Wow, only two episodes of “Breaking Bad” left. And after last week’s “Ozymandias,” now being heralded as the greatest episode of TV ever, who really knows what is going to happen from here? We certainly don’t, but that’s not going to stop us from taking a stab at it anyway. Here are our mind-blowing predictions of the week. Let us know what you think.
Walt Is Now on the Road to Redemption – Gary Dudak
I spoke with my wife about what could possibly happen in the final two episodes, and six hours later, I think we came up with the perfect prediction (if not, it’s her fault). In “Ozymandias,” Walt reached his absolute rock bottom when Walt Jr. called the cops on him while protecting Skyler. You could see it in his face, and in his desperate, panicked reaction of kidnapping Holly. However, he made that right at the end of the episode by exonerating Skyler with his phone call and returning his daughter. So from here on out, it’s all uphill for Walt (or as uphill as it can get for a guy who has lost almost everything). He is obviously going away for a while, and in that time he is going to develop a plan to return and destroy Todd and the Nazis, who are not done doing very bad things to people Walt loves. He needs to rectify all the
horrible situations he has created, and this includes ruining Jesse’s life. Although Walt was ready to watch Jesse die in “Ozymandias,” I believe he does some soul-searching and decides he has to save Jesse from Todd along with retrieving his fortune for his family. Then, he still takes the ricin himself.
Walt Will Get His Family Back – Rob Fee
Nothing is going to compare to last week’s episode, but it looks like Walt is going to disappear until the Nazis go after his family. He’ll catch wind of it and it’ll lead to the flash forward we saw at the beginning of season 5 when Walt was buying a car loaded with guns. He’s going to get his family back, no matter what it takes.
Jesse Kills Todd and Escapes – Cory Dudak
Honestly, I have no clue where Walt’s story goes from here, but would venture to guess that by the time he makes his way back to Albuquerque, vengeance is on his mind. But I don’t think it has anything to do with saving Jesse like a lot of people seem to think. After the tragic events of “Ozymandias,” Jesse is on his own. I believe this week’s episode will shift focus onto that, with Jesse devising a plan to escape via meth lab explosion, killing Todd in the process and leaving Uncle Jack without a cook. Jack and crew will then go after Walt’s family to flush him out, which is where this episode will wrap up, leaving only the epic showdown teased since the beginning of season 5 left for the finale, as well as Walt and Jesse’s final confrontation.
Walt Poisons Uncle Jack With the Ricin – Matt Branham
The timeline skips forward now after “Ozymandias” to future Walt with the machine gun. Todd has developed a system for creating much more pure meth by not killing Pinkman and using him as a slave. But after being held captive for several months, Jesse pulls a chili-p style Walter-esque move, killing Todd in the lab. However, he can’t escape Uncle Jack and the Nazis, which is where Walt comes in. After laying low, he returns to destroy the meth empire that Lydia and Uncle Jack have built, taking out a gang of heavily armed men (but not Uncle Jack) who aren’t expecting him and saving Jesse in the process. Meanwhile, we find out that the “Heisenberg” painted in Walt’s old house was done by an upset Flynn who now hates his dad and has started doing meth with Louis. Skyler, Holly and Marie are together in a quiet living situation, but the return of Walt upsets Uncle Jack, and without Todd around to diffuse the situation again, he goes after them. The family assumes Walt hasn’t changed, but he’s there to assure them he’s still a good guy that needs his family. He slips Uncle Jack the ricin and wins back his family and their affection. Except Marie … she still wants to poison the f*cker.
Walt Survives But Everyone Else He Cares About Is Killed – Paul Ulane
This is kind of an end-of-series prediction, but I think it will start happening in this episode. I feel like Walt will continue to figure out ways to survive on his own but one-by-one, everyone he cares about will get knocked off in the process. By the middle of the last episode, Walt will be the last man standing in his face-off(s) with the Nazis, Jesse and anyone else around, but he will have no reason to live. The torture of knowing
he’s the reason that everyone that mattered to him is gone will be far worse than actually being killed by one of his many enemies. Essentially, surviving turns out to be the worst possible outcome for Walt.
Jesse Kills Todd, Uncle Jack Kills Walt’s Family, Walt Needs a Haircut – Cory Jones
Gary just told me that the name of the upcoming episode is “Granite State,” which is New Hampshire’s nickname. Which tells us that we should finally get to the flash-forward teased at the beginning of the second half of this season. Going off that info, I think we finally see Walt’s house gets trashed after the Nazis find the tape Jesse made with Hank and kill Walt’s family. Walt finds out that his family is dead and begins his revenge rampage. Meanwhile, Jesse will kill Todd during their cook-a-thon (using some chemistry trick he learned from Walt) leaving Jesse and Walt left for a fight-to-the-death showdown in the finale.
Walt Wins and Puts His Life in Jesse’s Hands – Steve Zorio
It seems, at this point, that Walt has come to the conclusion that it is time for a day of reckoning. His own version was memorably swift and dramatic, and I think there are three potential paths available:
1) Walt is left to continue suffering and we watch his world unravel. Apart from exaggerated schadenfreude, why? What’s left to lose? I can’t imagine we’ve come this far just to punish Walt in “Passion of the Christ” fashion for two more episodes.
2) Walt decides to avail himself of the one-time disappearance pro and vanish. This doesn’t fit – at least for the next episode – because it flies in the face of what we know about Walt at this point. “Sopranos” proved that we’re not always going to get catharsis, but this still seems too vanilla.
3) The threat to his family and remorse over how things ended, plus that good old wounded Heisenberg pride pushes Walt to ensure that if his world crumbles, the whole thing collapses with him. I think this is the most plausible scenario: Walt decides to wipe out the gang and frees Jesse in the process. I think he both manages to secretly send some cash to his family and leaves it to Jesse whether he lives or dies.
Walt Kills Jesse, But This Prediction Is Wrong – Max Miller
I just read an interview with Jesse Plemons, aka Todd, aka the greatest character on the show, and he said, “The final episodes are just so good, and right when you think you’ve got a step on it, you’re thrown another curve ball. I would be really, really impressed if someone figures it out.” So my real prediction is that both mine and all of the above predictions are wrong. And so are all of yours. The “Breaking Bad” writers have been so smart about taking all the possibilities we could think of and then coming up with something even better. I think they’ve tossed around every idea on this list and more. But if I have to take a stab at it, I’d say Walt kills Jesse. He blames him for Hank’s death and he wants him dead. He wouldn’t do it himself originally, but when he goes after the Nazis and finds out Todd didn’t kill him and has kept him alive to cook the meth that he created, he’ll finally take it into his own hands. It will be something slow, painful and emotional – the complete opposite of how he wanted Jesse taken out.
