Why did Walt call the DEA on himself?

An enraged Flynn blames Walt for Hank Schrader's death and wishes Walt dead. Dejected, Walt calls the DEA to surrender and leaves the phone off the hook so they can trace his location.

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Did Walt call the DEA?

Saul's advice before Walt left had been to surrender along with his barrel of money, and see if it earns Skyler some goodwill. When he calls the ABQ DEA and leaves the phone off the hook, maybe he's thinking that Saul's advice is literally his last option.

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Why did Walt say he did it for himself?

Originally Answered: In the last episode of Breaking bad, why did the writer made Walter say, "I did it for myself" ? Because, that was the truth. Walter did it because he was the best at it and finally, in his life, after so much of being put down, he got a chance to show off his skills.

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Why did Walt make that phone call?

Although it took some viewers (including this one) a while to catch on, most everyone agrees that Walt's call to Skyler was intended for the police he knew would be listening, that in casting her as a terrified woman under the thumb of a homicidally violent drug kingpin, he was trying to exonerate her, to absorb her ...

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Why did Walter call himself Heisenberg?

Why Walter White Called Himself Heisenberg. The name of Walt's alter ego came from Werner Heisenberg, a German physicist known as a pioneer of quantum mechanics. As a chemist, Walt would be familiar with famous scientists; likely, he took Heisenberg as an inspiration.

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Does Hank think Walt is Heisenberg?

At dinner at the Whites, Hank goes to the bathroom and while there, pages through a copy of Leaves of Grass that Gale had given Walter. He recognizes the writing from Gale's notebook, and from Gale's dedication to Walt, is shocked to conclude that Walt is Heisenberg.

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Did Saul know that Walt was Heisenberg?

After Walt tries one last time to intimidate Saul into doing his bidding, his cancer rears its ugly head in a series of coughs that bring him to his knees and let Saul know big bad Heisenberg is no more before he leaves for his new life in Omaha.

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Did Walt know the phone was tapped?

We are seeing the show from both sides, we know that Jesse had only made that tape for Hank and Gomez, but Walt did not know that. He had no way of knowing where or to whome Jesse had spoken, for all Walt knew Jesse had given everything to the DEA at the DEA offices.

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Why is Walt so special?

Walt is "special" because his body and mind both travel time as opposed to Desmond who has only traveled with his mind. Walt has some influence/control over electromagnetic fields.

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Was Walt a drug lord?

Walter White's Drug Empire, also known simply as Walt's Drug Empire, was a massive meth manufacturing and distribution operation which started in 2008 in Albuquerque, New Mexico. It was founded by former chemistry teacher Walter White, and catalyzed by his former student Jesse Pinkman.

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Why does Walt sell his car for $50 bucks?

It belonged to a man scared of Gus Fring, scared of Tuco Salamanca, scared of chemotherapy, scared of cholesterol. So, after taking a long look at his porkpie, he sells the car to the mechanic for fifty bucks — a dollar for each year of his previous life.

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Why did Walt hate Gretchen?

Trivia. In 2016, Vince Gilligan finally revealed the true reason why Walter broke up with Gretchen and left Gray Matter: he felt inferior to her and her wealthy family, confirming that it was due to his ego and pride.

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Did Walt Jr get the money?

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In an interview, show creator Vince Gilligan confirmed that Walter Jr. eventually received his father's drug money through Gretchen and Elliott Schwartz, which he had arranged beforehand.

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Did Walt actually hire 2 hitmen?

So it was satisfying (and a slight relief?) to see Walt didn't actually hire hitmen to guard watch over his old friends, but instead enlisted the help of Jesse's friends — with lasers — to aid in his brilliant scheme.

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Why did Walt not save Jane?

As Walt either wouldn't or couldn't do anything to save Jane, he decided not to wake Jesse up, knowing that her death would help him gain control over Jesse as a result, and possibly saving Jesse from the same fate and to protect his own criminal secrets. Walt watching Jane die.

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What evidence did the DEA have on Walt?

The dea didn't have any evidence. That's why Hank and Steve gomez were going incognito to catch him with the money. When he talks with skyler on the phone after the blowout with her and junior he incriminates himself to the authorities at that point. The fact is they probably didn't.

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Why is Walt so mad at Gretchen?

Although he remained friendly with both of them, Walter would secretly blame Elliot and Gretchen for his eventual financial problems. He accused them of cutting him out of Gray Matter and stealing his research without crediting him, completely ignoring the fact that he chose to leave himself.

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How did Walt get so rich?

The $80 million profit Walt turned by selling meth for just one year is a very realistic sum for a true-life drug kingpin.

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Is Walt In Love With Gretchen?

Gretchen used to be Walt's lab assistant and they fell in love and were engaged.

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Did Walt use his neighbor as bait?

He uses his next-door neighbor as bait for Gus's hired guns. He sets fire to a laundromat that's still packed full of employees. He lures his own brother-in-law out into the open, where Gus's henchmen are waiting to kill him, just so that he will realize that Hector's been inside.

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Why did Jack leave Walt a Barrel?

He states he hates needless brutality despite torturing Jesse for his own amusement, and also said he hates greed, but he steals almost all of Walt's money, and only gives a barrel of it because of Todd's respect for him.

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Why did Walter White put his watch on the pay phone?

Gilligan explained that the reason Walt placed his watch (the one Jesse gave him for his 51st birthday) on top of the payphone after pretending to be the New York Times reporter was only retrofitted symbolism: The reason he had to do it was because they realized that in the flash-forward of him at Denny's that they'd ...

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Why did Saul get 86 years?

Kim attends the sentencing in Albuquerque, where Jimmy admits he lied so she would be present in person. He confesses to enabling Walt and admits his role in Chuck's suicide. He is sentenced to 86 years in prison, where he is revered by fellow inmates who recognize him as Saul.

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How did everyone find out Walt is Heisenberg?

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.

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Who found out Walt was Heisenberg?

During a family barbecue, Hank finds a copy of Walt Whitman's Leaves of Grass in the bathroom, the same copy given to Walt by Gale; upon reading Gale's handwritten inscription referring to Walt as "the other W.W." Hank realizes that Walt is the drug lord he has been pursuing.

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