Questions tagged [better-call-saul]
For questions about Better Call Saul, a prequel to Breaking Bad focusing on the rise of Saul Goodman, criminal attorney.
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Did Mike Ehrmantraut ever laugh? Or even come close to it?
Guessing that interacting with his niece Kaylee might be the only time he lets down his guard, I found a Breaking Bad/Better Call Saul mashup on YouTube where Ehrmantraut smiles seemingly to himself. ...
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In Better Call Saul, Jimmy first has some idea of the existence of Gus Fring -- how does he get to actually know of him?
In Season 6, Episode 8 of Better Call Saul, Lalo sends (it turns out) Kim to shoot Fring -- at this point, Jimmy has no idea who Fring is, I believe. The killing of course does not occur. But it is ...
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How much was the final Sandpiper settlement?
How much was the final sandpiper settlement amount?
I think it was around 20 million. I ask because Saul was hoping for his cut of around 20 percent.
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Jimmy telling Chuck he's a lawyer and Chuck getting "sick"
I was wondering what the timeline was from when Jimmy told Chuck he passed the bar and Chuck getting "sick" in Better Call Saul. Was Chuck's illness based on a necessity to occupy Jimmy's time, and ...
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Why does Saul have to work at Cinnabon?
In Better Call Saul, in the episodes and scenes that take place after the end of Breaking Bad, Jimmy McGill/Saul Goodman/Gene Takavic works at a Cinnabon in a shopping mall in Omaha, Nebraska.
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Is it realistic that Jimmy's friend from the district attorney's office is so poor?
In Better Call Saul S03E03, Jimmy sits next to his old friend Bill Oakley (played by Peter Diseth) who is a Deputy District Attorney. Jimmy pulls out a burger and fries for lunch, while Oakley's lunch ...
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What did Kim Wexler mean when she said her bar license "does not have an expiration date"?
In the series finale of Better Call Saul, Kim visits Saul in prison as his lawyer. Saul is surprised and asks Kim how she managed to get her bar license back. She replies:
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Why does Gus want the cartel to find Nacho?
In Better Call Saul S06E01 ("Wine and Roses"), Gus arranges a motel for Nacho to hide and orders him to stay put. In S06E02 ("Stick and Carrot"),
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Why does Jimmy hide going to law school from Chuck?
I actually don't find it realistic that somehow Jimmy is able to hide going to law school and taking the bar 3x from Chuck and the entire HHM (including Kim?). But ok I'll bite.
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Why does Gus Fring speak bad Spanish but good English?
Why does Gus Fring speak bad Spanish (with the accent of a stereotypical bad beginning American student) but good (perfectly American accented) English?
The out-of-universe explanation would be that ...
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At what point in Better Call Saul does the first scene of Breaking Bad take place in?
At what point in Better Call Saul does the first scene of Breaking Bad take place? I am not talking about the flash-forward scene that the first episode (pilot?) starts with, which is Walter White in ...
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Why does Chuck McGill end the season like this?
At the end of the Season 3 of Better Call Saul, Chuck McGill ends (I think) with a full win situation and obtains everything he wants:
He manages to extort a huge severance payout ($3 million) from ...
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When did Gus start taunting Hector?
In Better Call Saul it seems like Gus started taunting Hector even before Hector could communicate and if so, did he not tip his hand?
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Mediation call glitch in "Better Call Saul"
In Better Call Saul season 6, episode 7, as the scam on Howard is about to unfold, Erin Brill asks Miss Falco from Provo to unmute and confirm she’s on the mediation call. Why does Erin do this?
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Why did Mike use a bank to pay his people?
Why did Mike use a bank to pay his people in Better Call Saul? Was not this his undoing, using a lawyer using a legit institution? Why not have someone else use multiple dead drops which was the ...
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When Nacho has a gun to Bolsa's head, Mike says, "Do it!" -- What did he mean?
Mike is watching from far away through a rifle scope. Did he mean to shoot Bolsa and if so why?
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Is there a hidden meaning behind 'Smoke On The Water' in Better Call Saul?
I'm referring to the two times when Marco hums the song to himself whilst on a scam-mission, just before he's approached by Jimmy and their unsuspecting victim. The second time, he doesn't complete ...
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Did Gus deliberately give motel where Nacho was holed up's phone number to Bolsa?
In BCS 6/2 Carrot and Stick, Mike (working on behalf of Gus) plants stuff in new safe in Nacho's house, including a phone number. It is implied that he intends for the cartel to find it and they do. ...
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Nacho's girlfriends -- reason for not murdering them?
A very unusual (I can't think of anything similar in any crime movie I have watched) scene occurs when Mike and his men in preparation for the replacement of Nacho's safe in a surprisingly patient and ...
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Why did Nacho deviate from the plan by grabbing Bolsa?
In Better Call Saul S06E03 "Rock and Hard Place", the fundamental idea was, to do what was agreed upon with Fring and his father will be protected -- anything would seem to jeopardize that ...
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Why did they have to replace the safe with the same model?
In Better Call Saul S06E02 "Carrot and Stick", as I understand it, Fring's men wanted to plant evidence in Nacho's safe which could only be done if they had access to its interior so they ...
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Daniel/Pryce -- how would he have found the veterinarian?
The vet is normally how Mike finds work but how would "Pryce" even establish credibility with the vet so that he would refer Mike and the other two men (one of whom was referred to Saul by ...
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How did Gus fulfil his promise that Hector et al wouldn't return?
I already forgot this particular storyline. In Better Call Saul S03E04, Gus assures Lyle and the other Los Pollos Hermanos employees that Hector Salamanca, Ignacio Varga, et al wouldn't return:
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Why don't we see Lyle from BCS in BB? [closed]
There's this character in Better Call Saul named Lyle, who is a Los Pollos Hermanos employee, and who is not in Breaking Bad. Last I checked, I think we'd expect Lyle to still be alive and continue ...
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Why the characters 'Walter White' and 'Jesse Pinkman' dropped from the spin-off 'Better Call Saul'?
Recently I came to know about the new TV show Better Call Saul, which is a spin-off from Breaking Bad. But to my disappointment, the characters Walter White and Jesse Pinkman were dropped from the ...
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Does Better Call Saul contain Breaking Bad spoilers?
I'm one of those people who has a Breaking Bad box set they've not yet got around to watching... although I intend to soon.
Somehow, I've managed to avoid all Breaking Bad spoilers beyond "the ...
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The Red House: Was the house and the insipid conversation scripted?
In Hit and Run S6 E4 we discover that Gus is paying a decoy couple to live in a house where they have cordial but limited interactions with Fring's army of soldiers and spies. The conversation about ...
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Would Hector not have thought there was something fishy about Mike getting into a fight with Tuco?
Mike, in "Gloves Off" (Better Call Saul S2E4), represents himself as a random retiree -- but if only from the beating he took, not to mention Hector apparently finding out that Mike was an ...
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"You think he's a jackass now..."
In the Better Call Saul episode "Magic Man" Jimmy is trying to convince Kim to let him help her get her pro-bono client to accept the deal rather than going to trial and says something like, ...
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How did Kim Wexler know? (S06E02)
In Better Call Saul S06E02, Jimmy fails to bribe the Kettleman couple. Then Kim Wexler starts calling the IRS and is about to expose the Kettleman couple for tax fraud (Apparently a 'tax preparation ...
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How did none of the Salamancas notice that Hector could be completely cured?
In season 4, Dr. Bruckner from Johns-Hopkins Hospital stated that it was possible to fully treat Hector to the point of full resumption of normal body functions such as talking and walking. How come ...
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What is the significance of Jimmy's restaurant scenes in Better Call Saul?
In S01E01 in a starting scene, we see Jimmy working in a restaurant. We see similar scenes at the start of many episodes.
How did Jimmy end up working there? and What is the significance of those ...
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What is the image of at the beginning of Better Call Saul's next-to-last episode?
In the opening credits of the final episodes of Better Call Saul's final season, the usual title and grainy images of ash trays and foot massagers and matchbooks in urinals are increasingly ...
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Are the ice-cream scenes foreshadowing something?
In Better Call Saul S05E01, we see Saul Goodman drop his ice cream cone and go with Nacho Vargas. In S05E02, we see multiple scenes of that dropped ice cream, notable the starting one with ants ...
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Does Jimmy save Kim?
In the final episode of Better Call Saul (so, y'know, spoilers ahead, both inside and outside the spoiler blocks):
He seems to do this in order to
However, Kim was also facing potential civil legal ...
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What does this code mean in the finale of Better Call Saul?
In the finale of Better Call Saul, Saul/Gene/McGill is hiding in a dumpster; he finds a piece of paper from a bandage and it reads:
Hoover Max Extract Pressure-Pro, model sixty
As soon as he ...
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Why did Jimmy and Kim undermine Howard in such a way?
From Better Call Saul, season 6, Ep 7, Jimmy and Kim have unfolded their multi-step plan that is dedicated to undermine Howard in front of his colleagues, clients alike.
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Why would Gus get involved with Walt?
Spoiler for Breaking Bad and Better Call Saul (up to Season 6 Episode 11)
In Breaking Bad Season 2, Walt has produced a lot of Blue Meth in the desert together with Jesse. They get via Saul and Mike ...
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How old is James McGill?
In Breaking Bad, Saul looked like a man in his late 40s. I want to know - at the beginning of Better Call Saul, how old is James McGill?
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Who is the second Hamlin in Hamlin, Hamlin and McGill?
In Better Call Saul, the prequel of Breaking Bad, a successful Albuquerque lawyer firm called Hamlin, Hamlin and McGill is named after:
Howard Hamlin
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Why does Better Call Saul show future events in black and white?
Throughout Better Call Saul Season 6, all future events (after the main storyline of Breaking Bad ends and Saul lives a low-profile life in exile) are shown in black and white.
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What is the significance of the scene where Gus had a long conversation with a man at a bar in S06E09?
In Better Call Saul S06E09, titled "Fun and Games", there was a scene where Gus orders wine at a bar, and has a conversation with one of the bar's staff (who seems to be the manager) — a man ...
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Saul Goodman's Second Wife
In Breaking Bad season 3 episode "Green Light", Saul mentions: "I caught my second wife screwing my stepdad, okay? It's a cruel world, Walt."
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Why are Davis & Main's perks so much better than HHM's?
In Better Call Saul, Jimmy's perks at Davis and Main seem insanely lavish compared to Kim's at HHM. And D&M is located in a smaller city (Santa Fe vs Albuquerque) and would presumably have fewer ...
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How realistic is it for Gus Fring to dig a tunnel between two houses across the road?
In Batter Call Saul, season 6, we have seen multiple times that there is an underground tunnel between Gus Fring's personal residence and the house opposite to his house across the road.
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Why does Mike replace Jimmy and Kim's fridge?
In Better Call Saul, season 6, ep 8, Point and Shoot
Mike sends Kim home and replaces their fridge with a new one.
Why does Mike do this?
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How did Eduardo Salamanca manage to go to Germany? [closed]
How did Lalo manage to pass multiple identity/security checks both ways? It seems like it shouldn't be an easy trip, given his pedigree, there should be pictures of him at any airport, or am I missing ...
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What was the big deal about the Davis & Main commercial in Better Call Saul?
In S2E3 (Amarillo) of Better Call Saul, Jimmy runs a commercial advertising the legal battle between Sandpiper Crossing and Davis & Main law firm.
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Was Nacho's burglary of Pryce's home sort of foolish? [closed]
It seemed like he had a good and very rare thing going -- there is almost no way to reliably obtain prescription drugs that are in such high demand. He was able to get factory-sealed Oxys in large ...
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Were Gale and Pryce meant to be similar characters?
Both Gale and Pryce were people involved in the legitimate world of "chemistry" who both without any pressure became involved in criminal activities. They had, I think, similar personalities ...
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