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I do know that his actor died and that the idea is huge Longshot because Vince is a true artist and a perfectionist alone and wouldn't sacrifice the quality of his work by allowing it to be milked like Hollywood keeps milking franchises that should have died decade(s) ago.
But I so love the episode Granite State, because I just find the idea of the idea of disappearing and starting over so fascinating and even appealing. His business is excellent breeding ground for fan fiction and interesting ideas in general.
He's mysterious, which helps. Endless possibilities to make up stories about him. Just to imagine how did he get into this business is intriguing thought
What I like to think is that there's a network of shady businessmen like him who help criminals disappear. Maybe they helped Jimmy Hoffa, Zodiac, Alcatraz escapees, DB Cooper, maybe some nazi war criminals... to get lost (too corny for Vince Gilligan, but I think you get where I'm getting)
To put it shortly, it's an endless well of ideas.
If the show ever happened, it would obviously be a prequel, because the actor is dead. And since he was already too old to play his younger self, it would only be reasonable for it to take place decades in the past with decades younger actor.
What is your personal fan theory on how background?
He could have been a minor criminal selling fake IDs to his classmates, he could have worked in witness protection, CIA, military... Maybe he was involved with giant criminals all his life, maybe he was even involved in human trafficking... That's how endless it is.
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Ok, ok, ok, I got it. You run an antique store. And people come into the store and you get involved in their lives.
So someone comes in to buy an old lamp, and suddenly I'm getting them out of a jam?
Where's this from. Sounds so familiar
Seinfeld; George pitches this idea to Jerry for his show.
In the original script after Walt hits the 2 dealers with his car, the judge decrees that he become Gus’ butler
I think the theory is the disappearer started off helping battered women start new lives.
I tend to believe he’s the same character in Jackie Brown.
That’s pretty wholesome
It would be cool but I don't believe it should ever happen, the actor played it so well literally the reason I like Ed so much despite being such a blank guy is cause of the actor.
I just don't like the idea of someone else playing the role and obviously he can't.
The money he gives some to batteted women to restart there lives. The vacuum store he inherited from his parents. He came back to new mexico after he retired from fbi witness relocation.
I do wonder how many guys like that exist in the real world. How do you find a guy like that? How does one contact them? What's actually involved? Is it usually full service or do they typically just provide fake documents? How much more complex is it now than years ago with everything being digital? A good forgery is one thing, for it to show up as legit when scanned is a whole other thing.
WITSEC is very real and their documents aren’t forgeries since the government is the one producing them.
As for private witsec without government approval, I’m not sure. If they do exist they’re probably attached for foreign security services.
The nazi ratlines were an example of this irl
R.I.P. Robert Forster
Ive been thinking this for while, they could do a prequal series about him building his system and could look into the lives of other people he's disappeared with an anthology format for the show. maybe there'd be other disappearers nation wide.
I LOVED every scent with Ed.
Ah yes, smellavision
lol!!! Every scene with Ed.
I like that you mentioned Witness Protection. Personally I've always thought that's how Ed knew exactly how to hide the most baddest dudes.
My thoughts are he worked in Witness Protection for years and is retired, put money into a vacuum shop as a front (Just like a certain chicken man) & used shady connections to delve back into that profession, only to use it for nefarious acts. He gives new lives to dangerous criminals and makes absolute bank doing it.
Im sure someone could steal the story change some details and make a great series
Lot of business went his way prior to breaking bad I wonder? Abq has a lot of people that has the money and need a life reset?
Not necessarily that. Sometimes there are just people doing the disappearing without putting on a cover of a legitimate business.
I've been reading this sub for the last couple of days and somebody suggested that he's far from the only one doing such service, which would also explain the relative low prices; competition.
Jesse too
Since Jeff the cabby, all casting decisions are fair game. It could be Don Cheadle..
Ed galbraith
Don’t give them any ideas. They’re on a hot streak with spin-offs, but I wouldn’t want this to happen, personally
The guy that sells guns to Mike and Walt, too.
Ngl Ed probably had the best build up out of anyone on the show (Gus fring probably being second, but tbh with a decent gap).
He was literally treated like the final frontier of the series, if you went to him, you could kiss every single name we knew up to that point goodbye, for better or for worse. He was basically the mystery man of the series.
I see a My Blue Heaven reunion of all the disappeared clients. Maybe they have to come help him out of some kinda trouble. Walt could even pop up. He could afford a body to replace his.
No Rick Moranis then I'm not interested.
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I know. I literally mentioned that twice in the post.