Fans watching the "Breaking Bad" marathon on AMC this weekend caught their first glance of Walter White's criminal lawyer, Saul Goodman, in his new series "Better Call Saul."
In the nine-second teaser, Saul (played by Bob Odenkirk) explains to his potential clients the similarity between lawyers and health insurance. "Lawyers, we're like health insurance. You hope you never need it, but man, oh man, not having it? No."
Saul sports a fuller head of hair in the clip, but possesses the same self-assured attitude he exhibited with past clients, Walt and Jesse. The spin-off series will feature the cocky attorney's life before Walt would come calling, but it has the potential to follow up on Saul's life after he ditched Albuquerque.
"Well, I've talked to Vince [Gilligan] and Peter [Gould], who are writing and creating the series, about this and I've said that a lot of people do want to see what happens to next to Saul," Odenkirk told IGN. Last seen, Saul had created a new identity and escaped to Nebraska.
"So, I don't know what they're going to do. I know they've talked about prequel, but they've also talked to me about sequel, and they've also talked to me about a mix of prequel and sequel," Odenkirk said.
The AMC show won't integrate too many of the "Breaking Bad" characters into the new series. Odenkirk encouraged Gilligan and Gould to "make this fresh for everyone," so viewers can distinguish his show from the popular series, starring Bryan Cranston and Aaron Paul.
As for Cranston and Paul, they both have expressed interest in a cameo, but only in the right circumstances.
"I don't know in what context it would work in, because we're in different phases," Cranston told The Daily Beast. "I suppose they could have a serendipitous brush of each other down the street or in the market, but I don't know what good that'll do-it's just a little cookie."
The Golden Globe winner, earned for his role as Walter White, will make an appearance on the "Better Call Saul" set as director. Cranston also directed three episodes of "Breaking Bad."
"Better Call Saul" premieres in February on AMC.
