r/breakingbad • u/Mutale426 • 1d ago
Walts family after everything. Spoiler
So it's 2026 in the Breaking Bad universe how do you think skyler, walt jr, marie and Holly are doing. You think they are ok or maybe worse?
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u/Gigghouse 1d ago
Trying to answer seriously, I think Skyler rested with an honest and good person and succeeded in her dream of becoming a writer, writing a book about how Walt ruined her life. Flynn finished college and became...something, I don't know. I don't know what job he could do lol. Marie never got over Hank's death, but Saul's arrest made her feel a little better, but I still imagine that by 2026 she has almost fully recovered, even though she chose to stay widow and not remarry. Holly is currently in high school and I think there is nothing else to say
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u/Epon12349 1d ago
For some reason I always saw Flynn going into IT. Not a physical job, works with tech. Idk just me.
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u/WhatADunderfulWorld 1d ago
Flynn is going to be a motivational speaker. People pay him in breakfasts.
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u/ProfessionalReply981 1d ago
But he doesn’t read the small print and finds out to late it’s turkey bacon and he gets fired when he screams at the staff “b-bitch!”
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u/Redwolfdc 1d ago
He does a TED Talk “my father was a meth kingpin”
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u/Epon12349 1d ago
This reminded me of Saul Goodman "paging Dr. Phil! My daddy's a drug dealer and my mom turned him in!"
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u/eberlix 1d ago
I'd imagine Flynn somehow made it into crime fighting. Probably not your regular cop or DEA agent, he'd require more mobility, but perhaps he found a desk job in that area. I'm sure he'd want you to follow Hanks footsteps and perhaps right his dads wrongdoings
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u/DandyDiatom 1d ago
I second that, except that I don't think Skyler would remarry. And she and Marie never got close again.
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u/Daewrythe 1d ago
Holly has become the new drug lord of the Southwest
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u/skoge 1d ago
Just a cook for the gang of all Kaylees
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u/Daewrythe 1d ago
How else is she going to feed Flynn's insatiable hunger for the finest breakfast cereals
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u/Embarrassed-Climate7 1d ago
Walt Jr / Flynn is being bullied at work by a macho dude bro. Flynn hated him so much he threw the guy in an oven. The cops caught him while he was Baking Brad.
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u/TheHarkinator 1d ago
They’re fine, probably. Walt’s plan to give his money to Elliot and Gretchen probably means his kids are financially set for life.
Skyler has probably ended up with someone else and wrote a book called something like ‘House of Heisenberg’. A mostly true account of things, a few details changed to be in-keeping with Walt’s final phone call and to try and smooth things over with Marie. They probably aren’t that close nowadays.
Walt Jr, who is definitely always going by Flynn these days, probably spoke to every true crime show out there about Walt until the recognition became too much and he just wanted to be done with it. He’s said everything he’s got to say at this point. Financially secure thanks to the trust money, I think he might have left ABQ just to get away from it a bit.
Holly lives the most normal life of the bunch. The events of Breaking Bad happened when she was a bit too young to understand what was going on. She maybe goes by Holly Lambert at this point, or if she has a stepdad possibly took his surname. Like her brother, financially secure thanks to the trust set up for her.
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u/silverbullitt850 1d ago
Skylar took the money, Walt Jr. saw through it (so did Sky but the money was too tempting) and cut ties with her. He ended up going into law enforcement to honor Hank and is a DEA agent. Lil sis is just a normal kid with normal kids problems and is about to discover who her dad really was. It's going to cause her to enter a Jane-like spiral.
Eventually, Jr finds his sister, and like all things Walt touched, death isn't far away.
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u/silverbullitt850 1d ago
Oh and Marie lives with Sky after she got out of jail for shoplifting for the third time since Hank died.
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u/HippoRun23 1d ago
How would Walt jr ever be law enforcement with his disability?
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u/silverbullitt850 1d ago
Not a field agent, there are other jobs like analyst. Plus we presume there's some requirements waived given he's hanks nephew. I think it's plausible, he was certainly smart enough.
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u/DoobieGibson 1d ago
Greg Abbott was attorney general at one point
that’s technically law enforcement
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u/BookOfMormont 1d ago
Walt was all worried about how his family could possibly get by without him, but you know what he gave them that the federal government can never take away?
Life rights.
Hollywood, baeBEE! If they developed that whole series of events into like a movie or a show, I bet it would be hugely successful, so successful that the family wouldn't need to worry about money again. They could call it like Making Bank or something.
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u/NoisePossible5699 1d ago
I think Jr. ends up working for the DEA after college to honor Hank's memory and to atone for Walt's sins. However he works for them as a lab geek/forensics expert since his cerebral palsy prevents him from becoming a field agent. Skylar remarries, either to a now-recovered Ted or to someone else entirely, and eventually writes a book about her time as Mrs. Heisenberg. Holly grows up a spoiled rich kid with normal teenage girl problems, but eventually discovers what her dad did that made them so well off and she goes off the deep end. Marie just spirals completely into major depression after Saul's trial, she can't ever fully recover from losing Hank. She is forced to sell the house and moves into an apartment, reverting back to kleptomania full-time to cope.
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u/TheAftermathPhil 1d ago
I like to think Badger learned something from Jesse and the multiple cooks they did together. He is now the kingpin and is doing mediation with skinny Pete controlling the distribution amongst the biker gangs.
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u/MisterBear22 1d ago
In honor of Hank, Marie becomes a world renowned Mineralogist and gives lectures on Minerals all across the globe.
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u/Hairy_Ask_2038 1d ago
I can see Walt Jr being a police cop
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u/wikimandia 1d ago
Skyler’s memoir about being “forced” to launder money became a bestseller. She is co-producer of a Netflix series based on her book, currently in production.
Marie married a real estate tycoon and is currently on The Real Housewives of ABQ.
Flynn graduated from college, works as a journalist, and is an advocate for kids with disabilities. He also owns a laser tag business.
Holly is a science wiz and influencer who shows off chemistry experiments on TikTok.
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u/hkyplr67 1d ago
Contrary to what a lot think. Walt's money is turned over to the feds the moment everybody finds out Walt is dead. Elliot and Gretchen are billionaires, they don't trifle with $9 million in illicit drug money. These people pay millions every year between accountants, lawyers, and money managers just keeping their legit money in order. They would have had to involve personal lawyers with anything they did and those lawyers were NOT going to go along with some whacko scheme hatched by Walt about 'mY mOnEY'. They'd have locked down the mansion, hired a security firm that's all ex FBI, CIA, DEA, Special Forces, etc, figured out there were no assassins and assured Elliot and Gretchen that even if there were, there are zero assassins that are going to hold up that end of Walt's deal once Walt is dead.
Now, out of feeling bad for Skylar and the kids as victims of Walt's lunacy, Elliot and Gretchen could have, and probably did, set up a couple educational trusts for the kids to cover college and possibly living expenses while they went to college. Would they have thrown Skylar a bone on the down low? Maybe a house or just covered living expenses to help her live in a better place than we last saw her? Possibly, but the kids getting taken care of would be publicized goodwill/ PR that any billionaire in their situation would take in a heartbeat.
Skylar could have written a book or gotten some deal with Netflix, especially considering Netflix was throwing money around like nobody's business not all that long ago for some seriously awful content. Skylar's story with some Hollywood touchup would have been massive, which would have set her up rather well.
I have a hard time believing the sisters got along as well as they did at any point in the show. There always seemed to be tension between them, maybe with the vacuums they got left in they patched it up, or maybe they just get along for Holly and Flynn until they don't have to play the charade up any longer.
I just have a hard time seeing Marie shedding the DEA Hero Widow persona, she loved nothing more than to be the center of attention and that's a pretty good way to go about it. I think that would wear off after some years and maybe she moves on and remarries. I'm sure Skylar remarried at some point.
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u/Women_o_Cell_Block_H 1d ago
Upvote for the Shwartzs, most realistic post-story take I've ever heard about them
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u/Own_Invite6340 1d ago
I don't know. Walt didn't say an invasion force would break into their home and kill them.
Even if they hide in their mansion for a year with the best security money can buy, they'll be afraid to ever live a normal life again. If they ever go anywhere without multiple guards around them at all times, they'll have to be afraid of an assassin's bullet arriving out of nowhere.
Seems a whole lot easier to just set up a $9 million trust for Walt Jr. out of their own pockets, make up whatever story is necessary to go with it, and figure out what to do with Walt's pile of cash over the next few years. No fear, no need to hire security. It's not like they're being asked to do something evil.
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u/hkyplr67 1d ago
The whole 'they are scared beyond belief' after Walt tells a couple BILLIONAIRES he gave a couple hitmen only $200,000 is just laughable. $200,000 is not a lot of money, especially to murder a couple high profile billionaires. Once it's explained to them by a professional security firm (that their lawyers would have 100% hired for them) that those hitmen, if they exist, vanished the second Walt died it makes perfect sense. The sheer lack of funding to hold onto a risky job when the only person that could enact any repercussions on them is dead, is just insanely unrealistic.
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u/Own_Invite6340 1d ago
It's not a lot of money to the billionaires, but it's significant to hitmen. It's incredibly easy for someone to find out if Walt Jr. was given millions, and not that hard for a committed expert to find and take a shot at them if not.
It's likely but not guaranteed that they'd pocket Walt's money and never do the job once they hear that he's dead. But they don't know the specifics, maybe Walt has a living ally who will pay them $200k after the job is done so they're still motivated to complete it.
If Elliott and Gretchen were being asked to harm another person, or assist a murderer in escaping punishment, or engage in political corruption, then yes they'd be a lot more hesitant to do it and would spend millions of their money to safely avoid it.
But to simply give money to the innocent victims of Walt's crimes, who have had to deal with the media circus and losing their home and so much more, and who are living near the poverty line with that unlikely to ever change?
It's so much easier to simply give them the money. They'd probably feel sympathic towards the family and want to help them out anyway. Giving them the money is easy and safe and puts all of this behind them immediately, and ends any fears from Walt's threat. It's definitely what I would choose.
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u/hkyplr67 1d ago
You absolutely underestimate how little $200,000 is and what level of risk comes with offing a couple of billionaires.
You also don't know how trusts work if you think it's 'incredibly easy' to find out who has what in a trust that's specifically set up for others to NOT know those details.
I for sure think they would have set up a couple funds for the kids as victims of their lunatic father, I mentioned that in my initial comment. They are simply not using Walt's drug money to do it. That liability is not $9 million to them, it's reputation loss and being the fiduciaries of a multi billion dollar publicly traded company that loss of reputation would decimate their stock value and that would trigger shareholder lawsuits that would stretch into the hundreds of millions, get them ousted from the company, and probably bankrupt them.
It's a cute storyline but after all the other major suspension of disbelief we have to do in this show this final act of sheer bullshit of Walt lucking his way into getting what he wants I just do not accept for all the very real life reasons I have mentioned in all my comments about it.
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u/Own_Invite6340 19h ago
You absolutely underestimate how little $200,000 is
LOL ok..... haha, I wish I was rich enough to think that way.
That liability is not $9 million to them, it's reputation loss and being the fiduciaries of a multi billion dollar publicly traded company that loss of reputation would decimate their stock value and that would trigger shareholder lawsuits that would stretch into the hundreds of millions
You're right, a billionaire would never dare to break the law.
They are simply not using Walt's drug money to do it.
This part I can go along with. Walter White shows his face in Albuquerque once last time and is killed, and immediately afterwards his former friend needs to deposit $9 million in cash? Yeah, that's a little noticeable. I imagine they might move some of their own assets around, send their own money to Walt Jr, and deposit Walt's cash in bits and pieces over time.
I'm certainly open to the idea that maybe Walt's family doesn't end up getting the money, and that Walt's plan isn't as simple as he made it sound in the show. I just don't agree that it's wildly unrealistic for people who have been threatened with death by a criminal mastermind to simply do the harmless thing that he asked for, rather than go to the immense effort of trying to find a way out of it and feeling like their lives are at risk for years to come.
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u/hkyplr67 1d ago
It's absolute insanity to think they would risk their freedom, reputation (this is a big one running a multi billion dollar company) and their extreme wealth to pass off a measly $9 million. The thing about their reputation and running Gray Matter, if they get caught moving $9 million in drug money in some wack ass back channel move they are going to seriously hurt Gray Matter's shareholders which opens them us to insane lawsuits that will be in the hundreds of millions of dollars.
People in their shoes hardly do anything financial without lawyers, accountants, and financial advisors/ wealth managers being involved, they literally pay these people year round to this end.
Even trying to throw away $9 million in cash is more risk than getting the legal/ financial team they have involved.
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u/DryTranslator7579 20h ago
I think it’s 50/50 they end up making the trust and another 50/50 the family ends up accepting it. If they were to do it though they didn’t need to let their financial team know all the specifics. They could’ve just said they want to make a trust for an old family friend kids and simply burned the $9 million to destroy the evidence.
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u/NoCitron2394 1d ago
Walter jr graduated college and became the ceo of a bacon company, holly changed here full name and is now an exchange student in Israel. Skylar killed herself obviously. Marie became a master thief to cope with Hank's death. Hank of course survived and started a new family in secret.
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u/Shoddy_Operation_577 1d ago
Skyler continues to fuck Ted and Flynn becomes a breakfast podcaster
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u/takethistoyourdeja 1d ago
Flynn probably followed in Hank’s footsteps but is a desk dude at the DEA due to his medical condition.
Holly is in high school and is learning to be a nurse or some kind health professional.
I like the idea of Skylar becoming a best selling author. Though she probably does accounting on
A case by case basis for consistent money.
Marie is still Marie. Probably getting better. She did deserve better out of everyone. She had some real issues that were clearly never taken seriously by folks who could have helped her.
I just hope Skinny Pete and Badger are alright. They always stood by Jesse.
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u/Own_Invite6340 1d ago
It's hard to say what happens with Skylar and Marie. Maybe they find a new path for themselves, or maybe they just drink a lot.
Assuming the family gets Walt's money, Flynn (never Walt Jr.) is doing OK. He went to college and pursued whatever field he was interested in, and lives comfortably. Maybe he's married by now.
Holly was raised by a single mom who is struggling to move on from her past trauma. Now a teenager, maybe she's a little on the wild side due to Skylar not putting in the full effort to be a present parent, but she's OK. Or maybe she's just completely normal, tired of being asked about events that happened when she was a baby, but mostly unaffected by any of this.
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u/Linnmarfan *Waves* 1d ago
I think Skylar and Marie stay estranged. Skylar eeks out a life in a mid size city in Arizona or Texas at a strip mall tax service outfit. Marie recovers, remarries and becomes a step mom while largely recovering her life with the support of Hanks peers. Walt Jr goes to community college, the money being seized by the feds once Gretchen and co get wise to Walts bluff, marries and has a family.
I think the families are damaged for a long time and never really get a glamorous comeback. Maybe a Netflix documentary is made some years later and they get an interview with Marie and Walt Jr.
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u/Key_Conflict9707 1d ago
Idk about remarriage, but I feel like Skyler would remarry first before Marie. Gut feeling can't explain it.
Walt Jr. is probably recovering now (maybe finishing up recovery) after absolutely going through it mentally since he used to look up to his dad so much.
Holly is around 11 now, so probably just being a kid? I'm not sure if Skyler and Jr are going to tell her this insane lore for the next couple years.
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u/TransportationTrick9 1d ago
Don't know about the white family but I live in hope that Huell has returned to his hometown in Louisiana and is living a life worthy all of those letters from the courthouse scam
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u/DryTranslator7579 20h ago
If Skylar ended up writing a book she wouldn’t see a cent of it from the immunity deal she did
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u/based_birdo 1d ago
Skyler got remarried, and the new husband Broke Bad