Better Call Saul Writer Dives Into The Shocking Mid-Season Premiere

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Warning: This will contain major spoilers for Better Call Saul Season 6, Episode 8: «Point and Shoot»In Better Call Saul's final season, fans have made a big deal about what would be the ultimate fate of the show's main characters who don't appear in Breaking Bad. Now, series writer Gordon Smith has shed some light on the stunning events that occurred in the season 6 mid-season finale.

Before its latest episode, the Better Call Saul writers had revealed the fates of Nacho Varga and Howard Hamlin. With five episodes to go, the show has already revealed the death of the primary antagonist Lalo Salamanca.

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During an interview with Rolling Stone, Smith explained what went into the process of killing such a charming sociopath like Lalo. In short, they wanted to hammer home that Lalo's desire for revenge would be his ultimate undoing, especially since viewers who had watched Breaking Badknew that Lalo would not appear in the series. That said, it was hard for them to axe off someone as good as Tony Dalton. «We had no interest in losing Tony Dalton, obviously,» Smith said. «He’s incredible. He’s so much fun on set. We really didn’t want to lose the character, either. But we felt like we had set these forces in motion, and we were having these two titans of our story clash, and unfortunately, we knew Gus had to come out the other side. I suppose there was a world where Lalo limps away and Gus has to chase him down, but that felt like territory we’d already covered. We were happy to give him a big, big, big out. And he gets what he wants. He’s been searching since the end of Season Four for something he thought was going on. He was searching for Werner, chasing