Like Bryan Cranston, you don’t see the work. Without further ado, the (spoiler-free!) The show aired on AMC from January 20, 2008, to September 29, 2013, consisting of five seasons for a total of 62 episodes. Hank also had guest appearances in the fifth season Better Call Saul. So yeah, in the last season, it really was more about Walt than anything. And suddenly, you’re in a pit! That scene at the Owl Cafe had more of a feeling of finality to it. A month later, he returns to work as an air traffic controller while still distraught and causes a mid-air collision of two airplanes just above Albuquerque. When did you first get the idea for El Camino?I’d had the idea for a while. In the Better Call Saul episode "Gloves Off", it is implied that Mike is a Marine Corps veteran of the Vietnam War. In season 3, The Cousins sneak into the U.S. to perform a retaliatory killing to avenge Tuco. Jesse Bruce Pinkman (played by Aaron Paul) is a small-time methamphetamine user, manufacturer, and dealer. list of Breaking Bad's top ten sexiest characters. He holds an MS degree in organic chemistry, with a specialty in X-ray crystallography. While Hector and the Cousins are preparing to kill the driver, Mike attempts to shoot Hector with a sniper rifle, but is stopped by someone unseen, who sets off his car horn and leaves a note warning him not to do it. In "Granite State", Ed helps Saul escape to Omaha, Nebraska. Then Jesse is threatened with Brock's death if he attempts to escape again. Also, I remember thinking during the plotting process, “It’d be cool too if we could see Giancarlo Esposito. Jimmy convincingly explains away Daniel's hiding place as the location of fetish videos stolen by a jealous lover, including presenting a faked video of Daniel performing the act in question—sitting on pies. He is first seen coordinating the hijacking of a Los Pollos Hermanos truck that is transporting drugs and killing the guards inside by filling it with engine exhaust fumes. Leonel and Marco moved to kill Hank, but Gus anonymously warned Hank just before the confrontation. That’d be a tough call. Did he not? We had to fly him on in a private jet, not because he demanded it, but if he had flown in commercially, everyone and their grandmother would have known about it. However, while in prison, Tuco stabs another inmate and injures a corrections officer, adding more time to his sentence. While mixing chemicals, Walter creates a small explosion that produces phosphine gas which appears to kill both Emilio and Krazy-8. How would you compare his approach there to what Walt would have done in a similar situation?It’s the simplest magic trick in the world: Wave the one hand around so the bad guy doesn’t see what the other hand is doing. And he’s lowering cigarettes to you on a line of dental floss. The climax of the movie finds Jesse at the welding shop facing off with Neil and his buddies. Hector sets off Walter's homemade pipe bomb, killing himself, Tyrus and Gus. Daniel calls the police, who find an empty hiding place inside a wall of his home. After Marco caught his breath, Hector reinforced the lesson that "family is all."[16]. Kinda dreary. He’s such a pleasure to work with, such a wonderful actor. After the Salamanca Brothers nearly kill Hank, Gomez starts performing tasks that Hank cannot perform due to his handicap. When Pete is mugged by two addicts, Jesse is forced to get the money and product back. After Jesse cooks a successful batch, Eladio invites the three to a party at his villa attended by multiple capos of the cartel, toasting their new business venture with a bottle of premium tequila supplied by Gus, and chiding the latter for needing to be kept in line every twenty years. It was an amazing logistical feat put together by my wonderful producers. Lydia appears to agree to Walt's offer, but after Walt leaves she suggests to Todd that Walt should be killed at the meeting. The show was followed in 2015 by the prequel series Better Call Saul, created by Gilligan and Peter Gould, and in 2019 by the film El Camino: A Breaking Bad Movie, directed by Gilligan., directed by Gilligan. This gives Gus the opportunity to dismiss the therapist and leave Hector in a state where he can only move his eyes and his right index finger. Someone in that office leaked it. Due to an argument with Jimmy, Chuck kills himself later the same day, and Howard comes to bear the weight of causing Chuck's death. He was always, it snuck up on us, in a very stealthy fashion, the moral center of Breaking Bad. Marie Schrader (née Lambert) (played by Betsy Brandt) is Skyler's sister, Hank's wife, and Walt's sister-in-law. After having been the co-lead of the show for a while in the middle of the series, Jesse takes a step back in those final eight episodes, and it’s much more Walt’s story again. Jesse gives Ed a farewell letter for Brock Cantillo, which Ed promises to mail from Mexico City in the near future, wishing Jesse luck on his new life and noting that not many people like them get a fresh start. Jesse drives Badger's car throughout the remainder of the movie until he is taken by Ed to Alaska to start a new life. Nacho breaks into Daniel's house and steals back the money he paid Daniel, along with a valuable baseball card collection. Lydia Rodarte-Quayle (played by Laura Fraser) is an executive of Madrigal Electromotive GmbH, working out of the company's office in Houston, Texas. On the other, you’ve made this movie. Manuel Varga (portrayed by Juan Carlos Cantu) is Nacho Varga's father who manages an upholstery shop. Chris confesses that since the DEA seized his hazard pay, he took up Lydia's offer that Mike refused: $10,000 for each of the 10 other men on the list, and triple for Mike. "[3] Dressing in flashy suits, Saul maintains extensive connections within the criminal underworld and serves as a go-between connecting drug distributors, evidence removers, impersonators, and other criminals-for-hire. Once released, Badger flees New Mexico to lie low in California for a while. A brilliant man who holds himself and others to high ideals, Chuck firmly believes that doing the right thing is the only true path to success. Skyler White (née Lambert) (played by Anna Gunn) is Walter's wife. At some point before events of the third season of Breaking Bad, Gale helps Gus plan out space requirements and the equipment needed to produce large quantities of meth in Gus's underground laboratory under the industry laundry, and then sets up and tests it once it arrives. Jesse meets her at a drug addicts' twelve-step program meeting and initially tries to get her to relapse, so she will become his customer, but he reverses course when he meets Brock and realizes she has a young son to care for. And I had all these different versions. I want to believe he’s going to get to a better place. ', “This is probably not something I should be saying to you, but this movie, strictly speaking, does not need to exist.”. After the purchase he gives Walt the keys to the car that has the M60 hidden in the trunk. When he returns home, however, Hank remains cold and brash, despite her attempts to make him comfortable, and Marie spirals back into kleptomania. When it becomes clear that the job will take longer than anticipated and tempers flare among Werner's crew, Mike arranges an "R&R" outing to a strip club. You’re gonna need money to do it, and how are you gonna get that money? [31] Dan is consistently shown flirting with women, such as Darla and, at the bank, with Dorothy Yobs, whom he routinely lavishes with gifts of sugary baked goods. When Mike is waiting to shoot Hector from a hilltop with a sniper rifle, he sees Leonel and Marco kill the Salamanca's ice cream truck driver and drug smuggler Ximenez Lecerda, who Mike had robbed a few days earlier. Likewise, Gus despises Hector for killing Max[22] and goes out of his way to torment the former kingpin by allowing Hector to live while he sees his younger relatives die, one by one. What if they hired a welder who was a no-questions-asked guy, who was such a sociopath in his own right that he would see a guy chained like a dog, and he just could not care less!” He’s more sociopathic than Todd is. Below them, black and white cows graze the rolling hills. They go into Jesse's bedroom and see the heroin, but instead of throwing it away as they had promised themselves earlier, they get high and fall asleep. I think I learned that from Stephen King. When Skyler is trying to negotiate the purchase, Bogdan brings up Walt's angry outburst and states that, if Walt wants to purchase the establishment it will cost him $20 million. Chuck believes he suffers from electromagnetic hypersensitivity, an unusual affliction caused by mysterious circumstances, which makes it challenging for him to lead a normal life. Gus instructs Victor to give half of the money for Jesse's meth to Walter as a way to convince Walter to cook again. Todd keeps the tarantula in the jar. Marie eagerly offers to help Hank when Jesse agrees to confess about Walt's crimes. [54] Jimmy McGill hires Huell to plant a cell phone battery in his brother Chuck's pocket as part of Jimmy's defense strategy to discredit Chuck's mental health, as Chuck believes he suffers from electromagnetic hypersensitivity. I just had this knowledge that this was very likely the last time we would ever see those actors playing those two characters together. Pete is last seen in the film moving the El Camino to his driveway to await the arrival of the police. Todd and the other Vamonos employees are also burglars, gathering information from the houses they tent and selling it to outside parties. My girlfriend Holly said, “You cannot do that.” I said, “No, don’t you see? When in the episode "Buried," Hank tells Skyler he is on to Walt but needs her help to provide sufficient evidence to build a successful case, Skyler replies that she needs a lawyer and later tells Walt they should remain quiet. [79] The murder of Drew is mentioned in the tape Hank and Gomez make of Jesse confessing to his and Walter's criminal history. The relationship between Jesse and Walter falters as a result of Jesse's guilt, enabling Gus to draw Jesse in as an ally. Walt purchases an M60 machine gun from Lawson in the restroom of a Denny's. If any story was absolutely, 100 percent completed in Breaking Bad, it seems to me it was Walter White’s story. After the gang captures Jesse, Todd convinces his uncle to force Jesse to cook for them instead of killing him. [62] Saul discovers that instead of paying the IRS, Ted leased a new Mercedes and is using the funds to reopen his business. He’s a complete sociopath, he has no comprehension for the suffering of others. Jake Pinkman (played by Ben Petry) is Jesse's younger, over-achieving brother. Jesse accepts the blame for a joint belonging to Jake, which results in Jesse being thrown out of his parents' house. You’re sad when the marathon’s over, but also feel lucky you survived. This piques Hank's interest in the case, and he embarks on his own investigation of Gale and his ties to Fring. Gale had been pursuing his doctorate in Colorado under an NSF grant but realized that it was not the life for him because he loves being in the lab and wanted to preserve the "magic" he saw in chemistry. On a plot level, this movie’s about him escaping, but on some other level, it’s about him growing up. And I’m proud as hell of that. Subsequently, he helps Walter and Skyler launder the drug money, and provides legal assistance for Jesse and his drug-dealing friends. The Better Call Saul episode "Magic Man" was dedicated to Robert Forster. Gale agrees to take over the lab full-time after one more cook with Walt. But Jesse read the room right, so he was going for Plan B. Walt suspects Gus is preparing to kill him and conspires with Jesse to kill Gale, making Walt indispensable as the only remaining cook. However, Kim's personal history with Jimmy complicated their working relationship, often putting her at odds with Howard Hamlin and Chuck McGill, threatening her promising career and eventually putting her in Hamlin's doghouse. When Jesse heads to the front door, Diane tells Jesse that the house has been sold, and that he needs to leave, as the new owners will be stopping by shortly. When the Salamanca's trucking route for smuggling drugs from Mexico is disrupted, Bolsa orders that they will use Gus's trucks instead, indirectly giving Gus more power over the Salamancas. His actual name is not revealed. But I’m hoping people will take it for what it is: something that’s meant to be a gift to the fans, and a gift to Aaron Paul, who I truly believe deserves many more movies where he’s the star. When Saul suggests that Walt and Skyler could accuse Bogdan of harboring Islamist terrorists in order to force him to sell the car wash, Walt exasperatedly reveals that Bogdan is, in fact, Romanian. Wachsberger first appears as he and Mike are going through the New Mexico Department of Corrections facility at Los Lunas south of Albuquerque. Kim devotes increasing time and effort to her pro bono cases, which eventually causes her to quit S&C and her representation of Mesa Verde. [27] Later, an Albuquerque police detective gives Hank copies of the evidence taken from Gale's apartment. Later, when Nacho is forced to work as a mole for Gus, he starts preparing new identities for himself and his father so they could flee together. Maybe I’m reading more into Mr. King’s quote than he put into it, but it really did stick with me — the idea that you can show somebody in the midst of process, of getting from A to B to Z, you can get down to that micro level. Nonetheless, Jack and his crew arrive and engage in a shootout with Hank and Gomez. Within Breaking Bad, Lydia continues to quietly provide chemicals to Gus for Walt's meth production. Carmen Molina (played by Carmen Serano) is the assistant principal at JP Wynne High School, where Walt teaches and which Walt Jr. attends. [73][74], Bill Oakley (portrayed by Peter Diseth) is a deputy district attorney.[75]. Did it feel better?In a weird way, I was more at peace with it this time. There is a lot of that in this movie. The two reasons I wanted to do this movie were, first and foremost, working with Aaron again, but, after that, when I realized that Todd could be an integral part of it. That is the one time we explicitly state that Walter White is not in a hospital room somewhere recuperating from his gunshot wound. Gus convinces Walter to work for him, and introduces him to Gale as his assistant, who shows great admiration for the quality of Walter's product. We’ve got shout-outs to things like that. Skyler has an affair with Ted in season three to exact revenge against Walt, but ignores Ted's offer to leave some of her things at his house. We brought him into town, put a bag over his head practically. Pamela (played by Julie Dretzin) is a divorce attorney hired by Skyler in the third season. That might have been a result of being physically exhausted back then. After her Uncle Hank's unexpected death, which causes a nasty fight between Walter and Skyler, Walter kidnaps Holly to "punish" Skyler for attempting to stab him, but later has second thoughts and leaves her at a fire station. Saul tells her that Ted is alive, but hospitalized. Louis Corbett (played by Kyle Swimmer and Caleb Landry Jones) is Walt Jr.'s best friend. Gus originally established Los Pollos Hermanos in Mexico several years previously, but emigrated to the United States after Don Eladio and Hector Salamanca murdered his meth cook, business partner, and close friend, Maximino Arciniega as punishment for supposedly insulting Eladio. Realizing that the home price will plummet and they may be sued, Adam and Diane Pinkman reluctantly accept Saul's offer. Combo calls his friend Skinny Pete to report two men are "mad eyeballing" him. Victor (played by Jeremiah Bitsui) is Gus's loyal henchman. But Jesse stands toe-to-toe with the guy and asks for $1,800. [22] At some time in the ensuing few years, he entered into a partnership with Gus, who served as Don Eladio's chief distributor in the American Southwest. When he discovers that Walt has cancer, Walter Jr. changes his attitude and sets up a website, "www.savewalterwhite.com," which requests and collects donations in an effort to help pay for Walt's cancer treatment. To silence Leonel while he was in the hospital following his leg amputation, Gus distracted the police assigned to the security detail by bringing them food from Los Pollos Hermanos, giving Mike the opportunity to sneak into Leonel's room and administer a lethal injection. [10], Clifford Main (played by Ed Begley Jr.) is a partner of the law firm Davis & Main.[70]. He is indirectly killed by Hector during the latter's showdown with Gus. Out of pity for Walter, Gretchen later covers for him and states that she did help Walter out on the condition that she would deny it if asked by Skyler. The writer-producer-director takes a deep dive into the origins of the sequel movie, his debt to Stephen King, and his thwarted plan to send Jesse to jail, Gilligan, center, on the set of 'El Camino: A Breaking Bad Movie. Louis and Soren quickly ran off, leaving Junior to deal with the officer by himself. On purpose, you don’t hear that anyplace else in the movie. Of the two sociopaths, you’d probably want to hang out with Todd, I guess. And it’s the last mistake he’ll ever make. Despite this, because of their feud, she finds herself still in the middle of the dispute between Chuck and Jimmy. After moving to the US, Gus sets up a college scholarship in Max's name (which Gale Boetticher won one year) and determines to avenge his friend's death. The last thing he wants is to be in prison yet again, and I’m going to construct it so he does it to help someone else out.” And they convinced me I was completely wrong about that. He is abrasive and rude to Walter, who finds this job degrading and tedious. She tries to take Holly with her, but Hank commands her to return the baby. Later on, in the episode "Fly", Walter recalls that unlikely sequence of events, telling Jesse about the encounter at the bar (he only realized that this man was Jane's father after he saw him on the news following the disaster), and wonders about the possible meaning of the coincidence. Despite his brashness, Hank is highly competent at his job and cares deeply about his family. In Season 5, Walt manipulates Jesse into leaving her, by advising Jesse that he would have to be honest with her about all the crimes he has committed. Heartbroken, Donald is present when the paramedics remove Jane's body and hardly reacts to Jesse's presence. She is a prolific drafter, a skill that she has used to become a tattoo artist despite not having any tattoos. And then that morphed into a two-hour movie. Mike outsmarts Chris with a toy on Chow's front door while he sneaks into Chow's house from the back. She’s about 90 years old now. In the season 3 finale "Lantern," after suffering a severe relapse of his condition, Chuck commits suicide by intentionally knocking over a lantern, which causes a fatal fire. Later, after Skyler's suspicions of Walter having an affair with Gretchen are renewed, Skyler makes contact with Gretchen, who tells her they never paid for any of Walter's medical bills. It was only after Aaron was throttling him to death in the final episode of the show that we comprehended just how interesting that character was. In El Camino, when Jesse calls his parents he asks about Jake, and they tell Jesse that Jake is attending a band camp in London. It’s certainly a deeper and richer experience if you have seen Breaking Bad . Saul Goodman (played by Bob Odenkirk), real name James Morgan McGill, is a sleazy lawyer who acts as Walter and Jesse's attorney and provides some of the series' comic relief. [62] Ted tells Skyler he lied to medical personnel and police, claiming his broken neck resulted from an accidental fall, and that because he fears for the safety of his family, he will never mention how the injury occurred. Gomez is killed in the gunfight, shortly before Hank is killed. During the events of Better Call Saul Gale is working as a post-graduate student and researcher at the University of New Mexico, and discreetly helps Gus to test the quality of meth by a new process, as Gus seeks to divest his need for drugs from the Mexican cartel. Jack then orders the gang to dig up Walt's barrels of money (containing approximately $80 million), but at Todd's behest he leaves Walt alive with one barrel (about $11 million).[13]. But anyway, it was about having someone in the present for Jesse to prevail against. When Domingo "Krazy-8" Molina is arrested, Jimmy McGill bargains with Hank to make Domingo his confidential informant, which allows Lalo Salamanca to feed information on Gus Fring's operations to the DEA for the DEA to then seize. He engages in a romantic relationship with her, but ends it when he discovers that the 11-year-old boy who killed his friend "Combo" is her younger brother Tomas Cantillo (played by Angelo Martinez). Before moving to Albuquerque, Kuby was involved in organized crime in Boston.[61]. When Walter arrives at his hideout and remotely activates an M60 machine gun, the massive bullet spray kills Jack's henchmen, except Todd who manages to duck in time (but is strangled by an enraged Jesse), fatally wounding Jack as well as Walter himself. Krazy-8 and Emilio suspect Walter is involved with law enforcement and appear intent on killing him until Walter offers to teach Krazy-8 his drug formula. 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