Better Call Saul just retroactively made a season 5 episode super-relevant to Walter White and Jesse Pinkman in Breaking Bad. With Better Call Saul almost over, Breaking Bad can never be viewed the same way again. Rewatch sessions will inevitably cast Saul Goodman, Gus Fring, Mike Ehrmantraut, and even Spooge in completely different lights. As the end draws closer, however, Better Call Saul is making even more direct changes to its parent series, as season 6, episode 11 replays Walt & Jesse kidnapping Saul from Breaking Bad season 2.

This time, audiences see a bagged Saul yelling in the RV before arriving at the pre-made desert grave Walt & Jesse dug to intimidate him. As the panicky lawyer lies prone among round-bottom flasks and methylamine assuming his captors must be cartel, he feels the vehicle go off-road and calls out, "Whatever this is, can we please don't do it in the desert? Anywhere but the desert!" While Saul has more experience with gangsters than most, this is still a distinctly odd request. Your typical kidnap victim would be shouting "please don't kill me" rather than "if you ARE going to kill me, can we please do it somewhere else?" Why is Saul so determined to avoid the desert in Better Call Saul's Breaking Bad crossover?

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Saul's "anywhere but the desert" line is a subtly brilliant callback to Better Call Saul season 5's "Bagman" - widely regarded among the spinoff's greatest episodes. Jimmy heads into the desert and collects Lalo Salamanca's bail money, but he's quickly set upon by Juan Bolsa's goons, who'd rather Lalo stay jailed. Although Jimmy survives the ordeal thanks to Mike, his vehicle is busted in the shootout. What follows is an arduous, near-death overnight trek through miles of desert that involves drinking urine and picking up dropped cash bill-by-bill. "Bagman" was a traumatic experience for Jimmy, and begging Walt & Jesse not to drive him into the desert shows just how scarred the lawyer is by that experience, even in Breaking Bad. Pleading "anywhere but the desert" helps thread Better Call Saul and Breaking Bad together, strengthening the continuity by sprinkling references in the right places.

How Better Call Saul Connects To Breaking Bad's "Lalo" Line

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When Breaking Bad season 2 first aired, Saul Goodman believed his kidnappers were sent by "Lalo." Better Call Saul then went ahead and explained precisely who "Lalo" was, and why he might be a little bit annoyed at his former lawyer. By the time Breaking Bad happens, Saul knows Lalo has been dead for four years. Because the evil Salamanca already rose from the grave once, however, Saul has a niggling fear in the back of his mind that Lalo will return. This neatly explains asking Walt & Jesse "Did Lalo send you?" in Breaking Bad.

Better Call Saul season 6, episode 11 digs deeper into Saul Goodman's lingering trauma when Jesse Pinkman innocently asks who Lalo actually is. After a beat, Saul replies, "It's nobody," but the look upon his face speaks volumes - like someone who just awoke from a nightmare replaying the worst night of their life. Saul Goodman tragically spends the rest of his days keeping half-an-eye out for the grinning face of Lalo Salamanca peering around every corner.

Interestingly, Jesse has no idea who Lalo Salamanca is, despite already being in the meth game when Breaking Bad begins. Jesse's ignorance proves just how far the Salamanca family fell after Gus Fring disposed of Lalo, but can also be attributed to Jesse's low stature in the Albuquerque underworld, since he's only vaguely aware of "high level ice-man" Tuco Salamanca in Breaking Bad season 1. Nevertheless, the fact that Lalo Salamanca didn't become a legendary name among the criminal fraternity, only remembered by victims who escaped him like Saul, makes his death in Better Call Saul season 6 even darker.

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Better Call Saul continues Monday on AMC.