Why Better Call Saul series finale rang true

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By Nicole Gallucci @nicolemichele5
Aug 15, 2022 at 11:07pm

Let justice be done though the heavens fall.”

The quote that echoed like a threat throughout Better Call Saul was finally realized in its series finale, which aired on AMC Monday, August 15. The thirteenth episode of Season 6, chillingly titled “Saul Gone,” answered a bunch of burning fan questions, tied up some serious loose ends, and served as a gut-wrenching goodbye to one of TV’s most beloved prequels and unexpectedly brilliant dramas.

The penultimate episode of Better Call Saul, “Waterworks”, brought fans back to the Breaking Bad days where Saul Goodman (Bob Odenkirk) and Kim Wexler (Rhea Seehorn) were signing their divorce papers. In Gene’s black and white timeline, viewers finally got to see Kim’s post-Albuquerque fate. She wears her hair long, dark, and crucially not in a ponytail. She sports an unstylish wardrobe and dates a dud who has trouble shopping for mayonnaise and moans “yep!” during sex. She lives in Florida and works her dull days away at a company called Palm Coast Sprinkler. It’s a boring uneventful existence for Kim, until Viktor St. Clair (Omaha’s friendly neighborhood Gene Takavic) calls her at work to check in after six years.

Kim urges Gene to turn himself in and he questions why she hasn’t done the same. She tells him she’s glad he’s still alive and swiftly hangs up, but his words inspire a trip to Albuquerque where she visits the old courthouse and meets with Howard Hamlin’s widow, Cheryl. Kim gives her an affidavit explaining Howard’s death in great detail. She comes clean about Gus, Lalo, the staged suicide, and her and Jimmy’s involvement before heading back to Florida and breaking down in tears.

Meanwhile, “Waterworks” shows Gene breaking into a mark’s home while Jeff (Pat Healy) is parked out front in his getaway cab. Gene’s reckless behavior makes more sense now that we know what was said in his phone call with Kim, but he’s acting so careless he barely escapes the mark’s house. The police arrest Jeff, so Gene calls his mom Marion (Carol Burnett) to bail him out of jail. When he accidentally mentions Albuquerque in the call, Marion looks him up using Ask Jeeves and puts all the pieces together. When Gene arrives, Marion threatens to call the cops and he threatens to strangle her with the phone cord. Marion presses her LifeAlert button and reports Saul Goodman’s whereabouts, so the final scene shows Gene running for cover. That’s where the finale picks up.

So what goes down in the Better Call Saul series finale? Do Jim/Saul/Gene and Kim survive their post-Breaking Bad Season 6 scenes? And does Better Call Saul‘s series finale mean the end of the Breaking Bad Universe? Here’s everything you need to know about the ending of Better Call Saul Season 6 (and beyond) explained…