We'll get to that phone call in a minute. Something about that phone call brought up a lot of pain that he needed to cover up again, and he needed to get back into that world of taking advantage of other people.
And just like the events of - the death of Howard Hamlin and Kim keeping a secret about knowing that Lalo was still alive and not telling him, and the reasons that she didn't tell him caused a lot of pain and pushed him full Saul Goodman. Something very upsetting happened on the other end of that line that brought back up a lot of old feelings and a lot of pain, and Jimmy McGill's drug of choice to numb that pain is Saul Goodman. That's off of the Kim Wexler phone call, the mystery phone call that we don't know what happened yet. We talked since season 1 about, "When do we bring back Walt and Jesse? Do we bring back Walt and Jesse?" And now that Gene in Omaha is slipping back into his old ways, now felt like the right time to show the Saul Goodman character and the decisions he made chasing Walter White, the same way he made decisions to do these crazy Omaha scams. Why was the era of Breaking Bad's "Better Call Saul" episode the right moment to reintroduce them? And the mystery of "Why did Saul say 'No Lalo'?" in Breaking Bad is really having its moment in the desert sun, as it was contextualized a few episodes ago. Peter Gould said that it was important to wait to bring back Walt and Jesse. Drags a little bit in the beginning, then slows down in the middle, then crawls to a full stop at the end. Let's remove those seeds and stems from the sink, accept Prince Rainier's proposal, take the lemon wedge off our nose, walk like Frankenstein after he was probed by aliens, and speak with the writer and director of this revelation-laced episode, Saul executive producer/ Schnauz Farms owner Tom Schnauz.ĮNTERTAINMENT WEEKLY: So. By the time he smashed the glass in the door, he had put himself in a situation that is perhaps best be described as "hot." Gene's temper flared and he forced Jeff to drive him to the house. But when one of the targets turned out to have cancer, Buddy had second thoughts. He enlisted Jeff and his buddy, Buddy (Max Bickelhaup), for an elaborate scam that involved Gene playing rube while he got various marks drunk, and his cohorts then drugging them so they could steal their identity/credit cards back at home. Reeling from the call, living up to the adage of "Hurt people hurt people," and continuing to reunite with his Saul accoutrements, Gene met up with Jeff (Pat Healy), son of Marion ( Carol Burnett), turning the game back on. That prompted Gene to call a sprinkler company in Florida where he believes that she's working (unless it's a Day Spa and Nail situation), and he had a heated conversation (with her, seemingly?) that caused him to beat the hell out of that pay phone. His money-laundering backups had been seized (including Lazer Base), Skyler (Anna Gunn) cut a deal, Jesse's car was found down by the Mexico border (see: Badger's roadtrip in El Camino), and - get this! - Kim ( Rhea Seehorn) had inquired about him. He learned that the situation was still "hot," post-Walt's death. In the black-and-white future Omahaverse, Jimmy/Saul/Gene made secret contact with his former assistant, Francesca (Tina Parker), fulfilling the promise of the Nov. Reckless decisions weren't just being made in the past. Wynne High School for that fateful follow-up scene in Breaking Bad. (Yes, Walt, that's what Jesse calls it.) Later, back at the office, Mike (Jonathan Banks) warned Saul about getting into business with this dangerous, cancer-stricken "amateur," but Saul tuned him out and his greedy, wounded gut was taking him into J.P. Into the outskirts of the ABQ the story ventured, nostalgia and discovery rattling around that old Krystal Ship. Viewers were transported back to the night that Walt ( Bryan Cranston) and Jesse ( Aaron Paul) kidnapped Saul ( Bob Odenkirk) and drove him into the desert, where he feared execution and uttered the infamous mention of Lalo (Tony Dalton) more than a decade before the prequel would introduce such a character.