So Jimmy turns to Kim, hoping she’ll take on Huell as one of her criminal defense clients. go on the lam) than end up back behind bars. Huell ends up handcuffed in the back of a squad car, and faces eighteen months in prison as a repeat offender… only he’d rather “bounce” (i.e. But as their conversation gets heated, Huell walks up with headphones on and, thinking the cop is attacking Jimmy, clocks him in the head with a bag of sandwiches.
The cop asks him to stop “peddling to a bunch of lowlifes” and sell somewhere else, but Jimmy won’t budge: “My customer base is right here.” He has a permit, he informs the cop, and everything he’s doing is completely legal. (“Well, that was something” is all she can offer.) But Jimmy soon needs her help when he experiences a hiccup in his phone-slinging business… thanks to an overzealous Huell.Īs Jimmy sells phones out of the back of a van in a shady part of town, he’s approached by a plainclothes cop who found “Saul’s” business card on a drug dealer he arrested. Kim’s smile fades into an embarrassed grimace as he goes on and on, and their ride home together is filled with awkward silence.
#BETTER CALL SAUL SEASON 1 EPISODE 7 PROFESSIONAL#
Jimmy is cordial at first, but after seeing the size of her office and surveying all of her professional accomplishments, he hits the sauce pretty hard and tries to talk Rich into taking the company on a lavish ski retreat in Telluride. He will persevere.The split becomes more drastic when Kim takes Jimmy as her date to a company party at her new firm.
The moment when he sucks up his sorrow and answers the phone with his customary fake Irish secretary voice is very uplifting. It’s good to see that he hasn’t lost all hope.
You can see the seed of him becoming the ruthless man we meet in Breaking Bad (angelic choir noise) being planted. You could see the pain on his face and the closing scene in which he throws a temper tantrum in the office he had hoped for was pure magic. All of the progress he had made, all of his plans to move forward, were destroyed by the same people who had given him hope. This was a true “rock and hard place” menagé-a-troìs for Mr. Only that would leave Jimmy without the money that was funding his dreams. He convinced them that the deal was their only option and fortunately, Mr. He sent them back to his friend at HHM by having Mike steal the money and deliver it to the DA’s office. He did the one thing he considered to be the best he could do. They would tell about the bribe they had previously given him to keep quiet about the money he already knew about. The problem being, if they went down, so would he. They refused to take the deal in any case, so he was going to be forced to try to win an un-winnable case. In this case, the only way the Kettleman’s could get a deal was to give the money back, but in order to do so they needed the money they gave him back. They put their characters is tough, no-win situations and make them choose the lesser evils. This is where this show excels, showing real character conflicts. Unfortunately, they opted out and chose to go back and blackmail Jimmy since they had already given him a large sum of money. They could’ve gotten a thirty year sentence down to eighteen months, all they had to do was agree. Next up we had the completely arrogant and determined to press their luck Kettlemans refusing a really good deal from HHM. Then we got the small treat of seeing Chuck battle his mental illness by trying to build an up an immunity to his self-created allergy to electromagnetic fields. The young hothead of the police duo from Philly was talked down and afterwards, the older more level headed had a heart to heart with Mike. The episode started off with a resolution to the last episode. That $30k he got from the Kettleman family was buying everything he needed and he was able to at least somewhat talk Mike out of a situation that looked pretty bad.
Jimmy was finally getting everything he wanted. This show has really had an incredibly strong start.