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Breaking Bad - I Let Jane Die Scene: Walter (Bryan Cranston) reveals that he let Jane die.

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US Air Date: 2008
Network: AMC
Starring: Aaron Paul, Bryan Cranston, Jesse Plemons, Michael Bowen
Director: Rian Johnson
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[austinduez]

season 1: GET OFF THE TOILET
season 5: i watched jane die

[LSSTHNLT]

Aaron Paul played so many emotions during this scene. He accepts his death and is relieved that it's all over, then he silently pleads to Walt to spare him from the gang's imprisonment, then he is panic stricken, then he's initially confused by Walt's statement, tears start welling up in his eyes as he slowly realizes what Walt is saying, and then he completely gives up and let his body go limp as he loses his will to live. An incredible performance.

[jdantas]

Walt really does become his victims. This is a lot like what Gus Fring did to Hector, and Jessie witnessed both times

[js.]

Notice how after he says that Jesse doesn’t even fight anymore. He’s just so devastated. Pure brilliance.

[Pizza]

Ironically, had he saved jane, then everything would’ve been fine for him. Jane and Jesse would’ve ran off together and died of heroin OD. Walter and gale would’ve workd together without any issues and he would just make big bucks and have happy times with family

[fatalshore]

Yeah this is maximum evil Heisenberg for sure. It escalates 3 times.
--Nod to agree to shooting Jesse
--Nod to agree to Jesse being tortured
--Needless cruelty towards an already doomed man that you know will devastate him.
God scenes like this make me despise Walt, and make me love this show.

[shoeniceawareness]

this is the moment when todd wasn't fat

[johnsmithee]

I watched Jane die...
I liked it...
I was good at it...
and for the first time in my life...
I was really alive

[sas]

Imagine Walt didn’t kill Mike and he was in the mountains sniping jacks crew one by one like BCS

[thedarkknight]

0:20-0:28
That scene where Jack pulls the gun and Jesse looking up at the vultures who will soon be feeding on his corpse, consigning his fate, hit me so hard the first time I watched this masterpiece of an episode.

[stretch]

Scenes like this one show just how much Walt completely lost his conscience during the whole show. He got so obsessed with the power and feelings of superiority that he prettty much lost the capacity of empathy.

[tankdogization]

The lighting of Walt telling Jesse about Jane is really well done.

[thatlonelygiraffeinc.]

Is it weird that Todd kinda saved Jessie's life?
I think he kinda wanted jessie as a friend, or at least as a pet in a weird way

[stephenwest]

Vince Gillian said that throughout the entire series the most heartless thing Walt did was tell Jesse that. Not do it, tell Jesse about it. There’s a strong case for it because Jesse is in such a hopeless place that he feels like nothing could effect him anymore. He’s essentially a shell of a person. But Walt found the one thing he could say that could put Jesse even further into hell.

[seanhochrine]

Jesse is so broken that he doesn’t even bother fighting back anymore

[teddywyman]

I know there's no canonical answer to it, but I really do think that at the time that Walt watched Jane die it was because he cared about Jesse and wanted him to live. I think it's easy to forget his humanity because (at least if you've watched the show all the way through before) you know how ruthless and heartless he becomes. But at the time, when watching the scene you can see the internal pain and struggle that he has - his first instinct is of course to save her (and the look on his face when she starts choking is VERY Walter - I can't even really describe it, but it's just that kind of meek and concerned dad/teacher vibe) and then when he comes to hesitate, it's not because he shifts into Heisenberg mode and has some sly grin, thinking "aha! I can get Jesse back under my thumb!" It's a look of horror and morbid understanding as he sees her dying and thinks "if I save her now, they will continue using, likely until Jesse dies in a similar fashion." He starts crying as it pains him so much to let an innocent person die just to save Jesse, and the fact that he hated Jane so much actually upholds this - because if he let her die out of malice, he would've had much more satisfaction from it. He might hate that she's a junkie who stole Jesse, but at that point in time he did not believe that meant she deserved to die and thus didn't want her to per se - he just still thought Jesse deserved to live.

That's part of what makes this scene all the more interesting. It's obvious that he is just saying this out of spite, but this line is almost revisionist in that it has the connotation that he watched Jane die as part of his broader manipulative chess game for power. While that might have been part of it, I truly believe at that point in the series that Walt was more motivated by his good nature than his bad.

[altafkalam]

It's not "I LET Jane die", it's "I WATCHED Jane die".

You simply can't change even a single word of dialogue from the most perfect episode in television history 😤

[_ZERO]

This is the moment Walterberg became Heisenwhite

[V-Odyssey]

This scene is nearly as difficult and heartbreaking to watch as when Walt Jr has to eat plain old raisin bran instead of raisin bran crunch.. its not that hard.. it literally says crunch on the box 😔

[skacalaca]

I love how, unlike every other character in other shows, he doesn't have to explain his reasoning to Jesse and therefore the audience. It is up to us to figure out why he left Jane to die and why he chose now to tell Jesse. God damn this was a good show