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Speaking with Entertainment Weekly in 2018, RJ Mitte went into deeper detail about his idea for Walter Jr.’s passing.

“Initially, I wanted Walt Jr. to have a good death scene. I thought they were going to kill me off for a second. And I thought, ‘Walt Jr. should be brutally murdered. Pretty much bludgeoned and beaten to death. That’d be a good scene for him.'” The uber-violent scene may have putting a fitting capstone on the innocent character’s story arc, but the gruesome conclusion to Mitte’s character’s life never materialized — to the eternal gratefulness of his bank account. “I realized financially it wouldn’t be good for me.” 

When asked who Walt Jr.’s assailants would be, he once again named the Salmanaca brothers, Marco (Luis Moncada) and Leonel (Daniel Moncada). He added that the assault would take place while Walt’s mother, Skyler (Anna Gunn) was out of the house, leaving her to return and find the house ransacked, her son dead and her daughter missing. “I was just like, ‘That’s what we needed,’ but I realized that’s not what would have been best for the show,” Mitte concluded.

While that ending would have undoubtedly continued the show’s long streak of tragic mishaps and awful calamities and may have become one of the best episodes of “Breaking Bad,” in the end Walt Jr. survives and going into witness protection with his mother and infant sister, Holly. There’s no telling as to where Walt Jr.’s future may go from there, but Mitte expressed his desire to continue the character’s story to Entertainment Weekly. Perhaps someday audiences will find out what sort of hand fate dealt the family.

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