An anti-thesis to the very essence of the idea of a spin-off, with this episode BCS revels in an expected fanservice only to completely recontextualize all of Breaking Bad with just three scenes and it's juxtapositions. Breaking Bad and BCS both have been, in their own ways, a long look at the delicate, complex web of causality, of choices and this episode just pulled both of the shows' thematic threads and tied them into one grand story about two malevolent, imploding entities colliding to explode into a ball of death, decay and destruction. With enough implication in the fanservice scene, the show underlines just how decisively Saul factored into Heisenberg becoming the monster that he was. We already saw it in BB how much Saul coached Walt in his initial days, but the implication here is far more sinister and tragic. Here was a man who recognises the deadly hunger in a dying cancer patient with no legacy and decides to use him, power-up him with his myriad connections just so he could make more money for himself. Apart, they were okay. But together, a poison. A fact that Kim recognised and nipped it in the bud, but Saul as a reaction, goes off and rebounds instead with Walt. Saul sitting right in the front of the RV and beside Walt is the show's own in-your-face way of summarising the Meth operation. Walt's mistakes were surely completely his own, but without Saul's desperate, experienced guidance he would have remained an amateur cook and just like Mike said, he would have ended up -sooner than later - being caught, killed or with a bullet in the head. Saul Goodman's downfall was decided the moment he chose to ignore Mike's advice and it would be the second of the three major missteps in his life. The first being the scam on Howard, which killed Jimmy McGill once and for all. But the third we come back to with Gene Takavic, who shows no remorse using another cancer patient - partly for his own wish to get back at Walt indirectly for bringing his downfall. The scam on the new cancer guy is not gonna end well. We're not headed for a happy ending. James McGill is dead, but in fact, so is Saul Goodman. What we're seeing now is Gene reducing back to Slippin' Jimmy. Jimmy was always in it for his desire to be liked and appreciated. Saul was in it for the money and the glitz. But the scams Gene has pulled off these last two episodes have nothing to do with those. Slippin' Jimmy is in it simply because he's addicted to the hustle and the power that comes with it. Gene had forgotten about it but a small scam from 'Nippy' is all it took for him to juggle his memories and find that spark that had died in him. Now he's pulling the most reckless scam of his entire life; drugging innocent people in bars, robbing them blind and selling their entire identities (quite appropriate for a man who has had so many identities by now that they've started to blur) with absolutely nothing to gain whatsoever. Saul deciding to walk into Walt's school and Gene deciding to break and enter into Cancer Guy 2's house shows one thing : Jimmy has not changed, he had simply curbed his impulse down. And at this point, I doubt Jimmy is capable at all to change. "A guy with a moustache like that, can't be capable of making great life choices" Saul says in BB era. Cut to Gene Takavic sporting a worse moustache. A thematic episode such as this was much needed for this epilogue and I can't believe they pulled it off through actual fanservice. Second favourite episode of 6B.