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re: tOfficial Better Call Saul S06E11 “BREAKING BAD” Thread

Posted on 8/3/22 at 4:11 pm to
Posted by Unobtanium
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Posted on 8/3/22 at 4:11 pm to
To add to the superlab timeline:
- after Gus is killed Walt and Jesse torch the lab to destroy any evidence tying them to it.
- the fire department sees the lab and calls in DEA to investigate the drug lab. Hank was already nosing around the laundry/lab so of course he's point man for the Feds.
- the last shot in the lab is Steve and Hank looking up at the cameras. They grab the PC used to record the video and put it in evidence.
- Walt finds out about surveillance video and concocts the whole "super magnet" scheme to wipe the PC hard drive.
- At the end of the 'magnet' episode, a picture frame is broken, revealing either names or numbers. Not sure if anything ever became of that info.

I don't think it's implausible that the DEA would revisit the superlab after Heisenberg's death, depending on how much Hank info left about Walter White. They've got to believe that the laundry lab and Nazi lab are connected in some way, and once they go down there and start digging, they could conceivably find Lalo and Howard. Or not.

We'll find out in two weeks.
Posted by Tigris
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Posted on 8/3/22 at 4:18 pm to
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I've been thinking about Kim from the FBI/DEA perspective in the show. From what they would know, she was married to Jimmy and left right around the time he started working with the cartel. If she has had no or limited contact with Jimmy since then, they would assume she left him because he started working with dangerous people, she would have been out of the picture 4 years before the events of Walter White, and they would just consider her a footnote in Jimmy's past history. IOW, I can't see them wasting budget on surveilling her.


That's pretty much the same territory I've been thinking about. I do like the theory that they traced her call to Francesca (on Francesca's phone) and that she's in trouble/arrested. But she seems like a minor character to the feds unless something else has come up. Like Howard's body, which I don't think is that much of a stretch. As previously stated there are two dead agents, and the lab location is now known. It's not a stretch at all for the feds to tear the lab site completely apart, including taking a jackhammer to the floor. The grave site was fresh concrete and not necessarily that easy to hide. And there are people alive who helped move the body (Lalo's too).

But this is just one idea. Vince Gilligan is good at misdirection. Hell, Kim's Royals T-shirt and her mother had me certain that Jimmy was in Omaha because of Kim. Two more weeks, it will be a fun ride.
Posted by lz2112
Largo, Fl
Member since Oct 2019
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Posted on 8/3/22 at 4:34 pm to
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Like Howard's body, which I don't think is that much of a stretch. As previously stated there are two dead agents, and the lab location is now known. It's not a stretch at all for the feds to tear the lab site completely apart, including taking a jackhammer to the floor.


And the more I think about it, the more plausible it becomes. If they found Howard, they found Lalo. They know Jimmy was working for Lalo, and Jimmy and Kim were the last to see Howard alive. And buried under the lab, they'd connect Jimmy and Kim to Heisenberg.

If the feds found Howard and Lalo, holy shite. These last two episodes....



Posted by BuckyCheese
Member since Jan 2015
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Posted on 8/3/22 at 7:27 pm to
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Also, there is something to showing Bill Oakley.


Fran says he changed sides and Jimmy thinks he came out of the closet.
Posted by FCP
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Member since Sep 2010
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Posted on 8/3/22 at 10:13 pm to
My $0.02:

Camera panned to the house address when the cabbie dropped Gene off. Just before that, Gene was ranting about how long it took him to find a mark with no family, considerable assets, etc. I believe Gene knows he's being set up by the cabbie b/c he would've remembered the mark's address (and maybe even done surveillance beforehand). Whatever the case, he knows he's being set up by the cabbie, so he gets out, drops a dime, and then gets the heck out of Omaha.

Cops arriving in the preview are showing up at the cabbie's home, finding all of his shite. All cabbie can say is that he was set up by Saul Goodman and some dude named Gene. By the time they come for Gene, he is en route to Florida. Or KC. Or back to ABQ to team up with the former ADA and prepare for the next BB sequel.

My take on Francesca mentioning Kim: She didn't forget. She hesitated to mention it because something big happened btw Kim and Saul before SG called for a vacuum filter. Weird that she brought it up, not Saul.

Also, glad to know Huell is alive and well--although he's apparently in New Orleans now, not Coushatta. Funny callback to Jimmy with Gene tossing burner phones to the cabbie and cohort.

Finally, my best guess on the conclusion: Camera finds Saul and Kim talking to each other through a prison window. Camera zooms out on an overhead shot but leaves it unclear who is the inmate and who is the visitor. So, we're left with Jimmy/Kim reunited but still apart. JMHO, and VG, et al will probably have a much better resolution. In 2 weeks. Is it Monday yet???
Posted by Indefatigable
Member since Jan 2019
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Posted on 8/3/22 at 10:53 pm to
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At the end of the 'magnet' episode, a picture frame is broken, revealing either names or numbers. Not sure if anything ever became of that info.

I believe it was the list of bank accounts that Gus was wiring money too/mikes people.
Posted by lz2112
Largo, Fl
Member since Oct 2019
1172 posts
Posted on 8/3/22 at 10:54 pm to
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My take on Francesca mentioning Kim: She didn't forget. She hesitated to mention it because something big happened btw Kim and Saul before SG called for a vacuum filter. Weird that she brought it up, not Saul.


This is a "weird" "prediction" being made after episode 11.

This post was edited on 8/3/22 at 10:56 pm
Posted by supatigah
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Posted on 8/3/22 at 11:00 pm to
there was a long and deliberate shot of carol burnett looking out the window and seeing gene, jeffie and dog guy going nto the garage

she is getting suspicious of gene being a bad influence of jeffie
Posted by lz2112
Largo, Fl
Member since Oct 2019
1172 posts
Posted on 8/3/22 at 11:01 pm to
quote:

quote:
At the end of the 'magnet' episode, a picture frame is broken, revealing either names or numbers. Not sure if anything ever became of that info.

I believe it was the list of bank accounts that Gus was wiring money too/mikes people.




It was the list Lydia used as a kill list, and also led to the DEA taking Kaylee Ehrmantraut's money, which led to Mike going back to work with Walt.

Posted by BuckyCheese
Member since Jan 2015
49200 posts
Posted on 8/3/22 at 11:05 pm to
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My take on Francesca mentioning Kim: She didn't forget. She hesitated to mention it because something big happened btw Kim and Saul before SG called for a vacuum filter. Weird that she brought it up, not Saul.


I noted the hesitation as well and figured that Fran knew bringing Kimmy up might send Jimmy into a bad place. She knows both of them well and obviously worked with Jimmy daily after Kim left, so knows him better than anyone. And likely knows what went down between them.
Posted by dawgdayafternoon
Jacksonville, GA
Member since Jul 2011
21606 posts
Posted on 8/3/22 at 11:05 pm to
Gene is gonna sing like Celine Dion.
Posted by Unobtanium
Baton Rouge
Member since Nov 2009
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Posted on 8/3/22 at 11:07 pm to
Thanks to you and Indefatigable for clearing that up. I forgot that it bugged me when the episode first aired.
Posted by timlan2057
In the Shadow of Tiger Stadium
Member since Sep 2005
16821 posts
Posted on 8/4/22 at 7:06 am to
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Also, glad to know Huell is alive and well--although he's apparently in New Orleans now, not Coushatta.


I wonder if the original Coushatta reference with regard to Huell Babineaux was a throwaway line? After all, what would a man of his talents be doing in a tiny north Louisiana town out in the middle of nowhere?

Francesca tells Gene on the phone call that Huell is “back home in New Orleans.” It definitely makes more sense that Huell is a NOLA native.

And no doubt a man of Huell’s talents will find ways to stay solvent in the New Orleans underworld.
This post was edited on 8/5/22 at 4:05 am
Posted by timlan2057
In the Shadow of Tiger Stadium
Member since Sep 2005
16821 posts
Posted on 8/4/22 at 7:36 am to
Jimmy: “pull up a rock that’s kinda shaped like New Jersey.”

Francesca: “New Jersey?”

J: “Alfred Hitchcock in a fez.”

LINK
Posted by Byron Bojangles III
Member since Nov 2012
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Posted on 8/4/22 at 7:37 am to
Did anyone notice this is Buzz from Home Alone?

Posted by LasVegasTiger
Idaho
Member since Apr 2008
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Posted on 8/4/22 at 7:49 am to
Huell probably has kin all over Louisiana.
Posted by hogcard1964
Illinois
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Posted on 8/4/22 at 8:02 am to
And what's the "next Breaking Bad sequel"?
Posted by Byron Bojangles III
Member since Nov 2012
51659 posts
Posted on 8/4/22 at 8:17 am to
"Heulling Around"
Posted by RonLaFlamme
Baton Rouge
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Posted on 8/4/22 at 8:49 am to
Whoa!! Nice catch.
Posted by timlan2057
In the Shadow of Tiger Stadium
Member since Sep 2005
16821 posts
Posted on 8/4/22 at 10:32 am to
quote:

And what's the "next Breaking Bad sequel"?


Man, I so want more of the BB universe but can’t think of anything that wouldn’t be jumping the shark.
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