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Perfectionists often don&rsquo;t play well with others, but Gilligan seems eager to accommodate everyone with an idea. It&rsquo;s a running joke in the cast, the disconnect between Gilligan the person and Gilligan the writer. The former is sweet-tempered and polite; the latter strapped a character&rsquo;s severed head to a tortoise, which was then rigged with explosives and blown up as D.E.A. agents swarmed around it. </p>
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During a break in the shooting, I asked Gilligan if, now four seasons into his show, he could explain the gulf between his manners and his material. </p><p>
&ldquo;I&rsquo;m not the happiest person,&rdquo; he said. &ldquo;But I respect this crew and these actors. I try to be as cheerful as possible. I fake it pretty well.&rdquo; </p><p>
Well, a lot of people can fake cheerful. But how does such a benign-seeming person come up with such malign tales? Gilligan thought for a moment, then quoted Flaubert. &ldquo;I&rsquo;m not going to get this exactly right, but it&rsquo;s something like, &lsquo;You should be neat and orderly in your life so you can be violent and original in your work,&rsquo; and there&rsquo;s something to that,&rdquo; he said. &ldquo;It&rsquo;s fun to explore that darkness and that criminal behavior on the page, but I&rsquo;m too timid to do it in real life.&rdquo; </p><p>
The pilot of the show opened, memorably, with just such a burst of darkness and violence: Walt driving that R.V. through a desert in a crazed dash, wearing nothing but tighty-whitey briefs and a gas mask. Two male bodies roll in a soup of liquid, broken beakers and cash in the cabin. Cut to three weeks earlier. Walt is a regular schlub, in an unremarkable house, on his way to a mundane job. Gilligan slyly signals his overarching theme when Walter stands before his class and tells his students, &ldquo;Chemistry is . . . well, technically it&rsquo;s the study of matter, but I prefer to see it as the study of <em>change</em>.&rdquo; </p><p>
When you give your lead character a terminal illness, usher him into the underworld and embroil him in ever bolder and more ambitious criminal plans, you create a man who is rushing toward the ultimate change &mdash; from being alive to being dead. Walter White is surely the most doomed character on television, meaning that, just as &ldquo;Breaking Bad&rdquo; is finally winning acclaim, the end of the series is in sight. Which is just fine with Gilligan. He can imagine a fifth season of &ldquo;Breaking Bad,&rdquo; but that&rsquo;s it. </p><p>
Driving to the set after lunch one day, he told me that Walter White had started off as a person he could imagine chatting with over a beer. </p><p>
&ldquo;Now he&rsquo;s not quite at the point where I&rsquo;d cross the street if I saw him coming,&rdquo; he said, with a smile. &ldquo;But I wouldn&rsquo;t want to be stuck in an elevator with him too long.&rdquo; Plotting Walt&rsquo;s transgressions has proved wearying enough. &ldquo;It&rsquo;s hard to write a character that dark and morally ambiguous,&rdquo; he said. &ldquo;I&rsquo;m going to miss the show when it&rsquo;s over, but on some level, it&rsquo;ll be a relief to not have Walt in my head anymore.&rdquo; </p><div id="pageLinks"><a class="previous" onClick="s_code_linktrack('Article-MultiPage-Previous');"
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