Better Call Saul Season 6 thread (with spoilers)

Except that could lead to pulling on the strings of Howard's death, and in turn the con they were pulling on him, which would also have very bad consequences for her and Jimmy. Not quite death, but certainly disbarment and possibly imprisonment and civil lawsuits. Maybe even having to forfeit their Sandpiper money.

 

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So where did Gus get the gun in the hole? Lalo just missed a gun sitting there on the excavator? And Gus grabbed it like Luke Skywalker force grabbing a light saber?

 

He stuck it in there in an earlier episode. You knew some shit was going to go down when they did that.

 

Gus has taken far bigger risks than worrying about collateral damage from a death that is assumed as suicide.

 

Thanks, Chekhov.

 

BB / BCS doesn't really strike me as an overly political show, but also - Killing or disappearing a white, blonde lawyer lady attracts a level of heat that Gus probably doesn't want. Kind of like in "The Wire," when the only person Slim Charles or anyone else refuses to kill is Clay Davis. "Murder ain’t no thing - but this here is some assassination shit."

 

So by my count, that's five people who died or are buried in the Super Lab (Victor, Howard, Lalo, and the two goons Walt killed right before they burned it down). That place is cursed.

 

He ordered (most likely, anyway) a kid to be killed in Breaking Bad in "Half Measures".

Also? He has zero heat on him in the outside world at this point in the story arc. He works, and kills, in plain sight. I'm thinking he wouldn't give a fuck.

 

Two other thoughts from that episode:
1) The look Lalo gave Jimmy when he steals his car and says, "Taupe" was great.

2) When they're outside Jimmy's condo, Mike tells his guys to be quiet so they don't alarm the neighbors. He then proceeds to lead a dozen large men jogging up the steps, where they go into an apartment that has had the TV playing at full volume for the better part of an hour, and then they move a refrigerator out of the same condo and down those same steps at dawn. If you've ever lived in an apartment complex, BTW, you know those steps make a hell of a lot of noise and vibration when anyone walks up and down them.
And Mike is worried about someone noticing Howard's car was there all night?
This is also the same condo complex where Jimmy and Kim were throwing glass beer bottles off the balcony into the parking lot and nobody said anything. These are either the most forgiving neighbors in the world or the most clueless. Too bad there are only five episodes left. I'd have loved to see a few scenes where Jimmy and Kim have to explain themselves to the condo board.

 

I read the Gus/Kim scene as Gus honing on her saying Jimmy convinced Lalo of something…..

Indicating Gus decided either Jimmy must be useful to keep around because he’s quick and slick enough to reason with Lalo OR Gus decided Lalo was in such a poor mental state that he’d be swayed that it was worth going at him

 

btw - Rhea Seehorn FINALLY gets an Emmy nod for BCS.

 

I read it a bit differently. Gus might have decided Jimmy could be useful, but he also realized that nobody is that good of a talker and that Lalo was playing them. It didn't matter whether Kim or Jimmy went to Gus' house because it was all a feint to draw Gus' men away from the laundry. If they had actually managed to kill Gus it might have been a bonus, but Lalo knew they'd never get close. Jimmy and Kim were just pawns in this particular plan. They were probably in more danger of getting shot by Gus' men than by Lalo.
Some quick deduction by Gus of the remaining high-priority targets led him to assume the laundry was Lalo's target. Then he just screwed up by letting Lalo get behind him.