In Breaking Bad, the character Mike Ehrmantraut was actually created because Bob Odenkirk, who plays Saul Goodman was unavailable to film a scene due to his commitments on How I Met Your Mother In the Season 2 episode "ABQ," the script originally called for Saul to go to Jesse's apartment after Jane's d3ath to help clean up the situation and instruct Jesse on what to do. However. because Odenkirk couldn't make the shoot, the writers quickly created a new character to handle the scene. That character became Mike Ehrmantraut, plaved by Jonathan Banks: What began as a practical last-minute solution turned into one of the most important additions to Breakina Bad Mike went on to become a maior fiqure in the series and later a central character ir Better Call Saul, proving how an unexpected production problem helped create one of the franchise's most beloved characters.