Nacho receives a call telling him to open Lalo's back gate at 3 a.m. Kim ignores Jimmy's request to remain at the hotel, meets with the public defender, and accepts twenty pending felony cases pro bono.

Still angered by Howard's comments, Kim proposes a forced resolution of the Sandpiper case by sabotaging him, which would enable Jimmy to receive his seven-figure share of the settlement sooner.

[f] Lalo is awake at 3 a.m., so Nacho sets a kitchen fire as a distraction that enables him to open the gate.

Much of the fifth season was written to drive toward the final scene between Kim and Jimmy in which she appears ready to take vengeful action against Howard, showing that Kim has a side of her that is as conniving, if not more so than Jimmy's "Saul Goodman" persona.

According to Tony Dalton, who plays Lalo, series co-creators Vince Gilligan and Peter Gould had not given much time to show the full breadth of Lalo's character outside of a few intense scenes such as when he confronts Fred, the clerk at the Travelwire store in "Winner".

Within "Something Unforgivable" they gave Lalo this larger characterization, first showing him as a warm and charismatic person when introducing his family to Nacho on arrival at his home, then later as a ruthless killer when attacking the assassination team, particularly when he finds they killed his nana who may not have been a blood relative but who had taken care of Lalo.

[4] On Rotten Tomatoes, Something Unforgivable received an 100% rating with an average 8.86 out of 10 score based on 15 reviews.

The critical consensus is, "Lalo lives to fight another day and Kim breaks bad in a season finale that masterfully assembles the board for Better Call Saul's doom-laden conclusion.