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You clearly don’t know who you’re talking to, so let me clue you in. I am not in danger, Skyler. I am the danger. A guy opens his door and gets shot, and you think that of me? No! I am the one who knocks!

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I love this scene in Breaking Bad when Walter White says this quote to his wife, Skyler. It completely takes her by surprise. She has just told him that if he is in danger from his business dealings with Gus, they should go to the police. She is adamant and Walter is not having it. She goes on to say if they have to worry about him getting shot when he opens his front door, they need to do it because he isn’t a hardened criminal. He is in over his head. She tells him that it’s the truth, and Walter says it isn’t.

Walter likes being a criminal. And Skyler insists that he isn’t one that he needs to admit he’s in danger. And Walter loses it. Maybe it is just me, but I was so proud of Walter for what he said to her when he says, “You clearly don’t know who you’re talking to, so let me clue you in. I am not in danger, Skyler. I am the danger. A guy opens his door and gets shot, and you think that of me? No! I am the one who knocks!”

Clearly Walt is upset that Skyler didn’t see him as the threat that he was to others. Every man wants to be admired and respected by their wife. Walter sheds his meek persona when he gets into the meth business. He is doing something dangerous, and it kills him that his wife sees him as the old version of himself.

He likes the confidence he has being “Heisenberg”. This new version of himself makes him feel alive. And he just wants his wife to appreciate him.

The lesson here is that sometimes people are not going to see us as we want them to. No matter how much we show that we are different, sometimes they just don’t want to see it. Skyler didn’t want to see Walt as the danger. It terrified her.

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