The Breaking Bad showrunner reflects on the series' final season for its 10th anniversary.
The fifth and final season of Breaking Bad began with Walter White at a Denny's on his 52nd birthday. But instead of a Grand Slam, the shabbily-dressed drug lord ordered from arms dealer Lawson , took the keys to a 1977 Cadillac Sedan DeVille, and opened the trunk to reveal its contents: an M60 machine gun. The season opener, titled"Live Free or Die" and written by series creator Vince Gilligan, then flashed back to a year earlier after Walt won his feud with Gus Fring .
"The biggest single fear we had was what to do with that damn machine gun," Gilligan told Variety in a new interview about the 10th anniversary of the final season."At the beginning of the final run of episodes, we had Walt buy a machine gun in the trunk of a Cadillac. That was the thing I remember freaking us out the most because we did that, I committed to that.
Gilligan explained,"We had no clue. There were literally months on end when I was completely freaked out. We'd be in the writers' room for a full day, and I'd be slowly banging my head against the wall — not enough to hurt myself but just enough to jar the ideas loose. And everybody was kind of worried about me."
The showrunner then reverse-engineered what Walt was going to do: use the gun to get revenge on Jack and his gang, who murdered Walt's DEA Agent brother-in-law Hank and stole millions of dollars in drug money. In the Breaking Bad series finale,"Felina," Walt avenges Hank, ultimately frees an enslaved Jesse Pinkman , and manipulates Gretchen and Elliott Schwartz into funneling what's left of his meth empire to his estranged wife and son.
"Once we figured out this machine gun, that was when the dam broke and things started slowly to click together. It was after that point that we figured he's got to win," Gilligan said."He's lost everything because of his hubris and his pride and his ego. He's lost his family, he's lost his soul. But he's got to win on some level. He's at least got to deliver that money to his family.
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