Although Gretchen still keeps Walter's secret, she later tells Skyler that she and Elliott will stop paying for the "treatment" ("Peekaboo").
In 2016, Vince Gilligan finally revealed the true reason why Walter broke up with Gretchen and left Gray Matter: he felt inferior to her and her wealthy family, confirming that it was due to his ego and pride.
By the end of the episode, the boy's father has been killed by his mother with a stolen ATM before she passes out, completely strung out on meth. Before fleeing, Jesse makes an anonymous call to the police, knowing that the boy will be saved by child protective services.
Entering the living room, Walt finds his family thanking Gretchen for her generosity. Walt follows Gretchen to the driveway and asks her not to say or do anything until they have a chance to talk. Gretchen drives away without a word, clearly displeased with Walt's involving her in a lie.
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.
Gretchen was born into a wealthy family and at one point began working for Walter White as his lab assistant at his and his best friend Elliot Schwartz's company Gray Matter Technologies. She and Walt eventually sparked a romance, fell deeply in love and were at one point engaged.
So Walter Jr. walks away with nearly $7 million, which while more than enough to buy another Mustang and pay back Louis for all those rides to school, is not what it could have been if Walter had just let Gretchen and Elliot reach under their couch cushions and pay the tax themselves.
Elliot teams up with them to start Gray Matter. Gretchen cheats on Walt with Elliot. Heartbroken and betrayed, Walt leaves Gretchen and Elliott and, in the process, all of Gray Matter.
Walt was a very proud and stubborn man, and refused help from anyone. Gretchen and Elliott offered to pay for his cancer treatment, but his pride wouldn't allow him to accept their offer. Even when his own son set up a fund raising website, Walt couldn't accept the money, explaining to Skyler that "It's charity!".
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.
Cranston told Here & Now's Robin Young that the men crawling on the ground are worshippers of Santa Muerte, a dark off-shoot of Catholicism. "The Santa Muerte is a deity that does not discriminate on what your prayers or wishes are," Cranston said.
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.
Played by RJ Mitte, Walt Jr. is the son of protagonist Walter White and his wife Skyler. He has cerebral palsy, as manifested in speech difficulties and impaired motor control, for which he uses crutches. His younger sister is Holly White.
However, Walt eventually chose to leave Gray Matter after hitting a snag in his relationship with his girlfriend, Gretchen (due to feelings of inferiority to her wealthy family) and sold his share of the company to Elliot for only $5000.
Season 3. 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.
When Walt defiantly moves back in, Skyler retaliates by initiating an affair with Ted and coldly informing her husband that she cheated on him.
He buries it out in the desert to ensure that it can't be used as evidence against him by the police.
He was paid to be a cleaner and give people a new identity, not be their friends or anything that might raise suspicions. Walter had to pay $10,000 for an hour of Ed's time to play cards. He also didn't want to give Jesse any discount and ratted him out to the police when Jesse was getting too rowdy in his shop.
After a falling out between Walter and his at-the-time girlfriend and lab assistant Gretchen (Jessica Hecht), Walter sold his share of the company for $5,000 and evolved (or de-evolved) into the man we see on the show.
At dinner at the Whites, Hank goes to the bathroom and while there, pages through a copy of Leaves of Grass that Gale had given Walter. He recognizes the writing from Gale's notebook, and from Gale's dedication to Walt, is shocked to conclude that Walt is Heisenberg.
Gilligan explained that the reason Walt placed his watch (the one Jesse gave him for his 51st birthday) on top of the payphone after pretending to be the New York Times reporter was only retrofitted symbolism: The reason he had to do it was because they realized that in the flash-forward of him at Denny's that they'd ...
He specifically asks Badger and Skinny Pete about it. Lydia was the main link for the distribution of Blue Meth and she had to go. Also because she made Todd and gang threaten Skyler by blackmailing that they would harm Holly if she said anything about her to the cops.
That realization hit home during the phone call at the end of the previous episode, "Granite State." Walter Jr. will not try to understand his father; Walter Jr. will not knowingly accept his money; Walter Jr. will never forgive him. His father was his greatest hero, but became his ultimate villain.
One of its units was rented by Skyler White to store the ~$80 million fortune earned by her husband, Walter, from manufacturing and selling methamphetamine.
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.