# Better Call Saul (Season 3) **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [April 8, 2017, 4:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/better-call-saul-season-3/784040 "2017-04-08T04:28:37Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 42
**Author:** ![davidm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/davidm/32/225_2.png) [@davidm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/davidm)\ **Post date:** [June 6, 2017, 5:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/better-call-saul-season-3/784040/821 "2017-06-06T17:21:44Z")
> [@MyFootsZZZ](#): > > Wow. > > Thanks for agreeing with me guys! Sometimes I feell all smart and stuff - like I’m contributing!! Of course you’re contributing. Why would you think otherwise? ---
**Author:** ![voltaire](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/voltaire/32/313_2.png) [@voltaire](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/voltaire)\ **Post date:** [June 6, 2017, 5:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/better-call-saul-season-3/784040/822 "2017-06-06T17:22:36Z")
Anyway, this episode could almost have been a season premiere or finale by how much each and every main character progressed (or regressed) in significant ways. ---
**Author:** ![MyFootsZZZ](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/myfootszzz/32/12580_2.png) [@MyFootsZZZ](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MyFootsZZZ)\ **Post date:** [June 6, 2017, 5:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/better-call-saul-season-3/784040/823 "2017-06-06T17:23:37Z")
> [@davidm](#): > > Of course you’re contributing. Why would you think otherwise? Just self esteem. lol ---
**Author:** ![corkboard](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/e9bcb4/32.png) [@corkboard](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/corkboard)\ **Post date:** [June 6, 2017, 5:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/better-call-saul-season-3/784040/824 "2017-06-06T17:41:39Z")
Kim wrote the check to Howard fully expecting he wouldn’t cash it. It was just sort of an “f-u” move. And I think she can’t wait to dump off the Mesa Verde account to another firm to separate herself from the whole Jimmy mess. She’s taking on the oil account in its place. I think episode 10 will be the last we see of her. ---
**Author:** ![Stephe96](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/bbe5ce/32.png) [@Stephe96](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Stephe96)\ **Post date:** [June 6, 2017, 6:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/better-call-saul-season-3/784040/825 "2017-06-06T18:22:13Z")
Wild prediction: we will meet ASAC Hank Schrader before the season finale. ---
**Author:** ![davidm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/davidm/32/225_2.png) [@davidm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/davidm)\ **Post date:** [June 6, 2017, 6:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/better-call-saul-season-3/784040/826 "2017-06-06T18:51:01Z")
> [@Stephe96](#): > > Wild prediction: we will meet ASAC Hank Schrader before the season finale. That wouldn’t be a stretch, considering all the meth connected characters in the story so far. However, if i recall correctly, when he first met Hector in BB, there was no indication that he knew him or had had previous encounters with him, and the same is true for Mike. Maybe we’ll see him investigating squat cobbler guy. My prediction is that we’ll soon be seeing Gale Boetticher. Gus is in the process of purchasing the property where the super lab will be located, and Gale is the one who designed and built it. Maybe we’ll get some answers concerning what some suspect about his background and sexual proclivities. ---
**Author:** ![JohnT](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnt/32/15048_2.png) [@JohnT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JohnT)\ **Post date:** [June 6, 2017, 6:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/better-call-saul-season-3/784040/827 "2017-06-06T18:58:26Z")
For Kim to be gone on 2 episodes means this show has to move a lot quicker, which I don’t see happening… ---
**Author:** ![MyFootsZZZ](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/myfootszzz/32/12580_2.png) [@MyFootsZZZ](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MyFootsZZZ)\ **Post date:** [June 6, 2017, 7:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/better-call-saul-season-3/784040/828 "2017-06-06T19:17:25Z")
Kim… The thing about Gene is that he longs for the ‘Saul Goodman’ days. If Kim were killed off during his Saul transition, why would he value that time of his life so much? ---
**Author:** ![corkboard](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/e9bcb4/32.png) [@corkboard](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/corkboard)\ **Post date:** [June 6, 2017, 8:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/better-call-saul-season-3/784040/829 "2017-06-06T20:02:42Z")
Because he was practicing law and making some serious coin in a way that allowed him to employ his talents. It’s not that I think we’ll never hear from or about Kim next season, I just think they’re going to cut ties with each other pretty soon. She wants to be a dedicated attorney and he’s about to discover his Saul Goodman persona. ---
**Author:** ![Richard\_John\_Marcej](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/5f9b8f/32.png) [@Richard\_John\_Marcej](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Richard_John_Marcej)\ **Post date:** [June 6, 2017, 8:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/better-call-saul-season-3/784040/830 "2017-06-06T20:06:34Z")
> [@davidm](#): > > That wouldn’t be a stretch, considering all the meth connected characters in the story so far. > However, if i recall correctly, when he first met Hector in BB, there was no indication that he knew him or had had previous encounters with him, and the same is true for Mike. > Maybe we’ll see him investigating squat cobbler guy. > > My prediction is that we’ll soon be seeing Gale Boetticher. Gus is in the process of purchasing the property where the super lab will be located, and Gale is the one who designed and built it. Maybe we’ll get some answers concerning what some suspect about his background and sexual proclivities. Do we know if Hank was with the ASAC when this was taking place? And if he was, he may have been a lower ranked position that may not come into contact with Hector As for Gus and the lab designed by Gale, my guess is that Gus didn’t decide or begin to set up a lab in the Laundromat until season one of BB. ---
**Author:** ![hajario](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hajario/32/171_2.png) [@hajario](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/hajario)\ **Post date:** [June 6, 2017, 8:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/better-call-saul-season-3/784040/831 "2017-06-06T20:14:12Z")
> [@corkboard](#): > > Kim wrote the check to Howard fully expecting he wouldn’t cash it. It was just sort of an “f-u” move. And I think she can’t wait to dump off the Mesa Verde account to another firm to separate herself from the whole Jimmy mess. She’s taking on the oil account in its place. I think episode 10 will be the last we see of her. Kim was going to get rid of the oil account until she had that conversation with Jimmy about money and changed her mind. She is going to try to do both to generate more cash flow. ---
**Author:** ![davidm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/davidm/32/225_2.png) [@davidm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/davidm)\ **Post date:** [June 6, 2017, 8:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/better-call-saul-season-3/784040/832 "2017-06-06T20:16:57Z")
> [@hajario](#): > > Kim was going to get rid of the oil account until she had that conversation with Jimmy about money and changed her mind. She is going to try to do both to generate more cash flow. That was how I interpreted it. ---
**Author:** ![AK84](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/85e7bf/32.png) [@AK84](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AK84)\ **Post date:** [June 6, 2017, 8:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/better-call-saul-season-3/784040/833 "2017-06-06T20:17:04Z")
I think Steve Gomez had run in with Hector earlier, so we might see him. ---
**Author:** ![davidm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/davidm/32/225_2.png) [@davidm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/davidm)\ **Post date:** [June 6, 2017, 8:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/better-call-saul-season-3/784040/834 "2017-06-06T20:28:43Z")
> [@Richard\_John\_Marcej](#): > > … > As for Gus and the lab designed by Gale, my guess is that Gus didn’t decide or begin to set up a lab in the Laundromat until season one of BB. Gus had Lydia in the car with him when he was checking out the property. I doubt that she came all the way from Madrigal’s Houston office to Albuquerque, almost 900 miles, just to check out property for a laundromat for a minor subsidiary (Los Pollos Hermanos). Keep in mind that she’s deeply involved in manufacturing and distributing meth. https://maps.google.com/maps?ll=32.4400479,-105.5027494&z=6&output=embed&dg=ntvb ---
**Author:** ![Sherrerd](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sherrerd/32/8_2.png) [@Sherrerd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sherrerd)\ **Post date:** [June 6, 2017, 8:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/better-call-saul-season-3/784040/835 "2017-06-06T20:56:24Z")
> [@hajario](#): > > Kim was going to get rid of the oil account until she had that conversation with Jimmy about money and changed her mind. She is going to try to do both to generate more cash flow. > [@davidm](#): > > That was how I interpreted it. Me, too. > [@davidm](#): > > Gus had Lydia in the car with him when he was checking out the property. I doubt that she came all the way from Madrigal’s Houston office to Albuquerque, almost 900 miles, just to check out property for a laundromat for a minor subsidiary (Los Pollos Hermanos). Keep in mind that she’s deeply involved in manufacturing and distributing meth. > > [https://www.google.com/maps/dir/Albuquerque,+NM/Houston,+TX/@32.4400479,-105.5027494,6z/data=!4m14!4m13!1m5!1m1!1s0x87220addd309837b:0xc0d3f8ceb8d9f6fd!2m2!1d-106.6055534!2d35.0853336!1m5!1m1!1s0x8640b8b4488d8501:0xca0d02def365053b!2m2!1d-95.3698028!2d29.7604267!5i2](https://www.google.com/maps/dir/Albuquerque,+NM/Houston,+TX/@32.4400479,-105.5027494,6z/data=!4m14!4m13!1m5!1m1!1s0x87220addd309837b:0xc0d3f8ceb8d9f6fd!2m2!1d-106.6055534!2d35.0853336!1m5!1m1!1s0x8640b8b4488d8501:0xca0d02def365053b!2m2!1d-95.3698028!2d29.7604267!5i2) Yes. The laundry facility will be put to use for drug production fairly soon. Possibly it won’t be Gale’s shiny stainless steel lab right away, though–could be more amateurish than that, in the beginning. But it’s not going to sit there holding overflow cartons from the Los Pollos Hermanos stockroom–it’s going to be used for illegal drug activity. ---
**Author:** ![Richard\_John\_Marcej](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/5f9b8f/32.png) [@Richard\_John\_Marcej](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Richard_John_Marcej)\ **Post date:** [June 6, 2017, 9:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/better-call-saul-season-3/784040/836 "2017-06-06T21:10:39Z")
> [@Sherrerd](#): > > Me, too. > > Yes. The laundry facility will be put to use for drug production fairly soon. Possibly it won’t be Gale’s shiny stainless steel lab right away, though–could be more amateurish than that, in the beginning. But it’s not going to sit there holding overflow cartons from the Los Pollos Hermanos stockroom–it’s going to be used for illegal drug activity. That makes more sense to me. ---
**Author:** ![Martini\_Enfield](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/martini_enfield/32/11123_2.png) [@Martini\_Enfield](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Martini_Enfield)\ **Post date:** [June 7, 2017, 12:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/better-call-saul-season-3/784040/837 "2017-06-07T00:01:41Z")
My gut feeling is Kim will eventually realise that despite whatever feelings she’s got for Jimmy, he’s holding her back and the only way she can grow and move on to bigger and better things is to pull the pin and move to a different city. The Lawyer-Jedi stuff with the community service supervisor didn’t work for me; the supervisor struck me as the sort of guy who’d say “Bring it, motherfucker” and Jimmy really didn’t have much to work with. Now, if Jimmy had caught him getting a blowjob or a handjob from one of the community service workers, then I could totally buy him using _that_ as leverage to wrangle old mate getting off early to “visit his sick kid” and Jimmy getting an all-day siesta to rest his “injured back”. I’ll be interested to where this series goes, but I fear they’re either going to have to pick up the pace or get too involved in the stories to the point where they start being inconsistent with _Breaking Bad_. ---
**Author:** ![Gatopescado](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gatopescado/32/5711_2.png) [@Gatopescado](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gatopescado)\ **Post date:** [June 7, 2017, 12:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/better-call-saul-season-3/784040/838 "2017-06-07T00:30:12Z")
> [@Martini\_Enfield](#): > > The Lawyer-Jedi stuff with the community service supervisor didn’t work for me; the supervisor struck me as the sort of guy who’d say “Bring it, motherfucker” and Jimmy really didn’t have much to work with. I was kinda hoping the supervisor guy was going to look Jimmy right in the eye and say, “Yeah? You can’t practice law for a year? So who\* you\* gonna hire? Pick up trash, Lawyer-Boy!” 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Colibri](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/colibri/32/1841_2.png) [@Colibri](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Colibri)\ **Post date:** [June 7, 2017, 2:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/better-call-saul-season-3/784040/839 "2017-06-07T02:23:23Z")
> [@davidm](#): > > My prediction is that we’ll soon be seeing Gale Boetticher. Gus is in the process of purchasing the property where the super lab will be located, and Gale is the one who designed and built it. Maybe we’ll get some answers concerning what some suspect about his background and sexual proclivities. _Better Call Saul_ is currently in 2003. Gale didn’t set up the superlab until sometime in 2008. It’s premature for Gale to make an appearance. ---
**Author:** ![hajario](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hajario/32/171_2.png) [@hajario](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/hajario)\ **Post date:** [June 7, 2017, 2:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/better-call-saul-season-3/784040/840 "2017-06-07T02:30:47Z")
> [@Colibri](#): > > _Better Call Saul_ is currently in 2003. Gale didn’t set up the superlab until sometime in 2008. It’s premature for Gale to make an appearance. Agreed. When Walt was introduced to it, it was fairly new. Gale made it to try to recreate the blue meth. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/better-call-saul-season-3/784040.md?page=41) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/better-call-saul-season-3/784040.md?page=43)