What If Walt Never Saved Jesse & Stayed With Gus In Breaking Bad?
One of the defining moments of Breaking Bad is Walter White's murder of Gustavo Fring's dealers in season 3 to save Jesse Pinkman's life, but things could have played out quite differently if this event never occurred. Walt (Bryan Cranston) and Jesse (Aaron Paul) have a close, almost father-son connection, and even though they may argue and even fight throughout the series, Walt maintains a love for Jesse, even saving him in the finale, «Felina», from Jack's gang of white supremacists. However, if Walt's logical side had deduced that Jesse was more hassle than he was worth back in season 3, the narrative direction of Breaking Bad would have been very different.
Season 3, episode 12, «Half Measures» sees Jesse face down two rival dealers employed by Gustavo Fring (Giancarlo Esposito) after they kill a child named Tomás, the younger brother of Jesse's love interest, Andrea. However, before the two dealers can kill Jesse, Walt runs them down in his car, killing one of them instantly before executing the other with his gun. He then utters just one word to Jesse: "run". This further leads Gus to decide that Walt is too chaotic to work with, and he instructs Mike Ehrmantraut (Jonathan Banks) to end him. However, Walt manages to get through to Jesse just in time and instructs him to kill Gale Boetticher, Walt's intended replacement, forcing a furious Gus to keep working with Jesse and Walt.
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Breaking Bad season 4 then starts off a game of cat and mouse between «Mr White» and Fring, as Gus begins to groom Pinkman to replace Walt. Eventually, Walt is able to use Gus' rivalry with Hector Salamanca against him, planting a bomb underneath the
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