Is this what happened to Jesse Pinkman? Breaking Bad creator Vince Gilligan tells what he hopes happened Aaron Paul (left) plays Jesse Pinkman, partner-in-crime to druglord Walter White (played by Bryan Cranston) in Breaking Bad. BREAKING Bad creator Vince Gilligan has revealed what he believes happened to the character Jesse Pinkman after the final credits rolled on the show. "My personal feeling is that he got away," he told GQ. The most likely thing, as negative as this sounds, is that they're going to find this kid's fingerprints all over this lab and they're going to find him within a day or a week or a month. "And he's still going to be on the hook for the murder of two federal agents," he told the magazine. Even though that's the most likely outcome the way I see it is that he got away and got to Alaska, changed his name and had a new life. You want that for the kid. He deserves it. Gilligan says he initially created Jesse Pinkman as "kind of a prick" and a "douchebag" but that softened his view when he met Aaron Paul, who played the character. "Aaron Paul is so sweet and kind in real life that those qualities rubbed off on the writing and therefore on Jesse," he said. I mean, he'd still say 'Yo, bitch' and smoke a lot of pot and be kind of annoying, but we realized he had heart. Gilligan also retold the story of how he was inspired to bring back Gretchen and Elliott Schwartz, Walter White's former business partners. The couple were only revisited after Gilligan met with Kevin Cordasco, a teenage fan who succumbed to cancer before getting to see the finale. Gilligan asked Cordasco what he would want to see at the end of the series. He thought about it for a minute and he said, 'I'm wondering about Gretchen and Elliott. I'd like to know more about them. Do you think we'll ever see them again?' Gilligan said. It got me thinking. And I went back to the writers' room and told them about it, and it got them thinking, too. So Gretchen and Elliott came back in very large part because of Kevin. The crime, the sadness of it, is that he never lived to see the ending. He passed away in March.