Gretchen came from a rich family and Walt at that time had an inferiority complex so he bailed. He sold his share of the company to Elliott for a lousy $5000. Gretchen and Elliott then became an item, got married, and the company went on to be worth billions.
He ended up leaving them 9+ Million, I think he was happy with that. Maybe towards the end he was doing it for himself, but at the beginning it was mostly for the money and possibly a little for the thrill.
The $80 million is a staggering sum for less than a year's worth of work. But experts say that pallet full of cash portrayed in the show is realistic, given the economics of the meth trade.
Jesse isn't a very effective informer however and is quickly in over his head. Walt goes back to work but not all is going smoothly. Walt's story starts to unravel when Skyler gets a call from Gretchen Schwartz and she thanks her for paying for Walt's treatment.
Walter White may be fictional. But the $80 million profit he turned by selling meth in less than a year is a very realistic sum for a true-life drug kingpin. It's not until the last season of Breaking Bad that viewers learn just how much cash their favorite meth-making anti-hero has accumulated by cooking crank.
Gus is pleased with the quality of Walt's blue meth and offers him $3 million for three months of his time to cook more in a high-tech "superlab" hidden under an industrial laundry that Gus owns. Walt initially refuses, but Gus eventually convinces Walt that he should cook for his family's financial security.
There's such a buzz about Breaking Bad's Storage Unit #2065, so it's only fitting to tackle some of the key questions people have. Just how much money was in there? According to Skyler, “there is more money here than we could spend in 10 lifetimes.” In episode 13 of season five, the amount was revealed as $80 million.
But he can't take Elliot's money because of his pride. Walt chooses to do the treatments but pay for them himself, which leads to the inevitability of making meth. By the final season of Breaking Bad, Walt finally admits to Skyler that he didn't pursue the money for his family anymore — he did it because he liked it.
Actor RJ Mitte rose to fame at the age of 14 when he was cast as Walter White Jr in cult series Breaking Bad. He has cerebral palsy and was bullied when he was younger because of his disability.
In Breaking Bad's first few seasons, Walt struggled to come up with the cash to pay for his treatment. The $5,000 deposit at the oncology center was a fraction of the overall expense, which would total $90,000, a number only the rich could afford. Forget about a high school chemistry teacher.
Walt buried the approximate $80 million within eight large barrels in the New Mexico desert. Jack's white supremacist gang ended up taking seven barrels before leaving one for Walt. In total, the barrel was said to hold $11 million, but Walt used some of it to escape town in order to avoid being captured.
Later, after Walt starts earning big bucks selling meth in the Czech Republic, Skyler takes Walt to the storage space where $80 million dollars of his money sits stacked in a perfect square.
White accepts a $43,000 a year job teaching high school science in Albuquerque, New Mexico. Forlorn by his jaded students, he longs for the glory days when his research contributed to a Nobel Prize in proton radiography (though he resents that, unlike his fellow researchers, he never became rich.)
Ted Beneke's 621,000 dollar IRS problem was paid off by Skyler White. In the end of Season 5, it is revealed that Walter White earned a little over 80 Million Dollars in hard cash.
That said, season 5 revealed that Walt earned over $80 million in cash, which he kept in a storage unit. Jesse, however, was left with $5 million that Walt gave him out of guilt.
The $9.72 million and some change Walter White was able to salvage after being robbed of most of his drug money by Jack and his crew ended up with Walter Jr., not Skyler.
While driving on a highway, Walt is pulled over by a police officer for his windshield, which was cracked by debris in the Wayfarer crash. When the officer alludes to having the car taken, Walt angrily snaps at him, leading him to be pepper sprayed and arrested.
Roy Frank "RJ" Mitte III (/ˈmɪti/; born August 21, 1992) is an American actor, best known for playing Walter "Flynn" White Jr. on the AMC series Breaking Bad (2008–2013). Like his character on the show, he has cerebral palsy. After moving to Hollywood in 2006, he began training with a personal talent manager.
In the final scene, Hank figures out that Walt is Heisenberg while perusing Walt's copy of “Leaves of Grass” on the toilet. The book is inscribed: “To my other favorite W.W. It's an honor working with you.
Vince Gilligan stated in an interview that Elliot and Gretchen never stole anything from Walt and that he chose to leave Gray Matter himself due to his ego being damaged after meeting Gretchen's wealthy family.
After Breaking Bad
In an interview, show creator Vince Gilligan confirmed that Walter Jr. eventually received his father's drug money through Gretchen and Elliott Schwartz, which he had arranged beforehand.
Walter loses the insurance money to Willy, a crook that he mistakes for a friend. Mama entrusts Walter with all the money that remains after the down payment on the new house.
"Storage Wars" star Dan Dotson sold a man a storage unit for $500. The unit contained a safe with more than $7.5 million. After conferring with the original owners of the safe, the man walked away with $1.2 million.
The short answer is yes. Despite departing on acrimonious terms, Walt gave Jesse a lump sum of $5M, when he walked away from the meth business. However, by the time the series ended, Jesse had nothing left. Was El Camino a satisfying continuation of Breaking Bad?
The lab was proposed by Lydia Rodarte-Quayle and financed by Gustavo Fring and Peter Schuler, with the project costing over $8 million.