I am relieved that Better Call Saul did not end in the way Bob Odenkirk expected. As a prequel to Breaking Bad, the fates of many Better Call Saul characters were already predetermined, with Mike Ehrmantraut (Jonathan Banks), Gus Fring (Giancarlo Esposito), and Hector Salamanca (Mark Margolis) being among those who died in the original show. Better Call Saul's glimpses of the future and of Jimmy McGill's life as Gene Takovic in Omaha, Nebraska confirmed that the show would go beyond the timeline of Breaking Bad.