Kim Wexler has always been a woman who knows how to set a boundary.
She knows where her limits lie; she knows when to say “enough.”
She knows this when Jimmy doesn’t, a key difference between them.
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“It was one beer,” mom says.
Kim says, “It doesn’t smell like one beer.”
What’s this about?
Jimmy protests"There’s no way to prove anything!"
he says, and man, isn’t that a perfect line?
For Jimmy, that’s good enough.
But for Kim, it’s not, so it’s over.
(Yeah, sure it is.)
So clearly, Lalo’s gotta go… or at least, he needs to be slowed down.
And really, this episode is all about Kim and Jimmy: antagonists at law, lovers at home.
What happens next defies description, but look, I’ll try: A DVD is produced.
The room is darkened.
Kim tries to get Kevin to leave, and Jimmy counters: “You’ll want to see this!
Your dad is in it!”
Jimmy shrugs: Sure!
He can always hand them to the local news!
And hey, good for him.
Mesa Verde still gets its call center.
Mr. Acker will keep his home.
The photographer whose work was cribbed from will be fairly compensated.
The only damage done is to Kevin Wachtell’s pride, and who cares about that?
Or at least, that’s how Jimmy sees it.
“You played me,” she says.
“You made me the sucker, again.”
And suddenly, what was supposed to be a celebration has turned into the unhappiest of endings.
Jimmy promises to do better, Kim says they both know he can’t.
This will happen again, and again.
Something has to give.
Something has to change.
She can’t do this anymore, she saysand then she says the unimaginable.
