The final shot: Walt lying in his underwear (again) in the desert, but this time he is laughing. It’s not mania—it’s the laughter of pure control.
After collapsing at the car wash, Walt is diagnosed with inoperable lung cancer. Given 24 months to live, he reconciles his mortality. In a desperate attempt to secure his family's financial future, he tags along with his former student, the small-time dealer Jesse Pinkman (Aaron Paul), to a meth "cook."
Walt learns he can manipulate people’s emotions. He doesn’t want treatment, but he agrees to it because it makes him look like a loving family man. Breaking Bad Season 1 All Episodes
When we first meet Walter White (Bryan Cranston), he is the embodiment of invisible despair. He is a high school chemistry teacher in Albuquerque, New Mexico, who has to work a humiliating second job at a car wash to support his pregnant wife, Skyler (Anna Gunn), and his cerebral palsy-afflicted son, Walt Jr. (RJ Mitte). On his 50th birthday, he collapses at the car wash and receives a death sentence: Stage III lung cancer.
There are television pilots, and then there is the pilot of Breaking Bad . Before it became a global cultural phenomenon, before the "Heisenberg" hats and the giant magnets, Breaking Bad was a quiet, desperate character study hidden inside a crime procedural. The final shot: Walt lying in his underwear
At the party, Walt is confronted with the life he could have had. Elliott and Gretchen are billionaires. They offer to pay for all of Walt’s cancer treatment. Prideful and furious, Walt refuses. He lies to Skyler, saying he already accepted the money.
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Walt throws a bag of what appears to be meth onto the table. But it is actually fulminated mercury. He tosses a tiny crystal to the ground. The explosion blows out the windows, deafens everyone, and leaves Tuco stunned. Walt walks calmly through the wreckage and declares: "This is not meth."