Cast & Characters
Anna Gunn as Skyler White
Quotes
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"Walt! Is that you?"
--Season 1, Episode 1: "Pilot"
"MILFs… what the hell is a MILF?"
--Season 1, Episode 2: "Cat's in the Bag..."
"DON'T sell marijuana to my husband."
--Season 1, Episode 2: "Cat's in the Bag..."
"Jesus, I guess we didn't get the beige memo."
--Season 1, Episode 5: "Gray Matter"
"I don't want him to die at all! That's the whole point of this! So either help or leave!"
--Season 1, Episode 5: "Gray Matter"
"I need support. Me: the almost 40-year old pregnant woman with the surprise baby on the way. And the husband with lung cancer who disappears for hours on end and I don't know where he goes and he barely even speaks to me anymore. With the moody son who does the same thing. And the overdrawn checking account. And the lukewarm water heater that leaks rusty looking crap and is rotting out the floor of the utility closet and we can't even afford to fix it! But oh, I see! Now I'm supposed to go, 'Hank, please, what can I possibly do to further benefit my spoiled, kleptomaniac bitch sister who somehow always manages to be the center of attention?' 'Cause God knows she's the one with the really important problems!"
--Season 2, Episode 1: "Seven Thirty-Seven"
"Okay, so talk, Walt! Shut up and say something that isn't complete bullshit! You want to know what you have to do? You have to tell me what’s really going on, right now -- today. No more excuses. No more apologies. No more of these obvious, desperate breakfasts. You don't want to lose contact with me, Walt? Good. Then tell me… now!"
--Season 2, Episode 4: "Down"
Walt [showing Skyler a pack of cigarettes]: "Perhaps you know something about these?"
Skyler: "Perhaps. Then again perhaps I don't, Walt. Perhaps I smoked them in a fugue state."
--Season 2, Episode 5: "Breakage"
"Your fugue state? I had to believe that, didn't I? I had to find a way. I mean – who would lie about such a thing?"
--Season 2, Episode 13: "ABQ"
"Whatever it is, Walt, I'm afraid to know."
--Season 2, Episode 13: "ABQ"
About
Skyler White is Walter White's wife. The mother of two children — teenager Walter Jr. and newborn Holly — she finds herself increasingly isolated by her husband's mood swings and secretive ways.
With Walt's hospital bills mounting, Skyler returns to her old bookkeeping job at Beneke Fabricators, and discovers that Ted Beneke, her boss, has been committing fraud to keep his family's business afloat.
Skyler normally depends on her sister, Marie, for support, but the two become estranged after Marie shoplifts a diamond-studded baby tiara for Holly and then refuses to apologize. Only when Skyler pleads, "I need my sister back," does Marie finally relent. In the meantime, Skyler seeks solace in other ways, first by sneaking a few cigarettes while pregnant and later by encouraging Ted's romantic overtures.
During Walt's disappearance, Marie lets slip that Walt might have a second cell phone — a fact which Walt confirms while under sedatives for an operation. Skyler waits until Walt recovers from surgery to tell him she can no longer take his lies and is leaving him. Walt offers to confess the truth, but for Skyler it is too late.
"Whatever it is," she says, "I'm afraid to know."
