Better Call Saul's Tony Dalton Reflects On Lalo Salamanca's Fate

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Warning: This will contain major spoilers for Better Call Saul Season 6, Episode 8, «Point and Shoot»Before Better Call Saul's mid-season premiere started, many wondered what the fate of charming sociopath Lalo Salamanca would be. The show's final season had been building up the final showdown between Tony Dalton's Lalo and Gus Fring, which they ultimately delivered, but they surprisingly did not wait until the very end of the show to do so.

In a stunning subversion of expectations, Lalo and Fring came to blows in the very first Better Call Saul episode since its mid-season hiatus. Because fans knew Fring would be alive and well when Breaking Bad starts, most figured Lalo's death was coming but didn't know when or how.

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In light of his character's shockingly early death, Dalton, who stood out in his role as Salamanca, reflected on Lalo's fate with Entertainment Weekly. According to Dalton himself, he knew his character was going to die shortly after season 5 had concluded in 2020. «I got a call during the height of the pandemic, before they started filming. And it was Vince [Gilligan] and Pete [Gould, who created the show with Gilligan] and it was kind of the death call, where they say, 'Okay, at [episode] 608, that's far as you go.' And I go, 'How do I die?' and they didn't want to tell me,» he explained. «I was like, 'Come on.' They're like, 'I'm not going to tell you.' I was like, 'Tell me something.' They're like, 'All right, you kill a bunch of guys before you die.' I was like, 'That's awesome!'»

It may have been better for the writers to get right to the point concerning Lalo's conflict with Fring instead of dragging it out. Since Fring is alive