I can't wait for Hank to find out Skyler is a partner in this. I'd have to think that's the next big step (meaning it has to happen next Sunday night).
Hank's reaction to that should be great (he's been more of a husband and father to that family than Walt has been over the last year or so). Unless Skyler flips (very possible), that would be the key piece keeping Hank from "winning". Hank's burdened with the problem of actually giving a #### about Skyler and the kids, and Walt is not.
You dont think Walt cares about his kids?
Yeah I don't buy that either. Walt is no sociopath. He loves his kids, and Skyler too.
I think Walt does love his wife and kids.
The problem is that he's not really able to put them in front of his own ego, which comes first. He's not mentally and emotionally capable of acting in their best interest when it conflicts with his need to feel significant and powerful. I think Hank is better equipped for that.
Walt loves them, but life's not that simple.
He loves them, but if he was really capable of putting their best interests first, he's have just destroyed the car tracker and moved on with his retirement, leaving his kids safe and his wife free to keep laundering their inheritance after he's dead and gone. (That was just one of many similar decisions Walt has made over the last year).
This wouldn't have happened. Hank wouldn't just have let this go.
No, he wouldn't have, but it would've given Walt a pretty decent shot of getting out of this.
Hank might've known that he's Heisenberg, but he didn't have enough evidence to do anything about it. More importantly, Walt was out of the game and knew Hank was on to him without Hank knowing Walt knew. A big advantage.
Hank never would've confronted Walt without enough evidence to do anything about it. Hank wouldn't destroy the family with an accusation he couldn't prove.
If Walt only cared about protecting the family, he was in a solid (albeit not ideal) situation. He threw that away to start a war that can only end badly.
As far as the tracker goes, assuming it's the exact same type as before, Hank has to recover it to get the data, so he wouldn't know that Walt had just visited Jesse. It's not crazy to think the tracker fell off on the road.
Family first Walt removes it on the road and drives over it a few times.