Ozymandias breaking bad3/17/2023 Walter tries to negotiate with Jack for Hank's life, promising the whole of his fortune-$80 million-to the crew if they'll only spare his brother-in-law. A bloody wedding ring becomes shorthand for Hank's been tagged, shot in the leg. The landscape is unchanging, is unfeeling. The " sands stretch far away" as Johnson fades Walt, Jesse, and the RV from the shot. ![]() Why not Holly? It's her new favorite, she says. In the glow of her pregnancy, she just wants to talk to Walt about baby names. Because this is a prelapsarian White family interaction, she's cheery and willing to believe her husband. He calls Skyler and lies to her about where he is. Jesse's still a goof, swordfighting with the air. The episode opens on a flashback to Walt and Jesse's first cook. "Ozymandias" writer Moira Walley-Beckett and director Rian Johnson make you see the destruction of a meth empire in the haggard face of its Heisenberg. It reads: "My name is Ozymandias, king of kings:/ Look on my works, ye Mighty, and despair!" Shelley makes you see the destruction of a fallen empire in the broken statue of its king. ![]() In the poem, Shelley's words guide your eye across three distinct sights: the legs of a statue, dismembered from the rest of the body the statue's frozen face, half buried in the sand and the inscription on the pedestal. The shootout concludes Walt becomes Heisenberg and Holly breaks hearts.īoth "Ozymandias," the Percy Shelley poem, and "Ozymandias," the Breaking Bad episode, are about recognition.
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