It never got handed over, as events got in the way not least the death of Nacho. Tidying his stuff away afterwards he finds the ID card Nacho’s dad was supposed to receive in the event of his needing to escape the Salamancas. Mike, the good guy’s bad guy, spends the opening act cleaning up another tragedy for Gus (without receiving a single word of thanks). But not everyone has their hands steeped in the blood. Photograph: Greg Lewis/AMC/Sony Pictures Television Last man standing Having fun all right … Bob Odenkirk as Saul Goodman. Now, she has seen what happens in practice, and she, at least, has decided that she cannot be responsible for any more. Back then, it was simply the principle of Jimmy’s divergence from the straight and narrow that made Kim look uneasy. After watching her make her decision it seems likely to me that it’s a conclusion she has nearly come to several times in the past – in season four in particular.
You do wonder whether the couple could stay together without causing more violence and mayhem, but Kim has decided they could not. She has quit the bar and now she will quit Jimmy too: “Apart, we’re OK, but together we’re poison.” Self-indulgence, largely in loving Jimmy but also in getting that thrill from acting deceptively, has been her undoing. Kim is someone who prides herself on her hard work and consistency, just like many of the other characters. But here we see the woman we’ve watched for five seasons. We’ve all leaned into the “Kim broke bad” theory, perhaps encouraged by that U-turn on the highway at the end of episode six, or the sex during the Sandpiper hearings. The reasons for her actions, however, made sense. Her parting from Jimmy was too abrupt, too in the heat of the moment, and for the audience, at least, unsatisfactory. We shall soon get our Breaking Bad crossover, therefore, but I do hope we’ll see Kim again too. We are now moving through the years as the show attempts to complete the story of Jimmy/Saul/Gene. Say what you like about the tragic end that’s befallen the hero of this drama, but someone is having fun all right! Wexler through the gift shopĪs many fans foresaw, this episode appears to have bid farewell to our 2004 timeline. Awakened by MOR rock, Saul bounces up and into his walk-in shower, down his spiral staircase, and into his greco-roman breakfast room where he captures the smell of class action in his nostrils. There, beneath his tiger-striped sheets, lies Saul Goodman, in bed with a sex worker.
She leaves the room to pack her things and after a few seconds lingering on the back of Jimmy’s head, wondering what is going on inside of it, the end of the episode takes us to the future, or at least the more recent past. “I didn’t want that because I was having too much …” and at this point her face curdles, “… fun.” “You’d run away to make sure I was safe, pull the plug on the scam and then we’d break up,” she says. She also withheld the knowledge that Lalo Salamanca was alive and could return to hurt them both – just because she knew what Jimmy would do. She cannot cope with the guilt of what she has done, bringing about Howard’s death simply because a scam was too thrilling to give up. So perhaps it’s no surprise to see Kim Wexler spit out the word with disgust as she brings an end to the love affair that has defined her life. The world of Better Call Saul does not value fun or reward it. Photograph: Greg Lewis/AMC/Sony Pictures Television
Wine bores … Reed Diamond as David and Giancarlo Esposito as Gus Fring.
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