***Official "Space Blanket" for Better Call Saul*** (5 Viewers)

[Long Ball Larry]

What hotels are you staying in?

This is from an article last year about a Wizards' announcer who does all kinds of #### on the road to get free stuff:

First, some essential background: Buckhantz needs the softest mattresses he can find. Merely mention the existence of the modern-day platform bed to him, and he’ll burst into the world’s most rousing harangue about the demise of the box spring and how he doesn’t mind his beds “droopy.” But against Buckhantz’s liking, hotels will try to firm up mattresses. When beds get too soft, he’s noticed, even the fanciest of places will stick a king-sized piece of plywood between a mattress and box spring to give the sleeper a little extra support.

He started finding these slats of plywood and tugging them out from under mattresses, “which is not easy,” he brags. He’ll stand them up against walls for the housekeeping staff to find the next day.

...

The historic event at the Westin Harbour Castle wasn’t the first instance of Buckhantz tearing out the plywood. But it was the first example of his unearthing an extracurricular item.

“I lift up my mattress to see if the plywood is under there,” Buckhantz said. “And lo and behold, I find some objectionable material.”

A pornographic magazine. Just waiting there to be spotted.

But while a run-of-the-mill guest hypothetically put in the same situation may notice only nude photographs under the mattress, that’s not how Buckhantz’s mind works. He thought bigger. What he saw was leverage.

That magazine carved a path to exactly what he wanted: an upgrade.

“I called down to the front desk and I said, ‘Could you send someone up here to remove this material from underneath my mattress? And I’d love to be in a suite if I could.’ I was in (a suite in) 15 minutes,” Buckhantz said before digging for the sarcasm Wizards fans know all too well. “Miraculously, they found one.”

Since then, he looks under every mattress in every one of his hotel rooms. That’s for 22 years, 41 road games a season. Pornography is the most common discovery, but it’s far from the only one. He’s also come upon peanut shells, condoms, vodka bottles, cigarettes and water bottles.

 

[Dinsy Ejotuz]

This seems to be shaping up as a solid theory! Kim is Walter White 2.0 (or, 0.0?), with her justification being she wants help the little guy.

Wasn't Kim originally from Nebraska?  Not convinced she's completely out of the picture in the flash forward.

 

[Dinsy Ejotuz]

Meh.

 

[pollardsvision]

Wasn't Kim originally from Nebraska?  Not convinced she's completely out of the picture in the flash forward.

Nebraska-Kansas border.

Everything's on the table, but I'd have to think Kim being in the picture is most likely. Honestly, unless there's something involving Kim, I'm not sure what the point of the Gene scenes are (although, and please don't tell anyone, Gilligan and Gould might be better storytellers than me). 

 

[pollardsvision]

I'd even think there's a good chance that Kim gets a promotion pretty quickly in the Salamanca or Fring organizations. Somebody with her skill, resolve, and professionalism ready to come out guns a blazin' would be a real asset. In her only direct encounter in the game, Lalo was surely impressed (not mention he's about to need some legal services, I imagine). 

 

[peaces]

I'd sign up for 18 months in a heartbeat at this rate. Likely going to be longer given all that's going on. 

I read that they have started writing season six, online via a virtual writer's room.  They would prefer to be in person but at least it's a start.

 

[Softballguy]

meh.  why did nacho's phone work for one call?   i know nacho was supposed to scared, etc, but man was he outshone by eladio and lalo.  and i love me some nacho.  nice assassins 

still can't stand kim.  i figured out part of why i don't like her.  it's that nearly every scene. that is just between her and jimmy, is bad.  the chemistry just isn't there.  she's better in scenes without jimmy.  

Obviously you're entitled to your opinions, but it sounds like you may need to watch the episode again. They covered a lot of your beefs... without sloppy writing.

Also, Jimmy and Kim do have a lack of chemistry. That's sort of the point. Their lack of chemistry, portrayed by brilliant acting, sets the table for the entire series. The only time their chemistry is good is when they're planning and executing schemes. Other than that, they're a terrible fit for each other. 

 

[Dan Lambskin]

I'd even think there's a good chance that Kim gets a promotion pretty quickly in the Salamanca or Fring organizations. Somebody with her skill, resolve, and professionalism ready to come out guns a blazin' would be a real asset. In her only direct encounter in the game, Lalo was surely impressed (not mention he's about to need some legal services, I imagine). 

I have a feeling she ends up getting caught (or takes the fall) in whatever scheme they come up with to take Howard down

 

[The Noid]

It was a good call and I like the premise. 

Basically the major takeaway Sepinwall had in his recap of the finale, that we've been looking at Kim through the wrong lens. 

From the review, and for those wondering what Nacho was doing with the lock. I thought it was aluminum foil he was cutting and using, but it was a soda can. 

 

[top dog]

When Lalo was going through the tunnel I was like "What a moron!  He left it open.  They are going to know where he went."  Then he emerged from the hole and double backed.  Then I was more like            

 

[pollardsvision]

I have a feeling she ends up getting caught (or takes the fall) in whatever scheme they come up with to take Howard down

Aha! Omaha Gene isn't trying to find Kim. He's running from Kim!

 

[Softballguy]

When Lalo was going through the tunnel I was like "What a moron!  He left it open.  They are going to know where he went."  Then he emerged from the hole and double backed.  Then I was more like            

That part was great. He started to close it, paused, looked toward the door, then left with it open. Such a badass.

 

[wikkidpissah]

screw continuity - i need me a cartel sitcom after BCS

 

[Dan Lambskin]

When Lalo was going through the tunnel I was like "What a moron!  He left it open.  They are going to know where he went."  Then he emerged from the hole and double backed.  Then I was more like            

Home field advantage 

 

[peaces]

screw continuity - i need me a cartel sitcom after BCS

All In La Familia

Nacho and the Man

Salamanca and Sons

 

[pollardsvision]

All In La Familia

Nacho and the Man

Salamanca and Sons

LaLOL!

 

[jamny]

Saul in the Family

 

[shuke]

This is from an article last year about a Wizards' announcer who does all kinds of #### on the road to get free stuff:

OMG this is awesome.  @General Malaise

 

[Major]

Fantastic season.  Up there with the best of Breaking Bad.  

I also feel Nacho.  Guy can't catch a break.  Seems like sniping Lalo during drinks and then opening up the gate would've been the move.  Wouldn't want to be him (or his Father) when Lalo catches up.  

 

[pollardsvision]

Some rando thoughts from watching back through. Currently on 4.02.

I somehow missed it the first time I watched  Gus' doc doing the clandestine check of Hector in the hospital in 2003, but the dudes walking through with one trying to sell the other on this nerdy #### called fantasy football was pretty awesome. Brought back memories.

We've seen a lot of Power Kim moments up to this point ("I save me!", of course), but in this one, Kim breaks one off on Howard's ### defending Jimmy about Chuck's will (with the broken arm to boot), then doesn't even say anything to Jimmy about it. Many episodes from "Wouldn't I?", but she's already a little scary here. 

 

[Sullie]

I meant to ask this last week and was reminded on the "previously on" last night. What was that crown looking thing that Kim took out of the drawer?

The bottle top for the bottle of high-end tequila from when Viktor and Giselle scammed KEN WINS. 

Ready for your minds to be blown?  Hop into the way back machine with me and let's revisit Breaking Bad, way, way back in 2011, Season 4, Episode 10, pretty famous episode entitled Salud.  Linkage.  Our curious, now famous/infamous, bottle made its debut.

 

[peaces]

Saul in the Family

It's Always Sunny in Juárez 

 

[Stompin' Tom Connors]

Had to watch this one twice to get some of the nuances. 

Weird to see Kim be more Saul than Jimmy with respect to planning out next steps with Howard -- I think we now know how she gets the money to pay the vacuum guy to disappear -- force the Sandpiper settlement, take the 20% cut of HHM's end, and convert it to freedom for Kim while Saul toughs it out until he, too, needs to bolt for Nebraska.

Man, my heart sinks for Nacho. What a bad situation, and I fear we just saw the root of Jimmy's quote "It wasn't me, it was Ignacio!" -- and that we're going to see his demise really soon.

The last shot of Lalo walking towards the camera, all of the grinning facade gone, smouldering in vengeance and righteous retribution, with the sound of the crunching gravel beneath his feet decaying into a seething "blood-in-the-ears" fuzzy static, was just awesome.

What a ride this last season will be -- going to be a looooong wait....

 

[Dinsy Ejotuz]

I think we now know how she gets the money to pay the vacuum guy to disappear

Whoa.  Is a BB breadcrumb?  If so, which episode?  Mrs. Dinsy and I have been going back and looking at all the Saul scenes.

 

[The Noid]

I think we now know how she gets the money to pay the vacuum guy to disappear

Whoa.  Is a BB breadcrumb?  If so, which episode?  Mrs. Dinsy and I have been going back and looking at all the Saul scenes.

Nah, this just seems to be a popular theory because Saul went to Nebraska when he disappeared and Kim's mom's car had Nebraska plates in the flashback a few episodes ago, so maybe he went there because he knows she disappeared there, too. 

 

[Ghost Rider]

Nah, this just seems to be a popular theory because Saul went to Nebraska when he disappeared and Kim's mom's car had Nebraska plates in the flashback a few episodes ago, so maybe he went there because he knows she disappeared there, too. 

Note that Kim was wearing a Royals shirt the other day, so that is obviously her favorite baseball team, being that KC is the closest MLB city to eastern Nebraska.  That stuff is not a coincidence.  Saul obviously picked Omaha as his disappearing city for a reason.  I will be shocked if we don't see Kim and "Gene" together in some fashion once we catch up to the flash forwards at some point in the last season.

 

[Zow]

Had to watch this one twice to get some of the nuances. 

Weird to see Kim be more Saul than Jimmy with respect to planning out next steps with Howard -- I think we now know how she gets the money to pay the vacuum guy to disappear -- force the Sandpiper settlement, take the 20% cut of HHM's end, and convert it to freedom for Kim while Saul toughs it out until he, too, needs to bolt for Nebraska.

Man, my heart sinks for Nacho. What a bad situation, and I fear we just saw the root of Jimmy's quote "It wasn't me, it was Ignacio!" -- and that we're going to see his demise really soon.

The last shot of Lalo walking towards the camera, all of the grinning facade gone, smouldering in vengeance and righteous retribution, with the sound of the crunching gravel beneath his feet decaying into a seething "blood-in-the-ears" fuzzy static, was just awesome.

What a ride this last season will be -- going to be a looooong wait....

Wait what?

 

[Zow]

Note that Kim was wearing a Royals shirt the other day, so that is obviously her favorite baseball team, being that KC is the closest MLB city to eastern Nebraska.  That stuff is not a coincidence.  Saul obviously picked Omaha as his disappearing city for a reason.  I will be shocked if we don't see Kim and "Gene" together in some fashion once we catch up to the flash forwards at some point in the last season.

Yeah this has been my thought since that episode. I guess I hadn't thought about Kim needing to disappear too. I'm thinking the reveal may just be that Kim has been there in the background all along and we get a flashback to scenes where Saul calls his wife, Kim, and gets her to flee too. 

 

[AAABatteries]

Nah, this just seems to be a popular theory because Saul went to Nebraska when he disappeared and Kim's mom's car had Nebraska plates in the flashback a few episodes ago, so maybe he went there because he knows she disappeared there, too. 

I think this has been repeated a few times but I don't recall Saul getting a choice from the vacuum guy.  Would be interesting to go back and watch and see if they reference it at all.  I'm not sure if Ed would take kindly to his clients telling them where to send them.

 

[Ghost Rider]

I think this has been repeated a few times but I don't recall Saul getting a choice from the vacuum guy.  Would be interesting to go back and watch and see if they reference it at all.  I'm not sure if Ed would take kindly to his clients telling them where to send them.

When Jesse was talking to Saul about disappearing and asked about Alaska, Saul did say, "It's your life, I reckon you get a say in where you go," or something to that effect. Maybe that was Saul spitballing, but given that Jesse wanted Alaska, and later did go to Alaska in the El Camino movie, it's clear that you are giving a large say in where you go.  It's not like the feds where they can just tell you where you are going and if you don't like it, too freaking bad.

 

[AAABatteries]

When Jesse was talking to Saul about disappearing and asked about Alaska, Saul did say, "It's your life, I reckon you get a say in where you go," or something to that effect. Maybe that was Saul spitballing, but given that Jesse wanted Alaska, and later did go to Alaska in the El Camino movie, it's clear that you are giving a large say in where you go.  It's not like the feds where they can just tell you where you are going and if you don't like it, too freaking bad.

Yeah, I honestly don't remember what Saul and Ed discussed.  Just seems to me that he basically dictates where the person goes and what their new story is.

 

[Penguin]

Early in the series Kim mentions that she grew up in Nebraska, can't remember the episode or season

 

[DA RAIDERS]

Kim gonna die.  Lalo’s comin

 

[Ned]

Yeah, I honestly don't remember what Saul and Ed discussed.  Just seems to me that he basically dictates where the person goes and what their new story is.

Yeah, I thought the same as you (god I feel gross for typing that out) because Walt didn't get a say on where he went.

 

[Long Ball Larry]

Early in the series Kim mentions that she grew up in Nebraska, can't remember the episode or season

it was in an interview, i think with the firm she just left.  season 3 or 4.  said it was a little town no one had ever heard of.

 

[AAABatteries]

Yeah, I thought the same as you (god I feel gross for typing that out) because Walt didn't get a say on where he went.

Embrace the dark side.

 

[kevzilla]

Kim is going to leave because she wants to, not because she needs to. Saul is going to continue messing with the cartel, because telling them no is difficult. Kim will flip out and dump him. I don't think they'll be getting back together.

 

[Moonlight]

Early in the series Kim mentions that she grew up in Nebraska, can't remember the episode or season

Think that she is in hiding too with jimmy.

When Jimmy was recently spotted working at the Cinnabon, think he and Kim go on the lam again.

May not be the case but its what I wish for.

 

[DA RAIDERS]

Crit I'm seeing online is that this can't happen--there's no indication from the Saul we see in Breaking Bad that he has a murdered wife weighing on him. A few people are saying that going in that direction will be too big a rewrite on BB.

What is ’crit’?

I suppose murdered wife is worse than, disappeared wife.  That you can never contact again. Cause she’ll be killed, if you do. Not sure how the 2 backstories are that much different in context, for the BB version of Saul  

BB Saul was working out of a ####ty strip mall. Servicing mostly crappy clients. He doesn’t appear to be wealthy. Could he be hiding his wealth, sure.  We know he hides his cartel/drug proceeds. But the sandpiper money, would be legit. He does not appear to be a dude that won a huge judgement. Could he have blown it all?  Sure. But for my money, the attempt to f Howard over, fails. 

 

[Capella]

Watched the last 3 episodes again. Television perfection. I think it’s on that level of greatness with BB, Sopranos and Mad Men for me. 

 

[pollardsvision]

Lalo P.I.

 

[Long Ball Larry]

Crit I'm seeing online is that this can't happen--there's no indication from the Saul we see in Breaking Bad that he has a murdered wife weighing on him. A few people are saying that going in that direction will be too big a rewrite on BB.

i don't find that too compelling.  he wasn't actually that big of a character on BB that we would have HAD to have seen that.  And he obviously has major things weighing on him later in Nebraska.

 

[dkp993]

i don't find that too compelling.  he wasn't actually that big of a character on BB that we would have HAD to have seen that.  And he obviously has major things weighing on him later in Nebraska.

That's a good point.  Jimmy is good at putting the "Saul" mask on.  But if Kim was killed I'm not sure how that doesn't bleed over, especially once #### really hit the fan.....

 

[Kraft...]

I just finished season 4 on Netflix, awesome. The origin of Don Hector's  Bell and digging out the lab story lines were very cool. Saul's journey as always was  I usually wait for seasons to come on Netflix to watch so will have to wait a bit on season 5 

 

[pollardsvision]

I just finished season 4 on Netflix, awesome. The origin of Don Hector's  Bell and digging out the lab story lines were very cool. Saul's journey as always was  I usually wait for seasons to come on Netflix to watch so will have to wait a bit on season 5 

Lalo telling that story the way he did was so terrifying.

 

[Kraft...]

Lalo telling that story the way he did was so terrifying.

Really cements how sadistic the family is. 

 

[wikkidpissah]

I was angry for no good reason last night, and it is my MO to take inventory on such occasions. when i narrowed things down, the most prominent issue was Slippin' Jimmy & Kimmy separation anxiety....

 

[D-Day]

Saul = low level cartel attorney.  Handles the grunts, and no ties back to Gus.

Kim = very high level cartel attorney at end of BCS.  Probably is required to leave and cut ties with Jimmy to take the high level job that she finds exciting.  Like expanding Mesa Verde Bank, she is in charge of expanding Los Pollos Hermanos and all Madrigal legal matters.

Just my beer guess.

 

[Dinsy Ejotuz]

This will do:

I think by the time you finish watching Better Call Saul, you're going to see Breaking Bad in a very different light. I think we're going to learn things about the characters in Breaking Bad that we didn't know. We're going to learn things about the events of Breaking Bad that we didn't know. And we're going to learn things about the fates of a lot of these characters that may surprise people or certainly throw them into a different light. 

 

[Galileo]

This will do:

Where is this quote from?