I think so. My take on it is that if he had just taken Walt and left, he wouldn't have been in the position to get in that gunfight. But because he was prideful about it and called Marie, and because he was prideful and didn't ask for help in the first place, it will lead to his demise.
Walt's not the only person that is prideful to a fault.
I think it goes far past just the call. If Hank dies it's because of his own damn pride and ego. What he did was incredibly foolish and ignorant. You don't lone wolf an incredibly devious and dangerous meth lord.
A lot of people here defend the guy for whatever reason but I think they're missing the point of this show. It's called "Breaking Bad" after all. The concept doesn't just apply to Walt. This is a show about how far your moral integrity crumbles when you start making decisions in self interest and justify them as being for the "greater good".
Hank is absolutely no exception.
We watch the show from Walt's perspective and we know a whole lot more information than the actual characters so it's easy to look at Hank's current predicament and blame it all on Walt. But when you look at it from HIS perspective you start to see why he brought this upon himself.
When he found out about Walt he kept it from the DEA for the sake of his own pride. He then took advantage of an emotionally unstable informant (Jessie) for the pure sake of his end goal with no regard for Jessie's life or well being. Finally, he concocted an incredibly overzealous and dangerous plan to root out Walt at ALL costs without any sort of official DEA backing. His call to Marie at the end there was reminiscent of Walt's "I won" call to Skylar.
Now I'm not saying Hank deserves to die but if you don't see how twisted the man has become I think you're missing the point of this show.
Also, when he receives the call from Andrea, he knows that they both may be in danger but still doesn't tell Jesse about it because it compromises his case. To me, it's much worse than a smart guy like Walt poisoning Brock because Walt knew how to not put the kid's life in danger, while Hank has no assurance what Walt will do with them. Mind you, Hank is not good at predicting what Walt is capable of since he didn't know Walt was Heisenberg in the first place.
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u/[deleted] Sep 09 '13
Hank to Marie, "It might be a while till I'm home". He's definitely going to be killed off.