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Better Call Saul 5x7 Uncut Reaction

🕑 Added 2025-05-04 22:17:13 +0000 UTC

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Lauren Worlton

You can see the fear in Jimmys face when he goes to court to meet Lalo. He fully understands in that moment that he’s in a dangerous game: a cartel lawyer. If he makes one mistake he’s dead and now also Kim. That’s why he looked so nervous marrying her, he knew what he was getting into and didn’t want to involve her. The only reason why they got married is so they wouldn’t be required to testify against each other in court; in case they ever get caught for their little games. Jimmy is in deeper shit though and doesn’t know how to tell Kimmy.

Bram

Gus's long game here is getting Lalo out of the USA and back in Mexico. If you recall, Gus was telling Heir Schuller that if anything happens to Lalo on this side of the border, the Cartel will blame him. So the game is to get him released from prison and he'll be forced to flea back to Mexico where Gus can do real damage.

Nathan Jasper, the Artist Formerly Known as Primary

Cool guys don't look at explosions!

Haseenudeen

Spartan's spot on with this one. Gus absolutely planned it from the jump. The same intel Mike used to get Lalo arrested is exactly what he fed to Saul to get him out. That's not improvisation as suggested by pudgey.

Sean van Hengel

Just on that last bit of discussion, I think it does make sense for Mike to be doing the odd job for Saul still every now and then because that’s how their relationship initially developed, with them doing favours for each other.

AlrightThere

Damn Spartan was cooking with that last discussion he's right on the money haha

Pablo

I think Spartan is right about Gus's plan regarding Lalo. I just think you guys missed the dialog about Lalo being at flight risk if he was granted bail. Bail doesn't mean you are out of jail and that's it, it just means they let you out until the trial and if you are found inocent you get your money back. Ofc Lalo doesn't care about the bail money so he would just jump it and run back to Mexico (that's what they were referring to in this episode when they said he was at flight risk) but this precisely plays into Gus's interest since as he told Lydia in this episode he cannot hope to kill Lalo on his side of the border because it would mean war with the cartel. So he needs to get Lalo out of the US and then maybe they can kill him outside of Gus's play field. So yeah even tho it looks like they just undo their work from last episode of locking Lalo away just to set him free right afterwards in reality what this accomplished is that now Lalo cannot stay in the US because he would be haunted by the authorities.