Breaking Bad: The Aftermath

[Sgt. Saunders]

When “Breaking Bad,” the legendary cable series ended with the death of the good-guy turned bad-guy, Walter White, there were several unanswered questions the many fans of this superb series would like to have answered by Vince Gilligan, the creator and executive producer of the show.

Just before Walter White was killed, he told his estranged wife, Skyler, the exact location where the bodies of DEA agent Hank Schrader (Skyler’s brother-in-law) and Hank’s fellow DEA agent Steven Gomez, were buried in the desert. Walter told Skyler that this information could be helpful to her in negotiating some sort of plea deal with the federal authorities. Apparently, Skyler was facing criminal charges for cooperating with Walter in the money-laundering scheme they hatched with their new car wash business as part of Walter’s drug production and dealing.

I wonder if providing the authorities with the location of the bodies of those two DEA agents would be enough to spare Skyler from spending any time in prison? Certainly, Skyler’s sister Marie, the bereaved widow of Hank Schrader, would probably never forgive Skyler for her role in Walter’s criminal activities, which led to Hank’s murder by other drug dealers Walter was involved with.

And, Walter had made previous arrangements to have Elliott Schwartz, Walter’s former business partner in the Gray Matter Technologies Company, (whom an enraged Walter felt that Elliott had cheated him out if his rightful share of the company’s later enormous profits), to make a company “charitable donation” of ten million dollars, actually from Walter’s own drug money profits, to Walter’s son, Walt, Jr. on Walt, Jr.’s 18th birthday.

I wonder if Elliott Schwartz and his wife Gretchen, whom Walter White had both threatened with certain murder if they did not cooperate with him, actually did “donate” the ten million dollars to Walt, Jr.?

I suppose if Walt, Jr. did receive the ten million dollars from the Schwartzes, then Walt, Jr., Skyler and his baby sister Holly all departed New Mexico for California, Florida or some other state. Maybe Walt, Jr. and Skyler would have also given Marie Schrader part of that ten million dollars to try and makeup for the tragic death of her husband, Hank?

Maybe the very talented Vince Gilligan will produce another spinoff series from “Breaking Bad,” where we see what eventually happened to the surviving members of the White and Schrader families? I hope he does.



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