Better Call Saul Season 6 Secretly Repeated A Walter White Trick
Warning: this article contains spoilers for Better Call Saul.
Better Call Saul season 6, episode 3, «Rock and a Hard Place» just repeated one of Walter White's most clever moments from Breaking Bad. This time, Ignacio «Nacho» Varga pulls off the impressive feat, while also doing it in a way more suited for his character. Better Call Saul is full of references to Breaking Bad, but Nacho's big moment in this episode is one of the clearest.
Better Call Saul season 6 kicks off with Nacho on the run, fresh off the heels of having helped organize a hit on Lalo Salamanca. Through the first two episodes of the season, Nacho is being pursued by The Cousins and other men involved in the cartel, and things begin to look hopeless. However, Nacho makes a deal with Gustavo and Mike in «Rock and a Hard Place.» As part of this deal, Nacho agrees to be turned over to the Salamancas and executed in order to protect his father. The group then beats Nacho, zip-ties him, and brings him to the Salamancas to face his death.
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During this tense sequence, Nacho secretly uses a piece of shattered glass to cut through the zip-tie, freeing him to take one of the men as a hostage. While this is an exciting scene in its own right, this scene is also very reminiscent of another zip-tie escape, one that was pulled off by Walter White in Breaking Bad. While Nacho never meets Walt (with Nacho killing himself at the end of the episode), both of these characters were put in shockingly similar situations, with each using their wit to escape.
In Breaking Bad season 5, episode 6, «Buyout,» Mike zip-ties Walt to a radiator, leaving him there while Mike takes care of something.
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