Lydia explains that her daughter would not believe that she abandoned her. Mike refrains from shooting Lydia and instead asks her if she can get access to more methylamine, to which Lydia replies, "Maybe. Mike then calls Walt to accept the offer from earlier. Mike becomes the distributor to Walt's new operation and insists that Walt and Jesse solely concentrate on the production without interfering at all with the business aspects of the operation that Mike will handle.
Walt dismissively agrees. The group enlists the help of Saul to find a new place to cook. Saul is initially hesitant to work with Mike considering the previous threats to him, but the two quickly dismiss it. On a prison visit to Dennis Markowski , the laundry manager, Mike promises he will reimburse all his employees for the hazard pay the DEA seized in order to keep them and their families appeased.
Walt is angered by the cut of the operation's profits that is being put aside by Mike for this purpose " Hazard Pay ". Later, when Jesse meets with Lydia to retrieve a barrel of methylamine, the two discover a GPS tracking device planted on the exterior bottom of the barrel. He notes the sloppiness of a GPS tracking device planted on the exterior "even by cop standards" and suspects Lydia herself planted the device in an effort to end their business dealings. Seeing Lydia as a serious risk to the operation now, Mike prepares to leave to kill her, but Walt sees ramping down production as unacceptable and, along with Jesse, convince Mike to try a different method " Fifty-One ".
Mike puts Lydia to gunpoint as she calls the DEA and gets the issue resolved. Mike decides to let Lydia go when she proves herself worthy by offering them a chance to rob methylamine from a freight train. Mike helps rob the train, standing far away and making sure all goes swiftly. When a little bit of trouble happens, he urges Walt, Jesse, and Todd to abort the mission, but, Walt being Walt, gives in a fight and denies giving up.
They win over the methylamine and get away safely. Mike doesn't witness Todd killing the kid, but gets mad over it " Dead Freight ". Mike and Walt vote that Todd continue working with them, and tells Jesse it's because they can't be paying him a large amount for him to keep quiet. Todd stays with the group, but Mike shoves him to the wall and threatens him.
Todd agrees, and Mike lets him go. When the DEA watch him, he writes a note and puts it under a garbage can. The DEA think that he is performing a 'dead drop', so when Mike leaves Gomez goes over to the garbage can only to to find a note 'Fuck you' written on it.
Mike gets fed up with the DEA following him, and convinces Jesse to give in and have a buyout. At first, Walt is mad at only Jesse, but then tries to convince both. But neither listen. Mike tells Walt they're selling every last gallon to a man he knows. Walt goes to steal it, only to be caught. Mike pats him down and ties him to a radiator. Mike talks to Saul, and upon returning to find the methylamine gone, he goes into the room, sees Jesse and Walt, puts Walt at gunpoint, only listening to Jesse saying, "He's got a plan, it works for all of us.
Walt looks fearless as he says, "Everybody wins. Mike, Walt, and Jesse deal with Declan. Mike says goodbye to Jesse. Mike works with a crooked lawyer named Dan Wachsberger , but his final attempt to "quit" goes bad when Wachsberger is arrested by Gomez while depositing money into his nine former co-workers' boxes.
His money is taken and as a last ditch effort Mike asks Saul to get his money he stashed in an airport car. Walt offers to make the delivery in exchange. Walt asks Mike for the names of the employees in exchange for the money. Mike refuses however and rips the bag from Walt's hand and walks away. Walt angered, sarcastically tells Mike "You're welcome".
Mike turns back and demands what Walt said and Walt once again demands the names, saying Mike owes him that. Mike snaps that he doesn't owe Walt a damn thing and that them falling apart is all his fault. An ignorant Walt laughs at this and berates Mike for blaming him for his "failure" of getting followed by the DEA. Mike, now furious at Walt, takes the opportunity to rant at Walt that all the disasters that have occurred since he killed Gus are his fault due his pride and ego and claims had he done his job and known his place they'd all be fine right now.
Mike then walks back to his car and, in a fit of rage, Walt storms over and shoots Mike in the stomach with his own revolver, which he fails to realize is missing from his bag too late. Mike hits the gas on his car and drives away but crashes not far away.
He manages to escape only a few yards down a river bank because of his bullet wound and sits down on a log overlooking the river. Walt approaches him carefully and takes his pistol out of his hand to which Mike does not interfere.
Walt realizes he could have just asked Lydia for the names, tries to apologize to Mike, but Mike merely replies "Shut the fuck up, and let me die in peace. His corpse is briefly seen in Walter's trunk while Todd and Walt prepare to dispose of it. Walt lies to Todd and claims that Mike's death was necessary and had to be done to which Todd doesn't question. Jesse arrives and questions about Mike and Walt merely replies "He's gone".
His corpse is later dissolved in acid " Gliding Over All ". After Walt questions him, Jesse claims he did it because Kaylee needs someone looking after her and correctly deduces that Mike is dead and that Walt knows that.
Walt is offended and lies that he did not kill Mike and begs Jesse to believe him " Blood Money ". Later however when lashing at Walt for manipulating him to leave town Jesse brings up that he will kill him the same way he killed Mike if he disobeys, showing that he did not fall for Walt's previous lie " Confessions ". Mike is mentioned for a final time by Saul whilst he and Walt are hiding in Ed Galbraith 's basement.
Saul points out to Walt that it is impossible to get his remaining money to his family and uses Mike as an example; pointing out that Mike was no dummy but every time he attempted to get his money to his granddaughter it was taken and ended up in "Uncle Sam's pockets" " Granite State ". Mike in one of Jesse's flashbacks in El Camino. In a flashback to before they announced their decision to quit Vamonos Pest , " Buyout " Mike and Jesse discuss what they will do their money with Mike telling Jesse he plans to do the same thing he's done with all of his other money with his cut.
Stating that he thinks he should leave town, Jesse asks Mike where he would go if Mike was in Jesse's position. Mike tells Jesse that if he were Jesse's age and starting fresh, Mike would go to Alaska which is the last frontier and a place where a person could be anything they want. Jesse finds this idea appealing and tells Mike that he'd like to make everything he's done right, but Mike regretfully states that that is the one thing Jesse can never do. Mike is shown to be a highly intelligent, cunning, patient, formidable and caring person and is a highly skilled investigator and expert soldier and assassin.
Although Mike doesn't seem to feel even a bit conflicted about the crimes he commits, he also isn't terribly interested in gratuitous cruelty or shooting his way to the top of the meth lord food chain - he just does what's necessary to keep himself and his boss safe, with a minimum of ego-tripping and drama.
Mike has demonstrated extreme devotion to his loved ones, notably his beloved granddaughter, Kaylee, whom he planned to leave all of his funds earned from his criminal work and also his daughter-law, Stacey, whom he also sought to aid financially.
Mike sincerely loved his son, Matt, as well and was truly devastated by his death and personally avenged him by mercilessly killing Officers Troy Hoffman and Jack Fensky, his son's killers. His guilt over "breaking" his son motivated Mike to redeem himself by earning money through illegal means for his remaining family members. Mike has demonstrated that he is willing to to anything to protect his family from danger as seen when he attempted to assassinate Hector Salamanca due to him threatening Stacey and Kaylee.
Mike himself even states that when his time to die occurs, he will go satisfied knowing that he did all he could to provide for his family. Due to his past as a cop and soldier, Mike is a highly proficient killer and will kill whoever is a threat to him or his employer's interests as he single handily killed numerous Cartel assassins during the war between them and Gus.
Despite this Mike hates murder under unnecessary circumstances as seen by him threatening Todd Alquist after the murder of an innocent child during their train heist.
He even spiraled into an alcohol infused depression following his murder of his friend Werner Ziegler on Gus' orders, showing Mike is far from being completely remorseless and cold-blooded.
Despite a few conflicts, Mike was extremely loyal to Gus and was valued as a core member of his drug empire. While he was shocked at the sight of him killing Victor, one of his allies, he refused to aid Walter in killing Gus and remained loyal to him fully and was truly angered by Walt's assassination of him and the destruction of Fring's entire operation.
Unique to Mike, his reasons for working in the criminal underworld was entirely to help his daughter-in-law and granddaughter.
His devotion to his granddaughter was so great that he did not even touch any of that money, which is the only reason he was the only person from Gus' ring that wasn't arrested by the police.
In this sense, Mike is the true polar opposite of Walter White due to the fact that Walt commits crime purely to fuel his own ego and attain power and he justifies it all as solely providing for and protecting his loved ones, which is in reality a thinly veiled excuse. Mike however is a criminal for more noble reasons and is absolutely devoted to ensuring his loved ones are financially sound and protected and does all in his power to ensure no harm befalls them.
Mike was extremely good at reading people and was one of the few people to recognize Walter White for the prideful, egotistical, ignorant and arrogant man he was and severely despised him. He hated Walt for his actions that exposed Gus' and his own criminal activities and the only reason he agreed to work with Walt was for the sake of making money to leave behind for his granddaughter and financially support his men in prison. He severely hated Walt for his ignorance as seen during their final confrontation in which he brutally ranted of how his actions are what lead to complete disaster following Gus' death after Walt accused him of screwing up and getting followed by the DEA, which in turn resulted in his unnecessary death at the hand of Walt.
Mike also mentions he doesnt like bullies. Unlike with Walt, Mike got along well with Jesse Pinkman and appeared to care about the young man a great deal, though he didn't hesitate to threaten him earlier in their acquaintance under Gus' orders.
Notably, Mike hesitated in shooting Walt when Jesse told Mike that he'd have to kill him to were he to kill Walt. Breaking Bad Wiki Explore. Breaking Bad. Better Call Saul. El Camino. BCS Season 5. Explore Wikis Community Central. Register Don't have an account?
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I've known good criminals and bad cops. He was new to the criminal lifestyle and unsure how to navigate the drug world. And Mike referred to him as a constant threat. You are a time bomb. Tick tick ticking.
And I have no intention of being around for the boom. His shocking and brutal death showed that Gus wasn't afraid to kill his own. Combo's death was an unfortunate casualty working as a drug dealer on the lowest rungs on the ladder. His death proved that Jesse and Walt needed to be careful not to overstep into rival dealers' territories and burdened Jesse with guilt for involving his friends in their business.
Domingo "Krazy-8" Molina Max Arciniega was a solo drug dealer and manufacturer who accused Walt of being a snitch for law enforcement. After Krazy-8 and his cousin were lured into his RV, Walt caused an explosion with phosphine gas, killing his cousin and giving them time to lock Krazy-8 in Jesse's basement. Cause of Death: Walt ultimately strangled Krazy-8 with a bike lock after Walt realized the dealer was about to kill him with a sharp piece of a broken plate.
Walt initially offered Krazy-8 food and water while he was locked up. Once Walt realized that Krazy-8 was going to try to kill him, he decided to commit murder. Krazy-8 was one of the first characters that Walt directly killed, and the action put him one step closer to becoming the feared drug lord Heisenberg.
Gale Boetticher was a highly intelligent, mild-mannered, and well-studied organic chemist hired by Gus to set up his superlab and cook meth under Walt's supervision. Once Walt realized that Gus intended to replace him and Jesse with Gale once he mastered Walt's recipe, Walt ordered Jesse to kill Gale and make them invaluable for producing their blue meth.
It is heart-wrenching to watch Jesse struggle in the final moments before he pulled the trigger on Gale. Although death has followed him and Walt from the minute they started working together, Jesse never thought of himself as a murderer.
Walt was once a nervous chemistry teacher who eventually transformed into the most notorious drug kingpin in New Mexico. After he was faced with a terminal cancer diagnosis and saddled with medical debt, Walt partnered with his former student, Jesse, to cook crystal meth.
But as their venture became more successful, it also became more deadly. Cause of Death: Walt was accidentally shot by the same remote-activated machine gun he used to kill Jack Welker and his gang. Walt was far from an innocent character by the time he died, but he found a sliver of redemption by saving Jesse from Welker's gang.
His death also marked the end of the show itself, which unleashed a bevy of bittersweet emotions for viewers. After Gus financed Max's way through college, Max emerged with a biochemistry degree and partnered with Gus to make refined meth. Max's loss bears a lot of weight on the show. His death would later become the heart of Gus's ambition and his singular motivation for seeking revenge on Hector.
Part of his gang initiation meant killing Jesse's friend, Combo, after he sold meth on rival territory. Drew Sharp Samuel Webb was an innocent child who unwittingly came across Walt, Jesse, and Todd's path after they pulled off a train heist.
To Jesse and Walt's horror, Todd shot Drew on sight in order to keep their operation clean and leave no witnesses, even though the kid appeared oblivious to the crime they had just pulled off. Although he liked to toss jokes around with Hank, he was a respected and hardworking agent who circled Walt, Gus, and the cartel for years. After working with Jesse and getting close to bringing down Walt, Gomez and Hank were unable to get closure on the case they worked on for so many years.
After years of fearing that his brother-in-law would out him as a drug lord, Walt begged Welker to spare Hank to no avail. Cause of Death: Hank was killed by Jack Welker seconds after Gomez was murdered in the same shootout.
After Hank and Gomez escaped death an unthinkable number of times, it was heartbreaking to see them die side-by-side, outnumbered and outgunned in the desert. Jane Margolis Krysten Ritter was Jesse's neighbor and girlfriend. More importantly, Better Call Saul 's recent desert episode gives crystal clear insight into Mike's thought process at the time of his death. Mike's immediate reaction in his final moments wasn't anger at Walt or panicked desperation, but calm acceptance, with Kaylee forefront in his mind.
This perhaps retroactively explains why Mike's only words to Walt while in the process of dying were to demand some peace and quiet. The request seemed remarkably restrained under the circumstances, but knowing he had already accepted the prospect of dying and simply wanted to bow out thinking of his family adds even more emotion to the already charged Breaking Bad scene.
Lastly, Mike laying out his criminal motivations to Saul confirms a laser-focus on making money for his family. Nothing else matters, not even his own death.
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