Finally got around to watching Season 6 - SPOILER ALERT
And it was awesome, almost matching Breaking Bad. Each episode kept ratcheting the tension up until I had to binge-watch, even when I had other things to do. The hell with them. The series took precedence.
Skip ahead to episode 8, as the tension is increased two-fold. Howard Hamlin is confronting Saul and Kim at their apartment. Lalo Salamanca appears, having picked the front door lock. He is carrying a pistol and screwing a silencer onto the end, his oily smile on display. Saul and Kim are terrified, holding each other, thinking they are about to be killed. Then - surprise - Lalo turns and blows a hole into Howard's head. He ties Saul up and tells Kim to go to Gus Fring's house and shoot him on sight, or Saul will die
From there to episode 9. Kim and Saul are both rescued by the Fring's main henchman Mike, so Lalo sneaks into Gus Fring's underground meth lab where he has his nemesis, Gus, in his sites, about to shoot him. Gus starts talking, stalling for time, and then, suddenly cuts the lights and dives for a pistol he has hidden in the lab and empties it into Lalo, killing him. Wow!
From that point, we segue into the final 4 episodes, and Saul is hiding out as Gene, running a Cinnabon franchise in a mall in Omaha. Carol Burnett is a guest star as an old woman whose son is in cahoots with Saul/Gene in a big-time series of identity thefts, all of it unbeknown to Carol. She finally gets wise and blows the whistle on Gene, and he is caught and extradited back to Albuquerque where he faces charges from the DA for a host of offenses, adding up to life plus some more years tacked on.
Saul/Gene then becomes Jimmy McGill, who should be called Jimmy Finagle, because he is so slick that he manages to get all the charges packaged into a 7-year term at a country club prison, much to the hapless chagrin of the DA.
I am rooting for Jimmy to get away with it, but then he learns that Kim, who has divorced him and made a life in Florida, is facing a civil suit for the death of Howard Hamlin, and she might wind up in jail.Jimmy shows his undying love for Kim by going to court and confessing to additional charges, at the same time exonerating Kim for any blame. He knows what will happen, but he does it for Kim. He has the 7 years at a country club prison increased to 86 years to be served at a hard-time prison in Colorado, dubbed the Alcatraz of the Rockies. The series ends with a visit to Jimmy at the prison from Kim. She is only there as a tribute to what he has done for her, expressing her sorrow for him, while he is cavalier about it all. Then she leaves the prison, with one last look back at him, and it is, as the episode title says:
Saul Gone.