Better Call Saul Death Explains 2 Gus Fring Breaking Bad Murders
Warning! SPOILERS for Better Call Saul season 6, episode 8, «Point and Shoot.»
Another wild character death is featured in Better Call Saul season 6, episode 8, and the event also helps explain two of Gus Fring's murders in Breaking Bad. As its final season keeps inching toward its conclusion and connecting with the events of Walter White's story, Better Call Saul has been killing even more significant characters off. Nacho Varga and Howard Hamlin both met violent demises, as is par for the course within the Vince Gilligan prequel series and his original Breaking Bad show. Now, Lalo Salamanca is also dead — at the hands of coldhearted crime boss Gus Fring. Interestingly though, Lalo's Better Call Saul death doesn't just wrap up his character's storyline, it also implicitly explains two of Gus' later murders within Breaking Bad's timeline.
Breaking Bad first hit the air in 2008, introducing the world to (among other characters) Walter White, Jesse Pinkman, and their signature blue meth that kicks the widely-lauded series into drive. Better Call Saul, a Breaking Bad prequel series starring the character Saul Goodman (a.k.a. Jimmy McGill), premiered in 2015. It's been a fun ride to see how the fan-favorite, ultra-shady lawyer got to the point he's at in Breaking Bad and how plenty of other characters have been brought into the prequel project's fold.
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In Better Call Saul season 6, episode 8, Gus kills Lalo because he knows that, if he doesn't, his rival will take him out instead. With seemingly no option but death, he shoots the cartel member and buries him in the superlab. Lalo has some fittingly gritty final moments, which include choking on blood and smiling. However,
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