Breaking Bad is a fantastic show. The difference between "good" shows and "great" shows are the characters.
All of the characters have so much depth to them, that watching is gut wrenching and confusing all at the same time. While we can empathize with many of the situations, and think we know what will happen next, we still are never quite sure what the characters are going to do. It's that uncertainty that has left so many people wondering how everything will end. Walt needs to be punished... or does he? Is he going to be held to the standard of our traditional laws and be punished for breaking them, or is what he's doing not a problem because he is (or was) doing everything for his family? If Walt gets caught and goes to prison, it's rather anticlimactic. If the cancer comes back and kills Walt, it's not a problem because he had accepted that fate years earlier. There are many different possibilities of where this might go, but this is where it should go. Let's count down. Just so you know... there will be blood.
Runners up:
- Skyler kills Walt. She's had enough and she feels this is the only way to save her family. She takes the kids and moves to Canada.
- Walt goes on a vengeful, meth fueled, murderous rampage killing everyone who has wronged him or his family.
- Walt gets away with everything. The family moves to Fiji and lives on the beach for the rest of their lives. Jesse marries a supermodel and owns a cattle ranch in Wyoming. Badger and Skinny Pete are his ranch hands. Wouldn't that be some shit?
#3 Jesse kills Walt
In true Menendez brothers fashion, Jesse finds out about all of the terrible things Walt has done to his loved ones, he snaps, and blows Walt away. Since Jesse is estranged from his own father, he yearns for Walt's approval and strives for opportunities to build a personal relationship with him. What all did Walt do to Jesse? Walt let his girlfriend die, poisoned his other girlfriend's kid, killed Mike and lied to him about it, and he's just been an overall prick who's only nice to Jesse when it helps him. After killing Walt, Jesse takes all his money and sets up a college fund for Mike's granddaughter and Walt's daughter and gives the rest away to charity. Jesse moves to Tibet and becomes a Buddhist Monk.
#2 Walt dies for Jesse
Should Walt be forgiven? How does he earn forgiveness? If his conscience does finally come into play and he sees what he has become and what he has done to his family and friends, he must redeem himself in some way. He can't just apologize. He must offer himself up for the ultimate good. Some random drug lords are going to kill Jesse, but Walt pulls a Bruce Willis "Armageddon", throws Jesse back into the spaceship and sacrifices himself (you know you cried). Bruce is saving the world and his nobility makes up for being a lousy father. Walt would be making up for being a lousy father (literally and figuratively) and saving the world from his "Blue Crystal". Jesse takes his money and opens an orphanage for kids with drug addict parents.
#1 Everybody dies
The writers take a page from "Hamlet" and kill everyone... except for Walt. Walt must be punished for what he has done. He can't just go to jail. That would be far too simple, not to mention disappointing. He can't just die because he has no problem with his own mortality. My solution: rival dealers kill his family. It is the ultimate irony. The thing he was doing to help his family, ultimately destroys his family. Walt doesn't recognize any emotional pain he's inflicting on his family as being any kind of detriment, so physical harm must be done. After his family dies, Walt is sentenced to prison where he must live a Promethean existence, having his liver eaten out by his own guilt every single day. Jesse comes to terms with his own guilt, moves to Vermont, and opens a Maple Syrup business.
No matter what happens, we know that Walt is going to have to kill Hank. Everyone is expendable, but if something happens to Jesse, I'm going to be pissed.
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