How Will Breaking Bad End? What’s Going To Happen In The Final Season Of Breaking Bad?

I'm a Breaking Bad junkie!  I need my breaking bad fix!  This past 8 months have been torture as I await the 1 year mark when Breaking Bad returns to AMC for the final season!  I can't sleep at night!  Yet, I find myself contemplating the outcome of what's going to happen in the final season of the show.  How will Breaking Bad end?  I don't know exactly, but being that I've seen every episode at least twice and really memorized the pattern the show seems to follow, I have a theory of what's about to go down in the final 8 episodes that begin airing August 11th, 2013.

First, you have to look at the show's past.  The show follows a pretty consistent pattern.  The first episode of the season opens up with some insane scene that is something far off in the future of the season.  They give you a peak at what's to come, and then cut to the present time and from there we're just drawn in as avid Breaking Bad fans, but we don't quite get any closure on the opening scene until the final few episodes of the season, if not the final episode.

So let us think back to the opening of the 5th and final season, which consists of 16 episodes, but was split into 2 parts to broadcast over 2 years.  The first 8 episodes we saw in 2012, and the final 8 coming up in August of this year.

In the opening scene, you see Walter White, he's sitting in a diner in the middle of nowhere all by himself with a breakfast platter in front of him.  He takes his bacon and breaks it up into pieces and uses it to make a 52 on his plate.  52 being the age he turned that day, because that was the tradition on his birthday. He doesn't even eat the food, a mysterious man walks into the diner and goes to the bathroom where Walt had left him a bag of money, and the unknown man takes the money and leaves keys to a car and then disappears.  Walt then takes the keys from the bathroom and walks out to the car that the man drove up in, he pops the trunk lid and opens it up to reveal a monster of a gun.  I'm no expert, but this appeared to be a gun that would shoot down a fighter jet!  A very serious and dangerous weapon like a 50 caliber automatic or semi-automatic gun, something that could literally shoot a car clean in half!  And then boom, all of the sudden you're at the present, picking up literally right where it left off at the end of season 4 with him and Jesse in a parking garage, on the top level, talking about how it's over and done.  Jesse drives off, Walt stands there for a minute thinking, and he then drives off and goes home and tells Skylar it's over and the family was in no danger.  From there, the craziness began.

If you think back a few episodes into the 5th season, you see Walt and his family celebrate his 51st birthday, as Walt, Skylar and the kids are at the table and he get's bacon and eggs with the bacon split into pieces and forming a 51 on his plate for his birthday.  So right there you know that the opening scene of the season was a year out from the point in time they were at.  Fast forward, (spoiler alert if you haven't seen the episodes), things get out of control, Walt and Mike disagree as usual, Jesse steps in to mediate, they come up with a solution where everyone wins and makes lots of money, and Walt ends up killing Mike and Jesse fears for his life, that Walt might be out for him.  Just to say, I'm glad Walt shot Mike, if anyone deserved to be killed, it was that guy.  The amount of times he held a gun to Walt and Jesse, yeah, I can understand why Walt shot him when he showed zero gratitude for putting his neck on the line so Mike could get out safely with a boat load of money.  And Mike was just a brutal mean person that killed more people than he could count, karma comes back and Walt served it up to Mike, I gladly watched that!  I'm not a cold heart person this is a TV show so don't think I enjoy watching people die even those that deserve it.  That's just showing you how into this show I am!  I feel the emotions of the characters!

Anyways, pretty much Jesse gets out so Walt takes on the new assistant, the guy who shot the kid, the whole reason Jesse wanted to be done with it.  Things just kind of fly by from there, Walt shows up to Jesse's house and pays him millions of dollars, the money he was owed, but that scene there got me good!  Jessie had a gun loaded and was ready to shoot Walt because he seriously thought Walt was there to kill him.

When Walter took over after killing Guss, they had people in prison they kept on a payroll so they would keep quite, it was shut up money.  Basically, they serve their time in prison but keep getting paid.  Well, when Guss was killed, they were all about to step up and start talking.  So Walter got with some people that had the connections to kill the possible informants that were in prison.  If I remember correctly, there were 12 people in prisons scattered across the nation, 12 people Walt wanted dead.  So Walt paid some people to put together a scheme to kill all of the people in prison basically at the same time, within a 5 minute window all the possible informants had to be killed.  Hank saw it coming, of course not knowing it was Walter behind it, and tried to stop it, but he was too late.  The day it took place, Walt showed up to Hank's house and they had a drink and Hank made the remark "I've been chasing drug dealers and murderers my whole life, but one thing I don't know how to do, is stop a monster, Walter, how do you stop a monster?"  Walter knew Hank was speaking of him, and had nothing to say in response.

From there Walt and his new assistant just keep cranking out product until one point Skylar takes Walter to a storage unit and shows him a gigantic pile of money and says "there's more here than I could launder in my whole lifetime, when is enough going to be enough Walt?"  Walter understood, he decided that he was done, he made his fortune, built an empire, and was ready to just relax and enjoy the good life with his family back home and everyone back together again.

And then it happens, the 8th and final episode of 2013, Walter & Skylar have Hank (his DEA brother in-law) and Marie over for dinner and drinks and just family time.  Hank and Walt are talking about how Walter can finally kick back and enjoy the good life.  Hank has to use the restroom, he sits down on the toilet and grabs a book out of the stack of books in the bathroom and starts thumbing through it.  And there he saw something, a message written to Walter by his former assistant Gail that worked with him when he was under Guss' umbrella.  Gail of course as you know was killed by Walt and Jesse because they were going to be killed and Gail was going to replace them.  So they felt like they had no choice but to kill him, or they would be killed themselves.  Well the DEA had Gail's lab notes and there was a certain passage written by Gail about someone he admired, but it was just the initials W.W.  Hank was going over the lab notes with Walter because Walt has an understanding of them being that he was a chemist and scientist.  Hank even made the joke about how Gail was writing this passage and how W.W. stood for Walter White.  Walter quickly re-routed it from the joke, little did Hank know that he was absolutely right!

Well, while on the toilet thumbing through the book, he sees a thank you note written on the front page of the book, it said something like "it's such a pleasure to be working with you and learning from you, my other favorite W.W." and it was the exact same hand writing.  Hank then had a flashback to him and Walter going over the lab notes and him making the joke about this W.W. person Gail speaks of being him, Walter White.  Then, it ends.

We can pretty much bet that Hank has it figured out, you could see it by the look on his face.  Then and there, he knew who the "monster" was, he knew why this person he'd been hunting down was always 1 step ahead of him, because he was someone that he told everything to, after all, access to information from Hank was easy for Walt to get because he was his brother in-law.  He was never suspected, but now Hank knows that Walter, his own brother in-law, is the person he's after, Heisenberg, Walter's alias.

So, my theory is this.  Walter goes on the run after Hank finds out that he is Heisenberg.  How Hank will approach Walter, I'm not sure.  But my theory is that Walter isn't just in danger of being arrested by Hank, why would he need that big gun for that?  My theory is that once Hank discovers this and it hits the "grape-vine", everyone knows that Walter White is Heisenberg.  Heisenberg did some terrible things, he killed Guss Fring, he had all those people in prison killed, he was responsible for the deaths of a lot of people and pissed off a lot of the other meth dealers, gang members and associates of people like Guss Fring.  When his name hits, everyone will be out to kill him.  So my theory is Walter went to the middle of nowhere because he's going to be meeting someone out in BFE to resolve his situation, and the meeting is going to end in blood shed.  Ultimately, I believe Walter will either end up dead or in jail. If I had to bet, I would put my money on dead.

What do you think is going to happen?  How do you think Breaking Bad will end?  I'd love to know your theories on it so please post away in the comments and let me know how you believe the show's ending will go!