15 Most Disturbing Breaking Bad & Better Call Saul Scenes Across All 11 Seasons (2024)

Because Breaking Bad and Better Call Saul revolve around the criminal underworld, there are plenty of disturbing moments throughout the show. That said, some of the most disturbing moments in the Breaking Bad and Better Call Saul timeline don't involve death as much as they reflect on how much the character has changed for the worse. Because Breaking Bad focuses much more on a life of crime than Better Call Saul does, it has more of those moments. However, since there aren't as many violent, shocking scenes in Better Call Saul, that's what makes it hit all the harder when they actually happen.

It is not just the amount of blood that's shed that factors into how disturbing a scene can be. For example, the way Gus kills Victor in Breaking Bad season 4 is very shocking, but the show had even darker episodes that showed little to no blood. This is particularly true for the spinoff series, especially during Better Call Saul season 6, where Jimmy's regular life catches up with Breaking Bad's world of violence.

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15 Hector Nearly Drowns One Of The Twins

Breaking Bad Season 3, Episode 7, "One Minute"

Hector Salamanca is one of the most despicable characters in the Breaking Bad. He will kill or threaten to kill either just because or to send a message. Hector does the latter when he nearly drowns one of his nephews just to send the message to his twin that "family is all." This makes for one of the most disturbing scenes on the show not just because of Hector's actions but because this was likely how the twins were raised, which turned them into hardened killers.

14 Mike Kills Werner Ziegler

Better Call Saul, Season 4, Episode 10, "Winner"

After Werner not only escapes the meth-lab construction site but gives Lalo enough info to heighten his suspicions about Gus, Mike is ordered to kill Werner out of precaution. Werner's death is among the most tragic because he clearly was in the wrong business since he couldn't stand being away from his wife while doing his job. Having Mike pull the trigger also signifies Mike's disturbing moral downfall since, up to that point, he refused to kill anyone unless they were a direct threat, which Werner wasn't.

13 Gus' Men Kill Tomas

Breaking Bad, Season 3, Episode 12, "Half Measures"

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After Jesse's plans to kill Combo's murderers go awry, he demands Gus stop having his workers use children to carry out their dirty work. Gus obliges him, but unfortunately, after telling them "no more children," they decide to take care of the matter in the most morbid way possible: killing Tomas. It hits even harder since not only is Tomas the one who killed Combo on their orders, but he is also Andrea's little brother. Breaking Bad never confirmed if Gus intended for his men to kill Tomas, but he most likely did given all the clues the show offered.

12 Tuco Beats No-Doze To Death

Breaking Bad, Season 1, Episode 7, "A Rough-Stuff-Type-Deal"

No-Doze sadly learned the hard way of Tuco Salamanca's biggest pet peeve: speaking for him. After telling Jesse and Walt to remember who they're working for, Tuco, who's high off his mind, takes offense to No-Doze's remarks, ultimately beating him to death. The worst part is Tuco ultimately does what No-Doze warns Walt and Jesse about. Tuco beating his own guy to death for pretty much no reason ultimately sends the message that Tuco is not only deranged but unpredictable. Tuco had already established how disturbed he was, but this showed the full extent of his psychopathy.

11 Chuck's Chicanery Rampage

Better Call Saul, Season 3, Episode 7, "Chicanery"

Chuck goes on a tirade about how much he despises Jimmy for how toxic he is after the younger brother tricks the older one. While eventually getting a hold of himself, Chuck's rant not only foils his plans to get Jimmy to lose his law degree but also effectively ends his career as a lawyer. Even if nobody dies in this scene besides Chuck's reputation, it is disturbing to see how much Chuck truly loathes Jimmy. Even more disturbing is that Chuck knew what Jimmy was trying to do, and he fell for it anyway once his ego was bruised.

10 Tomas Kills Combo

Breaking Bad, Season 2, Episode 12, "Mandala"

In one of Breaking Bad's most shocking death scenes, it appears Combo is in imminent danger when two gangsters show up while staring intensely at him. However, it goes from intense to disturbing when it turns out that Tomas Cantillo, who seemed like an innocent little boy just passing him by, is actually carrying out the deed to murder him. While it's shocking to see a boy shoot someone, it's also disturbing to see that gangsters will resort to using children to do their dirty work.

9 Walt Lets Jane Die

Breaking Bad, Season 2, Episode 12, "Phoenix"

After unsuccessfully trying to wake Jesse up after shooting up heroin, Walt accidentally knocks Jane Margolis on her back, causing her to choke on her own vomit and overdose. Instead of saving her, Walt lets it all unfold, realizing his opportunity. Because Jane is a loose end, Walt knows that her being out of the way helps protect him. While the overdose itself is disturbing, this was the first time Walt truly thought like a criminal. While he had killed people either directly or by proxy before, those could still be argued as being self-defense. Walt let Jane die out of self-interest, which showed him taking the first step to truly embracing his Heisenberg persona.

8 Chuck's Tragic Death

Better Call Saul, Season 3, Episode 10, "Lantern

After pushing everyone in his life away, Chuck's progress regresses. In his last episode, Chuck's condition is seen from an outsider's perspective, showing that it is taking a huge toll on him. After being Better Call Saul's main antagonist for its first three seasons, his very last appearance hammered the disturbing point home that, despite his brilliance, Chuck needed help from others. Chuck's death by suicide is one of the most tragic Better Call Saul moments.

7 Lalo Kills Fred Of Travel Wire

Better Call Saul, Season 4, Episode 10, "Winner"

After Fred refuses to help out Lalo's "quest" to find his family member, Lalo ultimately drops the facade and murders Fred in cold blood to get the information he wants. Even though Lalo takes no pleasure in killing Fred, Fred isn't in any way involved in a life of crime. Out of all the deaths in the Breaking Bad universe, Fred felt among the cruelest because he was a civilian who was, unfortunately, and unintentionally, standing in Lalo's way of his investigation of Gus while only doing his job. The worst part is that thanks to Saul Goodman, Fred's family never truly got closure about what happened to their son's murderer.

6 Kim Tries To Kill Gus Under Lalo's Orders

Better Call Saul, Season 6, Episode 8, "Point and Shoot"

After killing Howard, Lalo strategizes how he'll kill Gus by using Kim (his original choice was Jimmy) to kill him under threat of killing her husband if she doesn't. What's disturbing is that Kim's moral compromises brought her to the point where she is okay with killing another person, even if it's under threat of Jimmy being killed. Even though she is stopped, it shows how much she truly has fallen morally over the course of Better Call Saul​​​​​​.

5 Walt Kills Mike's Guys In Prison

Breaking Bad, Season 5, Episode 8, "Gliding Over All"

By far the most violent Breaking Bad scene. All of the witnesses who could have brought Walt down in exchange for a better deal are all viciously murdered by associates of Jack's neo-nazi gang. The violence itself is disturbing, but what's worse is how completely uncaring Walt is about those who are murdered because, above all else, he just wants to protect himself. Walter has become so desensitized to murder that killing off multiple people in prison seems like just another day for him Breaking Bad season 5.

4 Todd Non-Chalantly Kills Drew Sharp

Breaking Bad, Season 5, Episode 5, "Dead Freight"

The only thing more disturbing than a child killing an adult in Breaking Bad is an adult killing a child. At first, Todd Alquist seemed like a criminal who was hired to do a job and nothing more. While that's ultimately true, when he sees 12-year-old Drew Sharp, who just happened to be passing by as Walt and the crew were robbing a train, he shoots him without much hesitation. Todd's actions are beyond unforgivable, but what's truly disturbing is that he defends himself afterward. Despite Todd's polite demeanor, he is among the most twisted Breaking Bad villains.

3 Walt Poisons Brock

Breaking Bad, Season 4, Episode 13, "Face Off"

After Gus Fring is taken care of once and for all, everything appears to be okay. That is until the last shot of season 4 reveals that Walt owns the plant "Lily of the Valley," which happens to be the exact plant responsible for poisoning and nearly killing Brock, meaning that not only did he poison the child, but he manipulated Jesse into believing it was Gus. It shows how awful Walt is in that he would resort to harming a child to accomplish his goals. He made sure Brock didn't die, but hurting a child that he didn't even know shows that Walt truly was a monster.

2 Kim & Jimmy Ruin Howard (Leading To His Death)

Better Call Saul, Season 6, Episode 7, "Plan and Execution"

Better Call Saul didn't feature nearly as much death as Breaking Bad did, but that made it so that when a character died, it arguably made it resonate even more. Among the worst was Howard Hamlin's death. Not only was his death completely unnecessary, but the whole reason for it was that Kim and Jimmy hatched a scheme to ruin his reputation for fun and nothing else. Because there was no motive to ruin Howard, and his confrontation with the two led to Lalo Salamaca killing him, this made for Better Call Saul's most horrifically disturbing scene.

1 Jack's Gang Makes Jesse Watch Them Kill Andrea

Breaking Bad, Season 5, Episode 15, "Granite State"

After Jesse fails to escape from his captivity, Jack and his neo-nazi gang punish him by killing Andrea, one of the few people Jesse holds dear. What makes this scene even more disturbing is watching Jesse trying his absolute best to stop it, but has no choice but to watch his captors murder Andrea when she had gotten clean and was taking care of her son. In all of Breaking Bad and Better Call Saul, Jesse's agony and trauma at that moment was the most awful, saddest moment of all.