Jimmy tells her - and let’s call her by her name, which we find out is Kim-that the Kettlemans, the family targeted for that embezzlement charge, are in danger. Jimmy obviously knows her and she knows him they talk with the amused skepticism of ex-lovers. One of the episode’s most intimate scenes - and really, one of the most intimate moments we’ve ever had with Jimmy or Saul or whatever we want to call him now - comes early, in the nail salon, in the middle of the night, on the phone with a woman from the slick law firm referenced in episode one. Two recaps ago, I suggested that the show’s challenge would be turning a cardboard cutout into a human being. Apparently Jimmy has not only gotten into some proverbial shit, but that shit has led him all the way from small-town Illinois to Albuquerque, a town Jimmy only knows as (1) Impossible to spell, and (2) Where Bugs Bunny should’ve taken a left turn. Here, we start with the past: Jimmy McGill, younger, swaggering, visibly long hair, led out of a jail cell in shackles to the counsel of Brother Chuck. From a writer’s perspective, the device is understandably alluring: What else could hook a viewer so immediately as getting a glimpse into where a character once was, or where they will ultimately end up?
ever break their addiction to the flash-forward and flashback? Barely an episode of Breaking Bad - and now its spinoff - started out anywhere other than the future or the past. Saul and Kim discuss some things we still don’t understand.