How will he get there?
What’s going to happen?
All in good time.
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Jimmy retrieves his phone and asks Mikestill waiting on the lineif he heard everything.
“I heard enough to know she saved your ass,” Mike says.
“You crossed a line.
Not the easy stuff, either: she wants felonies.
She wants, more than ever, to feel like she’s making a difference.
Howard pulls Kim aside and tells her about how he offered Jimmy a job, and what happened afterward.
He seems to think she’ll be shocked.
that it can’tnotbe funny, she starts cracking up.
He tells her she shouldn’t have quit her job; she tells him he’s being insulting.
(And he is!
“It’s over,” she says.
“This time,” he says.
And over dinner at their hotel, she and Jimmy move tentatively in the direction of normal.
Until later, much later, Kim says: “Or… what if Howard does something terrible.”
Wouldn’t that be nice?
Kim could set up the pro bono practice of her dreams.
They could buy a house!
But, Jimmy says, it’s impossible.
They’d have to destroy Howard to do it.
It’s fine as a fantasy, but Kim wouldn’t be okay with it.
“Wouldn’t I?”
S’all good, man.
Nacho manages to create a diversion (the incendiary uses of hot oil a repeating motif this season!)
that distracts Lalo for long enough to pop pop the gate and admit the waiting group of masked men.
The last we see of Nacho is his shadow, gliding along the wall as he runs.
You had one job!
In the end, there’s just one man standing… and one man missing.
Lalo considers the empty table with two glasses of tequila sitting on it, untouched.
Whatever happens next, and whoever it happens to, it’s going to be ugly.
Jimmy was very much his old self during a surprisingly small amount of screen time this week.
Like Mike Ehrmentraut says, we make choices, and the choices put us on a road.
Here’s to one last season of finding out where the road goes, and where it ends.
And until then: To sleep, and those who need it.
