With Better Call Saul completely finished, fans can only speculate when it comes to the unanswered questions that remain after the conclusion of the Breaking Bad spinoff. While Better Call Saul helped fill in the backstory of Mike Ehrmantraut (Jonathan Banks), there are still some big mysteries about the character’s past. Fans aren’t the only ones wondering what might have been, as Banks himself has thought about these things.

Per Entertainment Weekly, Banks previously addressed Mike’s history at a Breaking Bad reunion. The actor is most curious about Mike’s love life, recognizing that the hitman and crime scene fixer is not someone who gets a lot of physical affection. Specifically, Banks most wonders about the mother of his son, as her absence in both Breaking Bad and Better Call Saul has never been explained.

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After the finale of Better Call Saul, there have been a lot of fans on social media suggesting a new prequel series about Mike Ehrmantraut’s younger years as a crooked cop in Pennsylvania. Of course, a new actor would more than likely be cast in the role if a series like that were ever greenlit, though Banks could potentially appear in flash-forward sequences. There isn’t any indication of a series like this actually in consideration at AMC, but should it ever come to fruition, we could very well find out the answers to Banks’ questions.

“Who was Mike in love with? Because you don’t touch Mike. If that person came out of the past and just touched him on the shoulder, he would almost collapse under that kind of gentleness, that kind of touch. My biggest thing was — and it really disappointed me was — my son had a mother. Who? What was she? And I would’ve loved to have seen that character come in.”

Patrick Fabian Wanted Howard Hamlin to Meet Gus Fring

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Entertainment Weekly also revealed the missed opportunity that Howard Hamlin actor Patrick Fabian had in mind for his character. While Howard did have an unfortunate encounter with cartel madman Lalo Salamanca (Tony Dalton) in season 6 of Better Call Saul, he didn’t share the screen with Gus Fring (Giancarlo Esposito). It’s hard for Fabian not to imagine Howard and Gus in the same scene, pointing out that they’d be the two best-dressed people in the room.

While the two characters didn’t necessarily meet face to face, Howard still wound up becoming part of that world with his final resting place underneath the superlab.

“I wanted to have a scene with Gus Fring. I wanted to run into him somewhere. I thought for sure we would meet at some community function, and I would be able to have a suit-off with Giancarlo. He would say something and he would look at me, and we would admire each other’s suits and there would be a token notion of like, ‘We are like-minded individuals.’ Because I think we kind of are. He’s just in a different business. So that’s what I was always hoping.”