Breaking Bad Theory: Walter White Was Dead After Episode 1 — Here Is the Evidence
What if Walter White’s cancer diagnosis was not the inciting incident of Breaking Bad — but its ending? A growing number of fans argue that Walt died peacefully in his sleep after the pilot episode, and that every meth cook, every murder, and every transformation into Heisenberg was nothing more than the dying fantasy of a desperate, humiliated man who never actually became a criminal at all.