Better Call Saul S6 Proves A Major Breaking Bad Event Almost Didn’t Happen
2Better Call Saul S6 Proves A Major Breaking Bad Event Almost Didn’t Happen
A Better Call Saul meeting between Gus Fring, Don Eladio and the Salamancas proves how a major event from Breaking Bad almost didn't happen.
Steven Bauer as Don Eladio in Breaking Bad and Giancarlo Esposito as Gus Fring in Better Call Saul
Gus Fring's cartel massacre represents a landmark Breaking Bad moment - Better Call Saul shows how differently events could've played out. In Breaking Bad season 4's "Salud," Gustavo Fring orchestrates a mobster masterstroke by poisoning Don Eladio in his own home alongside all his high-ranking capos. This power play completes Fring's long-gestating plan to assert total control over regional meth operations, whilst simultaneously avenging his lover, who was killed by Eladio's cartel two decades prior.
Better Call Saul season 6 - the prequel's final season, set four years before Breaking Bad - finds Giancarlo Esposito's character still bending the knee to Don Eladio, feigning loyalty and biding his time with utmost patience. Any moves Gus Fring makes against the cartel in this era (killing Lalo Salamanca, for instance) must be executed in absolute secrecy to avoid Eladio's suspicion, building towards that fateful day in Breaking Bad season 4 when checkmate can finally be declared.