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at first i didn't get the brilliance of that scene.
just before, two things happen. his son rejects him on the phone and rejects his money, therefore heisenberg is a failure and is powerless. walt phones the cops and gives himself away by saying 'this is walter white'.
so here the heisenberg personality is defeated. walter white returns in a pathetic state, with his tail between his legs. hes going to go crying and give himself up. but in doing so, he at least has some control over his identity. he can be walter white the apologetic figure who confesses the madness of heisenberg to the cops.
but that tv show flips it. his partners denigrate him and literally call walter white 'nothing'. therefore his entire plan is thwarted. he can no longer reclaim his old identity. he is no longer in a position of power. he wanted to go be walter white and have the cops ask him for the story of heisenberg. that at least makes him the active narrator in his own story, since he holds the details of what heisenberg did and reclaims SOME sort of control.
that tv clip killed walter white and heisenberg took over, and now there is no going back. he's heisenberg until he dies.
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