El Camino ending explained: Closure for Breaking Bad’s Jesse Pinkman?
El Camino ending explained. How did Jesse Pinkman’s Breaking Bad movie end and what did it mean?
El Camino: A Breaking Bad Movie trailer sees Aaron Paul return
WARNING SPOILERS AHEAD. The Breaking Bad movie is out now on Netflix and acts as something of an epilogue for the show as a whole while giving some real closure to Jesse Pinkman’s story arc. When El Camino was first announced Aaron Paul shared a Breaking Bad scene from a season 3 episode called One Minute as a teaser. In it, a hospitalised Jesse shouted at Walt about how his life had gone to hell since he teamed up with his old chemistry teacher for a life of crime.
As Walt turned from the kindly Mr Chips into a Scarface-like drug lord, it was Jesse who struggled with the decisions he was involved with.
The young meth cook became disillusioned and randomly threw his money onto the sidewalks of suburbia, while rightly struggling to deal with the murders of children as Walt and others seemed nowhere near as fazed.
But as El Camino began Walter White was gone. Dead.
No longer trying to influence and manipulate Jesse for his own plans.
Free from his old partner, Jesse charts his own course, but it isn’t easy.
Eventually, Jesse manages to get enough of Todd’s money to pay Ed, the Disappearer, to get him out of New Mexico to a new life in Alaska.
The final flashback emphasises Jesse’s redemption or way (the meaning of the El Camino), as he finally takes life into his own hands.
Thinking back to his time with Jane, he tells her how he admires her view of letting the universe take you wherever it wants to go.
But Jane points out how making your own decisions is better, as sometimes life can take you to a bad place.
Certainly, that’s what Walt did. But now he’s gone, Jesse can make his own way as he starts a new life in Alaska.
But is that really the end of Breaking Bad? We hope so, although show-runner Vince Gilligan won’t rule it out.
El Camino: A Breaking Bad Movie looks back on Jesse's journey
In a recent interview, he said: “I think it’s the last one of these.
“But, then, probably five years ago I said…the last Breaking Bad episode was the last one of these too.
“So I’m just apparently a pathological liar, don’t take anything I say…”
Rich Eisen later pushed again for a clearer answer, asking: “It’s possible that you’re going to do another one of these?”
And while Gilligan currently has no plans, for all he knows he’ll be making more Breaking Bad in some form in the future.