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The X-Files episode that helped create Breaking Bad

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If Bryan Cranston had never played an anti-Semitic crazy person trapped in a moving car with Mulder, Walter White would not exist. Vince Gilligan wrote that specific X-Files episode and was so deeply impressed by Cranston's ability to be simultaneously terrifying and deeply sympathetic, he remembered him years later when pitching his show about a high school chemistry teacher gone wrong.

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