Gilligan had made arrangements to direct one episode in the fifth season after completing post-production of El Camino: A Breaking Bad Movie.
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"Bagman" was directed by series co-creator Vince Gilligan, who considered the episode one of the most challenging episodes he had to direct in his career. Series co-creator Vince Gilligan considered "Bagman" to be one of the most challenging episodes to direct in his career. Mike and Jimmy resume walking, this time on the road. The gunman's vehicle flips and is destroyed. When the gunman is close enough, Mike shoots and kills him.
Mike spots the surviving gunman, but rather than hide as Mike directs, Jimmy regains his motivation and runs into the road to attract the gunman's attention. Lalo refuses and tells her Jimmy will be fine because he is a survivor.Ī dehydrated and sunburned Jimmy reaches his limit and collapses, and Mike fails to motivate him to go on. She tells him she is Jimmy's wife and asks for Jimmy's location so she can search. When Jimmy fails to return, Kim pretends to be Lalo's attorney to visit him in prison. As they camp overnight, Jimmy tells Mike that Kim knows of his work for Lalo Mike warns Jimmy that if she knows details about the Salamancas, Kim is now "in the game." Jimmy and Mike resume their trek the following morning. With no cell phone coverage and no vehicle, they push the car over the edge of the road and walk cross-country with the money in order to avoid the surviving gunman. He finds his truck was also disabled in the shootout, so he places a still-shaken Jimmy and the money in Jimmy's car and begins driving back to Albuquerque.
The unseen shooter was Mike, who was tracking Jimmy for Gus. The surviving gunman escapes in the only drivable truck. All but one are killed and their vehicles are disabled. The gunmen are suddenly attacked by an unknown shooter. Numerous gunmen exit, take the money, and prepare to kill him. Jimmy starts his return trip but several trucks cut him off. The next morning, the Cousins deliver two duffel bags of cash to Jimmy at the pickup site. Kim begs Jimmy not to go, saying he is an attorney, not a " bagman" for drug dealers, but he says he will do it because it will be easy and no one will suspect him of being the courier. Jimmy reluctantly agrees to pick up the money after Lalo promises him $100,000. Lalo gives Jimmy directions to a remote desert pickup site. As they depart, an informant inside the building makes a telephone call to report their presence. The Cousins arrive at a Mexican cartel site to pick up Lalo Salamanca's bail money.
At the Primetime Emmy Awards, the episode received three nominations, for Outstanding Sound Editing, Outstanding Sound Mixing, and Outstanding Writing for a Drama Series. The episode received universal acclaim by critics, who called it one of the best episodes of Better Call Saul. In its initial airing, "Bagman" was seen by 1.42 million viewers in the United States. Additionally, Daniel and Luis Moncada made guest appearances in the episode as the Cousins, also known as Leonel and Marco Salamanca. "Bagman" took 18 days to film, which was nine days more than average episodes, and was shot on location at the Tohajiilee Indian Reservation, with Marshall Adams serving as a cinematographer for the episode. The episode's director, Gilligan, said that "Bagman" was one of the most challenging episodes he had to direct in his career. Together, the pair begin their journey back to civilization, while Jimmy's wife, Kim Wexler, begins to get worried. Once there, Jimmy finds himself in the middle of a shootout, where he encounters Mike Ehrmantraut. In the episode, Jimmy McGill agrees to travel to the desert as a " bagman" to pick up the $7 million that will serve as bail money for Lalo Salamanca. Outside of the United States, the episode premiered in several countries on Netflix. Written by Gordon Smith and directed by Vince Gilligan, the episode aired on April 6, 2020, on AMC in the United States. " Bagman" is the eighth episode of the fifth season of the American crime drama television series Better Call Saul, the spinoff series of Breaking Bad.
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