Walt’s money was his weakness though. Everything he has done, he rationalized it by thinking that it was worth it, for the money. He knows Jesse is angry enough to throw millions of his own money down the toilet, so he has no reason to suspect Jesse won’t burn Walt’s money too. I think, if it was anything else, Walt would have been more cautious... but the money was his Achilles heel.
Remember how he similarly freaked out when he discovered the money he had stashed in the house was gone, when Skylar gave it away? So, there is a precedent.
True.
But when Skylar takes Walt to the rented storage room and shows him a 4 foot pile of money - he is truly astonished.
“How much is enough?” She asks.
I don’t think he had any clue how much there really was. Yeah, the money is crucial. But more than that - Walter White is a family man. His main preoccupation was to always provide for his family.
So to see him lose control and run out of the car wash and race into the desert while being fooled by Jesse wsas a little bit too much to believe.
He should have known Hank was behind this.
Yeah but remember he had just set it up with Saul’s guy to disappear the whole family, but now had no money to pay the guy with, and he needed 500 grand, so that option disappeared and how screwed he felt he and his family was at that moment. Plus just learning your wife gave 622,000 bucks to the guy she had an affair with for his tax bill.