Was that really Robert Forester we saw on the phone to Gene? It was certainly his voice, but when we saw him he was either blurred-out or in a very dark close-up where his features were in deep shadow.
I had to wonder, since he died some months ago, whether they didn’t re-use some audio recorded from previous episodes and had a stand-in whose appearance could be fudged for the on-camera presentation.
That was Forster…the scene was filmed when they were shooting El Camino. As Producer Peter Gould put it,
My prediction is that that kid was actually innocent and if Kim had done some investigation, she would have learned that and gotten him off in trial. Maybe he is even killed in prison.
If he was actually innocent, then the notion of there suddenly being new evidence probably wouldn’t have worried him so much. If anything, it might have made him more suspicious of her claim - how could they have witnesses for something he didn’t do?
Good point. I was just trying to figure out a way for that to tragically blow up in her face.
He seemed puzzled when Kim asked him if he was excited for the delivery of his wife’s (girlfriend’s?) baby. Was he just nervous or is something else going on there?
Actually watched the episodes last night. I’m wondering what’s going on with Howard - I’m pretty sure he’s not there just for funsies, or to offer Jimmy a job at HHM. I suspect that something is going on with Sandpiper, though I have no idea if it’s good or bad. If the case is coming to a good conclusion, then Jimmy can get his cash payout and look at buying a house or reopening the WM office, which will push things with Kim. If it’s something where Jimmy won’t get his payout, then that could drive Jimmy to more money-making schemes.
I like that Kim keeps sending messages to Jimmy that he completely misses. Like when she objects to his ‘discount’ scheme, he interprets it as ‘Saul, you’re going to come off as desperate and hurting for clients instead of as a success’, when she really means ‘Jimmy, you’re a great lawyer and you can run a legitimate practice, and save the scamming for the side’. Or when they’re talking about the house and "This is the closet of your dreams” “Our dreams” “Sure”… that’s not a happy comment. I think Kim has wanted to be with the hardworking Jimmy who occasionally pulls a scam and be the one who keeps him from going to far, and now she finds that he’s the scam artist who works hard at scams, and keeps pulling her into the muck.
I think Gene is going to end up trying to kill Jeff. There’s really not another way to take care of that loose end for him, and what he does will show us a lot about where his moral compass ends up in the end. Also Jimmy is a staggeringly good lawyer, juggling all of those cases without even a Francesca manning the phone could not be easy.
I don’t like that Lalo seems to be having such a hard time finding out about “Michael” - why doesn’t Hector remember the bald gringo named “Michael” who got Tuco sent to prison, prompted him to use the twins, and used balls of steel to make Hector pay him off? And Nacho saying he doesn’t know Bald Gringo Mike who he watched stare down Hector in a roomful of Hector’s armed thugs seems… a rather dangerous lie for him.
I suspect that the reason Nacho picked up Saul at the end of E2 is that they plan to use him for a scheme with Crazy 8. I think they’re going to push Crazy 8 to be a fake informant to hand the DEA info that will interfere with Gus’s operations but not Salamancas’.
He might be naive enough to believe that, but it’s pretty common in real life for witnesses to come in against someone who didn’t commit a crime. Maybe someone got two black guys mixed up, maybe someone said ‘yeah, sure, he did it’ to get a better deal on their own charges, or any of a host of other things. I do think he did it, but I don’t think being nervous about new evidence shows that he did.
I agree that when Gene said he’d “take care” of the situation with the cab driver who recognized him that he plans to murder him. Of course he’ll also need to kill the other guy who was there. Given how well-known Saul Goodman was in Albuquerque, he was eventually going to be recognized in Omaha. (And especially since I’m sure the authorities plastered his photo all over the place after Walt’s death.)
And I doubt that Saul buys that ridiculous house. Did we ever see where he lived during the Breaking Bad years?
I got the impression he was looking forward to a prison sentence as a way to escape parental responsibility.
Forgot to mention my favorite funny bit: When Lalo describe’s Gus’ construction project as a freezer and Gus actually seems offended when he corrects him with “Chiller. Our product is never frozen.” Even when he’s deep in cartel business he can talk like he’s in an ad for Los Pollos Hermanos.
I got the impression he’s a thrill-seeking gambler type. He lucked into getting this awesome lady lawyer for free, so he’s going to shoot for a complete acquittal instead of taking a deal. He’s thinking something like “Oh man if I can skate on all these charges that will be awesome, and I’ve never had anything but a tired public defender before!” and not even considering what will happen if he loses. Then Kim telling him that the DA is dropping the deal brought him back to reality.
By the way, the construction project that Gus showed off to explain the presence of the Germans, that was a different building from the laundry under which they were building the meth lab, right? Because I got the impression that this building was above ground.
It’s a completely different building, but both buildings are above ground. The secret lab is under the laundry, but the laundry itself is a regular warehouse-ish building.
So why do you figure Jimmy and Kim are still together? I saw it before, but I’m wondering why either/both of them haven’t reconsidered by now.
I figure the sex must be really great. 
Jimmy is still in love with Kim and sees a future together for them, he’s looking at buying houses and the like. No reason for him to reconsider at all.
Kim and Jimmy had rough spots in the past, but worked those out, and the last year was basically Jimmy pulling out of a hole while getting over his brother’s death. Jimmy just got done with the switch to the “Saul Goodman” name and starting to court scumbag clients that he holds in contempt (he never talked about his elderly clients the way he does the Saul clients), I think it’s only been like a week at this point. They had disagreements, but sorted them out, with Jimmy being perfectly willing to accept Kim’s boundary about ‘no lying to my clients’ and being transparent and apologetic about the 50% off deal.
So Kim is feeling distant and we’re seeing the cracks start, but this is a years-long relationship that doesn’t have any obvious problems right now. A lot of times people won’t break up even in a bad relationship without long contemplation or a particularly explosive event, so the fact that she hasn’t broken things off a week after Jimmy’s great triumph that they worked together on isn’t really surprising. Also if you look at the future episode titles (spoilered for people who don’t do that)
[SPOILER]6 “Wexler v. Goodman” 7 “JMM” 9 “Bad Choice Road” 10 “Something Unforgivable”
It looks pretty clear that a major conflict between Jimmy and Kim is coming up, including something about his old name, in the middle of the season and the last two episodes likely include a major rift between them (the show likes to have events on all of the storylines follow a title theme).[/SPOILER]
I just re-watched the Breaking Bad episode in which Saul was introduced. Saul didn’t know either Badger or Jesse personally before Badger’s arrest (or at least he didn’t recognize them). He got Badger as a client because Francesca had gone through arrest reports, and Saul went to the police station to offer his services (along with anyone else who was there). Jesse knew of Saul because he had gotten his partner Emilio off twice (and because of his commercials).
Jesse hadn’t been to jail before, because they didn’t have his fingerprints. I don’t think Badger had any priors either. Skinny Pete did, however, so could have met Saul before. (Skinny Pete met Tuco in prison and introduced Walt and Jesse to him.) Spooje (the meth-head who got his head crushed by an ATM) was also a client of Saul’s.
Well, he is Slip-In Jimmy…
If so, it’s still four years before Breaking Bad, which starts in September 2008. Walt and Jesse meet Saul in December 2008, and Saul has obviously been engaged in his sleazeball practice for a number of years by then.
Yeah, the date has been pretty well established, it was 2002 early on and 2003 by the time Saul went on probation. According to the Breaking Bad Wiki Jesse was born in 1984, so should be around 20 now and definitely out of school. I thought he was younger than that and that he’d still be in high school during this series. Jesse hadn’t met Saul during BB (he knew him through commercials and Emilio) and only recently met Krazy 8, so if he does turn up he can’t really do much with the main plot lines.
It’s funny to compare how scary Crazy 8 was to Walt and Jesse in BB with how timid and scared he is here. A lot of characters in this show put on really different faces for different audiences. And you have to feel a little bad that his nickname wasn’t for some cool scheme he pulled off, it was for wimpily folding to a worthless poker hand.