"Fun and Games" is the ninth episode of the sixth season of Better Call Saul, the spin-off television series of Breaking Bad. It was directed by Michael Morris and written by Ann Cherkis. The episode aired on AMC and AMC+ on July 18, 2022, before debuting online in certain territories on Netflix the following day. In the episode, Gus Fring discusses the death of Lalo Salamanca with the cartel, Mike Ehrmantraut ties up a loose end, and Jimmy McGill and Kim Wexler deal with the aftermath of Howard Hamlin's murder.

"Fun and Games" was met with critical acclaim, particularly for its character development and the performances of Bob Odenkirk and Rhea Seehorn as Jimmy and Kim. It marks the final appearance for Giancarlo Esposito (Gus Fring). An estimated 1.22 million viewers saw the episode during its first broadcast on AMC.

Jimmy McGill and Kim Wexler leave for work while Mike Ehrmantraut and his men remove all traces of Howard Hamlin's murder^{[lower-alpha 1]} from their apartment. When they return, Jimmy reassures Kim that they will eventually forget what happened,^{[lower-alpha 2]} but Kim does not react.

Gus Fring meets with members of the cartel at Don Eladio's home. Juan Bolsa reads Hector Salamanca's statement claiming Gus killed Lalo Salamanca, since Lalo contacted Hector after his supposed death but is now missing. With no proof of Lalo's initial survival, Eladio dismisses Hector's request for revenge. To keep the peace, Eladio divides the Albuquerque-area drug territory: the Salamancas will control the South Valley, while Gus receives the area to the north. Gus later tells Mike to find a new crew to immediately resume construction of the meth lab. To celebrate, Gus visits a wine bar and converses with David, his favorite sommelier, enjoying his company before cutting the visit short. In the middle of the night, Mike visits Nacho Varga's father, Manuel, who recognizes Mike from having previously worked on his Chrysler Fifth Avenue.^{[lower-alpha 3]} Mike informs Manuel of Nacho's death,^{[lower-alpha 4]} says the Salamancas will no longer target him, and that they will face "justice". Manuel dismissively tells Mike he is no different from the criminals with whom he associates.

Jimmy and Kim attend Howard's memorial at HHM and learn the firm will downsize and rebrand. Howard's widow, Cheryl, questions them about the circumstances of Howard's death. Kim deflects blame by suggesting Cheryl failed to notice Howard's supposed drug problem, causing Cheryl to break down in tears. The next morning, Kim surrenders her law license. At home, Jimmy begs Kim to reconsider but finds she has packed her belongings. Kim tells Jimmy she loves him but they are bad for each other and will only hurt those around them. She reveals that she knew of Lalo's survival before he appeared at their apartment but did not tell Jimmy for fear it would jeopardize their scheme against Howard, which she enjoyed but now regrets. She then tearfully leaves him.

In a flashforward, Jimmy has fully embraced his Saul Goodman persona, living in a large mansion, frequenting prostitutes, and driving a 1997 Cadillac DeVille with "LWYRUP" vanity plate to his newly renovated office to meet with clients.^{[lower-alpha 5]}

"Fun and Games" was written and directed by Better Call Saul veterans Ann Cherkis and Michael Morris, respectively. The episode was dedicated to Julia Clark Downs, an Albuquerque attorney who consulted for the show in regard to its legal system presentations. Downs died on October 5, 2021, in a traffic accident.^[6][7]

The episode marked the end of the drug cartel storyline on Better Call Saul. Giancarlo Esposito made his final appearance as Gus Fring, while Jonathan Banks made only two more brief appearances as Mike Ehrmantraut.^[8] The opening montage in the episode was 12 to 16 pages in Cherkis's script. The concept of directing a montage was not new to Morris, as he had worked on one for the season four episode "Quite a Ride". He said testing the props for the opening scene took a lot of time and precision.^[9] A music cover of Harry Nilsson's "Perfect Day", by Dresage and Slow Shiver, was recorded for the intro to accommodate the runtime.^{[10]: 8:26–9:16} For the scene between Mike and Manuel, a fence was put in to symbolize imprisonment.^[9] Esposito and Reed Diamond, who played David, previously worked together on the television film Homicide: The Movie.^[11] Most of the images used during Howard Hamlin's memorial were taken from actor Patrick Fabian's personal social media, slightly edited to avoid anachronisms; only one image was newly shot for the episode.^[12][13]

The breakup scene was rehearsed to plan how the crew would shoot the scene with Morris, cinematographer Marshall Adams, camera operators Matt Credle and Jordan Slovin, and dolly grip Eli Schneider in the same room. Rhea Seehorn, who plays Kim, described it as an intimate, orchestrated dance to shoot the scene with a minimal number of cuts.^[14] Morris mentioned that they "covered essentially each side of the whole conversation moving from room to room in a single take, and we did not use a hand-held camera, which just means we had to build a very, very precise dolly track and a sound plan to get it covered, and the set wasn't really built for that kind of thing. It was a huge effort from everyone to cover the scene that way, but I wanted to do it because having rehearsed it with them, I knew that this was not a scene that you wanted to break up ... because they were so on top of the moment and we would have lost so much. The rehearsal was huge for us."^[15]

Morris said they filmed the transition to the final scene's flashforward in an "unconventional way" by not focusing on Jimmy's facial reaction to the "last time he's going to see this apartment probably in some real sense" and cutting to the future where "it's not him anymore. That was how we approached that. We shot each side of this in one unbroken take from room to room and pulling back. That's why the camera moves more than the camera often moves in a scene like this in Better Call Saul. Rather than try and maintain an emotional peak on [his] face, I'd rather just be in the room with him and just let it die."^[9]

There is some ambiguity surrounding the length of the time skip at the end of the episode. While the dates on Saul's license plate and handicapped placard may indicate the final scenes take place around 2005,^[16] Better Call Saul executive producer Thomas Schnauz stated that the events may take place closer to 2007.^[17] However, Schnauz later clarified that it could indeed be 2005, as he was not aware of the dates shown, though his estimation was based on the discussions from the writers' room.^[18] He explained that, "Ultimately, it doesn't matter what year [the episode] ends in. He's full Saul Goodman, prior to the events of [Breaking Bad]."^[19]