he got chuck'd if you will
Probably a "no", he looked pissed (moreso) and I think he actually wants him humiliated in front of -and likely tortured to death by- the cartel more than anything.
Cliff, Erin and Ernesto are only there to drive certain storylines, I doubt it matters what will happen to them. Cliff will continue being a lawyer, probably assuming Howard crossed the cartel or went fucking nuts while on Escobar's sugar or something, Erin will still be a miserable bitch in Davis & Main and I think Ernesto got let go by Chuck a couple of seasons ago.
He's already confirmed dead before he was introduced, because in the Crawl Space episode of Breaking Bad, Gus tells Hector that he's the last Salamanca alive, after Jesse killed his grandson Joaquin while he, Gus and Mike were trying to escape.
But Saul doesn't know that. I'm rewatching BB and when Walt and Jesse kidnap Saul, Saul starts saying " Did Lalo sent you? Soy amigo del Cartel" implying he doesn't know what happened with Lalo afterwards. It is a very small line in BB so I hope they don't retconned that.
I know, and they're gonna have to write his death in such a way that Gus knows he's dead but Jimmy doesn't. Or, alternatively, Lalo could actually be alive and Gus has been duped the whole time.
I think after the latest event, Saul has crossed the event horizon and obtained the "doesn't really care about anything any more" character tag (Dwarf Fortress reference). That scene has haunted me since. This is one of those "subverting expectations" thing because BB was all about the buildup to an event you know is coming anyway if you're paying attention, but it seems BCS is often about delivering what you expected but way sooner than you expected it.
Or realizing what was going on and playing along with it. Hector's basically all there mentally still. So I'm pretty sure now the bell-ringing was explicitly saying FUCK NO, but if Hector actually figured out Lalo was pulling something, it was an act, which would explain why he put so much emphasis on it, for the audience, and also the seemingly mixed emotions. I'm pretty sure Hector would know whatever Lalo's plan was, it didn't involve an absolutely asinine full frontal solo assault on a drug kingpin whose bodyguards are on high alert.
Right, I mean that now that we, the audience, knows that Gus is aware that Lalo contacted Hector. I think that one will be the first of Gus's outright gloating
It looks like the current trend is people who don't deserve it are dying like flies thanks to the sociopathic and irrational choices of the main characters.
And thanks to the circumstances of his death, even if Kim and Jimmy come under deserved suspicion, it will be thought he succumbed to his inner demons, instead of inadvertently killed by one sicko on his way to get info from two other sickos.
If that happens it might be why Saul later panics and assumes it's Lalo's guys kidnapping him to the desert.