[Editor’s Note: The following review contains spoilers for “Better Call Saul” Season 6, Episode 11, “Breaking Bad.”]“Better Call Saul” has been a six-season-long handshake between what’s given and what’s withheld.
It’s baked into the DNA of the show, the idea that certain events are foregone conclusions.
Even the mysteries have a fixed endpoint.
With patience and care (much like what you need to hide a bag of cash next to a roadside gas station via some strategically placed fishing wire), time will fill the gaps.With the conclusion of “Better Call Saul” just over the wintry Nebraska horizon, now comes the time for last-minute trades.
It’s the zone where final fates hinge on a few words between an old boss and his former secretary.
Their conversation may be the last word on the unsuspecting wife of a drug kingpin, of a possible ricin cigarette thief and a certain El Camino.
That early payphone conversation is
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