Better Call Saul

Don't worry. Now that Lalo has proven he can travel internationally, get any gun or item without fail, and slip through anywhere undetected....he has now lost all of his abilities and cartel associates. He now needs to hire a goofball lawyer and his wife to become assassins for his cartel. Instead of using the large network of cartel hitters he has at his disposal, he has Kim hilariously going out on hits for him. And lets her go without worry of her calling police or the FBI.

This is show is officially for idiots.

Try actually watching the show next time, idiot. He knew Kim would get intercepted, he used her as a distraction to get into the laundry.

 
>when tranny spammer is posting leaked pics in the thread but you already knew lalo was going to get buried anyway

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Kim HAS to die, right?
Already confirmed months ago she is leaving Jimmy
 
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I'm still wondering that. It would be the easiest way to explain why she is not in breaking bad, it also feels absolutely lazy to kill off all 4 characters who are not in breaking bad. You can't convince me that Lalo is not gonna die before the season ends.
The one possible hint is that Ice Station Zebra company Saul was using, possibly to launder money, and Kim could be in charge of that but in hiding. I don't think they can bring back vacuum cleaner salesman guy, because Robert Forster is just someone who couldn't be recast. You might also recall Kim and Saul watched this movie together in an episode.

I still see no way Lalo lives, though, because he isn't the kind of guy who just goes away.

I get the impression in the one time Saul mentions both Ignacio and Lalo in BB that he knows Ignacio is dead (hence is blaming the dead guy) but does not know Lalo is dead, because he's still afraid of him. My prediction is it will be Mike who kills him. I also think Mike took Nacho's death really badly because it was essentially the same thing that happened with his own son, and yet again, he couldn't protect someone he cared about.

I could also see Gus personally killing him because he finally gets the evidence he needs to convince Hector Gus needs to go, so Gus has to kill him before that happens.

I actually think "Gene" may realize at the end the authorities have nothing on him (at least we have no indication they are actively looking for him) and anyone who wanted him dead is dead themselves by this point.

Or if he doesn't do that, what he meant by I'll fix this myself is he's going to kill those guys.

But if he's able to (not disbarred or under prosecution of some kind) return to law and actually does, he doesn't even really have to care about their blackmail. He was pretty obviously concerned when he fled with incriminating material in his files but for what we know, he managed to shred everything.
The stray tequila bottle lid in the cold opening to the final season would suggest Fring's involvement in her ending.
I'm pretty sure that's the same tequila bottle stopper from way back in the second season. It's what they swindled the "KEN WINS" guy from the first season of BB into buying for them. It's a fictional tequila called Zafiro Añejo because when they tried to get a tequila sponsor, nobody really wanted their brand associated with a scene where a bunch of people keel over dead after drinking their product.

Also it's been seen in other scenes after that.
 
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Wow after a month of binging Obi-Wan, Stranger Things, MCU movies, and The Boys its weird to return to an adult show with no superpowers, no supernatural (Lalo is not a werewolf!) elements, and adults making informed logical decisions. Super tense the whole hour, and loved the layering of "the choice".

Kim and Jimmy know Jimmy wanted her gone so she lives no matter what, neither has to say it or tell Mike, But then Gus knows Lalo letting Jimmy choose means Lalo never intended for his "plan" to work, BUT ALSO that means Lalo knew Gus would know every layer and do what he didt! These 3 guys are nuts!

The real big question then though is... is Walter White smarter (at crime) than Gus Fring, or did WW just get fucking lucky lol
 
The lies about Howard Hamlin will be remembered as truth, which means they effectively become truth. And on top of it, he gets buried next to the man who murdered him.


On certain corners of the Internet people are still carrying about how they hate Kim, how she's reasonable for Howard's murder. This is nonsense, because no one in her circumstance could have foreseen Lalo showing up.

I wonder if HHm will survive. Have to think a lot of clients will bail.

I am guessing Kimmy is going to use the vacuum cleaner service after this, which means Kim and Jimmy will likely reunite when he lives as Gene.

I do think this episode would have been better as the mideason finale as it ties up loose ends.
 
Wow after a month of binging Obi-Wan, Stranger Things, MCU movies, and The Boys its weird to return to an adult show with no superpowers, no supernatural (Lalo is not a werewolf!) elements, and adults making informed logical decisions. Super tense the whole hour, and loved the layering of "the choice".

Kim and Jimmy know Jimmy wanted her gone so she lives no matter what, neither has to say it or tell Mike, But then Gus knows Lalo letting Jimmy choose means Lalo never intended for his "plan" to work, BUT ALSO that means Lalo knew Gus would know every layer and do what he didt! These 3 guys are nuts!

The real big question then though is... is Walter White smarter (at crime) than Gus Fring, or did WW just get fucking lucky lol
I'm not entirely sure Lalo doesn't have super powers at this point, but I would say Gus is smarter when WW. Walt figured out Gus' weakness and exploited it, getting the drop on Gus, but Season 5 shows that he wasn't nearly as capable of running a criminal empire, whereas Gus created his whole Pollos Hermanos operation and then basically killed off the entirety of the Salamanca Cartel. Walt's not dumb, but I don't think he's in Gus' league.

Or as Mike put it "Just because you shot Jesse James, don't make you Jesse James".
 
Felt the episode was pretty hype and worth the wait

My only complaint is we've never seen Gus shoot or physically fight before. Mofucker got hit in the body armor at least twice while running without stumbling, then stood up and shot Lalo in the dark from probably 10 yards. Kinda hard to believe, but still better than CGI Lalo dropping through the ceiling.

Very happy the rest of the season can focus on Saul Goodman and Kim, who definitely isn't gonna die
 
Lalo dying in this episode was a good thing. He was getting way too cocky with that phone call to the nursing home. Was it super powers, or just someone being so arrogant they trip on their shoelaces?

Edit: phone posting dickhole
 
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There was some really nice symbolism in this episode and cinematographic moments that added to the drama.

The way the peephole in the front door to Gus's home shrinks from a pinprick of light to absolute darkness the moment before it opens.

The camera following the path of the chair as Lalo drags it across the room.

That jarring transition from the screen of the video camera to reality, as Gus is pushed to the floor.

As is with Breaking Bad/ Better Call Saul - everything happens before you think it will; you are left wondering where they will take things in the last five episodes.
 
Don't worry. Now that Lalo has proven he can travel internationally, get any gun or item without fail, and slip through anywhere undetected....he has now lost all of his abilities and cartel associates. He now needs to hire a goofball lawyer and his wife to become assassins for his cartel. Instead of using the large network of cartel hitters he has at his disposal, he has Kim hilariously going out on hits for him. And lets her go without worry of her calling police or the FBI.

This is show is officially for idiots. Lalo just let Kim go after she witnessed him committing a murder. All she has to do is contact police or the FBI and they could handle the situation a million times better than anything she can do.
I'm glad I read that post before I watch the episode, because it was the opposite of a spoiler. After I read it I realized the new episode had dropped, and it not just lowered my expectations, but I was in fact expecting something entirely different to happen so I was definitely happy with the ending.

Lalo's plan was legit smart, ngl.
 
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