Call Forward / Better Call Saul

As the prequel to Breaking Bad, Better Call Saul inevitably has Call Forwards to the original show.

Season 1

• During the desert scene in "Mijo," when Jimmy and two skateboarders are kidnapped by Tuco and taken out to the desert, Tuco warns No-Doze about overstepping his bounds. He will beat him to death for exactly that reason in Breaking Bad's first season finale several years later.
  • In an early example of how Jimmy/Saul will steal from everyone, Nacho giving "not a criminal" Jimmy his number for when he figures out he's in the game is like Saul convincing "not Vito Corleone" Walt to go into business.
  • The kidnapping to the desert itself is obviously one to Saul's intro episode. In a bit of deconstructing, history repeating has really messed up this man's brain, and wanting to shove the trauma down is one of a few reasons he goes to Walt in the first place.
• In "Nacho":
  • There's a scene where Jimmy is desperately trying to get through to the Kettlemans by calling from a payphone. It is similar to a scene in "Box Cutter" where Jimmy returns a call to Skyler, trying to reassure her that Walt is fine when even he doesn’t know where he is.
  • Jimmy tells Kim that if he fucks up with Nacho, he assumes Nacho's guys will find him and turn him into a "meat piñata", like Saul thinks Walt and Jesse are actually Lalo's guys coming to kill him.
  • A later scene sees Jimmy argue over a plea bargain with Oakley. Oakley refuses due to the severity of the defendant's charges, but then realizes that he confused one case with another. Jimmy criticizes him for being nonchalant about getting details wrong. This contrasts with how he acts as Saul Goodman in his debut Breaking Bad episode, where he confuses Badger's situation with another client's indecent exposure, barely acknowledges his mistake when called out on it, and is rather care-free about the whole thing.
• In "Hero":
  • Jimmy is looking over shirts to wear and sees an orange dress shirt, mirroring the various colorful dress shirts he will later wear as Saul Goodman. He later buys a bunch of them in "Inflatable" as part of his gambit to get himself fired from Davis & Main.
  • There's a nod to Jimmy's future persona during the Cold Open flashback, with Jimmy using "Saul" as a pseudonym during a grift and complimenting it with the pun, "Saul good, man!".
  • Like in Saul's debut episode, Jimmy is offered a large bribe to protect a criminal's interests. Except here, he decides to accept the money, showing that he hasn't realized the dangers of accepting cash from strangers.
• We learn in "Five-O" about the "dramatic circumstances" that led to Mike quitting the Philadelphia police, which Hank brings up during the DEA's interrogation of him. Specifically, he quit after a breakdown when his son was killed, and he later took revenge on his son's sergeant and partner, then fled the scene shortly after it all happened. Despite being unable to prove it, the Philadelphia PD knows Mike was responsible.
• At the end of the "RICO" episode, when Schweikart asks Jimmy what amount he has in mind for a cash settlement, Chuck speaks up and says, "$20 million ... or we'll see you in court." In the "Thirty-Eight Snub" episode of Breaking Bad when Skyler tries to buy the car wash from Bogdan, $20 million is the exact same amount Bogdan spitefully quotes her.
• In "Pimento":
  • Mike shows up to the initial meeting with Daniel Wormald with nothing more than a Pimento cheese sandwich. In "Cornered," this is the very type of sandwich that he offers to Jesse to pass the time while staking out a junkie's house.
  • In "Better Call Saul" (the Breaking Bad episode), while Saul is freaking out during Walt and Jesse's plan to scare him into representing Badger (without getting him to reveal anything about Heisenberg or their operation), he says "No, it wasn't me! It was Ignacio! He's the one!" As we learn in "Pimento", that is Nacho's real name (in Spanish, "Nacho" is a common diminutive for "Ignacio").
  • Chuck telling Jimmy he's not a real lawyer is a twofer, one to Walt and Saul in "Live Free Or Die" (though at least here, Jimmy can leave instead of being backed against the wall) and another to Walt and Jesse in "Down", as Jesse/Jimmy starts off angry about not getting respect, and they both shrink as they're essentially told they're nothing.
• In "Marco":
  • Jimmy wakes up from a one-night stand and the woman he was sleeping with says, "Hey! You are not Kevin Costner." This calls-ahead an offhanded line Jimmy says to Walt in "Abiquiu" where he explains that he convinced a woman once that he was Kevin Costner, "and it worked because I believed it."
  • As Jimmy is calling bingo numbers, he draws a "B." He begins listing several words that begin with a B, including "Belize", referencing how his euphemism for what he suggested Walt do to Hank was to "send him to Belize."

Season 2

• In "Switch":
  • One of the police officers at Daniel Wormald's house is the same one that responds to Skyler's domestic violence call in "IFT".
  • Ken Wins reappears and gets conned by Kim and Jimmy, years before his car meets its end at Walt's hands. Kim and Jimmy also trick Ken Wins into paying for an entire bottle of Zafiro Añejo, the same brand of tequila that Gus will poison Don Eladio with.
  • Some of the various occasions where the cinematography is deliberately echoing scenes from Breaking Bad includes an overhead shot of Jimmy in the pool, filmed to resemble the aftermath of Gus' poisoning of Don Eladio's crew in "Salud", and a teaser shot of Gene hauling trash bags to the dumpster, made similar to the shot of Gus taking out the trash from "Shotgun".
• In "Amarillo":
  • Mike gets Kaylee the toy pig that he'll use in "Madrigal" to distract Chris Mara while he breaks into Duane Chow's house.
  • Jimmy at one point is shown in an all-white suit and ten-gallon hat, resembling the getup that Hank is shown wearing in his wedding photos◊.
  • Kim's favorite movie is shown to be Ice Station Zebra, which provides an explanation for why Jimmy chose that name for his shell company when he became Saul.
  • Mike tells the vet guy that he’s not "breaking legs", an obvious reference to the time he'll threaten to break Saul's.
• In "Gloves Off":
  • Mike goes to buy a gun from Lawson, the arms dealer that Walt bought the M60 and a .38 snubnose revolver from.
  • Krazy-8 is seen working for Tuco. His van and shirt is branded Tampico Furniture, the same company he mentioned to Walt in "...and the Bag's in the River".
  • Nacho mentions how Tuco killed a guy named Dog Paulsen back in the late 1990s when involved with the Southern California biker gangs, reflecting how Breaking Bad was originally planned to be set in Riverside, California before the setting was changed to Albuquerque, and also referencing an offhand remark when Hank is debriefing his men in "Grilled" on the search for Tuco.
  • Like Walt in "Caballo Sin Nombre", Chuck tells Jimmy (who has the same incredulous expression as Saul will with Walter) he's not the bad guy here. A minute before he acts like a dick again, the whole reason Jimmy will be late for work is because he was looking after Chuck.
  • Jimmy trying to pressure Chuck into ruining his life is played a lot like Jesse's "just ask me for a favor!" to Walt in "Confessions". Extra bonus points for Saul in that episode watching that confrontation with a sad and slightly jealous look on his face.
• In "Rebecca":
  • During the dinner flashback, one of the places Jimmy says he's considering finding an apartment at is the Beachcomber, where Walt temporarily stays after Skyler evicts him. It's also a reference to a season three deleted scene, where Saul tells Walt that he's been at those apartments himself because three failed marriages.
  • The entire dinner scene itself seems very similar to the scene in "Buyout" where Jesse has dinner with Walt and Skyler.
  • Blaming Jimmy for the end of his marriage, and wanting him to have nobody else except Chuck, Chuck tries multiple times to get Kim to leave Jimmy, like Walter White tried to manipulate Jesse into leaving Jane and Andrea.
  • During the scene where Mike gets an unexpected visit from Hector at Loyola's. Fran, the waitress serving him, is the same one who serves him and Lydia in Madrigal.
  • While Hector hasn't yet had his stroke, his entrance is foreshadowed by the diner bell using the sound effect used for Hector's bell.
  • Mesa Verde Bank has a similar name to the Mesa Credit Union, where Walt withdrew his life savings to pay for the RV in Breaking Bad.
  • Upon seeing Mike's injuries (from the fight with Tuco), Jimmy makes a Rocky joke and hums the theme song. He does something similar in response to seeing Jesse's injuries (from being beaten up by Hank) in "One Minute".
  • Chuck uses the phrase "dribs and drabs" to describe Jimmy's embezzlement. In "Mandala," Skyler uses the same phrase to describe the accounting discrepancies in Ted's books.
• In "Bali H'ai":
  • The check Kim chooses not to cash is from Craddock Marine Bank, which in Breaking Bad is the bank where the crooked lawyer deposits the hazard funds for Gus Fring's employees. The guy also made it out to "Ice Station Zebra Associates," the name of the shell company Jimmy uses to dodge income taxes.
  • Hector's praising Mike for having "big balls" echoes the first interaction between Walt and Tuco, where Walt manages to make a bold request of $50,000 from Tuco and Tuco replies, "You got balls, Heisenberg. I'll give you that." The circumstances of their first Salamanca encounters are also pretty similar: Walt was pissed after seeing Jesse beaten to a pulp, while Mike was pissed with Hector threatening his family.
• "Nailed": Mike's one-man attack on an ice cream truck carrying drug cash for Hector Salamanca seems very reminiscent of the cartel's attacks on Gus' refrigerator trucks in season 4 of Breaking Bad. Mike even thwarted one of the cartel's attempts.

Season 3

• In "Mabel":
  • All the business with the trackers calls forward to the similar events when Hank tried to use a tracker to dig into Gus' operations.
  • Jimmy's behind-closed-doors rant at the Air Force Captain is reminiscent of the similar way Saul Goodman drops character in his private office, going from flashy Ambulance Chaser to conniving consigliere.
  • Mike leaving his temp car behind at the junkyard calls forward to Walt and Jesse eventually giving up their mobile meth lab (the RV).
• In "Witness":
  • Kim asks Jimmy for a dollar. When he gives her one (or a $20, as the case was), she tells him she's now his lawyer and he can give her all the details of the Mesa Verde fraud, protected by confidentiality rules. Jimmy will later use the exact same approach with Walt and Jesse when they're threatening him in the desert.
  • Gus first meets Jimmy in his capacity as the manager of Los Pollos Hermanos, with Jimmy oblivious to Gus' true nature. Gus will meet Walt under similar circumstances.
  • Jimmy, acting a lot like a rabid dog himself, screams at Chuck "for this, you destroyed our family? you happy now? For what? For nothing!" in the same way that Jesse will beat Saul Goodman down screaming "you had him steal it off me! And all for that asshole Mr White!".
• In "Sabrosito":
  • Mike's method of refusing Gus' payment? Chucking the bag through Victor's car window.
  • After Bolsa embarrasses Hector in front of Don Eladio by bringing Gus' bigger profits in, Hector looks uneasily down into Eladio's pool. Anyone who's watched Breaking Bad will know what that pool means to Hector and Gus.
  • This won't be the first time that someone from the Salamancas waited inside Gus' restaurant to speak with him.
  • Gus is visiting a fire department, providing free food. Before he's interrupted by a cell phone call, he says "I hope to never need your services" as a slight joke. Yeah, about that...
• In "Chicanery":
  • Jimmy asks if Chuck would have been more forthcoming about his disease to Rebecca if it had been something more "normal" like lung cancer.
  • Huell slipping the cell phone battery into Chuck's jacket recalls when he took the ricin cigarette out of Jesse's pants.
• In "Off Brand":
  • Gus is seen touring an industrial laundromat for sale and considers buying it. It's the same laundromat that eventually houses the superlab that Walter will work at.
  • Jimmy using his "Saul Goodman" alias in a commercial for the first time.
• In "Expenses":
  • Jimmy's alleged car fails to start, eliciting suggestions that the problem is the engine being flooded or the battery being drained. These maladies afflicted Walt and Jesse's RV.
• In "Slip":
  • Jimmy helping a drug dealer get out of community service to go make a deal by using the threat of a lawsuit is essentially the kind of law Saul Goodman will practice: promoting shady lawsuits and lawyering for drug criminals.
  • The shot of Jimmy on his back counting his money after this, the first time he's pulled a con-artist trick as a lawyer, echoes the end of "Crawl Space" when Walt goes Laughing Mad, arguably the moment Walter White dies and Heisenberg is born.
• In "Fall":
  • Jimmy showing up at Sandpiper with a plate of cookies for Irene is reminiscent of Saul showing up at Jesse's house with a cactus.
  • The buildup of Kim driving is similar to the scene in ABQ of Don Margolis at his job as an air-traffic controller. Both feature one character talking, second guessing themselves, and making a mistake indicating their mind isn't as much as it needs to be on the job, followed by the scene continuing with building tension and fading audio, and a cut to an awful but inevitable crash.

Season 4

• In "Smoke":
  • When Jimmy is looking through the classifieds for job listings, some of the listings include ones for Beneke Fabricators and for the future laser tag.
  • The way Jimmy starts behaving after hearing how Howard blames himself for Chuck's suicide, whistling and acting as if nothing happened, mirrors Walt's behavior after the death of Drew Sharp, where he continued working while whistling to himself despite claiming to be torn up about it. Of course Jimmy is actually suffering while refusing help, so he gets to be a parallel to Jesse pretending he was fine after shooting Gale too.
• "Breathe":
  • Gus kills Arturo in the same way that Hector killed Max, and he does it for the same reasons he will later kill Victor; intimidation and domination.
  • Mike is at the park with Kaylee while she swings on the swings. This will later be Mike's last moment with her due to the DEA coming for him and he's forced to abandon her.
• "Something Beautiful":
  • Mr. Neff orders pizza with dipping sticks while crashing in his office, harkening to a particularly memetic moment from Breaking Bad. He even specifies that he wants the pizza cut into slices!
  • Gale Boetticher makes an appearance when Gus visits his college chemistry lab to look at some methamphetamine samples.
  • Ira, the owner of Vamonos Pest who moonlights as a "second-story man," returns after we last saw him in the first half of Breaking Bad's fifth season.
• "Talk":
  • Anita is wearing a Cradock Marine Bank badge, a branch of which is later used by Dan Wachsberger to deposit hazard pay for the families of Mike's nine guys and Kaylee.
• "Quite A Ride":
  • Gus speaks German in this episode, which helps put the German architect greatly at ease, recalls his implied close association with Peter Schuler.
  • "It's the best money can buy." echoes what Saul will say to Badger during his first scene in Breaking Bad.
  • The way Werner Ziegler speaks in German while having a hood over his head and then is told "Speak English" by Mike is similar to how Jimmy speaks Spanish to his captors, Walt and Jesse, who are wearing ski masks, and Jesse tells him to "Speak English."
• "Pinata":
  • Jimmy takes a VHS of his "nest egg" commercial from a shoebox and watches it with a sad expression, like he later does his "Better Call Saul" commercials while tearing up. Also, it's the same shoebox, which was also shown in a Flash Forward in the previous episode.
  • Kim's justification for taking on pro-bono defender cases by saying "I like it, I'm good at it" is reminiscent of Walt's final admission to Skyler of why he built his meth empire.
  • Werner insists that his hotheaded, unprofessional younger assistant Kai is a "good boy" and will do the work when it counts, which is reminiscent of Walter White's insistence on retaining Jesse as his assistant in Breaking Bad despite the objections of both Mike and Gus.
  • Mike advises Gus to make the security cameras subtle enough to let the workers know they're being watched without rubbing it in their face, a gesture of kindness he won't give Walt.
• "Something Stupid":
  • Jimmy uses his "Saul Goodman" alias again, this time for whenever he's selling burner phones. The montage shows his new canary-yellow-and-red business cards with the slogan, "Need to Call? Buy from Saul!".
  • During his therapy, Hector communicates by tapping his finger in the same way he would later go on to tap his bell in Breaking Bad.
  • The way Hector knocks over the cup of water is reminiscent of how he knocked over the burrito plate containing the ricin that Walt planted.
  • The effect of Hector's insatiable appetite for women as reflected by the fake story Walt and Jesse about how he had been watching a telenovela with voluptuous women when they switched the channel. They had done with to account for why Hector is suddenly so upset overhearing Jesse and Walt planning to escape the compound.
  • While convincing Huell that he most likely won't serve the full two-and-a-half years for his assault on the cop, Huell responds "You're goddamn right," and then clarifying he intends to skip bail and become a fugitive.
• "Coushatta":
  • Jimmy's fake church website as part of Kim's scheme to get Huell off with probation, along with its donation tab, will be much like the site he'll set up to launder Walt's money.
  • This is the audience's first exposure to Lalo, and if Krazy 8 and the cook's apprehension is any indicator, there may have been merit in Saul's assumption that Walter and Jesse were sent by him to kill him.
• "Wiedersehen":
  • Lalo compliments Gus on his food chain's chicken in a very similar way to how Eladio did when Gus first met him. Given Lalo is well aware of Max's murder by his uncle's hands in said meeting and his playfully threatening demeanor to Gus in their scenes together, this could be intentional.
  • Lalo gifts Hector the bell in order to communicate to the outside world, which also will eventually end up being the final tool in Hector's revenge against Gus many years later.
• "Winner":
  • Werner's murder by Mike mirrors Mike's own murder by Walt years later. Both men are shot by a regretful coworker, both accept their fate and choose to spend their final moments quietly looking at nature.
  • Mike cautions Gus that if he eliminates Werner and his crew, he will have spent ten months and millions of dollars on a giant "hole in the ground" — the exact words Walt uses when trying to convince Gus to spare his life after Gale's murder.
  • Gale is eager to start a "rudimentary cook" only to be told "not until it's finished" by Gus due to the latter's perfectionism regarding the product. By the time the lab is ready, Gale will barely get to work in it at all before he's killed off for real.
  • Like in Breaking Bad, the fourth season ends with the main character shocking their significant other by revealing who they truly are. Kim's shock at realizing Jimmy was bullshitting through the whole reinstatement process is akin to Skyler's shock when Walt says "I won" after killing Gus.

Season 5

• "The Guy for This":
  • When meeting up with Domingo at prison, Jimmy inquires about his memorization skills before pushing his notepad in front of him, containing a script of what Lalo (and Jimmy) wants Krazy-8 to say to the DEA. This foreshadows Skyler's scriptwriting in Breaking Bad, when she and Walt have to lie about their lives in front of Hank and Marie.
  • Jimmy makes his entrance in the middle of the authorities' interrogation of his client. This is how he "rescues" Badger in Breaking Bad and how he saves his clients with lawyer-client confidentiality. This time is a bit different, with him coming in to ensure that Krazy-8 actually talks and says the right things.
  • As part of the contingency for getting Domingo out of jail, Saul pitches that Domingo can become a protected confidante with Hank's division. By the time of Breaking Bad, Krazy-8 is specifically named by Hank as an informant for the DEA.
  • Much like in his debut episode, Jimmy is convinced by a pair in the drug trade to give an associate in custody the best legal defense he can provide, making sure said associate cooperates by saying the right things to Hank and Steve. And like Walter, Lalo is surprised at hearing that the DEA have gotten involved, though takes it much better.
  • Like Saul in "Live Free Or Die", Jimmy tries to squirm out of Lalo's grasp, this time claiming he's too busy. Like Walt in that episode, Lalo quickly proves his lawyer is actually an Extreme Doormat.
• "Namaste":
  • Similar to what happens in Saul's debut episode, Hank and Gomez are sent on a stakeout based off their latest perp's information, with Krazy-8 instead of Badger. Both attempts to hurt high-profile players are hindered due to the planning of Jimmy/Saul and his clients' bosses, and while the DEA seemingly got what they wanted out of a successful operation, Hank senses that something's off about how it all went down.
  • Jimmy destroying Howard's car with bowling balls is relatively similar to the scene in Más where Jesse destroys Walt's windshield with a large piece of cement.
• "Wexler V. Goodman":
  • We see the rise of Saul's preference for Kitschy Local Commercials in this episode, showing why he began Cutting Corners on production costs unlike his previous ads as Jimmy McGill.
  • Jimmy's meeting with S&C and showing them the smear campaigns is similar to the tactics he'll pull to help Jesse buy his aunt's house from his parents for half-price. Jimmy does all the research, immediately rejects Mesa Verde's first offer, the client wants to hear Jimmy out (despite their legal counsel staying firm), Saul counters with an absolutely ridiculous offer, gets laughed at, and then blackmails his way to winning. He'll certainly refine himself a bit and be more subtle, going down from "Bare genitals!" to "I thought some allowance was in order once I heard about the meth lab."
  • A real subtle one. Detective Tim Roberts is seen on the phone with someone who claims that there might be an opossum or dead body underneath their house. It's similar to an anecdote Jesse brought up in Fring's lab, where his aunt kept complaining about an opossum taking residence under her house long after it was removed.
• "JMM":
  • We learn that Jimmy's marriage to Kim is his third, just as he told Walt that he had two marriages before in Breaking Bad.
  • Lalo offers Jimmy the chance to become "a friend of the cartel" if he can get him out of jail without a trial or deal. Jimmy will eventually use this to try to avoid (what he thinks is) the Cartel's wrath by the time of Breaking Bad. He even initially makes the offer in Spanish.
  • We meet Peter Schuler, this time learning more about him and his relationship with Gus. Before the summit, he's seen dipping and eating a spice curl with much enthusiasm compared to how he'll be somberly testing Franch in Breaking Bad.
  • Lydia shows off more of her paranoia, this time suggesting Lalo get shanked in prison to avoid further trouble. Walter will follow this advice himself when dealing with Mike's "legacy."
  • Jimmy's and Kim's getting married is motivated primarily by making it so that Kim can't be forced to testify against Jimmy should he end up in court for the Mesa Verde case or any of his other scams, much like how Skyler never actually went through with divorcing Walt so that she wouldn't ever be forced to testify against him. Though Kim does genuinely love Jimmy, whereas Skyler's motivation was more to save her and her children from the humiliation of having Walt's dealings come out in the open.
  • When Jimmy and Kim are filing the paperwork for their marriage license, the clerk asks for documentation on Jimmy's two previous dissolutions. Saul had mentioned being married three times before in Breaking Bad.
• "Bagman":
  • Jimmy desperately stammers in Spanish that he's a friend of the cartel when he's robbed of the Cousins' money, just like he'll do when he thinks Walt and Jesse are going to kill him for Lalo.
  • The loss of Jimmy's Suzuki Esteem can be considered a counterpart to the destruction of Jesse Pinkman's RV.
  • Marco drops a stack of money while he loads one of the duffel bags full of cash. A similar act of clumsiness will cost him his life when he drops the hollow point bullet that Hank uses to shoot him.
  • When Jimmy lies down to die and Mike tough loves him to get up, it's filmed in the same way as their confrontation in "Full Measure".
• "Bad Choice Road":
  • Mike makes sure the bodies in the desert will be taken care of and then coaches Jimmy on the story he has to give to both Lalo and Kim to throw suspicion off of himself that something went wrong during the pickup, similar to his very first appearance when he's brought in by Saul to clean up the scene of Jane's overdose and coach Jesse on what to tell the health officials when they show up.
  • Mike confronts Gus about the gun he has to Nacho's father's head, and tells him that he doesn't think fear is an effective motivator. Gus doesn't ruminate on these words now, but in some time they'll become his mantra in dealing with Walter White (at first) ^note Funnily enough, this makes him repeating the same words back to Mike a bit of an Ironic Echo.
  • Likewise, Gus' retort about how an abused dog known for biting his owners needs force in order to be handled properly calls to mind the dog metaphors that kept popping up in Breaking Bad proper.
  • Jimmy compares Kim leaving Mesa Verde and S&C for pro bono legal work to "leaving the Yankees to play amateur ring-toss". It's an analogy similar to one Walt uses when he compares his meth and its purity to Declan's product, where he called it "grade school T-Ball versus the New York Yankees".
  • Jimmy in big PTSD mood makes him act more like how Gene will be post-Breaking Bad, almost about to crack with Lalo before Kim saves him, far quieter than usual, and cowering like a scared animal when he accidentally breaks a cereal bowl.
• "Something Unforgivable":
  • We finally learn just what Saul was so afraid Lalo would kill him for, as his whole family is killed in an attempt to take him out facilitated by Nacho, hence why he tried to pin the blame there.
  • Kim argues that doing a bad thing is justified because it will get her a bunch of money she can put to a good cause, just like Walt.
  • Nacho suggests that the Cartel expand their territory north of the border by engaging in a Divide and Conquer against the biker gangs there. When Tuco Salamanca is first introduced, his compound is swarming with bikers that he apparently has dominion over.

Season 6

• "Wines and Roses":
  • The Twins leave a card of the Mexican saint of death, Santa Muerte, as a sign of honoring Lalo and swearing vengeance on whoever was responsible for his death. It's similar to how they'll make an offering to a shrine to Santa Muerte against "Heisenberg".
  • Bolsa calls up Gus to let him know about the death of a Salamanca and discusses the "blood for blood" motto of their family, warning Gus about the dangers he could face with the ongoing suspicion of traitors. Though Bolsa still trusts Gus during this time, he'll be much harsher years later when Gus plans on hiring Walt despite him being in the Cousins' crosshairs.
  • Kim notes that a car appropriate for Saul Goodman should be a more expensive American-made car, and that he should think about getting an office state she describes as a "cathedral of justice". Both things describe the white Cadillac Saul drives^note which is glimpsed in the flash-forward and the office he operates out of respectively by the time of Breaking Bad.
  • Jimmy relies on his Saul Goodman alias to fake an ethnic Jewish background for his own gain, something he'll later admit to doing plenty of times to "Mr. Mayhew" in his debut episode.
  • Lalo plans to join an illegal immigration to make his way past the border without detection from either governments, only to leave the scene with the organizers of the operation dead. It echoes the dramatic introduction the Cousins had in "No Mas", though he at least kept the innocent bystanders alive.
  • Lalo uses the same "A-B-C-D" method of receiving answers from his uncle Hector that his nurse will in "Face Off".
• "Carrot and Stick":
  • When Jimmy stops by the trailer home the Kettlemans operate their business out of, he stops to admire the giant Statue of Liberty float set up outside. His strip mall office in Breaking Bad will have an extremely similar float displayed on top.
  • Sitting in the parking lot of the tax business is the 1964 Chevy pickup that Walt will eventually purchase with money from his barrel. The truck's original owner, an elderly Navajo man, is seen collecting his tax return when Jimmy enters the business.
  • Hector surprises Gus by looking him in the eyes and shaking his hand with a warm smile, surprising Gus, evoking their final confrontation in Breaking Bad. There's even a shot where Hector's hand obscures the right side of Gus' face.
  • Nacho backs a truck up against the Cousins while escaping (though they dodge the attack), which is how Hank cripples Leonel later on.
  • Gus' spy smugly points out to Nacho that he knows Nacho can't shoot him because it would attract attention, like Jesse will explain to Neil Kandy in Todd's apartment.
  • A sniper is positioned several meters away from Gus' chicken farm, and in a contrast to Gaff's intimidating attack on the compound, this sniper is meant to protect Gus and his men.
• "Hit and Run":
  • One of Saul's clients is none other than Spooge.
• "Plan and Execution":
  • Saul ponders how nice it would be if he could just be the connection guy; someone who doesn't do the crime but recommends people who do to interested clients in exchange for a finder's fee. That's more or less the job he has in Breaking Bad.
  • Ed the disappearer's business card is in Caldera's black book, implying that this is where Saul first knows about him.
• "Point and Shoot":
  • Jimmy is told by Mike that Lalo is dead but Jimmy was told this by Mike before and he never sees Lalo's body leaving him paranoid that Lalo is still out there explaining why when Jesse and Walt kidnap him his first thought is that Lalo hired them.
    • Jimmy also pleads to Lalo that whatever Nacho did, he had nothing to do with it, similar to what he said to Walt and Jesse.
  • Having toppled the chair he is tied to, Jimmy comes face to face with Howard's dead body, similar to how Gus was forced by Hector and Don Eladio to look at Max's dead body.
• "Fun and Games":
  • Saul while on the phone gets the case of another public masturbator. In Breaking Bad he initially thinks that Badger was arrested on a public masturbation charge.

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