"Granite State" is the fifteenth and the penultimate episode of the fifth season of the American television crime drama series Breaking Bad.

Ed Galbraith, the "Disappearer", brings Saul Goodman to his shop, where Walter White also awaits a new identity.

Jack Welker's gang raids Marie Schrader's house and finds Jesse Pinkman's confession tape.

Ed takes Walt to a secluded cabin in New Hampshire and says he will visit monthly to bring food and supplies.

He stops at the local bar and pays a barmaid to call Walter White Jr.'s school pretending to be Marie.

While waiting, Walt sees television host Charlie Rose interviewing Gretchen and Elliott Schwartz.

The writing team faced difficulties during the production of "Granite State", primarily on how to continue the character progression of Walter White.

An example of a scene that demonstrated this was where Walt attempts to "conjure up the spirit of Heisenberg" by coming up with a plan, but is simply told "it's over" by Saul Goodman instead.

[4] "Granite State" marked the final appearance of Saul Goodman (played by Bob Odenkirk), as he flees to Nebraska.

In the episode, Saul tells Walt, "if I'm lucky, a month from now, best-case scenario, I'm managing a Cinnabon in Omaha."

An editor of the site, Chris Ryan, wrote that the episode was "epic in scope" and had a "season's worth of plot", though didn't feel "too tidy or rushed".

After his son berates him over the phone, Walt cries "it can't all have been for nothing", which Goodman further described as what the story of Breaking Bad effectively was, and that it was in-fact all for nothing.