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Skyler White Played by Anna Gunn

Breaking Bad Skyler White Season 4
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Skyler White is Walter White's wife and the mother of their two children, teenager Walter, Jr. and newborn Holly. Initially unaware of her husband's outlaw life, Skyler attributes his mood swings and secretive ways to his cancer diagnosis.

Upon learning that Walt makes meth, Skyler demands a divorce and insists he stay away from the family, or she will call the police. When Walt calls Skyler's bluff and moves back home, she can't bring herself to implicate him. "I don't want my son to find out that his father is a criminal," she rationalizes.

To retaliate against Walt, Skyler begins an affair with her boss, Ted Beneke. Though she welcomes Ted's affections, she is not in love with him. To make matters worse, Ted is committing major fraud to keep his business afloat — a fact that Skyler has to begrudgingly overlook in her role as head bookkeeper.

After two cartel killers ambush Hank, Skyler surprises her sister, Marie, with an offer to cover the medical bills. Walt, she claims, developed a blackjack card counting system and won big in illegal games.

"I learned from the best," Skyler replies when Walt asks how she concocted this lie. "Something tells me that Hank is here because of you," she adds. "And I'm not forgetting that."

Although her divorce attorney has warned her against becoming an accessory to Walt's crimes, Skyler stakes out an active role in Walt's business. Money for Hank must "unimpeachable," she contends. Skyler proposes Walt purchase the car wash where he used to work part time, and install her as its accountant so they can use it to launder Walt's illicit earnings.

Alone with Walt, Skyler discloses that she never filed their divorce papers. "Married couples can't be compelled to testify against one another," she points out. "So there's that."

 

Skyler White Quotes

“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”
“I’m going to make you a deal, Walt. I won’t tell Hank and I won’t tell your children or anybody else. Nobody will hear it from me, but only if you grant me this divorce and stay out of our lives.”
Season 3, Episode 1: “No Mas”
“I can’t see why I should lay all this on my family when things may… resolve themselves on their own without anyone else knowing.”
Season 3, Episode 3: “I.F.T”
“I f—-d Ted.”
Season 3, Episode 3: “I.F.T”
“Somehow, something tells me Hank is here because of you. And I’m not forgetting that.”
Season 3, Episode 9: “Kafkaesque”
“Do you even know Walt? I mean, how would he of all people buy a laser tag business?”
Season 3, Episode 11: “Abiquiu”
“Married couples can’t be compelled to testify against one another. So there’s that.”
Season 3, Episode 11: “Abiquiu”