Betsy Brandt always wished that Breaking Bad had had a Six Feet Under sort of ending, the kind that leaves absolutely no mystery about the fate of every character.

"I said to the writers of Breaking Bad, 'I want you to do that,'" Brandt, who played Marie Schrader, told Mashable. "'We don't need to shoot it. I just want to read it.'"

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Breaking Bad wrapped exactly two years ago, on Sept. 29, 2013, with a finale that left little ambiguity about how Walter White (Bryan Cranston) ended his journey from beleaguered teacher to methamphetamine mastermind. But it left lots of uncertainty about the people in Walt's sphere of chaos — at least, the ones he didn't kill.

One of the biggest questions has been resolved, at least in the mind of Breaking Bad creator Vince Gilligan. He told GQ in November 2013 that as much as he hoped Jesse Pinkman (Aaron Paul) was safe, it was more likely that police would find his fingerprints all over the neo-Nazis' meth lab — "and they’re going to find him within a day or a week or a month.”

But what about Marie? Walter Jr.? Ted Benke? Lydia?

It turns out the actors who played those characters have lots of thoughts on their lives beyond Bad. We asked eight cast members to share their theories — not all of which are optimistic.

Walter Jr. (RJ Mitte)

Walter Jr. didn't know how much money he had coming. Image: AMC

Walt arranged for his son to receive a multimillion-dollar payout in the future. But his son didn't know that when Breaking Bad ended.

"The family is not okay. He lied. What people don't realize is that it's not just their lives he ruined. It's hundreds of peoples' ... those on the crashed planes ... the family is probably just barely getting by on food stamps. It's so sad."

Lydia Rodarte-Quale (Laura Fraser)

Lydia, who's probably in some witness-protection program in Eastern Europe. Image: AMC

Walt informed Lydia by phone that he had slipped ricin into "that Stevia crap that you're always putting in your tea." Did she just give up?

"Funnily enough, Lydia was saved by the wonderful (if somewhat naïve) emergency unit at her local hospital and is now living a witness protection-like existence in Eastern Europe. Morally bankrupt and at a bit of a loss, she is considering reconnecting with her contacts there in order to head up a new distribution business. Some might call her foolhardy. She does love to walk across the Charles Bridge in a bleak Prague winter, so she may decide to settle there ... Possibly Lydia has been in some kind of psychogenic fugue herself for the last decade, and has disassociated herself from her reality/identity and has created a new one.

"Lydia doesn't trust anyone. As cognitively flexible as she is, she doesn't cope well socially — she feels uncomfortable, so she chooses not to have friends. She adores her daughter and loves being with her, and she gets on very well with her kid's nanny. (Although sadly, the nanny thinks Lydia is a dick.) She lost contact with all family members after a frightening and alienated childhood of violence and a series of group homes.

"Lydia lives under the illusion that the more money she has, the safer she will feel. She takes bigger and bigger risks in the hope that the fear will go away. Unfortunately the opposite has been the case, and the safety she seeks is relentlessly elusive."

Ted Beneke (Christopher Cousins)

Ted Beneke — recovering? Image: AMC

Skyler's financially reckless former boss landed in a hospital bed after suffering an awful injury during a shakedown.

"You know, there's that cyberstunt that there's a sixth season coming out? Did you hear about that? I had four different appointments in like two days and everyone was like, 'So, are you gonna be in the new season?' I was like, 'What are you talking about?' It turned out to be a scam. I emailed Vince and he said no, it's not true.

"I'd kind of closed the door on it, and I almost don't want to think about it. Because I think the real answer is that Ted's probably a quadriplegic. … I think in the end he's just an isolated person somewhere. And I don't think he reaches out to [Skyler]. … In my mind I think he probably did lose everything.

"The fantasy is that no, he recovered and got revenge somehow. But I don't think that happens. In my mind he's always there in that bed, sort of fearful."

Bogdan (Marius Stan)

What became of Bogdan? Image: AMC

When we last saw Walt's former boss at the car wash, Walt had duped him into selling the business at a humiliatingly low price.

"Like many immigrants, he had to survive, to make a living somehow, and felt that the car wash business was beneath him. He put a lot of effort in building the business and cared a lot about it, but washing cars was not his 'American Dream.'

"Maybe in his native Romania, Bogdan was an engineer, or a lawyer, or a medical doctor and could not pursue his profession in the U.S. In that context, Walt was not only a burden as a worker but also a constant reminder of humiliation: Here we have a former Romanian engineer running a car wash with help from a former chemistry teacher who must wipe down cars ...

"Bogdan is a survivor. He put the car-wash money into two piles: one for the daily expenses and one for revenge."

Donald Margolis (John DeLancie)

Donald Margolis: Did he make it? Image: AMC

Soon after his grief-stricken negligence over daughter Jane's death led to a midair collision, Walt heard that Margolis has been rushed to the hospital with a self-inflicted gunshot wound. Did he make it?

"I mean, in reality, probably not.

"I joked a year or so later [after leaving Breaking Bad] that Donald Margolis was homeless and living under a bridge somewhere, and that he began to put two and two together. So going from the victim to deciding that he was going to get Mr. White ... but of course, none of that ended up happening!"

Skinny Pete (Charles Baker)

Skinny Pete got the band back together. Image: AMC

Walt hired Skinny Pete and Badger (Matt Jones) to impersonate hitmen to scare Gretchen and Elliott Schwartz. What did Pete do next?

"Well, I think Skinny Pete went straight to that music store and bought that keyboard and him and Badger decided to put the band back together. The original band was TwaüghtHammër, but Skinny Pete wasn't a member of TwaüghtHammër, so they decided to go with TwaüghtHammër 2: The Twaüghtening.

"I wouldn't be surprised if he did [stay sober]. He was into the program when he was in it, and it was really Jesse kind of dragging him back in, throwing this beautiful candy in his face and having access to the meth, being a dealer. I hope he took his money and ran. That's my hope.

"I hope that Jesse got so far out of that that he didn’t want to look back at all. As Jesse's best friend I was rooting for him to get the hell out of there and get his life togethe,r knowing he had more potential than that. Maybe 20 years later he sees him at a coffee shop and they go, 'Dude!' and now they both own businesses and TwaüghtHammër's famous. I wouldn't want them to get back into the old habits."

Marie Schrader (Betsy Brandt)

Marie Schrader would have to forgive. Image: AMC

The final episodes of the series left Marie in a state of profound despair, betrayed by her sister, Skyler. Does she think they ever make up?

"They're sisters, and they had such a bond. I think Marie would have to forgive her.

"I know it's not the most scintillating answer, but I think she's doing what you think she would be doing. Someone asked me — a fan asked, 'Did she kill herself?' Absolutely not. She's resilient. She's a fighter. To her, you just don’t do that. And Hank would never want her to do that. I think she would mourn deeply and it would take a long, long time to get over. She'd be sad for a long time…I'm thinking that Marie would probably marry someone else, but it wouldn't be what she had with Hank."

Adam Pinkman (Michael Bofshever)

Adam Pinkman: Seeking revenge for his son? Image: AMC

Jesse's parents cut off contact after he pretended that a joint owned by his little brother, Jake, was his own. Does Bofshever, who played Jesse's father, Adam, think Jesse ever sought out his family?

"You never know. Obviously the story led us apart, but a bond between parent and child is eternal.

"This was a history that I thought of for my character: Mr. Pinkman was not an addict, but had an alcohol problem. And so that gene of addiction was in the family and he got himself clean and sober and then he took a very hard line on it. So Jesse had that in part of his DNA. He went down that same road. And the story never went where we confronted that…That was always my private story. I've never said that to anyone.

"Every character thinks about who they are and what they're to do in the story. I always thought that Mr. Pinkman would run into Mr. White at one time, and find out eventually how Mr. White led his son astray. And that Mr. Pinkman would somehow try to seek revenge against Mr. White. Whether Jesse got killed, or ended up in jail...I always thought that Pinkman would run into White at 7-Eleven or something like that."

Bonus question: Did Jake develop a drug problem?

"I imagine that they squared him away. That's what I always thought. They learned from what didn’t work. They intervened."

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