Also there were opportunities to get out with the money ahead of the game that he passed by. He let his ego drive him on. Look at the family dinner when he scoffs off Hank's idea that Gale was Heisenberg, and points out that his notes are copies, because he can't stand to hear his lackey & copycat being praised and regarded as a genius by the brother-in-law he kind of looks down on as an intellectual inferior. Right there, that was an opportunity to get the very last guy interested in pursuing his case to assume that "Heisenberg" is dead and give up the hunt, but instead, he spurs Hank back to the chase. And it is not just his freedom he risks in doing so, but now Hank is a threat to Gus, whose own reaction to that threat would almost certainly result in more violence.


That's possible, but I'm also on the 'kill Skylar' team. I think Hank would be a better parent to their kids anyway. Skylar flirted with becoming contemptible with her revenge sex with her boss and her attempts to bully Walt out of the marriage, because she was too greedy to forfeit the payload by divorcing him and exposing his crimes; and her embracing the money laundering this year has pushed her over the line, particularly her storyline with the car wash. Skylar, Miss Queen-Bitch-Know-It-All wants the car wash, so she screws the owner out of it, simply because he was not inclined to sell the business he worked for years to build up, when she demanded he do so! Moreover, she barges into the whole money-laundering plan, running roughshod over the guy who's actually earning the money, and the lawyer who has at least a rudimentary knowledge, fixates on the car wash despite the lack of expertise or amenable partners, and then discovers too late that the car wash is insufficient to launder the sums of money Walt brings in. She's as bad as Walt with her making messes out of her own stubbornness and pride, but she lacks the genius Walt possesses that gives him a reason for his ego & pride.

Exactly. Living well is the best revenge, and the fact that even when he isn't gloating in Tio's face, in situations like where the cousins have come to seek revenge, the old man has to ASK Gus, where he could once bully him. But sicking the federales on the other guy who killed Gus's first partner has been made retroactively sweet.