Breaking Bad - Season 5 - Interview with Vince Gilligan about Season Premier

Thanks to Josh for the heads up.

Zap2it asked series creator Vince Gilligan about the flash-forward scene, and he explained his thinking in opening the season with the sequence and talked a little about when the show will circle back to it. (Short answer: Eventually.) But first, let's break down what happens in the scene (go here to read a full recap of the episode).

(It should go without saying that there are spoilers below, but for the record: There are spoilers below.)

Walt is apparently celebrating his 52nd birthday at a Denny's somewhere in California. The series began with Walt's 50th birthday, so it's now two years since we first met him -- and based on the events of the first four seasons, roughly a year ahead of the show's present day. (The waitress also calls him "Mr. Lambert.")

Walt looks very different than he does in the present (i.e., in the picture above): He has a full head of hair again, along with a full beard, he's looking pretty ragged in an oversize jacket and jeans, along with different glasses than he normally wears.

Things really get interesting when an unnamed character played by "Supernatural" and "Deadwood" veteran Jim Beaver walks in the restaurant. They meet in the bathroom, where they exchange a few words and what looks to be an envelope full of cash. "I got your word this won't wind up crossing the border?" Beaver's character asks. Walt replies, "It's never leaving town."

"It" turns out to be a really large gun Beaver's character has left in the trunk of an old Cadillac. Walt exits the restaurant, grabs a bag out of the trunk of a Volvo with New Hampshire plates, matching the state of his fake driver's license (New Hampshire's "Live Free or Die" motto gives the episode its title), and tosses the bag in the trunk with the gun.


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