All the Clues Hank Missed- Breaking Bad 

Can't believe it took hank so long to figure out walt was heisenberg, I literally figured it out in season 2

I agree with others, it was not that Hank was too trusting of Walter, it was that he saw Walt as a "lesser" man that was incapable of the actions that Heisenberg did.

Imagine if Breaking bad would be from Hanks perspective. The reveal that Walt is Heisenberg would be the biggest plot twist in TV history.

I swear Walter always had the most indisputably guilty face whenever Hank mentioned absolutely anything incriminating 😭

Hank actually knew since episode 1, when Walt said “Hank, I’m breaking bad” and Hank responded “better call Saul”

“Hank I am Heisenberg and I sell meth”. “Lol”

"Whats in the bag?" "Half a million cash" "*Opens the bag* Holy shit you're right *Closes the bag*"

The problem for Hank was that he was looking for Heisenberg a badass ruthless killer meth cook. His picture of Heisenberg wasn't his pathetic, poor, high school teacher brother-in-law. He thought someone more like Tuco. Even if at any point he thought Walt was Heisenberg he just didn't think someone like Walt was capable.

Hank wasnt too trusting, he was too proud to even consider walt as a criminal kingpin. In their relationship, hank sees himself as this macho, made man, and walt is this kinda pathetic wimp, at least in hanks eyes. Hank treats him like a little brother, he cares about walt, but he sees him as an almost stunted man that hank leaves himself to take care of, while teasing and making fun of him. This view of walt is entirely counterintuitive to the real design of heisenberg in Hanks imagination.

Hank was biased towards Walt because they were family, and he had a preconceived image of Walt being harmless. A detective with the same skill level as Hank but neutral towards Walt would have made him the prime suspect during the investigation of the missing school equipment.

There’s also a general connection of dots that never happens - a bald chemistry teacher who used masks from JP Wynne chemistry lab suddenly generates hundreds of thousands in wealth from a “gambling addiction”, possesses a “second cell phone” as Skyler told him and disappeared for several months for cases such as fugue state and various trips out of town. This is why maybe it wasn’t just ideal entertainment but ideal plot line to have the villain be a familial relation - because his denial was so extreme when logic stared in the face, and he wouldn’t give that sort of leniency to anyone except family.

for the very first clue with the respirator, hank asked if walt recognized it. walt said no, but if u think about it he really should have said "yes its chemistry class equipment". too bad hank missed that too

It wasn't the fact that Hank thought Walter was a good guy, it was because he thought down of Walter, that he was weak and would never have the courage to pull something like that off.

What always made me chuckle about Breaking Bad was that Gus went through all of that trouble to build this super-lab under ground at the Laundry. But he didn't bother to build a garage to where his chief chemist(s) could park in private. Seems like he would have some sort of secure parking area for management, supervisors, and meth cooks.

Can't believe Hank missed all these clues. I found out Walt is heisenberg right from the episode 1

Even Light Yagami's dad was suspicious of his son when L told him about it. Hank's ego thinking his nerdy brother in-law could never be involved in the drug sphere was his ultimate flaw.

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A lot of this is just convenience for the writers, but I do think Hank always viewed Walt as a weak man who had smarts but no balls. Hank's really deep in his own personal macho fantasy. And the irony is that Walter thrives on dangerous situations whereas Hank is crippled with PTSD by them.

In the moment where Walt told hank about the cash in the bag, I feel like it was almost like a last attempt from Walt at wanting to get caught. He wanted Hank to catch him and put and end to it while simultaneously verifying his actions by not getting caught.

I've always thought that if Hank could watch the show back, he would be so upset with himself for missing so many signs

His biggest flaw - too trusting 😢 I really do find it amazing he didn't suspect a thing when he originally found the first masks missing from Walt's class

Breaking Bad is one of those shows that you have to watch all the episodes more than once. When I first saw the earth shattering scene where Hank is on the toilet at Walter White’s home and flipping through Leaves Of Grass and sees familiar handwriting on one of the first pages dedicating the book as a gift to his co-worker, W.W., the episode immediately jumps to a scene in the past where Hank is asking Walter who W.W. might be and Walter laughing, holding his hands up and saying, “You got me.” I thought this was the first time we’d ever seen this conversation, like it was inserted into the episode as an afterthought, but I was completely wrong. Not only did I have to watch the episodes of the show again, I realized after yet an additional viewing of the show was the whole subplot involving Marie’s stealing items from people’s homes at realtor showings was the direct link to Hank finding out more information about Gale Boetticher. Hank was sidelined after being attacked by the Salamanca Twins and was no longer working in an official position as a DEA agent. So when Marie got busted for stealing, but was allowed to go because the homeowner didn’t press charges, a local APD detective brought Marie home and decided to ask Hank for his help in investigating the recent murder of Gale Boetticher, and so the police detective later brought evidence he collected from Gale’s apartment so Hank could look at it while recovering in bed at his home. If that hadn’t happened, Hank may have never seen Gale’s handwriting, or the initials W.W. for that matter.

Hank did NOT go to Walt's school chemistry lab in the pilot!🤣 It was several episodes after. I can't remember which one off the top of my head but it wasn't the pilot, I'm pretty sure it was on an episode 3-6

The script sounded like it was written by a robot

This is the exact moment a rock became a mineral

yeah this is written by ChatGPT

its interesting to me that at the beginning of Walter's career as Heisenberg he betrayed his partner and designer of the lab and got him killed but Gale ended up being the one to end his career, even after death.

On a serious note though, when you’re in law enforcement, you can’t go around looking at everyone as a suspect. There are always clues and odd behavior, but if there isnt hard evidence of a crime, you can’t label someone as a suspect. Our constitution does protect us from such things. You’ll notice how Hanks boss get mad at him for ‘going off the books’ so to speak. It’s not because his boss is lazy, it’s because he doesn’t want another lawsuit. At the end of the day, their never was any real evidence for Hank to be suspicious

I think Walt's desire to prove himself to Hank was one of his main motivations. He always says it's about "the chemistry" or "providing for his family" but he could have done both if he'd just taken the job at Gray Matter. The problem is, that job wouldn't have helped as much in his brotherly (or brother in lawly, technically) rivalry with Hank. The funny thing is this means if Hank hadn't disrespected and underestimated Walt so much from the beginning, he might never have become Heisenberg in the first place.

Breaking bad has one of the best cases of the “Clark Kent” effect

The more times I watch this series, the more I think it revolves around the fact that Hank, as good as he is in the DEA at catching criminals, cant see that Walt is Heisenberg. Walt is that good at hiding in plain sight.

For me it's astounding that he didn't suspect Walt in season 1. Instead he suspected some janitor, and as I understand it - jailed him without solid proof.

There’s no way AI didn’t write this video

This feels AI generated

While I generally agree, there are three issues. Exibit B: Any actual distinctive features were covered up by his outfit. He would have had height and build and maybe glasses. Thats doesn't really help identifying Walt as it is too broad of a field. Exibit D: He had no reason to know that Walt was at Tuco's place. Exibit E: Again, he had no way to know that Walt was in the RV. Even if you count B as a usable clue later, as you point out, his presence at the other two scenes would only be a missed clue if he had some reason to know or suspect Walt was there.

So why did Walter, who always worried about covering tracks in every detail, left a book signed in handwriting by a dead cook under investigation IN HIS GUEST BATHROOM?

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This is 100% written by chat GPT LOL

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I think that it was quite realistic. He didn't have unwavering trust, nor thought that he was a lesser man than what it takes to be Heisenberg, but he initially didn't want it to be true because he liked him and then the more clues he missed the harder the fall was and thus he stayed in denial for too long...

Walter was not a mastermind, as he let his emotions (i.e ego, care for Jesse etc) cloud his judgement. And I don’t believe that Hank’s trust in Walt was what kept him. He was looking for a mastermind of a criminal, cold blooded killer and Walter simply did not fit the criteria because of how boring and pathetic his life had been up until the start of the show.

Hank, in Walt's science class: Walter, it's you! You're the Heisenberg!

Walt really should have thrown Hank off the scent over that missing lab equipment, by framing some student he didn't much like. That would have added up in Hank's mind, and I could see Walt justifying it as a way to scare the kid straight.

How was he supposed to recognize him on the security video?

Thanks ChatGPT

I think that cancer issue did not help Hank, it certainly depicted Walt as vulnerable and lacking ambition.

the script for this video is written like a kid stretching out the wording in a school essay

Hank never thought much of Walter. He liked him, don't get me wrong, but he didn't see Walter as a "man", weak. Then Walter gets cancer. Which makes walt look even more "weak", where hank just pitties Walter more than anything, and with that, he didn't even entertain the idea that Walter was the biggest and most destructive meth cook in the state. It wasn't trust, it was arrogance, and only after Hank suffered PTSD was fired, shot, went through a grueling rehab, was bedridden, and was forced to endure humility did his arrogance finally waiver. That's when he not only realized who Walt truly was. He also figured out that Gus was the main distributor.

Sounds like you wrote your whole script using chatGPT

Script is written by AI, I can feel it.

Exhibit D is so stupid U gave us no actual evidence and just said he “should’ve known” like he’s a part of the audience

Another missed opportunity was his name, Walter White. If Hank had watched the TV show Breaking Bad, he would have known Walter White is the real name of Heisenberg.

I think the part fans forget is how often people’s friends are shocked when it turns out they were criminals. Like John Wayne Gacey. Your first assumption is not going to be that someone you trust and seems like a good person is secretly a monster

Hank held Walt in contempt. He was not seeing Heisenberg, because he saw Walt as a worm, not a man.

Personally I think that hank just needed 3 more minerals for his collection to gain max psychic ability to have figured walt out earlier on but he didn't explore and loot new Mexico enough to achieve that

It’s also worth remembering that Hank was really the only one in the DEA that kept pursuing the Heisenberg case. Like yeah he definitely flopped for a long time at realizing it was Walter but so did his whole team and they pretty much gave up while he still made moves even when he wasn’t able to work. It’s actually kind of wild that the lab equipment that was traced back to Walt’s school in the beginning of the show wasn’t looked at as a paramount factor in the Heisenberg case by the entire DEA. I feel like if Hank literally just had ONE person as passionate about the case as he was they would have opened up his eyes to the possibility that they need to look at Walter but to have that epiphany yourself about someone you think you know is not easy

Hank just trusted his family. He was never a BAD guy

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Hank missed all the signs simply because he really didn't think much of Walt!

Well when your brother in law has been afraid of everything his whole life and has been a mediocre man, you can’t see that they would be capable of any wrong doing. That’s why Hank dismissed all these clues. In his mind, it would be impossible for Walt to hurt a fly because of the man he’s been. You’d never suspect your own family.

"had hank found out the show would have taken a vastly different turn" duh??

At least he could distinguish a mineral from a mere stone.

Great job, ChatGPT!

I love that this show still has such a strong fanbase years later 😂 made me get into it from all the praise and finally finished it just a bit ago. Definitely does not disappoint, what an ending!

The only real clue hank missed? was the fact that Breakfast is the most important meal of the day

the fact that you keep saying "This shows how good walter white was good at diverting the close calls and such and etc." repeatedly is making you sound like a chain of Chat-GPT responses

Exhibit G: Had he had backup when he visited the junkyard, they could have secured the RV and gotten a warrant, opened the door, and “oh, hi Walt”.

In the scene where Hank shows Walt the notes and he makes the Willy Wonka joke you can see the true sociopathic nature of Heisenberg popping up as if he instantly switched personalities in a second. Bravo, Vince.

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I don't think he so much as missed them but was willing to overlook them giving his in law the benefit of the doubt. You don't want to accuse someone who has cancer of being a drug dealer and meth cook unless you are extremely sure.

They already had Tuco beat before Hank got there nice video

this feels like its written by chat gpt and the narrator clearly never watched the show

I don’t think he trusted Walt, but rather he thought Walter was lame.

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It wasn't that Hank overestimated Walt's goodness. He underestimated Walt's manliness from the very beginning. I'm sure he considered that Walt could have been Heisenberg, before dismissing that he would be able to do any of it.

I’ve never been one for watching Netflix or shows, but I started this and finished it within like a week and a half. So GOOD

i bet hank gonna cry when he see this

He didn't miss them, they just didn't register with Hank at the time. You don't see what you don't want to believe. Ultimately they all added up to the realisation he had in the bathroom scene. It wasn't just the book.

Video just says the same thing over and over again but reworded

Certain compilations don’t need voice over, and this is one of them.

Was this video written by AI?

This sounds chatgpt generated

Hank opens bags: Roll credits.

It’s the whole thing with the plot I mean 50-year-old high school chemistry teacher with cancer becomes a drug maker and psychotic killer not very likely

This make the show more iconic the yin and yang dynamic of walt and hank, walt from weak to powerful while hank from powerful to going weak.

Hank jokingly says Willy Wonka, not Walt.

i feel like this video was AI generated

I feel dumb watching this, I had to watch all of Breaking Bad and Better Call Saul and only just figured out that Walt was Heisenberg, I thought he was a public representative.

We’re lucky Hank took so long to find out. Had he found out earlier it would probably have ended the series then and there.

I think hanks circumstance with walt is very similar to hanks superior with gus. They were friends and he either didnt or couldnt see gus as a kingpin. Same with hank they were brothers and he didnt want to believe walt was the cook.

This video is like, "You know that thing you watched? Yeah, that's exactly what happened." Thanks for pointing out the obvious! 😅

walt: im cooking meth. hank: this food might aswell be meth its so good.

Hank really should have been able to tell Walt was hiding something when he went into the school, most officers are trained in body language, especially DEA agents, and with Walt giving off every signal of guilt. The only thing I can come up with is hanks love for Walt overpowered his detective abilities, shows you how much Hank and Walt loved and trusted each other,

this video feels ai generated, like by chat gpt

WW, who could that be? Willy Wonka? Will Williamson? Wangdang Wufflehous? I guess we’ll never know.

lowkey thought Hank would just shrug off seeing the writing in Walt Whitman's book too XD

You also forget that Walter matches exactly every description they probably have of Heisenberg (the ginger goatee, and probably his height, skin color, bald, etc..)

I always thought that it was stupid he knew Heisenberg was a really smart guy that knows a lot of Chemistry but he couldn’t remember that he questioned his really smart brother over stolen equipment on his CHEMISTRY lab used by Heisenberg and was sus about it