Honestly, it's no surprise that Steve Gomez was on the chopping block so early on in the series. After all, "Breaking Bad" fans will no doubt recall that even Jesse Pinkman (Aaron Paul) was once meant to die much earlier on in the series. Instead, Paul's character was one of the few to survive the events of the popular show.

While Gomez wasn't so lucky, he did live all the way until Season 5, which was, naturally, a relief to Dean Norris. "Gomez was supposed to die but for the writers' strike," Norris recalled. "I think the strike hit on episode seven, and he was supposed to die in eight. And I knew he was going to die, but he didn't."

Being that Norris is friends with Stephen Michael Quezada outside of the show, he also remembered feeling conflicted about knowing Gomez's fate at the time. "We had rented a house in Corrales, a great little village outside of Albuquerque, and I was playing golf with Steve all the time," Norris remembered.

"I couldn't figure out what to do: Should I tell him?" the actor wondered. "It's not my place to tell him. But maybe I should tell him in case he's expecting things?" Luckily for Norris, that weight was taken off of his shoulders, and Steve Gomez lived to fight another day, almost making it to the very end of "Breaking Bad."