20 Best Episodes Of Better Call Saul
3. Bagman (Season 5, Episode 8)
Bagman is Better Call Saul's answer to Breaking Bad's One Minute; a tense, game-changing hour of brief but horrible violence and quiet introspection that puts its key players in their most perilous and transformative predicaments to date.
Forced to go after Lalo's buried bail money in the desert, Saul finds himself ambushed by the Cartel and saved by a stalking, sniper-wielding Mike. Trapped and off the grid, the pair are pushed to confront their life choices and work together to save Lalo and get home in one piece.
A stunning exercise in direction from Gordon Smith, Bagman soars with the contrasting performances of its stars (a fidgeting Odenkirk and stone-faced Banks) and the sharp brutality of its action.
With its colourful visual beauty and tension, Bagman is Better Call Saul at its most shocking and volatile, a perilous hour that would be number one on this list were it not for two other small screen masterpeieces.