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A student at the University of New Mexico whom Jimmy occasionally hires to film him. He works a boom mic.

!The [=McGill=] family.

[[folder: Charles [=McGill=], Sr.]]

->'''Played by:''' Raphael Sbarge

* NiceGuy: Gave a guy $10 so he could get home to his sick child, even though the man had no proof of his story and could have been faking.[[spoiler: Turns out he was]].

->'''Played by:''' Ann Cusack

!Mike's family

!Jimmy's clients and prospective clients

!Jimmy's associates

[[folder: Jimmy's and Chuck's father]]
!!Jimmy's and Chuck's father

* ObnoxiousInLaws: Averted, she really like Mike and he looks after her like she was his own child.

[[folder: Jimmy's father]]
!!Jimmy's father

!Jimmy's family

!Chuck's family

[[folder:Rebecca Bais]]
!!Rebecca Bais
->'''Played by:''' Ann Cusack

Chuck's ex-wife.
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* NotSoAboveItAll: Chuck seems to think and expect that she's above it all, and she's certainly a classy lady but she's not pompous. She joins in with Jimmy's lawyer jokes.
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->'''Played by: Julian Bonfiglio

[[folder:Mrs. Nguyen]]
!!Mrs. Nguyen
->'''Played by:''' Eileen Fogarty

Proprietor of the nail salon where Jimmy rents his boiler-room law office.
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* AsianRudeness: Especially toward Jimmy.
* {{Jerkass}}: She's rather irritable and snarky, making no secret of her dislike for Jimmy. She also denies Jimmy access to the cucumber water cooler.
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!Business-people

[[folder:Mrs. Nguyen]]
!!Mrs. Nguyen
->'''Played by:''' Eileen Fogarty

Proprietor of the nail salon where Jimmy rents his boiler-room law office.

* AsianRudeness: Especially toward Jimmy.
* {{Jerkass}}: She's rather irritable and snarky, making no secret of her dislike for Jimmy. She also denies Jimmy access to the cucumber water cooler.

[[folder:Kevin Wachtell]]
!!Kevin Wachtell
->'''Played by:''' Rex Linn

CEO of Mesa Verde Bank & Trust, who hires HHM to help with an interstate expansion project.

[[folder:Ken Wins]]
!!Ken Wins
->'''Played by:''' Kyle Bornheimer

An obnoxious financier.

* ButtMonkey: First, Jimmy and Kim scam him out of dinner, including a bottle of tequila priced at about $1000. Much later, in ''Series/BreakingBad'', Walt sets his car on fire.

!Menial laborers

[[folder:Fran]]
!!Fran
->'''Played by:''' Debrianna Mansini

A waitress at Loyola's Diner, where Mike is a regular customer.

* TooDumbToLive

* VagueAge: Despite ''Better Call Saul'' taking place several years before ''Breaking Bad'', Kaylee doesn't appear to age much between the two.

[[folder: "Big" Ricky Sipes]]

* RichInDollarsPoorInSense
* TooDumbToLive: Tries to pay Jimmy with fake money.

[[folder: Roland Jaycox]]

!Businesspeople

* {{Jerkass}}: Denies Jimmy access to the cucumber water cooler.

* WhatAnIdiot: Tries to pay Jimmy with fake money.

* WhatAnIdiot

* [[OnlySaneMan Only Sane Woman]]: One of three prospective clients Jimmy gets after he's filmed 'rescuing' someone who fell off a billboard, and the only one of the three sane enough that Jimmy can actually help her.

* ShoutOut: The same waitress as the one who serves Mike in Season 5 of ''Series/BreakingBad''.

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!Businesspeople

[[folder:Mrs. Nguyen]]
!!Mrs. Nguyen
->'''Played by:''' Eileen Fogarty

Proprietor of the nail salon where Jimmy rents his boiler-room law office.
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[[folder:Kevin Wachtell]]
!!Kevin Wachtell
->'''Played by:''' Rex Linn

CEO of Mesa Verde Bank & Trust, who hires HHM to help with an interstate expansion project.
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[[folder:Ken Wins]]
!!Ken Wins
->'''Played by:''' Kyle Bornheimer

An obnoxious financier.

* ButtMonkey: First, Jimmy and Kim scam him out of dinner, including a bottle of tequila priced at about $1000. Much later, in ''Series/BreakingBad'', Walt sets his car on fire.
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!Menial laborers

[[folder:Fran]]
!!Fran
->'''Played by:''' Debrianna Mansini

A waitress at Loyola's Diner, where Mike is a regular customer.

->'''Played by: Debrianna Mansini

* ShoutOut: The same waitress as the one who serves Mike in Season 5 of ''Series/BreakingBad''.

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[[folder:The Kettlemans]]
!!Betsy & Craig Kettleman
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[[caption-width-right:350:''"What money?"'']]
->'''Played By:''' Julie Ann Emery & Jeremy Shamos

* BewareTheSillyOnes: Betsy looks and talks the game so well, that she is outright identified by Jimmy as a certified denizen of [[{{Cloudcuckoolander}} Cloudcuckooland]]. But, the moment the situation calls for blackmail, that absent gaze and bubbly voice of hers turn into steel and you see [[SugarAndIcePersonality something else entirely]]. [[SilkHidingSteel One flavour of silly fluff hiding a deeper, more worrying bonkers]], there: probably played straight. She doesn't actually seem to be a deliberate faker, as such.
* ConsummateLiar: The Kettlemans always insist that they are innocent, even to their lawyers, and seem to have convinced themselves of the fact. Apparently, the belief that "It's not a lie if YOU believe it" is engrained in their heads.
* EntitledBastard: The Kettlemans have rationalized their theft on the premise that they're normal people and Craig works hard, so he's entitled to the money.
* {{Greed}}: This seems to be the primary motivator for Betsy. She wants the money and she is not going to give it up no matter what the consequences to her family.
* HypocrisyNod
-->'''Betsy''': ''[after finding out [[spoiler:Jimmy is threatening with the actual money]]]'' You thief!\\
'''Jimmy''': ''[apathetic]'' Takes one to know one.
* ImplausibleDeniability: Betsy really doesn't want to admit to stealing the money, even when talking with people who know full well about it. Jimmy eventually begs her to just admit it for the sake of his own sanity.
* JerkAss: Oh yes. They're the biggest assholes in Albuquerque before KEN WINS steals a certain chemistry teacher's parking space at the last minute.
* LadyMacbeth: It is pretty clear that it's Betsy who calls the shots in the family, and that Craig is not the type of person who would steal money unless Betsy talked him into it.
* SmugSnake: Holy shit are they ever. It really is ''that'' hard to wipe the smile off their faces.
* TheSociopath: The more we see of Betsy, the more questions you have to ask yourself about where on the scale she could lie... "Lie" being the operative word. If she isn't this, other possibilities like undiagnosed bipolar or schizophrenia bear consideration.
* StupidCrooks: After embezzling money from the county treasury and making apparently zero efforts to hide their tracks (like writing checks to themselves, as Kim notes), they stage their own kidnapping which involves them dragging their kids out to a camping site half a day's walk from their own home. Plus, [[spoiler:Betsy tries to blackmail Jimmy with the bribe she gave him. Jimmy takes some pleasure in telling her this would just send her to jail along with her husband.]]
* ThreatBackfire: Betsy threatens to report Jimmy to the cops for having Mike break in and extract money from their secret hiding place. Jimmy isn't threatened, and counters that while he could get in trouble with the cops, Betsy would face much worser legal consequences since she will be admitting to being an accomplice in the embezzlement.
* UngratefulBastard: [[spoiler:Kim manages to work out a plea deal with the DA that would get Craig eighteen months in prison (verses a potential thirty years if he were found guilty in court). The Kettlemans refuse to take the deal and fire Kim, believing that a good enough lawyer could get him off completely.]]
* VillainousBreakdown: [[spoiler: Betsy breaks down crying when Jimmy foils their plan and forces the two of them to crawl back to Kim.]]
* WorthlessYellowRocks: Jimmy lampshades the fact that the Kettlemans will never get a chance to enjoy the money they stole. Craig will go to jail and as soon as Betsy tries to spend any of it, the cops will swoop in and arrest her as well.
* XMeetsY: Jimmy thinks of them as the "''Film/TwentyFifthHour'' with [[WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons Ned and Maude Flanders]]."
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[[folder:The Lindholm Brothers]]
!!Cal & Lars Lindholm
->'''Played By:''' Daniel Spenser Levine & Steven Levine

* AssholeVictim: They are a pair of idiot crooks, but what Tuco did to the both of them was '''harsh'''. At least they got out with their lives intact; if Jimmy hadn't stepped in, their fate would have been [[CruelAndUnusualDeath Columbian neckties]], if not a pair of shallow graves.
* CruelAndUnusualDeath: The punishment Tuco had planned for them. Thankfully, Jimmy is able to talk him down into only breaking one of each of their legs, sparing them but leaving them badly injured.
* {{Flopsy}}: Their stock in trade. And, to give them their due, they'd make ''excellent'' stuntman. Shame about the rest of their hustle.
* [[{{Jerkass}} Jerkasses]]: They go a little too far when antagonizing an old woman as part of their con, which backfires spectacularly since it's [[AxCrazy Tuco]]'s grandma. Also, neither of them have any problems with selling out Jimmy, who was trying to help them.
* MuggingTheMonster: Don't target lawyers who are reformed con artists better than you'll ever be. Or, little old ladies with grandsons who care a little too much.
* PutOnABus: Both of them, after being hospitalized.
* SmallRoleBigImpact: Their plotline allowed the introduction of Nacho to the plot.
* StupidCrooks: Let's put it this way... they're in [[ChaoticStupid Badger's]] league when it comes to focus and decision-making. None of their jobs have gone right. That we've seen.
* ThoseTwoBadGuys: They try. Diddums. It's just a pity that they're easily outclassed.
* UngratefulBastard: Subverted. While they completely fail to appreciate that Jimmy risks his hide to save them from Tuco even though they already tried to sell him out to do the same, he was also the one who spurred them into trouble in the first place when they were doing just fine on their own, making their anger very understandable.

[[folder:Marco Pasternak]]
!!Marco Pasternak
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->'''Played By:''' Mel Rodriguez

An old friend of Jimmy who used to pull scams with him.
* ADeathInTheLimelight: PlayedWith. [[spoiler:Although "Marco" has him in a much bigger role than when we last saw him, the episode isn't about him. The death part still applies, though.]]
* FatBestFriend: To Jimmy.
* {{Foil}}: To Chuck. Chuck is a man of high principles, someone who has worked hard all his life and used his position as a high powered attorney to help people, while refusing to take moral shortcuts. Marco is a low life and a con man who has barely worked a day in his life and mostly spends his days at the bar drinking himself into a stupor. [[spoiler: Yet, when push comes to shove, it is Marco who proves the true and honest friend to Jimmy while Chuck always has and always will look down on his brother as 'Slippin' Jimmy', providing the final push for Jimmy to free himself from his brother's influence once and for all.]]
* GoodIsBoring: When Jimmy comes back to visit him, he's got a legitimate job, but the excitement of scamming people is the only thing that makes him happy.
* KarmicTrickster: Some of his cons rely on the mark themselves being [[ViolinScam convinced to do something illegal or at least unscrupulous]], [[PragmaticVillainy probably so they can't turn to the police for help]]. Marco and Jimmy's favorite con is based entirely on the mark joining Jimmy in robbing a seemingly-drunk man of hundreds of dollars, then paying Jimmy even more than that for sole ownership of a Marco's watch, which is actually a nigh-worthless replica.
* IncurableCoughOfDeath: [[spoiler: We see him coughing before doing one last scam with Jimmy.]]
* ItHasBeenAnHonor: [[spoiler: Jimmy returns for a week and starts pulling scams with Marco like old times. Marco dies at the end of the week and says it was the best week of his life.]]
* ThemeMusicPowerUp: Has adopted "Smoke on the Water" by Music/DeepPurple as a personal theme tune, and hums it to steady himself before a big scam.
--> "Butt butt hole, butt butt butt hole."
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[[folder:Daniel Warmold]]
!!Daniel "Pryce" Warmold
->'''Played By:''' Mark Proksch

An IT at a pharmaceutical company and a drug dealer on the side who smuggles pills to Nacho.
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* AssholeVictim: After showing up at a meet with Nacho in his Hummer, it's no surprise that Nacho decides to burglarize his house.
* BlatantLies: Yes, the burglar who robbed his house was after his baseball cards, and [[SuspiciouslySpecificDenial definitely not after either drugs or his illegal stash of money]]. Oh, and he was definitely stashing videos of himself rubbing his ass on a pie while crying. Honest. Becomes even more pathetic when "Cobbler" reveals that while he was lying about the drugs and illegal stash of money to avoid trouble with the police, he was very genuinely and clearly upset about losing his stupid baseball cards (even if the police weren't convinced) and was fully willing to risk all parties involved (Mike, Nacho and, unwittingly by extension,''Tuco and the cartel'') by dragging the police in to get them back, whatever the cost. [[TooDumbToFool Too Dumb To Rip Off.]]
* ButtMonkey: He gets kicked out of his own police interrogation by his lawyer, who proceeds to give the detectives the most humiliating "explanation" for a private stash.
* TheFool: Gets himself eyeball-deep in crime; somehow ''doesn't'' wind up toast mainly due to the sheer, unmitigated naïvety and otherwise lethal stupidity he pulls. Yup.
* IdiotBall: And moreso than the Kettlemans, apparently.
* TheMillstone: His stupidity almost gets Mike in trouble... so Mike passes the headache along by making it Nacho's problem, too... and, then they have to call Jimmy, who then risks putting himself in trouble. All so that this idiot doesn't get caught by the police and winding up ratting them all out. Daniel is very lucky that his untimely death would just cause even more trouble for all concerned.
* NoodleIncident: The "squat cobbler" video Pryce and Jimmy create, which is (un)fortunately never seen.
* SkewedPriorities: His worry over baseball cards. Mind you, only the ones [[MementoMacGuffin his father left him]]. He does care about the others, sure, but he could stand to lose them. Just not his dad's (and, possibly, his grandfather's). Hence, more plot ensues.
* StealingFromTheTill: He steals pharmaceuticals from the company he interns at and sells them on the street.
* StupidCrooks: He's almost up there in Badger's league. Nacho likes ripping off thieves because they have no means of recourse and can't report the theft to the police. However, Nacho [[TooDumbToFool underestimated the depths]] of [[TheFool Warmolt's stupidity and luck]] when the guy makes the blind, rookie mistake of calling the police for the theft. No, it's not for the stolen money nor the drugs, but for the ''[[MementoMacGuffin baseball cards]]'' -- the idiot genuinely didn't see how one could possibly lead to the rest, until it was pointed out and ''confirmed''.
* SuspiciousSpending: He attracts police attention by using drug money to buy a flashy yellow Hummer. Even after Mike, Nacho and Jimmy work their asses off to avoid getting the idiot from ratting them out, he's still indignant when Nacho voices his intention to sell and break down the Hummer, since ''he's'' smart enough '''not''' to drive that around.
* TooDumbToLive: He has a good thing going with skimming off the drugs at his workplace, but then lets his initial success go completely to his head, flashing around that he's newly rich by driving a Hummer H2, firing Mike for warning him off about showing off his car to ''Nacho'', calling the police when this leads to him getting ripped off, and doing nothing about an obvious clean spot in his trashed living room caused by pulling the couch out, leading the cops to discover where he had his cash stashed. He's then adamant about "working" with the police to get his '''baseball cards''' back and voices aloud that if he has to drag Mike and Nacho's names into the mix, then so be it. He's lucky that they didn't choose to shoot him in the head when they had the chance, thanks to that being a one-way ticket to even more questions asked. He inadvertently was TooDumbToFool (With).
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[[folder:Dr. Caldera]]
!!Caldera
->'''Played By:''' Joe [=DeRosa=]

A veterinarian with connections to Albuquerque's criminal underground, into which he starts opening doors for Mike.
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* AffablyEvil: Well, Affably Criminal, at least. He's a relaxed, plainspoken, and professional guy.
* BackAlleyDoctor: Has no compunctions about offering Mike under-the-table medication on the cheap - even animal meds, at a discount.
* NoNameGiven: Only identified by name in the credits for "Five-O", never yet within the show.
* PunchClockVillain: He treats his shady business seriously, but not much differently than any other job.
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[[folder:Sobchak]]
!!Sobchak
->'''Played By:''' Steven Ogg

One of the potential bodyguards hired by Daniel Warmolt.
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* GunNut: He carries four pistols on his person for the protection job.
* {{Jerkass}}: Sobchak is loud, arrogant and needlessly aggressive.
* UnderestimatingBadassery: After seeing that Mike has no gun on him, he first suggests kicking him out of the bodyguard group, and then dares Mike to try to take his gun while he has it aimed at him. This leads to a very quick disarm and a blow to the neck that leaves him on the ground coughing.
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