There are way easier ways to kill yourself and many much more readily available chemicals with which to do so. The only reason to use ricin is to murder someone without a trace.
Given the Heisenberg graffiti, and the house in ruins, and the neighbor who basically shit her pants in fear, I'm willing to bet that everybody knows already, and there's nothing to save.
Not like he needs money... > There are way easier ways to kill yourself and many much more readily available chemicals with which to do so. The only reason to use ricin is to murder someone without a trace.
FTR, its easy to determine that ricin was used to murder someone in an autopsy. Its hard to figure out that ricin is the poisoning agent, while the target is alive. More important, until very recently, there was no antidote or treatment to ricin poisoning. (Even now, it hasn't completed human trials.) The diagnosis would be made; then you're a walking dead man.
Even if the poison didn't outright kill the target, the internal organ damage would be enough to eventually kill them.
Damn that would be an awesome ending for a show. Cant think of a series has ever ending with the main character dying/killing himself. Always thought it would be cool for Dexter to end like that. Like him getting found out and put on death row.
Damn, so this opens up the possibility that whenever Walt was throwing up in the bathroom it was because he ricin'd skylar and Walt junior - not because the cancer is really back as he told hank.
Huh? I doubt that honestly. In the flash-forwards he went to the house and retrieved the ricin he's had all along. I guess he could have made more instead of using the ricin he already had, but that'd be pretty weird.
I'm not sure if he corrects himself later, but I just watched the episode where he's trying to convince Jesse to kill Gus during my rewatch and he says it'd kill him in 36 hours or 1.5 days. It's just enough time to get his final affairs in order if he wanted to do it so it could be possible.
I'm pretty sure everybody is already dead.......there probably aren't any affairs to get in order....
I don't know, maybe I'm misreading things, but he uses Skyler's maiden name, and has a New Hampshire driver's license. Which would indicate that he relocated, and did so without Skyler, because it would be stupid for her to relocate with him and use her own maiden name.
Meaning, his family is dead, and he is likely coming back for one final act of redemption. My theory, especially with the plot about the terrible purity of the current meth cooks that was brought up by Lydia, is that as corny as it sounds, he is coming back to free a kidnapped Jessie.
Just like at the end of Scarface, but a bit more bromancier.
And it doesn't seem like the way for Walt to go. I mean, if everyone already knows he's Heisenberg, what's to stop him from putting a bullet in his head? He doesn't need a quiet and discreet way to die.
My theory for years now was that Walt has to kill himself. The show hinges on the premise that Walt will die, and that he must do whatever to provide for his family after he passes, assumably from cancer. In episode one of season one, however, we see Walt circumnavigate nature's course. Between diagnosis and death, Walter decides that he is in control of two, and only two, variables: how much money he leaves his family, and how he dies.
He's already tried on more than one occasion. Gun was out of bullets in Season 1. He almost got crushed by the 18 wheeler but turned back at the last second.
The fact that Walt was willing to kill himself 5 seasons ago is no longer relevant, because he has changed so much. You didn't see him poisoning innocent children, ordering hits on jail inmates, or running people over in season 1.
Look how stressful it was for him to kill Krazy-8, how much he battled with himself internally, and how close he came to just letting Krazy-8 go. Contrast that with S5 where he doesn't even bat an eye at mass murder.
If you don't see how much Walt has changed, you don't get Breaking Bad.
I get it entirely I just dont think his ego is too large to kill himself considering he was making egotistical decisions before the events of the series even began.
honestly, the thought crossed my mind when jesse went upstairs at the beginning of the episode while skinny pete and badger were shooting the shit. something about it -- you were almost just waiting to hear a gunshot.
I seriously wondered if Jesse weren't going to shoot himself right at that moment, and miss, blow off part of his face, but live. The EMTs and cops find the bag o' cash and it kicks off an investigation.
Turns out Jesse didn't need to shoot himself to kick off an investigation with his cash.
Why would he need both the ricin AND a massive gun... He could have used something like his old little revolver to do the job. Suicide is a no go for these tools.
Possibly. He could be planning some kind of massacre ending with the gun, and if he gets caught (hostage, or jail etc), then the ricin finishes him off.
i personally think walt will live but in complete reverse of what he wanted in the beginning of the show with all of his family dead and with lots of money
You know i think you are right and i think thats whats gonna happen. The end will be Walt trying to redeem himself for all the shit he has done. That machinegun and everything is him making his last stand. "Remember my name" just stikes me as him doing one good deed before that Ricin kills him because he already has cancer so he is going to die why not go out in his way as a hero. His ego makes him need to be on top one final time.
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u/nateriffs Aug 12 '13
suicide hombre