“The X-Files” gave Vince Gilligan his major break in TV, and it’s also where he first discovered what Bryan Cranston was capable of. In the Gilligan-penned Season 6 episode “Drive,” Agent Fox Mulder (David Duchovny) is trapped in a speeding runaway car driven by crazed conspiracy theorist Patrick Crump (Cranston), whose head will explode if he doesn’t keep driving at increasingly fast speeds.
In an interview with the Archive of American Television, Gilligan revealed that he didn’t want Crump to be “some nice poor schmuck,” but rather he used the episode as a challenge to create a terrible “creep” and…
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