“If you’re a writer tonight, you might want to hide your knives,” saidJason Reitmanat Tuesday night’s special summer live read. “This script is so good you’ll never want to write again. You f***er, Vince.”

The script Reitman was referring to, the script that could get the writer/director to come back and do a live read in July when he’s notscheduled to come back until October, was the pilot of AMC’sBreaking Bad. The “Vince” is creatorVince Gilligan. And as fantastic the first episode ofBreaking Badis to watch, to hear it read reveals another level of brilliance. If you were to travel back in time, sit down with Gilligan in 2007 and ask him to describe what happens in the show over a few beers, that’s what his writing sounds like. It’s perfectly, brilliantly descriptive with a language that’s filled with vulgarity and humor. It has a conversational, culturally current tone that pops off the page.

Thelatest live readat the Los Angeles Country Museum of Art, presented by Film Independent, revealed not only this fantastic writing, but some fun interpretations by great actors, appearances by the original actors, deleted scenes and more. Read about it below.

The night began with Reitman coming out and acknowledging that while most of the time they scripts they do are so old, the people in them are dead, this time most of the cast was in attendance. Sitting just a few rows in front of me were writer/creator Vince Gilligan as well as starsBryan Cranston, Aaron Paul, RJ MitteandAnna Gunn. Each would be portrayed by someone different here tonight. Before the cast was announced though, Reitman thanked them all for “the fly, the pool, the plane, the train, the flower, bacon and the bell. Ding.”

Here was Tuesday’s cast:

I’m going to break this up into three sections. The first one is dedicated to some of Gilligan’s more awesome nuances in the script and things you wouldn’t think are part of the script, but are.

The second section is dedicated to scenes that were in the pilot but got deleted, altered or condensed.

Finally, I’ll talk a bit about the performances.

As the reading came to an end, the first two people to jump out of their seats and give a standing ovation were Bryan Cranston and Aaron Paul. It was a fitting ending to yet another fantastic evening. Thanks to LACMA and Film Independent for making it happen. Reitman’s series starts again in late October.