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Vince Gilligan reveals alternate endings for Breaking Bad
This article contains spoilers, obviously.
BREAKING BAD CREATOR Vince Gilligan has revealed five possible alternate endings for the series.
Speaking on the Breaking Bad Insider podcast following Sunday night’s finale, Gilligan discussed various scenarios considered by the show’s writers to end its five-season run.
He also revealed that the writing team gave Walt his M60 machine gun – which he is seen buying at the very beginning of season five – before they knew what he would do with it.
Here are the five possibilities, as explained by Gilligan:
1. Walt turns Rambo
2. Walt in a firefight with police
3. Walt breaks Jesse out of jail
Vince Gilligan, Aaron Paul and the RV at a premiere screening for the show's fifth season AP / Press Association Images AP / Press Association Images / Press Association Images
4. Skyler disappears or commits suicide
5. Jesse dies, then Walt Jr is killed too
This was a plot turn that Gilligan considered before the show even aired, he says in the podcast. It would involve a ruthless drug kingpin – still to be fleshed out at that stage – killing Jesse, and then being captured by Walt and imprisoned in a basement.
Walt is reluctant to execute the dealer personally, but tortures him and rigs up a mechanism with a shotgun and a wire so the man can kill himself if he wishes. However, Walt Jr discovers the man and goes to give him a drink of water – at which point the dealer tugs the wire and kills them both.
Gilligan was also interview on the Colbert Report. Here he is discussing the finale:
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