The road to freedom starts here. Netflix has just dropped the full-length trailer for El Camino: A Breaking Bad Movie, which stars series favorite Aaron Paul back in his role as Jesse Pinkman. The film picks up some time after Jesse made his great escape from a band of Neo-Nazis, known as Jack's White Supremacist Gang, in a stolen El Camino during the Breaking Bad finale. From there, El Camino follows Jesse as he attempts to evade imprisonment and forge a new life far different from the one he experienced alongside notorious meth cook Walter White - played by Bryan Cranston.
While the trailer is jam-packed with a ton of intriguing imagery, returning characters, and a whole slew of teaser-y clips, it's a short exchange near the end that has our interest most piqued.
So, who exactly was Jesse talking to at the end of the El Camino trailer? We have an idea.
To us, it sounds like the disembodied voice belongs to Ed, otherwise known as the Disappearer - the vacuum cleaner repairman whom Walter White called after Jack's White Supremacist Gang murdered his brother-in-law Hank Schrader and Hank's partner at the DEA, Steven Gomez, during season 5. After Walt left his family behind, Ed gave him a new identity, gathered all the documents he'd need to start with a clean slate, detailed how to get to his safe house in New Hampshire, and warned him that he'd be caught and likely killed if he left the premises.
Ed is obviously an expert at giving criminals new lives, so it's not unreasonable to think that Jesse might seek the same service in El Camino. After all, it isn't like Jesse and Ed don't know about each other: on season 5 of Breaking Bad, Walt's shady lawyer Saul Goodman arranged to have Ed "disappear" Jesse, but Jesse backed out of the plan in the 11th hour. Maybe now that he's truly desperate for freedom, Jesse will reach out to Ed and ask for help.
However, there's the chance that the man is someone else - with popular guesses being the former crooked cop Mike Ehrmantraut who is confirmed to be in El Camino, or Walter White himself. However, the voice in the El Camino trailer doesn't really sound like Mike or Walt. Plus, Breaking Bad made it pretty obvious that the two men are dead. If you'll recall, on the Breaking Bad episode "Gliding Over All," Mike's body can be seen in the trunk of Walt's car, and Walt says that it was necessary for him to shoot Mike.
And on the series' finale, Walt suffered gunshot wounds in a shoot-out with Jack's White Supremacist Gang, ultimately succumbing to his injuries on the floor of a meth lab. Though, it is worth noting that we didn't see a body bag - so there is a chance that Walter survived the carnage.
That considered, it's possible that the El Camino trailer is purposefully misdirecting us. The voice we hear in the last few seconds may very well belong to a random person and could have been dubbed in during post-production to throw fans off, catching their attention and sparking speculation without revealing the true identity of the man Jesse was talking to. This type of trickery is not at all uncommon - movie trailers lie to us all the time - and would be a smart move to make when it comes to the highly-anticipated El Camino.
Of course, with Breaking Bad creator Vince Gilligan having revealed that El Camino features more than 10 characters from the beloved drama series, there's also a chance that the mystery man is someone we're just not thinking of yet.
Whomever Jesse Pinkman was seen talking to in the final moments of the El Camino: A Breaking Bad trailer, one thing seems obvious: Jesse is about to embark on a mission, and the mystery man is involved in some capacity. All that we can do for now is wait patiently for the much-anticipated film to answer all of our burning questions when it premieres on Netflix on October 11th.
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