There's a lot to unpack in the Season 6 premiere of Better Call Saul, "Wine and Roses," so let's jump right into it.
In “Wine and Roses,” Jimmy is still having a hard time dealing with the aftermath of Lalo confronting them at their apartment, as well as the fact that Kim seems to be toeing the line between honesty and corruption. Jimmy knows that having helped a cartel leader might come back to bite him in the ass, but for now, he’s evading the police by using the law as a shield. Kim is also determined to work with Jimmy in a new ploy to ruin Howard Hamlin's (Patrick Fabian) career. The relationship between Mike and Gus seems to be hanging by a thread, and we are bound to see something change in Season 6 of Better Call Saul. During the events of Breaking Bad, Mike never once questioned Gus, so it’s safe to assume the final season of Better Call Saul will show how Mike is finally convinced of Gus’ honor. The police are still looking for Jimmy after his client, Lalo, paid a seven million dollars bail and fled the country. Before crossing the border back to the United States, Lalo calls Hector to let his uncle know he’s alive, well, and coming to kill Gus. Hector agrees to keep Lalo’s fake death a secret but leads his nephew on a different path. Better Call Saul’s Season 6 premiere mostly keeps Jimmy (now practicing law under the name "Saul Goodman") and his now-wife Kim (Rhea Seehorn) away from the heat of the Fring vs. At the same time, Mike tries to remind his boss that loyalty goes both ways, and since Nacho risked his neck for Gus, they must bring the young man back home safe. Using whatever tools he can find, Lalo takes down the entire mercenary team, finds out that Gus sent them, and begins to formulate a plan for getting his revenge. In order to escape, Lalo burns a body beyond recognition and dresses it in his clothes. He knows he’s a dead man if the Salamancas ever find him, and his situation becomes even more desperate once Mike Ehrmantraut (Jonathan Banks) tells him Hector Salamanca (Mark Margolis) has put a bounty over his head. It's supposed to be a clean operation, but Gus forgets to consider the fact that Lalo is a blood-lusting madman.
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Since the Better Call Saul already introduced us to a colorized scene from the Breaking Bad timeline with the "Quite A Ride" episode, there are plenty of reasons to see how the opening scene of Season 6 follows the timeline merging of the Season 6 promo photo. It most poignantly appears on the show in episode 9 of the show's fifth season, entitled "Bad Choice Road," when Kim quits her cushy job as partner and head of Schweikart & Cokely's banking division but makes sure to double back to her office to retrieve the bottle stopper she kept in her desk drawer. For the first five minutes of the episode, we're greeted by movers emptying what appears to be a palatial estate once owned by Saul. They clean out his massive bathroom equipped with golden shower walls and an obscene golden toilet, load his 1997 Cadillac DeVille made famous in Breaking Bad on the back of a truck to be taken away, and removes every piece of furniture not nailed down. Mike Ehrmantraut, Gus Fring, Huell Babineaux, and a bevy of other Breaking Bad characters have their stories fleshed out more on Better Call Saul than on Breaking Bad. But, while Breaking Bad characters enter the Better Call Saul universe, rarely do the two shows' timelines converge. We've seen it all in Better Call Saul, but now it's time to see how it finds its way into the Breaking Bad timeline that created it. Better Call Saul co-creator Peter Gould already confirmed America's favorite meth lab coworkers, Walter White (Bryan Cranston) and Jesse Pinkman (Aaron Paul), would be reprising their Breaking Bad roles this season.
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• A hilarious exchange between Wachtell and Jimmy when Jimmy implies that the club refusing Saul Goodman as a member is antisemitic. In “Wine and Roses,” we learn that Kim suggests that Saul would drive that kind of car — flashy but American. His current ride is a sputtering brown Ford Taurus, which could be understood either as a show of humility to his clients or a scrappy, doing-it-for-the-little-guy self-image he wants to protect. Crisis turns into opportunity for Jimmy, who gets to make a scene at the club (“It’s wall-to-wall mayonnaise in here”) while huffing his way into the locker room anyway. (Not sure what to make of that dog-eared copy of H.G. Wells’s The Time Machine other than noting that high-end bathroom reading like Walt Whitman’s Leaves of Grass got Walter White nabbed.) As the camera follows a Saul Goodman standee into the dumpster — shades of Ben Affleck and Ana de Armas there — the “Rosebud” emblem is not a snow globe but a Zafiro Añejo tequila bottle stopper. The bottle stopper symbolizes their relationship — the terrible fate of which we’ll spend these half-seasons learning — and its foundation in a renegade spirit and a shared hostility toward the elite. Continuing a tradition of flash-forward, black-and-white scenes to kick off a new season, tonight’s episode of Better Call Saul — the first of a seven-episode half-season, bifurcated just like Breaking Bad — opens with an homage to Citizen Kane, which is nothing if not a show of supreme (and earned) confidence.
In a dazzling opener to Season 6 of “Better Call Saul,” Jimmy and Kim scheme, Lalo plots and Gus tries to rescue Nacho, who is lamming it in Mexico.
Gus has an extraction strategy in the works, which involves stashing Nacho in a motel with a gun, some cash and orders to shoot anyone who comes through the door. My only idea: It has something to do with a bottle of liquor. His plan, initially, is to link up with a couple of smugglers and sneak over the U.S. border to exact some revenge. “Five thousand years, and it never ends!” says the Irish guy with the new Jewish name. A moment later, he has a eureka moment, grins and ends up driving back into Mexico in a vehicle stolen from the smugglers he just shot. If the writers want Kim to explore her wicked side, there is surely a worthier target for her machinations, no? Lalo has stopped by for a cup of coffee and a murder. It’s how he became the sort of egomaniac who spent it on a gold bas-relief portrait of his face above the entrance of a giant walk-in closet. Except, who knew that Saul owned his very own Xanadu? Sure, the guy liked to make a dollar, but this is the house of someone who has turned spending into a kind of psychosis. We need to know how Saul, who as Jimmy lives in a very humble one bedroom, becomes the sort of person who commissions artists to paint tacky murals over a hot tub. Kudos to director Michael Morris, a Brit who has directed three previous episodes of “Better Call Saul.” He stages this sequence, which unfolds in slow motion, like a tightly orchestrated ballet, and every moment, every boxed-up possession, hints at a story. An efficient team of uniformed repo men and women pack up Saul’s belongings with Henry Mancini’s stirring and sentimental “Days of Wine and Roses” playing in the background.
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As if things were not tense enough, Mike receives a phone call from Nacho. Mike answers the phone, says a couple of words, and offers the phone to Gus. Nacho wants to speak to the big boss, and that conversation could seal the fate of everyone involved with the cartel. Nacho finds out the truth just as the Salamanca Twins (Daniel Moncada and Luis Moncada) get to his hotel with an army of goons. Nacho shoots his way out of the hotel, helped by the fact the Twins want to capture him alive. To make matters worse, the final scene of “Carrot and Stick” shows a mysterious car following the two after leaving the Kettlemans' workplace. Kim calls up a friend of hers in front of the Kettlemans and blatantly threatens to expose their new white-collar scheme. Nacho already has a fake identity that he can use if escaping to South America, so that’s all the cartel need to think they know the truth. Fortunately for Jimmy, Kim is right beside him, and instead of a carrot, she has a big stick to push the Kettlemans in the intended direction. It could also be that Saul’s previous involvement with the cartel will come back to haunt him as he gets dragged back into the Fring vs. In Better Call Saul’s first season, Jimmy gets in touch with a couple of potential clients, Betsy (Julie Ann Emery) and Craig Kettleman (Jeremy Shamos). Craig has been embezzling money from his job with the help of his wife, and Jimmy offers to represent them. Kim is ruthless in the final scene, surprising both the audience and Jimmy. It’s clear that Better Call Saul’s last season is exploring how Jimmy’s repeated mistakes may have robbed Kim of her moral compass, and now the crooked lawyer needs to face the monster he created. Unfortunately, the Kettlemans lost their money, and are now stealing pennies from the elderly, happy to get any amount of dollars they can while pocketing a portion of their clients' tax returns. The fake case must also be related to Howard's history as a lawyer, and the actor they hire needs to casually mention that Howard is addicted to cocaine.
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