‘Better Call Saul’ Season 6 Episode 5 Summary: Psych 101

Season 6 Episode 5 ‘Black and Blue’

Lalo Salamanca is playing a long game. In previous seasons of “Better Call Saul,” he seemed hasty (i.e. killing the TravelWire officer) and was a huge fan of improvisation (i.e. the impulsive pace near the Mexican border to search for Jimmy’s car). O Lalo has gone or learned to fight smarter after appreciating the cunning of his enemy.

The new Lalo isn’t looking for “evidence” in Mexico, as your Faithful Recapper misjudged, and the evidence he’s looking for isn’t about an attempt to take his life. He wants to find out what Gus Fring is secretly building – a topic that has riveted him from Season 3 – and his quest has taken him to Germany.

Specifically, to a bar where Margarethe Ziegler (Andrea Sooch), widow of super lab engineer Werner Ziegler, asks trivial questions and drinks alone. Repackaged as a friendly international business traveler named Ben, Lalo drops the name of the town where Werner invited his wife to join him during the ban. and ultimately fatalIn Season 4, she attempts a brief marriage interview. Soon, Lalo searches Margarethe for a few facts she knows about her husband’s work in New Mexico.

Which is not much. It seems that the Ziegler house does not have a large archive either; Gus Fring’s minions have taken everything super lab-related, and maybe a whole lot more. Summary of Lalo house The invasion apparently produces little value other than a good look at the carefully closed slide rule, which Werner was given as a ‘lovely’ gift from his ‘children’.

What Lalo knows is that none of those children came to the funeral and their identities were not known to Margarethe. When it came to Werner’s final shipment, the crew had been ordered strictly not to move; this was a safety precaution taken by Gus, who stopped construction of the super lab due to Lalo’s surveillance.

Perhaps Lalo’s next move is to find the occasional rowdy and hard-working young crew that Werner brings from Germany to uncover the super lab. It is unclear how exactly he will determine their names. The handwritten cards Werner found in his house are condolences to his friends. And even if he finds those guys, what will they know? They were probably never told what they were creating, nor did they know where they were working geographically.

Lalo had a hunch that he was building something more ambitious than the “cooler” that Gus said was under construction in Season 4. Beyond that, Lalo is in the dark but apparently moving towards enlightenment. At least, if there is such a thing, that’s the hunch for Gus, who appears to be suffering from pre-traumatic stress disorder symptoms in this episode. He’s panicked enough about an imminent Lalo attack that he’s about to scrub the tub grout with a toothbrush. He takes Mike and his men to the super lab and projects a premonition that Lalo will show up there rather than at his house.

“If that’s what you’re thinking,” Mike said, lighting a flashlight in the empty space.

Privately, Gus hides a gun in the corner of a super lab. The “Better Call Saul” writers are either playing tricks or signaling that a showdown between Gus and Lalo will eventually become the world’s largest and most profitable meth lab. Leaving a gun there seems to give Gus a modest peace.

The other manhunt in this two-pronged story, Howard Hamlin, summoned his pursuer and summoned him to a boxing ring in the hopes that a few rounds with gloves would end their feud. Jimmy is then puzzled as to why he took the bait, while bandaging his wounds with Kim. Your faithful Recapper is shuffled by the punches themselves. Boxing match? Even in the context of Jimmy and Kim’s naïve stranglehold plan to accuse Howard of being a drug addict, it seems like a silly setup.

Fortunately, Howard has more on his mind than just resolving his differences with Jimmy using the rules of the Marquess of Queensberry. He hired a private detective to follow Jimmy. This is good news for anyone who wants this episode of the series to spark more curiosity.

However, Jimmy and Kim seem so confused that Howard discovered their plan and we have to assume it was part of their plan. (Howard suggests the same thing when Jimmy says he can’t hide his tracks and wants to be caught.) Perhaps it was in the plan to turn Howard off, forcing him to hire a professional to track Jimmy. Absolutely, Kim and Jimmy never talk about changing their plans. On the contrary, Kim hints that everything is fine.

“Because you know,” Jimmy says when he wonders out loud why he’s spoiling Howard and putting on those gloves. “You know what’s next.”

Very mysterious.

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• There is a notable parallel between Gus and Kim. Both can’t sleep for the same reason. They think Lalo is about to appear. So Gus hired bodyguards and a surveillance team. Kim jammed a chair in the apartment door.

• The Funniest Look of the Week award goes to Francesca Liddy (Tina Parker), who arrives in Saul Goodman’s dreary, unfurnished office and can barely perceive what she’s seeing. Jimmy is using a new name and has strayed from the old law to serve inconsistent customers who line up like Wal-Mart on Black Friday. He agrees to participate in this new venture, which “Breaking Bad” will eventually give up, on two conditions. A raise plus “I have a say in the decoration.”

• Francesca, if you’re in charge of Saul’s office’s U.S. Constitution theme and those Roman pillars, we need to talk.

• Miss Ryman is a Toto fan!

• It’s not just existential fear that drives Gus a little crazy. Even before Lalo appeared, the construction of the super lab was behind schedule. The delays are of course expensive and also risky, given that the last time we saw Gus, his secret German partner and equipment supplier Peter Schuler was on the verge of a nervous breakdown. The delays also add credibility to an important plot of “Breaking Bad.” Walter White took advantage of Gus’ fear of falling behind in the lab’s meth production program to save his own life. Better than ever, we understand why this tactic works.

And our question of the week for the comments section: What do Jimmy and Kim have for the man to mediate the Sandpiper Crossing case? Kim took the gentleman’s name from an unsuspecting, slightly fawning former employee at Schweikart & Cokely. Jimmy and Kim then look at the man in the copy of a bar diary and note the handlebar mustache.

“That’s a lot less face to worry about,” says Jimmy.

Upcoming plot twist alert! This is arguably the most surprising line of the season so far, and frankly, it’s important.

What does it mean?