History Recap / BetterCallSaulS6E7PlanAndExecution

* DisproportionateRetribution: Jimmy and Kim's scheme against Howard, involving framing him as a drug addict, blowing up the Sandpiper case, and severely damaging Howard's career and name in the legal community. His drunken rant at them is largely centered around Howard trying to comprehend why they think he deserves this as opposed to the usual pranks that they have been engaging in. He suggests that he might have let another prank slide, but what they did to him this time is so beyond the pale that he promises them he will do whatever he can to expose them.

* DisproportionateRetribution: Jimmy and Kim's scheme against Howard, involving framing him as a drug addict, blowing up the Sandpiper case, and severely damaging Howard's career and name in the legal community. His drunken rant at them is largely centered around Howard trying to comprehend why they think he deserves this as opposed to the usual pranks that they have been engaging in.

* ObfuscatingDisability: Irene isn't disabled, but Howard still insists that she should sit in a wheelchair during the Sandpiper talks in hopes that this will invoke more sympathy.

* TranquilFury: When an angry Howard confronts Saul and Kim over their plot to destroy his career, he doesn't outright scream towards either of them, instead calmly stating what he thinks of the two in his TheReasonYouSuckSpeech.

* CasualDangerDialog: When Lalo appears on Jimmy's doorstep, Howard talks with him as if he was just a regular client of Jimmy and Kim and even jokingly suggests him to find better lawyers, not realizing the danger coming from the unexpected guest until it is too late.

* ForTheEvulz: Invoked by Howard, when he goes through possible reasons why would Jimmy and Kim would set him up in an elaborate plot, but then coming to the correct conclusion they did it for nothing else than their own, personal amusement. The fact they they literally had sex to the sound of the mediation falling apart only nails it further down.

* AllForNothing: Kim and Jimmy's plan to damage Howard's career is rendered completely irrelevant as he is murdered on the same day.

* CasualDangerDialog: When Lalo comes at Jimmy's doorstep, Howard talks with him as if he was just a regular client of Jimmy and Kim and even jokingly suggests him to find better lawyers, not realizing the danger coming from the unexpected guest until it is too late.

* CassandraTruth: Howard is, of course, telling the truth: the whole incident at the mediation -- everything from the fake photos to the condition of Howard's eyes to the sudden disappearance of his private detective -- ''has indeed'' been engineered by Jimmy. But thanks to Howard's agitated behavior, it comes across as nothing more than paranoid conspiracy theories to Cliff, Schweikart, and everyone else in the room. Cliff himself acknowledges that Howard's claim is not entirely unreasonable and without merit, but unfortunately the damage has already been done.

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* TheReasonYouSuckSpeech: When tearing into the two, Howard makes it clear that he now views Kim as being even ''worse'' than Jimmy. In his eyes, Jimmy was simply born bad, just as Chuck had always said, and simply acts according to his nature. Kim, however, could have been so much more, but willingly decided to abandon her ethics and her promise to join Jimmy on the Dark Side, out of little more than spite.

** If Lalo hadn't noticed a cockroach moving across from him, he wouldn't get the idea to see Jimmy and Kim (because he called Jimmy "La Cucaracha").

* TheReasonYouSuckSpeech: When tearing into the two, Howard makes it clear that he now views Kim as ''worse'' than Jimmy; Jimmy, in his eyes, was "born" as who he is and just acts according to his nature. Kim could have been so much more however, but actively decided to abandon her ethics and her promise, out of little more than spite.

* FailedASpotCheck: It's surprising that [[OldMaster Mike]] and especially [[ProperlyParanoid Gus]] didn't realize something was off during Lalo's call to Casa Tranquila when speaking to Hector. Lalo suddenly got "disconnected" from his call and then called back '''a minute later''' claiming to the receptionist that he suddenly "lost connection", and once he talks to Hector he blatantly tells him that he's going to go after Gus tonight. It never occurred to Mike or Gus that there may have been a small chance that Lalo may have figured out that his call is bugged and they take Lalo's word as face value.

* BluffTheEavesdropper: Lalo makes a call to Casa Tranquila asking to speak to Hector, but hears a clicking sound during the hold music which indicates the line is being bugged. After taking out his anger at the realization, he calls again and when he reaches Hector, falsely claims that he couldn't find any proof against Gus and is resorting to "Plan A", causing Mike and Gus to scramble for safety. When in actuality, he's going to pay a visit to his lawyers...

** The staged photos were used to essentially gaslight Howard in the middle of the hearing, first by showing him indiscernible "proof" of Rand Casimiro taking a bribery payment from Jimmy so that Howard will accuse him of it in front of everyone, and then switching the photos to ones of Jimmy handing out a frisbee to a runner out so that it looks like Howard made a paranoid lapse of judgment.

** When he tries to call Hector and realizes that the phone line is bugged, Lalo also learns for certain that Gus knows he survived and prepared his defenses in advance of Lalo's return.