Character from Breaking Bad by Vince Gilligan
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 two years was his own brother-in-law.
Hank Schrader is the guy who seems like comic relief until you realize he's the most capable person in the room. He talks loud, laughs louder, collects minerals (not rocks, Marie), and makes jokes that make his wife cringe. He's also the DEA agent who connected the dots between Tuco, Gus Fring, and a mysterious 'Heisenberg' when nobody else could. His PTSD after the Tuco shootout and the Cousins' attack is played with devastating honesty — panic attacks in the elevator, refusing to leave the house, channeling the anxiety into mineral collecting because he can't channel it into work. His recovery — teaching himself to walk again, returning to the DEA — is as heroic as anything in the show. When he finds Walt's copy of Leaves of Grass in the bathroom and realizes Heisenberg has been sitting at his dinner table for two years, something in Hank's face dies. He pursues Walt not out of duty but out of personal fury. He dies at To'hajiilee, shot by Jack Welker, telling Walt: 'You're the smartest guy I ever met. And you're too stupid to see — he made up his mind ten minutes ago.'
Big, bald, physical presence that fills doorways. Loud shirts, DEA badge, the kind of guy who looks like he's about to slap your back and make a crude joke. After his shooting: wheelchair, then cane, then walking again through sheer stubbornness. His face when he realizes Heisenberg is Walt is television's most devastating reaction shot.
Also known as: ASAC Schrader, Hank