The coincidence isn’t that he meets Tuco, who also shows up in the BB series. It’s how he meets Tuco.
The coincidence is that he runs this scam at just the right time to snag Betsy Klinger, or whatever the Treasurer’s wife’s name is. They planned down to the minute. They knew when and what route she took to pick up her kids. They knew the exact make, model, and color of the car, and even some of the license plate number. Jimmy calls and gives them a two minute warning when Betsy leaves her house. But in those two minutes, somehow Betsy disappears and Tuco’s Abuelita drives by the same exact spot at the same time in the same car instead?
I think there’s more to that story. We’re going to find out that Tuco, or Tuco’s grandmother, is connected to the Treasurer or his wife in some way. Either the Treasurer is involved in the drug trade, or he’s funding Tuco in some other way, or Tuco blackmailed him and made him embezzle money from the city, or something. Somehow Abuelita got hold of that car, or else she needed to drive the same kind of car as the Treasurer’s family for some reason to be discovered.
Best real-world translation of “You use your tongue prettier than a 20 dollar whore!”, ever.
Odenkirk played his role amazingly well in the second episode. I always liked Saul, and thought he was a good guy deep down. The character and his execution of it made him very human. I can see a lot of myself in Jimmy McGill at this point. I think that’s probably an indication of good writing and acting.
I feel for Mike on a new level, too. Because someone’s going to want either stamps or cash. It’s not his fault Jimmy is broke and unable to time his exits from court. But, i can see that being his reason for hiring Jimmy. You don’t want to try to hire a lawyer who doesn’t need you if you’re in Mike’s later line of business.
“Petty with a prior.” is almost poetry. It’s at least good lyrics.
Ignacio is a clever guy.
Don’t even try to analyze it this way. Otherwise you wipe out the plausibility of tons of movies and shows, such as The Manchurian Candidate, Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade, etc.
But Jesse knew that Saul wasn’t just a criminal lawyer, but a criminal lawyer. He would have at least known him by his underground reputation, even if he’d never met him or used his services.
Not at all. The reason the mistake occurs is because Abuelita happens to drive the same kind of car as the treasurer’s wife. That’s the coincidence, and it’s a pretty unremarkable one.
We saw the wife get into the car. I suppose she and her husband could be involved in meth, and that she handed the car over to Abuelita at some point, but that strikes me as much more contrived than a simple mistake made between two similar cars driving down the same road.
It never crossed my mind that the Abuelita was driving a totally unrelated duplicate car. I simply assumed that it’s the same car, and (as you suggest) there is some connection between the Treasurer (or his wife) and Tuco (or his abuelita).
I’ll be very surprised if it turns out to be an unrelated second car.
It could very well be the same car. but my point is that it being a different but similar car wouldn’t be all that big a coincidence.
I can imagine that the treasurer became involved in the meth business because he was desperate for cash to replace what he’d embezzled (because of a gambling problem or whatever) but it doesn’t seem to quite fit with what we saw.
If the treasure was so involved with Tuco that his wife handed over the car to Abuelita for some reason, then presumably Tuco would know about it. But he rejected Jimmy’s explanation about trying to scam the treasurer’s wife and seemed quite ready to believe that he was an FBI agent investigating the meth trade. And Nacho didn’t seem to know anything about the treasurer either because he later came to Jimmy asking for information about him.
Didn’t Saul see the treasurer’s wife get into the car, and then he called the twins? Correct me if I’m remembering wrong. If it is the same car, that means that she would have had to stopped somewhere, gotten out, and let Abuelita drive the car away.
Which isn’t necessarily implausible. If he’s been embezzling then all of his money is going to be tightly monitored. Maybe he’s giving Tuco his car in exchange for meth (and possibly to claim the car was stolen)? Tuco getting his Grandmother involved seems iffy, though he may have done it if he wanted to maintain some distance between him and his clients.
You’re right. And this would support the idea of some sort of shenanigans.
It could be that the Abuelita works for the treasurer’s wife, or maybe worked for her some years back and is now retired, or such. And the treasurer’s wife is using The A. as a go-between in a drug deal with Tuco. Perhaps something like: “Let me out at the shopping mall and then go get my car washed; here’s $20. There’s plenty of time for you to go home and watch your stories before you come back to get me, later.”
Or…something else.
Of course the ‘it’s the same car’ idea could be completely wrong—it could be that by coincidence, a second car of the exact same model and color happened to show up at the time and place that the first car of that model and color was expected.
But I still think that’s unlikely to be what Gilligan and Gould came up with.
There was a closeup of the wife’s car parked next to the boat. You can clearly see the license number is 401 PNO. Immediately after the collision there was a closeup of the other car showing tag number 493-BHS. Definitely not the same car.
So the same make, model, color AND the license plate started with the same number?? And it was on the same street at the same place and time the other car was expected, and the other car Saul saw the Treasurer’s wife leave in was nowhere to be found?
It isn’t like the skateboarders saw two brown station wagons and picked the wrong one. The right car wasn’t there and another car that looked exactly like it (down to the first number on the license plate) took its place. There’s something fishy going on here.
We’ve established Tuco probably doesn’t know about the treasurer’s wife, since he didn’t buy Saul’s story and had no trouble believing he was Jonathan Steel, FBI agent. So maybe Abuelita isn’t as innocent as she seems? I recall Hector was once considered just a poor, innocent old man too, until we got to see his back story.
It’s an unlikely coincidence, but I’d bet my money on it was just a coincidence. Good TV shows can have coincidences, as long as they don’t have too many of them in order to drive the story.
Also, it’s not the same make and model of car, they are just very similar. From the Internet Movie Car Database, hereis the car pulling out of the driveway, and here is the car hitting the skateboarder. Similar color and shape, but one has the Ford badge on the front, the other doesn’t.
