Better Call Saul
Hit and Run
TV Flash files “Hit and Run” as hour 54 of 63 in the TV Flash guide — Better Call Saul (2015–2022) on AMC, season 6, episode 4, aired 2022-05-02, 60 min.
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How this hour is filed
This leaf is S06E04: listed hour 54 of 63 in the Better Call Saul guide, hour 4 of 13 in season 6. It aired 2022-05-02 (60 min). The listed hour before it is “Rock and Hard Place” (S06E03). Next is “Black and Blue” (S06E05).
Catalog log
Broadcast listing — not a TV Flash recap.
Gus takes extreme measures. Jimmy and Kim enlist a local pro to put on a show.
Viewer FAQ
Where does Hit and Run sit in the Better Call Saul guide?
S06E04 is listed hour 54 of 63 — hour 4 of 13 in season 6, season 6 episode 4.
When did Better Call Saul S06E04 air?
Hit and Run aired 2022-05-02 and is listed at 60 minutes.
Do I have to watch Breaking Bad first?
Recommended, not required. Knowing the destination changes the irony. Starting here is legal; you will just meet some names as strangers that the other show treated as weather.
In the series
Why this series still plays
Watch it for the walk, not the Easter eggs: a hustler becoming a brand, Kim Wexler as the moral engine, and framing so patient it makes combustion look easy. The rare prequel that is a better argument than a warmer catalog title.
Watch the silence after a con. Not the punchline — the parking lot, the overhead, the man who has already started telling himself a story about why this was technically fine. Better Call Saul is a prequel in the way a moral is a prequel to a crime: you already know the destination, so the show is free to care about the walk. Bob Odenkirk's Jimmy McGill does not enter as a bit. He enters as a man whose hustle still thinks it is charm. The series has six seasons to explain, without shouting, how charm becomes a…
Filed against
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- Rhea Seehorn as Kim Wexler
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- Jonathan Banks as Mike Ehrmantraut
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- Giancarlo Esposito as Gus Fring
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- Michael McKean as Chuck McGill
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- Patrick Fabian as Howard Hamlin
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