These 3 and a half minutes, at the end of the 2nd last episode of breaking bad are in my opinion one of the most powerful scenes on TV.

For some of you that need a refreshing of the memory, it's the scene where Walt is sitting in the bar, having just turned down by his paraplegic son who brutally refused his money. That was the last straw, where he comes to know the shocking reality that all his blood and sweat has been for nothing. He is sick and dying with all the money that he ever wanted and cant even help his family.

Slowly realising this he has just given himself up to the authorities.

All is broken and all hope is lost.

But he doesn't?

So what does change in these 3 and half minutes? Here I want to step by step dissect Walt's thinking process, why he did what he did.

Before that I have to give some context, We don't know exactly how Walt separated from the Gretchen and Elliot, We know that it had to do something with Walt Finding something about Gretchen (And we also know that Walt had a romantic interest in her).

Keeping his falling out in perspective, doesn't it seem the very reason why Walk brokebad in the first place?

So think about it, if it hadn't happened Walt would still be working as a cofounder in his own company, A brilliant mind being fully utilised, he would have been a millionaire at least by the time he was diagnosed with Cancer. No breaking bad, no meth cooking, The End.

But while I always suspected that the writers would somehow tell this missing story arc they took a different turn on it, they turned the tables on it, they used the very history they had to fire the Heisenberg Engine. The very last remnants of it were ignited

So 3 and a half minutes? What exactly happens there? I want to take inside a peek in Walt's head, that locked room of his, what exactly is happening there

Three things happened there. First was Greymatter.

Shock no. 1, kickstarter

Walt sees how Elliot and Gretchen so vehemently defy his contribution to the company that he made along with them, reducing all the work he did to mere name of the company.

We see a visible shock on Walt's face, its hits him right in the heart. All his research and patents and everything just shrugged off by them?

Just like that ? So easy for them to say it?

But as reasonable and intellectual as Walt is , he would always expect this, in fact he would have done the same if he were at their place. But we should realise that walt is in a highly vulnerable state at the moment, he has lost everything so thats why the visible shock.

So this kicks the Heisenberg engine, but not that hard, which brings us to the 2nd factor.