Oct 24, 2019
4 min read
A MURDER RUNS THROUGH IT
David Calico
18 July 1938–2 November 2002
In Episode 8 of Season 3 of the show, Better Call Saul, there is a pivotal scene in which the character of Nacho Vargas — a sympathetic bad guy — successfully swaps the nitroglycerin pills that belong to Don Hector — an unsympathetic bad guy — with identical capsules that contain crushed up ibuprofen.
Nacho has gone to great lengths to prepare for this moment — tracking down the capsules needed so that Don Hector does not notice the switch and practicing for hours how he will “drop” the…
