Better Call Saul -- Episode 5x10 "Something Unforgivable" (Season Finale) -- Discussion Thread

AMC ^ | April 20, 2020

[silent_jonny]

WARNING!
This thread contains spoilers for:
Better Call Saul
Breaking Bad
and El Camino
Proceed at your own risk.

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For Better ...

... Or Worse

[silent_jonny]

Wonder how beat the hell outta Nacho (Lalo?) - and why?

That photo is interesting. There must have been a dozen good pics that AMC could have used to represent this episode, but they went with this washed-out pic of Nacho. There's not even a BCS or AMC watermark on it. Curious.

I'm betting it's Nacho that will be leaving us tonight instead of Kim.

[Swanks]

I’m seeing E6-9 in my Library (YoutubeTV) but NEVER, E1-5. Hope I don’t drop off one E from the Library, as they air E10 tonight...

[silent_jonny]

"It's the caviar of the South" :-D

[TomServo]

I'm betting it's Nacho that will be leaving us..

I dunno - there's still a lot of ground to cover - unless Nacho gets so close to the cartel that he says screw it and bolts. But then there's his father he has to leave behind. One thing's for sure, he's still alive during the BB years.

[silent_jonny]

There’s a fan theory that Kim is the first to call Ed at the vacuum repair shop and that’s how she disappears. Jimmy doesn’t know Ed exists yet, so someone will have to give him Ed’s business card as some point and explain what he does.

[TomServo]

She ends up in Witness Protection.

No way - not without Jimmy and he wouldn't go without her, either. Unless they punt on the marriage.

[silent_jonny]

in multiple ways superior to breaking bad

I agree. This show is working on so many more levels than BB.

[TomServo]

There’s a fan theory that Kim is the first to call Ed at the vacuum repair shop..

Interesting, but Kim doesn't really hang out (yet) on the underbelly of the criminal world. It'd be a hoot if that's what happened though.

[silent_jonny]

Emphasis on #3!

[silent_jonny]

it came right in the middle of the scene where every character involved knows that the killing could commence at any moment, and Lalo gives her “eewww this guy’s gross face”.

lol, I don't know if he made the face just to screw with them, or because he's such a sociopath, he doesn't know the appropriate time to make a face.

[wildbill]

Kim is already starting to reject her life with Jimmy by resigning from the law firm—where Jimmy got her to play games with legal ethics in order to get her desire to help the old man from eviction by her client.

She is beginning to see that she, as well as Jimmy, are on a one way ticket to compromising their own ethical belief system. I don’t think they would kill her off because I can’t believe Saul is so far gone that he would continue to be a friend of the cartel and/or Breaking Bad crew to come.

Hard to say how she disappears from the picture. Divorce maybe and a move to different city?

[silent_jonny]

Assassination?

[silent_jonny]

Talk about faces—Lalo in the SUV—haha!

[silent_jonny]

I don’t think they would kill her off because I can’t believe Saul is so far gone that he would continue to be a friend of the cartel and/or Breaking Bad crew to come.

I agree. If Kim was murdered, that would crush Jimmy, even more than Chuck's death. He wouldn't be the clownish guy we see in BB.

[silent_jonny]

Oh ... Gus is going to have Lalo assassinated in Mexico. Make it look like a rival cartel. Fewer questions/investigations afterwards.

And Nacho is the inside man for the assassins.

Innocent children and seniors in Lalo's compound. Doesn't sit well with Nacho, but he's on the Bad Choice Road now. No exits.

Is this the "something unforgivable"?

[silent_jonny]

Was Kim looking for something specific in the case room? Lots of emphasis being put on the box she’s carrying.

[silent_jonny]

Don Eladio has lost some weight since we last saw him.

Hector got him a present.

[silent_jonny]

Hector—I meant, Lalo.

[silent_jonny]

30 minutes to go.

I'm doubting the assassination will go as planned.

[silent_jonny]

That was a very long scene that seemed to be about nothing ... then turned into something serious.

Kim hatches a plan to sabotage Howard and the Sand Piper case. Completely throwing her ethics away. Even Jimmy is uncomfortable with this conversation.