It’s Saul Goodman!
And it’s all good, man.
But this week, you don’t have to squint to see Saul.
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“I guess that’s it.
Quite a ride, huh?”
He sounds like he’s on the verge of either laughing or crying; it’s impossible to tell.
Francesca looks at his open arms and leaves.
Why would the show pick this moment to jump so far forward?
It’ll all become clear soon enough, as we return to the original timeline.
the single-use cell phone that all cash-based (read: criminal) enterprises rely on.
Cut to Kim waking up and finding Jimmy in the bathroom, bruised and bleeding.
She starts treating his wounds (one-handed, no less!)
but Jimmy is preoccupied.
“What the hell is the matter with me?”
he says, but he doesn’t mean it the way you think.
Suddenly, we’re down the hall, seeing Jimmy from a distance.
Meanwhile, Jimmy isn’t the only one trying out a new line of work.
As the man lists off all the problems with the project, Gus emerges from the shadows.
“So it’s impossible?”
Very, very expensive," the German replies.
“Not quite impossible.”
The men shake hands.
Jimmy responds to this news by flushing his own therapist referral down the toilet, for… some reason.
(A simple refusal to follow Howard’s example in any way?
He’s going to pick up his practice, only better.
More clients, more wins, more fame.
“Bigger and better, everything will be better,” he says, practically snarling.
It’s a show of passion the other man wasn’t expecting; he just wanted a simple answer.
“So, lawyer?”
“Yeah,” Jimmy says.
This time, the camera doesn’t flinch.
And as we all know, a lawyer is what he becomesfor a while, anyway.
After all, we know that Jimmy is going to have everything he’s dreaming of.
He’s also going to lose it.
