10 TV Storylines Actors REFUSED To Do

10. Saul Becomes A Murderer - Better Call Saul

Though Jimmy McGill aka Saul Goodman aka Gene Takavic (Bob Odenkirk) has been responsible for his fair share of death across both Better Call Saul and Breaking Bad, he's never directly killed anyone with his own bare hands.

But that almost happened in the show's sixth and final season, when Gene's true identity is found out by Marion (Carol Burnett), an elderly woman who befriends him.

In the show's penultimate episode "Waterworks," Marion uses a computer to learn that Gene is actually Saul. When Saul realises this, Marion attempts to call the police, prompting him to rip the phone cord out, pull it tight like garotte, and threaten her.

The situation is only diffused when Marion activates her Life Alert alarm, forcing Saul to flee the scene.

However according to Bob Odenkirk himself, writer Vince Gilligan originally had Saul indeed kill Marion at the end of the scene.

But Odenkirk, affronted by the idea of murdering a screen legend of Burnett's caliber, balked and jokingly claimed he even planned to walk if Gilligan didn't change his mind - which, evidently, he did.