Better Call Saul Star Patrick Fabian Reflects On Howard Hamlin's Shocking Fate

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Warning: The following dives into spoilers for Better Call Saul up to the seventh episode of the sixth seasonUntil it finally comes back on the air in mid-July, everyone will be talking about what went down at the end of the Better Call Saul mid-season finale. Of course, Patrick Fabian himself is just one of many to share their thoughts on the mid-season finale and Howard Hamlin's fate.

Shortly after Fabian's character Howard Hamlin was unexpectedly murdered at the hands of Lalo Salamanca in the Better Call Saul episode «Plan and Execution,» it shouldn't shock anyone that viewers would like to hear Fabian's perspective on how it all unfolded for Hamlin. Fortunately, he was willing to open up about how he discovered his character's fate.

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Not too long after theBetter Call Saul mid-season finale, Fabian was interviewed by Vulture to get his thoughts on his character's fate. Fabian admitted that he knew ahead of time that Hamlin would be out of the picture early on, but had no idea that Hamlin's story ended with a bullet to the head for merely precautionary reasons from someone he had never met before. «I knew I was going to bow out early, that was already told to me before the season,» Fabian said. «I didn’t know how, I didn’t know specifics, and like all the seasons, it’s come to me script by script by script. So I didn’t know what was going on until 607 was dropped, and I had two weeks before we started shooting it. But when reading it, I’m reading it, I’m like, 'Oh, these are great scenes,' and then I get to that last page. And it’s only two-thirds of the page, but it says, 'Lalo enters.' I was like, What? And then literally half a page later, it’s over. End of