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"We&amp;#x27;re almost at the finish line and I have so many questions about how Breaking Bad is going to end. Will Jesse be able to escape from the Nazis or will he be the Nazis&amp;#x27; slave meth cook until Todd offs him? Who is Walt going to use the ricin on: the Nazis or Elliott and Gretchen Schwartz after they essentially went on national television and pretended as though Walt had nothing to do with Gray Matter? How will Walt die, if he dies at all? Will Jess and Walt have a final, epic showdown like all of us want? Will I be huddled in the corner, weeping as the credits roll up on my TV screen? (I definitely know the answer to that, and it is yes.) For the past five seasons, Vince Gilligan &amp;amp; Co. have put us through the wringer with tension-building sequences and devastating deaths and now that the series finale is airing this Sunday at 9 P.M. ET on AMC, I figured there&amp;#x27;s no better time than now to celebrate some of BB&amp;#x27;s most amazing and shocking moments of all time. [NOTE: It goes without saying that this article contains major, MAJOR spoilers, so if you&amp;#x27;re not completely caught up on the show, please don&amp;#x27;t read this yet. Also, this is NSFW thanks to some of the violent scenes.] The moment when Walt/Heisenberg became something I never thought I would call anyone: a scientific badass. I&amp;#x27;ve never been particularly interested in chemistry because I&amp;#x27;ve felt like it&amp;#x27;s so complicated and difficult to understand; however, my interest in &amp;quot;chemistry as means of exacting revenge&amp;quot; is pretty much level &amp;quot;Duh!&amp;quot; And revenge is exactly what Walt had in mind after crazy kingpin Tuco stole the meth that Jesse tried to sell him and then beat up Mr. Pinkman. What I love most about this scene is you can still see what Walt hasn&amp;#x27;t gone full Heisenberg yet and is still kind of scared that his plan is not going to work, but at the end, that sweet taste victory gets him all riled up: The first time I genuinely cussed Walt out in my head A.K.A. Jane&amp;#x27;s death Listen, I get that Jane was getting a little too big for her britches by tearing apart Walt and Jesse partnership and getting Jesse hooked on heroin, but I didn&amp;#x27;t think Walt would be this trifling. After all, he originally showed up at Jesse&amp;#x27;s to try and help him with his addiction, but that&amp;#x27;s when he sees Jane, high on heroin, asphyxiating on her vomit and he does nothing to stop it. Kudos to Bryan Cranston for playing this scene beautifully and showing all the emotions his character went through. (Note: Sorry for the grainy video, but it was the best one I could find on YouTube): Jesse kills Gale thanks to Walt&amp;#x27;s manipulation: Now, this death just breaks my heart. Gale was so sweet, adored Walt, and clearly had no idea was he was getting involved in when Gus hired him to learn how to cook meth from Walt, who figured out that Gus was grooming Gale to take over the lab once Walt and Jesse were murdered. This revelation, of course, makes Walt go on the offensive and he has Jesse take out Gale, which was beyond devastating: We see just how scary and determined Gus is: I don&amp;#x27;t think any BB viewers saw this coming. It seemed like when Jesse killed Gale, that Gus&amp;#x27; back was against the wall. However, he proved the opposite, but letting them know that anyone on his staff is expendable: Hank being attacked by The Cousins For me, The Cousins were two of the scariest villains to grace the world of Breaking Bad. That&amp;#x27;s probably because they were killing machines who didn&amp;#x27;t talk and were driven by the need to avenge Tuco&amp;#x27;s death, which was caused by Hank. I couldn&amp;#x27;t find the whole scene online, but frankly, this clip is just as scary: Walt loses it after realizing there&amp;#x27;s no way out: Everything is coming to a head for Walt and for a change, he&amp;#x27;s really thinking about his family and decides to push the eject button. In this case, pushing the eject button means paying one of Saul Goodman&amp;#x27;s guys to get him and his family out of town, give them new identities and new lives. Unfortunately, that didn&amp;#x27;t happen, thanks to Skyler using the money for other reasons without telling him: Gus Fring Got Two-Faced As much as I loved Giancarlo Esposito&amp;#x27;s portrayal of Gus, a prominent and ruthless drug distributor, he had to go. He made it impossible for Walt and Jesse to live without being watched 24/7, plus he had designs to kill them once he was able to find someone suitable enough to create the kind of quality product that Walt and Jesse made. Thankfully, Vince Gilligan &amp;amp;#38; Co. gave Gus a fitting end: Walt orchestrating the murder of Mike&amp;#x27;s guys: One of the things I love about Breaking Bad is that show does a great job of juxtaposition, as evidenced by this scene. Walt has gotten rid of Gus and Mike and all that&amp;#x27;s left to do is to get rid of Mike&amp;#x27;s guys so they have no chance of identifying Walt as Heisenberg. Now as all of these killings are happening, easy listening music plays, as it seems it&amp;#x27;s going to be that easy for Walt to forget his drug kingpin past and start all over again: The Lily of the Valley As YouTube commenter MrBoBoTom so eloquently puts it, &amp;quot;This is a badass scene designed for badass people who are badass in? nature.&amp;quot; Probably one of the most shocking moments in the series is this one when we learn that Walt did in fact poison Brock, the son of Jesse&amp;#x27;s girlfriend Andrea, in the hopes of forcing Jesse to take action against Gus. It&amp;#x27;s at this point we see that Walt is full Heisenberg and will do almost anything to win: The most productive number no. 2 in the history of television: For a while, it seemed like maybe Hank was not that good at his job. I mean, how can he have gone this long without realizing that Walt is Heisenberg? I&amp;#x27;ll tell you how: because Walt was such a wimp and was so down beaten at the beginning of the series that no one suspected he would turn out to be such a ruthless drug kingpin. Hank is clueless about the real Walt...that is until he discovers the book that Gale dedicated to W.W., which was in Hank&amp;#x27;s pile of evidence, is now in Walt&amp;#x27;s bathroom: We learn that Walt has an &amp;quot;evil&amp;quot; son and his name is Todd Throughout the series, my baby boo Jesse has been Walt&amp;#x27;s surrogate son. Walt took him under his wing and despite their differences, they have an affection for each other. As the show progressed, we&amp;#x27;ve seen Jesse on a road to redemption and trying to become good. He went to rehab, wanted to get out of the cooking meth game and in &amp;quot;Dead Freight,&amp;quot; he devises a plan to hijack a train that&amp;#x27;s carrying methylamine without being detected and tells his crew&amp;amp;#8212;Walt, Mike, and Todd&amp;amp;#8212;that no one should be harmed in this process. It seemed like that was going to be the case as Jesse narrowly escaped injury and every celebrates...until they see a young boy looking at them and Todd does the unthinkable: After this happened, Jesse was emotionally ruined and Walt was, sort of. Todd pretty much felt nothing and Walt continues to cook with him and even does business with his uncle Jack, who as Walt will soon learn are real deal criminals who cannot be manipulated by Walt&amp;#x27;s reasoning. Walt kills Mike: This one really made me angry. Seriously. Everyone loved Mike. Even though he had clearly done a lot of wrong in his life, he was pragmatic, had a dry sense of humor, and was often the voice of reason when Walt was hyper emotional. Part of me wishes that Mike didn&amp;#x27;t dress Walt down like he did so he would still be alive, but Walt was out of control and needed to be told about himself. Dammit, Walt! I hate you for this: Part One: Part Two: &amp;quot;Ozymandias&amp;quot; Me on Sunday night, doing a little Breaking Bad prep before the episode airs: Me from the first second of the episode until about two hours after it aired: Simply put, &amp;quot;Ozymandias&amp;quot; is one of the most agonizing hours of television that I have ever watched in my whole life. It put my emotions in the garbage and I had to dumpster dive to get them back, so I could love again. OK, OK, that&amp;#x27;s a bit of an overstatement; however, this episode was the culmination of so many things Walt put into motion years ago that it was pretty tough to watch. Hank and Gomez were killed, the Nazis still had almost all of his money, he and Skyler get into a knife fight resulting in him kidnapping Holly, the Nazis make Jesse their meth cook slave, Walt Jr. calls the police on Walt, and Walt tells Jesse that he watched Jane die and did nothing to save her. Good grief. How are people supposed to go to work the next day after watching all that go down? I&amp;#x27;m going to be honest, I almost used a sick day so I could stay in bed and deal with my feels: What do you think of this list? Agree or disagree? Are there any moments that you wished made the cut? Do you have any predictions about how it all ends? Finally, don&amp;#x27;t miss a single moment of Breaking Bad&amp;#x27;s series finale by tuning in to AMC at 9 P.M. ET/PT. Photo: Courtesy of AMC"^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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