Also, Saul made a good point when Lalo first showed up - Saul has done good work for Lalo in the past. And he’s clearly terrified of Lalo, and so it will be very easy to push him to do even more work in the future. Having a useful guy in the right place can make a big difference. Lalo’s plan is to destroy Fring, and once he’s destroyed, Lalo or one of his family can take over Fring’s operation. Having a good lapdog already available could be very valuable.
There’s little that Saul could do to stop Lalo, and he might be useful in the future, so why kill him?
I feel like Saul (and Kim) have a decent amount of information on the cartel that, should they ever need to, they could make a deal with [whatever law enforcement agency would make sense] in exchange for immunity and being put into witness protection.
While we know Saul disappeared himself, he didn’t do it that way. Kim could still do something like that.
Yes, but that’s ultimately true of anyone who works for the cartel. At some point, they need people to do things, and that always entails a risk. That’s just part of the environment in which they operate, and having detail-oriented psychopaths like Lalo on staff to keep people in line is just how they do business. Lalo knew there was a risk, but he judged it to be low enough to be worth the gamble.
I agree with that 100%, but it doesn’t change anything. Everyone else being able to do the same thing doesn’t mean Kim or Jimmy won’t.
However, I’d wager that most of the people involved in cartel business are a lot less likely to voluntarily go to the authorities than Kim and Jimmy are. Plus, they have a considerably deeper understanding of the legal system than the others, along with countless connections in the legal world. They’re the most likely candidates, IMO, for crafting a rock solid deal to ensure their ongoing safety and doing it all without tipping their hand (too much) before everything is signed.
And absolutely worth it for $1.98. I don’t have cable so I bought the season for like $25 before it started which I have done for the last few seasons. I don’t see commercials either.
It’ll show up in your Amazon Prime queue some time after 9pm local time. Usually it’s at around 9:20 to 9:30. I have had it show up right at 9:01 and one horrible time it didn’t show up until like 4am so I watched it the next morning.
Exactly; he wouldn’t return to Jimmy. Thinking about it more though, it would lend weight to Lalo’s ruse (that he was attempting an assassination by proxy on pain of death) if he kept Jimmy alive. Phew!
Why would he need to continue the ruse? Once he’s successful (got his pictures and possible killed Gus), the ruse has done the job. No need to keep selling it.
Both of them, actually. I’m usually not bothered by bad acting at all, and Rhea Seehorn and Bob Odenkirk are excellent anyway. But in these first couple of seconds I had the exact same reaction as you. Didn’t work for me at all. The rest of the episode was great as always.
Yes, I think their acting was realistic. We’re just used to watching entertainment where people witness horrific violence and destruction and act a little bit sad or horrified but not the pants-shittingly, freeze up like deer in the headlines, go into shock trauma reaction that real people would have in such extreme circumstances. Their acting seems out of the norm because they were trying to portray how realistic people who haven’t lived a life around violence would react to such an extreme situation. But the error is that most actors underact in such situations, not that they’re overacting. It’s refreshingly realistic.
