While Jesse is constantly searching for acceptance and his place in the world, Walt seeks acknowledgment, admiration, and someone to follow his lead, which he finds in Jesse. Though their relationship frays over time, it nevertheless forms the emotional crux of Vince Gilligan's nuanced world.
Jesse was his only friend. Also, Jesse obeys Walt, always. At Los Pollos Hermanos, Walt stated that reason as to why he keeps Jesse. Walt thought of Jesse as a son beginning with the advice from Donald Margolis. Walt had an off with Jesse briefly when Jesse decided to cook alone.
Basically, Jesse takes care of many of Walt's needs, in a way that no other character does, which is why there are so many aspects to their relationship (father and son, mentor and prodige, fifty-fifty partners, abuser and victim etc…), which means that Walt needs Jesse in a way he doesn't Hank (or anyone else), and ...
He obviously cared about Jesse, with the sleeping pills he said “sorry” about Jane. Also, he called Walter Jr. “Jesse” when he was recovering from a being beaten up by Mike. Also he saved his life ultimately.
Early on, Walt needs Jesse because he knows the business. But after a while, like once he starts working for Gus, the business side of things is pretty much taken care of.
Walt and Jesse: The Most Conflicting Relationship in Breaking Bad
Why did Walter cry when Jane died?
Walter is in tears as he watches Jane's death and he is, for a time, haunted by the decision he makes to not intervene. But it's an early sign, as well, that Walter is willing to kill if it means maintaining the image he's built for himself.
It's ironic that Jesse and Walter Jr., Walt's biological son, never cross paths in the show. This actually invokes a sense of sadness in realizing that Walt seems to outwardly show more love and affection for Jesse than he does his own son. He demonstrates this after being blackmailed by Jesse's girlfriend, Jane.
Jesse had sold out Walt to the DEA. Upon seeing Jesse, scarred and beaten, with his family being at gunpoint, Walter came to the realisation that he was not so, and held him down as the guns were blazing.
Walter White's unremarkable lifestyle is the spark that lights his obsession with cooking meth, as well as his most useful tool when it comes to escaping suspicion.
Walter is obsessed with getting money so that he can buy "things for Ruth"; he is unaware that treating Ruth more kindly and with more respect would be more appreciated and valued than any "gifts."
By examining the social and internal interactions of the character Walter White, it is clear that he could be clinically diagnosed with a narcissistic personality disorder.
At some points Walt wasn't necessarily trying to be mean, he thought he was doing right by Jesse through some of his horrendous actions in his own twisted way. As for calling him a junkie who can't cook, Walt's an egotistical b-stard who can't stand someone being on the same level as himself.
After realizing that it was Walt who poisoned Brock, Jesse went ballistic. He wanted to bring Walt to justice, even if it meant he has to confess to everything he had done up until that point as well. As a response to this betrayal, Walt put a hit out on Jesse's head.
Jesse is empathetic and agonizes over every wrong he does. Walt is ruthless and will stop at nothing to seize power over people, trampling and abusing every single person in his life. Jesse receives this abuse probably more than anyone.
The reason Walt confessed to Jesse about Jane's death ties into this steady downfall of Walt's morals and motivations. Walter White becomes truly irredeemable after spotting Jesse hiding in the wake of Hank's murder,...
At the end of the movie, Krysten Ritter reprised her role as Jane, Jesse's girlfriend who died from an overdose (and a little help from Walt), to continue one of her most memorable scenes in the original series.
During his time on the series, Jesse Pinkman was involved with two women, namely: Jane Margolis and Andrea Cantillo. Jane, a tattoo artist, was a hedonistic lover of life while Andrea was a reserved mother. There is an argument for each of them as better long-term partners for Jesse.
The finale did give Jesse a happy ending of sorts when Walt, finally showing something like remorse for what he'd done to his former student, set him free. But our final image of Jesse was behind the wheel, screaming, gunning it down backroads to make his escape. It's an ending, but it's hardly closure.
Walt let her die because she knew who he is and had threatened to reveal it, because Gus' advise "you can never trust a drug addict" was resonating in his mind (therefore she could blackmail him again), because she was just as bad influence on Jesse as he was on her, and because knowing Jesse's drug use history the ...
In the finale, after Walter White (Bryan Cranston) helped to kill his captors, Jesse hopped into Todd's (Jesse Plemons) El Camino and drove into the night. The camera zoomed in on his elated face as he laughed and let out a scream, finally free.
Walter White chose the alias "Heisenberg" based on the German physicist Werner Heisenberg, using it to separate himself from his actions and suppress guilt, reflecting the famous uncertainty principle associated with Heisenberg's work.
Walt Jr.'s Flynn alias was derived from actor Errol Flynn. Walt Jr. is the only main character to have never met Jesse Pinkman. Skyler White and Walter White Jr. are the only main characters to only appear in Breaking Bad.
In the season 5 episode Confessions Jesse realises that Saul and Huell took his ricin cigerette on the orders of Walt (Jesse finds this out by threatening them with a gun) which causes him to also realise that Walter was behind the whole false story of Gus poisoning Brock when it had been him all along.
