the coordinates to the emplacement where Hank and Steve are buried , telling her that this entropy might avail her to fall upon a good deal with the prosecuting officer . More loose - end ligature .
Skyler , in an effort to reach some color of savvy about the whole matter , asks Walt to recount her once again that he did it all for the family unit . And somewhat amazingly , that ’s not how he replies .
“ I did it for me , ” he says . “ I liked it . I was beneficial at it … and I was really … .I was alive . ”
So eventually the truth comes out . While a good portion of his motif were certainly geared to help the family , it ’s decipherable that Walt — or more accurately , Heisenberg — was very much into the kick and challenge of the meth operation — an important piece of insight that do the Walt character all the more insufferable .
After taking his last feel at Holly and Junior ( from a distance ) , Walt sets off on his final mission .
Walt manages to enroll the Neo Nazi chemical compound — and he does so rather conveniently . They permit him drive his cable car mightily up to the primary office and he ’s checked for weapons . The gang does n’t think to explore Walt ’s car , but they do take away his keys .
Walt , convinced that Jesse has partnered with the gang , is shocked to discover that he ’s being forced to cook . Jesse is escort into the room — shackles and all — as test copy . At this head , Walt grabs the keys , throws himself on top of Jesse ( a move deliberately made to save his life ) , and unleashes a torrent of fury onto the compound : An machine-controlled watch gun pop out of the automobile trunk spraying a hail of bullets all over the place . The mob die down .
Jesse — in a minute reminiscent of the jailbreak scene from No Country For Old Men — then pop Todd by strangling him with his cuffs . It ’s a deep square minute . No one other than Jesse deserved this revenge .
But now it ’s time for Jesse to shoot Walt — or at least this is what Walt is expect . But he abstain , allege , “ … do it yourself ” . Jesse realise that Walt has been shot , decide that it ’s not for him to terminate it all .
This was an interesting decision by the writers — to not have Jesse drink down Walt . Indeed , ingest him shoot Walter would have belittle the Jesse character . Instead , we ’re cue that Jesse has a good substance — and that his tone has somehow , miraculously make it this trial by ordeal . He does n’t have to kill Walt so as to move on . Moreover , if Walter is truly have remorse , then he should be the one to plough the hitman on himself and not have someone else do him the party favor .
Jesse storms out of the chemical compound in Walt ’s car — emitting a screaming that ’s one-half joy , half heartache .
Perhaps unnecessarily , we do have a final conversation between Lydia and Walt where we officially learn that she ’s been poison . But that was pretty much assumed from the early coffee bar scene . But at least we got to see a bedridden Lydia .
Then , as Walt looks over the lab equipment , he collapses and dies of the gunfire combat injury . So in a way , it can be say that Walt did in fact shoot himself .
Great episode — and a great finish to a fantastic series .
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