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BY JOHN CROOK Aaron Paul stars in "Breaking Bad," returning Sunday on AMC. 'Breaking' for the finish line AMC's "Breaking Bad" begins its final eight-episode run Sunday, Aug. 11, with a disconcerting flash-forward scene, as Walter White (Bryan Cranston) pulls up in front of the now-abandoned White family home, driving the car we saw him pick up from a Denny's parking lot at the start of Season 5. You may remember that car, because it had a machine gun in the trunk. It still does. The action then flashes back to where we left things at the end of last summer. 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Struggling to suppress a full-blown panic attack, Hank pleads indigestion and rushes wife Marie (Betsy Brandt) out the door and into their car, leaving Walt and his wife, Skyler (Anna Gunn), to continue hoping that they somehow can leave his violent past behind and enjoy being a family. "Certainly Walter's ego has been fed," says Cranston, a three-time Emmy winner for this role, which recently earned him his fifth nomination. "For the first time in his life, he has money in his pocket. He can intimidate another person. He is a powerful man, respected and feared. "Skyler's quiet logic and compassion, her almost silent pleading, make him realize, 'Oh, I did get carried away, didn't I?' They look at the enormous block of money hidden in their storage facility, and they both say they have no idea how much it is. Certainly it's more money than he ever can spend, so that was a wake-up call, and he knows that he can spend whatever little time he has left with his wife and two children, trying to get back into her good graces and go out with a smile on his face instead of a bullet in his back." If Walt and Skyler are living, however briefly, in a serene fool's paradise, things are far more tense for Walt's former partner in crime, Jesse Pinkman (two-time Emmy winner Aaron Paul). Jesse has figured out that Walt murdered their former associate Mike Ehrmantraut, who had become something of a father figure to Jesse. And now, having seen how Walt is tying up "loose ends" that can connect him to Heisenberg, Jesse understandably worries that he may be next on the list. "Jesse is absolutely terrified of Walt," says Paul, currently up for his third Emmy as best supporting actor. 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