Better Call Saul Connects A Season 5 Scene To Breaking Bad

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Better Call Saul just retroactively made a season 5 episode super-relevant to Walter White and Jesse Pinkman in Breaking Bad. With Better Call Saul almost over, Breaking Bad can never be viewed the same way again. Rewatch sessions will inevitably cast Saul Goodman, Gus Fring, Mike Ehrmantraut, and even Spooge in completely different lights. As the end draws closer, however, Better Call Saul is making even more direct changes to its parent series, as season 6, episode 11 replays Walt & Jesse kidnapping Saul from Breaking Bad season 2.

This time, audiences see a bagged Saul yelling in the RV before arriving at the pre-made desert grave Walt & Jesse dug to intimidate him. As the panicky lawyer lies prone among round-bottom flasks and methylamine assuming his captors must be cartel, he feels the vehicle go off-road and calls out, "Whatever this is, can we please don't do it in the desert? Anywhere but the desert!" While Saul has more experience with gangsters than most, this is still a distinctly odd request. Your typical kidnap victim would be shouting «please don't kill me» rather than «if you ARE going to kill me, can we please do it somewhere else?» Why is Saul so determined to avoid the desert in Better Call Saul's Breaking Bad crossover?

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Saul's "anywhere but the desert" line is a subtly brilliant callback to Better Call Saul season 5's «Bagman» — widely regarded among the spinoff's greatest episodes. Jimmy heads into the desert and collects Lalo Salamanca's bail money, but he's quickly set upon by Juan Bolsa's goons, who'd rather Lalo stay jailed. Although Jimmy survives the ordeal thanks to Mike, his vehicle is busted in the shootout. What follows is an