Trivia. Gretchen drives a 2004 Bentley Continental GT with the vanity license plate, "GRAY-MTR". 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.
This we knew to be fact: White co-founded Gray Matter Technologies with friend Elliott Schwartz. Walt ended up dating his lab assistant Gretchen, but he suddenly left her one day, selling his shares in Gray Matter to his partner for $5,000.
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.
upon receiving the $9.7 million in cash. Gifts are never subject to income tax to the recipient under Section 102, and from a gift tax perspective, it is generally the donor who bears the tax consequences. Elliot and Gretchen, upon establishing the trust for Walter Jr., would be required to pay any gift tax.
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.
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.
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.
However, after introducing Walt to her family at their home on a Fourth of July weekend, he abruptly left her without any explanation due to feelings of inferiority that her family's wealth and status stirred up in him. After this, Walt sold his share of Gray Matter to Elliot for $5,000 and left the company.
In 2016, Vince Gilligan revealed 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.
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.
He felt they had cheated him of his share and name in the company. So he did not want to lose his self respect by accepting money even though it was rightfully his.
Vince Gilligan confirmed Walt's personal sense of inferiority as the driving force for his abandoning Grey Matter.
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.)
Gretchen told her only that she and Elliott could no longer help them financially. Skyler thinks it's strange that Gretchen never mentioned anything on the phone or earlier in the day when she was at their house.
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.
As fans of Breaking Bad know, Krazy-8 was a drug dealer who also worked as a informant for the DEA, and he was eventually killed by Walter White after being held hostage in the emotional episode "...
Walt, the trained scientist, calls himself “Heisenberg” after the Heisenberg Uncertainly Principle by the German physicist Werner Heisenberg, who posited that the location and momentum of a nuclear particle cannot be known at the same time.
Sadly, Jesse was right - but why did Walt poison Brock? Walt caused Brock's illness as a way to turn Jesse against Gus, however, the poison wasn't caused by ricin as later confirmed —it was from a Lily of the Valley plant, revealed to be in Walt's backyard in the final shot of the Breaking Bad season 4 finale.
Firstly, Walt is much smarter, and secondly, Hank grossly underestimates Walt - that much is clear from their very first scene together.
Gray Matter Technologies is a multi-billion dollar company co-founded by Walter White with his friend and fellow Caltech alumnus Elliott Schwartz sometime in the 1980s. The name came from a combination of the two's last names: Schwartz, meaning black in German, combined with White made gray.
When he finds out that he may not be leaving his family after all, he loses his “noble” reason for being a drug lord. Walt thought that he could control his life and his cancer by refusing help from his family and friends. With his cancer in remission, Walt has lost his control and he's furious about it.
He snuck out of the bar and left his glass wiped down. Walt visited the duo, devising a plan to leave his family the money he made. He then threatened to have Gretchen and Elliott killed if they spilled this secret. After they agreed, Walt went off to rescue Jesse.
Throughout the five seasons of Breaking Bad, Walter White caused the death of almost 300 people, directly or indirectly. As the character descended into wickedness, Walt didn't necessarily seem to fall under the label of a psychotic murderer.
When Heisenberg was on his own, he earned $88 million, but he must have earned a lot of money even when he was working with Gus and even he was on his own (they were able to buy the carwash for around $800,000 and Skyler was able to give around $621,000 to Ted to pay to the IRS), so we can assume that he earned ...
Originally collaborating with the Mexican drug cartel to distribute cartel cocaine, Gus eliminated his dependence on the cartel and began distributing methamphetamine himself, and eventually became the kingpin of his solo drug empire, which was the most successful drug operation in United States history until his ...