Right, but in Jesse's eyes, Walt is responsible for all of this. The last time he saw Walt was when Walt ordered him killed and twisted the knife telling him about Jane. If Jesse has the chance he will and should kill Walt. Walt shouldn't and wouldn't even trust Jesse with a gun enough to attempt to partner with him.

It's possible he kills off the Nazis and then turns himself in so he can tell his story and somehow frames or implicates Gray Matter in his criminal activities. Maybe making pure meth was an early Gray Matter experiment? He seemed to know a perfect formula from the beginning.

Well, I don't get why people think he's going to save Jesse. He put Jesse where he is - in fact Jesse would be dead already if Walt had his way. If anything, he's going to go try to take out the Nazis and then get surprised and taken out by Jesse himself.

Why does everyone keep insisting Walt would seek a slow, agonizing suicide by taking the ricin himself? Doesn't make sense. He'd be suffering so much and so slowly, he'd have time to change his mind and tell doctors what he took.

Except a.) Walt is the one that put Jesse where he is and Jesse will never forgive Walt for poisoning Brock (an action that makes Walt no better than the Nazis, since both actions were taken to manipulate Jesse into compliance)  In fact, Walt is the only way the Nazis could have even known about Andrea in the first…

Except that Walt gave the operation to Todd in agreement with Lydia…the Nazis didn't "steal his science" - just his wealth and killed Hank against his will. Now, that's enough reason to go after the Nazis, but still not seeing why Lydia?

If she does kill Skyler, then yes, I wouldn't be surprised if Walt goes after her, assuming he can connect the dots. But for now I'm not seeing how those dots get connected as well as all the other things that have to be tied up.

Can somebody please answer why Walt would poison Lydia? He doesn't know about her threat to Skyler, doesn't have much reason to just tie up loose ends and he's got bigger enemies to fight. Yes, Lydia's probably trying to have him hunted down, but who isn't hunting Walt at this point, right?

Why Lydia? I get that she might feel endangered by him enough to have him killed off, but of all the non-family characters Lydia has arguably harmed Walt the least (as he doesn't know about the threats to Skyler as of right now). She gave him wealth and an empire of his own and let him retire without killing him off.…

What I don't get is why everyone thinks he's going to kill Lydia? That may be true if he somehow gets in touch with Skyler and finds out that she was threatened about exposing Lydia, but as of now Lydia has not wronged Walt in any way he knows about. In fact, she helped make him his crazy wealth and he passed the…

Nobody says they "need to die" but in Walt's mind, they betrayed him (by presumably Gretchen cheating on him with Elliot), then this situation resulted in him being pushed out of the company and thus missing out on a billion dollar payday that would have avoided the whole "needing to cook meth to pay for cancer bills"…

Because she was the bait in Walt's scheme to draw Jesse out so the Nazis could kill Jesse. They were using Andrea and Brock as pawns to force Jesse to comply to their demands and cook meth. They killed Andrea to show Jesse that they were dead serious and would come do the same to Brock. I bet Jesse's missing Walt's…

Except why in hell would the Schwartzes risk their multi-billion dollar company to help America's Most Wanted Fugitive smuggle millions in drug money illegally to his family? That makes absolutely no sense.

Sheesh, you'd think with $11 million Walt could have hired a halfway decent black market plastic surgeon so he wouldn't need to hide out in a crappy isolated cabin in the woods for the rest of his life…

Why not both? The Nazis and Gray Matter both stole the fruits of his labor and betrayed his trust. Gray Matter is not insignificant to the story at all - it's the very driving force as to why he became Heisenberg (or why he had to start down that path in the first place). It was all his way of earning back what he was…

What's hokey about it? Their personal and professional betrayal sent him down the path that put him where he is today, and then they just maligned his work and effort on national television. He's got nothing to lose, so he might as well go out getting revenge on those who he feels deeply wronged him and destroyed his…

Why do people keep saying this? Why on earth would he possibly do that? And why on earth would the Schwartzes possibly let him do so when their company is already in hot water for their association with him?

Depends on the final ending, but it has to be a contender regardless. Unlike other all-time great shows like The Wire, The Sopranos and The Shield, this seems to be going out at the creative peak. As long as they don't throw some dumb curveball at the very end, it arguably is.

Actually, that Salon piece itself. Yikes.

"Andrea is the first truly innocent and sympathetic character to get that treatment" You mean besides Drew Sharp, Brock, etc., right?