Better Call Saul's Midseason Finale Secretly Paid Off A Season 5 Scene
Warning: Contains SPOILERS for Better Call Saul season 6, episode 7!
Better Call Saul's midseason finale just paid off one of season 5's best scenes in a huge way. Better Call Saul season 6, episode 7, «Plan and Execution» is the last episode before a several-week break, and it just ended with a massive cliffhanger: Lalo Salamanca shoots and kills Howard Hamlin. While the scene works great on its own, Better Call Saul also used it to pay off an incredibly tense scene from season 5.
Throughout Better Call Saul season 6, Jimmy and Kim have mainly been focused on ruining the career of a rival lawyer, Howard Hamlin. In doing so, the duo has destroyed his car with bowling balls, pinned cocaine on him, made it seem as if he has been hiring prostitutes, and more. «Plan and Execution» was the conclusion of this arc, with their incredibly complex Howard Hamlin scam finally coming to an end. However, things don't go quite as planned. At the end of the episode, Howard shows up at Kim and Jimmy's apartment to confront the two, knowing that they were at the center of the scheme. Unbeknownst to them, another one of the show's villains, Lalo Salamanca, also shows up at the apartment at the same time. Before Lalo confronts Kim and Jimmy, he shoots Howard, creating one of the most shocking moments in Better Call Saul.
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Many viewers felt as if «Plan and Executions» climax seemed familiar, pointing out that it mirrors a scene from Better Call Saul season 5, episode 9, «Bad Choice Road.» In this episode's finale, Lalo Salamanca shows up at Kim and Jimmy's apartment, confronting Jimmy after he realizes that he has been conned. Both scenes follow the same
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