Better Call Saul: S6E8, Point and Shoot
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Better Call Saul: S6E8, Point and Shoot
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Chris Nicholson
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Chris Nicholson joins me to talk about Better Call Saul, Season 6: Episode 8, which is called Point and Shoot. We speculate on where the series will go in the last five episodes and discuss whether we would like to see yet another spinoff. Listen or watch the video here. As always, please leave any comments you have on the Substack page, not YouTube.
Better Call Saul: S6E8, Point and Shoot
I don't think Mike actually needs to "buy" a refrigerator. Gus is in the food business and part of a much larger conglomerate that he was able to equipment & even get meth precursors from!
Kim has no idea who Gus is. She thought she was supposed to shoot one of the guards Mike had in that room. She's never seen Gus.
There was a clip from the Breaking Bad era where Saul & his secretary are destroying documents at his office.
One possibility is that Jimmy/Saul has dealt more Lalo and thinks he's both more responsible for getting involved with him and able to deal with him. He didn't know that his connection (Nacho) was a known traitor.
I think Lalo actually was planning on coming back to see if he could get any more information out of Jimmy about the plots against him.
Lalo is staying completely underground and not using henchmen (not letting people know he's alive, partly because he's VERY wanted in the states and already had a hit attempted by criminals). He goes to that apartment because he correctly guessed it was a low enough priority that when his phone call (made in response to seeing how much security there was at the laundromat) shifted Gus' men so that they would no longer have people watching it.
Gus doesn't have his superlab up & running. His supply of drugs runs through the cartel. He can only start killing them in the Breaking Bad era (and even then he's sneaky about it). You say tipping off the DEA isn't his way, but he deliberately set up a confrontation between the Cousins & Hank Schraeder which then puts the cartel in the crosshairs so that Juan Bolsa got killed.
I don't know if Walter White is actually smarter than Gus (in a non-scientific sense). Mike is angry that Walter killed Gus because Gus kept things orderly while Walter is an ego-driven agent of chaos.
In Gus' first interaction with the Salamancas Gus had been selling meth in their territory, and tried to get into the business with them, but the Salamancas dismissed meth as just being for bikers and figured killing the chemist/meth cook would eliminate the supplier in their territory, leaving Gus just a chicken resterateur.
Cliff has (unverified) information about the couple trying to sabotage the Sandpiper case, but eliminating Chuck himself is way beyond that.
Bob Odenkirk is older than his character because this is a prequel (and time moves slowly in both shows). Kim wasn't cast until BCS so she doesn't have that problem (as long as the spinoff isn't a prequel to BCS).
"Flanderization" means a character becoming more of a caricature.
Mike especially should have had more money since he admitted he was on the take as a Philly cop, even if that might not be great for getting another job after retirement.
The local police did have the homicide case of the guy Lalo killed at the travel agency, but Mike helped (and then later sabotaged) that case.
The unfinished superlab still had digging equipment in this episode. When Walter works there it's a different story. There's certainly not a dirt floor there anymore.