# Better Call Saul 1.07 "Bingo" 3/16/2015 **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [March 16, 2015, 5:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/better-call-saul-1-07-bingo-3-16-2015/715128 "2015-03-16T17:09:06Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 6
**Author:** ![ZipperJJ](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/zipperjj/32/211_2.png) [@ZipperJJ](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ZipperJJ)\ **Post date:** [March 19, 2015, 12:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/better-call-saul-1-07-bingo-3-16-2015/715128/101 "2015-03-19T00:57:25Z")
> [@TruCelt](#): > > What I’m lost on is this: Why did Mike break into the cop car? Because I thought he was dropping the notebook on the floor or tucking it between the seat cushions, so that NewGuy would find it when he noticed it missing. What did he do in there? You’re conflating timelines, since Mike is timeless 🙂 He broke into the cop car of the cops he killed. To hide a gun with which to kill them. The notebook is part of the “present” (present to the rest of the show) time. ---
**Author:** ![DrForrester](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/8edcca/32.png) [@DrForrester](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DrForrester)\ **Post date:** [March 19, 2015, 1:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/better-call-saul-1-07-bingo-3-16-2015/715128/102 "2015-03-19T01:02:07Z")
> [@TruCelt](#): > > Re: Mrs. K - I still can’t decide if she knew about the embezzlement while it was happening, or if she just went into genius-denial mode once it came to light. She seems demanding and money-grubbing enough to have driven him to it without necessarily master-minding anything. I don’t think that Mr. K. has enough imagination or initiative to start embezzling on his own. He’s absolutely a follower. The wife is the leader in all things - in every conversation, in furniture selection, in justification of Mr. K.'s “alleged” crimes. The husband was even leaning towards the deal when Kim first suggested it. But, he got trumped by the Mrs. Mrs. K. only folds after Jimmy & Mike stole all of her cards. ---
**Author:** ![cmyk](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cmyk/32/3353_2.png) [@cmyk](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cmyk)\ **Post date:** [March 19, 2015, 1:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/better-call-saul-1-07-bingo-3-16-2015/715128/103 "2015-03-19T01:27:51Z")
> [@TruCelt](#): > > Oh, man, this has my head spinning. Do we know for sure Chuck isn’t a StepDad rather than a brother? Or maybe Jimmy is the younger step-brother and Chuck feels bad about the way Dad treated Jimmy and his Mom? > > Or if Chuck is a full brother, wouldn’t it be just a kick if the StepDad was Hamlin? Or maybe it’s HIS Dad? Hamlin Sr? That would explain so much. Thats a massive stretch, and how would it explain anything instead of raising even more confusing questions? Such as the fact Chuck has already been established as his brother, the age disparity between them and Hamlin, or that their last names are McGill. Not only that, but if Hamlin were family, he’d be the more likely next-of-kin to gain power of attorney in Chuck’s affairs, not Jimmy. ---
**Author:** ![carnivorousplant](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carnivorousplant/32/3563_2.png) [@carnivorousplant](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carnivorousplant)\ **Post date:** [March 19, 2015, 1:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/better-call-saul-1-07-bingo-3-16-2015/715128/104 "2015-03-19T01:29:38Z")
> [@hajario](#): > > He put the second gun there. He knew that he would be frisked and the gun, without the bullets, would be found. As someone mentioned above, probably without a firing pin. Anyone familiar with firearms would check the magazine. ---
**Author:** ![hajario](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hajario/32/171_2.png) [@hajario](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/hajario)\ **Post date:** [March 19, 2015, 1:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/better-call-saul-1-07-bingo-3-16-2015/715128/105 "2015-03-19T01:59:21Z")
> [@carnivorousplant](#): > > As someone mentioned above, probably without a firing pin. Anyone familiar with firearms would check the magazine. Me obviously not being one of them. Thanks for that. ---
**Author:** ![Spoke](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a88e57/32.png) [@Spoke](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spoke)\ **Post date:** [March 19, 2015, 4:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/better-call-saul-1-07-bingo-3-16-2015/715128/106 "2015-03-19T04:54:01Z")
> [@Gatopescado](#): > > Yeah. Even shitty lawyers make pretty good money. [Not so very much in New Mexico it appears](http://www.abajournal.com/magazine/article/what_americas_lawyers_earn). (And bear in mind that these are averages. For every monster salary bringing the average up, there are going to be a number of low-end salaries bringing the average down.) You are not going to build a successful practice writing wills at the funeral home for a couple hundred bucks a shot. Or taking cases as a court-appointed defender at $700 a pop. ---
**Author:** ![carnivorousplant](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carnivorousplant/32/3563_2.png) [@carnivorousplant](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carnivorousplant)\ **Post date:** [March 19, 2015, 10:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/better-call-saul-1-07-bingo-3-16-2015/715128/107 "2015-03-19T10:50:21Z")
> [@hajario](#): > > Me obviously not being one of them. Thanks for that. Surely. The writers, of course, may not be, either. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![What\_the](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/f4b2a3/32.png) [@What\_the](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/What_the)\ **Post date:** [March 19, 2015, 12:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/better-call-saul-1-07-bingo-3-16-2015/715128/108 "2015-03-19T12:12:20Z")
> [@voltaire](#): > > I think it was Saul’s plan because it started when he took out the money with thoughts of returning it. But merely returning it wouldn’t have accomplished much, unless he could use it as bait to discover and recover the Kettlemans entire stash, so that had to be his plan from the beginning. Can somebody summarize how that whole thing worked for me… Mike sprayed some stuff on some money knowing that when Mr K found it he wouldn’t be wary and would just go put it with all the rest? Was that only some of the money…I’m pretty sure I remember Jimmy putting some more back into the bag after he got it from Mike. ---
**Author:** ![carnivorousplant](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carnivorousplant/32/3563_2.png) [@carnivorousplant](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carnivorousplant)\ **Post date:** [March 19, 2015, 12:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/better-call-saul-1-07-bingo-3-16-2015/715128/109 "2015-03-19T12:53:06Z")
> [@What\_the](#): > > I’m pretty sure I remember Jimmy putting some more back into the bag after he got it from Mike. On a podcast, a creator or script writer said that he added some of his own income to make up what he had spent from the $30,000. ---
**Author:** ![Fear\_Itself](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fear_itself/32/19637_2.png) [@Fear\_Itself](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fear_Itself)\ **Post date:** [March 19, 2015, 12:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/better-call-saul-1-07-bingo-3-16-2015/715128/110 "2015-03-19T12:54:09Z")
> [@What\_the](#): > > Can somebody summarize how that whole thing worked for me… > > Mike sprayed some stuff on some money knowing that when Mr K found it he wouldn’t be wary and would just go put it with all the rest? > > Was that only some of the money…I’m pretty sure I remember Jimmy putting some more back into the bag after he got it from Mike. The money Jimmie put in the bag was his own money, to make up for the money the Kettleman’s gave him for a “retainer”. This was necessary so the amount returned to the DA would match the amount embezzeld from the county, so as to not trigger an audit that would implicate Jimmie in bribery. ---
**Author:** ![Pashnish\_Ewing](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/8797f3/32.png) [@Pashnish\_Ewing](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Pashnish_Ewing)\ **Post date:** [March 19, 2015, 1:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/better-call-saul-1-07-bingo-3-16-2015/715128/111 "2015-03-19T13:15:17Z")
The money Jimmy got from the Kettlemans was in 6 bound stacks of $5,000 each. When he went to the shoebox, there was one bound $5,000 and some loose bills (let’s say $2,000 worth). Just before Mike takes the bag of $1.6 million to the DA, Jimmy puts in the loose bills, then opens an envelope, takes out a bound stack of $5,000 and also puts it in the duffle (which prompts Mike’s “what are you doing?”). I took that to be the $5,000 they used for the ruse. So when did they indicate that Jimmy paid back the whole $30,000? I also heard someone on a podcast say that Jimmy made it whole, but figured I missed something. What did I miss? ---
**Author:** ![What\_the](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/f4b2a3/32.png) [@What\_the](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/What_the)\ **Post date:** [March 19, 2015, 1:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/better-call-saul-1-07-bingo-3-16-2015/715128/112 "2015-03-19T13:16:12Z")
> [@Fear\_Itself](#): > > The money Jimmie put in the bag was his own money, to make up for the money the Kettleman’s gave him for a “retainer”. This was necessary so the amount returned to the DA would match the amount embezzeld from the county, so as to not trigger an audit that would implicate Jimmie in bribery. What was it that Mike put on the remote control car then? … and how did Mr K think it got there? ---
**Author:** ![ftg](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ftg/32/2801_2.png) [@ftg](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ftg)\ **Post date:** [March 19, 2015, 1:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/better-call-saul-1-07-bingo-3-16-2015/715128/113 "2015-03-19T13:49:41Z")
When I saw Mike spray the money and put it on the RC car I immediately flashed on _Ocean’s 11_ (the good version, not that crappy remake). He was going to use a blacklight to see where it was taken! Given that it was found on the RC car (one of the kids’ toys), the father thought that this was one of the kids’ doing. Note how there was some “discussion” with the kids when he came back in and soon they were sent to bed. I don’t understand why people put money away without at least sealing it in a bag. Especially under a bathroom sink which could leak. Mike is turning to The Dark Side. Jimmy is probably maxing out on The Good Side right now. ---
**Author:** ![carnivorousplant](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carnivorousplant/32/3563_2.png) [@carnivorousplant](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carnivorousplant)\ **Post date:** [March 19, 2015, 1:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/better-call-saul-1-07-bingo-3-16-2015/715128/114 "2015-03-19T13:59:47Z")
> [@ftg](#): > > Mike is turning to The Dark Side. Jimmy is probably maxing out on The Good Side right now. And Jimmy is learning that the Good Side is for suckers. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![DrCube](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/a3d4f5/32.png) [@DrCube](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DrCube)\ **Post date:** [March 19, 2015, 3:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/better-call-saul-1-07-bingo-3-16-2015/715128/115 "2015-03-19T15:27:35Z")
> [@What\_the](#): > > What was it that Mike put on the remote control car then? > > … and how did Mr K think it got there? Mike put some of Jimmy’s money he got from the Kettlemans on the RC car. In the shoebox earlier, we see Jimmy still has one stack of $5k + some loose hundred dollar bills, so let’s say $7500. I imagine some of it was already in his bank account, to be used for the billboard (which was spent) and the lease on the fancy office (which wasn’t). In addition to the $5000 he put on the car to trace the money, he emptied out his bank account, which was a mix of what is left from the Kettlemans’ bribe and Jimmy’s own legitimate earnings from wills and PD work. Together, they made up the whole $30k. “The right thing”. Mr. and Mrs. K lecture the kids after they find the money and send them to bed, so we’re led to believe they thought the kids had found the money and were outside playing with it. Why they didn’t hid the money somewhere else right then is a mystery. I wouldn’t keep $1.6 million anywhere I thought my kids could find it. But the Kettlelmans aren’t playing with a full deck, as I’ve heard. ---
**Author:** ![hajario](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hajario/32/171_2.png) [@hajario](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/hajario)\ **Post date:** [March 19, 2015, 3:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/better-call-saul-1-07-bingo-3-16-2015/715128/116 "2015-03-19T15:39:33Z")
We know that the K’s bought a fancy boat, presumably with some of the money. That means that the county won’t be whole in the end. Of course Jimmy has gotten rid of all of his ill gotten gains which is an important plot point. ---
**Author:** ![Fear\_Itself](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fear_itself/32/19637_2.png) [@Fear\_Itself](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fear_Itself)\ **Post date:** [March 19, 2015, 4:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/better-call-saul-1-07-bingo-3-16-2015/715128/117 "2015-03-19T16:19:49Z")
> [@hajario](#): > > We know that the K’s bought a fancy boat, presumably with some of the money. I don’t when they got the boat. They are not paupers, they could afford some luxuries. ---
**Author:** ![hajario](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hajario/32/171_2.png) [@hajario](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/hajario)\ **Post date:** [March 19, 2015, 6:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/better-call-saul-1-07-bingo-3-16-2015/715128/118 "2015-03-19T18:41:31Z")
> [@Fear\_Itself](#): > > I don’t when they got the boat. They are not paupers, they could afford some luxuries. The thing that clued Jimmy in was when he was thinking of scamming them was when he was casing their house and saw the big boat sticking out from the back of the house. ---
**Author:** ![DrCube](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/a3d4f5/32.png) [@DrCube](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DrCube)\ **Post date:** [March 19, 2015, 8:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/better-call-saul-1-07-bingo-3-16-2015/715128/119 "2015-03-19T20:02:02Z")
Kim mentioned that Mr. Kettleman wrote checks for fake county expenses. Some of them were to himself, presumably for the cash. I’m betting one of them was written directly to the yacht dealership. And it hasn’t been mentioned, but I’m assuming that returning the yacht (or at least its dollar value) is part of “making the county whole”. ---
**Author:** ![TBG](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/c89c15/32.png) [@TBG](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TBG)\ **Post date:** [March 19, 2015, 8:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/better-call-saul-1-07-bingo-3-16-2015/715128/120 "2015-03-19T20:38:40Z")
> [@carnivorousplant](#): > > Is Kim a former Wife, a girlfriend? What is her role in _Breaking Bad_? Why does she change her name to Ellen Swatello and move to California? [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/better-call-saul-1-07-bingo-3-16-2015/715128.md?page=5) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/better-call-saul-1-07-bingo-3-16-2015/715128.md?page=7)