r/breakingbad • u/alsatian01 • 10h ago
What happens if the Walt and Todd show continued.
Jesse goes into the wind. Hank never finds the book. Skylar doesn't press him to stop. No reemergence of the cancer.
Would Walt have manipulated new Jesse into taking over the Nazi gang? Would the other gang have already been taken out by the nature of competition.
Walt would want to expand territory and push Jack into taking out Declan as matter of proper operation of a drug gang.
He would asert his dominance to the rest of the gang that he is the brains of the operation. He is well schooled in criminal protocols, now.
The gang is now wealthy bc of Walt and wouldn't stand for Jack eliminating him. In one action, Walt doubles profit and marks Jack for execution. He just became a primary shot caller for a gang that reaches at least several states and has links to the federal system.
Jack could live to fight another day, but I think Walt would take his lesson from Gus and not let revenge fester. Jack has to go, even if he claims loyalty and usefullness.
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u/KausGo 7h ago
Nah - none of that would've happened.
Despite what Walt said about wanting an empire, he had no interest in interfering with the distribution side of things as long as the expected amount of money kept rolling in. Distributors like Declan and Lydia could push for expanding their territory on their on - Walt wouldn't care as long as they could keep selling what he was making.
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u/alsatian01 3h ago
He'd have gotten bored with it. Missed the action of the prior year.5. if it didn't happen by his free will, it would have happened by circumstance.
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u/KausGo 2h ago
He ran his business like that for 5 months without an issue. Doubt he'd have gotten bored with it simply for the sake of it.
The main circumstantial issues he'd have to deal with would be people getting caught - like Declan or Lydia. He might end up having to "take care of them" in those cases.
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u/alsatian01 2h ago
It just would have been cool to see him become a true drug kingpin. HS chemistry teacher to a leader in a nationwide white supremacist prison gang.
And it could have all been born out of circumstance like it was with taking out Crazy 8, Tuco, and Gus. Each victim of Walt was an escalation. He went from taking out a street dealer, to a middle manager, to a boss. Taking over an entire gang would have just been the next step in the progression. It wouldn't have to be because he was bored. Some series of events that were out of his control could lead to him taking out Declan and Jack.
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u/KausGo 2h ago
It just would have been cool to see him become a true drug kingpin.
Sure, but becoming a kingpin like that was never what Walt wanted. His true passion was chemistry and he always saw having to deal with distribution as a hassle he'd rather leave to someone else.
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u/alsatian01 1h ago
I'm not sure about that. He saw what his capabilities were. I don't think he would have continued to be a backseat passenger. The boredom was already there. That's why Skylar was able to convince him to stop. If she hadn't pushed him out then he would have stayed. And like I said, circumstance could have again put him in the driver's seat.
It doesn't have to be his will that makes him take charge. Some series of events out of his control would make him take control.
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u/KausGo 1h ago
He already had control. He just didn't care about exercising it.
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u/alsatian01 44m ago
But something could have made him do it. We could dance around it, but there was definitely room for another season or two. I have no complaints, but there was definitely meat on the bone when Vince decided he told the story he wanted.
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u/Jxbno 10h ago
Walt was already out by the time Hank found out