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AMC’s ‘Breaking Bad’ comes blazing back after extended hiatus By John Crook © Zap2it It’s been more than a year since the nail-biting season three finale of “Breaking Bad” aired on AMC, but fans quickly will find themselves completed sucked back into the dark world of Walter White as the series returns, artistic guns blazing, on Sun- day, July 17. To recap briefly, last sea- son ended with Walt (triple Emmy winner Bryan Crans- ton), a high-school chemistry teacher who started making crystal meth to provide for his family, in the most desper- ate situation of his life. His ruthless drug lord boss, Gus Fring (Giancarlo Esposito), was seething because Walt had taken a dire step to res- cue his partner and protege, Jesse Pinkman (Aaron Paul), so Gus ordered his fixer, Mike (Jonathan Banks), to take Walt out and, well, take him out. Moments away from what seemed like certain death, Walt phoned Jesse and, using coded language, dis- patched him to murder Gale Boetticher (David Costabile), the mild-mannered chemist Gus had hired to take over the operation after Walt’s death. The episode ended with Gale opening his front door to find Jesse pointing a gun at him and then firing. What happens in the mo- ments leading up to and im- held captive. Gus never says a word, just silently and methodically goes through a ritual of changing clothes, apparently preparing to mur- der Jesse and Walt himself. Meanwhile, Walt, his control slipping, babbles away trying to deflect Gus from his lethal mission. “Filming that scene was “Breaking Bad” returns for its fourth season Sunday on AMC. mediately following that con- frontation are fully revealed in the opening of season four, moments that mark a radical turning point in Jesse’s life, says Paul, who won an Emmy as best supporting actor for his work in season three. “Jesse is very emotional right now, to say the least,” the actor says. “Last season built to the moment when Jesse made up his mind he was going to go up to Gale’s door — possibly the nicest guy on ‘Breaking Bad’ — and pull the trigger, which would make him a full-blown mur- derer. The desperate choice he makes just causes him to shut down completely, emo- tionally, and he turns to any Stutzman MOTOR SALES , INC. 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He’s terrified to be alone, because he knows that the second he is alone with his inner demons, that’s all he is going to be able to think about.” “I don’t want to spoil what you find out that happened (after last season ended), but you could say that Jesse is suffering from some sort of post-traumatic stress dis- order, and PTSD takes on a multitude of forms and can affect its sufferers in a multi- tude of fashions,” says series creator and executive pro- ducer Vince Gilligan. “That’s what has happened to Jesse, because he just isn’t cut out for what happened at the end of last season, and it has affected him deeply but in ways that are not what you may expect.” The cornerstone of the season premiere — which is titled “Box Cutter,” and if you know anything about “Break- ing Bad,” you realize that means things are going to end very badly for someone — is an unbearably sus- penseful scene in which Gus arrives at the meth lab where Walt and Jesse are being nerve-racking,” Cranston says. “But you get into the head of that, the sensibil- ity of what is happening here. The person with the power, the person in control, doesn’t have to speak. The person who has no control is tap-dancing — and Walt is tap-dancing as fast as he can. It was fun for me to play and just a delight to work with those actors. Giancarlo is a terrific actor, such a different person from his character on the show. He’s a loving, spiritual, embracing kind of man, but when he plays Gus and has to turn it on, his eyes go dead, and he just gets frightening. It’s really fun to watch.” Yet if Walt seems scarcely able to keep it together in the face of his apparently imminent demise, the char- acter continues his transfor- mation this season, part of Gilligan’s perverse artistic vi- sion of taking Mr. Chips and turning him into Scarface. “At the beginning of this season, Walt is fully aware that he is living on borrowed time,” Cranston explains. “Last season was really about him educating himself about how to be a criminal in order to stay alive. He has come to embrace the new reality of who he is, which is really more Heisenberg (the name Walt gives to his criminal alter ego) than Wal- ter White. Perhaps Walter White is nearly dead to him by now, any recognition of the teacher, the man who was depressed and living in boredom. “There definitely is no boredom in Walter White’s S PECTRU M EYEWEAR GALLERY Can also be seen in Syracuse. To make an appointment call • GLASSES • CONTACTS • EYE EXAMS • SUNGLASSES David Britzke, O.D. is no longer at the Vision Center in Goshen. Please call 574-970-7444 to schedule your appointment. 56028 Parkway Ave., Suite E Elkhart • 574-970-7444 574-457-4476 Allergies? Asthma? We Can Help! See us for help with: • Headaches • Sinus Pressure • Congestion • Cough • Shortness of Breath Yatin J. 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