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Apr 7, 2020 · In Better Call Saul' s fifth season, that episode is "Bagman." Vince Gilligan is back behind the camera for this one, and he brought two of his best characters along for the ride: as a...
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"Bagman" is the eighth episode of the fifth season of the American crime drama television series Better Call Saul, the spinoff series of Breaking Bad. Written by Gordon Smith and directed by Vince Gilligan, the episode aired on April 6, 2020, on AMC in the United States.
Returning director and Breaking Bad auteur Vince Gilligan pulls out his old playbook and pumps “Bagman” up with high-octane shootouts, tense, face-to-face showdowns, and his penchant for dark...
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At a Cartel stash house in Mexico stocked with luxury cars and a vault, two men clean a car whose seats are covered in blood. The Cousins arrive at the stash house and silently fill two duffel bags with $7 million in cash, required for Lalo's bail in Albuquerque. After they depart, the manager of the stash house calls someone and informs them about the Cousins' visit.
Act I
Lalo, still being held at the Metropolitan Detention Center, is amused after reading a newspaper report on the apparent arson of the Los Pollos Hermanos restaurant in Los Lunas. He gives Jimmy directions to the site of his rendezvous with the Cousins. Jimmy tries to get out of the assignment by suggesting that they can come directly to Albuquerque or that Nachocan pick it up. Lalo refuses, assuring Jimmy that he is "the guy for this". When he is still reluctant, Lalo says that he will find so...
Act II
Having crossed the border into Mexico, a nervous Jimmy stands near a well designated as the meeting spot, practicing his prepared Spanish dialogue as well as straightening his tie and cleaning a spot off his shoe with some drinking water. After some time, the Cousins arrive. Jimmy tells them that he is the abogado (lawyer) sent by Lalo. The Cousins maintain their characteristic reticence and silently place the duffel bags in Jimmy's hands. Without saying a single word, they return to their ca...
The episode title refers to Kim Wexler's comment about Jimmy not being a bagman for the cartel, a job he takes on by retrieving Lalo Salamanca's bail money.This episode is the second of two episodes so far in Better Call Saul to be directed by Vince Gilligan but isn't written by him. The other episode is "Wiedersehen".This episode marks the final time Jimmy uses his 1998 Suzuki Esteem, which he had been using since the start of Better Call Saul.This episode marks the first time Jimmy is directly and purposefully responsible for someone's death, luring out Tiburón so that Mike Ehrmantrautcan kill him.Featured Music
1. “Déjame Quererte”by César Castro y su Conjunto 2. "I Got The..." by Labi Siffre
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Apr 7, 2020 · As we established in the last episode, Lalo wants Saul to get his bail money and in “Bagman” he provides Saul with the instructions of where to get the money from — “Near a well in at the border”. Saul initially backs out, but then decides the journey to simply pick up a bag of money is worth $100k.
Apr 6, 2020 · What happens soon after is Jimmy coming dangerously close to getting killed in the desert by a rival cartel, and having to travel on foot in the blazing heat (with little water) after his Esteem finally bites the bullet. It eventually gets to the point that Jimmy decides to just lay down and die.
Apr 6, 2020 · First order of business for this two-man survival team is disposing of the evidence that could point the ambush’s lone survivor back to their location. Wordlessly disappointed that his own ride ...
