In last night's episode of Breaking Bad, unassuming high school chemistry teacher Walter White (Bryan Cranston) discovers he has lung cancer. Desperate to secure his family's financial future and finally free from the fear that had always inhibited him, Walt teams up with a former student to turn one used RV into a mobile drug lab.

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Oscar-winning producer Mark Johnson talks about discovering Vince Gilligan and the future of Breaking Bad in AMC's exclusive interview.

Q: How did you get involved with Breaking Bad?

A: I take full credit, with no humility at all, of discovering Vince Gilligan. I was at the University of Virginia years ago judging a screenwriting contest, and one of the scripts I read was a script called Home Fries, written by Vince Gilligan. He was probably 22 years old and had just graduated from NYU, and we just struck up a relationship and eventually we made a movie that he wrote called Wilder Napalm, and then we made Home Fries. Vince and I have just been friends and working together for such a long time. And we have a couple of movies that he's also written -- one called Two Face that we are inches away from putting together and making next year. It's a comedy about racism, and we've tried to make it over the years, but it's always scared people. I think now we've finally stumbled across a way to make it.

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