![]() Season 5 ends with Lalo, the nephew of drug kingpin Hector Salamanca (Mark Margolis), narrowly escaping an assassination attempt by his frenemy Gus Fring with help from a frying pan full of hot oil. Below are some of the lingering questions Better Call Saul has raised, and how details from Breaking Bad could help answer them. ![]() “These two worlds cross over in a way that you haven’t seen before, that’s for sure,” Better Call Saul co-creator and showrunner Peter Gould told Variety in April. The final run of episodes will feature more familiar faces, including a cameo from Walt and Jesse, and notable Breaking Bad storylines that may play out differently than fans remember. A month from now, best-case scenario, I’m managing a Cinnabon in Omaha.”īetter Call Saul is full of Breaking Bad Easter eggs that include cameos from notable characters including Krazy-8 (Maximino Arciniega), DEA agent Hank Schrader (Dean Norris) and his partner Steven “Gomie” Gomez (Steven Michael Quezada). It’s a sweet callback to the final season of Breaking Bad when Saul tells Walt amidst the chaos of his meth empire crumbling, “If I’m lucky. But Jimmy’s story doesn’t end with Breaking Bad-in black-and-white flash-forwards shown throughout the series, viewers see Odenkirk’s character fleeing New Mexico as a fugitive and living under the new identity of Gene Takovic, the manager of a Cinnabon in Omaha who longs for his glory days as a stripmall attorney. The final season of Better Call Saul will conclude Jimmy’s complicated journey to becoming Walter White’s consigliere, and also offer conclusions to the stories of Breaking Bad no-shows, like the crafty drug cartel leader Lalo (Tony Dalton), the cartel’s double-agent Nacho (Michael Mando) and Jimmy’s love interest and partner-in-crime Kim Wexler (Rhea Seehorn).īetter Call Saul’s last season also marks the first time the series intersects directly with the events and timeline of Breaking Bad. Over five seasons, the show has tracked how a small-time Chicago con man named Jimmy McGill lost his soul and became a friend of the cartel known as Saul Goodman. Better Call Saul, which premiered in 2015, is set about six years before the events of Breaking Bad kick off. ![]() Saul’s unexplained connections to the legal and criminal worlds were mysterious enough to warrant the character his own spinoff. He went on to play a pivotal role-it’s Saul who introduces Walter and Jesse to former cop-turned-cartel heavy Mike Ehrmantraut (Jonathan Banks) and drug kingpin and restaurateur Gus Fring (Giancarlo Esposito), setting up the bloody events of Breaking Bad’s later seasons. Odenkirk’s slick lawyer Saul made his debut in season 2 of Breaking Bad, which ran from 2008 to 2013, when he helped the blue meth making duo of Walter White (Bryan Cranston) and Jesse Pinkman (Aaron Paul) out of a legal jam.
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