Breaking Bad

by Vince Gilligan

Walter White is a high school chemistry teacher diagnosed with terminal cancer. To secure his family's financial future, he partners with former student Jesse Pinkman to manufacture methamphetamine. What begins as desperate pragmatism becomes an empire — and the descent of an ordinary man into a monster he was always capable of becoming.

54 characters, locations, and items in this world codex.

Characters

• Walter White — A high school chemistry teacher who got a cancer diagnosis and used it as permission to become the person he'd always been underneath — the most dange
• Jesse Pinkman — Walt's former student turned cooking partner — a small-time dealer with a giant conscience who got dragged into the deepest hell the drug trade has to
• Hank Schrader — A loud, beer-loving DEA agent whose macho bluster hid genuine detective brilliance — and who discovered that the meth kingpin he'd been hunting for tw
• Skyler White — Walt's wife who went from suspicious spouse to reluctant accomplice to the woman laundering a drug empire's money through a car wash — trapped between
• Gustavo Fring — The owner of a fried chicken chain and the most meticulous drug lord in the American Southwest — a man who smiled at customers for twenty years while
• Mike Ehrmantraut — A former Philadelphia cop turned the most competent fixer in the Southwest — the kind of man who makes murder look like careful project management and
• Jimmy McGill — A small-time con artist who became Albuquerque's most flamboyant criminal lawyer, then a Cinnabon manager in Omaha — the man who could talk anyone int
• Kim Wexler — The best lawyer in Albuquerque who fell in love with a con artist and discovered she liked the con — then walked away when she realized she was becomi
• Lalo Salamanca — The Salamanca family's most dangerous member — charismatic, intelligent, charming, and capable of murdering someone mid-sentence without changing his
• Nacho Varga — A cartel lieutenant who wanted out — the man caught between Gus Fring and the Salamancas, who sacrificed himself to protect his father and died on his
• Chuck McGill — Jimmy's older brother — a brilliant, respected lawyer whose electromagnetic hypersensitivity was psychosomatic, whose contempt for Jimmy was pathologi
• Howard Hamlin — The face of HHM — 'Hamlindigo Blue' suits, perfect hair, and a life destroyed by two people who decided his mild condescension deserved total annihila
• Todd Alquist — The most terrifying character in the Breaking Bad universe — not because he's cruel but because he's pleasant, helpful, and completely incapable of un
• Tuco Salamanca — The most volatile drug distributor in the Southwest — a man who beats his own associates to death for speaking out of turn and screams 'TIGHT TIGHT TI
• Hector Salamanca — A Salamanca patriarch reduced to a wheelchair and a bell — who used that bell one final time to detonate a bomb that killed his greatest enemy and him
• The Cousins — Marco and Leonel Salamanca — twin cartel hitmen who move in perfect silence, dress in silver suits, and communicate through looks that say more than m
• Walter White Jr. — Walt's son — a teenager with cerebral palsy who loved his father unconditionally until he learned the truth, then told him to die.
• Marie Schrader — Hank's wife and Skyler's sister — the purple-clad kleptomaniac whose world collapsed when her husband was murdered and her brother-in-law turned out t
• Jack Welker — A white supremacist gang leader who killed Hank, stole Walt's money, and enslaved Jesse — the final-season villain who proved that the drug trade's bo
• Lydia Rodarte-Quayle — Madrigal's logistics executive who facilitated international meth distribution while ordering Stevia in her chamomile tea — the most anxious person in
• Gale Boetticher — The sweetest meth cook in the world — a vegan, a poet, a lover of fine coffee, and the man whose murder broke Jesse Pinkman permanently.
• Jane Margolis — Jesse's girlfriend who choked to death on her own vomit while Walt watched — the moment Walter White became Heisenberg for real.
• Andrea Cantillo — Jesse's second chance at love — a single mother shot on her front porch by Todd to keep Jesse cooking, proving that the universe punishes Jesse for ca
• Steven Gomez — Hank's partner at the DEA — loyal, competent, and the only person who believed Hank when he said his brother-in-law was Heisenberg.
• Skinny Pete — Jesse's most loyal friend — a street dealer who's smarter than he looks, plays piano like a concert pianist, and would do anything for his boy.
• Badger — Jesse's other loyal friend — a lovable idiot who sold meth to an undercover cop, pitches Star Trek scripts to nobody, and helped Jesse escape because
• Huell Babineaux — Saul Goodman's bodyguard — a large, unflappable man whose primary talents are being big, pickpocketing, and lying on piles of money.
• Krazy-8 — Walt's first kill — a drug dealer locked in Jesse's basement whom Walt strangled with a bike lock after days of agonizing moral deliberation.
• Don Eladio — The head of the Juárez Cartel who killed Gus's partner and spent twenty years not realizing the quiet chicken man was building a weapon pointed direct
• Ed Galbraith — The Disappearer — a vacuum shop owner who extracts people from their lives for $125,000 cash, asks no questions, and offers no second chances.
• Salamanca Family — A cartel crime family whose motto is 'family is all' — Hector, Tuco, Lalo, the Cousins, and a lineage of violence that ends with a bell and a pipe bom
• Juárez Cartel — The Mexican drug cartel that controlled the Southwest meth trade — until a quiet chicken restaurant owner poisoned its entire leadership at a pool par
• Madrigal Electromotive — A massive German industrial conglomerate that backed Gus Fring's drug empire — proving that corporate infrastructure is just organized crime with bett

Locations

• Albuquerque — The sun-bleached, desert-ringed city where a chemistry teacher became a drug lord — a place where strip malls hide empires and the sky is so blue it f
• White Residence — 308 Negra Arroyo Lane — the suburban home where a family unraveled, money was hidden in the crawl space, and a pizza landed on the roof and became a c
• Los Pollos Hermanos — A 14-location fried chicken chain where something delicious is always cooking — and the something is methamphetamine hidden in the fry batter shipment
• The Superlab — An $8 million methamphetamine lab hidden beneath a commercial laundry — where Walt and Jesse cooked Blue Sky, Gale brewed coffee, and Lalo was buried
• A1A Car Wash — Walt's former employer turned money laundering front — 'Have an A1 day!' while we clean your car and your drug money simultaneously.
• Jesse's House — 9809 Margo Street — where a bathtub of hydrofluoric acid ate through the ceiling, a drug dealer was strangled in the basement, and Jesse threw parties
• Saul Goodman & Associates — A strip-mall law office with Constitution wallpaper, an inflatable Statue of Liberty, and a University of American Samoa diploma — where criminal defe
• Hamlin, Hamlin & McGill — Albuquerque's most prestigious law firm — where Chuck blocked Jimmy, Howard wore Hamlindigo Blue, and three named partners all ended up dead.
• To'hajiilee — The desert where it started and where it ended — where Walt's first cook produced phosphine gas and where Hank's last stand produced a grave.
• Jack's Compound — The white supremacist desert compound where Jesse was enslaved, Walt's money was hoarded, and the final episode's M60 settled everything.
• Best Quality Vacuum — A vacuum cleaner shop that makes people disappear — the most important criminal service in the Breaking Bad universe, operated by a man who asks no qu
• Casa Tranquila — The nursing home where Hector Salamanca spent his final years in a wheelchair — until the day he rang his bell one last time and blew up the man who k
• Tuco's Hideout — A desert shack where Tuco held Walt and Jesse captive — the place where the drug trade first became genuinely life-threatening and Hank proved he was
• The Dog House — An Albuquerque drive-in restaurant where Jesse sold meth, Jimmy sold burner phones, and the show's street-level drug trade found its most authentic lo
• Crossroads Motel — A place mostly populated by junkies — the motel Hank called 'The Crystal Palace' where Wendy worked the parking lot and the drug trade's human cost wa
• Mexico — The Cartel's home territory — where Don Eladio holds court by his pool, the Salamancas were raised, and Gus brought a bottle of poisoned tequila to a

Items

• Blue Sky — Walter White's signature methamphetamine — 99.1% pure, distinctively blue, recognized internationally, and the product that built an empire and destro
• The RV — The Crystal Ship — a 1986 Fleetwood Bounder where Walt and Jesse started cooking in the desert, and where the show's most unlikely partnership was for
• The Heisenberg Hat — A black pork-pie hat that transformed a chemistry teacher into a drug lord — the most famous costume piece in prestige television.
• Ricin — Walt's slow-acting poison of choice — prepared twice, deployed once, and the weapon that finally killed Lydia through her own Stevia addiction.
• Hector's Bell — A brass bell strapped to a wheelchair — Hector Salamanca's only means of communication, and the detonator that killed Gustavo Fring.

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