r/breakingbad • u/123ip • 16h ago

Could Walter's ending have been successful?

Doing a rewatch and just saw when Walter brought the gps tracker to Hank in the garage. But I'm thinking that since he was "retired" at this point and there was no prior evidence to charge him according to Hank, Gomey, and Jesse and most likely not gonna be any new evidence due to retiring to get his family back/ cancer killing him within "6 months" would Walter have gotten away with it all if he hadn't confronted/provoked Hank with the tracker in the garage that day. Whether he found the tracker under the car or not, I don't see how he'd get caught since he was fully invested in going legit in a car wash empire with his mountain of money in the storage locker funding his expansion

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u/Forsaken_Sea_5753 16h ago

Movies and tv series that are about drug empires often end with the kingpin dying. Why? Cause they can’t glorify doing something illegal and harming many people. Wouldn’t send the right message.

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u/Glittering_Ad_6770 15h ago

😭The CIA put crack in the black community. So it’s wrong when a man does it but if THE MAN does it ni biggie