Vince Gilligan reflects on his 30-year-old X-Files episode “Pusher” and its connection to Breaking Bad
Image Credit: 20th Century Fox/Disney “Cerulean blue.” This hypnotic mantra is intoned by the cold-blooded Robert Patrick Modell—infamously known as “Pusher”—while he sits handcuffed in the rear of a cruiser. In one of the most haunting sequences in The X-Files history, Modell weaves a verbal spell, equating the color to a gentle, tranquil breeze. The...









