Better Call Saul Recap: Get Ready for Season 6 By Remembering Season 5 (and Breaking Bad)
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The wait is almost over. The sixth and final season of Better Call Saul, the Breaking Bad spinoff that garnered a passionate fan base of its own, is about to premiere on AMC. The show provided a look into what drove bumbling lawyer Saul Goodman (Bob Odenkirk) into a life of crime, but it also gave him and those around him far more depth than one would’ve expected out of him from Breaking Bad.
With this being the show’s final season, fans can expect everything to come full circle, for better and for worse. However, it’s been a while since we’ve seen Jimmy McGill, his alter ego, and his circle of allies and enemies. If you need a refresher on where everyone stands, Consequence is here to help.
Jimmy McGill / Saul Goodman / Gene Takavic (Bob Odenkirk)
Bob Odenkirk in Better Call Saul (AMC)
Where He Is After Season 5: After surviving a day in the desert and finding himself increasingly buried in lies, Jimmy has begun contemplating how much trouble he’s gotten himself and Kim into. He unsuccessfully tries to convince his new wife not to go to the courthouse to start her new path as a public defender and has gotten some interesting news from Mike regarding Lalo’s assassination ordered by Gus.
This news sparks relief that Jimmy and Kim could return home. Unfortunately, unbeknownst to them, Lalo survived the attempt. Even worse, Kim has now suggested manipulating her former partner Howard into giving up his settlement in the Sandpiper case, adding to his fears that his influence is ruining her career.
Years later, in Omaha, Jimmy found himself in a crisis while using his Gene Takavic identity, after a mall passerby recognizes him as Saul Goodman. Under the stress of being recognized, he calls Ed Galbraith to ask for extraction from Omaha, before eventually deciding to take care of the situation himself.
His Ultimate Fate: Well, we’re still not entirely sure. Of course, the audience knows that in the show’s “present-day” storyline, he will continue his head-first dive into the world of Saul Goodman, leading to him eventually having to take up the role of Gene Takavic in Nebraska to protect himself. However, with Jimmy/Saul/Gene’s identity potentially being compromised, viewers will have to tune in to find out whether he makes it out of Better Call Saul relatively unscathed.
Kim Wexler (Rhea Seehorn)
Better Call Saul (AMC)
Where She Is After Season 5: After being Jimmy’s moral compass for the past four seasons, the fifth season left Kim embracing his effective but unethical methods of obtaining the truth. While at home with Jimmy, she suggests that forcing Howard to resolve the Sandpiper case is their last chance at getting away with what they’ve done without consequences.
Not only that, but she could potentially use the $26 million at stake with the settlement to open up her pro bono law firm. Even her now-husband, who usually convinces Kim to let down her inhibitions to do the right thing, is skeptical and says it’s a bad idea only for her to maintain otherwise.
Her Ultimate Fate: One of the biggest mysteries of Better Call Saul is the fate of Kim. Season 5 did not bring us any closer to figuring out where she ends up, and Breaking Bad doesn’t provide viewers any further clues. We likely won’t know Kim’s ultimate fate until the final episode ends. Here’s to hoping she at least makes it out alive because we won’t know what to do if she doesn’t.
Mike Ehrmantraut (Jonathan Banks)
Better Call Saul (AMC)
Where He Is After Season 5: Needless to say, Mike’s relationship with Jimmy has begun getting even more complicated due to his partnerships with both him and the cartel. We last saw Mike being confronted by the lawyer after he was almost caught lying to Lalo. After getting put in this potentially life-threatening situation, Jimmy grills Mike for his supposed lack of loyalty and communication.
This confrontation reveals that Lalo, who had previously been seen quietly terrorizing Jimmy and Kim over their knowledge of his crimes, has killers on his trail sent by Gus. However, Mike also tells Jimmy that there will always be information that he can’t give him, leaving them on even murkier terms.
His Ultimate Fate: Unlike Jimmy and Kim, we know exactly what happens to Mike after the events of Better Call Saul. Through his partnership with Gus Fring, he’ll become the liaison between the kingpin and a particular ragtag duo of meth cooks named Walter White and Jesse Pinkman. Neither of these relationships would be smooth sailing, and the relationship between him and Walter eventually falls apart to the point that he’s ultimately killed by the man now known as Heisenberg.
Nacho Varga (Michael Mando)
Better Call Saul (AMC)
Where He Is After Season 5: Much of Season 5 revolved around the conflict between Lalo and Nacho, with the latter struggling to maintain his status as an informant while also trying to get out of the cartel’s mess. This culminated in an ill-fated attempt by Nacho and the team of hitmen hired by Gus to assassinate Lalo.
Unbeknownst to them, however, Lalo was able to fight back against the assassins hired to kill him, with him deducing that Nacho had a role in this. The aftermath of this revelation is more than likely going to result in an even worse situation for Nacho than the ones he has already been in.
His Ultimate Fate: If you are worried about Nacho potentially not making it to the end of Better Call Saul, we have good news for you. His fate was already teased in Breaking Bad years before his introduction. When Saul makes his debut in Season 2 of the show after getting kidnapped by Walter and Jesse, he asks them whether the duo were sent by a man named Lalo (who we’ll get to in a bit) and blames another man named Ignacio (Nacho’s real name) for whatever he did to anger the cartel.
Since he is not mentioned in the show at any point afterwards, it’s safe to assume that Nacho is one of the few characters to have survived the entire Breaking Bad story — at least, to the best of Saul Goodman’s knowledge.
Gus Fring (Giancarlo Esposito)
Giancarlo Esposito as Gustavo ‘Gus’ Fring, photo by Greg Lewis/AMC/Sony Pictures Television
Where He Is After Season 5: The last time viewers saw our favorite businessman, he blew up a Los Pollos Hermanos restaurant to protect his company from the cartel. However, Gus Fring has more pressing issues to handle, mainly because inside man Nacho is with Lalo on their way to Chihuahua.
If there is anything we know about Gus, however, it’s the fact that he’s always thinking one step ahead – he’s already sent a group of hitmen to assassinate Lalo for Nacho to climb the cartel’s ranks. Whether he knows or finds out about his plan backfiring remains to be seen, but either way, he’ll probably have something to say about it during Season 6.
His Ultimate Fate: Like Mike, audiences are very familiar with where Gus eventually ends up. His influence in the drug trafficking trade will continue to grow, resulting in him finding out about the hottest meth on the market. The ensuing war between Gus and Walter White, one of TV’s most iconic battles, culminates in Gus and Hector Salamanca being killed by a bomb made by White.
Lalo Salamanca (Tony Dalton)
Better Call Saul (AMC)
Where He Is After Season 5: After a season of making tense threats and getting closer to becoming the leader he desires to be, Lalo believed that he was finally getting somewhere when he went to Chihuahua with Nacho. It also served as a trap for Gus’ team of assassins to come and kill him, although this plan backfired after Lalo fought back against them. After finding the body of his family’s cook, Yolanda, however, Lalo concluded that Nacho was somehow involved in his assassination attempt.
His Ultimate Fate: There’s good and bad news. The good news is that the fan-favorite villain Lalo will likely make it out of Season 6 alive. However, the bad news is that his future might not be that sunny. While not featured onscreen during Breaking Bad, he is referenced twice in the show, with his first mention coming from a distressed Saul during the aforementioned Nacho reference in Season 2.
Fast-forward two seasons, and all of the Salamancas except patriarch Hector were killed at some point, with the most notable instance being a mass poisoning that took out cartel leader Don Eladio and his many men. Lalo may have been amongst those casualties, although whether he was also poisoned or ended up dying in another manner remains unknown.
Howard Hamlin (Patrick Fabian)
Better Call Saul (AMC)
Where He Is After Season 5: While it seemed impossible that Howard’s relationships with Jimmy and Kim couldn’t have gotten worse, Season 5 proved viewers wrong. Hamlin, Hamlin & McGill are still working on the Sandpiper Crossings class-action suit, which they took over from Jimmy and his deceased brother Chuck.
However, the ongoing troubles with the suit mean that Jimmy hasn’t been given his settlement share despite having discovered the fraud in the first place. In order to get the payment that he deserves once and for all, Kim suggests to Jimmy that they need to get Howard to settle the case, no matter the cost.
His Ultimate Fate: Like Kim, we are not yet sure what will happen to Howard Hamlin after Season 6. There have been no references to him nor the Hamlin, Hamlin & McGill firm anywhere throughout Breaking Bad. However, we do know that Howard is in a very precarious situation at the moment, both blaming himself for Chuck McGill’s death and pressuring Kim to distance herself from Jimmy. Perhaps these events will come back to haunt him, but time will tell.
Better Call Saul Recap: Get Ready for Season 6 By Remembering Season 5 (and Breaking Bad)
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