Like Bryan Cranston's Walter White and Jonathan Banks' Mike Ehrmantraut, Todd is brought back from the dead via flashbacks by Breaking Bad creator and El Camino writer-director Vince Gilligan.
El Camino was filmed almost six years later, which is why some returning characters appear very different. One of the actors whose appearance changed most noticeably was Jesse's captor, Todd Alquist, played by Jesse Plemons. Indeed, Todd looks different in El Camino because several years have passed since Breaking Bad.
White- Todd's last words before he is strangled to death by Jesse Pinkman. Todd Alquist is a major antagonist in Breaking Bad, serving as the secondary antagonist of Season 5 and a posthumous antagonist in its 2019 sequel film El Camino: A Breaking Bad Movie.
Todd Alquist (Jesse Plemons) is an evil character because he lacks conscience or empathy.
Todd was first introduced in the Breaking Bad season 5 episode titled "Hazard Pay." As the nephew of Jack Welker, the leader of a neo-Nazi gang, Todd had a lot of dangerous connections. He was originally one of the Vamonos Pest exterminators hired by Mike to assist in Walt and Jesse's rolling meth cook operation.
It really does seem like Todd genuinely likes Jesse, and maybe even looks up to him a bit. I think it's kind of like a man's best friend situation. [Laughs] I really think he looks at Jesse with some admiration and feels close to him, because he's probably been more honest to him than most people.
Todd keeps the tarantula, and it reappears later in the season. As a fan on Quora points out, the tarantula serves first as a visual nod to Todd's psychopathic tendencies and later, becomes a living reminder that the characters can't escape their pasts.
At the Schrader residence, Gomez brings a piece of meat and some new information: Huell has been taken into witness protection. Gomez is worried that Huell will contact Saul; if he does, Gomez will have to stop the investigation. Hank drops the meat onto the floor and tells Jesse that he's up.
It's been six years since Jesse Pinkman (Aaron Paul) escaped from the cage he was kept in by Todd (Jesse Plemons) and Jack (Michael Bowen) on Breaking Bad, but Netflix's sequel film, El Camino: A Breaking Bad Movie, picks up mere seconds after the show's iconic finale.
1. Brock obviously recognized and was scared of him when he went to Andrea's house in the last season, but based on his actual reaction to Walt, I don't think Brock knew for certain that Walt had been the one who poisoned him. Otherwise he would have reacted much more violently to Walt's presence in his home.
Walt pleads to Jack to spare Hank's life, offering his entire fortune to Jack. Hank refuses to beg for his life and asks Walt how such an intelligent man could be too naive to see that Jack had already made his decision. Hank then tells Jack to do what he has to do and Jack kills him with a shot to the head.
Walter White
Cause of Death: Walt was accidentally shot by the same remote-activated machine gun he used to kill Jack Welker and his gang. Walt was far from an innocent character by the time he died, but he found a sliver of redemption by saving Jesse from Welker's gang.
Throughout the five seasons of Breaking Bad, Walter White caused the death of almost 300 people, directly or indirectly. As the character descended into wickedness, Walt didn't necessarily seem to fall under the label of a psychotic murderer.
During the original series run, Cranston shaved his head to play White, who is diagnosed with cancer at the beginning of the show and loses his hair during chemotherapy. But because Cranston didn't have time to shave for El Camino, he was instead fitted with a bald cap.
'El Camino' Had a Sadder Alternate Ending for Jesse, According to Vince Gilligan. It's good Gilligan went with the ending he did because this original one? Hard pass.
Lydia is the final character to be killed both in the show and by Walter. Lydia's fate is foreshadowed by Walt's aborted decision to poison her with ricin at The Grove in "Gliding Over All". He later fatally poisons her in the same place, using the behavior he noticed during their earlier meetings there.
In El Camino, Pinkman crosses paths with Neil, an employee of the welding company. Pinkman's at the house of now-deceased Todd Alquist, digging around for a stash of money that Todd Alquist had stolen before he died. Pinkman knew Todd had the money. But as he soon finds out, Neil, is also after Todd's thousands.
The finale did give Jesse a happy ending of sorts when Walt, finally showing something like remorse for what he'd done to his former student, set him free.
He hands Ed a final letter to one individual and, as Jesse drives away, we see who it's addressed to: Brock Cantillo. Breaking Bad fans will remember that Brock, played in the series by Ian Posada, is the young child of Jesse's girlfriend Andrea (Emily Rios), who is murdered in cold blood by Todd (Jesse Plemons).
In the final scene, Hank figures out that Walt is Heisenberg while perusing Walt's copy of “Leaves of Grass” on the toilet. The book is inscribed: “To my other favorite W.W. It's an honor working with you.
Yes, he knew that the police were listening in. You're right about that, Spencer. It's how he hopes to absolve her from his crimes. If the police think that Walt coerced Skyler into helping build his meth empire, maybe she'll escape punishment.
Gus Fring tipped Hank off. Even though he did send the brothers to attack Hank in the first place, he warned Hank so that he would be aware of what's going on and proceed to kill them, thus wrapping up a loose end.
With Hank gone as he had intended, Walt plants an ethernet tracking device in Hank's computer and a receiver within a family picture frame on his desk.
The bear itself is considered very symbolic in Breaking Bad. It has been said to symbolize the consequences of Walt's actions, or his loss of innocence. It also appeared to foreshadow Gus Fring's death two seasons later; an explosion would leave him with burns almost identical to that of the bear.
Flies (Diptera) are common insects that appeared in Breaking Bad. It has been speculated that the fly represents guilt, contamination, irrational obsession, and the loss of control in Walter White's life. When a fly gets into the superlab, Walt embarks on an obsessive quest to destroy it ("Fly").