Caution: spoilers ahead for Better Call Saul season 6, episode 7
The midway cliffhanger of Better Call Saul season 6 is a force to be reckoned with — here's our full breakdown of how «Plan & Execution» is planned and executed. When AMC first announced Better Call Saul's final season would arrive in two chunks, comparisons to Breaking Bad were immediate. A doozy of a cliffhanger was promised, but could the spinoff match Hank Schrader's bathroom epiphany that Walter White is Heisenberg?
Better Call Saul season 6's «Plan & Execution» marks the grand finale of Jimmy McGill and Kim Wexler's attempt to frame Howard Hamlin as a struggling drug addict unfit to practice law, forcing a swift resolution to the long-running Sandpiper case, and taking the $2 million they're owed from the common fund. The scam has gone perfectly so far (more or less), with Davies & Main's Cliff Main semi-convinced Howard has his nose everywhere but the grindstone. The final phase takes place during a Sandpiper mediation meeting, and Jimmy and Kim are ready to make their influence felt.
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«Plan & Execution» is an intricate, hard-hitting midpoint finale to Better Call Saul season 6, and drops a hell of an exclamation point for audiences to freak out over before the last episodes begin airing in July. The episode completes Jimmy and Kim's scheme in stunningly violent fashion, continues to set the stage for Gus vs. Lalo, and promises a darker ending than even Breaking Bad. Here's how and why everything goes down the way it does.
Better Call Saul season 6's «Axe & Grind» dropped the bone-breaking bombshell that Rand Casimiro — the Sandpiper mediator Jimmy hired an actor to impersonate —
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