Mike in this episode assures Jimmy that Lalo will be dead by tomorrow, which meant that Jimmy/Saul would find out sometime in the future that this was not the case.
We had to assume the attempted hit would go awry, if only because of what Saul seems to know in his first Breaking Bad appearance, where he’s terrified that Walt and Jesse have been sent by Lalo. Nacho slips away in the chaos, but he’s hundreds of miles from home, with no allies, and an enraged Lalo will surely realize that Nacho isn’t lying dead like his beloved cook. He has a tunnel under the house, because of course he does, and suckers his opponents into following him into it, even as he’s looped back around to the entrance to shoot them while they’re crawling ducks. But Lalo’s Spidey sense again kicks in quickly enough for him to use Ciro as a human shield against the first wave of bullets from the hitmen, and from there he has the home field advantage on top of his prodigious gifts with violence. Nacho’s improvised kitchen fire proves a momentary distraction, especially since Lalo assumes it’s the fault of his youngest and most irresponsible bodyguard, Ciro. Nacho is alarmed to find Lalo awake by the fire when he attempts to let the gunmen in through the back gate, and Lalo suggests that his own difficulty sleeping is another kind of superpower, allowing him to get the big thinking done while his enemies and allies slumber. But by this point it’s clear that he’s as superhuman in his own way as Gus or the Cousins. Lalo’s irrepressible charm in those early Mexico scenes could lull us into thinking he’s let his guard down enough to allow Gus’ assassination plan to work.
Would this actually work if Nacho were to make it back to Albuquerque and run the operation? It doesn’t really matter, because all he has to do in the moment is convince Eladio that he’s a smarter and more reliable manager than Tuco. Still, Nacho is a survivor and a thinker, and he puts on a good show for the big boss, improvising a business plan that involves pitting biker gangs against one another so the cartel can take over their territory(*). If Lalo is in his element with Eladio and among the staff at his compound, Nacho is very much on edge, especially once he gets a call from Gus’ hired killers alerting him to the plan for that night. (If that wasn’t enough to tell you how effective the gesture is, Juan Bolsa looks just as displeased to realize that Lalo has used it to regain status in the organization.)
and handing the keys to Don Eladio, who looks like a kid at Christmas. In this case, it’s putting a small fortune inside a red Ferrari like the one Tom Selleck drove on Magnum, P.I. He can’t be in direct confrontation with Gus anymore, but his return to Mexico has the advantage of giving him face time with the man in charge, who he knows is impressed by the kind of grand gestures in which Lalo specializes. He doesn’t know the details of what Gus and Juan Bolsa have been doing to take him out of the game, but he’s aware that the Salamancas have been supplanted as the cartel’s favorites by the hated Chicken Man. It’s the calm after the storm, and it gives everyone a chance to reflect and figure out who and what they’ve become.įor Lalo, this respite is a chance to re-ingratiate himself with Don Eladio, while officially presenting Nacho as the new man in charge north of the border. It’s as if Peter Gould (who directed the finale, and co-wrote it with Ariel Levine) realized that he needed to ease back after placing his characters in such physical and emotional jeopardy the last few weeks. Even people who don’t literally exhale are metaphorically doing it, with Lalo heading south to follow Kim’s advice and put his house in order.
After a quick phone check-in with Mike, Jimmy allows himself to exhale, an action that several characters will repeat throughout the hour, including Mike after Jimmy leaves his house, and Kim after being told that Lalo won’t be troubling them again. We pick up right where “Bad Choice Road” left off, with a shaken Jimmy and Kim making sure that Lalo has left the vicinity.
BETTER CALL SAUL S03 E10 토렌트킴 PLUS
Because if anyone talks and acts like Saul Goodman by the end of this finale, it’s Kim Wexler.īefore we get to that alarming suggestion, plus a thrilling shootout at Lalo’s compound down in Chihuahua, “Something Unforgivable” is a deliberately less intense experience than the last few episodes.
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