# 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:** 69
**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:** [August 12, 2022, 7:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/better-call-saul-season-6/963063/1363 "2022-08-12T19:48:42Z")
> [@Gatopescado](#): > > Officer MacGuffin likes to eat on quiet suburban streets I assume that’s all it is. > [@ZipperJJ](#): > > Everything is Chekov’s Gun (or Soprano’s Bear)! _Everything_ has to be there for a reason or five future plot points don’t work! I’m still waiting for something to happen with the dog. > [@ZipperJJ](#): > > if your job is to ride around for 8 hours and be vigilant, it would not be odd at all to sit there and wait to see that this cab has reason to be idling outside of someone’s house in the middle of the night. If they just wanted to see what was going on, they could have been a few houses down. The vast majority of the cops I’ve known (and between my job and my family, I’m on an at least first name basis with a good number of them) are _really_ confrontational. If they’re even the smallest bit suspicious of someone in a parked car in the middle of the night, they don’t just stop behind them and whine about the shitty fish tacos they just bought, they’d go knock on the window, ask what’s going on and upon being satisfied with the answer, be on their way, probably after making a few notes that they can refer back to in case something becomes of it. Granted, that doesn’t mean every cop is like that, it only means the ones I know are like that. But the whole thing just seemed odd. ---
**Author:** ![whitetho](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/whitetho/32/1059_2.png) [@whitetho](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/whitetho)\ **Post date:** [August 12, 2022, 7:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/better-call-saul-season-6/963063/1364 "2022-08-12T19:54:07Z")
An early promo for the show displayed a Wanted poster for McGill, with a $5 million dollar reward. Is Marion about to get rich? ---
**Author:** ![Elmer\_J.Fudd](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/elmer_j.fudd/32/1211_2.png) [@Elmer\_J.Fudd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elmer_J.Fudd)\ **Post date:** [August 12, 2022, 8:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/better-call-saul-season-6/963063/1365 "2022-08-12T20:01:10Z")
> [@whitetho](#): > > An early promo for the show displayed a Wanted poster for McGill, with a $5 million dollar reward. I guess Cheryl Hamlin put up that reward after Kim visited her. Gene is screwed. ---
**Author:** ![DrCube](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/a3d4f5/32.png) [@DrCube](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DrCube)\ **Post date:** [August 12, 2022, 8:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/better-call-saul-season-6/963063/1366 "2022-08-12T20:13:04Z")
> [@whitetho](#): > > An early promo for the show displayed a Wanted poster for McGill, with a $5 million dollar reward. Is Marion about to get rich? Writer Thomas Schnauz tweeted recently that the poster was made by marketing people without approval from the writers. It’s not canon. In the show, there is no $5M reward (that we know of, yet). Which I think is going to be a big plot point in the finale. What Saul can actually be charged with is not clear, and I think it’s kept intentionally vague. Jesse’s confession tape is a wild card. The Nazis stole it and should have destroyed it after watching it and laughing at Jesse crying. But maybe the cops found it after Walt killed them all? Hank and Steve are dead so that’s the only real concrete evidence for most of Walt’s career, and certainly Saul’s role in it. Money laundering is also a wild card. They confiscated his laundering businesses, which is something. But also cops can confiscate whatever they want for almost any reason and you have to prove it was legally obtained to get it back. So they can do that even if they have no real evidence against Saul at all. To me, it would be plausible if he’s in tons of trouble after accountants pored over his books and discovered gazillions in illegal laundering and he goes to jail for a long time. It would also be plausible if, perhaps by osmosis from banking law expert Kim Wexler years ago, he was a money laundering whiz and covered his tracks completely. The writers could go either way. Kim’s confession is there, but she herself says there’s no physical evidence and nothing might come of it. And Saul wasn’t really guilty of anything there, it’s just very suspicious that a presumed dead Cartel boss showed up to murder an innocent third party in his living room. Obviously, he’s committed a lot of crimes. But what evidence cops have, besides his mere association with Walt, is unclear. His abandoning his practice, his home, his businesses, and going on the lam is suspicious, but he can just say he was scared of cartel blowback. Oh, and the writers also said before the season started to pay attention to the Zafiro Anejo bottle cork, as it would be crucial to understand the ending. But we haven’t seen it since the opening scene of episode one. And at this point, I can’t even imagine what role it might have. I had some guesses earlier in the season, but they’ve pretty much all been ruled out. ---
**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:** [August 12, 2022, 8:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/better-call-saul-season-6/963063/1367 "2022-08-12T20:19:04Z")
> [@DrCube](#): > > What Saul can actually be charged with is not clear, and I think it’s kept intentionally vague. What he CAN be charged with or what he’d actually be found guilty of? I’m sure they could come up with a ton of things he could be charged with. What sticks is a different story. > [@DrCube](#): > > it’s just very suspicious that a presumed dead Cartel boss showed up to murder an innocent third party in his living room. Are you sarcastically calling Saul or Kim an innocent third party or are you referring to Howard? ---
**Author:** ![DrCube](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/a3d4f5/32.png) [@DrCube](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DrCube)\ **Post date:** [August 12, 2022, 8:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/better-call-saul-season-6/963063/1368 "2022-08-12T20:19:53Z")
> [@Joey\_P](#): > > Are you sarcastically calling Saul or Kim an innocent third party or are you referring to Howard? Howard, yes. Referring to Kim’s confession. ---
**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:** [August 12, 2022, 8:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/better-call-saul-season-6/963063/1369 "2022-08-12T20:38:56Z")
Ok. I was unsure because Lalo didn’t show up “to” kill Howard. He showed up _and_ killed him. If Howard wasn’t right there, right then, he’d still be alive. With Kim’s confession, especially if she were to testify against Jimmy, I wonder if a prosecutor could make a case that Howard is dead specifically because of things Jimmy (and Kim) did, that led up to this moment. OTOH, I’d think anyone could argue that even members of a cartel deserve legal representation and said legal representation just happened to put Jimmy in a dangerous spot, Howard was collateral damage. I do have to say, for how messy and confusing this show has been, they certainly seemed to do a really good job quietly cleaning up all the loose ends regarding Howard’s death. ---
**Author:** ![zbuzz](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/e19b73/32.png) [@zbuzz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/zbuzz)\ **Post date:** [August 13, 2022, 3:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/better-call-saul-season-6/963063/1370 "2022-08-13T03:11:15Z")
> [@DrCube](#): > > Oh, and the writers also said before the season started to pay attention to the Zafiro Anejo bottle cork, as it would be crucial to understand the ending. But we haven’t seen it since the opening scene of episode one. And at this point, I can’t even imagine what role it might have. I had some guesses earlier in the season, but they’ve pretty much all been ruled out. And when Saul went to buy the celebratory Zafiro Anejo bottle where he saw the judge with his arm in a sling, the salesdude made sure to point out that the stopper is pretty sharp, which is new information to the viewers. Red herring or foreshadowing, you be the judge. ---
**Author:** ![zbuzz](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/e19b73/32.png) [@zbuzz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/zbuzz)\ **Post date:** [August 13, 2022, 3:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/better-call-saul-season-6/963063/1371 "2022-08-13T03:14:01Z")
> [@Marvin\_the\_Martian](#): > > Gene gets busted. Elects to defend himself. Walks into court wearing the garish shirt and tie combination he looked at wistfully while casing the department store. Slow fade from black-and-white to color as he walks towards the jury for his opening arguments - Saul Goodman’s last ride! End credits. That would be the The Knick ending. ---
**Author:** ![dorvann](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/df705f/32.png) [@dorvann](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dorvann)\ **Post date:** [August 13, 2022, 4:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/better-call-saul-season-6/963063/1372 "2022-08-13T04:07:46Z")
> [@DrCube](#): > > Money laundering is also a wild card. They confiscated his laundering businesses, which is something. But also cops can confiscate whatever they want for almost any reason and you have to prove it was legally obtained to get it back. So they can do that even if they have no real evidence against Saul at all. To me, it would be plausible if he’s in tons of trouble after accountants pored over his books and discovered gazillions in illegal laundering and he goes to jail for a long time. It would also be plausible if, perhaps by osmosis from banking law expert Kim Wexler years ago, he was a money laundering whiz and covered his tracks completely. The writers could go either way. That also brings tax evasion charges which is what Al Capone ended up in prison for when they had hard time proving his other criminal activities. ---
**Author:** ![RickJay](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/bb73d2/32.png) [@RickJay](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RickJay)\ **Post date:** [August 13, 2022, 5:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/better-call-saul-season-6/963063/1373 "2022-08-13T05:29:27Z")
I’m halfway through Episode 12 and just want to say I think this is the best TV series ever made. I am in awe of the genius of this show. I don’t know any show has ever been better ACTED. Everyone is stunningly great. The work of Rhea Seehorn in this episode is just the pinnacle of the art. ---
**Author:** ![Munch](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/munch/32/5281_2.png) [@Munch](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Munch)\ **Post date:** [August 13, 2022, 11:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/better-call-saul-season-6/963063/1374 "2022-08-13T11:43:28Z")
> [@zbuzz](#): > > the salesdude made sure to point out that the stopper is pretty sharp, which is new information to the viewers I don’t believe that’s new information - just a reminder to the first con we saw Kim and Jimmy run when they got the guy to buy them a bottle of it when we found out how valuable it is. ---
**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:** [August 13, 2022, 1:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/better-call-saul-season-6/963063/1375 "2022-08-13T13:20:53Z")
The fact that it’s sharp is new information ---
**Author:** ![Munch](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/munch/32/5281_2.png) [@Munch](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Munch)\ **Post date:** [August 13, 2022, 3:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/better-call-saul-season-6/963063/1376 "2022-08-13T15:47:58Z")
Yikes - I completely misread that as something else (valuable? Rare?). Thanks - I don’t think I caught that when it aired. ---
**Author:** ![DigitalC](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/ebca7d/32.png) [@DigitalC](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DigitalC)\ **Post date:** [August 13, 2022, 10:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/better-call-saul-season-6/963063/1377 "2022-08-13T22:48:06Z")
Now that this is almost over I’ve started watching it so I can binge it like I did BB. Can someone give me a quick refresher on why Saul Goodman had to go into hiding? seems like everyone and everything he was involved in was dead at the end of the show. ---
**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:** [August 13, 2022, 11:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/better-call-saul-season-6/963063/1378 "2022-08-13T23:06:51Z")
A lot of people were still alive who would take him out. He pissed off the cartel. He was also hiding from the law. ---
**Author:** ![SmartAleq](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/smartaleq/32/163_2.png) [@SmartAleq](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SmartAleq)\ **Post date:** [August 13, 2022, 11:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/better-call-saul-season-6/963063/1379 "2022-08-13T23:24:38Z")
He went into hiding just a bit ahead of Walt going to New Hampshire, with all kinds of cops hot on their trail. Walt was the major focus of the manhunt, but they def wanted Saul for his involvement in Walt’s doings along with a lot of curiousity over what all Saul was into on his own. So yeah, cops, cartel and Nazis were all looking high and low for both Walt and Saul. Hence the vacuum guy. ---
**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:** [August 13, 2022, 11:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/better-call-saul-season-6/963063/1380 "2022-08-13T23:49:09Z")
> [@DrCube](#): > > Oh, and the writers also said before the season started to pay attention to the Zafiro Anejo bottle cork, as it would be crucial to understand the ending. Well, this seems like kind of a Dick Move. ---
**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:** [August 14, 2022, 2:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/better-call-saul-season-6/963063/1381 "2022-08-14T02:26:08Z")
> [@Gatopescado](#): > > Well, this seems like kind of a Dick Move. Why’s that? ---
**Author:** ![Riemann](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/riemann/32/3133_2.png) [@Riemann](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Riemann)\ **Post date:** [August 14, 2022, 2:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/better-call-saul-season-6/963063/1382 "2022-08-14T02:33:06Z")
> [@zbuzz](#): > > And when Saul went to buy the celebratory Zafiro Anejo bottle where he saw the judge with his arm in a sling, the salesdude made sure to point out that the stopper is pretty sharp, which is new information to the viewers. > > Red herring or foreshadowing, you be the judge. > [@DrCube](#): > > Oh, and the writers also said before the season started to pay attention to the Zafiro Anejo bottle cork, as it would be crucial to understand the ending. > [@Gatopescado](#): > > Well, this seems like kind of a Dick Move. > [@Biffster](#): > > Why’s that? I assume @Gatopescado meant that if understanding the ending depends on _remembering_ that the bottle stopper is sharp (or whatever else about it), then the ending will leave a whole lot of people confused. I suspect that the writer was exaggerating whether we’d actually have to remember this, maybe just saying it will be important. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/better-call-saul-season-6/963063.md?page=68) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/better-call-saul-season-6/963063.md?page=70)