Saul Goodman is one of the best characters of Breaking Bad, so it wasn’t a surprise when he was the character to get a spin-off Better Call Saul of his own that puts him in the spotlight. The series gives us a look at Saul Goodman’s past. How he was always a con artist and used to screw over people until his elder brother rescued him and Saul promised him to be good. Thus started his lifelong struggle between his natural talent and his promise to his brother. He has always been a crafty lawyer and can do wonders if he takes cases for criminals or becomes their lawyer. However, his promise coupled with his brother’s debt over his head render him unable to do so. Throughout the series we see him go through this struggle, even after he discovers what a douche his brother is. The show is in his 6th and final season.
We got the 1st part of the season earlier this year but the 2nd part’s episodes are just rolling out. The latest episode was titled “Breaking Bad”, you know what that means- Jesse Pinkman and Walter White are back. Everyone was waiting for the long awaited arrival of these two stars. The episode focused on how Saul Goodman met Walter White and involved himself in the novice meth cooking business of Jesse and Walter. The episode revisits when the scene where Saul enters Walter’s classroom from Breaking Bad’s Better Call Saul episode. However, recently writer-director of Better Call Saul revealed an alternate version of this episode.
What is the Alternate Scene in Better Call Saul “Breaking Bad” Episode?
Writer-Director Thomas Schnauz recently revealed in an interview with AMC Blog that the alternate scene of them meeting was revisiting the Breaking Bad moment when Walter meets Saul inside his office.
“We were looking for a spot — where [in the timeline] do we show Walter White return? For the longest time we talked about the moment where Brandon Mayhew’s uncle walks through the door and tries to hire him, but that didn’t seem quite right or dramatic enough. Looking back at all the different scenes, we realized it was the space between the kidnapping and when they’re planning how they’re going to save Badger and that just seemed like a real sweet spot to fill in, ‘What do these guys say to each other after the attempted kidnapping during that awkward ride back?”
Schnauz further added: “And in this case the ride back is filled with an awkward RV stall and they have to sit uncomfortably together in the dark looking at each other.” (The duo’s engine trouble also foreshadows the Breaking Bad episode “4 Days Out,” where a planned weekend-long cook leaves Walt and Jesse stranded in the desert.) Watch the above mentioned scene from Breaking Bad on YouTube below:
Schnauz further revealed why he thought this was the correct time to integrate Jesse and Walter in Better Call Saul, “In the episode, Gene reverts back to his Saul Goodman ways and we wanted to draw a parallel between who Saul was in the past and who Gene is and the reasons he became Saul. In episode 609 we do the 2001 [A Space Odyssey] moment with the bone turning into the spaceship, where Kim [Rhea Seehorn] breaks up with him and tells him about how she kept the truth from him about Mike and Lalo [Tony Dalton] being alive, and then he goes full Saul Goodman.”
After future Saul-Gene who is a fugitive tires to make contact with his ex-wife Kim Wexler, “Something bad happens on that phone call that we don’t hear and brings back all the pain of the past and he decides to go back to his scamming ways.”
“He needs to do something to numb the pain of the past and being Gene isn’t going to do it. So we wanted to see Saul in the past and see Gene now and see the steps that made him go towards Walter White, where Mike advises him to ‘let it go’ but he can’t because he’s got something inside him nagging at him that he needs to do something bigger and badder to numb the pain of what’s happened in the past,” said Schnauz. “So this just seemed like the right episode to flash back and forth between the Saul Goodman times, the Walter White times, and comparing it to what’s going on in Gene’s world.”
The penultimate episode of the show titled “Waterworks” will air on 8th August 2022. The series finale of Better Call Saul, “Saul Gone,” airs August 15 on AMC.
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