![]() “Open House” (season 4, episode 3): The gambling story was just the start of Skyler’s schemes. When Walt marvels at the brilliance of Skyler’s lie, she replies, “I learned from the best.” Enter Skyler, who concocts a complicated-but-believable story about Walt using a black jack card-counting system to make millions in underground games and offers to cover Hank’s medical costs with the winnings. The Whites have the money to help out, but not without raising the suspicion of their DEA-agent brother-in-law. Hank is in the hospital after The Cousins’ not-so-surprise attack, and the medical bills are mounting. “Kafkaesque” (season 3, episode 9): Skyler is now fully aware of her husband’s double-life, and in this episode, she shows her own flashes of criminal genius. While Walt offers to tell her the full truth to keep her from leaving him, she says she’s “afraid to know” - for now, at least. It all starts to unravel when Walt groggily admits to having two cell phones before his surgery, and from there, Skyler questions every strange event from the previous months, especially her husband’s “fugue state” story (“I had to believe that, didn’t I?”). 6 on this list for that intervention scene alone - she didn’t truly come into her own until the season 2 finale, when she stopped believing everything Walt told her and started calling him on his increasingly hard-to-swallow B.S. “ABQ” (season 2, episode 13): While Skyler had some great moments in season 1 - “Gray Matter” is the honorary No. Today: Skyler White (Anna Gunn), Walter’s wife and sometime accomplice, who went from unwitting victim to money-laundering queenpin - and is now seriously reconsidering that choice. We started with alpha-male DEA agent Hank yesterday. This week, we’ll be taking a close look at all the show’s main characters and presenting a suggested viewing list for the five episodes that best define their arc. ![]() While other shows opt for cast breadth, Bad has explored each character’s depth, sending them on fascinating byzantine journeys into the interior of their souls. What makes it even more impressive is that - in an era defined by ever-more-gigantic ensembles - Breaking Bad has unfurled its epic American tale with a relatively small cast of characters. ![]() The show has become one of the great running masterpieces of the last half-decade of television, bringing the post-Sopranos model of anti-heroic TV drama to new critical highs (and terrifying new moral lows). This Sunday, AMC’s Breaking Bad begins a final run of eight episodes, bringing the tale of Walter White to its inexorable conclusion.
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