I would say this somewhat increases the odds of Kim's survival though. Not to an absolute certainty, of course, but I don't think that their solution for writing out three main BCS characters who didn't appear in BB (four, if you count Chuck) will be to just kill all of them. Feels a little...idk, convenient? Easy?
Yeah, you have a point, especially since Lalo has to die too, given that Gus taunted Hector by telling him every other Salamanca was dead in BB S4.
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