Better Call Saul Season 6's Blue Flower Secretly Connects To Kim & Walt
Caution: spoilers ahead for Better Call Saulseason 6, episode 3
That odd blue flower in the opening moments of Better Call Saul season 6's «Rock & Hard Place» carries a curious connection to Kim Wexler… and also Walter White. After the one-two punch of Better Call Saul season 6's introductory episodes, «Rock & Hard Place» begins with a strange first scene — a close-up landscape of a desert during a rainstorm. The water droplets splash on a shard of glass covered in a mud — the very same shard Nacho Varga later uses to stab Juan Bolsa in the episode's shocking climax. Nacho's makeshift shank isn't the most striking object in the sequence, however — that honor belongs to a bright blue flower (a desert bluebell?) growing amid the arid wasteland.
Everything carries meaning in the Better Call Saul/Breaking Bad universe, and color is particularly vital in denoting symbolism. Breaking Bad's Marie often wore purple, while Walter WHITE and Jesse PINKman carry color everywhere they go. Blue is specifically associated with innocence in death. For example, Krysten Ritter's Jane dies (and is buried) in blue, while the plane crash ribbons honoring flight 515 are the very same color. The appearance of a blue flower on the spot (more or less) where Nacho Varga dies continues that duality between death and innocence. Nacho ultimately perishes, but he was one of the more «innocent» cartel members — a good but misguided soul who desperately wanted out. The bright, vibrant plant surrounded by dead, bleak ones is perfect imagery for Nacho and the cartel. Better Call Saul's blue flower is a fitting in-universe tribute — one that speaks to Nacho's inner kindness, and remains in-keeping with Breaking Bad's color wheel of metaphors.
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