MythBusters proves the ‘Breaking Bad’ gun can really work

If you haven’t watched the series finale of Breaking Bad, and don’t want it to be spoiled, we suggest you stop reading now.

Yet even by Breaking Bad’s hyper-real logic, there was a scene in its finale that seemed particularly far-fetched: Walter White, trapped by neo-Nazis, being rescued by a huge M60 machine gun – one that he had engineered to pop out of the trunk of his vehicle and start firing in a perfectly lethal arc.

Before the MythBusters began their test, they showed Gilligan their set up: the gun in the trunk, the wall, the wooden soon-to-be victims.

According to Entertainment Weekly, the Mythbusters, Adam Savage and Jamie Hyneman, wanted to know if the plan could have really been successful.

This time around, they are just tackling the finale and the machine gun fire that Walt planned at the end of the series.

In the final episode of Vince Gilligan’s Breaking Bad, Walter White allows himself to be captured by skinhead drug dealers in order to save Jesse Pinkman. Yet, despite all the chaos of the lead shower, the Walter White cut-out came out unscathed. The machine gun rig was approved by “Breaking Bad” creator Vince Gilligan. The second was to test the explosive effects of solid mercury fulminate when thrown.

“Mythbusters” airs Saturdays on Discovery.