Better Call Saul season 6

[Joey_P]

@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.

[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?

[Elmer_J.Fudd]

@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.

[DrCube]

@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.

[Joey_P]

@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?

[DrCube]

@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.

[Joey_P]

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.

[zbuzz]

@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.

[zbuzz]

@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.

[dorvann]

@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.

[RickJay]

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.

[Munch]

@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.

[hajario]

The fact that it’s sharp is new information

[Munch]

Yikes - I completely misread that as something else (valuable? Rare?). Thanks - I don’t think I caught that when it aired.

[DigitalC]

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.

[hajario]

A lot of people were still alive who would take him out. He pissed off the cartel. He was also hiding from the law.

[SmartAleq]

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.

[Gatopescado]

@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.

[Biffster]

@Gatopescado

Well, this seems like kind of a Dick Move.

Why’s that?

[Riemann]

@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.