***Official "Space Blanket" for Better Call Saul*** (2 Viewers)

[identikit]

Im a ittle surprised Kim ditched the Worlds Best Lawyer cup on top of a trash can. Its probably not significant, just something out of character IMO.

That, and Saul accidentally saying Lalos name. No way would he slip there, IMO.

One question I have - the couple that Lalo visits...the woman gives him coffee and he asks about the goats, etc...the husband who shaves the beard...who are they and why did he kill them (implied)?

Other than that, great episodes.

She made the shot....

Swagger

 

[urbanhack]

Im a ittle surprised Kim ditched the Worlds Best Lawyer cup on top of a trash can. Its probably not significant, just something out of character IMO.

That, and Saul accidentally saying Lalos name. No way would he slip there, IMO.

One question I have - the couple that Lalo visits...the woman gives him coffee and he asks about the goats, etc...the husband who shaves the beard...who are they and why did he kill them (implied)?

Other than that, great episodes.

Hmmmm. I wasn't surprised when he did this. The dude still has PTSD from the incident and is a bit jittery considering the weight of this case and focus on him with 7 mil cash bail. He's not 100% right now...so I can see it happening.  

 

[wikkidpissah]

I think he ends up being the "dead body double" for Lalo.   It why he tells him to shave

yeah, fixed the guy's teeth to have xrays on file as his own

 

[offdee]

yeah, fixed the guy's teeth to have xrays on file as his own

Oh damn, never thought of that angle.   The shaving and the teeth, savage.

 

[offdee]

Im a ittle surprised Kim ditched the Worlds Best Lawyer cup on top of a trash can. Its probably not significant, just something out of character IMO.

I think it was a symbol that it was time to move on from remembering that day for Saul.  Obviously seeing that mug with the bullet holes brings back the day everytime they go to the bag of money.  On to the next chapter (next season/storyline) of Saul Goodman.

 

[offdee]

That opening montage was fantastic.  Reminded me of some of the earlier Breaking Bad intros at Walts with the coroner, pool and pink bear before we knew it was a plane crash. 

That was ultimately supposed to be Saul's place correct?   All the random ties and pics/cardboard cutout of him, etc.    So, somewhere along the line we're supposed to believe he becomes filthy rich, craps on a lofted gold toilet and has women leaving panties on his bathtub?

 

[offdee]

El Camino easter egg

I missed it...what was it?

 

[PhillipPhoto]

I think he ends up being the "dead body double" for Lalo.   It why he tells him to shave

Also why he's been taking care of his dental work.

 

[Runkle]

That was ultimately supposed to be Saul's place correct?   All the random ties and pics/cardboard cutout of him, etc.    So, somewhere along the line we're supposed to believe he becomes filthy rich, craps on a lofted gold toilet and has women leaving panties on his bathtub?

All that Fring money he accumulated in Breaking Bad did him well

 

[PhillipPhoto]

I missed it...what was it?

A sign similar to this, when he gets out of the car to meet Kim at the restaurant.

 

[PhillipPhoto]

That was ultimately supposed to be Saul's place correct?   All the random ties and pics/cardboard cutout of him, etc.    So, somewhere along the line we're supposed to believe he becomes filthy rich, craps on a lofted gold toilet and has women leaving panties on his bathtub?

Yes, pretty much all of Breaking Bad.

 

[offdee]

That was ultimately supposed to be Saul's place correct?   All the random ties and pics/cardboard cutout of him, etc.    So, somewhere along the line we're supposed to believe he becomes filthy rich, craps on a lofted gold toilet and has women leaving panties on his bathtub?

Also there's obviously significance with the hidden room in the closet that has a makeshift toilet and surveillance stuff.  Just not sure what that is yet.

 

[belljr]

I missed it...what was it?

the El Camino

 

[wikkidpissah]

I think it was a symbol that it was time to move on from remembering that day for Saul.  Obviously seeing that mug with the bullet holes brings back the day everytime they go to the bag of money.  On to the next chapter (next season/storyline) of Saul Goodman.

first thing a mother does when a toy hurts her baby is throw it out

 

[Runkle]

Im a ittle surprised Kim ditched the Worlds Best Lawyer cup on top of a trash can. Its probably not significant, just something out of character IMO.

I think this was hinted at when Lalo burst into their apartment to question Saul at the end of season 5. Lalo wanted to know what happened on the trip to recover his bail money, and Saul wouldn't tell him about Mike's involvement. Lalo was suspicious because the car he found was all shot up. Saul claimed he just drank his own pee after abandoning his car, and that it was just kids playing with guns in the desert that shot up his car after he got out. 

The cup was evidence of his lie. Kim made a note of it earlier in that episode. If Lalo had seen the money bag with the shot-up cup inside, Saul's story would have been blown.

Now, at that point, they do think Lalo's dead, but, Kim is the kind to be methodical about covering tracks. It happened when the initial plan to frame Chuck for the typo on Mesa Verde's documents: just as they were going to sleep, she said something like, "Jimmy, you better have covered every single track and left no evidence", at which point he excused himself and ran to the copy shop to bribe the employee (and witnessed Chuck have a panic attack). 

 

[offdee]

Yes, pretty much all of Breaking Bad.

Ah, so is that what it is?  Better Caul Saul's timeline is actually a prequel to Breaking Bad's timeline?    Better Call Saul is showing how Saul became who he was to be the lawyer for Walt on Breaking Bad?    Guess I never knew that.

 

[Runkle]

Also there's obviously significance with the hidden room in the closet that has a makeshift toilet and surveillance stuff.  Just not sure what that is yet.

Just a safe room. Saul wore the bulletproof vest at one point in a later BB season. 

 

[offdee]

Saul claimed he just drank his own pee after abandoning his car, and that it was just kids playing with guns in the desert that shot up his car after he got out. 

The cup was evidence of his lie. Kim made a note of it earlier in that episode. If Lalo had seen the money bag with the shot-up cup inside, Saul's story would have been blown.

Ah yes, nice.   I like it. Picasso.

 

[offdee]

Just a safe room. Saul wore the bulletproof vest at one point in a later BB season. 

It's making sense to me now after my last post realizing BCS is a prequel to the BB storyline.  I never realized that.

 

[Runkle]

Quality proppage in the opening. Lots of callbacks. I noticed the Panavision hat that Jimmy wore when he directed commercials, using the Saul Goodman Productions name for the first time. 

 

[belljr]

Ah, so is that what it is?  Better Caul Saul's timeline is actually a prequel to Breaking Bad's timeline?    Better Call Saul is showing how Saul became who he was to be the lawyer for Walt on Breaking Bad?    Guess I never knew that.

Are you serious clark?

 

[offdee]

Are you serious clark?

I guess I am.  :feel dumb:   A lot makes more sense now, lol

 

[belljr]

I guess I am.  :feel dumb:   A lot makes more sense now, lol

You should probably go start over from season 1

 

[PhillipPhoto]

Ah, so is that what it is?  Better Caul Saul's timeline is actually a prequel to Breaking Bad's timeline?    Better Call Saul is showing how Saul became who he was to be the lawyer for Walt on Breaking Bad?    Guess I never knew that.

You're going to get some snarky comments.  The MAIN overriding theme of Better Call Saul is Jimmy's transformation into Saul.  Everything up through season 5 when it happens in one way or another (his brother, him being barred, etc,) shapes him to embracing the Saul persona.

 

[Capella]

I think this was hinted at when Lalo burst into their apartment to question Saul at the end of season 5. Lalo wanted to know what happened on the trip to recover his bail money, and Saul wouldn't tell him about Mike's involvement. Lalo was suspicious because the car he found was all shot up. Saul claimed he just drank his own pee after abandoning his car, and that it was just kids playing with guns in the desert that shot up his car after he got out. 

The cup was evidence of his lie. Kim made a note of it earlier in that episode. If Lalo had seen the money bag with the shot-up cup inside, Saul's story would have been blown.

Now, at that point, they do think Lalo's dead, but, Kim is the kind to be methodical about covering tracks. It happened when the initial plan to frame Chuck for the typo on Mesa Verde's documents: just as they were going to sleep, she said something like, "Jimmy, you better have covered every single track and left no evidence", at which point he excused himself and ran to the copy shop to bribe the employee (and witnessed Chuck have a panic attack). 

She’s an asset to have around no doubt 

 

[Pigskin Fanatic]

Ok. I need some splaining.

Mike cracks the safe to plant the phone number. But he has a change of heart? I'm just a little confused on the Varga storyline

so it goes back to the conversation Mike and Varga has before Varga takes the trip to Mexico with Lalo. imo Mike is resigned to letting whatever happens to Varga happen, though he is advocating for him. it's Varga's father that Mike is protecting, not Varga himself. so it all lines up, he wasn't going to answer the calls from Varga until he had to. He removed the dad's ID from the safe and later when Gus told him to go get his father, that's when he locked the door. don't touch family.

 

[offdee]

You're going to get some snarky comments.  The MAIN overriding theme of Better Call Saul is Jimmy's transformation into Saul.  Everything up through season 5 when it happens in one way or another (his brother, him being barred, etc,) shapes him to embracing the Saul persona.

I totally see that now. Not sure why I was so oblivious.   

 

[belljr]

so it goes back to the conversation Mike and Varga has before Varga takes the trip to Mexico with Lalo. imo Mike is resigned to letting whatever happens to Varga happen, though he is advocating for him. it's Varga's father that Mike is protecting, not Varga himself. so it all lines up, he wasn't going to answer the calls from Varga until he had to. He removed the dad's ID from the safe and later when Gus told him to go get his father, that's when he locked the door. don't touch family.

Yeah that makes sense But Mike didn't know his dad Id was in there. I get everything that happened during, it's why the effort to plant the envelope

 

[Wingnut]

I think he ends up being the "dead body double" for Lalo.   It why he tells him to shave

yeah, fixed the guy's teeth to have xrays on file as his own

Ahhhh! Friggin brilliant. I was wondering how they could have matching dental records from the burned body.

Thank you, gents.

 

[Wingnut]

That was ultimately supposed to be Saul's place correct?   All the random ties and pics/cardboard cutout of him, etc.    So, somewhere along the line we're supposed to believe he becomes filthy rich, craps on a lofted gold toilet and has women leaving panties on his bathtub?

Yep. Other than the cardboard cutout, the most obvious clues were a bunch of his prescription bottles on the bathroom sink, and outside there was a Saul Goodman & Assoc sign that had been taken down. Do we know that white vehicle on the flatbed?

I really don't want this show to end.

 

[Pigskin Fanatic]

I went back to the opening scene and made a list of items that I assume will be featured in the upcoming episodes, or were featured either in past seasons or in BB that I don't remember.

• golden toilet
  
• a painting with gold lines on it and a reverse letter C
  
• gift boxes with "mbt.com" written on it in the closet
  
• the closet with saul's suits, shoes and ties. only saul's, clearly Kim didn't live here if it was a home at all.
  
• next to the nice shoes in the closet, a pair of old sneakers in the clost next to a black cap, logo on the cap illegible but i assume this will be a storyline somewhere.
  
• safe room with a makeshift toilet bucket and cctv's
  
• Saul's medication, but no makeup, so still no signs of Kim anywhere in the house.
  
• the book Time Machine sitting in front of a Saul Goodman article framed
  
• Saul cutout
  
• Cadillac with LWRYUP license plate - in the opening episode Kim says "a Ford, Saul probably drives something more flashy" or something like that
  
• small stuffed toys, at least one of them look possibly like a dog chew toy
  
• a box with the stress balls that look like the ones from the Cell Phone store, the bank horse poster (i don't remember the bank name, the one Kim was representing before getting screwed by Saul), and a couple of burner cells. this box says "No Value" on it.
  
• a personal notebook with handwritten notes - i tried to pause on this, it's blurry but the notes look encrypted, it's a bunch of symbols and numbers, not alphabet
  
• one of the movers walk by with a bag full of balls, looks like painted ping pong balls, maybe these were used in some bingo scam before? very curious about this one, i think there was a bingo episode early in BCS universe with the retirement home.
  

Lastly, the only hint of Kim in the sequence is that momento that falls out of the armoir at the end, which is the same thing she took with her when she quit her job at the law firm. the thing that looks like a pineapple. Can someone tell me what the significance of this is? I meant to look it up while catching up on old episodes but forgot about it.

 

[PhillipPhoto]

Lastly, the only hint of Kim in the sequence is that momento that falls out of the armoir at the end, which is the same thing she took with her when she quit her job at the law firm. the thing that looks like a pineapple. Can someone tell me what the significance of this is? I meant to look it up while catching up on old episodes but forgot about it.

It's a bottle top to the expensive Zafiro Añejo tequila that they conned Ken Wins into buying pretending to be seeking financial advise. One of their first cons together, in Season 2.

 

[Galileo]

I totally see that now. Not sure why I was so oblivious.   

I thought you were trolling...

 

[Galileo]

It's a bottle top to the expensive Zafiro Añejo tequila that they conned Ken Wins into buying pretending to be seeking financial advise. One of their first cons together, in Season 2.

Wow...How did you put that together?  I couldn't even tell what it was much less connect it to a past episode.

 

[Wingnut]

I saw the place in the opening scene as the "Palace of Justice" Kim referred to.

 

[PhillipPhoto]

Wow...How did you put that together?  I couldn't even tell what it was much less connect it to a past episode.

I just remember that con as being significant, so I knew what the item was every time it shows up.  I googled the specifics, I can't remember character's names for the life of me.

 

[wikkidpissah]

I just remember that con as being significant, so I knew what the item was every time it shows up.  I googled the specifics, I can't remember character's names for the life of me.

Zafiro Anejo also has currency, in the BB/BCS franchise as the tequila by which Fring poisons Don Eladio (and himself) in BB

 

[Runkle]

• next to the nice shoes in the closet, a pair of old sneakers in the closet next to a black cap, logo on the cap illegible but i assume this will be a storyline somewhere.
  

It's the Panavision hat the "director" Saul Goodman wore to make the infomercials in previous BCS seasons. 

 

[Runkle]

• Cadillac with LWRYUP license plate
  

We've seen this before too

 

[PhillipPhoto]

It's the Panavision hat the "director" Saul Goodman wore to make the infomercials in previous BCS seasons. 

Yes!  Good one.

 

[Pigskin Fanatic]

I saw the place in the opening scene as the "Palace of Justice" Kim referred to.

this is a good one, so not a home but the office she mentioned in the first episode.

 

[Runkle]

• the book Time Machine sitting in front of a Saul Goodman article framed
  

The book was on Saul's nightstand in one of the two episodes last night, whichever scene he was in bed with Kim and got the cellphone call

 

[Galileo]

Here is a fun little read regarding the opening sequence with episode director Michael Morris and writer Peter Gould... https://www.vulture.com/article/better-call-saul-season-6-opening-making-of-easter-eggs.html

 

[Major]

That was ultimately supposed to be Saul's place correct?   All the random ties and pics/cardboard cutout of him, etc.    So, somewhere along the line we're supposed to believe he becomes filthy rich, craps on a lofted gold toilet and has women leaving panties on his bathtub?

Yep.  Likely after he disappeared to become a Cinnabon mogul. Felt like the death of Saul Goodman.  

 

[Gilroy34]

What did the couple call Lalo?  Don Eladio?  I thought that was someone else.

 

[Runkle]

What did the couple call Lalo?  Don Eladio?  I thought that was someone else.

Don Eduardo, his full first name

 

[ZADO]

I`m still confused why Gustavo would want to lead the Salamanca's to Nacho,i thought the last thing they wanted was him to be taken alive and spill the nachos  with bean dip 

 

[Penguin]

Cadillac with LWRYUP license plate - in the opening episode Kim says "a Ford, Saul probably drives something more flashy" or something like that

This was his car all thru Breaking Bad

 

[ZADO]

This was his car all thru Breaking Bad

ya he was never a flashy guy ,thats why his house is so surprising in the opening

 

[shuke]

Ah, so is that what it is?  Better Caul Saul's timeline is actually a prequel to Breaking Bad's timeline?    Better Call Saul is showing how Saul became who he was to be the lawyer for Walt on Breaking Bad?    Guess I never knew that.

Dude.  What?