And they ended up keeping that stopper as souvenir. We’ve seen it a few times over the course of the show.
I think the point of it in the opening scene is that it’s the only thing we see in Saul’s house that is unambiguously related to Kim - which suggests she’s out of the picture by the Breaking Bad era, but Saul himself still wants to remember her. So it wasn’t just a bad break-up or something - she’s dead or in jail or on the run somewhere, and he’s left behind pining for the fjords.
I think it’s just straight-up identity theft. We saw that Nacho had a Canadian driver’s license in the name of someone else when they opened his safe. If Nacho can manage that, a professional should have little difficulty.
Remember it’s not just HHM working the Sandpiper case - they partnered with Davis & Main due to Jimmy’s short-lived tenure there. The goal of Jimmy and Kim’s subterfuge is to embarrass and besmirch Howard’s reputation enough so that Davis & Main will insist on settling the case to extricate themselves from the relationship, thereby triggering Jimmy’s payday.
I’m still wondering what Kim’s plan is for income; she quit Schweikart & Cokely and seems like she wants to do pro bono work exclusively, but as Jimmy said, there’s no money there. Is that why she’s so eager to force the Sandpiper settlement?
Why did Don Eladio kill his neighbor guy? I kinda think it was to take his identity and go to the US?
Do you mean Lalo? It was to create a corpse that looked like him (shave, but keep the mustache and soul patch) and had the same dental records (“your dentist worked so hard!”)
Yes! Thank you! That whole scene was WOOSHED on me.
Yeah, Lalo is stone cold. I wonder what the couple thought was going to happen - it seemed like maybe they knew the husband was going to assume Lalo’s identity, but maybe not quite so…permanently.
I think whatever the result is, it won’t be obvious as “everyone not in BB is dead.” Vince doesn’t seem like he would go that route.
That makes sense. I thought it was a bit more convoluted than that, considering the amount vacuum guy charges!
Right, which is why you see them trying to make Cliff Main question if Howard has a drug problem (by having the bag drop from Howard’s locker after he comes back from golfing with Cliff, and showing Cliff listening to the crooked accountant speculating that Howard was coked up during his trial).
I will say this, after watching “Hawkeye” on Disney+ this year, seeing the actor as Lalo again is a bit of a switch!
A couple of weeks ago the spouse and I began streaming BCS from S1E1 in order to catch up
Reading the discussion here isn’t as much a spoiler as it is a guide to what to watch for.
I did get that part, but I don’t understand the logistics of it. From the way the murder twins treated the burned corpse in the kitchen, I gathered that they thought it was Lalo. That means Lalo would have to burn the dead farmer and then somehow switch out the bodies right under the nose of the federales before the autopsy. How is that going to work, if nobody else is supposed to know that he is still alive, not even the cartel?
That’s my complaint more generally with a lot of these two episodes: much is left illogical and unexplained, and I strongly suspect that since it’s not really relevant to the main plot it will stay that way. Seems like very sloppy scripting to me.
What year is it in BCS?
2004, I think.
Well - I was able to find/watch 6,1 - but Prime says I have to pay for 6,2?! I’ll figure it out eventually.
What I read of the comments upthread capture my views. I’m in the “too deliberate” camp.
And I had only vague recollections about some of the characters. Like the S&L president at the country club. I knew Kim had them as clients, but no idea exactly how Jimmy screwed him over.
Having spent some time in country clubs, I found it pretty unbelievable that, following a scene such as that, they would just allow Saul free rein of the members’ locker room.
The long intro of Saul’s house was just boring to me. Who was doing the packing up and why? I couldn’t figure why they were doing it so haphazardly.
Not sure anyone mentioned it upthread, but the passing years have made it tougher for Odenkirk to convincingly play the younger Jimmy/Saul.
Oh yeah - and did Lalo kill the guy w/ those scissors? (And his wife?). Were we supposed to know who they were?
Yeah, it’s either 2004 or 2005. S1 is in 2002.
Breaking Bad is set in 2008, for comparison.
That was flash forward to post BB, after Jimmie has abandoned his digs and left town.
It was a bit over the top. I assume it was to show how far the mighty can fall. I wonder about the location. Was that an upscale mall?
I get that. My question was, who were the people actually doing the packing, and with what purpose. Because the way they were dumping things somewhat haphazardly into boxes did not really make sense to me if they were simply movers, packing stuff up to be liquidated/sold to pay off debts/fines, or for LEOs to process as evidence.
Yeah, I had the same problem. It seemed like they were filling a box and the contents had some meaning and then it just got dumped. They were carefully shrink wrapping and trashing stuff at the same time. I’ll have to watch it again.