Maybe the Ricin is going to be used to kill Jack's entire crew. They are not exactly cautious around the cook, with no one but Todd wearing the masks. Maybe Walt puts the ricin vial in one of machines that kicks out the steam and everyone in the room dies.
In the flashforward from first episode of season 5, Walt left a tip for the waitress with a $100 bill, so it seems like he still has the money.
One way I could see this playing out is Hank and Gomez both die in the shootout. Walt and Jessie are taken by Todd's crew and forced to cook for them. Somehow, Walt ends up faking his death and disappearing to New Hampshire using Saul's vacuum guy. This seems to fit in with Carol's reaction to seeing Walt in this season's flashforward. She looked like she'd seen a ghost. He tells Skyler to release the Confession tape so that Hank is pegged as Heisenberg and they still have the money. Walt comes back to ABQ in the end with the M60 to free Jessie (proving that he truly does care about him) and takes the ricin, going out on his own terms like he claimed he wanted to in season 1.
Knowing Gilligan, this is all probably WAY off.
I love the idea of Walt redeeming himself by saving Jesse in some way, but I think that's too optimistic for this series. Everything about this season tells us its not going to end well.
Hank and Gomez die. That ends the shootout, from there I think Walt weasels him and Jesse out of it. Not sure where it goes from there but I just feel like Jesse can't die with 3 episodes left. And though there are others who know about Walt, Hank and Gomez are the only ones in the DEA who know. Their death gives Walt the chance to get away. Who knows but those are just my impressions. There's too much time left for it to just be Walt vs Todd's crew and the family... that wouldn't be a very rewarding payoff considering who the major players are in the series...
I'm starting to think Walt might get away with all this. Seems like he probably loses the family but I don't see him dead or in jail. Maybe dying alone of cancer is appropriate?
Marie is going to go apeshit if Hank dies.
Everyone involved- Cranston, Paul, Gunn, Brandt, Gilligan- have all said viewers will be satisfied with the ending.
Makes me think they're going to do a Sopranos fade to black.
I was reading an article in the latest Entertainment Weekly, on-set at the shooting of one of the last few episodes of Breaking Bad. Walt is yelling to someone over a cell phone "Toe the line or you'll wind up like {Redacted}" . Also, Walt has something "extremely important in his possession, something more valuable than 1,000 gallons of methylamine, something that a certain someone desperately wants back".
Walt ends the call saying he's still got things left to do, and destroys the phone.
Now I'm curious as to what he has in his possession.
I feel like Walt runs. Jesse gets taken by the Nazis to cook for them. Walt has to return with the M60 to take out the Nazis and save Jesse (and possibly Skylar).