Better Call Saul

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The twist in this Romeo and Juliet saga is that Sanna’s father goes missing the day after telling his daughter that she has to choose between her inheritance and her lover. Set in the upscale area of Long Island, this docusoap follows a group of college kids from different backgrounds who all work at a seaside restaurant. Dakota Johnson (“50 Shades of Grey”) plays Anne Elliot, who reconnects with a former love interest (played by Cosmo Jarvis). The show promises to be a contemporary take on the classic tale and we are here for it. The story of Cooper’s disappearance in 1971 has always been a hot topic of discussion and debate. What we know is that the mystery man parachuted off a plane with a bag of stolen money and has never been found. While fans of this spinoff will be excited to see what happens after the shocking mid-season finale, and the promised return of Walter White (Bryan Cranston) and Jesse Pinkman (Aaron Paul), it comes with a heavy price: the end of “Better Call Saul.” The series’ last six episodes begin tonight.

The finale season of this nail-biting show will also be available on Netflix.

According to a report, part 2 of Better Call Saul's sixth season will have 6 episodes, with an average runtime of approximately 45-57 minutes. Check out the official trailer of Better Call Saul Season 6 below: Better Call Saul's Season 6 Part 2 will be available to viewers in India for streaming on July 12. Ever since Part 1 Season 6 came to an end on 23rd May, fans of Better Call Saul have been waiting for updates on the final part and its release date. Don’t miss the premiere of Better Call Saul’s final season." Finally, the wait for the second part of Better Call Saul's Season 6 has come to an end.

And then there's the matter of how Walter White (Bryan Cranston) and Jesse Pinkman (Aaron Pinkman) will factor into the endgame. And then there's that twist ...

: And then we have the following teaser for the final six episodes, with the inside of a home shown in black-n-white (so we know it's post-Breaking Bad) and though no one is present, it's Jimmy/Saul/Gene's voice we hear saying those words. And if that's the case, is it foreshadowing "Gene" rebreaking bad back to Saul? Take a look… And then there's the caption that came with the teaser, "Things aren't always black and white." somewhere? And is what we're hearing a flashback to that scene, or the conversation going on in "Gene's" head as he slips back into his old "Saul" ways? And then there's the matter of who it is that's getting out of the cab, and is that hat in their hand? Why? Because aside from wanting to know how the hand-off to "Breaking Bad" is going to go, we have six episodes left and we still don't know the fates of Kim (Seehorn) and Lalo (Tony Dalton). And then there's the matter of how Walter White (Bryan Cranston) and Jesse Pinkman (Aaron Pinkman) will factor into the endgame.

Better Call Saul has continued the legacy of Breaking Bad, exploring the origins of the beloved and twisted Jimmy McGill. Season 6 marks the beginning of ...

I think we’re going to give it a little rest.” But we’ll just have to see what happens. “I could see the Hank Shrader show, absolutely. “I think you’d have to ask them, but the door is always open and I long for the day my phone rings and Vince, Peter or our friends at Sony call to say, ‘Hey, I think we have another show set in this universe.’” Just because Better Call Saul is ending, that doesn't mean the Breaking Bad universe has to come to a close. “It’s going to be awesome and the Hollywood Reporter and other wonderful journalistic outlets are going to be having articles about which one had the better ending, Breaking Bad and Better Call Saul, and I bet you folks are going to say Better Call Saul.”

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This should be an incredible finish, just as the fifth and final season of Breaking Bad was unforgettable television. The 14-episode Season 6 was divided into two seven-part sections, with the first running in April and May of this year. While Breaking Bad is in the conversation as one of the best television shows of the Prestige Era, its prelude Better Call Saul has become just as beloved amongst fans.

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Not only will Jimmy and Kim have to deal with the threat of Lalo, but they will also have to deal with the literal and emotional fallout of Howard’s death. However, while Howard is confronting the couple, Lalo Salamanca reappears and murders Howard in front of Kim and Jimmy to demonstrate how serious and dangerous he is. Cliff Main decides to settle the case as a result of their plan. The Albuquerque District Attorney’s Office is now aware of his true identity and is looking to bring down the former “Jorge de Guzman.” In a final showdown with the Salamancas and the cartel, with Fring and Mike watching, Nacho accepts full responsibility for both the hit and Hector Salamanca’s condition. The Breaking Bad spin-off show has been a fan favorite since its debut in 2015, and the show is now in its final season.

When dealing with violent drug kingpins and hostile takeovers, it's all good, man! Join “Slippin'” Jimmy McGill years before he became everyone's favorite ...

Six years before Saul Goodman meets Walter White. We meet him when the man who will become Saul Goodman is known as Jimmy McGill, a small-time lawyer searching for his destiny, and, more immediately, hustling to make ends meet. Jimmy McGill (Bob Odenkirk) has been trying to get ahead his whole life, but his propensity for finding the easy way keeps getting him into trouble. Join “Slippin’” Jimmy McGill years before he became everyone’s favorite late-night ambulance chaser Saul Goodman from the AMC smash hit “ Breaking Bad.” The stunning prequel “Better Call Saul” follows the downfall of a lawyer trying to make an honest buck but who finds skirting the law to be much more profitable.

The 47-year-old actor on being written off by Hollywood, how he checks the writers' Spanish and the main way he differs from Lalo Salamanca.

It’s “Hey guys, don’t mean to bother you, just coming to do a scene with you.” This is the first thing I’ve really done in the United States so you don’t want to lose perspective or get cocky and think it’s your show. I wanted to play a part that was not so serious and stoic. I realized it was that Lalo from “Breaking Bad” so I figured I’d have a couple of episodes to set up the “It wasn’t me, it was Ignacio” scene. I think it’s very important you take risks, especially the first day, and so I kind of went for it. It’s not that I was nervous. They said, “This guy has even more than what we’ve written.” So they started putting more of that into the script and we joined together with our ideas. They don’t write a lot about how the character should be, it’s just a couple of sentences and you get it. But even now people don’t want to offer me an American part because they think I’m not American — which I am, by the way — and then I get offered the Mexican drug guy. I had to write myself those movies to get my foot in the door. I think some people take chances like they do in the “Better Call Saul” world. In Hollywood terms he was too Mexican for American parts and too American for many Mexican ones. It was a savage punctuation mark on the midseason finale and raised plenty of questions (and audience members’ blood pressure) as the series heads toward the finish line.

Bob Odenkirk as Saul Goodman on "Better Call Saul," which returns Monday to AMC with the first of the last six episodes in the final Season 6.

“Better Call Saul” stars Bob Odenkirk, Jonathan Banks, Rhea Seehorn, Patrick Fabian, Michael Mando, Tony Dalton and Giancarlo Esposito. The episode synopsis is “An unexpected visitor forces Jimmy and Kim to face the consequences of their actions.” The first of six episodes in the sixth and final season of “Better Call Saul” airs at 9 p.m. Monday, July 11, 2022, on AMC.

The first episode of Better Call Saul Season 6 Part 2 airs tonight (July 11) from 9:00-10:09 p.m. ET on AMC and AMC+. An encore presentation of the episode, ...

The first half of Better Call Saul Season 6 has not yet been added to the U.S.’s Netflix programming slate, which may come as no surprise, seeing as the platform did not add AMC’s February 2020-aired Season 5 until April 2022. AMC+, Philo, fuboTV, and YouTube TV all offer free trials for eligible subscribers, so take your pick on whichever one you’d like to try now. Better Call Saul Season 6 has 13 total episodes, meaning that its second half will finish up with six episodes airing weekly on AMC between today and August 15, 2022. HOW TO WATCH BETTER CALL SAUL SEASON 6 PART 2 LIVE ONLINE FOR FREE: HOW TO WATCH BETTER CALL SAUL SEASON 6 PART 2 LIVE ONLINE: Better Call Saul Season 6 Part 2 is also available to watch on AMC+, which is available for $8.99/month or $83.88/year ($6.99/month).

The writer, director and producer reflects on 'Saul' ahead of the series finale.

“It was fantastic,” Schnauz says of Cranston and Paul’s return. “I was lucky to meet her as someone who’s been a fan for forever, since I was a kid. Fuming cartel founder and patriarch Hector Salamanca (Mark Margolis) joined “Saul” in the second season. “It was an amazing opportunity,” Schnauz says of helming the stunning development. “For the longest time, we’ve been building up to this moment of Jimmy and Kim doing their plan against Howard and just knowing something somewhere had to go wrong, whether they were gonna get caught, what was it going to be? “I’ve just been delighted and surprised to meet so many people who’ve never even seen ‘Breaking Bad’ (who) are fans of the show, just because of what it is,” Schnauz says. “It’s just been great fun to write it and to watch people’s reactions.” Odenkirk brought the lawyer’s relentless, offbeat charm and humor to “Saul,” set in the early 2000s. Schnauz was thinking of making a go of it in California, so he called Gilligan for advice. “Better Call Saul” unfolds in air-conditioned offices and courtrooms as well as the scalding New Mexico desert. “People really, really tuned in to see what made Jimmy McGill click,” Schnauz says. But now there’s only a few episodes left to savor in the sixth and final season of the acclaimed drama.

The Breaking Bad prequel is about to reach its conclusion.

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Across town, Walter White is still an ordinary teacher; Jesse Pinkman was annoying him in class just a few years earlier. And while six years have passed in the ...

It was announced last month that a living legend would appear in the final stretch of Better Call Saul in the form of comedian Carol Burnett, who expressed her love for the show way back in 2018. Giancarlo Esposito sure thinks so, as he said as much to Vulture. Esposito envisions a prequel that explains where Gus came from, but if Saul ends in 2004, it feels like there’s rich material that could be mined between then and when he shows up on Bad too. Could the show end with the death of Jimmy/Saul/Gene? Anything is possible in Omaha. Kim, the love of Jimmy’s life, is never mentioned on Breaking Bad. While this has led many to suspect that the final step for Jimmy to become Saul has to involve Kim’s death, others are more optimistic. Her role is apparently substantial enough that her character has a name: Marion. Who’s Marion? The safest bet would normally be a client of Jimmy and Kim’s, but it doesn’t feel like these six episodes are going to have a lot of time for legal action. (But imagine for a moment if this show revealed Walter’s fate was not what everyone thought it was; picture the Gene arc ending with our hero finding safety in Alaska with Jesse and Walt. However, the writers don’t seem likely to pull a trick like that even if it would break the internet.) Could Jesse need to contact Saul/Gene in the action between Breaking Bad and El Camino with some unfinished business? Paul has commented that he didn’t see how they’d manage to bring the characters back, but declared the solution the writers came up with to be “perfect.” Whether that solution will involve Walt and Jesse together or separately is another big question, but the way the show’s Twitter announced their return certainly makes it seem like we’re in for a three-character reunion. Or could Jesse Plemons’s Todd and/or his neo-Nazi gang leader Uncle Jack have found themselves in need of Saul’s services prior to hooking up with Walt? Perhaps we’ll get encore cameos from Hank and Gomie or Huell or Lydia, all of whom have dipped briefly into the Saul timeline and could conceivably do so again. With that thread more or less tied up (tragically, of course), Better Call Saul is in full endgame mode now, pushing the prequel closer and closer to the Breaking Bad narrative. Season six is unfolding in the middle of 2004, still four years before the action of Breaking Bad would start in 2008 (again, Walter celebrating his birthday helps date a few things). So a direct scene of Saul Goodman in the universe where Walter is cooking meth would require a major time jump, which the writers haven’t done before. What we know about that series informs a lot of our questions about how this one will conclude, but Better Call Saul has become so much more than a prequel over the years, establishing some big story lines of its own that need resolution — in particular, one involving a certain Cinnabon employee. When Better Call Saul premiered in 2015, it was revealed that it takes place in May 2002, about six years before the action of Breaking Bad. Across town, Walter White is still an ordinary teacher; Jesse Pinkman was annoying him in class just a few years earlier.

The final few episodes of the highly successful Breaking Bad spinoff series, "Better Call Saul," is set to air Monday, July 11 at 9/8c on AMC.

The official description of Better Call Saul is as follows: What is Better Call Saul about? The highly successful Breaking Bad spinoff series, Better Call Saul, is set to air the second part of its final season Monday, July 11 at 9/8c on AMC.

Find out why Peter Gould says fans will be 'stunned and surprised' by the last installments of the prequel spinoff.

Expect even more surprises as the rest of the season unfolds as Gould hints at further twists and turns. While Gould acknowledges the brutal death of Howard, saying “it’s an awful moment. Sounds a lot like Breaking Bad‘s unpredictable ending that still managed to surprise and satisfy viewers in a way that has us hopeful for Saul‘s conclusion.

"We're going to take [fans] down some roads that they don't see coming," says executive producer Gordon Smith, who wrote the midseason premiere, "Point and ...

I think people are going to be very surprised by — or at least there's going to be some nuances that they don't expect for both, and that we'll shed a little bit of light on the way that both their journeys and Jimmy's journey have gone." Two more characters that are eagerly anticipated are familiar faces — in the form of Walt and Jesse. Co-creator Peter Gould told EW that he hasn't seen any fan theories that come close to figuring out how they'll factor into the story, and Smith adds, "I haven't seen one either, but I'm glad that people are theorizing about it. "I think we're going to surprise people and we're going to take them down some roads that they don't see coming," he says, choosing a different metaphor. Obviously, they're worried about Kim, but whatever they think that we're going to do, we're going to zig when they think we're going to zag, and take them to places that hopefully are fun and surprising. " We've been putting out these teasers lately in black and white — if people were worried that they weren't going to see Gene, it should be pretty clear that we're going to see a chunk of Gene," says Smith. "We've said all along, we've done it for several years — that's an important part of the story that really needs to be paid off because that's where the future is. "Jimmy and Kim are very worried about what Lalo might want," says Smith. "And they're going to have to figure out what they're willing to do with this guy who's willing to do anything in front of them, this guy with a gun.

Peter Gould spoke to Newsweek about Bryan Cranston and Aaron Paul's return in "Better Call Saul" Season 6 Part 2, and how the second half will have ...

even if you have a bigger plan, I don't think it's worth kind of turning the characters into chess pieces in order to bring those big plans to fruition." So, we spent a lot of time trying to think of another way out for Nacho, and it just seemed like this was the only way that it could have gone. He went on: "To be pretty brutally honest we don't see a lot further than the audience did to start with. I think that's actually one of the strengths because not having an incredibly detailed plan or having a set [plan helped.] But how people are going to feel about it I really couldn't say." I think it's a very natural, rewarding ending. "So I think you can expect fireworks, all kinds of emotional explosions, some physical explosions. And what is that going to mean for for Kim and Jimmy? "But, there is really so much drama of almost every kind, drama and actually eventually comedy coming your way. Bob says it a little bit of tongue in cheek, that it's 'heart-stopping.' I don't think he's just there for a legal consultation, so what does this guy have in mind? What has he got in mind?

The Breaking Bad spin-off has been excellent since it debuted in 2015. As the series wraps up, the final episodes will determine just how great a show ...

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Naturally, major spoilers about the journey to this point will follow. Jimmy McGill/Saul Goodman. Better Call Saul AMC.

Now, it's left to these final few episodes of "Better Call Saul" to reconcile why Mike would still work for Saul and Gus at the same time (and without Saul knowing about it). This younger and somewhat less established version of Gus might seem as implacable as ever, but his war against the Salamancas and Lalo in particular prove that there's still room to grow into the formidable and ruthless Gus of "Breaking Bad." When last we saw Gus, he'd hidden a handgun in the still-incomplete shell of his eventual meth lab — strongly implying that he suspects that to be the location of one final showdown between himself and Lalo. That's really the only outstanding piece of housekeeping for Gus to deal with until the events of "Breaking Bad." The lab remains a few years away from completion, which will allow him to cut out the cartel middlemen altogether and put a stranglehold on the New Mexico drug scene. His scenes with his granddaughter Kaylee have added even more motivation to why he does what he does, but I'd go so far to say that his monologue back in season 1 more than justified his inclusion in the show. Fring still maintains a tenuous alliance with the Salamancas throughout the early seasons of "Breaking Bad," so whatever happens with Lalo likely won't be public enough to sever his connections to the overall family. Mysteriously missing for much of the sixth season in the aftermath of Gus Fring's (Giancarlo Esposito) failed hit on his Mexican rival, Lalo's quest to systematically destroy Fring and his drug-running empire took him all the way to Germany and back, uncovering the construction of the underground meth lab that will one day house Walt and Jesse. It's unclear exactly how Lalo intends to use his knowledge of this site, his sudden appearance in Jimmy and Kim's apartment, and the information he learned in Germany to his advantage ... but much like the writers themselves, you can bet he has a grand scheme up his sleeve. In the case of "Better Call Saul," that overriding concern rests on whether Kim Wexler will turn out okay or not. That certainly applies to the black-and-white flashforwards centered on "Gene Takovic," Jimmy's post-"Breaking Bad" alias in hiding in Nebraska ... which just so happens to be Kim's home state. We never see Saul's personal life in "Breaking Bad," so it's conceivable that he comes home to Kim every night ... but wouldn't staying married to a loathsome creature like Saul almost be a worse fate than death for her? The doubters have since been proven emphatically wrong as "Better Call Saul" has matched ( or even exceeded) the heights of its parent show, culminating in arguably the most shocking and devastating cliffhanger of either series. But the moment Lalo Salamanca (Tony Dalton) walked into Jimmy's apartment and shot rival attorney Howard Hamlin (Patrick Fabian) dead — who was only there in the first place as a victim of another one of Jimmy's schemes — everything changed forever.

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Bob Odenkirk (yes, Saul Goodman) and David Cross go full Monty Python goofing on everything from politics and religion to every corner of pop culture. The journey is often more entertaining than the end result. The star of Nathan For You and producer of How to With John Wilson returns with a six-episode series. What about Mike Ehrmantraut? This show started as a 50/50 split between these two, but the later seasons naturally have focused more on Jimmy and Kim. Mike isn't Gus' number two just yet, but we know something has got to change. This is Jimmy/Saul in the present day, and we have no idea how things will turn out for the Cinnabon man. We know that Slippin' Jimmy will go full Saul Goodman. The question is, what puts him over that edge to full-scale sleaze? Just ask any of the cast members. And who doesn't want more Gustavo Fring? I can't wait to see Bryan Cranston and Aaron Paul this season, but they are the icing. The lives of Lalo and Kim are the only undetermined fates on Better Call Saul, but since Gus proclaimed he was taking care of the "last of the Salamancas" on BB, things don't look good for the charming Lalo. As for Kim, Rhea Seehorn embodies the best character on the show. The saga of Jesse? The remnants of Walt's family? The swelling audience got caught up in the life of Walther White and everyone involved in Heisenberg's world. Jon Hein knows TV. In the late 1990s, he coined the phrase "Jump the Shark" when he founded the site of the same name.

So far, Better Call Saul season 6 hasn't disappointed. We've seen Jimmy McGill transform into Saul Goodman, while partner in crime Kim Wexler (Rhea Seehorn) ...

You'll need to use a VPN to watch Better Call Saul episode 8 on your UK Netflix account when travelling abroad. Catch Better Call Saul on AMC with with a 50% discount on the Sling TV Blue or Orange package in your first month. Part 1 of Better Call Saul season 6 is available on Netflix in the UK now. For Netflix, UK nationals may wish to choose 'UK' to access their Netflix account when travelling outside the UK. So far, Better Call Saul season 6 hasn't disappointed. Make sure you know how to watch Better Call Saul episode 6 on Netflix from anywhere with a VPN. You can use it to watch on your mobile, tablet, laptop, TV, games console and more. It's $35 a month thereafter should you choose to continue. There's 24/7 customer support and three months free when you sign-up With two uninvited guests for the price of one, Kim and Jimmy have some soul searching to do. UK fans can watch brand new Saul episodes on Netflix. Away from home? This week, it's Better Call Saul season 6 episode 8 (Point and Shoot), with the show dropping us right back at the core of the action.

Lalo Salamanca · Walter White & Jesse Pinkman · Gustavo Fring · Kim Wexler · Saul Goodman & Gene Takovic.

Saul’s secret identity is in danger now, that’s what Better Call Saul’s latest teasers have put on the spotlight recently, so maybe it’s time for Gene to get more screen time as he looks to take matters into his own hands. This is extra true because Esposito is the first one to advocate for a Gus Fring spinoff, meaning some extra flashbacks to his early life in Chile with Max Arcinieaga could really help setup that project. Better Call Saul returns from its mid-summer break after an exciting cutoff that saw Howard Hamlin become the latest victim of Jimmy McGill’s chaotic legal career, with actor Patrick Fabian putting in a stellar performance as a parting gift for fans.

The thrilling immediacy of the mid-season premiere cleans the slate for the season's closing stretch. A recap of “Point and Shoot,” episode eight of season ...

“Why did Lalo send you?” he asks Kim, who replies that Lalo originally wanted to send Jimmy, but Jimmy “talked him out of it.” Gus knows that Lalo isn’t the type of guy who could get talked out of anything, which signals to him that it genuinely didn’t matter to Lalo who was dispatched on this mission that was 100 percent certain to fail. The scheming around Howard and the Sandpiper Case is over. The idea of running and pushing substandard product into the market — in the meth business, not exactly a drug associated with quality control — makes them bristle. For Gus, the underground lab is an entrepreneurial masterstroke that takes the kind of investment and planning that’s anathema to “jackals” like the Salamancas, who are content to gobble up territory, steamroll the competition, and unleash great spasms of violence whenever necessary — or whenever the mood strikes them. What neither of them realizes is that this assassination attempt is not something Lalo actually expects to succeed; like Jimmy and Kim’s three transparent efforts to link Howard to cocaine, it’s just part of a greater ruse. This piece of monologue could be a Better Call Saul sub-tweet of other shows of its ilk, the ones that cut corners in pursuit of cheap thrills — thin, crude, artless time-wasters. That’s what the title Breaking Bad means, after all, or a nickname like “Slippin’ Jimmy.” The cost for Jimmy and Kim’s transgressions may be unreasonably high — there’s a sound argument that Howard had it coming, in fact, and that justice was done on behalf of his elderly clients — but they still have to pay it. It’s a simple job that Jimmy persuades Lalo to let Kim do instead, because it seems to him like her survival is at least within the realm of possibility. Although Lalo may not expect Gus to confront him in this place, it seems right that they would have to settle their conflict personally. When Kim inevitably fails and gets dragged into Gus’s house by Mike and his security goons, Gus doesn’t need to hear much from her to pick up on what Lalo is doing. They’re told that traces of cocaine will be discovered on the upholstery, because “that’s the story you were setting up for this guy.” Breaking Bad and Better Call Saul are keyed into inflection points like this when their characters make choices that set their lives on a dark trajectory. They’re told that Howard’s Jaguar will be found on a beach a few states over and that his death will eventually be considered a suicide, which will seem plausible given his personal and professional setbacks.

"Point And Shoot” is a thrilling lead-up to the beloved series' finale.

- And the man most frustratingly denied an Emmy for his Breaking Bad and Better Call Saul work, Jonathan Banks (who has been nominated five times for those shows), gave a typically outstanding performance as Mike ran the three-ring circus of trying to protect Gus while also dealing with some guilt about Jimmy and Kim (and Howard). Mike had pulled the Lalo watch detail off Kim and Jimmy’s apartment, something she screamed at him about when she was at Gus’ compound. Then he got to the McGills’ apartment, saw Howard, and quickly pieced together what must have happened to him. Let’s end with a shoutout that brings us back to the beginning: Gordon Smith, the former Vince Gilligan assistant who created the Lalo character and wrote classic Saul eps like “Five-O,” “Chicanery,” and “Bagman,” as well as this one, does a fine job of driving home the tragedy and randomness of Howard’s death. When he looks at her and begs her to be the one to make the kill, he really just wants her to leave their home, to get away from Lalo and the gun he’s holding on them. Maybe he thinks that to save him, she’ll make it to the house and commit that unforgivable assignment. Gus felt free to spit his tirade at the camera (he addressed Eladio as “you greasy, bloated pimp”), sure he was going to kill Lalo or die himself if he didn’t. Lalo, meanwhile, was just as certain he would emerge victorious from the lab, video in hand. But the look in his eyes when he peers into hers, desperately asking her to go, says that he thinks there’s a good chance he’s saying goodbye to her forever—and that he’s at peace with that decision. And he had, in true Lalo style, a simple, cleverly crafted plan to get it: He would hold Kim hostage, while Jimmy was sent off in his car, with a gun and a camera in the glove box. Home, and the recent events it hosted, is never going to feel like home again. He pleads for Lalo’s sign-off to send Kim on the task and for Kim’s agreement to go and save her life—or at least have the chance to. Jimmy was to knock on Gus’ door, and when he answered it, Jimmy was to unload the gun at Gus and take a photo of his dead body. Jimmy flips the deal around, though, and convinces Lalo to hold him in the apartment with Howard’s dead body, while Kim is given the assignment to go murder a stranger and make it back with photographic evidence within 60 minutes.

The midseason premiere of 'Better Call Saul' season 6 sees the death of one of the series' biggest bads. Read EW's recap.

And while Mike says only one word — a cautionary "easy" — as Howard goes in the ground, the look on his face is almost as good as a eulogy. Can Lalo Salamanca, this series' most terrifying monster, really die down here in the dark, a victim as much of his own hubris as of Gus' relentless quest for revenge?! As we know (and Lalo undoubtedly does, too), there's no way Gus Fring would answer his own door to a would-be assassin in the middle of the night. Blood is still flowing from the bullet hole in Howard's head, and Lalo is telling Jimmy and Kim ( Rhea Seehorn) that they have to focus — which they do, but it's worth noting that Jimmy rises to this occasion in a way that Kim does not. He underestimated Lalo. And every death tonight, beginning (but by no means ending) with Howard, is a death that might have been avoided. "It never happened," Kim echoes back, but her voice is hollow, and I have a feeling that this is the end. And this is exactly what happens, but not before Kim absolutely lights up Mike Ehrmentraut ( Jonathan Banks) for his (admittedly atypical) lapse in vigilance. Her job, her real job, is not to kill Gus Fring. It's to get caught trying, so that Gus realizes — too late — that he's left the laundry and its secret underground meth lab-in-progress undefended. Jimmy will get in Lalo's car, drive to Gus Fring's ( Giancarlo Esposito) house, and use the gun in the glovebox to shoot whomever answers the door. Pro tip, guys: If Lalo Salamanca agrees to a change of plans, then that plan was never really the plan. Lalo explains what will happen next: Kim will stay with Lalo at the condo. And now, this: A shoe, abandoned on the beach, gently rolling around in the surf beneath a golden, hazy California sky.

In a screw-turning season 6 part B opening, we've returned to Saul and Kim's (Bob Odenkirk and Rhea Seehorn) apartment following Lalo's murder of Howard ( ...

In regards to whether Dalton knew Lalo’s fate was imminent, he told the crowd at Manhattan’s BMCC Tribeca Performing Arts Center, “Pete, and Vince (Gilligan) called me and they told me before we even started (filming) – they said this episode is going to be the last one that you do. Mike and a set of guys head to Saul’s apartment to rescue him, while Gus and another group of guys head to the laundry warehouse which is the front for his meth lab bunker. He chose this life and I don’t think he feels terrible about it. Essentially, Kim and Saul need to “keep telling the lie you’ve been telling.” “You’re the last people to see him alive,” Mike reminds them. And I was like, you guys are killing me in eight? “That is the story you were setting him up for?” Mike wisely asks the couple. He reaches for a gun he has hiding and ‘points and shoots’ till the gun is empty. Gus is confronted there by Lalo who shoots all of his guys, and fires into Gus’ chest (he has a bulletproof vest). Lalo then has Gus take him below. Kim tells Mike what she was instructed to do; however she points to a guy who looks a lot like Gus’ double. There’s a cell phone and a gun Lalo has left for him. Saul has to go and murder someone for him.

'Better Call Saul' co-creatorPeter Gould discusses the midseason premiere of the final season, which features another big shocker.

Is it possible these characters have a part of their relationship that we haven’t seen.” Sometimes the answer’s “No” and sometimes the answer is “Yes.” The fly seems playful and a little bit demonic, which makes me think of Lalo. But the fly’s also very athletic and buoyant, which makes me think maybe it’s Howard! I think it could be either one of them. I think it was at the end of season five when we realized that there was going to be this attack on Lalo’s home in Mexico. That seemed like what it could be. Gus is thinking to himself, “Why is Lalo listening to these people?” I think that’s when Gus realizes that maybe there’s a chance that this whole thing is a feint to get the whole thing away from the laundry. There’s actually a scene that was in one of my episodes, one that Adam Bernstein directed, there’s a scene where Saul tells Walt a lot of things about himself and brings up a few juicy details that maybe were better off being deleted. It’s not something that we necessarily plotted out on a board and said, “This is the episode to do this” and “This is the episode to do that,” but our main focus is really on the development and the psychology of the characters, so it sort of organically fell here that this is where these things would happen. We always thought this would be a member of the Salamanca family, and you’re always looking for a new note to hit and we thought, “Well maybe this guy just enjoys himself. As you say, I think he knows very well that either one of these lawyers walking up to Gustavo Fring’s front door is not going to successfully assassinate him, but he’s hoping to sow enough chaos and move Mike’s guys around enough to give him an opening to get into this laundry and get into the SuperLab construction site. And Patrick Fabian is somebody who took a role that, on the surface it seemed like it was about as deep as a puddle of mercury, and he found that there’s a whole lot more to that guy. And obviously, Gus could have eaten a bullet, but Gus knows exactly how to play Lalo in that moment and Gus outsmarts him. He’s got such a head of steam and he’s so bent on revenge, and we couldn’t picture what would stop him and have him retire to a tropical island. As you arced out the final season, when did it become clear both that Howard and Lalo wouldn’t survive the series and then where in the final season those deaths needed to go, specifically “not at the very end”?

Rhea Seehorn and Bob Odenkirk in the 'Better Call Saul' episode "Point and Shoot." Greg Lewis/AMC/Sony Pictures Television. This post contains spoilers for the ...

I lived so much of my life with this crew and these people and the characters and so on and so forth. But it felt wrong to realize that dream, and it felt a disservice to his dad and to a lot of other things. But certainly, the fact of bringing all these things together was our way of saying, “No, no, this is why we’ve been doing these two things, because there was going to be a point where we brought these two things together.” And it leads to death, and it leads to chaos, and it leads to harm. But we felt it was better for the character to really take control in that moment and steer the course of his own destiny, rather than to just be chased out of existence. I think it would give him pause to call Mike the next time he wants to pick up the phone. Some of that has to do with that he knew Jimmy. He knew Jimmy McGill as Jimmy McGill. I think he had more respect for him and has [developed] less and less as [Jimmy has] Saul-ified — as he’s fulfilled Chuck’s prophecies about him. Some people felt we shouldn’t have, and we had to struggle to figure out how to pay it off. But we felt like we had set these forces in motion, and we were having these two titans of our story clash, and unfortunately, we knew Gus had to come out the other side. We had three storylines, essentially, that all needed to come to crisis and conclusion, and hopefully we’ve brought some of them to crisis and conclusion. What has been the worst case on this show of you guys wondering why you chose to get into such a mess? It won’t kill anything as long as we’ve done the dramatic work we were trying to do.” Obviously, the folks who wanted it to be in there won. His first script was the devastating Mike Ehrmantraut flashback episode “Five-O,” and in this final season he has written episodes that have killed off both Nacho Varga and, in tonight’s “Point and Shoot,” Lalo Salamanca.

Jimmy gets selfless, Kim gets questioned, Mike gets mobilized, Lalo gets proof, and Gus gets even.

Anything? If Kim is Billie, is Jimmy Paul or is he Devery? Is Harry Lalo? Or is he Gus? One thing we know for sure is that Kim and Jimmy are not headed for a classic Hollywood ending. From there, we warp ahead from 1950s cinematic references to the pop-cultural landscape of the 1980s, as Kim races to Gus’s house to the sound of a pulsing beat worthy of the original Miami Vice series. Could it be that Jimmy is Harry, and Kim will use her legal and economic powers as his spouse to get clear of him once he finally breaks bad for good? (Gus, later in the episode, will be smart enough to know that Lalo can’t be persuaded, and conclude correctly that this was all part of the sociopathic Salamanca cousin’s plan.) He ties Jimmy to the chair, gags him, tells him he blames Nacho for slaughtering his household in Mexico, and says he’ll be back for answers. When she stands up to Harry, he reacts violently, striking her and forcing her to sign the contracts related to his crooked deal. And we can deduce that the person who did was not Lalo Salamanca. Lalo’s planning powers are second to none, but he’s not big on cleaning up after himself. Well, it’s a 1950 film called Born Yesterday, and the blond actress whose face was frozen on the screen during all the commotion is none other than Judy Holliday. Here’s the first paragraph of Wikipedia’s plot summary: Before he goes, he cranks up the volume on the old movie Jimmy and Kim had been watching to drown out his captive’s screams. We can deduce that someone set this up to look like a suicide. A shoe is floating in the ocean. NAMAST3. And here, on the dashboard, a wallet and a wedding ring.

'Better Call Saul' Season 6 episode 8 reveals just how Tony Dalton's Lalo Salamanca character ends up in 'Breaking Bad.'

Tony Dalton's name never appears in the credits of any Breaking Bad episode and his poisonous mustached grin never appears in any scene in the series. Before the end of Lalo's final episode, Mike decides to kill two birds with one forklift by burying both Lalo and Howard in the same grave dug out at the construction site. As much as Lalo wanted to kill the man who sent mercenaries into his home to assassinate him, he returned to Albuquerque to get proof of Gus's treachery first, revenge after. That sets the stage for Lalo to finally begin putting his pawns in motion for a climatic end to his cerebral chess match with a justifiably paranoid Gus. The end result may have been predictable, but the Breaking Bad twist was one no one could've predicted. Outside of Saul's wife and smarter better half Kim Wexler (Rhea Seehorn), no other Better Call Saul character has generated as much fanfare as the Mexican mustached menace Lalo Salamanca (Tony Dalton). And after last night's episode, we finally find out how he makes it into the Breaking Bad timeline in the most unexpected manner. Better Call Saul's time is coming to an end, and that means its timeline inches closer to the Breaking Bad timeline we all know and love.

Jimmy and Kim get a new refrigerator. Gus and Lalo get some quality face time.

Even in the end, when it appeared that he had outsmarted and outplayed Gus, when all of his plans came together and he actually got the long-sought tour of the superlab, he lost. He was competent and smart enough to provoke deep anxiety in the preternaturally implacable Mr. Fring. This might be his most impressive accomplishment, and it hinted at both his strengths and limitations. “Be nice,” he told the men driving immigrants over the Mexican border in the first episode of this season. The same goes for Kim. She is never mentioned in “Breaking Bad.” But the names “Lalo” and “Ignacio” are, and both of those guys are dead. “Drive nice,” he instructed Jimmy and Kim as he outlined his plans in this episode. Where his kinsman were unhinged sadists, Lalo exits the show with a body count that is low for his cohort. When Lalo enters the laundromat that hides the superlab, he manages to evade the surveillance system designed to prevent the very incursion he is pulling off. Then Gus delays his own execution with a monologue about the venality and stupidity of the Salamancas, a tactic that gives him time to kick a lighting cable, plunge the lab into near total darkness and retrieve the handgun he secreted during an earlier visit. More than that, they can turn their attention to Gene Takavic, the joyless schlub Saul becomes after “Breaking Bad,” who was last seen working as a manager of a Cinnabon in Omaha, convinced that his cover had been blown. That said, he does appear mildly startled to learn that he was her target. He will send an unwilling assassin across town to fire at Gus Fring, thus ensuring that the cavalry is dispatched to Jimmy and Kim’s condo. We soon learn that the silkiest Salamanca, a highly charismatic sociopath, has arrived with an elaborate scheme, one that he presumably has fine tuned during many days hiding in Albuquerque’s sewage system.

Better Call Saul kicks off the second half of its final season with a tense, memorable installment.

“Point and Shoot” concludes with Mike burying Howard Hamlin next to his killer, beneath the super lab. Well, it’s now morning and the clock is ticking. Back at Jimmy’s apartment, Kim returns home with Mike who sternly lectures them to continue telling the lie that they started about Howard Hamlin and to keep calm. Plus, the man has catlike agility, but not so much so that he can avoid a hail of gunfire. We saw the great lengths Gus went to to ensure that he would not be a sitting duck in his home should Lalo return. We saw Gus hide a strategically placed gun in the lab. Mike once told Kim that she’s made of sterner stuff than Jimmy, but she hasn’t been thrown into the deep end like this. Jimmy wants to ensure that Kim gets as far away from Lalo as possible, no matter the outcome. Thankfully, the rest of “Point and Shoot” immediately made these fears unwarranted. Fittingly, Lalo refers to her as “Mrs. Goodman” as she’s walking out the door. It’s a small thing, but it helps illustrate how torturous this all is for Kim. This is not her world; these are not the sort of compromises she makes. Better Call Saul, amid its sixth and final season, took a month-long hiatus after “ Plan and Execution,” a barnburner of an episode that ended with perhaps the most excruciating cliffhanger of the series.

"Better Call Saul" star Tony Dalton explains that major scene with Lalo and Gus.

After Lalo dies, that cements Gus into the person that he becomes in “Breaking Bad.” It was kind of just like I start dying and then I threw a smile and Vince was like, “That was good, now more like a cynic. He sits down and he’s like, “That was the closest I’ve ever been to dying. They put the episode on at Tribeca and just seeing me and Howard dead in the pit, it was like “Damn, man. I think it was like, “You got lucky, man. When we all met up, Bob said, “Do you think they’re gonna think I was just throwing her under the bus?” I said I didn’t think so. More power to the writers and creators because it’s like, “You motherfucker, did you just send your wife to kill somebody?” Bob and I, when we were talking at dinner, he figured if she left the room, she’d have more of a chance at being alive — period. When I watched it I thought the latter, but Kim mentions later that Saul was looking out for her. While delivering a scathing monologue to the drug bosses down in the high-tech meth lab that Walt and Jesse will eventually use in “Breaking Bad,” Gus turns out the lights, grabs a gun and fires the clip at Lalo. When the lights turn back on, we see Lalo choking on his own blood from a fatal neck wound. I got a Zoom call from [creators] Vince [Gilligan] and Peter [Gould]. It was more about how excited they were about what happens than they were about me dying. And in a twisted cherry on top of “Better Call Saul’s” suspenseful Season 6 Part 2 return, it’s revealed that Lalo is buried beneath Gus’ meth super-lab. Before Kim can pull the trigger at Gus’ secure safe house, Mike (Jonathan Banks) intervenes and stops the attempted hit — which was really all a distraction for Lalo to get video evidence of Gus’ secret meth lab.

[Editor's note: This interview contains spoilers from last night's episode of Better Call Saul, “Point And Shoot.” Please watch the episode before reading ...

We were excited that she knew who we were and that she liked the show. I just have to say that one thing I skipped over was just how incredible Bob and Rhea are in this episode. It was a very sad thing to say goodbye to Tony and say goodbye to Lalo. But we have to play by the rules that we’ve set out. And in fact, if Lalo didn’t have more that he wanted to know from Jimmy, I think Jimmy would be lying dead on the floor right next to Howard Hamlin. And there’s a moment where he’s looking into her eyes, and it feels like he’s not just relieved that she’s agreed to go, but is he almost assuming that this is goodbye? AVC: Going forward to the final episodes, Kim had this very important piece of information about Lalo still being alive, but she didn’t trust Jimmy enough to share it with him. The truth is that these two guys are now bound together, the way they will be on Breaking Bad. I mean, Mike has made his choice. And we know that Gus Fring is alive and well and doing business a few years later when we meet him on Breaking Bad. None of us saw how that could be possible if Lalo is still out there, with designs on getting revenge on Gus. And also, we had that line in Breaking Bad where Gus tells Hector that he’s the last surviving Salamanca. You have to dance with the one that brung you. This is one of the things that is such a struggle because we have a lot of characters on the show who are very smart. But we wanted desperately to find a way to have these two guys go face to face, which of course meant, and Lalo feels the same way, taking Mike out of the equation, at least for long enough for Lalo to get a look at the super lab. How did you come to the decision that the midseason premiere would conclude this chapter of Lalo vs. The A.V. Club: “Plan and Execution” ended with the shocker of Howard’s brutal, unexpected death, and Kim and Jimmy living out that horror show with Lalo’s appearance.

As bad timing would have it, vengeful drug cartel boss Lalo Salamanca (Timothy Dalton) also chose that moment to appear on their doorstep, greeting Howard with ...

Instead, the pre-credits sequence features one of the show’s teasingly elliptical openings – a shoe being washed up on the surf, the camera pulling back to reveal a car parked on the beach with the driver’s door open, a wallet and wedding ring on the dashboard. Up till now, Better Call Saul has run on two separate, occasionally intersecting tramlines – Saul’s Albuquerque lawyer business and the Mexican drugs cartel action. As bad timing would have it, vengeful drug cartel boss Lalo Salamanca (Timothy Dalton) also chose that moment to appear on their doorstep, greeting Howard with a bullet to the head.

The body count won't stop climbing as 'Better Call Saul' returns for its final six episodes — read our recap of Season 6, Episode 8.

He lets out a final laugh before he dies, and Gus pulls the bullet out of his body armor and tosses it at him. He also stares down at the bodies in the hole, his face twisted with conflict and regret, as the crane covers them up with dirt again. While he goes off on a long rant insulting Don Eladio and the Salamancas, we see a gun hidden nearby — and suddenly, Gus triggers a blackout and grabs the gun while Lalo shoots wildly into the darkness. She gets to Gus’ and pulls the gun out of the glove compartment, walking up to the door and ringing the bell… Gus wants to talk to Kim, and she tells him Lalo tried to send Jimmy, but Jimmy talked him out of it. After a cryptic opening that features a shoe washing up on a beach with footprints leading to Howard’s car parked in the sand, Monday’s premiere picks up right where we left off, with a shocked and terrified Jimmy and Kim standing over Howard’s dead body as Lalo points a gun at them.

I wouldn't have it any other way,” the 'Better Call Saul' star says of Monday's midseason premiere.

So it was a night shoot, like one in the morning, and I grabbed a little chair and put it on the side of the rest stop next to the highway and just sat down. But great stories have great villains, and you want to kill your villain, you know? The cold-blooded, charismatic killer is bleeding out from a gunshot to the neck, and just before the lights go out on him forever, he manages one last classic Lalo smile.

It's all been leading to this moment for Lalo Salamanca. His big confrontation with Gus plays out in 'Better Call Saul' season 6 episode 8.

While this episode is relatively light on Jimmy and Kim after the opening sequence, it is ultimately an hour detailing their moral decay and the consequences of their dealings with New Mexico’s foulest gangsters. It’s been Better Call Saul’s biggest question for a while now but with Lalo out the way, her future looks murkier. Lalo is pleased with his scheme while Gus retorts with a flowery putdown of the Cartel – and in particular the Salamanca family. At the end of ‘Point and Shoot’, Jimmy’s dodgy associate Mike tells them to go about their lives as normal. It’s here where you think we might finally see the end of Kim, who never appears or is mentioned in Breaking Bad. Surprisingly, she lives to see at least one more episode when it becomes clear that the assassination attempt is just a ruse by Lalo to infiltrate the laundromat and get Gus on his own. After dispatching his bodyguards, Lalo corners Gus in the tomb-like superlab.

As Better Call Saul season six continues to air, even Chuck McGill himself might have a hard time defending the show's earliest premise. Believe it or not, ...

When Better Call Saul was first announced, it was treated as a joke. Lalo’s in that spot because he’s obsessed with Gus. Again, there’s a Breaking Bad connection. In 'Point and Shoot', Mike tries to call Gus, against Lalo's wishes. Kim was sent on a mission to shoot Gus after Jimmy decided she should go instead of him. Sure, the show started out tragicomic, but by this point it’s just a full-blown tragedy. Remember Jimmy, it's best to never underestimate Kim Wexler. You should probably keep that in mind if you're reading this.

Naturally, Saul was already terrified of Lalo because he witnessed him murder Howard Hamlin (Patrick Fabian) without batting an eyelash, but he also blamed ...

Everybody was so kind, and I was like, “I want to work like this all the time. Absolutely. On Hawkeye, I had a long mustache, but then I’d show up to [Better Call Saul’s] set and be like, “I can’t cut it that much because I have to go back to the other set.” So we’d still cut it, but then again, it probably would’ve been okay because Lalo was in a sewer. There’s so much blood!” I was covered in it, and the dirt on the ground of the lab was completely a puddle of mud. So after three weeks, the mustache would grow and it ended up working perfectly [for when I’d go back to Hawkeye]. On Hawkeye, they were ready to add more mustache just in case, but it would always be two or three weeks in between the two. I was like, “I thought I was going to go all the way till the end,” and they were like, “Nope! Still 608.” And I was like, “608? That’s it? Patrick is a wonderful human being, and I never had the chance to work with him until the end. I’ll see you in hell.’” Then Vince said, “The lights were off, you guys shot it out and he got you in the neck. If Gus beat Lalo at an arm-wrestling thing, I would’ve been like, “Damnit!” But the lights were off and we just shot guns. And now you’re just smiling because [Gus] got lucky.” And I said, “Alright!” So that’s what we did, and it just kept getting bigger and bigger. They called and said, “Hey listen, this is what happens, but first of all, you’re going to shit your pants over what happens before,” which ended up being Lalo killing Howard. They were really excited about it, and I was like, “Oh OK!” They were like, “Oh my god, you won’t believe what’s going to happen, and then you’re going to die.” (Laughs.) But I wanted to know how I was going to die, and they were like, “We can’t tell you.” And I was like, “C’mon, Vince! Tell me something. So what do you think was on Lalo’s mind as he smiled and laughed for the last time? Anything.” And he was like, “Alright, you take a lot of motherfuckers down before you die.” And I was like, “Alright, I’ll take it!

Vince Gilligan directs a playful, shocking episode that richly reconsiders a key setting from 'Breaking Bad.'

But the end of "Point and Shoot" is the real flourish. But burying Howard next to Lalo in the yet-unfinished Superlab is a perfect-on-every-level moment of nasty-funny artistic expression. It felt to me like the lowest form of fan service, the adult-prestige equivalent of a whole miniseries about almost finishing the Death Star. In 2018 I was still a bit of a Saul skeptic: I loved the show's legal explorations, but I was always worrying the Mike-Gus quadrant of the show was a little bit of Bad leg shown to fans who loved the Cousins and hated Mesa Verde. But I was wrong. "Point and Shoot" enriches the Superlab into a mythic space and makes it a potent symbol for the show itself. To this dexterous weaving of catastrophes, don't forget that the towering firm of Hamlin Hamlin & McGill is pretty well liquidated now, with both remaining name partners dead partially because of Jimmy's actions. Lalo (Tony Dalton) complains in "Point and Shoot," when Jimmy and Kim blather on trying to convince him that the other is the better assassin. He may have to live in fear of the Salamancas… and that's before he identity-swaps himself into the Midwest, living in fear of literally anyone recognizing him. Mike follows Lalo's decoy game, bringing a full contingent of Fring men to the Goodman apartment. In "Point and Shoot," Jimmy's ultimate plea is his complete lack of knowledge: "I don't know him!" This is all more or less news to Jimmy, who still has only a vague sense of the larger criminal forces swirling around him. Well, this whole season is clearly building to a Gus-Lalo climax is a thought I definitely had in mid-May. And the whole Superlab will go down in flames.