Meanwhile, at the safe house...
While critics and fans were both pretty satisfied with the way things ended for Walter White and co., there's one loose end still on our minds: Huell. If you remember, prior to meeting their deaths, DEA agents Hank and Gomie left our beloved Huell (the bumbling lackey of crooked lawyer Saul Goodman) in a safe house. And then we never saw Huell ever again—which, of course, led to many, many memes and parodies:
Breaking Bad creator Vince Gilligan has finally answered all our questions in a newly released book on the series, which comes to us via Redditor Maalbi:
"Yes, sadly he’s waiting morosely on that sofa, looking like a lost puppy… [Laughs] No. It’s likely that Agent Van Oster keeps in touch with DEA headquarters. So when he learns Gomez and Hank have gone missing, he would in short order tell his superiors what they were up to. Within a matter of hours, really not that many in story time, Huell will be taken back to HQ. They’ll question him, find out what he knows—which isn’t much—and he’ll be let out on the street. Right now, he’s doing what Huell does best, whatever that is. He’s out and about as a free man."
Phew.