Better Call Saul Season 6 Perfectly Flips Breaking Bad's Best Episode
Warning: this article contains spoilers for Better Call Saul season 6.
Better Call Saul season 6, episode 3, «Rock and Hard Place» contains many parallels to «Ozymandias,» which is often considered the greatest episode of Breaking Bad. Both episodes feature confessions, conflict, and death in the desert, however, «Rock and Hard Place» subverts key aspects of «Ozymandias» to brilliant effect. Better Call Saul is a prequel to Breaking Bad that includes many fondly remembered characters from Vince Gilligan's original series, as well as new characters that do not appear in Breaking Bad. Nacho and Kim's absence from Breaking Bad stirs up theories about why they are not present during Walter White's reign as Heisenberg, and Better Call Saul season 6, episode 3 finally concludes Nacho's story.
Nacho proves the age-old cliché that getting out of the drug trade is easier said than done. A member of the Salamanca crime family, Nacho betrays his employers when he swaps Hector Salamanca's nitroglycerin pills for ibuprofen. His plan to kill Hector and save his father is thwarted by Gus Fring, who identifies Nacho's scheme and blackmails Nacho into working for him. Gus' plans for Nacho put him in increasing danger, as he is tasked with aiding Gus' hit-men with the attempted assassination of Lalo Salamanca. Once again, things don't go to plan for Nacho and his involvement in the attempt on Lalo's life becomes obvious to the Salamancas, placing him in a seemingly inescapable position.
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Better Call Saul season 6, episode 3 sees Nacho accept his fate and blame Alvarez in exchange for his father's safety. His inevitable death in the episode is reminiscent of Hank's heart-breaking
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