Breaking Bad Recap: The End Begins, With Blood Money

Everyone has been asking, "How will Breaking Bad end?" We don’t need to ask anymore. We know. The opening of Blood Money tells us. All that’s left is the particulars.

In what looks like a seamless continuation of the flash-forward that started season five, part 1 — Live Free or Die — Walt returns home to a deserted house, looking for the ricin capsule that he stored behind a light fixture in the second episode of season five, Madrigal. Throughout the run of the show, he’s said that the only thing that truly matters to him is his family. In the future we see his family is gone, along with all evidence that he ever had one. The house is a dilapidated husk. Teenagers skate in the empty swimming pool where Skyler attempted to drown herself in Fifty-One, the same episode in which she wishes for her husband’s death and admits she lacks his "dark magic."