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The Neo-Nazis, also known as Jack Welker's Gang, are the main antagonists of Season 5 in the AMC crime-drama television series Breaking Bad.
They are a violent white supremacist gang led by Jack Welker, whose closest members included his nephew Todd Alquist and second-in-command Kenny. The group was initially in cahoots with crime lord Walter White and his drug empire when they assassinated 10 prisoners, who were linked to Walter's former employer Gus Fring, under his orders to ensure that the authorities would be unable to gather evidence against Walter or his connection to Gus. Thereafter they worked alongside fellow distributor Lydia Rodarte-Quayle to establish Walt's business by distributing meth to buyers all around, so much so that Todd became the group's primary cook in the process.
Overall, the gang has members both inside and outside of prison and it has a fenced-in complex that serves as the gang's headquarters.
History[]
The gang was first mentioned by Todd when he explains to his superiors, Walter White and Mike Ehrmantraut, about Jack and the gang following a train robbery.
Soon the gang are contacted by Walt when he seeks their help to assassinate 10 criminals who are each linked to his old employer, Gustavo Fring, in order to ensure that the authorities would be unable to disclose Walter's involvement with the drug trade or Gus' criminal empire. The killing of ten former employees and associates in three separate jails within a two-minute window was arranged. While difficult, the murders go according to plan and all 10 targets are brutally slaughtered with methods - such as stabbing, entrapment, and getting burnt alive.
Following Walter's abrupt retirement from the meth business, Todd takes on the title of primary cook, working with Lydia and a rival of Fring, Declan. Eventually, Declan dismisses Todd and the purity of the meth fell dramatically, much to Lydia's disappointment. After she was unable to influence Declan to bring Todd back, Lydia made a deal with the gang and orchestrated a hit on Declan and his men. The gang stole his operation's meth-making equipment, as well as the remainder of Declan's methylamine. Todd was once again primary cook, though Lydia continued to be dissatisfied with the purity of Todd's meth.
Walter hires the gang to murder his partner-in-crime Jesse Pinkman as the latter began to pose a threat to the former's family in that moment. In exchange for the hit, Walter agreed to teach Todd his ways of meth-making with one last cook. Out in the desert, the gang ends up saving Walter from being arrested by two DEA agents; one being Walt's brother-in-law Hank Schrader, the other being Hank's colleague Steven Gomez. This happens when the gang ambushes the two DEA agents and eliminates them in a gunfight, in which Gomez is killed shortly before Jack executes Hank despite Walt's objections. Afterwards, Jack and his men take almost all of the money Walter had buried in the desert; they also kidnap Jesse to serve as their slave cook, and leave Walt stranded in the desert. Soon Jesse was forced to cook meth alongside Todd as a slave hindered by chains. During his enslavement, he is tortured relentlessly. When Jesse attempts to flee the compound, his ex-girlfriend Andrea Cantillo is killed to punish Jesse.
When Walt's wife Skyler White was working with her husband at the car wash, she sees their associate Lydia discussing the meth business to Walter despite his retirement. Skyler sternly orders her to leave and to never come back. Lydia later sends several members of the gang, including Todd, to force Skyler into keeping quiet; Todd and the gang do so by breaking into the White Residence and scaring Skyler into not disclosing the fact that she saw Lydia at the car wash to any authorities whatsoever.
After Walter returns from hiding, following the total destruction of his family and loss of his fortune, he plans to take revenge on the gang for their actions. When Lydia is made aware of Walter's return she orders the gang to take him out. Walt comes to visit the Nazi compound, claiming to supposedly want to show them a new formula for meth manufacturing. However, he quickly realizes that the gang was planning to kill him. Before they are able to take him out, Walter calls Jack a liar for apparently working with Jesse Pinkman instead of killing him like they agreed. Jack's ego is challenged to which he brings Jesse in to show Walter that he's really a slave. Walt then tackles Jesse onto the ground, seemingly out of anger. Instead, Walter did this in order to save Jesse as most of the gang gets wiped out when Walt activates an M60 machine gun he placed in the trunk of his car. Only Jack and Todd survived, until Jesse strangled Todd to death with his chains and Jack was shot in the head by Walt in the same manner Jack murdered Hank. Todd's phone receives a call from Lydia, and Walter picks up. Lydia, visibly sick, learns that Walt has killed the whole gang. He admits that he had poisoned her with ricin when they met earlier that morning and she will be dead within days.
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- Despite being called Neo-Nazis, they rarely show their political views. This is not unrealistic however, as the real-life Aryan Brotherhood are currently more interested in money and power than promoting white nationalism.
