Breaking Bad (2008–2013) chronicles the transformation of high school chemistry teacher Walter White into a ruthless methamphetamine kingpin, Heisenberg, as he partners with former student Jesse Pinkman and clashes with drug kingpins, the DEA, and his own family in Albuquerque, New Mexico.
Walter White, a high school chemistry teacher, is diagnosed with terminal lung cancer. He joins his DEA brother-in-law Hank on a ride-along and encounters Jesse Pinkman, leading to his decision to cook meth. #BreakingBad #TV #Drama )
Walt and Jesse struggle to dispose of the bodies of Emilio and Krazy-8. Walt uses hydrofluoric acid to dissolve them, but the bathtub falls through the ceiling. #BreakingBad #TV #Drama
Walt keeps Krazy-8 chained in the basement but eventually strangles him after realizing Krazy-8 was planning to kill him. This is Walt's first direct murder. #BreakingBad #TV #Drama
Walt finally reveals his cancer diagnosis to his wife Skyler and son Walter Jr., causing family tension. He refuses Elliott and Gretchen's offer to pay for treatment. #BreakingBad #TV #Drama
Walt visits his former girlfriend Gretchen and her husband Elliott, who are now wealthy from Gray Matter Technologies. He feels emasculated and rejected. #BreakingBad #TV #Drama )
Walt adopts the alias 'Heisenberg' and robs a train of methylamine, but Tuco Salamanca takes the meth and offers a deal. Walt uses chemistry to make a deadly explosive. #BreakingBad #TV #Drama
Tuco agrees to a business arrangement with Walt and Jesse after being impressed by Walt's pure meth. They begin regular distribution. #BreakingBad #TV #Drama
Tuco holds Walt and Jesse captive at a desert hideout after a dispute. He demands Walt cook meth, but Walt stalls. #BreakingBad #TV #Drama
Walt tricks Tuco into a trap with fake ricin, and Jesse shoots him. Hank arrives and kills Tuco's henchmen. #BreakingBad #TV #Drama )
To explain his disappearance, Walt fakes a fugue state by wandering naked in a supermarket. Skyler becomes suspicious. #BreakingBad #TV #Drama
Jesse uses drug money to buy the house of his deceased aunt and throws wild parties. He fires his dealer Badger and takes control. #BreakingBad #TV #Drama )
Jesse hires dealers and takes over distribution, but Walt is furious about the lack of control. Jesse shows his growing independence. #BreakingBad #TV #Drama )
Jesse goes to collect money from a junkie couple, Spooge and his wife. Spooge is killed, and Jesse saves the couple's neglected child. #BreakingBad #TV #Drama )
Walt visits Jesse and finds him and his girlfriend Jane overdosed. He watches Jane choke to death, letting her die to protect his interest in Jesse. #BreakingBad #TV #Drama )
Jane's father, an air traffic controller, distraught over her death, causes a mid-air collision that rains debris over Albuquerque. #BreakingBad #TV #Drama )
Walt tells Jesse he is out of the business, but Jesse reveals he's independently cooking with Walt's recipe. Walt tries to dissuade him. #BreakingBad #TV #Drama )
Hank is brutally attacked by the Salamanca twins in a parking lot. He kills one twin but is left traumatized and hospitalized. #BreakingBad #TV #Drama )
Gus Fring offers Walt a job cooking meth in a state-of-the-art underground lab. Walt accepts, and Jesse becomes his assistant. #BreakingBad #TV #Drama )
Hank gets close to finding the RV lab, so Walt and Jesse destroy it in a junkyard, Walt avoiding detection. #BreakingBad #TV #Drama )
Gus slits the throat of his loyal henchman Victor to show Walt and Jesse the consequences of acting without permission. #BreakingBad #TV #Drama )
Walt buys a flashy new car and a revolver, signaling his embrace of the criminal lifestyle. He confronts Gus about his position. #BreakingBad #TV #Drama
Walt and Skyler purchase the car wash to launder money, but Walt's involvement increases. Skyler becomes a co-conspirator. #BreakingBad #TV #Drama
Jesse begins working directly with Mike Ehrmantraut on distribution runs, gaining trust but feeling isolated from Walt. #BreakingBad #TV #Drama )
Walt manipulates Jesse by poisoning Brock, the son of Jesse's girlfriend Andrea, to turn Jesse against Gus. Jesse's suspicion lands on Gus. #BreakingBad #TV #Drama )
Walt uses a bomb hidden in Gus's car to kill Gus Fring, taking control of the drug empire. The explosion also kills Tyrus and Gus's henchmen. #BreakingBad #TV #Drama )
Walt orchestrates the simultaneous murders of ten inmates who could link him to Gus's empire, solidifying his power. #BreakingBad #TV #Drama )
Hank and the DEA investigate Madrigal Electromotive, the parent company of Los Pollos Hermanos, after Gus's death. Lydia Rodarte-Quayle becomes a key figure. #BreakingBad #TV #Drama )
Walt and Jesse continue cooking in Gus's old lab, but tensions rise as Jesse becomes more independent and Walt grows paranoid. #BreakingBad #TV #Drama )
Walt, Jesse, Mike, and Todd steal methylamine from a train using a complex heist. Todd kills a young boy who witnesses them. #BreakingBad #TV #Drama
Walt confronts Mike about the names of his former associates. In a rage, Walt shoots Mike, then retrieves the names from Mike's bag but realizes he didn't need to kill him. #BreakingBad #TV #Drama )
Walt is making $80 million and decides to retire from the drug business, but not before eliminating all loose ends with Lydia's help. #BreakingBad #TV #Drama
While on a break, Hank finds a book by Walt Whitman in Walt's bathroom with a dedication from 'W.W.' that matches a note from Gale's lab. Hank realizes Walt is Heisenberg. #BreakingBad #TV #Drama )
Walt buries his barrels of cash in the desert, but Skyler gives much of their money to Ted Beneke. Walt plans to escape. #BreakingBad #TV #Drama )
Walt records a tape confessing that Hank is Heisenberg to protect himself. He tries to leverage it against Hank. #BreakingBad #TV #Drama )
Jesse, enraged after learning Walt poisoned Brock, tries to burn down Walt's house but is stopped by Skyler. Walt manipulates Jesse again. #BreakingBad #TV #Drama
Jack's gang executes Hank in the desert after Walt fails to stop them. Gomez is also killed. Jesse is taken prisoner. #BreakingBad #TV #Drama )
Hank and Gomez arrest Walt and Jesse at the money burial site. But Jack's neo-Nazi gang arrives, and a shootout ensues. #BreakingBad #TV #Drama
Walt returns home, forces Skyler and Walter Jr. to flee, and kidnaps baby Holly. He later leaves Holly at a fire station and goes into hiding. #BreakingBad #TV #Drama )
Walt is in hiding at a remote cabin in New Hampshire, paying Ed the Disappearer. He sends $9.7 million to Walter Jr., but Skyler won't accept it. #BreakingBad #TV #Drama )
Walt, mortally wounded, dies in the meth lab as police arrive. Jesse drives away, freed from captivity. The series ends. #BreakingBad #TV #Drama )
Walt returns to Albuquerque, sets up a machine gun in his car, and rescues Jesse from Jack's compound. He kills the entire gang and dies from a gunshot wound. #BreakingBad #TV #Drama )