ok, is Walt a dead man?
Eventually. But the flash forward shows him with a full beard and straggly hair...I figured at least 6 to 8 months have passed since he leaves town at whatever end the show is building up to.
His house is ransacked and vandalized, and his neighbor seems genuinely shocked to see him.
What gets me is that in the 5 years that the show’s been on, all of the events take place over only a two-year timespan.
That’s the only way I can see the show ending. They can’t let him get away with it, and Walt going to jail would be anticlimactic. The best way for them to end it is for Walt to die, probably in the course of trying to save someone else. That way, they can partially redeem the character, but he still pays some consequences.