The finale of Better Call Saul season 6 is arriving next week, and after episode 12,
we all have questions surrounding how this show will come to an end.
The misery has only just begun for Gene and Kim Wexler, and I think we're
about to get a final episode that highlights the psychological collapse of Saul and the
sadness in the truth that Kim appears to be letting
out.
In this video, I'm going to be discussing my general predictions, theories and giving
my thoughts on the trailer promo for Better Call Season 6 episode 13.
The promo trailer will be linked in the description if you haven't seen
it already.
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But without further a do, lets dive into my predictions for the Better Call Saul Season
6 finale.
So after the end of episode 12 we got the last straw in Gene's demise following the
new cons that he'd been pulling off.
And with Kim telling the truth to Howard's wife and telling Jimmy
that he should hand himself in, it seems like this finale will be one of misery, heartbreak
and melancholy.
The title of episode 13, is Saul Gone, which could refer to many things
surrounding the fate of Gene and the identity of Saul Goodman.
It could mean that Saul is literally gone and put in jail, or it could even mean that
Gene changes for the better and abondons the Saul Goodman persona, maybe telling
the truth in the process.
There's many ways it can go, but again, I think we're going to get a final episode we
haven't had in the Breaking Bad universe, and that is one which
is darker and more reflective than we've had before.
Sure the final episode of Breaking Bad and the El Camino film had dark and emotional
moments, but the stories ended with the main character getting away with it in their own
fitting ways.
Walt died doing what he enjoyed and wasn't caught.
Jessie got his freedom is Alaska, with the chance of a new life.
But Better Call Saul and in particular season 6, is painting the picture of a story that's
doomed to end in much more despair.
It's always focussed on that idea of it all being fun and games, until
it's all over.
And the title of course embodies that statement too.
So when it comes to everything we've seen and the material released for this
final episode, what might we see unfold.
Well I'm going to first start with the promo trailer for Episode 13, and I think it's key
to keep in mind that most of the teasers released for
this season, have been big misdirects in some way shape or form, even if they are linked
into the episode's events.
So how do I think this links into the finale.
Well the teaser has Jimmy reciting the words to get extracted
by Ed the vacuum guy, and I'm going to predict that I think it will actually link into the
opening section of this episode, and in particular, I think will involve a final flashback to
Breaking Bad.
I'm predicting that it's going to be an opening scene with Jimmy at his mansion for the last
time, before it's raided at the start of season 6.
I think he's going to be in a state of panic, desperately grabbing everything he needs,
and also trying to memorize his lines in preparation for when he actually calls Ed's
number during the flashback scene in his office we saw in a previous season.
I think he'll also reflect on his time with Kim once he picks up that Zefiro Anejo bottle
top that we saw lying in the road at the beginning of the
season.
And maybe during this opening, we'll also get the last scene with Walter White that
Bryan Cranston said would be featured, and I think an
opening like this could really highlight the collapse of Saul during that Granite State
episode, and maybe even the difference that we're going to see between his and Heisenberg's
ending, which I was touching on before.
I think we could get an opening like this, that would really finish off the events that
we've been seeing from the Breaking Bad timeline and it would again
add to the storytelling going on in Gene's time period which follows.
And speaking of the Gene stuff, I think we're going to cut to that and see the reverse scenario
play out, this time with there being no escape.
I think he'll once again be panicking, make a quick stop at his house and grab everything
he needs, such as the diamonds and belonings he can take.
I think Jimmy will ring Ed's number again, and this time we'll find out that
either the place is out of business, Ed's retired or his character has died in the show.
Of course, the actor who plays Ed was the legendary Robert Forster and he died a few
years ago with El Camino being his last true performance,
but maybe they'll take the more respectable option of him being retired or him being out
of business.
So what could happen next if this was a likely outcome.
Well, I think in the middle part of this episode, it will truly stress on how he's now completely
alone.
Just like the opening episode and the Gene's flashbacks that
we saw towards the start of show, that colour of Saul Goodman was the only thing to keep
him going after Kim walked out.
And I think with the chances of that completely gone, the saul
gone of the title if you will, he will be back to being completely alone and he can't
turn to another con, he can't escape this situation of now being on the run and again,
Kim is letting the truth out and she's not coming
back to him.
I think because Marion called the police on him in Nebraska, he'll realise that going
back to Alberqueque is something they wouldn't expect given the current circumstances.
And it would again reflect to him picking up that bottle tp in the opeing flashback
of the episode, returning to Kim because he's completely alone.
It would make sense that this show ends in the place where the whole universe started
and I think with Gene understanding that they wouldn't expect him to be there
after what happened in episode 12, then I could see him going back to ABQ and using
this one final chance to speak with Kim when they meet.
We've wanted to see them meet up with each other again and I predict it will be the most
emotional and decisive scene in the entire show.
I think it will truly stress on the idea that he is destined to collapse as Saul Goodman
with Kim not being in his life, and on the reverse to that I think it will show that
Kim is truly past being that person, even if she does tell him that she does truly love
and care about him.
I think Gene will tell her that he will never change and that Saul is apart of him and always
has been.
It's something Chuck knew, it's something Howard knew and it's something that
Kim deep down knew.
She had so much fun being around that until the brutal consequences came.
And in the process, I think the outcome is one that sticks to this idea of a psychollically
damaging ending, that Reha Seehorn said we'd see unfold.
A man who doesn't change and remains as the criminal he's essentially always been.
Yes things got worse and people eventually died, but he's never changed.
And now he's doomed to be alone forever and face the consequences.
So when it comes to my predictions of the ending, I think Gene will now leave and tell
Kim that he's going back to being Saul Goodman.
I think it will end with him going back to his
office, and sitting down in the ruins of the bleak environment of his previous empire,
alone and ready for the eventual barge through the door, that we all expect.
In the reverse to the many times we've seen him sat there being
smug and embracing that persona, he's now sat there completely alone and understanding
that Saul is completely gone.
It would reflect those earlier posters from previous seasons and
also the title of this final episode.
And we'd be left to presume that the cops found him there or someone reported him being
there.
But again, that's not the true point of the ending.
The true point of this would be to symbolise the complete mental deconstruction of this
persona and then the doom he was always heading to.
Still he would be able to go out with an understanding
that Saul Goodman is his true identity and that he did have those fun and games while
it lasted.
I think it would again relate to the description that Rhea spoke about and it would
follow the downfall that we were always going to see.
And with Kim owning up and telling the truth, we get the clear moral differences
between her and Jimmy in this ending.
He goes out refusing not to be anyone but Saul, and she goes out being completely truthful.
Bob Odenkirk described this ending the other day in
three words, with those words being ... hard, one and truth.
I think the hard part is relating to Jimmy's struggle to get away.
I think the one part is relating to him being alone as
Saul and the episode's focus on that.
And I think truth could be relating to Kim's final outlook in this this finale.
So that's my prediction on how I could briefly see things going down.
It is incredibly hard to predict things in this final episode and I know that last week
I got a lot of predictions right about what we did see, so I thought
I'd have a go at guessing what might happen in the finale.
I did also say in that video that I could see Jimmy being in a courtroom again
by the end of the show and eventually going to Jail.
And while a lot of fans are currently predicting this this will be the likely outcome, in the
last few days, I keep coming back to that Nippy episode, in which Gene says to
the security man from Park and Recs that he's got no one.
He says he has no wife, no kids, no friends and essentially pours his heart out all
while doing so to pull off a con.
I think that is a big hint to the more psychological ending they might go for and that's why I'm
now predicting that it's going to end with him alone in
his office, poised to believe in Saul Goodman forever, even if it's all burnt to the ground.
And he'd of course still be arrested, we just wouldn't see that onscreen because the focus
would be on him being completely alone.
I think it would be the more nuanced ending that still completes his journey and tells
us where he was always going to end up.
Whather that be mentally or physically in actually going to
jail.
The show starts with him trying to fit in and play the role of gene Takovic at a Cinnabon,
but he eventually, returns to his old Saul Goodman ways and stages more cons.
He would end staying true to being Saul Goodman, but with him now poised to being arrested
and alone, Saul Goodman is completely gone.
So that's what I think they could do and I think it would be
more in line with what this show has been about and how it might potentially end.
But again they could take many routes whether it be him
being taken to court and going to Jail, him dying alone or even Kim taking the fall for
things and Gene still living on alone, having to deal with the consequences of that.
Again though I think the more physchologically damaging
ending is one in which Jimmy doesn't deny that Saul is his true persona, and in turn
spends his final moments of freedom in the office,
completely alone after everything we've seen.
While Heisenberg was the mastermind that died his own way and accomplished what he wanted
to, even in the face of severe loss, I think Saul
Goodman, will be the mastermind that is now alone and completely void of any chance of
being Saul Goodman once again, even if he wants to be.
But they were my thoughts and predictions for Better Call Saul Season 6 Episode 13.
Peter Gould is writing and directing the final episode, and I can't wait to see how this
legendary show all comes to an end.
As I said, I think we are going to see that there's no running from what has caught up,
and I think the Saul Gone title reflects that quite appropriately.
I think Gene will be in a position where he can't
be Saul anymore, even if he admits that he lives and breathes that identity and the last
few episodes have really signalled that.
And while Kim had fun with Jimmy, the death of Howard and
where she's at now, tells us that she is all for coming clean and letting the truth have
it's day.
I think that will reflect in this finale and really put this story to an end in the
most appropriate way.
But again, I'm ready to be completely wrong about most of this and I can see them giving
us an ending that still feels right and yet unexpected.
We'll have to see, but after the greatness of this show and season 6, I have faith in
them to bring it all to a satisfying end with whatever direction they go
in.
But what are your predictions and theories surrounding what happens in the final episode?
Let me know down below in the comments section.
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