History YMMV / BetterCallSaulS6E7PlanAndExecution

** The events of the next episode "Point and Shoot" later make Howard's death even darker. [[spoiler: Mike's men stage his death as the SuicideBySea of a drug addict, and if that's not enough, he's buried in Gus' underground meth lab- next to Lalo.]]

* TheWoobie: It's near impossible to not feel sorry for Howard Hamlin. Despite being born to a life of privilege, he's forced to do Chuck's dirty work in keeping Jimmy away from a legitimate law career, which ends up redirecting all of Jimmy's (and eventually Kim's) anger to him. The only way to free himself from Chuck is to go deeply in debt, he blames himself for Chuck's suicide, ends up in therapy, his marriage begins falling apart... and his literal last day has him professionally and publicly humiliated, smeared as a drug addict, and ultimately murdered just for seeing someone he had no clue about.

** For a specific point, when Jimmy assures Howard that he'll still land on his feet. Were they just empty words he threw out to try and placate Howard? Does Jimmy genuinely believe Howard will be able to move past this, and therefore doesn't see why Howard is taking it so personally? Or did Howard's [[TheReasonYouSuckSpeech scathing assessment]] hit home and Jimmy is merely attempting to assuage his own guilty conscience?

* AlternativeCharacterInterpretation: This episode does leave a strong, deliberate interpretation of whether Kim and Jimmy are a [[UnholyMatrimony pair of sociopaths]] and, more specifically, how they actually feel about Howard. As pointed out by Huell before, he could not find a discernable reason for why they would torment Howard when they're already well-off. Jimmy could not give him an answer, either. Howard, however, comes to the conclusion they are legitimate sociopaths entirely motivated by the thrill of hurting others. With Jimmy, in particular, he claims it's his [[MadeOfEvil born nature]] while he's skeptical Kim is naturally that way. Ironically, Jimmy has continuously demonstrated great guilt and shame at what he's been doing while Kim has comparatively shown little of either and is actually the one encouraging Jimmy's worst traits. And despite everything, when confronted by Howard, they are visibly ashamed and guilt-ridden when he lays them out instead of cursing or mocking him if they genuinely hated him. When Lalo arrives on the scene, they are also very concerned for his well-being and freak out when he's killed.

* TooDumbToLive: Lalo arrives, and his mere appearance is enough to scare Jimmy and Kim witless. He pulls out a pistol and affixes a silencer to it. Howard gets the bright idea to question him interrupting his conversation. (To be fair, he was a little inebriated.)

* AlternativeCharacterInterpretation: This episode does leave a strong, deliberate interpretation of whether Kim and Jimmy are a [[UnholyMatrimony pair of sociopaths.]] As pointed out by Huell before, he could not find a discernable reason for why they would torment Howard when they're already well-off. Jimmy could not give him an answer, either. Howard, however, comes to the conclusion they are legitimate sociopaths entirely motivated by the thrill of hurting others. With Jimmy, in particular, he claims it's his [[MadeOfEvil born nature]] while he's skeptical Kim is naturally that way. Ironically, Jimmy has continuously demonstrated great guilt and shame at what he's been doing while Kim has comparatively shown little of either and is actually the one encouraging Jimmy's worst traits. And despite everything, when confronted by Howard, they are visibly ashamed and guilt-ridden when he lays them out instead of cursing or mocking him if they genuinely hated him. When Lalo arrives on the scene, they are also very concerned for his well-being and freak out when he's killed.

* TheWoobie: It's near impossible to not feel sorry for Howard Hamelin. Despite being born to a life of privilege, he's forced to do Chuck's dirty work in keeping Jimmy away from a legitimate law career, which ends up redirecting all of Jimmy's (and eventually Kim's) anger to him. The only way to free himself from Chuck is to go deeply in debt, he blames himself for Chuck's suicide, ends up in therapy, his marriage begins falling apart... and his literal last day has him professionally and publicly humiliated, smeared as a drug addict, and ultimately murdered just for seeing someone he had no clue about.