Like every episode we all sit together in a room in Burbank and we talk about every single beat and we write them down on index cards and pin them to a board and figure out what each episode is going to be. It was that same way for the final episode except for the absolute sadness after we were done, that we were like, ‘This is it, there’s no more.’ So I remember us pinning that final card to the board, Genny Hutchison got the honors to do it, and it was over.

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- Thomas Schnauz, writer for Breaking Bad speaks to Terry Gross about writing the finale.

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