And that also helps with the fact that Hank sees Walter as less than him, always trying to be dominant towards Walt, so he sees him as no threat at all. Always "Heeeyy Buddy"ing

No only he was family, family with cancer and money problems

I mean think about it, missing school equipment that ended up being used for creating meth. New incredibly pure meth shows up, the teacher happens to be a brilliant chemist. First response to "do you recognize this gas mask" is a no despite him being a chemist 10 steps away from where the school keeps their gas masks. On top of it all, the teacher is gone for hours every day after work and later on disappeared for a couple of days. If Hank didn't know and look down on Walter he would have caught him in a heartbeat.

honestly it wasn't even because they were family. hank from the start of the series was shown to be plain disrespectful to walt and called him less of a man. he just didn't think someone like walt would be brave enough to break the law.

@@ingydegmar2060 don't forget that the teacher happens to have cancer, he gets a lot of confidence and even changes his beard signifing how much he's changing during the time the blue meth comes out and is the best in the business, anyone could realize that walt is a criminal that gets self confidence from the sucess of his product. but he thought too low of him to ever be a genius.

Onggg

Best ideas come to me in the bathroom lol

Hank was making a Mr. Hanky. Howdy Ho! Catching Walt was a Christmas miracle

Toilet reading op

Near the end, I do think Hank caught on… the poop just helped push it along. 💩

Hank always thought Walter as older brother not little brother.

I never understood the main point of Marie’s stealing until now, this is amazing! It demonstrates, like you said, Hank’s blind spot for those he is close to. He shrugs off Marie’s stealing and is mainly just annoyed because he doesn’t want to deal with her.

this is different. he's aware of maries blind spot. he chooses to ignore it. for walt, he doesn't ignore it. he can't see it, because he pities him.

You see, hank actually held some sway Inside a DEA bubble, but hank is not the dea as a whole there are different office, state, federal districts(hundreds or thousands of agents) at some point in time walt would have been brought in if for nothing else, than confirming others stories timelines etc.... The main problem is that most people consider Hank to be the representative Face of the DEA...."he is not",just a single agent . If anybody else decided to restart the investigation from scratch, Walts praises would be sung in a cell. 😬

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Only an idiot would miss that detail, only believable for Hank to miss those details if he had half his brain removed. The exact chemistry equipment used was missing in Walt's lab, one of two people who had the keys, with no sign of breakage. Additionally, the cancer diagnosis could be a telling factor, but without that, it comes down to a cancer patient with extreme chemistry knowledge, or some janitor who just got clean and no use for the chemistry equipment. Pretty cut and dry.

@@HulkTheSurgeon so nobody could steal the keys? It couldn’t be a student who is a dealer? Drug distribution goes deep and there’s connections everywhere. You forget how easy it to to be blinded by things that don’t seem real. What if you found out your mom was a serial killer and you had every sign to see it but you just could not imagine it because she’s close to you and things like that just don’t happen. Joker in the Dark Knight said something like “we aren’t surprised by things that are supposed to happen”. The janitor can easily work for a network that is making meth within the Native American tribe where the mask was found. How is that not a likely scenario?

@ishanray yeah they even thought it was students because the amateurish way they stole the methlamine, Hank even made the comment they are probably amateurish kids with chemistry knowledge. Jessie being a former student and dealer put eyes on him and not Walter.

​@@ishanrayeasy for us to be blinded by those clues, but not by an investigation officer. There is a level of expertise we expect. Using just cell phone records he could have gained so much information about heisenberg.

the whole point of the show is that walt *never* changed

Add this to the pile of analysis with the exact conclusions that already existed, divided by your lack of awareness to it

​@@seewhativescenethat's crazy anyway I think I have to call someone

I would say it's also Hank's overconfidence in his people reading skills. Because Hank's close relation to Walter and his position in DEA office in Albuquerque, nobody dared to cast any suspicion on Walter. Moreover remember in first season, when they found out that a gas mask was stolen from local high school. If Hank sent anyone else to investigate, they would've suspect Walter. Pure meth, stolen material from a lab, without chemistry teacher noticing, nervous behavior... who is that teatcher guy? Oh look, he was a big shot who specialized in crystallization and now suddenly he needs a lot of money. The guy is capable, has access to tools and he has a motive, that's a person of interest! But Hank came himself and brought his prejudices against Walter, at the time he knew that Walter got cancer, so he cast aside his suspicions, he ignored all the red flags. Hank even joked about suspecting Walter

@@somedud1140 Yeah, Hank sees himself as a macho cop hunting hardened criminals and he sees Walt as a bit of a lovable loser who could never be one of those hardened criminals that he was hunting down

@@somedud1140 Hank's people reading skills were not that bad though, which makes it all even more interesting. I mean, he had his doubts and questions regarding Gus when literally everyone around, from the top DEA to people below him thought very highly of Gus and ruled him out. The missing equipment - I can fully believe Hank considering it very unlikely to be Walt's doing. He probably assumes that Walt, with his ways and persona rather completely forgot to close the lab or failed to notice that something was missing. However, you bring about one interesting point: Walt needed money. BIG money. Hank knew it, yet did not follow at all.

I know you just wasted a paragraph to relay the obvious about the most overanalyzed show in modern history

@@seewhativescenewell you wasted a paragraph responding to a paragraph that was wasted relaying what’s already known about the most over analyzed show. :)

Well you wasted a paragraph, responding to a paragraph, responding to another paragraph talking about the most analyzing show

@@tylerhartley5031 , How long can this go on for??

Hank would have switched to Lydia & Madrigal then, Walt would have died

I think it's that Hank just never took Walt seriously and saw him as the harmless non-masculine relative, and that Hank's view of himself as badass macho DEA agent meant that he was hunting hardened ruthless criminals which he couldn't ever imagine Walt being

@@za9883exactly that

That’s exactly what their goal was with his character

​@@za9883YES you get it

Dawg, Hank was making a joke

good point

it was extremely stupid

Im sure the lazy writing would have done it anyways.

It's a pattern that Walt often does the dumbest stuff when he's drunk.

@@tbproductions5713 who said it wasn't?

If you're evil. If you're a good person, I'd say it's the opposite

It definitely stops you from being noticed

How many thousands of dollara did you pay for that pfp

@@hardboiled2987 waste*

This Friday will mark ten years since it ended

I just screen shotted and got it for free, thanks​@@hardboiled2987

@@hardboiled2987probably saved the photo

exactly

THIS

Blue meth. Red herring. Blue + red = purple. Purple is Marie's colour. Marie is Heisenberg. I cracked it!

​@@FutureDeepIncredible. You'd fit right in with the DEA

That warrant would have been a stretch. Also, the operation was only in it's infancy back then. Hindsight is 20/20.

@@sidvicious332 Very hard disagree the numbers on the gas masks tracked right into Walt’s classroom supplies there is nowhere else they could have came from. it wasn’t a stretch whatsoever. Especially given that there were no break ins recorded. The skill required to make that caliber of meth in a TRAILER. Was something that would make Walt stick out like a sore thumb. He was the only person with a college education in chemistry other than the other chemistry teachers that could’ve possibly made the meth. It is not a stretch whatsoever he could get a warrant on Walt. He and his entire class would have been prime suspects day one.

He arested the school janitor, but really they should of put him under sevailance , so hanks fault

Good points👍

😅👍

I think it’s that he was giving him the benefit of doubt, however when he saw the handwriting, he remembered the ww thing he said the Walter, the way he reacted and recognised the handwriting, so everything clicked

@@Mosslistic Love the analysis. Hank was so blinded by family hierarchy it completely disabled his ability to be a DEA agent, that said, why didn't Hank's well-experienced DEA partners come onto Walter sooner? Maybe they did and they got shut down by Hank and I simply didn't notice. That book was the only thing he came across in his investigation that directly tied to Walter and there was no other way it could end up on Walter's toilet, breaking the benefit of doubt chain. Again, no other show can ever seem to captivate a mind again like this one had. EDIT: What really ticks my mind is how Walter himself became so blinded that he didn't realize Pinkman was working with Hank to lead him towards the primary evidence they can use to convict. The cash. Walter knew Hank knew, yet Walter still fell for very old police trickery due to his ego. Had Walter been more experienced this or even apply a smidgen of what he learned as a drug lord it would have never worked.

Mike would have easily smelt that one from a mile away, even would have told walter the DEA was using pinkman had he not ruthlessly killed him. Biggest mistake of Heisenberg the entire series. Very high probability Mike knew all about GPS tracker laws and that rental companies were barred from using them state-wide.

@@spikester Walter was blinded by his parental love for Jesse. Honestly I think he loved him more than Flynn. He was also so money oriented and desperate to prove how man he was whilst his family fell apart he probably just panicked in the moment, not thinking to check or look for longer (which would have shown him that really, they had no clue where the money was) I think he felt so betrayed by Jesse, after everything he believed he’d done for him, he couldn’t contain his anger like once before. Walt learned very little from his time as a kingpin - only killing was almost commended (think Jesse pretending he killed that man and everyone respecting ww and jp) he used this belief in his personal life too (“a man gets shot and you think that of me? I am the danger”(badly paraphased I’m sorry)) this leads to his criminal life bleeding into his personal life even more. But Hank saw Walt as almost less that. ‘Walt couldn’t be a threat? He was scared of holding a gun in s1e1!’ Hank simply didn’t think it was possible for Walter to do something so uncharacteristic (at least in hanks view of Walt) Not to say Hank wasn’t innocent. He was a relatively good man who although undemonstrative, really cared about things, and had really bad anxiety (probably ptsd too) which likely clouded his thoughts and judgement. But he saw his family as almost above the law (e.g Marie and her kleptomania) so when all the evidence (and really it didn’t take a rocket scientist to work it out) pointed to Walt - the missing Highschool equipment, skylarks suddenly smoking again, the kids not being safe, Walter literally having a degree from I think Harvard? In chemistry. But he refused to believe it. Because barely even a year ago, Walt was the doting father and husband with a dead end job and end stage cancer. A perfect law abiding citizen who loved his family. It’s difficult to blame hank when we knew the whole time. Because hank had a personal involvement with Walt, he struggled to connect him and Heisenberg more than a random dea agent would. But I think even they wouldn’t connect it because why would someone so connected to the dea do this (same with fring) it was so dangerous that it wasn’t dangerous anymore. The dea called hank insane for suggesting fring was involved. Then they found out he was.

Yeah they definitely laid it on thick with the whole "walt is timid and mild mannered" in the beginning. But Hank should have definitely seen the change in behavior over time and put the clues together. They wrote hank as the most intuitive agent ever. Doesn't make sense that he never even considered walt even in his own mind

I agree! He'd known Walt. He was family. Hank was too close, he couldn't see the forest for the trees.

@@FrankDaBank25you have to remember Walt is also GOING THROUGH CHEMOTHERAPY . I wouldn’t think someone dying of cancer could cook pounds of meth either

@@redhood444 That's called being naive.

@ballsdeep69420 I’m sure you would have seen it right away

Would defenitly watch

really appreciate your feedback. Makes it worth it to keep making em😀

Cuckolding like this deluded generic gimmick "creators" into delving deeper into obvious takes to click bait more traffic

Oblivious vapid cluelessness of KZfaq content "creators" deluded into accepting praise from those they've conditioned ​@@serialbinger

That's not evidence.

⁠@@FELENATORHank based his investigations on his conjectures and believes without solid evidence. And later it all turned out he was right. So it means he didn’t need a solid proof to connect someone to particular crime. But only if he had a one single thought about Walt being an embodiment of brutal masculinity rather than a failed chemist, he would’ve found a real evidence on him

@@FELENATORtrue but it’s enough for hank to start suspecting walt and begin digging for connections

@@FELENATOR It is "evidence."

@@FELENATOR indirect (circumstantial) evidence is still evidence. It is the inductive processor of law

Good take👍

Physics? Chemistry you dolt

Why would he name himself after the uncertainty principle

@@kramarancko1107 did you know professor Farnsworth on Futurama is named after the guy who invented television... ?

He didn’t though, at all. He literally asked him to help him track Gus car. He didn’t have any idea at all.

Yeah...bruh - he didn't know

Someone could have asked a kid to grab some materials so it could also have been any student or anyone else who had access to the chemistry lab. Although they would surely want to speak with Walter to ask him about who had access to the lab. Or maybe they were overwhelmed with evidence and just didn't think this was significant. Maybe they couldn't rule out cross contamination as to how the mask had traces of meth.

@@kingc8531 The mask didn't have traces of just any meth, but of that specific, ultra pure meth. Yes, the one that stole the maks doesn't have to be the same that cooked the meth, and this clues I explained are surely not enought to put Walt on trial. But it's enought to make him a prime suspect, and this would result in the DEA finding hard proof soon after.

@@kingc8531I agree. The mask wasn’t a dead giveaway, it could have easily been stolen.

I disagree. because walter is well known to the DEA as a good person and close to hank, who hank considers a loser that is incapable of amounting to the genius of the blue meth, so he would have easily convince his people that walt is not the guy. I think the dead giveaway is walt's transformation in acting, apperance, his decaying relationship with skyler and change in confidence, and a bunch of money to pay for treatment and the cancer itself. so only hank, who doesn't believe in walt's abilities knows all of this.

@@thephoenix4093 the transformation could easily be attributed to him beating cancer and going through a divorce. You have to eke Eve that people on the outside only saw small pieces of his transformation and not all of it. Jesse is the only person who has seen the full spectrum of his transformation; dorky teacher to ruthless kingpin.

EDIT: [Spoilers] Walter's planet sized ego trying to save his precious cash above all else ultimately gets his brother in law murdered; he should have known that Pinkman was setting him up as the supposedly experienced Heisenburg. Totally blinded by the bias that he had over Pinkman especially since he revealed the ability to replicate his cook.

Walter's was still the purest but he knew his recipe would survive in the finale with how he looked impressed at the equipment dials. Love this show.

Nicely put

I’m not so sure, Hank was truly shocked when he finally found out it was Walter all along, it even sent him into a panic attack. As others have said I just think Hank never suspected Walter because in his mind Walter would never have the capability to be Heisenberg

no he didn't. the thought never crossed his mind, he just saw walter as a loser that can never amount to nothing, let alone something as genius as the blue meth.

Bruh... hank didn't know lol

5 seasons

But only two years in universe.

yep, its my favorite, it's the goat- but i did "6" because they still qualified for emmys for season 5 part 2 the following year @@masonroot3784

No this isnt twd😂

@@jadesoda5305 BB never got stale minus the "fly" episode... hot take

Tell me why, ain’t nothing but a heartbreak

Probably had ndas with Gray Matter. After all it was his radiation research they used... but the university level is what stumps me

I think he was hard up for a gig fast since ge had a baby on the way. Once you're in education it's really difficult to leave without losing a lot of invested retirement funds etc. Plus some contracts only allow you to leave march through June ish when new teacher contracts are made. He also had a kid with challenges - and it might have been good for him to be in the district. Also - just low shattered confidence.

Yes, he wanted one last challenge and I believe a part of him wanted to be caught. I’m the only person I know who never sees Walt as a villain. I’ve seen it 4 times thru

Ye,but he would be out of money thanks to Skyler.The IRS would find her

He knew he had no evidence. That’s why he enlisted Jesse.