# Breaking Bad 5.15 "Granite State" 9/22/13

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**Created:** [September 22, 2013, 9:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/breaking-bad-5-15-granite-state-9-22-13/669429 "2013-09-22T09:43:40Z")\
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> [@SlackerInc](#):
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> Agreed, but that sure [appears](http://www.vulture.com/2013/09/breaking-bad-peter-gould-granite-state-interview.html) to be the case, based on the hemming and hawing from Gould:

Unrelated to the birthday, but concerning everyone’s fears/hopes regarding Gray Matter, Gould says in that interview:

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> With Gretchen and Elliott we always knew that we wanted to have them back. They were so key to Walt’s past that it only felt right that we would see them again. **The scene we shot with Charlie Rose was actually the last piece that was ever shot for Breaking Bad.**

(My emphasis.)

I know from the podcast that it apparently was a tight squeeze getting that scene shot because of the actors’ schedules, so I think this makes it increasingly unlikely that they will show up again in the finale.

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