# Better Call Saul season 6 **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Tags:** tv-shows-scripted\ **Created:** [April 19, 2022, 5:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/better-call-saul-season-6/963063 "2022-04-19T17:04:10Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 19
**Author:** ![SenorBeef](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/senorbeef/32/2220_2.png) [@SenorBeef](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SenorBeef)\ **Post date:** [May 13, 2022, 11:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/better-call-saul-season-6/963063/361 "2022-05-13T11:53:25Z")
Except he has to lay low and pretend to be dead, so if he makes contact with his allies his operation there’s a good chance that’s going to get the word around that he’s alive. He doesn’t know that Gus figured out that he’s still alive, he’s operating under the presumption that everyone thinks he’s dead. This is a very good reason not to contact anyone and do everything himself. ---
**Author:** ![AK84](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/85e7bf/32.png) [@AK84](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AK84)\ **Post date:** [May 13, 2022, 1:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/better-call-saul-season-6/963063/362 "2022-05-13T13:20:35Z")
So he flies to Istanbul using a passport he knows won’t be checked. Bribes a people smuggler to get him into Europe, does his business, exits, flies back. ---
**Author:** ![Stephe96](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/bbe5ce/32.png) [@Stephe96](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Stephe96)\ **Post date:** [May 13, 2022, 1:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/better-call-saul-season-6/963063/363 "2022-05-13T13:21:50Z")
By the way, was anyone else thinking uneasily about Odenkirk’s on-set heart attack while watching the boxing scene? Rarely do we ever see Saul get so physical! ---
**Author:** ![AK84](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/85e7bf/32.png) [@AK84](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AK84)\ **Post date:** [May 13, 2022, 1:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/better-call-saul-season-6/963063/364 "2022-05-13T13:37:39Z")
Yes and it may well have been a double and stand in. ---
**Author:** ![Mijin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mijin/32/9369_2.png) [@Mijin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mijin)\ **Post date:** [May 13, 2022, 2:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/better-call-saul-season-6/963063/365 "2022-05-13T14:00:14Z")
> [@AK84](#): > > Go to Mexico city. Catch a flight to Singapore or Dubai or one of the other hubs. Take a flight to Istanbul from there. Get a people smuggler to get you into Greece. Voila. No risk. It’s very obviously not “no risk”. I don’t understand why you’re trying so hard to fight me on this, even to the extent now of making bonkers assertions. My humble opinion was simply that it was implausible that he would take this unnecessary risk, and I already said that if other people found this plausible then YMMV and that “It’s pretty arbitrary the things that take people out of suspended disbelief” ---
**Author:** ![AK84](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/85e7bf/32.png) [@AK84](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AK84)\ **Post date:** [May 13, 2022, 2:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/better-call-saul-season-6/963063/366 "2022-05-13T14:05:46Z")
> [@Mijin](#): > > It’s very obviously not “no risk”. How? People smuggler will turn him in? ---
**Author:** ![Crane](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/crane/32/3495_2.png) [@Crane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Crane)\ **Post date:** [May 13, 2022, 2:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/better-call-saul-season-6/963063/367 "2022-05-13T14:21:26Z")
> [@Dewey\_Finn](#): > > how long did it take him to track down Frau Ziegler, and learn of her regular bar? Yeah, in a little German bar where everybody knows your name and the tables are almost hereditary. A suave Mexican national slides in and casually chats up a local widow. C’mon man! _Don Hector, I bring bad news. Lalo is in a German prison for having an illegal weapon and false passport. He was not betrayed. He drew suspicion when he ordered schweinshaxe, red, with a side of tortillas_ ---
**Author:** ![Novelty\_Bobble](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/a3d4f5/32.png) [@Novelty\_Bobble](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Novelty_Bobble)\ **Post date:** [May 13, 2022, 2:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/better-call-saul-season-6/963063/368 "2022-05-13T14:22:39Z")
Arguing about the risk of the Germany trip is a bit irrelevant, it is certainly within the bounds of practical possibility, not completely out of character for the person in question and is clearly included at the behest of the storyteller. He does it because that’s what the story is, not really much else to add. ---
**Author:** ![Novelty\_Bobble](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/a3d4f5/32.png) [@Novelty\_Bobble](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Novelty_Bobble)\ **Post date:** [May 13, 2022, 2:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/better-call-saul-season-6/963063/369 "2022-05-13T14:26:41Z")
> [@Crane](#): > > Yeah, in a little German bar where everybody knows your name and the tables are almost hereditary. A suave Mexican national slides in and casually chats up a local widow. C’mon man! An american businessman in a big, Western European city, hardly a [Slaughtered Lamb](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=07FdVcspOfQ) situation! ---
**Author:** ![Crane](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/crane/32/3495_2.png) [@Crane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Crane)\ **Post date:** [May 13, 2022, 2:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/better-call-saul-season-6/963063/370 "2022-05-13T14:29:21Z")
> [@Novelty\_Bobble](#): > > An american businessman in a big, Western European city, hardly a [Slaughtered Lamb](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=07FdVcspOfQ) situation! I’ve done that, in Germany, and I stuck out like a sore thumb. ---
**Author:** ![borschevsky](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/97f17d/32.png) [@borschevsky](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/borschevsky)\ **Post date:** [May 13, 2022, 2:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/better-call-saul-season-6/963063/371 "2022-05-13T14:44:26Z")
> [@Novelty\_Bobble](#): > > He does it because that’s what the story is, not really much else to add. This is probably a good way to look at it. It’s still fun to speculate though! The story has really been set up to force Lalo into this path. He wants to go after Gus, but Hector told him he needs proof first. His only lead for proof is Werner, which means Germany. He doesn’t want to reveal that he’s still alive, so he can’t enlist help, and he has to go himself. We can come up with alternatives to all these points, but as storytelling it works well (for me at least). ---
**Author:** ![Tamerlane](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tamerlane/32/7602_2.png) [@Tamerlane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tamerlane)\ **Post date:** [May 13, 2022, 4:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/better-call-saul-season-6/963063/372 "2022-05-13T16:38:07Z")
> [@Stephe96](#): > > By the way, was anyone else thinking uneasily about Odenkirk’s on-set heart attack while watching the boxing scene? Rarely do we ever see Saul get so physical! I assume you haven’t seen [Nobody](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nobody_(2021_film)). It’s basically the Bob Odenkirk version of John Wick. It’s absolutely ludicrous and incredibly violent, but otherwise okayish if you like that sort of thing enough to suspend a boatload of disbelief. Kinda like John Wick, really. ---
**Author:** ![AK84](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/85e7bf/32.png) [@AK84](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AK84)\ **Post date:** [May 13, 2022, 4:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/better-call-saul-season-6/963063/373 "2022-05-13T16:58:29Z")
It’s Cologne right? The one time I visited that place was crawling with Americans. ---
**Author:** ![Stephe96](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/bbe5ce/32.png) [@Stephe96](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Stephe96)\ **Post date:** [May 13, 2022, 5:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/better-call-saul-season-6/963063/374 "2022-05-13T17:47:09Z")
Yeah, I saw Nobody. But Odenkirk didn’t have an on-set heart attack during that movie. We know he experienced one during BCS, and that it was serious enough to shut down production for a few months. So, I was watching that boxing scene and morbidly thinking, “Yikes, was this the scene where it happened?” ---
**Author:** ![Joey\_P](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/919ad9/32.png) [@Joey\_P](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Joey_P)\ **Post date:** [May 13, 2022, 6:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/better-call-saul-season-6/963063/375 "2022-05-13T18:09:35Z")
The scene he was doing when he had the heart attack won’t air until July 11th. > **[Better Call Saul: The scene where Bob Odenkirk suffered a heart attack is...](https://www.inspiredtraveler.ca/better-call-saul-the-scene-where-bob-odenkirk-suffered-a-heart-attack-is-revealed/)** > > The last days before the premiere of the first part of the sixth and final season of Better Call Saul have been surprising for fans, as incredible details of the special actors that will appear ... Read more > the scene with which Odenkirk suffered the heart attack can be enjoyed in the premiere of the second part of the sixth season of Better Call Saul, which will premiere on July 11, 2022 ---
**Author:** ![AK84](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/85e7bf/32.png) [@AK84](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AK84)\ **Post date:** [May 13, 2022, 6:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/better-call-saul-season-6/963063/376 "2022-05-13T18:10:38Z")
Season was shot out of order.You can see in some shots he looks noticeably older, even allowing for the fact that they have given up trying to make him and Jonathon Banks look younger then their chronologically later BB selves. Giancarlo Esposito somehow manages it. ---
**Author:** ![Biffster](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/biffster/32/339_2.png) [@Biffster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Biffster)\ **Post date:** [May 14, 2022, 12:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/better-call-saul-season-6/963063/377 "2022-05-14T12:39:58Z")
> [@Novelty\_Bobble](#): > > Also, I can’t be the only one who thinks Betsy Kettleman is hot. In such a small part Julie Ann Emery fills the screen and is charismatic in the extreme, hopefully there is more of her to come. She surely must self-combust at some point and that will be great to see. She was also hot in Preacher and Catch-22. ---
**Author:** ![borschevsky](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/97f17d/32.png) [@borschevsky](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/borschevsky)\ **Post date:** [May 17, 2022, 6:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/better-call-saul-season-6/963063/378 "2022-05-17T18:19:05Z")
No comments on the new episode? 😁 This one _did_ feel like a bit of a filler episode to me. Or maybe a setup episode is a better phrase - things did move along, but nothing too unexpected, with everything heading towards D-Day, presumably next episode. The casting for Kim’s mom in the opening was excellent, to the point that I was wondering whether it was Rhea herself playing the part. Lalo is a great character, but sometimes they write him like he’s a terminator or something, just walking up and casually looking around. He’s just lucky that he didn’t get the sharp side of the axe. Also one other note I saw on Reddit: the vet’s little black book was among the items shown as Saul’s house is being packed up at the start of episode 1. ---
**Author:** ![Roger\_That](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/roger_that/32/8505_2.png) [@Roger\_That](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Roger_That)\ **Post date:** [May 17, 2022, 6:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/better-call-saul-season-6/963063/379 "2022-05-17T18:25:34Z")
It wasn’t Rhea? I thought it was. ---
**Author:** ![borschevsky](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/97f17d/32.png) [@borschevsky](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/borschevsky)\ **Post date:** [May 17, 2022, 6:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/better-call-saul-season-6/963063/380 "2022-05-17T18:32:31Z")
No, it’s another actress (Beth Hoyt), but like I said the resemblance is striking. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/better-call-saul-season-6/963063.md?page=18) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/better-call-saul-season-6/963063.md?page=20)