Better Call Saul Theory: Jimmy's House Flashforward Is In GENE'S Timeline
Better Call Saul season 6 breaks its Gene timeline tradition… or does it? Vince Gilligan's Breaking Bad franchise didn't get this far by sticking to convention and, sure enough, Better Call Saul is no regular prequel series. Most of the time, the Bob Odenkirk-fronted spinoff takes place during the years prior to Breaking Bad, charting Jimmy McGill's rise, fall, rise, fall, and rise on the path toward becoming Albuquerque's top «criminal» lawyer, Saul Goodman. Rather than remaining exclusively the past, however, Better Call Saul also follows Odenkirk's crooked protagonist after Breaking Bad. Working at a Cinnabon outlet, Jimmy now uses the alias Gene Takavic, given to him as part of Ed Galbraith's disappearance service.
Officially confirmed as the final season, Better Call Saul season 6 begins with an impressively dizzying house-clearing sequence. This luxurious and opulent mansion gets meticulously stripped of its belongings — not in a «we're moving house» sense, but a «the owner of this property is in serious legal trouble» sense. From the medical prescriptions visible in the bathroom, we know this overblown abode belongs to Saul Goodman.
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There's no context behind the sequence, nor any confirmation of its placement in the Breaking Bad/Better Call Saul timeline, but Peter Gould (Better Call Saul co-creator/showrunner) has revealed the house clearance takes place somewhere during the Breaking Bad timeline. Other clues, however, suggest Better Call Saul season 6's opening actually takes place during the Gene timeline, right at the very end of Breaking Bad.
Better Call Saul's Gene timeline bears several unmistakable hallmarks. There's the
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