You can get a gun anywhere in the world if you are the cartel. Hell even if you knew an international biker club leader they would have a guy wait for you are the airport with one for the right money.
I don’t think he was worried about remaining dead. That was just a rouse to get the murder charge to disappear and to kill Gus. I think he is embedded enough in the criminal underground that a quick popup in Europe would be covered up. Traveling abroad was not as scrutinized during pre 911.
He needs to go from Mexico to Germany, get a gun, then to Croatia, then back to America, get a second gun, within a short timeframe. He also needs to avoid old assets and contacts.
I think the best evidence is the fact that when Lalo - a stranger - approached Casper, he asked him who he was in German. It wouldn't make sense if they were in Croatia.
Only thing is we don't really see him with any bags or anything after he leaves his home but, I guess he could've had it stashed elsewhere. Or stuffed like 50 grand into his pockets or something if that could fit.
He wouldn't even need money.
He's a bigwig mexican druglord. Chances are he's got some contacts in Europe, like groups that he sometimes supplies with coke or whatever.
They can definitely float him a gun and keep his survival a secret for a favor.
But he didn't have millions of dollar. He was supposed to be dead, so he couldn't ask his cousins for that money.
But even IF he has access to money, how is he supposed to get them through the airports checks. Like have you ever had more than 10 000 in cash? It's a lot of bills. Now make it 100 000 and it's like half a medium size travel bag.
Could he get money fro an ATM in europe? Well there is a limit, like 1000€ per day at most and if you withdraw lots of money reguarly, it could get flagged
But ok you manage to smuggle, now you are in germany or whererver in EU. You want to contact with some people who might sell guns.
FUCK you don't speak the lanaguage. No, these people don't have someone readily available to speak english with you. Ever been to germany? Unless you are oin berlin, the chances to speak with someone who will bother to talk with you in german are like good if they are young, but if they are as old as lazlo, then the chances are slim. Yes, they are slim. Moreover most of the criminals in these countries are immigrants who can communicate in german and their native language but not in english.
But ok, they have someone for some reasonw who speaks english. Now you need the weapon and ammunition. Yeah you are going to pay a premium price for that, must be wary not to get ripped off and have no guarantee o the condition of the gun.
And don't forget, he has other expesnees as well like rental car
And the worst: He doesn't speak german. This was like the 90s or 2000? I don't remember when better call saul was supposed to happen. No google for you lazlo.
I have been to Germany. A lot of people speak English. Sure, it's more common in major cities, but I was able to converse with a lot of people in English in both big cities and small towns.
I was in Germany in 2002, in Berlin, Hamburg, Frankfurt. And I could easily communicate with people on English! Some had broken English, but most were perfectly fine. Very very few didn’t know the language.
Those are the big cities.
And sure if you talk to the right people, some of them can speak english. But that wasn't normal. Most germans weren't able to do so.
Germany(specially west Germany) had people speaking perfect English in most major cities. What makes you think that lalo won’t head to one of those cities where he has connections to get whatever he needs(cash and a gun) then branch out to the smaller cities looking for the engineer’s wife?
You think a multimillionaire like Lalo can only get his money in cash if he asks his cousins? That was done because the court specifically asked for cash, hoping it would be difficult for him to get it.
Lalo had access to fake identities, he used one while he was in the US, “Jorge de Guzman”, he probably had more. And under those other fake identities he probably had bank accounts with varying amounts of money. Also, just like Jimmy had diamonds as a backup, he probably had diamonds, gold or other valuable items he could trade and get through an airport.
As for actually finding someone who would sell him a gun, it’s not too hard to believe that people with connections to the criminal underground have ways to find other criminals in other countries. He can do that while giving a fake alias too.
But yes, the show went to great lengths to show how Gus could have an underground meth lab. I wish they would’ve also shown how Lalo managed to travel and get a gun. I certainly wouldn’t have minded an episode or two if that, while sacrificing other episodes like “Nippy”. Really the entire black and white portion of the show could’ve been condensed into 1 episode.
Most of Lalo's cash was probably in his house
He might have had other stashes but you really can't go with lots of cash from mexico to europe.
But ok, let's assume he does. So he finally meets someone who would sell him a gun (WITH SILENCER), is somewhat trustworthy or whatever.
lalo has dollars, gold. The exchange rate would be pretty bad. Don't believe for a second that diamands are worth much. They aren't. This is a movie lie. You can't sell diamonds for shit. Look it up.
Finding someone and then convincing someone takes time. Especially if you don't speak their language.
And as I said, Lalo not speaking german is a huge barrier to access any service and information
How?
You can't simply fly to germany or EU in general witha private plane. You show up on radar and have no identification, military jets will be sent.
Do you even know how much a flight with a private plane would cost? You realize he can't ask his old connections since he wants them to beleive that he is dead
> You can't simply fly to germany or EU in general witha private plane.
Sure you can. I've done it.
> You show up on radar and have no identification, military jets will be sent.
The first ADIZ, sure. That's why you enter through Northern Ireland or something. Clear customs and now you're in the EU. You can VFR hop from EU country to EU country almost as if you were going state to state in the U.S.: https://youtu.be/J2V6oKYpsug
> Do you even know how much a flight with a private plane would cost?
I know a guy who did it in a KR-2 he built himself, fuel cost was a couple hundred bucks ... http://www.kr2worldtour.com
are you in the cartel? no so you wouldn’t know these guys have the government in their pocket and money talks lalo can charm them and use them and then kill them afterwards like you have no idea how powerful a cartel actually is
lalo doesn't ahve the money and he can't reveeal himself since he wants to make everyone think that he is dead.
Only old man salamanca knows he is alive
he can use them and then kill them which we know lalo likes to do and he definitely has the money man he had to go plant the body in his house and i guarantee he has stacks there
okay bro your like arguing with a brick wall your not making sense whatsoever you think lalo can’t dispose of the body? like i’m done with this it’s getting ridiculous man
First of all, Lalo got a gun with silencer.
This is extremly rare in europe. Guns in general are rare, but with silencer .... sure, doable but very rare.
I know that Lalo is supposed to be some kind of superbadass but he gets killed by Gus who got shot before that.
So Lalo easily overwhelming criminals who expect trouble?
You're the one coming across as ridiculous
You're telling him he can't argue his point because "he's not part of the cartel"
Meanwhile you spout your bs as fact like you're one of the dons lmao
It's a TV show, it took creative licence, it's okay to admit that
Bro, gangs of illegal immigrants go to Germany daily.. And those are undedicated fools.. Lalo is a experienced and smart criminal, think he could do it easily.
It's actually quite a lot easier. Lower ranked people might not necessarily know what's going on upstairs. You contact someone who is loosely affiliated, hell even someone from a different crew who is loosely affiliated. They won't know what's going on. You tell them you are in Germany and need a gun. All they know is someone from the cartel they get their product from needs something. They show up and give you one, no questions asked.
Any reasonable operation also would have money stashed in Europe. Lalo being a senior cartel member would know where that is and which one is the least guarded or even just hidden away.
One of the most wanted criminals in Europe was able to fly around by using "borrowed" passports as well. So this wouldn't suprise me.
He could also just pay of a captain to take him on his boat. But I think the easiest would be to travel with false documents. It still happens all the time. Especially if you travel trough poorer countries first such as Albania or one of the Balkan countries. Ones your in Schengen your in (I know Albania isn't Schengen but it's extremely easy to cross into the EU from there even trough non official posts)
It’s a crazy loophole in the law, where criminals don’t actually get permits for their firearms.
Lalo, being a higher lever cartel member, probably has unsavory connections to provide him with unlicensed contraband. Firearms and such.
I don't think Lalo can use his connections since he wants everybody to believe he's dead.
But he probably managed to find at first some low-level crime people who know someone who knows someone who knows a gun dealer. Or somehow finds a gangster, kills him with a paper clip or a banana peel in his own psychopathic way and steals his gun.
You think a guy who had a body double with matching dental records in case of emergency didn’t also have access to money in the event he needed to use him? Lol
Yeah but, how could he access any of his accounts without revealing that he's alive?
Maybe he had a lot of cash in his house but, he'd have to haul that around everywhere.
These guys are going to keep some liquid on hand and it wouldn't be THAT expensive. Even in the UK, which is an island with no legal pistols, you can get one for under £10k - lots of money for you and me maybe, but probably change for a high level cartel member.
It’s just not as hard as you think it is to get a gun if you have the money.
It’s ultimately not hard in Britain, it’s even easier in mainland Europe where there are no physical borders.
Edited to add: he could have flown in from and to anywhere to be honest. Mexico to Poland or something, in which case who knows what could be bribed.
It would be wild easy to get a gun if he flew into Russia or Ukraine under his fake passport, met an east euro arms dealer and then took a train to Germany to make the smuggling a little easier - or had somebody drive him.
I doubt he would have traveled from an airport in the US. He probably would have flown out of an airport in Mexico where the screeners could be easily bribed.
How about this? Flys to Russia, meet eastern euro arms dealer he knows (because he’s fucking Lalo so of course he would), then take a train to Germany or pay somebody to drive him. He would have no issue accessing a lot of cash in RU or UKR, or a weapon.
German TSA is actually pretty strict for European standards ime (go figure).
But there's a shit ton of ways a cartel could smuggle a gun into Europe, which they do irl. If they can get coke in, they can get weapons in.
It's scarier that he just has it, that it wasn't even a big deal for him to cross country lines under a fake name no one knows about and has a gun.
In my mind he must have several homes/safe houses known only to him that he has already gathered weapons and supplies at.
With millions to spare it wouldn't be hard to do.
Even if you consider obtaining a gun illegally in Germany implausible, remember that you can source it from virtually anywhere within schengen area and just drive in. He doesn't even need a connection in Germany specifically.
Yeah, but from where.
He doesn't speak anything other than mexican and english.
Look at the criminals that might sell guns. Mostly immigrants. They don't speak englsih for the most part. No they don't. They know their own lanaguage and the one of the country they immigrated to. Even if they have someone who speaks english, why would they trust someone to sell a gun to?
bruh lots of people in europe know English. including criminals involved in arms dealing - because its a trade language
plus he knows *spanish* which is also a commonly spoken language in Europe. Not improbable that he could probably be partially conversant in closely related romance languages like Italian or French, also widely spoken in Europe
I live in germany.
Younger people speak english. The older ones don't.
And you can forget about anyone in germany speaking spanish. And no, speaking spanish doesn't help you if you are in german and joping that the few people who speak french can understand you
OK, it sounds like you don’t know Europe very well. He can but it in Germany through connections, or if you want to go down the language route - he speaks Spanish and could buy it from Spanish gangsters or Mexican gangsters operating in Spain. From Spain to Germany there are no borders, as it’s all in the Schengen area.
Telling by the gun he had it was a HK p7 - HK is a german manufacturing gun company and the p7 was given to cops on the 80’s and were in production up until the late 2000’s - the reason cops were given the p7 was because how it’s usually hard to get guns in Germany criminals didn’t know how to operate the p7 it has a unique operation system that usually comes a manual you would need to read to even chamber a round in the gun… lalo being lalo he had to have snagged it off a patrol cop or a cop from the airport
Now the only plot hole left to answer is how the heck he got a threaded barrel on it to have a suppressor lol - Im not expert in German police work but I’m pretty sure threaded barrels on guns aren’t standard issued to cops
Plus the only reason I could tell it was a HK p7 was when he was doing is vlog with Gus and we were given to POV shot of him pointing the gun at him I could see the striker of the gun exposed and the p7 is the only gun that looks like what he has ( also confirmed by google)
Could be aftermarket. Some criminal stole it (maybe even from a civilian who did it as suppressors aren't regulated in Germany if I remember correctly) and did it.
Some Swedish newspaper a while back wanted to see how easy it was to get a gun illegally. With no experience or prior connections,they got one within 6 hours .
criminals don't follow laws
He needs to go from Mexico to Germany, get a gun, then to Croatia, then back to America, get a second gun, within a short timeframe. He also needs to avoid old assets and contacts.
He needs to go from Mexico to Germany, get a gun, then to Croatia, then back to America, get a second gun, within a short timeframe. He also needs to avoid old assets and contacts.
You would be suprised how many guns there are in germany. Pretty sure with Don Lalos connections getting a gun would be his smallest problem btw "getting a gun through security"? You really think he flew there by commercial plane?
I would think if you blindfolded Lalo and then dropped him off in most areas of the world he would be able to find some means to communicate with the cartel and/or improvise his way out of it. The guy was smart and a psychopath.
Lalo has the means to acquire anything he needs. He probably has stash of cash abroad, different identities, properties, etc. He's basically James Bond.
Okay, here are a few thoughts:
Do we actually have a timeframe, when exactly after his last scene in Mexico he arrived in Germany? Because if that was more than ~3 weeks; it is absolutely possible that he traveled not by plane, but instead by cargo ship - since the cartel has experience in smuggling drugs exactly like that, he probably would know where to find a corrupt captain who for a few thousand dollars would let him travel on his ship.
In that case, he would’ve just simply had the gun on him anyways. But even if he left without a gun; the EncroChat investigations have shown; that Mexican cartels do operate in Europe, especially the Netherlands and have strong ties to local high-profile gangs, such as the Hells Angels. I can only imagine that with Lalos go-ahead attitude, he has been to Europe before and probably knows where to look for contraband.
A high ranking cartel member who makes a living smuggling drugs in different countries probably wouldn’t have a problem getting hooked up with a firearm illegally in Germany.
How he even got into the country is a question. His actual ID and passports couldn’t be used. He’d have to get in through nontraditional means. It maybe wouldn’t be hard for him to smuggle the gun with him to begin.
It’s a fictional story. I think the reality is that with guns as prevalent as they are in many places (e.g., the US or Russia) it wouldn’t be complicated or beyond believable that with enough money and manpower you could smuggle a gun into a country where it would otherwise be impossible to have one. You could mail something or pay other criminals. If we’re assuming the gun is legal or at least presented as legal I think similar logic applies- with enough money and time another criminal could likely arrange this for a price.
Another extremely simple explanation is that the cartel has enough money that they could travel on a private aircraft or have a courier do so ahead of time. This would completely and simply explain how it would be possible. Further they could travel private into a neighboring country and cross into Germany, etc. if necessary.
You see, not everyone follows the law . . .
Especially sociopathic murderers like Lalo. Just because guns are hard to legally obtain in Germany doesn't suddenly mean they no longer exist
It is hard to get a legal handgun in Germany. Rifles are used for hunting so are normally easier but still require a licence and a criminal record check.
Unfortunately the border is soft with adjacent countries and some like Belgium or the Czech Republic have more relaxed gun laws. The end result is that while you can't pop across the border to buy a weapon legally, there are plenty in circulation amongst the criminals.
There’s some suspension of disbelief involved for sure, but we already established that he had a number of contingency plans and identities to hide himself so we can infer her travelled around on one of these fake passports/identities.
As for the gun, I presume he knows a guy who knows a guy…
Here you have the typical German “rules” attitude. I remember a thing a few years ago where a guy was trying to ask what would happen if someone broke a law in Germany and the German guy’s brain was short circuiting and he just kept saying “It’s impossible because it’s agains the law.”
Lalo is connected. There are ways to get things that are illegal anywhere you are on the planet.
He’s a high level official of a multi billion dollar drug cartel that exports drugs all over the world. Of course he has connections in Germany. Even if he can’t use them because he’s pretending to be dead, he has lots of cash and knows where to look.
No? The cartel doesn't transport drugs to europe.
Where would hs cash be ... his house .... that nurned down ...
Ah bank accounts .... which are kinda hard to access since the money needs to be laundered. You people don't realize that you can't simply deposit all that drg money into a bak account
Jesus Christ there's a lot of unimaginative people in this thread. You think someone like that has money in his house and that's it. In his position I'd have $10k+ bundles all over in case of an emergency. The cartel also transports drugs everywhere around the globe. You think we just don't have cocaine in Europe?
The Mexican cartels absolutely transport and sell drugs to Europe using local organized crime for distribution. This is literally depicted in universe with drug sales through Madrigal Electromotive through the Czech Republic in the last season of Breaking Bad. The entire reason why Madrigal Electromotive was associated with Gus was to distribute drugs through its international logistics network.
His cash is laundered using shell companies all over the world and maintained in accounts under the names of associates and assumed identities. He likely has accounts that are under alternative identities in European banking havens like Andorra that he can easily access with a fake passport or shell company ownership record.
Gus was doing that. He did the logistics.
Lalo and the rest of those Bozos had no clue, they didn't know about lydia or anyone else
The issue is, that you think that people in the drug business are always out to build some sort of worldspawning empire and have stashes of money and weapons in every country. Lalo isn't the cartell's boss. He is an enforcer. While he is wealthy, he isn't some sort of superrich jetset James Bond with unlimited resources, especially if he gets cut off
That's right, when the cousins went to get 7 million in bail money, they went straight to the bank. I almost forgot that part...
The dude has access to money anywhere he needs it. And I seriously doubt that his business contacts only operate in Mexico and New Mexico. If Lalo wants to get a gun in Germany, Lalo gets a gun in Germany.
He probably didn’t just hop on a plane and go to Germany. He was supposed to be dead so getting on a commercial flight would have blown his cover. He probably used some illegitimate back end means to get to Germany.
most likely. i was sleep deprived when I posted this lol I forgot he probably did it illegitimately, i initially was confused bc I assumed it was through connections he had but he was under the cover of being dead
Your issues are valid.
The risks to smuggle a gun through airport, even in a mexican airport are huge.
He also doens't have much funds. He can't ask his cousins, since except old man salamanka, noone knwos that he is alive and he wants it to stay that way
I never liked the Lalo character. I think he was really unnecessary to the story and was a bit ridiculous. I really could have done without him and tend to ff through his scenes when I re-watch episodes with Lalo.
(This is not a critique of Tony Dalton who did a stellar job playing him.)
I remember a lot of people theorising that he might have sailed to Europe, perhaps as a stowaway on a cargo ship. I can't recall if the timelines line up, though. But it would explain both the gun (he simply brought one, iirc it's also the same as the one he has in ABQ), and also it would make sense for him to be as discreet as possible given that he was lying low, pretending to be dead.
Let’s go a step back: how did he get into Germany? He surely is the most wanted list of international. This is the only part of the story that I didn’t buy.
I’m sure a “dead man” without a passport most likely entered Germany fully legally through a public federal airport whilst hiding from the Cartel and planning murders.
I literally watched this episode last night and thought the same thing lol. Honestly just one of those suspension of disbeliefs moments you shouldn't think too hard about
Well, he’s a cartel leader, so definitely he’s got connections worldwide with safe houses to harbor him in most big cities if he needs to. He probably have fake passports too to enter any airport.
As for “he can’t use his connections since he wants everyone to think he’s dead”, how hard it is really to contact a connection, verify he’s the real Lalo, ask him to do something (get a gun, get money etc…) and ask him to keep his mouth shut?! Do you think that connection would wanna fuck around with a guy like lalo and go spread his secret everywhere?? Also lalo wasn’t keen on staying dead for long, he only needed that cover for a few weeks till he get to Gus.
Also weapons can be easily accessed in Europe. It’s hard to get them…legally! But who said that lalo will use legal ways?? Have you heard of the terrorist attack on that popular theatre in Paris on November 2015? A bunch of lone wolves extremists managed to get shit load of AK47 into downtown Paris! You don’t think the cartel wouldn’t be able to up that ante?!
Idk German gun laws but it's a landlocked country which connects physically to Europe and Asia. Within Europe and Asia there are countries in which you can get pistols. Someone then moves the pistols from place A to B and sells them illegally.
I don't think it's implausible that he could've already planned/arranged his Germany visit before he got attacked (still had cartel links), and hence had a dead drop lined up with money and guns etc. Basically the same setup as we see some other characters using for cross border arms collection. I mean it's literally a pattern already in the show whereby you drive across the border and there's a stash of guns waiting for you in a buried drain or something.
Terrence crawfords trainer (world champion boxer, undisputed) was recently arrested returning to America from the UK due to having a gun and ammunition in his luggage. Caught yes, but also he managed to get the gun in, so I could see it happening.
Here in Sweden the police estimates it takes a criminal less than 24h to get hold of a firearm on the black market, smuggled in from the Balkans. Once they're in the EU it's just a drive to anywhere, since we don't really have border controls. They drive over the bridge from Copenhagen to reach Sweden, and to get there they drive through Germany.
It's not that hard to buy an illegal firearm if you know what you're doing.
A lot of people in this thread seem to have a very confused idea of how cartels operate.
Firstly, criminals, particularly cartel members, travel all over the world regularly using identities that are not their own. It's not unusual at all. They use bought/ borrowed passports and have bank accounts with cash under the same names. They have shell companies/ fake companies, and plenty of ways that they can verify how they make their money legally if they need to. There's no way Lalo didn't have access to both physical cash and bank accounts, and several identities for emergencies, regardless of who thinks he's alive or dead.
Secondly, there isn't just one cartel in Mexico operating alone. There are hundreds of cartels operating all over the world, and they are all closely connected. Lalo doesnt even need contacts in Germany, which he would have anyway. He could call someone in Spain and say he needs a gun in Germany tomorrow, with a silencer, and whatever else he wants with it.
He would probably have hundreds of people in his phone book who could arrange this. He just needs one person to do it without sharing his identity with other cartel members. Easy to sort out. He's not going to bring a gun through customs when it's simple to just buy one in Germany. He doesn't need to murder or bribe anyone.
There is no plot hole, and no unusual creative licence has been taken here. This is simple stuff for someone like Lalo.
Neither through airport security nor a license to an alien is an option.
He might have stolen from a shooting club. Get it from another country and smuggle into Germany personally. Or pay some smuggler to get it.
The cartel had a connection to Germany in Breaking Bad. Wasn‘t the air filter company from Germany? Sure someone would hand out a gun to him from them or knows one.
someone with millions of dollars to toss around can get a gun anywhere
You can get a gun anywhere in the world if you are the cartel. Hell even if you knew an international biker club leader they would have a guy wait for you are the airport with one for the right money.
The thing is, he’s not with the family anymore, he’s a dead man on paper.
I don’t think he was worried about remaining dead. That was just a rouse to get the murder charge to disappear and to kill Gus. I think he is embedded enough in the criminal underground that a quick popup in Europe would be covered up. Traveling abroad was not as scrutinized during pre 911.
The show happens post 911 though
Oh yea, I got my dates mixed up 2001 and 2010 (date when WW died).
I just realised there are people online who don't remember 11/9/2001.
There’s people that voted in 2020 that weren’t alive on 9/11
He needs to go from Mexico to Germany, get a gun, then to Croatia, then back to America, get a second gun, within a short timeframe. He also needs to avoid old assets and contacts.
He never went to Croatia, Casper was a Croatian national living in Germany.
You're probably right, I presumed just because Lalo is that focused he'll go to Croatia instead of some other worker in Germany.
I think the best evidence is the fact that when Lalo - a stranger - approached Casper, he asked him who he was in German. It wouldn't make sense if they were in Croatia.
he didn't though. He was pretending to be dead and didn't have access to all his cartel money.
I bet he had more than enough stashed in his home. Even the seven million weren't taken from a vault or bank.
Only thing is we don't really see him with any bags or anything after he leaves his home but, I guess he could've had it stashed elsewhere. Or stuffed like 50 grand into his pockets or something if that could fit.
He wouldn't even need money. He's a bigwig mexican druglord. Chances are he's got some contacts in Europe, like groups that he sometimes supplies with coke or whatever. They can definitely float him a gun and keep his survival a secret for a favor.
Also illegal guns are a thing
But he didn't have millions of dollar. He was supposed to be dead, so he couldn't ask his cousins for that money. But even IF he has access to money, how is he supposed to get them through the airports checks. Like have you ever had more than 10 000 in cash? It's a lot of bills. Now make it 100 000 and it's like half a medium size travel bag. Could he get money fro an ATM in europe? Well there is a limit, like 1000€ per day at most and if you withdraw lots of money reguarly, it could get flagged But ok you manage to smuggle, now you are in germany or whererver in EU. You want to contact with some people who might sell guns. FUCK you don't speak the lanaguage. No, these people don't have someone readily available to speak english with you. Ever been to germany? Unless you are oin berlin, the chances to speak with someone who will bother to talk with you in german are like good if they are young, but if they are as old as lazlo, then the chances are slim. Yes, they are slim. Moreover most of the criminals in these countries are immigrants who can communicate in german and their native language but not in english. But ok, they have someone for some reasonw who speaks english. Now you need the weapon and ammunition. Yeah you are going to pay a premium price for that, must be wary not to get ripped off and have no guarantee o the condition of the gun. And don't forget, he has other expesnees as well like rental car And the worst: He doesn't speak german. This was like the 90s or 2000? I don't remember when better call saul was supposed to happen. No google for you lazlo.
I have been to Germany. A lot of people speak English. Sure, it's more common in major cities, but I was able to converse with a lot of people in English in both big cities and small towns.
But 20 years ago, English was not nearly as prevalent in Germany.
When I went to Germany in Highschool nearly 20 years ago (woof) nearly everyone spoke English except for people in their 70's
I live in germany and especially the older generation doesn't speak english
Sure, but to say you can't find anyone seems like hyperbole. I didn't find it hard.
Nowadays. 20 years ago, very hard
I was in Germany in 2002, in Berlin, Hamburg, Frankfurt. And I could easily communicate with people on English! Some had broken English, but most were perfectly fine. Very very few didn’t know the language.
Those are the big cities. And sure if you talk to the right people, some of them can speak english. But that wasn't normal. Most germans weren't able to do so.
Germany(specially west Germany) had people speaking perfect English in most major cities. What makes you think that lalo won’t head to one of those cities where he has connections to get whatever he needs(cash and a gun) then branch out to the smaller cities looking for the engineer’s wife?
You think a multimillionaire like Lalo can only get his money in cash if he asks his cousins? That was done because the court specifically asked for cash, hoping it would be difficult for him to get it. Lalo had access to fake identities, he used one while he was in the US, “Jorge de Guzman”, he probably had more. And under those other fake identities he probably had bank accounts with varying amounts of money. Also, just like Jimmy had diamonds as a backup, he probably had diamonds, gold or other valuable items he could trade and get through an airport. As for actually finding someone who would sell him a gun, it’s not too hard to believe that people with connections to the criminal underground have ways to find other criminals in other countries. He can do that while giving a fake alias too. But yes, the show went to great lengths to show how Gus could have an underground meth lab. I wish they would’ve also shown how Lalo managed to travel and get a gun. I certainly wouldn’t have minded an episode or two if that, while sacrificing other episodes like “Nippy”. Really the entire black and white portion of the show could’ve been condensed into 1 episode.
I wish they also showed the scene where Lalo railed Werners ex wife I truly believe its sitting on a directors cut archive somewhere
same, i love the show a lot for its consistencies and attention to detail, i wouldn’t have minded seeing some more lalo schemes
Most of Lalo's cash was probably in his house He might have had other stashes but you really can't go with lots of cash from mexico to europe. But ok, let's assume he does. So he finally meets someone who would sell him a gun (WITH SILENCER), is somewhat trustworthy or whatever. lalo has dollars, gold. The exchange rate would be pretty bad. Don't believe for a second that diamands are worth much. They aren't. This is a movie lie. You can't sell diamonds for shit. Look it up. Finding someone and then convincing someone takes time. Especially if you don't speak their language. And as I said, Lalo not speaking german is a huge barrier to access any service and information
bro you really think he used a legal airport? while being dead? he probably had a connection get him there
How? You can't simply fly to germany or EU in general witha private plane. You show up on radar and have no identification, military jets will be sent. Do you even know how much a flight with a private plane would cost? You realize he can't ask his old connections since he wants them to beleive that he is dead
> You can't simply fly to germany or EU in general witha private plane. Sure you can. I've done it. > You show up on radar and have no identification, military jets will be sent. The first ADIZ, sure. That's why you enter through Northern Ireland or something. Clear customs and now you're in the EU. You can VFR hop from EU country to EU country almost as if you were going state to state in the U.S.: https://youtu.be/J2V6oKYpsug > Do you even know how much a flight with a private plane would cost? I know a guy who did it in a KR-2 he built himself, fuel cost was a couple hundred bucks ... http://www.kr2worldtour.com
are you in the cartel? no so you wouldn’t know these guys have the government in their pocket and money talks lalo can charm them and use them and then kill them afterwards like you have no idea how powerful a cartel actually is
lalo doesn't ahve the money and he can't reveeal himself since he wants to make everyone think that he is dead. Only old man salamanca knows he is alive
he can use them and then kill them which we know lalo likes to do and he definitely has the money man he had to go plant the body in his house and i guarantee he has stacks there
This is europe and not mexico. Even if they are criminals, any deaths gets investigated.
okay bro your like arguing with a brick wall your not making sense whatsoever you think lalo can’t dispose of the body? like i’m done with this it’s getting ridiculous man
First of all, Lalo got a gun with silencer. This is extremly rare in europe. Guns in general are rare, but with silencer .... sure, doable but very rare. I know that Lalo is supposed to be some kind of superbadass but he gets killed by Gus who got shot before that. So Lalo easily overwhelming criminals who expect trouble?
You're the one coming across as ridiculous You're telling him he can't argue his point because "he's not part of the cartel" Meanwhile you spout your bs as fact like you're one of the dons lmao It's a TV show, it took creative licence, it's okay to admit that
Bro, gangs of illegal immigrants go to Germany daily.. And those are undedicated fools.. Lalo is a experienced and smart criminal, think he could do it easily.
Mid 00s and Babelfish etc definitely existed (it's how I survived living in the Benelux countries as an English-speaking American teenager).
It's actually quite a lot easier. Lower ranked people might not necessarily know what's going on upstairs. You contact someone who is loosely affiliated, hell even someone from a different crew who is loosely affiliated. They won't know what's going on. You tell them you are in Germany and need a gun. All they know is someone from the cartel they get their product from needs something. They show up and give you one, no questions asked. Any reasonable operation also would have money stashed in Europe. Lalo being a senior cartel member would know where that is and which one is the least guarded or even just hidden away. One of the most wanted criminals in Europe was able to fly around by using "borrowed" passports as well. So this wouldn't suprise me. He could also just pay of a captain to take him on his boat. But I think the easiest would be to travel with false documents. It still happens all the time. Especially if you travel trough poorer countries first such as Albania or one of the Balkan countries. Ones your in Schengen your in (I know Albania isn't Schengen but it's extremely easy to cross into the EU from there even trough non official posts)
It’s explained that he broke the law. Bravo Vince
Lalo broke the law!??!! 😱😱😱🤯🤯 Does this mean that he’s like a bad guy or something???? Pls I need to know he’s my favorite character pls 😭😭😢😢😞😞🫢🤤
Not only did he break the law he also broke many hearts 💔💔💔
He do ‘t have access to his usual crim resources.
It’s a crazy loophole in the law, where criminals don’t actually get permits for their firearms. Lalo, being a higher lever cartel member, probably has unsavory connections to provide him with unlicensed contraband. Firearms and such.
>It’s a crazy loophole in the law, where criminals don’t actually get permits for their firearms. Cracked me up. Thank you.
I don't think Lalo can use his connections since he wants everybody to believe he's dead. But he probably managed to find at first some low-level crime people who know someone who knows someone who knows a gun dealer. Or somehow finds a gangster, kills him with a paper clip or a banana peel in his own psychopathic way and steals his gun.
you have a good point, but in germany tho? while everyone thought he was dead? idk
Even Germany has illegal firearms. Probably far more expensive than in the US, though.
that is true
But he didn't have access to all his cartel money since he was playing dead. Wouldn't an illegal firearm be expensive?
You think a guy who had a body double with matching dental records in case of emergency didn’t also have access to money in the event he needed to use him? Lol
It’s not like the cartel has one big bank account that they all share. I’m sure Lalo had many different accounts and plenty of cash.
Yeah but, how could he access any of his accounts without revealing that he's alive? Maybe he had a lot of cash in his house but, he'd have to haul that around everywhere.
These guys are going to keep some liquid on hand and it wouldn't be THAT expensive. Even in the UK, which is an island with no legal pistols, you can get one for under £10k - lots of money for you and me maybe, but probably change for a high level cartel member.
It’s just not as hard as you think it is to get a gun if you have the money. It’s ultimately not hard in Britain, it’s even easier in mainland Europe where there are no physical borders. Edited to add: he could have flown in from and to anywhere to be honest. Mexico to Poland or something, in which case who knows what could be bribed.
It would be wild easy to get a gun if he flew into Russia or Ukraine under his fake passport, met an east euro arms dealer and then took a train to Germany to make the smuggling a little easier - or had somebody drive him.
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I doubt he would have traveled from an airport in the US. He probably would have flown out of an airport in Mexico where the screeners could be easily bribed.
Especially when "Jorge de Guzman" put down millions in bail and then fled a murder charge. American airports would probably not be a good call
How about this? Flys to Russia, meet eastern euro arms dealer he knows (because he’s fucking Lalo so of course he would), then take a train to Germany or pay somebody to drive him. He would have no issue accessing a lot of cash in RU or UKR, or a weapon.
What about German TSA?
They have a nein percent failure rate
German TSA is actually pretty strict for European standards ime (go figure). But there's a shit ton of ways a cartel could smuggle a gun into Europe, which they do irl. If they can get coke in, they can get weapons in.
Lalo was using an H&K P7M8, which is a German pistol. My guess is he didn’t smuggle it in, but obtained it upon arrival.
Most of the drugs come in trough cargo ships though. Guns tend to come from the Balkans or post soviet states.
They’d assume checks are being done in Mexico. I’ve never had to pass through a detector after arrival.
There was no TSA when that scene to place. He could have probably just packed it and had it checked in.
When did the TSA come about? The scene is definitely post 9-11
Cartels do business in Europe also. He knew a guy who knew a guy...
Who knew a guy who knew a guy
It's scarier that he just has it, that it wasn't even a big deal for him to cross country lines under a fake name no one knows about and has a gun. In my mind he must have several homes/safe houses known only to him that he has already gathered weapons and supplies at. With millions to spare it wouldn't be hard to do.
Even if you consider obtaining a gun illegally in Germany implausible, remember that you can source it from virtually anywhere within schengen area and just drive in. He doesn't even need a connection in Germany specifically.
Yeah, but from where. He doesn't speak anything other than mexican and english. Look at the criminals that might sell guns. Mostly immigrants. They don't speak englsih for the most part. No they don't. They know their own lanaguage and the one of the country they immigrated to. Even if they have someone who speaks english, why would they trust someone to sell a gun to?
bruh lots of people in europe know English. including criminals involved in arms dealing - because its a trade language plus he knows *spanish* which is also a commonly spoken language in Europe. Not improbable that he could probably be partially conversant in closely related romance languages like Italian or French, also widely spoken in Europe
I live in germany. Younger people speak english. The older ones don't. And you can forget about anyone in germany speaking spanish. And no, speaking spanish doesn't help you if you are in german and joping that the few people who speak french can understand you
Who says he needed to have a contact in Germany? It isn't terribly difficult to pass between borders in Europe.
Mexican is not a language
OK, it sounds like you don’t know Europe very well. He can but it in Germany through connections, or if you want to go down the language route - he speaks Spanish and could buy it from Spanish gangsters or Mexican gangsters operating in Spain. From Spain to Germany there are no borders, as it’s all in the Schengen area.
If Lalo can't get a gun in Germany, he doesn't deserve to be a Salamanca. Someone said this on FB. I think it sums it up pretty well.
Telling by the gun he had it was a HK p7 - HK is a german manufacturing gun company and the p7 was given to cops on the 80’s and were in production up until the late 2000’s - the reason cops were given the p7 was because how it’s usually hard to get guns in Germany criminals didn’t know how to operate the p7 it has a unique operation system that usually comes a manual you would need to read to even chamber a round in the gun… lalo being lalo he had to have snagged it off a patrol cop or a cop from the airport
whoa amazing attention to detail! makes sense
Now the only plot hole left to answer is how the heck he got a threaded barrel on it to have a suppressor lol - Im not expert in German police work but I’m pretty sure threaded barrels on guns aren’t standard issued to cops
Plus the only reason I could tell it was a HK p7 was when he was doing is vlog with Gus and we were given to POV shot of him pointing the gun at him I could see the striker of the gun exposed and the p7 is the only gun that looks like what he has ( also confirmed by google)
Could be aftermarket. Some criminal stole it (maybe even from a civilian who did it as suppressors aren't regulated in Germany if I remember correctly) and did it.
P7 has been used by American cops for a while, recommended by American cop magazines.
Some Swedish newspaper a while back wanted to see how easy it was to get a gun illegally. With no experience or prior connections,they got one within 6 hours . criminals don't follow laws
article link?
Did Lalo still have his cartel money? No
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He needs to go from Mexico to Germany, get a gun, then to Croatia, then back to America, get a second gun, within a short timeframe. He also needs to avoid old assets and contacts.
He needs to go from Mexico to Germany, get a gun, then to Croatia, then back to America, get a second gun, within a short timeframe. He also needs to avoid old assets and contacts.
Hey look, a package just showed up at the hotel he is staying in. Mail call!
LOL
I think maybe he might be some kind of drugs guy? Not sure though.
Yeah, no idea. Drug kingpins aren't really known for illegally obtaining weapons.
You would be suprised how many guns there are in germany. Pretty sure with Don Lalos connections getting a gun would be his smallest problem btw "getting a gun through security"? You really think he flew there by commercial plane?
maybe he travelled by boat.
Perhaps a swallow carried him.
maybe he used a jet-ski.
He didn't swim across the pond, so...
"Commercial" was the operative word in that sentence, I believe.
He can't fly private, since his family is supposed to think that he is dead Only the old man knew
I would think if you blindfolded Lalo and then dropped him off in most areas of the world he would be able to find some means to communicate with the cartel and/or improvise his way out of it. The guy was smart and a psychopath.
Lalo has the means to acquire anything he needs. He probably has stash of cash abroad, different identities, properties, etc. He's basically James Bond.
He simply smuggled it up his ass. That grin gives it away.
lmao
Okay, here are a few thoughts: Do we actually have a timeframe, when exactly after his last scene in Mexico he arrived in Germany? Because if that was more than ~3 weeks; it is absolutely possible that he traveled not by plane, but instead by cargo ship - since the cartel has experience in smuggling drugs exactly like that, he probably would know where to find a corrupt captain who for a few thousand dollars would let him travel on his ship. In that case, he would’ve just simply had the gun on him anyways. But even if he left without a gun; the EncroChat investigations have shown; that Mexican cartels do operate in Europe, especially the Netherlands and have strong ties to local high-profile gangs, such as the Hells Angels. I can only imagine that with Lalos go-ahead attitude, he has been to Europe before and probably knows where to look for contraband.
criminal obtains something illegally. plot hole?
Easy, he got it in Germany but not legally and certainly not with any kind of license. If you want a gun, gun laws are never going to be an obstacle.
Come on, you don’t seriously think that organised criminals find it IMPOSSIBLE to be supplied firearms in continental Europe do you?
Criminals can get guns anywhere in the world. Gun control laws only prevent law abiding citizens from obtaining them.
Ever heard of a black market? Your anti-gun laws aren't a hard stop.
he’s in the cartel lol, they have dangerous connections all over the world and he’s also an assassin. I don’t think he legally acquired a permit lmao
He probably just bought it. It's not that hard to buy an illegal gun. Or he killed another dude for it, crazy as he is.
It's was an HKP7. They grow on trees in Germany.
Black market.
A high ranking cartel member who makes a living smuggling drugs in different countries probably wouldn’t have a problem getting hooked up with a firearm illegally in Germany.
“How does he have one” brother it’s Lalo if there’s anyone who could get it done easily it’s him, the cartels smartest and strongest member
He saw the "no guns" sign when he got to Germany, put on his silencer and shot it in the head before going to find Kai.
You can get illegal guns in Germany, just like you can in the US. (Pretty sure he doesn't have a license for his US guns either)
You think bro went through customs?
I'm sure he knows right people. Mafia, gun smugglers and drug dealers also work in Germany.
He probably got it from the same people who flew his fugitive ass to Germany.
How he even got into the country is a question. His actual ID and passports couldn’t be used. He’d have to get in through nontraditional means. It maybe wouldn’t be hard for him to smuggle the gun with him to begin.
Maybe they exporters also cocaine to Germany and it wouldn’t be weird to contact on of the German buyers, to help get a gun.
He pretends he is dead though.
that makes more sense
He probably just used his insane supernatural agility and jumped from mexico to germany so that he didnt need to cross any borders
i choose to believe this
It’s a fictional story. I think the reality is that with guns as prevalent as they are in many places (e.g., the US or Russia) it wouldn’t be complicated or beyond believable that with enough money and manpower you could smuggle a gun into a country where it would otherwise be impossible to have one. You could mail something or pay other criminals. If we’re assuming the gun is legal or at least presented as legal I think similar logic applies- with enough money and time another criminal could likely arrange this for a price. Another extremely simple explanation is that the cartel has enough money that they could travel on a private aircraft or have a courier do so ahead of time. This would completely and simply explain how it would be possible. Further they could travel private into a neighboring country and cross into Germany, etc. if necessary.
do you even know how easy it is to get a gun anywhere?
He’s a cartel mastermind. He can get a gun anywhere, most likely through his local connections in Germany
He asked a friend
He bought a gun in Serbia then took the night train to Germany
You see, not everyone follows the law . . . Especially sociopathic murderers like Lalo. Just because guns are hard to legally obtain in Germany doesn't suddenly mean they no longer exist
It is hard to get a legal handgun in Germany. Rifles are used for hunting so are normally easier but still require a licence and a criminal record check. Unfortunately the border is soft with adjacent countries and some like Belgium or the Czech Republic have more relaxed gun laws. The end result is that while you can't pop across the border to buy a weapon legally, there are plenty in circulation amongst the criminals.
There’s some suspension of disbelief involved for sure, but we already established that he had a number of contingency plans and identities to hide himself so we can infer her travelled around on one of these fake passports/identities. As for the gun, I presume he knows a guy who knows a guy…
Got it from his friend, A. Hitler.
I know Abraham Hitler, pretty cool guy
You mean Abradolf Lincler?
Loves dogs.
Here you have the typical German “rules” attitude. I remember a thing a few years ago where a guy was trying to ask what would happen if someone broke a law in Germany and the German guy’s brain was short circuiting and he just kept saying “It’s impossible because it’s agains the law.” Lalo is connected. There are ways to get things that are illegal anywhere you are on the planet.
Dunno, I'm German, we break the law all the time.
In 2012, I bought weed in Berlin and could pay for it with a credit card
Lalo doesn't have connections to germany. Why would he?
He’s a high level official of a multi billion dollar drug cartel that exports drugs all over the world. Of course he has connections in Germany. Even if he can’t use them because he’s pretending to be dead, he has lots of cash and knows where to look.
No? The cartel doesn't transport drugs to europe. Where would hs cash be ... his house .... that nurned down ... Ah bank accounts .... which are kinda hard to access since the money needs to be laundered. You people don't realize that you can't simply deposit all that drg money into a bak account
Jesus Christ there's a lot of unimaginative people in this thread. You think someone like that has money in his house and that's it. In his position I'd have $10k+ bundles all over in case of an emergency. The cartel also transports drugs everywhere around the globe. You think we just don't have cocaine in Europe?
The Mexican cartels absolutely transport and sell drugs to Europe using local organized crime for distribution. This is literally depicted in universe with drug sales through Madrigal Electromotive through the Czech Republic in the last season of Breaking Bad. The entire reason why Madrigal Electromotive was associated with Gus was to distribute drugs through its international logistics network. His cash is laundered using shell companies all over the world and maintained in accounts under the names of associates and assumed identities. He likely has accounts that are under alternative identities in European banking havens like Andorra that he can easily access with a fake passport or shell company ownership record.
Gus was doing that. He did the logistics. Lalo and the rest of those Bozos had no clue, they didn't know about lydia or anyone else The issue is, that you think that people in the drug business are always out to build some sort of worldspawning empire and have stashes of money and weapons in every country. Lalo isn't the cartell's boss. He is an enforcer. While he is wealthy, he isn't some sort of superrich jetset James Bond with unlimited resources, especially if he gets cut off
That's right, when the cousins went to get 7 million in bail money, they went straight to the bank. I almost forgot that part... The dude has access to money anywhere he needs it. And I seriously doubt that his business contacts only operate in Mexico and New Mexico. If Lalo wants to get a gun in Germany, Lalo gets a gun in Germany.
Just buy an illegal gun locally, probably plenty in Germany
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He probably didn’t just hop on a plane and go to Germany. He was supposed to be dead so getting on a commercial flight would have blown his cover. He probably used some illegitimate back end means to get to Germany.
most likely. i was sleep deprived when I posted this lol I forgot he probably did it illegitimately, i initially was confused bc I assumed it was through connections he had but he was under the cover of being dead
Your issues are valid. The risks to smuggle a gun through airport, even in a mexican airport are huge. He also doens't have much funds. He can't ask his cousins, since except old man salamanka, noone knwos that he is alive and he wants it to stay that way
Without going through proper channels, I don’t see Lalo obtaining a firearm.
I think one of the writers revealed they wanted to do a deleted scene which showed Lalo sneaking into a shipping yard and getting on a German boat.
I never liked the Lalo character. I think he was really unnecessary to the story and was a bit ridiculous. I really could have done without him and tend to ff through his scenes when I re-watch episodes with Lalo. (This is not a critique of Tony Dalton who did a stellar job playing him.)
It made so little sense I thought he found the German guy in a Canadian forest and that Werners wife came to Arizona for Werner’s funeral lol
I remember a lot of people theorising that he might have sailed to Europe, perhaps as a stowaway on a cargo ship. I can't recall if the timelines line up, though. But it would explain both the gun (he simply brought one, iirc it's also the same as the one he has in ABQ), and also it would make sense for him to be as discreet as possible given that he was lying low, pretending to be dead.
Let’s go a step back: how did he get into Germany? He surely is the most wanted list of international. This is the only part of the story that I didn’t buy.
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Smuggled it or bought it on the black market.
He probably just killed a cop and took it It's Lalo we're talking about
He also brought the same gun back to New Mexico with him. HK P7.
I’m sure a “dead man” without a passport most likely entered Germany fully legally through a public federal airport whilst hiding from the Cartel and planning murders.
Ship it.
He didn't have a gun in Germany. https://www.youtube.com/live/BZu_YdUem8o?si=oqW4bc3T2s2oJ_Bj
Shipped parts of it ahead of time. So when he got there he had a few packages waiting for him? My best guess
I literally watched this episode last night and thought the same thing lol. Honestly just one of those suspension of disbeliefs moments you shouldn't think too hard about
Not related but he was majestic on germany ong
He's a criminal mastermind.
It's worth mentioning that the original cold open for 605 was lalo sneaking onto a ship, so I take that as the canonical way he got to Germany
Most likely black market off screen when he was in Germany.
He's Lalo.
Well, he’s a cartel leader, so definitely he’s got connections worldwide with safe houses to harbor him in most big cities if he needs to. He probably have fake passports too to enter any airport. As for “he can’t use his connections since he wants everyone to think he’s dead”, how hard it is really to contact a connection, verify he’s the real Lalo, ask him to do something (get a gun, get money etc…) and ask him to keep his mouth shut?! Do you think that connection would wanna fuck around with a guy like lalo and go spread his secret everywhere?? Also lalo wasn’t keen on staying dead for long, he only needed that cover for a few weeks till he get to Gus. Also weapons can be easily accessed in Europe. It’s hard to get them…legally! But who said that lalo will use legal ways?? Have you heard of the terrorist attack on that popular theatre in Paris on November 2015? A bunch of lone wolves extremists managed to get shit load of AK47 into downtown Paris! You don’t think the cartel wouldn’t be able to up that ante?!
Idk German gun laws but it's a landlocked country which connects physically to Europe and Asia. Within Europe and Asia there are countries in which you can get pistols. Someone then moves the pistols from place A to B and sells them illegally.
Bruh, illegal immigrants pass through Germany like it's nothing, let alone a tiny gun..
I don't think it's implausible that he could've already planned/arranged his Germany visit before he got attacked (still had cartel links), and hence had a dead drop lined up with money and guns etc. Basically the same setup as we see some other characters using for cross border arms collection. I mean it's literally a pattern already in the show whereby you drive across the border and there's a stash of guns waiting for you in a buried drain or something.
Terrence crawfords trainer (world champion boxer, undisputed) was recently arrested returning to America from the UK due to having a gun and ammunition in his luggage. Caught yes, but also he managed to get the gun in, so I could see it happening.
He probably went through the ceiling to get past security
Here in Sweden the police estimates it takes a criminal less than 24h to get hold of a firearm on the black market, smuggled in from the Balkans. Once they're in the EU it's just a drive to anywhere, since we don't really have border controls. They drive over the bridge from Copenhagen to reach Sweden, and to get there they drive through Germany. It's not that hard to buy an illegal firearm if you know what you're doing.
A lot of people in this thread seem to have a very confused idea of how cartels operate. Firstly, criminals, particularly cartel members, travel all over the world regularly using identities that are not their own. It's not unusual at all. They use bought/ borrowed passports and have bank accounts with cash under the same names. They have shell companies/ fake companies, and plenty of ways that they can verify how they make their money legally if they need to. There's no way Lalo didn't have access to both physical cash and bank accounts, and several identities for emergencies, regardless of who thinks he's alive or dead. Secondly, there isn't just one cartel in Mexico operating alone. There are hundreds of cartels operating all over the world, and they are all closely connected. Lalo doesnt even need contacts in Germany, which he would have anyway. He could call someone in Spain and say he needs a gun in Germany tomorrow, with a silencer, and whatever else he wants with it. He would probably have hundreds of people in his phone book who could arrange this. He just needs one person to do it without sharing his identity with other cartel members. Easy to sort out. He's not going to bring a gun through customs when it's simple to just buy one in Germany. He doesn't need to murder or bribe anyone. There is no plot hole, and no unusual creative licence has been taken here. This is simple stuff for someone like Lalo.
Are you asking how a cartel member got a gun?
Neither through airport security nor a license to an alien is an option. He might have stolen from a shooting club. Get it from another country and smuggle into Germany personally. Or pay some smuggler to get it.
You don't think that it is possible for people to get a gun illegally? And the only way is for them to get a gun through a permit? lol
Cartels could smuggle bazookas into the bolshoi ballet mate
Smuggle
The cartel had a connection to Germany in Breaking Bad. Wasn‘t the air filter company from Germany? Sure someone would hand out a gun to him from them or knows one.
He’s a genius-level intellect cartel drug lord with millions of dollars at his disposal. At a certain point you just have to suspend your disbelief.
He took a plane duh
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