In the “Breaking Bad” Season 5 episode, “Blood Money,” Lydia visits a retired Walter White (Bryan Cranston) at his car wash, where she implores him to return to cooking meth. The quality of the product has dropped off steeply in his absence, and she’s convinced he alone can fix the problem. But Walt refuses, and when he tells his wife, Skylar (Anna Gunn) about the visit, she chases Lydia down, telling her to leave and never come back. Lydia, clearly intimidated, drives away without retort.
According to Fraser, she believes that brief encounter illuminates Lydia’s history. “I think her mother definitely abandoned her,” Fraser explained to GQ, “because she has very strange issues with women. Her reaction to Skyler at the car wash was so over the top. If that had been a man, I don’t think she would have been as afraid; she was unnaturally frightened.”
For Fraser, Lydia’s driving motivation is to reclaim a sense of safety that she never had as a child: “She’s just full of fear. She’s always in fight-or-flight. I think she had an upbringing full of unhappiness and uncertainty, and I think she feels that if she just gets enough money and enough power, that she can be safe.” Ultimately, that misguided pursuit of safety and stability leads Lydia to ever-greater acts of evil, all of which leads not to the life she wants but an early death at Heisenberg’s hands. “But the fact is, she’s gone completely zany, and she’s lost the plot,” Fraser said. “And she’s never going to get that, I don’t think.”
For more latest TV News Click Here