Gene Takovic has a close call in Omaha; Saul Goodman makes his big legal debut.
Maybe it doesn’t matter how long it took for this moment to come.
Maybe the point is that it was always going to.
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Saul Goodman, with his ostentatious ties and tacky TV commercials, was made to be memorable.
He was never going to be able to hide forever.
And he knows it.
When it turns out nobody is chasing him, he seems almost disappointed.
And then, after all that, it turns out he was right.
Two men passing by suddenly turn and walk back toward him, and Gene from Omaha is busted.
“I know who you are,” says the cab driver, as Saul protests half-heartedly.
“You know who you are.
Just get past that.
I just want you to admit it.
Just say it.”
Saul looks around, and whispers, “Better call Saul.”
“I’m never more than five minutes away,” says Jeff.
But it sounds more like a threat than a sales pitch, and Saul evidently thinks so, too.
Moments later, at a payphone, he makes the call.
In a vacuum repair shop in Albuquerque, the phone rings.
We’ve been through this before; we know how it goes.
“I’ve changed my mind,” he says.
“I’m gonna fix it myself.”
What kind of “fix” does our hero have in mind?
And then we’re back in time, watching that business begin.
She doesn’t understand: Why this?
“Jimmy McGill the lawyer is always going to be Chuck McGill’s loser brother,” Jimmy says.
A new name gives him the freedom to be his own man, to reinvent himself.
“I can’t see it,” Kim says.
Jimmy says, “You will.”
(The worst part is that Jimmy is surely right: Kim will see the truth about him eventually.
And when this happens, it will be agony to watch.)
God, I hope so.
Mike, because he is the best, punches Kai so hard that he falls completely over.
You’ve gotta respect a guy who can’t be intimidated or bought.
It starts with the Albuquerque underworld’s hottest pop-up event, with Jimmy as ringmaster…
I see what you did there, wardrobe!)
but Jimmy hasn’t fully mastered the swagger of the criminal, nay,criminallawyer.
is pure Jimmy McGill-brand desperation.
But the parking lot pop-up event is just a preview, a test run, before the big premiere.
(Working title: Nerds of Prey, and The Fantabulous Emancipation of One Saul Goodman.)
As he walks through the courthouse, Bill is confronted by a “newscaster” (a.k.a.
Bill couldn’t play his part more perfectly: “You’rewho?”
“I’m Saul Goodman,” Jimmy replies, right on cue.
The path is all laid out now.
But that’s still a ways off.
They’ve done it a million times!
But the suggestion horrifies her and she refuses, angrily: “I’m not scamming my client.”
All on her own.
But Jimmy’s not here now.
And if he were, she wouldn’t be thanking him.
