Small Details You Missed In El Camino

Breaking Bad's grand epilogue, El Camino, is full of references to the beloved show that preceded it, some more obvious than others. If you were too busy freaking out that you finally got more Breaking Bad, here are some small details in El Camino you may have missed.

Beginning in the second season of Breaking Bad, Walt and Jesse were frequently aided and abetted in their illegal misdeeds by crooked lawyer Saul Goodman, who operated out of an unassuming office located in an Albuquerque strip mall. At the end of the series, Saul abandoned his legal practice and ran for his life, starting over with a new identity in Nebraska.

If you look closely, there is a brief callback to Saul early on in El Camino, during the night Jesse spends crashing at Skinny Pete's house. In a series of brief time-lapse shots showing the sun rising over Albuquerque, we're treated to three shots of different locations in the city. The second shows a nondescript strip mall, but if it looks familiar, there's a reason for that. One of the businesses shown is Duke City Sports Bar, which resides in the same location that used to house Saul Goodman & Associates.

Gus Fring is long dead by the time El Camino rolls around, successfully killed off by Walt in Season 4. While several other characters who perished over the course of Breaking Bad still managed to make an appearance in El Camino, Gus is not among them. However, there is a blink-and-you'll-miss-it nod to the show's greatest antagonist in the same early morning sequence when we glimpse Duke City Sports Bar. Right after the camera reveals the new business occupying Saul's former office space, it shows a fast food restaurant named "Twisters."

Twisters is in fact a real-life restaurant in Albuquerque, which provided both the interior and exterior shots for Los Pollos Hermanos in Breaking Bad. In El Camino, it would seem that the fictional restaurant has since morphed into its real-life counterpart.

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Passing the bar | 0:16
What a twist | 1:05
A familiar pet | 1:53
A familiar hiding place | 2:48
Todd's former career | 3:39
Jesse's "Wild West" shootout | 4:43