Lalo Made 1 Huge Mistake Against Gus Fring (& He Knew It)
Warning: SPOILERS for Better Call Saul season 6, episode 8.
The Better Call Saul season 6 mid-season premiere brings the long-running cat and mouse game between Gus Fring and Lalo Salamanca to a bloody conclusion. Lalo has the upper hand over Gus, but ultimately he is the one who ends up dead and buried beneath Gus's secret meth lab. Ultimately, Lalo's demise comes from a major mistake he made in his approach to fighting Gus — a mistake that he was well aware of.
Better Call Saul season 6, episode 8, «Point and Shoot,» which was the first to air following a six-week break, picks up immediately after the mid-season finale's devastating cliffhanger ending. Having killed Howard, Lalo orders Jimmy to kill Gus at his compound. Ultimately, Kim ends up going instead and is quickly caught by Mike and his security team. But sending Kim is just a feint designed to pull away Mike's team and allow Lalo easy access to Gus's secret meth superlab, where he unexpectedly encounters Gus and his bodyguards.
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Lalo easily takes out the guards and could easily kill Gus immediately, but he makes a crucial mistake: he underestimates Gus. Earlier in the episode, he downplays Gus's threat to Kim and Jimmy, describing him as a «housecat» and suggesting that even a lawyer could take him out. While this may have just been part of his attempt to persuade Jimmy to carry out an uncharacteristically violent act, the way Lalo acts around Gus shows that he does indeed view Gus as not a physical threat in the dark underworld of Better Call Saul. In Lalo's mind, it seems clear that Gus is only a problem because of the men he has around him, like the still-mysterious Mike Ehrmantraut,
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