Why Better Call Saul Chose That Specific Walt & Jesse Moment
WARNING: This post contains Better Call Saul season 6 spoilers
Better Call Saul writer explains why the show decided on a precise moment to bring back Walter White and Jesse Pinkman from Breaking Bad. When it was announced back in April that the two star Breaking Bad characters, played by Bryan Cranston and Aaron Paul, would make an appearance in the final season of the Jimmy McGill series, fans began speculating how the duo would show up, beginning to suspect that the series would jump into the predecessor timeline very soon, and eagerly looking forward to see what the show had in store.
Perhaps not surprisingly, the latest Better Call Saul episode titled «Breaking Bad,» opened with what viewers may remember as the kidnapping of Saul Goodman/Jimmy McGill in the previous series by Walt and Jesse, in an attempt to threaten him to keep an arrested Badger from confessing to the cops about their methamphetamine deals. The scene is now famously known for Jimmy mistakenly thinking that Walt and Jesse were men sent by Lalo Salamanca to murder him, and blaming Ignacio Varga. The episode also had a scene in the RV after Saul agrees to be their lawyer, with him discovering the lab and deducing Walter is Heisenberg, intriguing his interest to help expand their business.
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With Cranston and Paul's moment in Better Call Saul coming right as Saul Goodman is meeting both for the first time, writer and executive producer Thomas Schnauz describes why it was the right scene to bring both of them back in speaking with THR. He talks about his interest in filling in the gaps after Walt and Jesse hold Saul captive in the desert, as well as the opportunity to discuss Lalo and
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