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For me, these 2 events stick out as the most as the most important and influential events for these respective protagonists, hence why we start with these events in the first and second episodes of each series:

1. Walter White learns of his diagnosis of terminal, inoperable lung cancer on his 50th birthday in 2008. This is Walt’s cataylst event, as the decisions he makes and the road he goes down after this event are based on this discovery. Breaking Bad wouldn’t be possible without it.

2. Jimmy McGill is kidnapped and interrogated by Tuco Salamanca after a scam gone wrong in 2002. Tuco’s sheer brutality and intense violence towards the skater twins traumatizes Jimmy, but also serves as an ego-centric discovery moment, as Jimmy talks Tuco out of killing the two. This event gets him into almost immediate business with Nacho, which puts him in hot water, and later puts him in contact with Lalo Salamanca, which obviously leads to his whole world being turned upside down.

There’s also many side characters you can credit with a catalyst or influential event that creates the timeline that they walk down, forming the plot of the Breaking Bad Universe. Mike talks of the day he took his first bribe in the final episode of Better Call Saul, showing us that some are even self aware of their catalyst moment. What are some other examples of character’s beginnings that made them who they are?

When Gus finally falls over in 413’s Face Off’, he reveals the bombed room for a few seconds, showing what looks like a severed limb. Hector’s body isn’t visible in the wheelchair, but sitting in front of it could be his arm or leg, or even Tyrus’ arm or leg. How have i never noticed this??