The "Better Call Saul" point of no return: Jimmy McGill is dead, and Saul Goodman rises

Life-altering horrors happen in the arid, open desert. In the "Better Call Saul" and "Breaking Bad" universe, the desert also happens to be where bad men are made and unmade. AMC's "Better Call Saul" begins as a character profile, enabling creators Vince Gilligan and Peter Gould and Odenkirk to examine with humor, fright and tragedy how their creation becomes the shamelessly amoral lawyer we know from Walter White's chapter. And this is underscored in this season's penultimate episode, "Bad Choice Road," in which Mike spells out the price for the life he and Saul have chosen. In the seventh episode of this fifth season, when Saul agrees to the devil's bargain Lalo offers, he believes that falling in with the drug underworld simply means easy riches with few questions asked.