"Point and Shoot" is the eighth episode and mid-season premiere of the sixth season of Better Call Saul, the spin-off television series of Breaking Bad.

It screened at the Tribeca Festival in New York on June 18, 2022, and aired on AMC and AMC+ in the United States and Canada on July 11, 2022, before debuting online in certain territories on Netflix the following day.

In the episode, Jimmy McGill and Kim Wexler react to the death of their colleague Howard Hamlin at the hands of Lalo Salamanca, who orders them to help him carry out his plan in proving Gus Fring's disloyalty to the cartel.

When Kim says Lalo agreed to let her switch places with Jimmy, Gus realizes the shooting attempt is a diversion, so he drives to Lavandería Brillante.

Gus insults Eladio and the Salamancas as Lalo videotapes him, but his speech is a distraction that enables him to trigger a power outage that turns off the lights.

[3] Breaking Bad and Better Call Saul creator Vince Gilligan directed the episode written by co-executive producer Gordon Smith.

[7] On July 27, 2021, the first day of filming "Point and Shoot",[5]: 48:13–48:28  lead actor Bob Odenkirk (who plays Jimmy) suffered a heart incident.

[10] Rosa Estrada, a former medic and on-set health safety supervisor, and assistant director Angie Meyer administered CPR and deployed an automated external defibrillator.

[13] "Point and Shoot" features the death of Lalo Salamanca, played by Dalton, who was introduced as a recurring character in Better Call Saul's fourth season.

[20] Dalton, who would often joke about Smith's description of his character's last breath as "ugly" in the script, improvised Lalo's choice to smile and laugh after being shot by Gus.

Smith said he wanted to leave "breadcrumbs" for viewers to connect the events of "Point and Shoot" to the Breaking Bad episode, using nearly the same lines that Jimmy, as Saul, shouted in a panic to Walter White and Jesse Pinkman from the latter.

Producer Jenn Carroll was put in charge of holding an iPad in front of B camera operator Jordan Slovin so he could compare the two shots and get them to match.

Due to the fact that they were filming in the middle of the night, and because the camera rig would beep every time it moved, the crew made sure to apologize to the neighborhood residents.

To do so, Porter also added pieces of music he wrote for Lalo's character in the season five episodes "Bad Choice Road" and "Something Unforgivable" into the score for "Point and Shoot".

The critical consensus reads, "'Point and Shoot' aims Better Call Saul towards an endgame and launches it forward at full throttle, sunsetting a fan favorite with fitting style while setting the stage for an agonizingly suspenseful home stretch.

"[32] Liz Shannon Miller of Consequence lauded the series's ability to create suspense in a story where certain characters are predetermined to survive.

She described the scene where Jimmy convinces Lalo to send Kim in his place as a "masterclass moment for the series in general and Odenkirk as an actor in particular".

Tobias said Gus's invective about the Salamancas was reminiscent of the scene in True Romance (1993) where Dennis Hopper's character uses his last words to insult his executioner.

He complimented Dalton's "wildly entertaining" performance and said "Point and Shoot" was, despite its flaws, "some damn good, well-made television with mesmerizing acting across the board".

She also opined Banks delivered a "typically outstanding performance" and described him as the actor "most frustratingly denied an Emmy" for his work on the show and its predecessor.

[33] Michael Hogan of Vanity Fair compared Lalo to the Joker and the episode's storyline to Miami Vice and Beverly Hills Cop.

[26][30] Power wrote, "Unfortunately, Better Call Saul has succumbed to the vogue for filming key scenes at night and in near total darkness ... [and] a seismic confrontation goes off with a muggy whimper."

Despite this, Power gave the episode a positive review, concluding that Better Call Saul had "completed its transformation into one of the most riveting – and bleakest – dramas of the streaming age".