Aaron Paul Breaks Down Breaking Bad Theories from Reddit

In all honesty, these people with these theories

aren't based in reality.

[upbeat music]

Hi, my name is Aaron Paul

and I'm going to be reading some fan theories

about El Camino: A Breaking Bad Movie and Breaking Bad.

So here we go.

This first one is posted by SolumDon,

hope I'm pronouncing that right.

This is my guess at what El Camino will be about.

In the penultimate episode of Breaking Bad,

Saul advises Walt to turn himself in, quote.

You walk in with your head held high,

you'll be the John Dillinger

of the Metropolitan detention center.

How bad is that?

And you bring a barrel full of drug money,

maybe that soothes some troubled waters.

This is a serious theory.

My guess is that Jesse's story in El Camino

would deal with finding that blood money

so he has something to barter with

in order to get on with his life,

thus fulfilling Saul's advice to Walt.

I think the movie ends with Jesse

rolling a barrel of drug money up to the DA office

in exchange for his freedom.

That is a great theory, however, completely wrong.

Sorry, everybody in this room who hasn't seen the movie.

No drug money will be rolled in a barrel to the DA office.

This next fan theory is posted by TammypersonC137.

What does that mean?

Walter Jr., Flynn, and Jesse Bruce Pinkman, Captain Cook,

are never seen in the same room at the same time

over the course of five long seasons.

The truth hit me like a ton of bricks.

Jesse and Flynn, haha, are the same person.

[bleep]

Well, you know what, TammypersonC137, you cracked the code.

That's not true.

I mean, I think she's joking, right?

[quiet funky music]

I mean, Jesse and Flynn are not the same person.

Right?

Now, I'm confused.

Posted by keithohara.

The Breaking Bad movie is a laser tag tournament

between the remaining living characters.

Um, no, man.

Are these serious?

It doesn't add up.

It adds up perfectly.

Walt's a scientist, scientists love lasers.

Pythonhunter42,

[laughing]

I want to meet this person.

Breaking Bad started in 2008 and ended in 2010.

The outbreak in Walking Dead started sometime in 2010.

If Walt's meth did indeed cause all of this,

what the [bleep],

then the Jesse movie will be a zombie movie about his,

what is this?

In Walking Dead, they showed Walter's meth

in season two, they did?

In Fear the Walking Dead,

we hear the Ballad of Heisenberg in a market.

[singing in foreign language]

Come on guys, it's a zombie movie.

The Breaking Bad movie and The Walking Dead movie

are the same thing.

We will see Aaron Paul and Andrew Lincoln

as the main characters.

It all makes too much sense.

Listen, man.

Breaking Bad is based in reality, okay.

Walking Dead is not.

There's no zombies.

No, Walking Dead is not real.

Well, Breaking Bad is not real, either, so.

Posted by abnorml1.

Just watched the newest trailer this morning.

I think what was left of the Nazi's money

is locked up in the evidence room.

Jesse is going to get his money back

with the help of Badger and Skinny Pete.

It also looks like he rigged a bomb, too,

learned from his time with Walter.

It's ironic, in the end Jesse embraces science.

That is a great theory.

However, it is wrong.

He did rig a bomb and while shooting that scene,

no joke, I thought I was gonna catch on fire.

Skinny Pete and Badger did help him,

but they did not help him get his money,

but yes, Jesse does embrace science.

Science, bitch.

This was posted by devilliars98.

[snickering]

Where the hell did you come up with that name, man?

What if it was all a dream?

Jesse's asleep in Mr. White's class.

[slaps knee]

That would be just the saddest dream ever.

That is an incorrect theory.

Posted by Ghost_Nation03.

In the final scene of El Camino,

we will be shown a Denny's.

The camera will pan through the inside of the Denny's

and reveal an empty table.

Sitting on the empty table will be a plate of eggs

with bacon in the shape of 60.

Cut to black.

Walter White will return.

Walter White is dead.

He died in the finale of Breaking Bad.

He bled out, he was shot in the stomach.

He died in his meth lab that he created.

It was a perfect, poetic ending.

I'm sorry.

Posted by Coffee_and_Wifi.

[chuckling]

It's a great name.

El Camino theory about Mike.

I'm re-watching the series in preparation for El Camino

and I'm at season five, episode six, Buyout,

and I realized that there is a missing scene

in this episode between Jesse and Mike

where they both decide to get out of the business

after Jesse sees the news report

about Drew Sharpe on the TV and before

he and Mike confront Walt at Vamonos Pests.

I think this is a flashback scene

we are seeing in the trailer.

Jesse's wardrobe matches,

you can see a bit of blue on his shirt.

Well, ding ding ding, that is exactly right,

Coffee_and_Wifi, that scene is in fact in the movie

and that is the one episode that I rewatched

in preparation when shooting this film was Buyout.

I wanted to see where Jesse was at emotionally

before diving into it, so well done, nicely done.

Keep drinking that coffee, keep getting on that Wifi.

MisPlacedNeuroBlue,

[laughing]

whatever that means,

what are the odds that Jesse knows

where Jack has hidden Walt's money?

He had a lot of time to overhear something or maybe,

being as they had originally planned to kill Jesse

before Todd talked Jack into keeping him,

he knew firsthand where they kept it

because they were careless.

Jesse doesn't know shit, so, that's wrong.

Yeah, no, Jesse has no idea where the money is,

and also, Jesse wants nothing to do with

what he considers blood money, so he wants to

just get the hell out of there.

He doesn't care about the money.

He just wants to run away.

Oh my god, I'm so tired.

Posted by, wow, posted by that.

All right, you got the, okay here we go.

I have a theory, are you ready,

spoken to Jesse and none other than Michael Douglas.

I just met in the hallway.

I believe he is a major character in the movie,

sadly, not true,

most likely a law enforcement type.

That's so weird that you're saying this.

He was just there.

Listen to it and tell me if it's not him.

Please, I want to be wrong.

Well, you are wrong, so there you go.

Posted by screw the, screw every Patriots fan.

I'm kidding, you know who you are.

You know, honestly, I'm happy for your team, 'kay?

Seriously, good job, good job.

You got Tom Brady, got a great team, congratulations.

Damn Patriots [bleep].

Okay, screwthecpa, I don't know, whatever.

El Camino will kick off a new

Breaking Bad series about Jesse.

It would be a great way to start off his series,

hopefully direct to Netflix.

Netflix?

That has a lot of potential.

Hey, listen!

Has a lot of potential given the creative power

of Vince Gilligan, yes, and a love for Jesse and Aaron Paul.

Funny enough, we are actually starting

to shoot the next, not the next,

no, this is just a one-off, sorry guys.

That's it.

[clicks tongue]

AldienTheRed, this might be a stretch

but I couldn't help but notice

that there are quite a few bald

or very short-haired characters in this show.

I wondered if the point when a character went bald

or shaved their head was symbolic

of becoming desensitized to violence.

When we met Mike, he's had a long history with violence.

Hank as a DEA agent sees violence

or the effects of it nearly every day.

Walt goes into his hair loss shortly after his first murder

and Jesse shaves his head shortly after killing Gale.

That's actually very profound.

I kinda agree with you.

When Jesse lost his hair, that was actually an idea from me.

When I read that script, it was after he killed Gale

and in reality, whenever we go through something traumatic

in our lives such as a serious breakup

or a death in the family or something very traumatic,

you tend to sort of shed some hair,

a different hairstyle, start fresh, start new,

and there was a scene where Jesse is shaving a guy's head

and I mentioned to Vince, what if when you see him,

Jesse already just has a shaved head,

so you just assume that he shaved his head

just before this guy?

Ding, ding, ding, I think you are right on.

[eerie music]

Hey, thank you everyone for all of your theories.

Make sure you watch El Camino and see if you

are actually correct on Netflix.

[pops lips]

Yeah, bitch.