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AMC has now aired Better Call Saul Season 5, Episode 10, titled "Something Unforgivable," which brought the current season to an end. In the episode, two main plots were intertwined. One saw Kim Wexler (played by Rhea Seehorn) considering a very Walter White move that would see her doing a very bad thing for (what she thinks is) a good reason. In the other, meanwhile, we saw the attempted hit against Lalo Salamanca (Tony Dalton) that ends badly for the assassins and for Nacho (Michael Mando).
After the last episode saw Kim and Jimmy (Bob Odenkirk) in a close encounter with Lalo, they start Season 5, Episode 10 worried about their safety.
By the next day, after they have checked into a hotel for their protection, Kim goes back to work. There, she asks for more pro bono work and is shown a room full of cases she can take to help people without legal representation. She also runs into Howard (Patrick Fabian), who warns her about what Jimmy has been getting up to behind her back. However, she laughs off his accusations.
As she is doing this, Jimmy heads to Mike's (Jonathan Banks) house, where he learns that tonight is the night for Gus' (Giancarlo Esposito) planned assassination of Lalo. He meets back with Kim at the hotel, where he tells her they no longer need to worry about Lalo, and then they start talking about Howard. She suggests something surprising—that they frame Howard so that the Sandpiper lawsuit has to be settled, netting Jimmy about $2 million of the common fund.
In her mind, this is an evil act that will help her do something good by allowing her to set up a pro bono law firm. However, the Breaking Bad universe has already presented us with one person who committed a crime for what he saw as a good reason, and this did not end up well for him. As Kim does not appear in Breaking Bad itself, this might suggest that Kim's move towards the dark side will end up as badly for her in the next season of Better Call Saul as Walter White's (Bryan Cranston) did.
Meanwhile, at Lalo's compound, Nacho receives a call to open the back gate at 3 a.m. to let the gunmen in. This plan begins badly, however, then Nacho sneaks out in the early hours of the morning and sees an insomniac Lalo still up. Nacho starts a grease fire to distract Lalo and lets the gunmen in, but the plan goes from bad to worse. Lalo throws the hot grease at one gunmen to get away, and uses the body of one of his bodyguards as a shield to protect himself from the others. He leads the rest of the shooters into a tunnel, where he machine-guns them to death except the burnt one, who he asks to call his boss and say the job is done.
With Lalo surviving this assassination attempt basically unscathed, things look very bad for Nacho coming into Better Call Saul Season 6, which has already been commissioned as the final season of the show. He has escaped retribution for now, but Lalo is sure to learn about his betrayal and be on the hunt for him in the final episodes of the series, coming soon to AMC and Netflix.
Breaking Bad Season 5 is streaming now on AMC in the U.S. and on Netflix internationally.
