Item from Breaking Bad by Vince Gilligan
A black pork-pie hat that transformed a chemistry teacher into a drug lord — the most famous costume piece in prestige television.
The hat is the mask. Walter White wears it when he becomes Heisenberg — when the mild teacher disappears and the cold-eyed kingpin emerges. It first appears when Walt needs to look like someone drug dealers would take seriously, and it gradually becomes inseparable from the persona. In the finale, Walt leaves the hat in the abandoned White Residence — shedding the Heisenberg identity before his final act. The hat is the show's most recognizable visual symbol.
A black pork-pie hat. Simple. Unremarkable on its own. On Walter White's shaved head, paired with dark sunglasses and a goatee, it became the visual shorthand for 'Heisenberg' — the criminal alter ego that consumed the man who created it.
Also known as: The Hat, Heisenberg's Hat, Pork Pie Hat