The fugue state could work and it’s a callback to Walt’s earlier lie about being in a fugue state. We all know how much Gilligan likes callbacks.
To get Walt into the fugue state, I’m thinking somehow he ingests the ricin. How long has that ricin been in the vial? Organics break down and become less potent over time. I’m guessing ricin proteins also become less effective. Thus, a previously lethal dose of ricin might, over time, only be enough to wreck your guts and leave you wracked with unending pain.
Another consideration is most shows with a criminal anti-hero protagonist can’t “get away with it” and have the protagonist completely succeed at the end, especially when there are innocent victims. The writers just can’t condone that sort of immorality. So Walt needs to get some sort of come-uppence, if not true justice.
Speaking of callbacks, Walt coldly letting Jane die was a particularly striking and memorable scene. How great would it be if Jesse abandons a ricin-wracked Walt to die in the pit that Jesse was caged in?
So here is my 100% serious prediction of how it ends. Walt shows up at Grey Matter and gets Elliot and Gretchen to use their corporate influence to get the DEA to back off Skyler and also do what they can to quietly help Skyler and the kids. Perhaps there’s a revelation of past wrongdoings that the Schwartzes inflicted on Walt, which he can use to get them to cooperate.
This resolves Walt’s goal of providing for his family and frees him up for vengeance. He gets the gun and the ricin and gathers intel on his target, Jack Welker.
Walt plans a meticulous operation to setup a strike on the Nazis where they least expect and succeeds in gunning them all down. Perhaps Todd dies protecting Lydia and as Lydia yet again slips away, we hear Todd tell her he loves her with his dying breath. It is ambiguous if Lydia didn’t hear him, or she only pretends not to hear.
In the chaos of the battle, Jesse gets free and gets the drop on Walt, who is out of ammo and on the ground, weak and helpless, but triumphant. Wielding the snub nose revolver that the Nazis recovered from the desert, Jesse challenges Mr. White to “talk his way out of this one, bitch”.
To which, Walt simply laughs. “Go ahead and shoot me, Jesse. If the cancer doesn’t get me, I’ve ingested this vial of ricin! (throws empty vial to ground, then struggles to draw breath) Heisenberg’s already a dead man. (pause a dramatic beat) Bitch!”
Jesse, never one to follow instructions, instead tosses Walt into the pit, locks it and covers it with the tarp, leaving Walt to die in the dark, alone and forgotten, just as Walt left Jane to die.
Walt realizes the ricin is no longer potent enough to be mercifully quick, enters a fugue state, remembers his victims in a soliloquy and we see Walt’s physical suffering overlaid with the suffering of all his victims, allowing the viewer to draw parallels as appropriate. Fin.