And I gotta tell you, the reason I remember it very distinctly is because working on the final four or five episodes of Breaking Bad, and my writers very astutely reminded me over and over again, whether I wanted to hear it or not, that we needed to work this machine gun thread into the storytelling.
Then I would get mad and sometimes I would pound my forehead against the wall, literally, because I don’t know why, that helped.
Let’s pretend the machine gun thing never happened.’
And they would, again rightly say, ‘Well, it doesn’t really matter what would do, story-wise, without that because we gotta pay that thing off.’