re: tOfficial Better Call Saul S06E03 “Rock and Hard Place” Thread

Lalo thought again. I think it's interesting that Saul and Kim think Lalo is dead and Gus knows he's alive.

Both of these opinions have to do a 180 real soon before or during early BB.

This means Saul, Kim, or both have to have another Lalo encounter. Gus almost certainly has to be responsible if Lalo is dead.

It can't be cops that kill Lalo or BB Saul would know because cops would take public credit.

It has to be a Gus plot, but how does Gus kill Lalo at this point without the cartel pointing the finger at him? They're already suspicious.

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Lalo thought again. I think it's interesting that Saul and Kim think Lalo is dead and Gus knows he's alive.

Both of these opinions have to do a 180 real soon before or during early BB.

This means Saul, Kim, or both have to have another Lalo encounter. Gus almost certainly has to be responsible if Lalo is dead.

It can't be cops that kill Lalo or BB Saul would know because cops would take public credit.

It has to be a Gus plot, but how does Gus kill Lalo at this point without the cartel pointing the finger at him? They're already suspicious.

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The obvious thing, maybe too obvious, would be Kim killing Lalo but getting mortally wounded in the process.

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Yeah I meant it was understood that he was going to die that day.

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After the Nacho centric opening act, when it took 20 minutes before Saul or Kim appeared, I knew this would be El Nacho's last time on the show.

I was holding out faint hope that Mike would help him "disappear via vacuum man" after the final call to his dad.

Then again, this is the BB/BCS Story line where all the real anti-heroes get to die.

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Vince has done it again, BCS is a masterpiece

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The slow burn of start of BCS (The Jimmy and Chuck story) as he ramps up to the convergence of BCS with BB is amazing. The tone has shifted 180 degrees to where last night show could have been in BB.

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Why didnt he just shoot him?

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If Nacho shoots Bolsa, the cartel kills his dad.

So as far as jimmy is concerned, he ends up in the BB timeline thinking lalo and nacho are both alive. So it’s fair to assume that he never finds out about nacho’s death or lalo’s assumed death (Gus/Mike are the only ones that know lalo is alive and Gus told hector that the Salamanca name dies with him in BB…safe to assume Gus kills Lalo before this thing wraps up).

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BB timeline thinking lalo and nacho are both alive. So it’s fair to assume that he never finds out about nacho’s death or lalo’s assumed death (

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didn't kim tell saul in this episode that lalo died in mexico? From the info that other lawyer lady told her?

Yes, but in BB, when Walter and Jessie take Saul into the desert, Saul first says it wasn’t him, it was Ignacio….so you can assume Saul finds out that nacho double crossed. Then he asks if lalo sent them, so you can assume that Saul doesn’t know that lalo is dead.

I don’t think Gus would tell Hector that the Salamanca name dies with him if he didn’t know for sure lalo was dead. That meant something to gus. I’m assuming that gus kills lalo and Saul doesn’t know about it.