I agree with others, it was not that Hank was too trusting of Walter, it was that he saw Walt as a "lesser" man that was incapable of the actions that Heisenberg did.
This speech turning his interrogation of Jesse after Tuco hints at this loudly. He tells Jesse that he doesn’t think Jesse shot Tuco, but he “knows the badass who does.” He’s looking for the boogeyman not his mild mannered brother-in-law.
I wouldn't say "lesser as Hank stated that Walt was the smartest person that he knew. I would say that he thought Walt was a better, more moral person than Heisenberg.
@@mcmlxv9827i agree. he had a conception of what walt was and wasn’t capable of. it is shown throughout the series that he actually has great respect for walt’s sheepish qualities, seeing him as a caring and intelligent father, but walt is too focused on power and perceived slights to his masculinity from his “alpha male” brother-in-law to see that.
Hank: "We're looking for this guy named Heisenberg" Walt: "😳 What.... who uhh... do you.... Do you know anything about him? Who is he? Do you know who he is?" Hank: "Lol, no"
@@elleelleelleelle_______ Not sure. From Hanks perspective he was just a side character. A friend. There would be theories that its Walt. But there was not much for most ppl to think its hím. Stolen mask, the 500k joke. Car crash, and the help with Gale notes. 1 each season.
@@gergokiss2086 I mean these clues are really huge And when you think about, a genius chemist criminal coming up just when the genius chemist brother-in-law got lung cancer is such a huge telltale sign. People would figure out the twist by episode 1
@@gergokiss2086how about all the money that the White’s suddenly came across (from gambling)? That’s what the 2 detectives/cops were saying to Jesse in “Blood Money” after Jesse got caught throwing $5 million from his car. They were asking Jesse how he came across all that money- then said “Did you get lucky at the casino?”. Which of course was Walt’s story, lol
The problem for Hank was that he was looking for Heisenberg a badass ruthless killer meth cook. His picture of Heisenberg wasn't his pathetic, poor, high school teacher brother-in-law. He thought someone more like Tuco. Even if at any point he thought Walt was Heisenberg he just didn't think someone like Walt was capable.
At the end of the 4th season/start of 5th season Hank's opinion on who Heisenberg is has changed. Hank believes the man to be a sophisticated cook. Not some burn out with a "Born to lose" tattoo.
@@chriso5193 yeah but they explained it in their own way just like a few others some say that hank sees walt as a wimp, or that hank has an ego. this one calls attention to hank's own (admittedly understandable) notion that heisenberg HAD to be someone who was already a kickass hardened criminal and not a bumbling civilian slowly getting better at killing like walt
Hank wasnt too trusting, he was too proud to even consider walt as a criminal kingpin. In their relationship, hank sees himself as this macho, made man, and walt is this kinda pathetic wimp, at least in hanks eyes. Hank treats him like a little brother, he cares about walt, but he sees him as an almost stunted man that hank leaves himself to take care of, while teasing and making fun of him. This view of walt is entirely counterintuitive to the real design of heisenberg in Hanks imagination.
Good point there, he doesn’t just love and trust him but he sees him as a lower man incapable of these achievements. Which explains some of the reason for Walt’s drunken rant. He wanted to be given some respect for his real identity.
Hank is one of the reason why Walt really broke bad. Walt was viewed as nothing more than that, a weak-looking man that was just an overqualified at his job. A part of Walt wanted to get caught by Hank just to show him that he isn't some pushover to make jokes about.
Great point. Hadn't realized that played that much of a role throughout the series, but the first couple of episodes, specially the pilot and some other early events like the "Walter Jr smoking weed" really foreshadowed this blinded view that slowly faded later in the series.
Hank was biased towards Walt because they were family, and he had a preconceived image of Walt being harmless. A detective with the same skill level as Hank but neutral towards Walt would have made him the prime suspect during the investigation of the missing school equipment.
I think it was most personified in their attitudes towards life-altering situations. Walt was willing to go to extreme lengths to secure his family's future. Hank could do nothing but wallow in self-pity under the prospect of losing his ability to walk.
Walt went to extreme lengths to wield power. Securing his family's future was the lie he told himself until he was finally brave enough to admit what he was really doing in the very last episode in his talk with Skylar.
@@bigmike3007he took over because Walt was a horrible dad. He genuinely cares, unlike Walt, who's too big of a narcissist to show love without control
actually, you're very wrong. hank actually knew even before the series was released. while filming on set, walt told hank "its time to break bad" and badded all over the place
@@floof6896You're very wrong actually, never comment again if possible. Hank knew as soon as he was out of the womb, his first words were "That's pretty sus Walt"
There’s also a general connection of dots that never happens - a bald chemistry teacher who used masks from JP Wynne chemistry lab suddenly generates hundreds of thousands in wealth from a “gambling addiction”, possesses a “second cell phone” as Skyler told him and disappeared for several months for cases such as fugue state and various trips out of town. This is why maybe it wasn’t just ideal entertainment but ideal plot line to have the villain be a familial relation - because his denial was so extreme when logic stared in the face, and he wouldn’t give that sort of leniency to anyone except family.
It wasn't the fact that Hank thought Walter was a good guy, it was because he thought down of Walter, that he was weak and would never have the courage to pull something like that off.
I don't think so at all. It's obvious Hank despised meth users and dealers, seeing them as the lowest form of humanity. Those are the people he looked down on.
for the very first clue with the respirator, hank asked if walt recognized it. walt said no, but if u think about it he really should have said "yes its chemistry class equipment". too bad hank missed that too
Pretty sure Hank means do you recognise this specific one that is different to the rest because it has seen heavy use and with traces of meth on it? Just a hunch tho idk
@@Oscar-yk6ww Respirators don't look used. The only thing that should have visible traces of use on them is the chemical filter, which you'd actually have to take apart and inspect.
I'm actually, according to my previous experiences on this website or app, depending on how you use it, it is entirely possible that he would have known Walter Hartwell White, from the hit show Breaking Bad was Heisenberg, Walters fake name for when he was synthesizing the schedule II controlled drug known commonly as methamphetamine. This is due to the fact that many popular culture references allude to the fact that Walter Hartwell White is, indeed, Heisenberg. This is because if the original commenter had seen the memes before watching breaking bad he would have known.
A lot of this is just convenience for the writers, but I do think Hank always viewed Walt as a weak man who had smarts but no balls. Hank's really deep in his own personal macho fantasy. And the irony is that Walter thrives on dangerous situations whereas Hank is crippled with PTSD by them.
@@chasethomas9238No, Hank wouldn't view it that way. But I mean in general, he thought Walt was soft, which, for all his extensive flaws, he clearly isn't.
What always made me chuckle about Breaking Bad was that Gus went through all of that trouble to build this super-lab under ground at the Laundry. But he didn't bother to build a garage to where his chief chemist(s) could park in private. Seems like he would have some sort of secure parking area for management, supervisors, and meth cooks.
In the moment where Walt told hank about the cash in the bag, I feel like it was almost like a last attempt from Walt at wanting to get caught. He wanted Hank to catch him and put and end to it while simultaneously verifying his actions by not getting caught.
You’re right. Walt had just been kicked out of the house by Skylar after she had (partially) unraveled his web of lies, he was feeling extremely low and regretful at that point. I think he was genuinely just throwing caution to the wind at that point, but when Hank didn’t check, he went with it.
Nah, Walt is good at manipulating people, this was a lie. Because he said it sarcastically... Paul Ekman described similar lies like this: if a husband suspects his wife of cheating, and he confronts her directly, she can answer "oh yeah, I jump on every street pole, of course", exaggerating it to the point that the truth sounds absurd enough to pass for a mockery. Walt used a very similar lie to Skyler, saying he didn't cheat on her: which was _technically the truth,_ but it made her accustation look ridiculous. She was just smarter than Hank so didn't fall for it and insisted on truth.
@@KasumiRINA Walter isn't actually that calculating in emotional situations though, pretty sure he just said it because he felt like it. He didn't need to "manipulate" Hank into doing anything, Hank was not suspecting him of anything at that point and wouldn't have opened the bag anyway.
Even Light Yagami's dad was suspicious of his son when L told him about it. Hank's ego thinking his nerdy brother in-law could never be involved in the drug sphere was his ultimate flaw.
It's because Hank underestimated Walt. He always saw Walter as a spineless nerd. You don't have to be the world's greatest detective to piece together all the evidence Hank had early on. A new cook takes over the drug market shortly after his overqualified chemistry teacher of a brother-in-law gets diagnosed with lung cancer and, therefore, in desperate need to make money to afford treatment or at least to provide for his family. He had motive, skills, and timing. The missing chemistry supplies would've been enough to make him a suspect.
wasnt he like "NOOO MY SON ISNT KIRA HE COULD NEVER BE!!!" which ended up being a huge detriment to L's whole investigation since he pretty much knew the whole time but had no concrete evidence
@@ProductionsBlueberryIt's like I'm in a high school English class with how EVERY point has to end with "this is another one of the ways Hank could have caught Walt"
its interesting to me that at the beginning of Walter's career as Heisenberg he betrayed his partner and designer of the lab and got him killed but Gale ended up being the one to end his career, even after death.
His biggest flaw - too trusting 😢 I really do find it amazing he didn't suspect a thing when he originally found the first masks missing from Walt's class
When you look back on it, though, that scene actually does a great job showing us just how little Hank thought of Walt at the time. Like if it were any other DEA agent, I think Walt would wind up on the list of suspects pretty much immediately. However, because it's Hank specifically, Hank sees Walt through the lens of him just being a quiet, whiny pushover, to the point where it's not even in the realm of possibility that Walt could be involved with something like cooking meth. You could make the argument that that's still on Hank for not being able to think objectively about the situation, but I think it's excusable when you think about how long he's known Walt and how mouse-y Walt has been throughout their entire relationship. People don't usually pull entire 180s the way he did.
Then again you have to think the kind of man people saw him as Hank saw him as a shy good smart man and wouldn't even think of him doing a single crime in his life and why would Walt want to steal them? thats why hank didnt give it a second thought or even suspected him of being it.
You see it in the real world too, the always polite kinda goofy dude getting caught decades later because neighbours just cant imagine someone like that hurting a fly a famous example of walt's kind of reckless style of avoiding suspicion was a few years ago when a kinda nerdy looking dude who almost broke out in tears during a newsreport about his murdered classmate later turned out to be the murderer
I think Walt's desire to prove himself to Hank was one of his main motivations. He always says it's about "the chemistry" or "providing for his family" but he could have done both if he'd just taken the job at Gray Matter. The problem is, that job wouldn't have helped as much in his brotherly (or brother in lawly, technically) rivalry with Hank. The funny thing is this means if Hank hadn't disrespected and underestimated Walt so much from the beginning, he might never have become Heisenberg in the first place.
Thats very true, however, the reason he didn't want to get the job with grey matter the first place is because of his pride and he felt like he was owed billions from them and rightfully so. Also he actually considered the job with Elliot he only said "he had personal issues" but it wasn't until he mentioned health insurance and he flat out denied his offer, he felt like he was offered out of charity rather then his own skills in the job.
I think a lot of people overlook Hanks treatment toward Walt during the 1st season of the show. Walt is treated like a weak man or a child and completely disrespected by Hank. It doesn't justify Walts actions but let's not forget how much if a dick Hank was.
Breaking Bad is one of those shows that you have to watch all the episodes more than once. When I first saw the earth shattering scene where Hank is on the toilet at Walter White’s home and flipping through Leaves Of Grass and sees familiar handwriting on one of the first pages dedicating the book as a gift to his co-worker, W.W., the episode immediately jumps to a scene in the past where Hank is asking Walter who W.W. might be and Walter laughing, holding his hands up and saying, “You got me.” I thought this was the first time we’d ever seen this conversation, like it was inserted into the episode as an afterthought, but I was completely wrong. Not only did I have to watch the episodes of the show again, I realized after yet an additional viewing of the show was the whole subplot involving Marie’s stealing items from people’s homes at realtor showings was the direct link to Hank finding out more information about Gale Boetticher. Hank was sidelined after being attacked by the Salamanca Twins and was no longer working in an official position as a DEA agent. So when Marie got busted for stealing, but was allowed to go because the homeowner didn’t press charges, a local APD detective brought Marie home and decided to ask Hank for his help in investigating the recent murder of Gale Boetticher, and so the police detective later brought evidence he collected from Gale’s apartment so Hank could look at it while recovering in bed at his home. If that hadn’t happened, Hank may have never seen Gale’s handwriting, or the initials W.W. for that matter.
The more times I watch this series, the more I think it revolves around the fact that Hank, as good as he is in the DEA at catching criminals, cant see that Walt is Heisenberg. Walt is that good at hiding in plain sight.
For me it's astounding that he didn't suspect Walt in season 1. Instead he suspected some janitor, and as I understand it - jailed him without solid proof.
He wasn't jailed for being Heisenberg, they found weed on him while investigating and so he was jailed for that. There was no hard proof of the masks, but the felony possession was enough in Hank's mind.
@@obligatoryusername7239 I agree with you, it seems likely, but I'll add small correction: Heisenberg figure haven't been invented yet :D But yeah - besides that it is most likely what happened.
On a serious note though, when you’re in law enforcement, you can’t go around looking at everyone as a suspect. There are always clues and odd behavior, but if there isnt hard evidence of a crime, you can’t label someone as a suspect. Our constitution does protect us from such things. You’ll notice how Hanks boss get mad at him for ‘going off the books’ so to speak. It’s not because his boss is lazy, it’s because he doesn’t want another lawsuit. At the end of the day, their never was any real evidence for Hank to be suspicious
No, actually "innocent until proven guilty" does not, in fact, protect anyone from being a _suspect,_ and cops can actually consider everyone a suspect, even more so in detective shows, where everyone ACTUALLY has a motive and often means too.
@@KasumiRINA Look, I don't really feel like talking about this. You probably get all of your information straight from youtube and google, and you don't know what you're talking about, and that's the same with me. You're not really interested in a conversation, you just want to "No, actually ..." on other people's comments. I just don't have the energy or interest in it, especially not on a comment that I wrote 4 months ago.
I think that it was quite realistic. He didn't have unwavering trust, nor thought that he was a lesser man than what it takes to be Heisenberg, but he initially didn't want it to be true because he liked him and then the more clues he missed the harder the fall was and thus he stayed in denial for too long...
You also forget that Walter matches exactly every description they probably have of Heisenberg (the ginger goatee, and probably his height, skin color, bald, etc..)
So why did Walter, who always worried about covering tracks in every detail, left a book signed in handwriting by a dead cook under investigation IN HIS GUEST BATHROOM?
That's wasn't his one mistake. He made a whole bunch of mistakes and slip ups, heck this video is basically all about the times Walter pretty much gave away his identity. It was just the one that Hank finally caught.
Hank not getting suspicious of Walt earlier waa definitely one if the most unrealistic parts of the show. Because of the high pureness of the meth, he knew right away it must have been someone with good knowledge of chemistry, theoretically and practically. And it suddenly appeared shortly after Walt got his cancer diagnosis, all of a sudden started being interesed in Hanks job (coming along at the bust and specifically wanting to se the lab), started having marriage issues and behaving weird (which Hank new about), and with Hank knowing that materials to cook meth was stolen from Walt's department at school. I'm pretty sure anyone who makes it to such a high position within the DEA has enough reason and can see things objectively enough, despite Walt being family, that this would at least raise a little suspicion already. At least enough to keep an eye on it.
Hank did NOT go to Walt's school chemistry lab in the pilot!🤣 It was several episodes after. I can't remember which one off the top of my head but it wasn't the pilot, I'm pretty sure it was on an episode 3-6
While I generally agree, there are three issues. Exibit B: Any actual distinctive features were covered up by his outfit. He would have had height and build and maybe glasses. Thats doesn't really help identifying Walt as it is too broad of a field. Exibit D: He had no reason to know that Walt was at Tuco's place. Exibit E: Again, he had no way to know that Walt was in the RV. Even if you count B as a usable clue later, as you point out, his presence at the other two scenes would only be a missed clue if he had some reason to know or suspect Walt was there.
But there are also some additional clues or at least really suspicious details that weren't mentioned in the video. Like Walter having a second phone? Getting missed because of a "fugue" state that never repeated afterwards? Suddenly revealing he has a gambling addiction and immediately buying a car wash? Skyler trying to leave Walter, giving her kids away to Hank and Marie because she thinks her and Walter are bad parents? I mean, your brother in law gets cancer and his wife suddenly tries to leave him, acts depressed, doesn't want the children anymore in her house, then suddenly they seem to have a lot of money and start a business? I personally think these are even bigger tells than the clues mentioned in the video. These might not imply that Walter is Heisenberg, but they definitely imply that something fishy is going on with Walter, and Hank didn't even look into that
Walter was not a mastermind, as he let his emotions (i.e ego, care for Jesse etc) cloud his judgement. And I don’t believe that Hank’s trust in Walt was what kept him. He was looking for a mastermind of a criminal, cold blooded killer and Walter simply did not fit the criteria because of how boring and pathetic his life had been up until the start of the show.
Walt really should have thrown Hank off the scent over that missing lab equipment, by framing some student he didn't much like. That would have added up in Hank's mind, and I could see Walt justifying it as a way to scare the kid straight.
@@Chickenz663I could see Walt not having it in him. Although the framing could have been as simple as, Walt could tell Hank that he caught the kid in the store room once; the sort of lie there would be no way to disprove.
i've always been bothered by the fact that hank just neglected to pursue the missing lab equipment even after he realized hugo had nothing to do with it.
Blaming someone else would eventually be found to be false and he would turn into the number one suspect. Walter, as a family member, friend of the DEA, respected teacher, phd, and someone with a clean record for the entirety of his live would be very far from a suspect, as he was...
@@ianlongo9037 Not sure how they would prove Walt was lying if he said, "you know, I saw Jerry Bingham in the store room the other week; he didn't have a good answer why he was in there. I really don't want to falsely accuse anyone, but ... I don't know, he doesn't seem like that bad of a kid, it's probably nothing."
In the first clue, I personally think when hank asked walt if he ‘recognised’ the respirator to which walt said no was more of a giveaway, because walt not recognising something out of his own lab is a bit more suspicious than his reaction to hanks joke.
I think the part fans forget is how often people’s friends are shocked when it turns out they were criminals. Like John Wayne Gacey. Your first assumption is not going to be that someone you trust and seems like a good person is secretly a monster
It’s also worth remembering that Hank was really the only one in the DEA that kept pursuing the Heisenberg case. Like yeah he definitely flopped for a long time at realizing it was Walter but so did his whole team and they pretty much gave up while he still made moves even when he wasn’t able to work. It’s actually kind of wild that the lab equipment that was traced back to Walt’s school in the beginning of the show wasn’t looked at as a paramount factor in the Heisenberg case by the entire DEA. I feel like if Hank literally just had ONE person as passionate about the case as he was they would have opened up his eyes to the possibility that they need to look at Walter but to have that epiphany yourself about someone you think you know is not easy
Well when your brother in law has been afraid of everything his whole life and has been a mediocre man, you can’t see that they would be capable of any wrong doing. That’s why Hank dismissed all these clues. In his mind, it would be impossible for Walt to hurt a fly because of the man he’s been. You’d never suspect your own family.
"Exhibit D" 2:56 where's the clue that Hank missed? All you did was explain what happened in the scene, then state that the series would have gone differently if Hank hadn't saved Walt and Jesse.
I feel dumb watching this, I had to watch all of Breaking Bad and Better Call Saul and only just figured out that Walt was Heisenberg, I thought he was a public representative.
In the scene where Hank shows Walt the notes and he makes the Willy Wonka joke you can see the true sociopathic nature of Heisenberg popping up as if he instantly switched personalities in a second. Bravo, Vince.
Another missed opportunity was his name, Walter White. If Hank had watched the TV show Breaking Bad, he would have known Walter White is the real name of Heisenberg.
i cant get over the half a million in cash scene even after 3 watches. how did Hank not think for even a second “that joke was very specific, and he didn’t hesitate to say it, maybe i should check”
Hehey Walt! The hell are you doing here? Trying to score some more grass? Hehehehe. Just kidding, Walt. Wait in my car and let me deal with this. Alright? *Wink*
I don't think he so much as missed them but was willing to overlook them giving his in law the benefit of the doubt. You don't want to accuse someone who has cancer of being a drug dealer and meth cook unless you are extremely sure.
the fact that you keep saying "This shows how good walter white was good at diverting the close calls and such and etc." repeatedly is making you sound like a chain of Chat-GPT responses
I love that this show still has such a strong fanbase years later 😂 made me get into it from all the praise and finally finished it just a bit ago. Definitely does not disappoint, what an ending!
According to multiple timelines the entirety of Breaking Bad is supposed to take place roughly over two years. It's easy to forget as the show itself ran for five years. In this continuity the episode "Fifty-One" (Season 5a) takes place only one year removed from the pilot. "Blood Money" (Season 5b) takes place in March. So, really, it only took Hank a year and a few months to figure out Walt's identity. I find this fascinating. And I'm not trying to divert from the main point: Hank was indeed blinded by his perceptions of Walter White, the family man, the cancer patient, the mild-mannered brother-in-law who could barely hold a gun, let alone cook meth.
Hank loved Walt and saw him as an inherently sweet and good natured man. He didn’t think less of Walt, he thought Walt was the best man he knew. He was fooled and the truth broke his heart. Hank is a tragic character.
Better title would be: "All the times Hank was close to discovering truth" in my opinion. There were no clues to discover when he was in a shootout with tuco I would say, more like a chance to arrest him and get him to talk and find out about walter
Stated many times in the comments here but it's really impossible to overstate how someone's preconceived notions of another person can blind them to the plain truth even when it's this obvious. Chemistry equipment from schools or businesses turning up in cooks has got to be pretty common (stands to reason Pinkman and a hundred others like him could have done the same thing in the past) Fold in Hank's concern for Walt's cancer, and own troubles with PTSD and his injury as the show goes on and it only really seems obvious when we watch it all from Walt's perspective. There are months and months of other case work, El Paso, s**tting in bedpans, Marie's kleptomania, etc etc etc that all casts fog over everything. He straight up gave up even thinking about the case for months after the shooting. But the most powerful element is what everyone else has said - Hank spent years coddling Walter in his mind and it just became impossible to even consider the possibility. Ask yourself if you could believe your own BIL or cousin or whatever as having pulled off robberies, dissolved people in acid, and whacked 11 guys in jail on their way to El Chapo or Pablo Escobar levels of drug kingpin just because he got in your face at a family cookout once and had a heavy duffel bag
Hank never thought much of Walter. He liked him, don't get me wrong, but he didn't see Walter as a "man", weak. Then Walter gets cancer. Which makes walt look even more "weak", where hank just pitties Walter more than anything, and with that, he didn't even entertain the idea that Walter was the biggest and most destructive meth cook in the state. It wasn't trust, it was arrogance, and only after Hank suffered PTSD was fired, shot, went through a grueling rehab, was bedridden, and was forced to endure humility did his arrogance finally waiver. That's when he not only realized who Walt truly was. He also figured out that Gus was the main distributor.
The missing equipment's necessity to Walter's meth operation was not unbeknownst to Hank. He was literally there because the residue in the mask they found exactly matched the blue meth Heisenberg had created. So he did know that stuff was what was used for it, he just didn't know Walter was the one who stole and used it.
Hank really should have been able to tell Walt was hiding something when he went into the school, most officers are trained in body language, especially DEA agents, and with Walt giving off every signal of guilt. The only thing I can come up with is hanks love for Walt overpowered his detective abilities, shows you how much Hank and Walt loved and trusted each other,
Imagine a spin-off where Hank finds out early, Walt is put in prison hospital for cancer treatment, but he doesn't want that and he devies multiple plans to escape. Luckily for him Jesse also ends up in the same prison and they can interact with each other, Hank notices something's up but he can't prove it, however he starts being more hostile to Walt and stops treating him with respect he did back when Walt first got locked up. He realizes his brother-in-law was way more evil than he showed before, but decides to have a talk with Walt one last time, to try and understand his motives and why he actually wants to risk his life and not just accept prolonging it and eventually getting out in like 10 years or less, assuming he lives by then. Walt after serious contemplation finally explains him everything, Hank is baffled and starts crying, but then gets determined to keep Walt locked up as long as possible, understanding how much of a menace he would be to society if he got out. Eventually Walt assembles his crew of people, they somehow through plot shenanigans team up against the police and Jesse and Hank both end up seriously injured. Walt gets depressed, finally realizes that the actions he takes for his selfish goal of becoming the bigshot drug lord actually hurts his loved ones. But it was too late, Hank died and he basically had no way out of severe regret, than to take his own life, since he failed everyone he loved, including himself. He does so by taking a toxic chemical from the hospital in secret, which almost instantly puts him in coma as many flashbacks from his past life emerge
Can't believe it took hank so long to figure out walt was heisenberg, I literally figured it out in season 2
Took me till season 3 that's pretty impressive
Wait what! Walt is Heisenberg!!😨
Dude, spoil alert. I'm still on season 8.
I thought it was Willy wonka
Lol
I agree with others, it was not that Hank was too trusting of Walter, it was that he saw Walt as a "lesser" man that was incapable of the actions that Heisenberg did.
This speech turning his interrogation of Jesse after Tuco hints at this loudly. He tells Jesse that he doesn’t think Jesse shot Tuco, but he “knows the badass who does.” He’s looking for the boogeyman not his mild mannered brother-in-law.
@@martinm.1967 You must be hella insecure to apply this alpha and beta shit to humans as if we’re animals
I dont think Heisengberg actions were "manly" in any way
I wouldn't say "lesser as Hank stated that Walt was the smartest person that he knew. I would say that he thought Walt was a better, more moral person than Heisenberg.
@@mcmlxv9827i agree. he had a conception of what walt was and wasn’t capable of. it is shown throughout the series that he actually has great respect for walt’s sheepish qualities, seeing him as a caring and intelligent father, but walt is too focused on power and perceived slights to his masculinity from his “alpha male” brother-in-law to see that.
I swear Walter always had the most indisputably guilty face whenever Hank mentioned absolutely anything incriminating 😭
That look is so funny, his mouth would hang open while he came up with something to say.
@@bluecreature39 literally, he didn’t even try to hide it
Hank: "We're looking for this guy named Heisenberg"
Walt: "😳 What.... who uhh... do you.... Do you know anything about him? Who is he? Do you know who he is?"
Hank: "Lol, no"
Brian Cranston really is a phenomenal actor. He played Walter so well and gave the character so much.
cringe
Imagine if Breaking bad would be from Hanks perspective.
The reveal that Walt is Heisenberg would be the biggest plot twist in TV history.
Lolll idk because the viewer would know it was him right away 😂😂 not much of a twist
@@elleelleelleelle_______ Not sure. From Hanks perspective he was just a side character. A friend.
There would be theories that its Walt. But there was not much for most ppl to think its hím.
Stolen mask, the 500k joke. Car crash, and the help with Gale notes.
1 each season.
@@gergokiss2086 I mean these clues are really huge
And when you think about, a genius chemist criminal coming up just when the genius chemist brother-in-law got lung cancer is such a huge telltale sign. People would figure out the twist by episode 1
@@gergokiss2086how about all the money that the White’s suddenly came across (from gambling)?
That’s what the 2 detectives/cops were saying to Jesse in “Blood Money” after Jesse got caught throwing $5 million from his car.
They were asking Jesse how he came across all that money- then said “Did you get lucky at the casino?”.
Which of course was Walt’s story, lol
It would make for a substantially worse show.
The problem for Hank was that he was looking for Heisenberg a badass ruthless killer meth cook. His picture of Heisenberg wasn't his pathetic, poor, high school teacher brother-in-law. He thought someone more like Tuco. Even if at any point he thought Walt was Heisenberg he just didn't think someone like Walt was capable.
You literally repeated what others have already written
At the end of the 4th season/start of 5th season Hank's opinion on who Heisenberg is has changed. Hank believes the man to be a sophisticated cook. Not some burn out with a "Born to lose" tattoo.
@@nero48 well after I read the same comment 2-3x, I figured the 4th person must’ve read the other comments already, lol
@@chriso5193 yeah but they explained it in their own way just like a few others
some say that hank sees walt as a wimp, or that hank has an ego. this one calls attention to hank's own (admittedly understandable) notion that heisenberg HAD to be someone who was already a kickass hardened criminal and not a bumbling civilian slowly getting better at killing like walt
@@nero48and you picked his comment to say that 😂
"Whats in the bag?"
"Half a million cash"
"*Opens the bag* Holy shit you're right *Closes the bag*"
Then he takes half of it and covers Walt's tracks in the DEA
EXECUTIVE PRODUCER VINCE GILLIGAN
"How did you make this?"
"I started a meth empire"
"You crack me up Walt you sussy baka!"
xddd @@Andrew..J
"Where'd that blood stain come from?"
"Blood of my enemies"
"Oh Walt, you ol' coot"
“Hank I am Heisenberg and I sell meth”.
“Lol”
He did say "you got me" in that willy wonka scene
Reminds me of Hannibal where he would say essentially, "I'm a cannibalistic serial killer," and everyone would just laugh it off as a joke
'meth & meth accessories'
@@rahulverma8774 Tried to sneak a little sarcasm in there when he said that but was certainly nervous like hank had him figured out right there 😭
@@TFPYTP True, if most people hear this, they would think he's a weird guy telling sick jokes. Nobody would take it seriously.
Hank wasnt too trusting, he was too proud to even consider walt as a criminal kingpin. In their relationship, hank sees himself as this macho, made man, and walt is this kinda pathetic wimp, at least in hanks eyes. Hank treats him like a little brother, he cares about walt, but he sees him as an almost stunted man that hank leaves himself to take care of, while teasing and making fun of him. This view of walt is entirely counterintuitive to the real design of heisenberg in Hanks imagination.
Good point there, he doesn’t just love and trust him but he sees him as a lower man incapable of these achievements. Which explains some of the reason for Walt’s drunken rant. He wanted to be given some respect for his real identity.
Hank is one of the reason why Walt really broke bad. Walt was viewed as nothing more than that, a weak-looking man that was just an overqualified at his job. A part of Walt wanted to get caught by Hank just to show him that he isn't some pushover to make jokes about.
Great point. Hadn't realized that played that much of a role throughout the series, but the first couple of episodes, specially the pilot and some other early events like the "Walter Jr smoking weed" really foreshadowed this blinded view that slowly faded later in the series.
Your pfp...
@@NapNik What about it?
Hank was biased towards Walt because they were family, and he had a preconceived image of Walt being harmless.
A detective with the same skill level as Hank but neutral towards Walt would have made him the prime suspect during the investigation of the missing school equipment.
I think it was most personified in their attitudes towards life-altering situations. Walt was willing to go to extreme lengths to secure his family's future. Hank could do nothing but wallow in self-pity under the prospect of losing his ability to walk.
Walt went to extreme lengths to wield power. Securing his family's future was the lie he told himself until he was finally brave enough to admit what he was really doing in the very last episode in his talk with Skylar.
HaNk was lowkey jealous of Walt that he even tried to takeover parenting duties as Walt jr real dad, and Jesse was Walt’s real son
@@bigmike3007he took over because Walt was a horrible dad. He genuinely cares, unlike Walt, who's too big of a narcissist to show love without control
this makes more sense than hank thinking that walt wouldnt be capable of doing all that i think
Hank actually knew since episode 1, when Walt said “Hank, I’m breaking bad” and Hank responded “better call Saul”
actually, you're very wrong. hank actually knew even before the series was released. while filming on set, walt told hank "its time to break bad" and badded all over the place
@@floof6896You're very wrong actually, never comment again if possible.
Hank knew as soon as he was out of the womb, his first words were "That's pretty sus Walt"
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@@floof6896it's badding time
i fucking love comments
There’s also a general connection of dots that never happens - a bald chemistry teacher who used masks from JP Wynne chemistry lab suddenly generates hundreds of thousands in wealth from a “gambling addiction”, possesses a “second cell phone” as Skyler told him and disappeared for several months for cases such as fugue state and various trips out of town. This is why maybe it wasn’t just ideal entertainment but ideal plot line to have the villain be a familial relation - because his denial was so extreme when logic stared in the face, and he wouldn’t give that sort of leniency to anyone except family.
Yeah that's the other thing besides denial; family. I bet there's a lot of cops who would also feel the same as Hank when it comes to family
I have two phones but I don’t have millions of dollars :(
It wasnt several months it was a few days
@@KamilaBetancur "such as fugue state AND various trips out of town"
he meant over the course of few months
Anita Max Wynne 💅🥺
It wasn't the fact that Hank thought Walter was a good guy, it was because he thought down of Walter, that he was weak and would never have the courage to pull something like that off.
He at least always admired his intellect though.
He definitely thought Walt was a good guy
Why not both
no, it was both.
I don't think so at all. It's obvious Hank despised meth users and dealers, seeing them as the lowest form of humanity. Those are the people he looked down on.
for the very first clue with the respirator, hank asked if walt recognized it. walt said no, but if u think about it he really should have said "yes its chemistry class equipment". too bad hank missed that too
true🤔
Pretty sure Hank means do you recognise this specific one that is different to the rest because it has seen heavy use and with traces of meth on it? Just a hunch tho idk
@@Oscar-yk6ww Respirators don't look used. The only thing that should have visible traces of use on them is the chemical filter, which you'd actually have to take apart and inspect.
@@smalltime0 scratches and fading? Idk about you but items made of plastic and glass have very clear wear and tear in my experience
It was lying in the desert remember 😂
Can't believe Hank missed all these clues. I found out Walt is heisenberg right from the episode 1
@@nero48the whole joke went over your head buddy
@@nero48”um actually, he wasn’t heisenberg until he met tuco in episode 6” 🤓☝🏻
I'm actually, according to my previous experiences on this website or app, depending on how you use it, it is entirely possible that he would have known Walter Hartwell White, from the hit show Breaking Bad was Heisenberg, Walters fake name for when he was synthesizing the schedule II controlled drug known commonly as methamphetamine. This is due to the fact that many popular culture references allude to the fact that Walter Hartwell White is, indeed, Heisenberg. This is because if the original commenter had seen the memes before watching breaking bad he would have known.
@bigdaveo397 no you didn't but alright since you wouldn't even know what heissenburg was or ment
Yeah, Hank just had to watch the very first episode to know the truth
A lot of this is just convenience for the writers, but I do think Hank always viewed Walt as a weak man who had smarts but no balls. Hank's really deep in his own personal macho fantasy. And the irony is that Walter thrives on dangerous situations whereas Hank is crippled with PTSD by them.
hank thought that even if Walt has the brain for the operation, he didn't have the balls to go for it.
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Quite true.
Do you really get the sense that Hank viewed dealing meth as "ballsy"? I didn't at all. He had no respect for meth dealers.
@@chasethomas9238No, Hank wouldn't view it that way. But I mean in general, he thought Walt was soft, which, for all his extensive flaws, he clearly isn't.
I've always thought that if Hank could watch the show back, he would be so upset with himself for missing so many signs
I'm sure Hank rewatched the show every day in his mind.
What always made me chuckle about Breaking Bad was that Gus went through all of that trouble to build this super-lab under ground at the Laundry. But he didn't bother to build a garage to where his chief chemist(s) could park in private. Seems like he would have some sort of secure parking area for management, supervisors, and meth cooks.
true
Maybe because he wanted outsiders to think that Walt was just another regular employee..
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The crazy thing is he spent Millions on that lab and it was only operational for 2 months
In the moment where Walt told hank about the cash in the bag, I feel like it was almost like a last attempt from Walt at wanting to get caught. He wanted Hank to catch him and put and end to it while simultaneously verifying his actions by not getting caught.
It was probably more Walt stroking his ego because he knows Hank so well he knows Hank would take it as a joke.
@@getthegoons or.... Walk knew he could bluff Hank after he did so
in the poker game.
You’re right. Walt had just been kicked out of the house by Skylar after she had (partially) unraveled his web of lies, he was feeling extremely low and regretful at that point. I think he was genuinely just throwing caution to the wind at that point, but when Hank didn’t check, he went with it.
Nah, Walt is good at manipulating people, this was a lie. Because he said it sarcastically... Paul Ekman described similar lies like this: if a husband suspects his wife of cheating, and he confronts her directly, she can answer "oh yeah, I jump on every street pole, of course", exaggerating it to the point that the truth sounds absurd enough to pass for a mockery. Walt used a very similar lie to Skyler, saying he didn't cheat on her: which was _technically the truth,_ but it made her accustation look ridiculous. She was just smarter than Hank so didn't fall for it and insisted on truth.
@@KasumiRINA Walter isn't actually that calculating in emotional situations though, pretty sure he just said it because he felt like it. He didn't need to "manipulate" Hank into doing anything, Hank was not suspecting him of anything at that point and wouldn't have opened the bag anyway.
Even Light Yagami's dad was suspicious of his son when L told him about it. Hank's ego thinking his nerdy brother in-law could never be involved in the drug sphere was his ultimate flaw.
It's because Hank underestimated Walt. He always saw Walter as a spineless nerd. You don't have to be the world's greatest detective to piece together all the evidence Hank had early on. A new cook takes over the drug market shortly after his overqualified chemistry teacher of a brother-in-law gets diagnosed with lung cancer and, therefore, in desperate need to make money to afford treatment or at least to provide for his family. He had motive, skills, and timing. The missing chemistry supplies would've been enough to make him a suspect.
Glad I'm not the only one who thought Breaking Bad and Death Note have some interesting similarities in the narrative and character development
@@cnordmann13Less than you’d think but both of them have villains as main characters.
wasnt he like "NOOO MY SON ISNT KIRA HE COULD NEVER BE!!!" which ended up being a huge detriment to L's whole investigation since he pretty much knew the whole time but had no concrete evidence
Haha weeaboo
bro def wrote the script for this video with chat gpt i hear it
Oh thank god I thought it was just me. The repeated identical paragraph endings have GPT written all over them. :P
Lazy mofos
Yeah when he said Hank catching Heisenberg when he shot Tuco would have taken the series in a different direction I clued into that too
Yeah the formatting as well. Every single point has a conclusion ending. And the language is really distinctive.
"testament to" "underscores"
These are words only GPT uses, you never hear people using these words in real life
Bro needs to prompt better
This is the exact moment a rock became a mineral
The script sounded like it was written by a robot
How come?
@@Ryosuke1208 I don't know it's. just too clean maybe? it doesn't sound like the way a person would talk
It almost certainly is. A prompt was probably fed into ChatGPT.
@@ProductionsBlueberryIt's like I'm in a high school English class with how EVERY point has to end with "this is another one of the ways Hank could have caught Walt"
Read by a robot too
its interesting to me that at the beginning of Walter's career as Heisenberg he betrayed his partner and designer of the lab and got him killed but Gale ended up being the one to end his career, even after death.
from Hell's heart I stab at thee.
Thats what we call poetical justice. Gale was innocent, and if not him, Walter wouldnt ever get this job.
1:20 Not trusting Walt's Goodness, but Hank just thought Walt didn't have balls/guts in him to do something like this.
i was gonna say this 😭
His biggest flaw - too trusting 😢
I really do find it amazing he didn't suspect a thing when he originally found the first masks missing from Walt's class
When you look back on it, though, that scene actually does a great job showing us just how little Hank thought of Walt at the time. Like if it were any other DEA agent, I think Walt would wind up on the list of suspects pretty much immediately. However, because it's Hank specifically, Hank sees Walt through the lens of him just being a quiet, whiny pushover, to the point where it's not even in the realm of possibility that Walt could be involved with something like cooking meth. You could make the argument that that's still on Hank for not being able to think objectively about the situation, but I think it's excusable when you think about how long he's known Walt and how mouse-y Walt has been throughout their entire relationship. People don't usually pull entire 180s the way he did.
He just straight up underestimated the guy. But literally everyone else did. It was Skyler that was on him from the jump.
Then again you have to think the kind of man people saw him as Hank saw him as a shy good smart man and wouldn't even think of him doing a single crime in his life and why would Walt want to steal them? thats why hank didnt give it a second thought or even suspected him of being it.
I would argue that is not trust, but rather his ego
You see it in the real world too, the always polite kinda goofy dude getting caught decades later because neighbours just cant imagine someone like that hurting a fly
a famous example of walt's kind of reckless style of avoiding suspicion was a few years ago when a kinda nerdy looking dude who almost broke out in tears during a newsreport about his murdered classmate later turned out to be the murderer
I think Walt's desire to prove himself to Hank was one of his main motivations. He always says it's about "the chemistry" or "providing for his family" but he could have done both if he'd just taken the job at Gray Matter. The problem is, that job wouldn't have helped as much in his brotherly (or brother in lawly, technically) rivalry with Hank. The funny thing is this means if Hank hadn't disrespected and underestimated Walt so much from the beginning, he might never have become Heisenberg in the first place.
Thats very true, however, the reason he didn't want to get the job with grey matter the first place is because of his pride and he felt like he was owed billions from them and rightfully so. Also he actually considered the job with Elliot he only said "he had personal issues" but it wasn't until he mentioned health insurance and he flat out denied his offer, he felt like he was offered out of charity rather then his own skills in the job.
I think a lot of people overlook Hanks treatment toward Walt during the 1st season of the show. Walt is treated like a weak man or a child and completely disrespected by Hank. It doesn't justify Walts actions but let's not forget how much if a dick Hank was.
@@hazerdxhd4373I wouldn’t even say rightfully so though. Walt sold his share, they never pushed him out. He did this all to himself
7:13 more over this scene demonstrated Walt's huge ego. He'd rather have Hank find out about his secret, than Gale take credit for his work.
the script for this video is written like a kid stretching out the wording in a school essay
because it's AI
Breaking Bad is one of those shows that you have to watch all the episodes more than once.
When I first saw the earth shattering scene where Hank is on the toilet at Walter White’s home and flipping through Leaves Of Grass and sees familiar handwriting on one of the first pages dedicating the book as a gift to his co-worker, W.W., the episode immediately jumps to a scene in the past where Hank is asking Walter who W.W. might be and Walter laughing, holding his hands up and saying, “You got me.” I thought this was the first time we’d ever seen this conversation, like it was inserted into the episode as an afterthought, but I was completely wrong. Not only did I have to watch the episodes of the show again, I realized after yet an additional viewing of the show was the whole subplot involving Marie’s stealing items from people’s homes at realtor showings was the direct link to Hank finding out more information about Gale Boetticher. Hank was sidelined after being attacked by the Salamanca Twins and was no longer working in an official position as a DEA agent. So when Marie got busted for stealing, but was allowed to go because the homeowner didn’t press charges, a local APD detective brought Marie home and decided to ask Hank for his help in investigating the recent murder of Gale Boetticher, and so the police detective later brought evidence he collected from Gale’s apartment so Hank could look at it while recovering in bed at his home. If that hadn’t happened, Hank may have never seen Gale’s handwriting, or the initials W.W. for that matter.
How do you forget that lmao
Have you forgotten your dementia pills?
@@MrQuest0 No, I don’t take dementia pills. I don’t like forgetting important details when I took them, so I quit.
Well the problem js if u do my second watch i hated walt so much from beginning too end and u feel bad for some characters like jesse or hank
how did you forget? you ain’t a real BB fan
The more times I watch this series, the more I think it revolves around the fact that Hank, as good as he is in the DEA at catching criminals, cant see that Walt is Heisenberg. Walt is that good at hiding in plain sight.
Id argue that Walt sucked at hiding in plain site. Skyler knew something was obviously up since the start. Hank Just had very little respect for Walt
@@elleelleelleelle_______ Hank’s not good at his job then and toxic masculinity makes him a lesser man
@@elleelleelleelle_______well Skyler spent quite a bit more time around Walt. Of course she’d know something is up sooner.
For me it's astounding that he didn't suspect Walt in season 1. Instead he suspected some janitor, and as I understand it - jailed him without solid proof.
i think its because the janitor had weed on him or smth and had been a dealer in the past
He wasn't jailed for being Heisenberg, they found weed on him while investigating and so he was jailed for that. There was no hard proof of the masks, but the felony possession was enough in Hank's mind.
@@obligatoryusername7239 I agree with you, it seems likely, but I'll add small correction: Heisenberg figure haven't been invented yet :D But yeah - besides that it is most likely what happened.
On a serious note though, when you’re in law enforcement, you can’t go around looking at everyone as a suspect.
There are always clues and odd behavior, but if there isnt hard evidence of a crime, you can’t label someone as a suspect. Our constitution does protect us from such things.
You’ll notice how Hanks boss get mad at him for ‘going off the books’ so to speak. It’s not because his boss is lazy, it’s because he doesn’t want another lawsuit.
At the end of the day, their never was any real evidence for Hank to be suspicious
school supplies but they pinned it on the janitor. The involvement of Jesse which he "knew" sold Walt weed
No, actually "innocent until proven guilty" does not, in fact, protect anyone from being a _suspect,_ and cops can actually consider everyone a suspect, even more so in detective shows, where everyone ACTUALLY has a motive and often means too.
@@KasumiRINA
Look, I don't really feel like talking about this. You probably get all of your information straight from youtube and google, and you don't know what you're talking about, and that's the same with me.
You're not really interested in a conversation, you just want to "No, actually ..." on other people's comments. I just don't have the energy or interest in it, especially not on a comment that I wrote 4 months ago.
@@KasumiRINA hahaha, chadd990 pwnd you.
@@erigor11 I haven't heard that word in ages took me back to 2014-15 gaming
I think that it was quite realistic. He didn't have unwavering trust, nor thought that he was a lesser man than what it takes to be Heisenberg, but he initially didn't want it to be true because he liked him and then the more clues he missed the harder the fall was and thus he stayed in denial for too long...
You also forget that Walter matches exactly every description they probably have of Heisenberg (the ginger goatee, and probably his height, skin color, bald, etc..)
So why did Walter, who always worried about covering tracks in every detail, left a book signed in handwriting by a dead cook under investigation IN HIS GUEST BATHROOM?
according to Vince Gilligan, he got cocky. he got too comfortable thinking that now that he was out of the business, he wouldn't get caught
That's wasn't his one mistake. He made a whole bunch of mistakes and slip ups, heck this video is basically all about the times Walter pretty much gave away his identity. It was just the one that Hank finally caught.
Hank not getting suspicious of Walt earlier waa definitely one if the most unrealistic parts of the show. Because of the high pureness of the meth, he knew right away it must have been someone with good knowledge of chemistry, theoretically and practically. And it suddenly appeared shortly after Walt got his cancer diagnosis, all of a sudden started being interesed in Hanks job (coming along at the bust and specifically wanting to se the lab), started having marriage issues and behaving weird (which Hank new about), and with Hank knowing that materials to cook meth was stolen from Walt's department at school. I'm pretty sure anyone who makes it to such a high position within the DEA has enough reason and can see things objectively enough, despite Walt being family, that this would at least raise a little suspicion already. At least enough to keep an eye on it.
yeah this is written by ChatGPT
bro needs to learn prompt engineering
Lol
Hank, in Walt's science class: Walter, it's you! You're the Heisenberg!
That's him officer, he's the cardiac
Hank did NOT go to Walt's school chemistry lab in the pilot!🤣 It was several episodes after. I can't remember which one off the top of my head but it wasn't the pilot, I'm pretty sure it was on an episode 3-6
it’s a small mistake, but yeah it’s on s1ep6
While this is true it doesn't mean it's not stupid
And worse the poor janitor took the fall for the equipment theft.
there are so many things wrong with this video lmao
@@joshkeller2671 how is it stupid to point out misinformation?
While I generally agree, there are three issues.
Exibit B: Any actual distinctive features were covered up by his outfit. He would have had height and build and maybe glasses. Thats doesn't really help identifying Walt as it is too broad of a field.
Exibit D: He had no reason to know that Walt was at Tuco's place.
Exibit E: Again, he had no way to know that Walt was in the RV.
Even if you count B as a usable clue later, as you point out, his presence at the other two scenes would only be a missed clue if he had some reason to know or suspect Walt was there.
But there are also some additional clues or at least really suspicious details that weren't mentioned in the video. Like Walter having a second phone? Getting missed because of a "fugue" state that never repeated afterwards? Suddenly revealing he has a gambling addiction and immediately buying a car wash? Skyler trying to leave Walter, giving her kids away to Hank and Marie because she thinks her and Walter are bad parents? I mean, your brother in law gets cancer and his wife suddenly tries to leave him, acts depressed, doesn't want the children anymore in her house, then suddenly they seem to have a lot of money and start a business? I personally think these are even bigger tells than the clues mentioned in the video. These might not imply that Walter is Heisenberg, but they definitely imply that something fishy is going on with Walter, and Hank didn't even look into that
Hank missed all the signs simply because he really didn't think much of Walt!
Walter was not a mastermind, as he let his emotions (i.e ego, care for Jesse etc) cloud his judgement. And I don’t believe that Hank’s trust in Walt was what kept him. He was looking for a mastermind of a criminal, cold blooded killer and Walter simply did not fit the criteria because of how boring and pathetic his life had been up until the start of the show.
0:42 This scene is not in the pilot. It's in episode 6 Crazy Handful of Nothin.
Breaking bad has one of the best cases of the “Clark Kent” effect
😮
Thanks ChatGPT
very cool
Walt really should have thrown Hank off the scent over that missing lab equipment, by framing some student he didn't much like. That would have added up in Hank's mind, and I could see Walt justifying it as a way to scare the kid straight.
Hank would find out that walt was lying about the kid eventually, then walt would be in hot water. Also early walt didn't have it in him to do that.
@@Chickenz663I could see Walt not having it in him. Although the framing could have been as simple as, Walt could tell Hank that he caught the kid in the store room once; the sort of lie there would be no way to disprove.
i've always been bothered by the fact that hank just neglected to pursue the missing lab equipment even after he realized hugo had nothing to do with it.
Blaming someone else would eventually be found to be false and he would turn into the number one suspect. Walter, as a family member, friend of the DEA, respected teacher, phd, and someone with a clean record for the entirety of his live would be very far from a suspect, as he was...
@@ianlongo9037 Not sure how they would prove Walt was lying if he said, "you know, I saw Jerry Bingham in the store room the other week; he didn't have a good answer why he was in there. I really don't want to falsely accuse anyone, but ... I don't know, he doesn't seem like that bad of a kid, it's probably nothing."
I think that cancer issue did not help Hank, it certainly depicted Walt as vulnerable and lacking ambition.
Script is written by AI, I can feel it.
The voice too tbh
Least obvious chatGPT script
What do you mean?
thanks lol thought i was losing it
We should test the script in a ai detection web
@@AkiraHartono good idea, GPTzero says 78% certainty of AI use 💀
@@beanconscripthow
In the first clue, I personally think when hank asked walt if he ‘recognised’ the respirator to which walt said no was more of a giveaway, because walt not recognising something out of his own lab is a bit more suspicious than his reaction to hanks joke.
I think the part fans forget is how often people’s friends are shocked when it turns out they were criminals. Like John Wayne Gacey. Your first assumption is not going to be that someone you trust and seems like a good person is secretly a monster
It’s also worth remembering that Hank was really the only one in the DEA that kept pursuing the Heisenberg case. Like yeah he definitely flopped for a long time at realizing it was Walter but so did his whole team and they pretty much gave up while he still made moves even when he wasn’t able to work. It’s actually kind of wild that the lab equipment that was traced back to Walt’s school in the beginning of the show wasn’t looked at as a paramount factor in the Heisenberg case by the entire DEA. I feel like if Hank literally just had ONE person as passionate about the case as he was they would have opened up his eyes to the possibility that they need to look at Walter but to have that epiphany yourself about someone you think you know is not easy
The only real clue hank missed?
was the fact that Breakfast is the most important meal of the day
Breaking Fast
@@gryphonbotha1880 breaking furious
Hank held Walt in contempt.
He was not seeing Heisenberg, because he saw Walt as a worm, not a man.
Well when your brother in law has been afraid of everything his whole life and has been a mediocre man, you can’t see that they would be capable of any wrong doing. That’s why Hank dismissed all these clues. In his mind, it would be impossible for Walt to hurt a fly because of the man he’s been. You’d never suspect your own family.
"Exhibit D" 2:56 where's the clue that Hank missed? All you did was explain what happened in the scene, then state that the series would have gone differently if Hank hadn't saved Walt and Jesse.
I was thinking about Jesse’s car being there. Could probably have made that a bit more clear.
I feel dumb watching this, I had to watch all of Breaking Bad and Better Call Saul and only just figured out that Walt was Heisenberg, I thought he was a public representative.
In the scene where Hank shows Walt the notes and he makes the Willy Wonka joke you can see the true sociopathic nature of Heisenberg popping up as if he instantly switched personalities in a second.
Bravo, Vince.
There had to have been some type of bald man code that Hank lived by
Obviously AI script
Now that you say it
Why do you think that?
@@thebigm7558 ridiculous "step by step" sounding and just some patterns that I recognize because I use AI very often
So what? do something about it then
@@coldclearktwhat AI would you even use for scripts this detailed? Unless I’m severely underrating ChatGPT, I doubt its doing something like this.
some great storytelling here, thank you chatgpt!!!
How was he supposed to recognize him on the security video?
Body language, size, shape, attitude in actions, try to analyze the bodily movements of the people you know.
Thermite. Only chemist would use this chemical reaction to steal something
Nah I agree, definitely understandable he didn’t know that was Walt
He couldn't, but its almost undeniable once you do know
@@echothesilent4693you can't be sure 100% by just the body
At least he could distinguish a mineral from a mere stone.
Another missed opportunity was his name, Walter White. If Hank had watched the TV show Breaking Bad, he would have known Walter White is the real name of Heisenberg.
i cant get over the half a million in cash scene even after 3 watches. how did Hank not think for even a second “that joke was very specific, and he didn’t hesitate to say it, maybe i should check”
imo thats the joke that makes the most sense for hank to miss, my mom loves making jokes like that too so idk maybe im biased or something lol
Exhibit G: Had he had backup when he visited the junkyard, they could have secured the RV and gotten a warrant, opened the door, and “oh, hi Walt”.
Steve Gomez:🙋♂️
Walt:🤦♂️
Hehey Walt! The hell are you doing here? Trying to score some more grass? Hehehehe. Just kidding, Walt. Wait in my car and let me deal with this. Alright? *Wink*
This script sounds like pure ChatGPT
Exhibit A: generic comment
I don't think he so much as missed them but was willing to overlook them giving his in law the benefit of the doubt. You don't want to accuse someone who has cancer of being a drug dealer and meth cook unless you are extremely sure.
the fact that you keep saying "This shows how good walter white was good at diverting the close calls and such and etc." repeatedly is making you sound like a chain of Chat-GPT responses
"had hank found out the show would have taken a vastly different turn" duh??
6:00 Walter didn't jokingly say "Willy Wonka". That was Hank's line.
0:29 That's Mike in the other car isn't it?
it is👍
I love that this show still has such a strong fanbase years later 😂 made me get into it from all the praise and finally finished it just a bit ago. Definitely does not disappoint, what an ending!
Do all the Hanks Clues missed next
😅👍
This is 100% written by chat GPT LOL
Holy shit your right
Damn, shit like this is gonna make WatchMojo's job even easier.
I just find it crazy that the sketch of Heisenberg looks exactly like Walt with glasses and a hat it’s like not knowing Clark Clint is superman.
According to multiple timelines the entirety of Breaking Bad is supposed to take place roughly over two years. It's easy to forget as the show itself ran for five years. In this continuity the episode "Fifty-One" (Season 5a) takes place only one year removed from the pilot. "Blood Money" (Season 5b) takes place in March. So, really, it only took Hank a year and a few months to figure out Walt's identity. I find this fascinating. And I'm not trying to divert from the main point: Hank was indeed blinded by his perceptions of Walter White, the family man, the cancer patient, the mild-mannered brother-in-law who could barely hold a gun, let alone cook meth.
Hank loved Walt and saw him as an inherently sweet and good natured man. He didn’t think less of Walt, he thought Walt was the best man he knew. He was fooled and the truth broke his heart. Hank is a tragic character.
This script was written 100% by Ai
I don’t think he trusted Walt, but rather he thought Walter was lame.
They already had Tuco beat before Hank got there nice video
Yeah, clumsy phrasing there. Thanks!
well done. It's time to view the series from Hank 's POV. Back to drawing board.
@@wolffenhaus Would love one season from Hanks pov.
I mean yeah but they were also too incompetent to finish the job.
In real life, he would've known from the missing equipment from his classroom.
Feels like this video is written by chatgpt lmao
Yeah i thought that too, it probably was
Written, voiced, and probably edited all by ai. This is some fine content right here
@@drerod89 Its most likely one of those ai short channels
Better title would be: "All the times Hank was close to discovering truth" in my opinion. There were no clues to discover when he was in a shootout with tuco I would say, more like a chance to arrest him and get him to talk and find out about walter
u dont need to add commentary to this holy just show the clips man, automatically unrecommend me this
Stated many times in the comments here but it's really impossible to overstate how someone's preconceived notions of another person can blind them to the plain truth even when it's this obvious. Chemistry equipment from schools or businesses turning up in cooks has got to be pretty common (stands to reason Pinkman and a hundred others like him could have done the same thing in the past) Fold in Hank's concern for Walt's cancer, and own troubles with PTSD and his injury as the show goes on and it only really seems obvious when we watch it all from Walt's perspective. There are months and months of other case work, El Paso, s**tting in bedpans, Marie's kleptomania, etc etc etc that all casts fog over everything. He straight up gave up even thinking about the case for months after the shooting.
But the most powerful element is what everyone else has said - Hank spent years coddling Walter in his mind and it just became impossible to even consider the possibility. Ask yourself if you could believe your own BIL or cousin or whatever as having pulled off robberies, dissolved people in acid, and whacked 11 guys in jail on their way to El Chapo or Pablo Escobar levels of drug kingpin just because he got in your face at a family cookout once and had a heavy duffel bag
Gang be honest did you ask ChatGPT to make you this script?
This feels AI generated
i know right? it sounds like something written by chatGPT
cause it fucking is no one talks like this
Hank never thought much of Walter. He liked him, don't get me wrong, but he didn't see Walter as a "man", weak.
Then Walter gets cancer. Which makes walt look even more "weak", where hank just pitties Walter more than anything, and with that, he didn't even entertain the idea that Walter was the biggest and most destructive meth cook in the state.
It wasn't trust, it was arrogance, and only after Hank suffered PTSD was fired, shot, went through a grueling rehab, was bedridden, and was forced to endure humility did his arrogance finally waiver. That's when he not only realized who Walt truly was. He also figured out that Gus was the main distributor.
I would never say he was too trusting of Walt more than he just never truly thought Walt was capable of everything he did
Sounds like you wrote your whole script using chatGPT
I bet they did.
Heard “Walt’s goodness” so much that I thought I heard Walt Goodman
The missing equipment's necessity to Walter's meth operation was not unbeknownst to Hank. He was literally there because the residue in the mask they found exactly matched the blue meth Heisenberg had created. So he did know that stuff was what was used for it, he just didn't know Walter was the one who stole and used it.
This video is like, "You know that thing you watched? Yeah, that's exactly what happened." Thanks for pointing out the obvious! 😅
I feel like it was written by chat gpt
Hank really should have been able to tell Walt was hiding something when he went into the school, most officers are trained in body language, especially DEA agents, and with Walt giving off every signal of guilt. The only thing I can come up with is hanks love for Walt overpowered his detective abilities, shows you how much Hank and Walt loved and trusted each other,
It quite literally costed Hank his life for not finding out about Walter earlier
Great job, ChatGPT!
Imagine a spin-off where Hank finds out early, Walt is put in prison hospital for cancer treatment, but he doesn't want that and he devies multiple plans to escape. Luckily for him Jesse also ends up in the same prison and they can interact with each other, Hank notices something's up but he can't prove it, however he starts being more hostile to Walt and stops treating him with respect he did back when Walt first got locked up. He realizes his brother-in-law was way more evil than he showed before, but decides to have a talk with Walt one last time, to try and understand his motives and why he actually wants to risk his life and not just accept prolonging it and eventually getting out in like 10 years or less, assuming he lives by then. Walt after serious contemplation finally explains him everything, Hank is baffled and starts crying, but then gets determined to keep Walt locked up as long as possible, understanding how much of a menace he would be to society if he got out. Eventually Walt assembles his crew of people, they somehow through plot shenanigans team up against the police and Jesse and Hank both end up seriously injured. Walt gets depressed, finally realizes that the actions he takes for his selfish goal of becoming the bigshot drug lord actually hurts his loved ones. But it was too late, Hank died and he basically had no way out of severe regret, than to take his own life, since he failed everyone he loved, including himself. He does so by taking a toxic chemical from the hospital in secret, which almost instantly puts him in coma as many flashbacks from his past life emerge
Why don't we just create a show that's like a pastiche of breaking bad where this happens.
this feels like its written by chat gpt
and the narrator clearly never watched the show
Hey, ChatGPT, please write a video essay about Hank Schrader almost catching Walter White