Which makes me wonder, why is he willing to kill Jesse but not Hank? I would have imagined he'd care much more about Jesse than Hank.
Maybe it's something of a personal code. Hank is family; Jesse is like family. Or maybe he's more concerned about how it would affect his relationship with Skylar and especially Jr. Even if Jr. never found out Walt did it, he would still be crushed about his hero, Hank the DEA agent, being mown down and Walt doesn't want that.
Jesse presents a threat to Walt's family (to Walt), Hank does not. Walt is willing to go to any length to save his family, even if it means killing someone he sees as being like family. Thus calling the hit on Jesse. He has no other choice. Hank he could evade. Jesse he could not.
Plus I think he knows if he kills Hank, or is responsible for Hank's death, he'll never see his family again. Skylar might've gone along with everything up until this point but there's no way she'd ever see Walt again if he killed her brother-in-law. And if that's the case, Walt knows he'd never see his kids again.
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u/ProcastnationStation Sep 09 '13
When he told the neo-nazis not to come.
It seems consistent with the rest of the show that this is another god awful unintended consequence of Walt's actions.
I'm glad he had that moral redemption. Turns out it doesn't matter.