How will Breaking Bad end? 4 predictions

After Sunday's mid-season finale, there are just eight episodes left of the addictive AMC series, and critics are eager to speculate on Walter White's ultimate fate

Anna Gunn and Bryan Cranston in "Breaking Bad"
(Image credit: Lewis Jacobs/AMC)

AMC's Emmy-magnet drama Breaking Bad aired its midseason finale on Sunday night, embarking on a 10-month hiatus by employing one of the series' favorite tricks: A massive cliffhanger. Just as Breaking Bad's meth-manufacturing protagonist Walter White (Bryan Cranston) quits — or claims to quit — the meth business for good, his DEA agent brother-in-law Hank (Dean Norris) realizes that Walter is the mysterious drug kingpin called "Heisenberg" that he's been chasing for four and a half seasons. And as fans well remember, the fifth season premiered with a flash-forward scene that showed a bedraggled Walter illegally purchasing a massive gun. How will Breaking Bad take us from Hank's realization to Walter's gun buy? Here, four predictions:

1. Hank will take Walter down — but might go down with him

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