What happened to the Schrader Family After Breaking Bad & Better Call Saul?

what do you think you're just gonna walk away from this thing never gonna happen that is not what we're saying what happened to the schroeder family after breaking bad and better call saul in the very first episode of breaking bad we are introduced to the whites no pun intended they're a middle-class family of three with another surprise member on the way there's walter white the ailing patriarch of the family skylar white the pragmatic mom-to-be and walter white jr a teenager with cerebral palsy bad enough that he needs crutches to walk this family and the consequences of their actions end up becoming the focal point of everything that unfolds across three separate cinematic productions but there is another family that was introduced in pilate whose impact on vince gilligan's universe is felt just as deeply until the final episode of better call saul dropped we never knew how the story of the schraders ended we could only guess but now we finally know so without further ado this is the story of what happened to the schroeder family after breaking bad and better call saul before we go into our explanation we have a very small request if you like our content please support us by subscribing to our channel this is a small click for you but for us it means a lot thank you let's begin they were a happy almost trophy couple in the beginning hank and marie schrader the story of the schraders is closely linked to that of the whites not just because hank is a dea agent and marie is skyler's biological sister it also shows you the contrast between the kinds of relationships people develop though next to nothing is known about skyler and marie's childhood or life before marriage or hanks for that matter we do get to know that he has been in the picture way longer than walter despite marrying her after walt married skyler he used to go to school with marie and she was his high school sweetheart after asking her out multiple times and getting rejected multiple times hank finally persuades marie to see him and he eventually build a strong deep and loving relationship we never hear about hank's parents either so we can assume that they were either estranged from their son or no longer in this world in fact it is possible that hank deciding to become a dea agent had something to do with his parents though it is pure speculation all we can say for certain is that he is a veteran with nearly 30 years of experience under his belt by the time breaking bad begins and when it does hank and marie's relationship seems like everything walter and skylar want theirs to be the couple have a strong foundation despite hank's slip up before getting married to marie and they are very confident in each other's company their introduction happens in the pilot at walt's surprise birthday party where they end up becoming the life of the party the schraders are a proud and outspoken couple ready to crack jokes at others expense and then brush it off as sporting behavior but they do it in such an endearing fashion that you can't help but adore them their sheer charisma juxtaposed with the lack thereof in the white family is yet another way in which vince gilligan portrays just how dead walter's life really was before he became heisenberg but while the schraders are there to lend an ear and a hand as soon as walt and skylar need one it's not like they don't have their own problems muscle memory yes it happens all the time years of training and your body acted faster than your brain marie's kleptomania and hank's paranoia equals chaotic neutrality one of the things that make the schroeder so easy to root for is the fact that despite knowing each other's worst sides they stick by each other marie has a documented problem with cleptomania she does it almost on a whim as a way to release stress whenever she experiences it because she is too vain to verbally admit it hank knows this and has set her up with a therapist called dave who has actually helped marie make incredible progress with her condition according to hank anyway marie's kleptomania starts acting up whenever she starts stressing out about her family members because even though she is pompous to the extent all her belongings are purple in color she cares deeply for her family and cannot bear it when they are going through a tough spot inversely hank is no good at processing emotion either when he gets shot by the twins and put in the hospital he takes out all his anger and frustration at marie his wife simply strong-arms him into keeping up with his physiotherapy because she knows how to get what she wants from her husband she knows him no matter what hank and marie go through in their personal lives they are actually there for each other and are their honest selves with each other these selves can be very ugly at times hank's treatment of marie during his mineral obsession can be called snappy at best but they are real and they are a whole hell of a lot better than their in-laws who choose to avoid talking about things until the very end when the crap has already hit the fan this duality makes it all the more tragic that the schraders were the ones who were practically duped into keeping walter's cover as heisenberg intact how did the schraders fall apart hank schrader versus heisenberg hank thought that his fight with heisenberg was entirely unrelated to his family's issues which ends up being his biggest mistake because if he had just paid closer attention to close home he'd have realized walt was heisenberg the entire time but it was hank's vendetta against the biggest kingpin in the u.s and his blind faith in family that ultimately caused everything to fall apart multiple times across the series we have seen hank create mountains out of bowl hills when it comes to scrutinizing obscure evidence and piecing together the bigger picture the best way possible but he fails to notice that his brother-in-law who was a brilliant chemistry teacher was the person who stole the lab equipment that he found out in the desert he fails to think of walt again after blue sky mark 1 comes back from the lab as being the purest they had ever seen when hank is shot by the twins and ends up in the hospital the whites offered to pay for his medical bills with walt's drug money which ends up implicating them in his crimes as well and neither hank nor marie questioned as to why walt and skylar were leaving their children with them for weeks on end when by rights they should be with their parents so the very thing that makes the schraders the best couple in breaking bad ends up causing them unparalleled grief and tragedy trusting their family heck the only reason hank even figures out that walt is heisenberg is because walt gets too arrogant and puts gayle's gift with a signed dedication to him in his toilet as reading material and once he does find that out things unravel rather quickly between the whites and the traders marie is disgusted with her sister and forces her to tell walt jr the truth when skylar refuses to turn walt in marie literally tries to escape with holly hank was seen earlier contemplating adopting babies with marie or making one themselves since the traders never had children when their in-laws refuse to play ball the schraders put up a united front and get to work on taking them down hank coaches jessie pinkman in how to be a snitch and marie feeds and helps him recover his strength all because it would make walt pay they show a very dark side of themselves honestly pursuing their vendetta against heisenberg as if they had nothing to lose when in fact they had stood to lose the most the dea most certainly treat hank like an outlaw when they found out that walt was his brother-in-law and even assisted him with his investigation into gustavo frank his career would be over right after he made his biggest caller marie on the other hand started discussing how cathartic poisoning a certain family friend would be with her therapist dave showing just how much the couple resented their in-laws now while hank and marie's actions would ensure walter white's eventual downfall and death it would turn out to be a mutually assured destruction for them as well when hank apprehends walt he and gomi are ambushed by jack's gang and hank is killed mid-sentence by jack himself this happens right after he tells marie that he finally has walt in custody walt ends up taking responsibility for tanks death anyway to clear skylar of any wrongdoing but this is the last straw for her sister oh shimmer down there sparky traitor family at the end of breaking bad and better call saul after realizing that walt has killed hank marie cuts off all ties with skylar we don't hear about what she is doing professionally but we can assume that she kept in touch with steve gomez's widow blanca after his death given that the two couples were just as close as the schraders were with the whites because hank's body wasn't found for several months marie did not get any closure with his death and remained bitter with her sister for enabling the monster who did this to their family but when walt returned to albuquerque to tie up loose ends he gave marie the closure she needed yet again in an attempt to save skylar from the authorities marie after having remained aloof from her sister for months calls her to let her know that walt is back in town and checks up on her just in case he tries to contact her marie also appears to be in a somewhat relenting mood as she asks sky to be safe and vigilant unaware that walt has been listening the entire time after the breaking bad finale aired in september 2013 it took nine years for us to find out what happened to the schrader family ultimately and it turns out that the answer is closure and a modicum of justice in the better call saul season 6 episode titled breaking bad it is revealed that skyler white got her plea deal with the feds which means that the dea was able to recover hank and gomez's bodies in the series franchise finale titled saul gone we meet marie schroeder once again for what is perhaps the final time ever she is still in mourning as she wears clothes that clearly signify grief even in a black and white episode but she finally has closure on her husband's passing it is implied that hank and steve received proper burials and were memorialized by the dea as martyrs and top-rate field agents that future generations should look up to and marie's speech to saul at his plea hearing only reinforces the fact that hank schrader not walter white was the true moral compass of vince gilligan's creation though he was gone the impact of his police work is what toppled walt's multi-million dollar empire and the fact that saul was going to get seven and a half years for it disgusted her but whether it was fate a change in heart or divine realization we will never be able to tell which something caused goodman to change his mind on the day of his hearing and he ended up coming clean about his involvement with walt's meth business he even ended up taking responsibility for crimes he committed with an accomplice and essentially set himself up as the facilitator of the entire ordeal which earned him 86 years in prison and marie schrader and blanca gomez a measure of true justice saul goodman was alive and their husbands were dead nothing could change that but killing saul wouldn't be justice it would be revenge the fact that it was james morgan mcgill the loser younger brother of charles mcgill who ended up giving marie the justice she deserved is just one of those poetic things that vince gilligan and pierre gould are so good at pulling off we don't know what happens next marie is clearly not over hank and with blanca by her side it looks like the two women are going to stick with each other for now as they heal and even then she might never be okay because the schrader family at this point is practically just her but their legacy from what it could have been with walt's fake videos to what it ended up being thanks to hank's legit heroism and ingenious police work is something that will never be tainted and that is the highest compliment we think we can pay to a family from this universe the schroeder family though annoying and overbearing at times are the moral heart and soul of the breaking bad franchise and we are just glad that they got some of the justice that they so sorely deserved marvelous verdict seeing betsy brant in the franchise finale was such a rollercoaster of emotions we are used to seeing marie as the strong sassy somewhat shady sister-in-law who loves gossip and knows how to get her way to see her reduced to just empty bags of grief towards the end was genuine depressing to watch at points which only makes her vindication in saul gone all the more satisfactory the schrader family entered the breaking bad universe as natural antagonists for our guy walter white because come on who are these do-gooders who break the law themselves to judge our evil genius huh but as the seasons progressed you came to see that at least the schraders had a soul and by the time you heard all about saul goodman and jesse pinkman's story you realize that you were a bleeding idiot forever disliking them in the first place somewhat ironically the schrader family are the real heroes of this franchise and it is bittersweet to know that their story ended on such a tragic note we only wish they would have ended up being the ones with the happy ending but we all know there is nothing like that in a vince gilligan production by now don't we and if you liked our content don't forget to leave a like and subscribe to us if you haven't already have a good one and be safe thanks everyone think of you all along you

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Published: Sat Aug 20 2022