What if...
“Breaking Bad” is arguably the best TV drama in many years, if not the best ever. It delves into the human psyche reaching the depths aching to Dostoevsky, Nabokov and Salinger. Still, one loose end, a teaser early in the show, has been left in its primordial state keeping us wondering, what if….
It is implied in their flashback dialogue that many years ago Walter and Gretchen were romantically involved but she married Elliot Schwartz instead. A trivial love triangle, however, is hardly the reason for Walter to quit Grey Matter Technologies, the company all three of them cofounded. As Jessica Hecht, an actress who plays Gretchen explains:“Vince Gilligan told us exactly what went down between the characters off screen: We 'were very much in…