- Warning: Spoilers follow for the Better Call Saul season 6 premiere.
- A moment near the beginning of the episode involving Lalo may have left you confused until the second time.
- Giancarlo Esposito told Insider he had to explain to his daughters, who were “shamed.”
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The Better Call Saul season 6 premiere includes a chilling detail you might miss on first viewing.
When Lalo Salamanca (Tony Dalton) visits a couple at the beginning of the episode, the man tells Lalo he’s going to clean up and shave his overgrown beard.
Lalo tells him to keep the mustache and the soul patch, something you might not think twice about at first.
While the woman prepares coffee for Lalo, he removes a blade from a pair of scissors and goes to the bathroom, where the man shaves with intent to kill him.
Lalo executes a plan for the Better Call Saul season 6 premiere. AMC
But why?
If the moment confused you, you were not alone. Even star Giancarlo Esposito’s adult daughters, Kale and Ruby, had the scene explained to them.
“They were confused the moment Lalo got the knife and he’s in this beautiful Mexican casita with people who are his friends. And I was like, ‘Well, you know what’s happening to them,'” Esposito told Insider via Zoom earlier this month.
In the Season 5 finale, which aired about two years ago, Gus Fring (Esposito) sent a group of assassins to Mexico to kill Lalo. They failed, but Lalo skillfully faked his own death.
Needing a body to make his death believable to Gus and the world, Lalo finds a man who closely resembles him. He then encourages this man to shave his facial hair so that he looks like Lalo’s doppelganger.
Just before Lalo kills the man off-screen, there’s a shot of the man looking up at Lalo and you should notice that the two look a lot alike.
The man’s reflection in the mirror reveals that he resembles Lalo after a quick shave. AMC composed by Kirsten Acuna/Insider
When Esposito’s daughters put two and two together, he said they were shocked.
“They didn’t put that together,” Esposito said, recounting how he explained the scene to them. “And I said, ‘When the guy shaved, what did he look like?’ They were ashamed. They thought it was awful.”
“They are so excited about this show and so amazed,” Esposito added of his daughters, who accompanied their father to the show’s sixth season premiere on April 7.
Kale (left) and Ruby (right) Esposito are seen with their father Giancarlo Esposito at the season 6 premiere of “Better Call Saul” April 7 in Hollywood. Steve Granitz/FilmMagic
The star, who plays the fearsome and calculating restaurateur in the prequel series Breaking Bad, added that Kale, one of Esposito’s four daughters, is a big fan of both shows. As a result, they try to get spoilers out of him about the final season.
“Mostly they tease me. They really want to know exactly what I’m going to do to Lalo,” Esposito said, hinting that things may not go as fans expect.
He added, “It’s going to surprise audiences as to what Lalo does to me, and it’s going to surprise audiences as to what Gu’s final endgame is this particular season.”
New episodes of “Better Call Saul” air Mondays at 9 p.m. ET on AMC. The first two episodes are currently streaming on AMC+.