Does the first scene in Better Call Saul take place after Breaking Bad
In the first scene from the first episode of 'Better Call Saul', we see Saul, working at some food joint and watching his own videos at home. All this is shown in black & white. After which the story begins about Saul's early days.
My question is that whether the first scene resembles present day i.e. this where Saul is hiding after the events of Breaking Bad? Although it pretty much seems like that but is there any evidence to back that up?
Best Answer
Yes.
In the second-to-last episode of Breaking Bad, Saul stated:
"From here on out, I'm Mr. Low Profile -- just another douchebag with a job and three pairs of Dockers. If I'm lucky, a month from now, best-case scenario, I'm managing a Cinnabon in Omaha."
The first scene in Better Call Saul is that prediction come true.
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Answer 2
Not necessarily,
Fans originally thought that the black and white future scenes at the beginning of every season take place after Breaking Bad, but in light of the season 4 opener, teasing a possible Breaking Bad character in one scene, another possibility exists, as Executive Producers Vince Gilligan, Peter Gould, and Bob Odenkirk have suggested, that they may take place before Breaking Bad ends, in between episodes 5.15 & 5.16.
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On this week's edition of the Better Call Saul Insider podcast (via The Wrap), a brand new, quite intriguing curveball has been thrown into the mix when it comes to those aforementioned flashfowards. While speaking on the program, Gilligan, Gould, and Odenkirk suggested that these sequences might be set prior to the events of Breaking Bad's series finale, and that the person "Gene" most fears the wrath of is possibly ...
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