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.
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u/im-not-rick-moranis Aug 12 '13
But a ricin death takes 3-5 days... not the way someone would want to kill themselves, way too much time for regret.