'Breaking Bad' Season 5 Release Date Confirmed: How Will Walt's Meth Empire Come to a Close?

This summer, we'll see the epic run of a notorious crystal meth empire come to an end. AMC's original series "Breaking Bad" has followed the descent of a cancer-stricken high school chemistry teacher into the dark depths of the unforgiving drug trade. Along the way he's severed family ties, befriended and betrayed a former drug-dealing student and killed those who threaten his vicious path to the top of the drug food chain. Fans have been desperately waiting to see how the reign of the megalomaniac will conclude. Finally, AMC has provided us with the premiere date of the second half of the fifth and final season along with some details as to what we can all expect from our favorite meth dealer.

Season five will return August 11, ending the year long "Breaking Bad" drought we've experienced since the first eight episodes aired last year. There has been very little talk about what we can expect, but based on the first half of the season, there's plenty of room for speculation.

All we know for sure is that "there'll be lost of twists, turn, and cliffhangers." In a behind-the-scenes video of the filming of the final episodes, Bryan Cranston, Aaron Paul and Bob Odenkirk assure fans that there will be many surprises, as well as a "really wild" scene between Jesse (Paul) and Saul (Odenkirk) along the "rollercoaster ride to hell."

We also know that Walt Jr. (R. J. Mitte) will be entering adulthood. The handicapped son of Walter White (Bryan Cranston) "really is going to change and realize he can finally be an adult," Mitte said. "He is really put in an interesting position this year." Perhaps Walt Jr. will finally learn the truth about his father's drug operation and resulting marital problems. We'll just have to wait and see.

Jesse has made it apparent that he wants out of the business, but it's easier said than done. He may have stopped cooking and dealing meth, but that doesn't mean there aren't other loose ends of the business that need to be tied. In the last episode, we see that Hank (Dean Norris) may finally have caught on to Walt's tricks. So will Jesse need to link up with Walter in order to protect himself from the law?

Although careful not to reveal too much, the show's creator Vince Gilligan said that Walter and the gang will do their "best to address everything there is left to address in the final eight episodes, and cancer is probably the chief amongst those items on the list, because it is the plot device that got the show going in the first place."

Finally, concerning the series finale we've heard so much about, Walt will experience the "single biggest, most horrible revelation that this man in his 47 years on this planet has ever had, and all that goes with that is in play and can be expected, in some form or another, to drive narrative going forward into the final eight episodes."

August 11 could not come soon enough.