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\n\tBy Anna Rumer<\/a><\/p>\n\t Better Call Saul <\/em>just delivered one of the most shocking cliffhangers of its run in the Season 6 midseason finale, and it spelled the end of Howard Hamlin. Patrick Fabian’s character fell victim<\/a> to the cartel dealings of Jimmy McGill (Bob Odenkirk) and Kim Wexler (Rhea Seehorn) when he was at the wrong place at the wrong time in Monday’s episode, crossing paths with Lalo Salamanca at his former colleagues’<\/a> apartment. In an effort to keep his whereabouts a secret, Lalo executed Howard while Kim and Jimmy watched, shocked.<\/p>\n “[Executive producers Vince Gilligan, Peter Gould, and Melissa Bernstein] said, ‘We’ve cracked something that we’re going to hinge the whole season on, and we’re really excited about it,'” Fabian told The Hollywood Reporter<\/em><\/a> of his character’s death. “And like we do over here on Better Call Saul<\/a><\/em>, they also said, ‘You’ve heard this, and now you forget it.’ So that’s exactly what I did. I didn’t talk about it with anybody. I didn’t talk about it with my wife. I didn’t talk about it with Bob and Rhea, and we lived together.”<\/p>\n Fabian noted that while Lalo ultimately killed Howard, his character’s journey came to an end much sooner, when Kim and Jimmy humiliated him and forced the Sandpiper Crossing class-action lawsuit into an early settlement. “Jimmy and Kim have undressed him in his own office and exposed him. It’s a humiliation of untold proportions, and then the final scene is just a real gut punch,” Fabian reflected.<\/p>\n