Matt Ehrmantraut

Matt Ehrmantraut
Portrayed by	Nicholas Liam King (young Matt)
Character information
Full name	Matthew Ehrmantraut
Aliases	Matty
Date of birth	1977-1979
Age	22-24
Fate
Status	Deceased
Date of death	August 2001
Social life
Occupation	Philadelphia Police Officer
Family	Mike Ehrmantraut (father) † Stacey Ehrmantraut (widow) Kaylee Ehrmantraut (daughter)
Relationships	Jack Fensky (collegue) † Troy Hoffman (collegue) †
Appearances in Breaking Bad
First	——
Last	——
Appearances in Better Call Saul
First	"Five-O" (mentioned) "Talk"(flashback)
Last	——
Appearance in El Camino
✘ No

“	You know what a cop fears most? More than getting shot, more than anything? Prison. Getting locked up with everybody you put away. You threaten a cop with that, you make him dangerous, and that's what I told him. I talked sense. No one was getting hurt. But if you go to the I.A., if you even look like you're going. He had a wife, a kid, responsibilities. Take the money. Do something good with it. Well I tried. I tried. But he wouldn't listen. My boy was stubborn. My boy was strong. And he was gonna get himself killed. So I told him... I told him I did it, too. That I was like Hoffman, getting by, and that's what you heard that night: me talking him down, him kicking and screaming until the fight went out of him. He put me up on a pedestal, and I had to show him that I was down in the gutter with the rest of 'em. I broke my boy...	„
	― Mike Ehrmantraut's monologue about how he disappointed his son.

Matthew "Matt" Ehrmantraut, often referred to as "Matty", was the son of Mike Ehrmantraut, the husband of Stacey and the father of Kaylee Ehrmantraut. He worked as a police officer in Philadelphia for two years before he was killed.

History

Background

Matt was a rookie police officer in Philadelphia and was married to Stacey for an unknown amount of time. Together, they had one daughter, Kaylee Ehrmantraut. Matt was also very close to his father, Mike Ehrmantraut, whom he always admired very much and hoped to one day become a successful police officer just like him. Matt worked with his longtime partner, Officer Hoffman, who one day came to him offering dirty money, which Matt declined, believing it was the right thing to do.

Sergeant Fensky later pressed Matt on taking the money. Confused, Matt called his father to ask what to do. He wanted to go to Internal Affairs and inform against his partner and sergeant. Mike was worried that if Matt ratted out on his work colleagues, this would eventually put him in trouble with the rest of the precinct, which was full of dirty cops just like Hoffman and Fensky. So Mike revealed to his son that he was also a dirty cop and there's nothing wrong with taking dirty money, the bad guys are caught in the end no matter what. Matt put his father on a pedestal before, and this revelation left him devastated. Matt eventually decided to follow his father's advice and took the money. But it was too late, Fensky and Hoffman were scared that Matt would rat them out, so they set up an ambush to kill Matt. This crime since then became a mystery to the city's police department, since no one ever found out who killed Matt ("Five-O").

Better Call Saul

Season 1

It is revealed through flashback that after months of investigation, Mike was able to put the pieces together and discovered that it was Hoffman and Fensky who killed his son. So he was able to set up a similar ambush to kill both police officers and avenge his son's death.

Detectives from Philadelphia later visited Mike in his new home in Albuquerque to question him about the deaths of Hoffman and Fensky, since their death scene was pretty similar to Matt's death scene, and Mike curiously left the State the day after the two died. With some help from his lawyer, Jimmy McGill, Mike is able to evade any questions and gets out of the situation. He later has a conversation with his daughter-in-law, Stacey, revealing that he feels extremely guilty and upset about Matt's death ("Five-O").

Season 4

Matt is seen as a child on a flashback alongside a much younger Mike. As his father pours cement on his driveway, he allows Matt to write his name on it with a stick ("Talk").