Yeah, that was pretty poor.
One thing that rang a tad untrue, was Jimmy’s ability to suss out exactly what to do to submarine the S&L filing. I know he is an accomplished con-man, and supposedly has great instincts, but many people often forget how compartmentalized various areas of law are, and how long the learning curve is. For example, I have practiced in one relatively narrow area of administrative law for over 30 years. I’m pretty damned expert in that one narrow area - but I’m woefully ignorant about countless other areas of the law. And there’s a reason newer attorneys work behind the scenes doing document review, drafting memos, and sitting second chair - they are pretty much learning on the job. Sole practitioners get their experience via trial and error - at the expense of their clients.
Just saying, that Jimmy would have been able to comb through that box 'o docs by lantern light, pull out and doctor each and every document needed to tank the application, would be a nigh unbelievably impressive feat.
Small nit to pick, I admit.
Man, McKean deserves an Emmy for that head thump alone! Hurt just to see it!
And somehow I don’t see Kim driving a desk in that storefront they showed in BB with the Statue of Liberty on the roof… I bet her career takes the upward respectable arc to counterbalance Saul’s.
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The dentist’s office is far more HHM boutique than the Strip Mall Ambulance Chaser. I wonder why he left behind any touch of class, since even with just what he makes on the books he’s doing pretty well as Saul Goodman.
As Jesse says about methheads, he has about the world’s least discriminating clientele. He has an office designed to appeal to lowlifes.
The scene with Chuck confronting Kim and Jimmy was soooo good. Everything Chuck said was true. But everything Kim said was also true.
Does everyone agree that she is 100% certain that Jimmy in fact did what Chuck accused him of? But she has very carefully left herself deniability…
A possibility for how Mike and Jimmy’s stories re-intersect: Mike hires Jimmy to launder $250K of stolen drug money and put it in a trust for Kaylee.
According to Alan Sepinwall, the finale is called “Klick.”
Fifi
Rebecca
Inflatable
Nailed
Gloves Off
Switch
Bali Ha’i
Amarillo
Cobbler
Klick
Or you can always go to the IMDB page to read the episode titles and synopsis.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt3032476/episodes?ref_=tt_ov_epl
I’m another fan of McKean’s acting in this series. When he’s “on” for clients, he’s one smooth professional. When he’s not, he’s a quivering mass of flesh and nerves. McKean pulls off both personas seemingly effortlessly. I hope Michael Mando (Nacho) is still around next season; the dude is one good actor. I’ve been trying to figure out where I’ve seen “Stacy” before, then it hit me: she was Octavia in the HBO series “Rome”, which means she’s doing a pretty good job with the American accent.
I think you missed the point. Green Bean ordered the titles to show that the first letters are an anagram of “Frings back”.
I think he just pulled everything that had the site address on it and changed it, which I think I could do even as a non-lawyer.
I think that she is at the end of the episode, but I think it’s deliberately vague whether she knew for sure before she told Jimmy to tie up any loose ends, and that’s bolstered by the fact that we didn’t see her after Jimmy went to the copy place. I think that both ‘this is the last straw, and I needed to see him go to fix a loose end to prove it’ or ‘this is where I decided to embrace Slippin’ Jimmy, and helped him clean up’ fit what happened in the episode, and will be interested to see which it is in the finale.
I appreciate what you’re saying but it’s not like it takes a great deal of expertise to guess changing the address would mess up their permit application. He would only have to look through the folders that specifically had to do with the branch opening/construction, not all the ones that probably had to do with State/federal filings for beginning bank operations in a new jurisdiction.
That falls well within artistic license to me. Same as asking what are the chances that Jimmy arrives at the copy shop exactly when Ernesto is there and before Chuck arrives. It’s also very difficult and time-consuming to convincingly doctor good quality paper documents by copy-pasting.
I figure Jimmy used the best machine and best quality paper the place had. If I was him, I’d’ve made two copies of each original, then tucked away the originals to keep them safe, along with the post-it notes reminding me which file each document belonged to, then I’d likely leave the copy shop and head home (I forget if Jimmy lives nearby again) or to the new office and work quietly and undisturbed on the documents before returning to the copy shop to make clean-looking copies of my fakes.
Then as far as the copy guy is concerned, I showed up briefly, made some copies, went away for a while, came back, made some more copies (“heh-heh, wouldn’t you know, I copied the wrong papers!” I’d say, if it was the same clerk as earlier), and that was it. Staying at the copy shop with an exacto and magnifying glass for several hours makes me memorable, suspicious, and potentially discoverable by any nosy patrons of the place.
Of course, if it *was *me, I’d just scan the originals on maximum quality and do the modifications in Photoshop or even MS-Paint and then print the fakes.
As Kim points out, Chuck is indeed working in dimly-lit conditions. A decent fake might pass, unless the original was on some embossed extra-heavy stock or something.
I agree completely, and there’s a moment early on that I thought was a perfect example. When he’s getting dressed for the meeting he looks grim and serious. But when he pulls on his jacket and looks in the mirror, a look of complete confidence comes over his face. His eyes and his smile say “I got this. You can count on me.” I thought it was masterful acting.
Yes, Kim knows. It’s why she hit Jimmy in the car, why she said they’ll never speak of it, and why she pondered out loud and hypothetically about the importance of cleaning up loose ends before Chucks gets to them.
Yeah, that says nothing about Fring coming back.
I agree. In real life there are a million ways the whole sequence could go wrong but it works on screen. I don’t need to see Jimmy drive home and back, etc., to make it more believable.
The show also drops the reference to Jimmy’s high-school ID forgery, to hint that he is experienced doing it.
That desert scene in Breaking Bad heavily implies that at the very least Saul thinks Nacho is still around and their paths have crossed. There’s still a lot to do with his character, I’d be surprised if he’s not around for at least a couple more seasons.
Ah, children. Let me tell you of the times before word processors. When one mistake could mean that an entire document had to be re-typed, and “Wite-Out” was the latest miracle product, increasing office efficiency. Every secretary (that’s what we used to call admin. assistants) had a favorite brand of glue stick, and a couple of different exacto knives in her desk. Copiers back then did not scan at the level of detail they do now either. They almost never picked up the edges of the patch. Now, you’d be hard put to get the copier to miss that.
It had nothing to do with fraud or fakery, it was a skill people had back then because you needed it. Although of course some high school/college entrepreneurs did, like Jimmy apparently, use it for fake IDs and uplifting their grade point averages.
Funny, but your post had me googling for an image of IL drivers’ licenses back in the 70s when I got my first one - but I couldn’t readily find one. No photo or hologram, just a pink and green piece of cardboard with letters and numbers printed on it. Standard practice was to transpose a couple of numbers to make you of legal drinking age, then do a lousy job of laminating it to disguise any errors. Damn, I feel like an old man!
I remember when i went to college and my parents bought me an electric Smith Corona typewriter. The fancy one, with the exchangeable cartridges to make corrections. Styling!