Lawyers (Jimmy McGill/Saul Goodman, Kim Wexler, Chuck McGill), Law Enforcement, Juarez Cartel, Los Pollos Hermanos, Omaha, Petty Criminals, Other Characters
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The McGill family
Willard McGill
Charles Willard McGill Sr.
"Jimmy....what if you're wrong?"
Portrayed By: Raphael Sbarge
"Grifter? Where in the world did you learn that word?"
Father of Jimmy and Chuck McGill.
- Being Good Sucks His trusting nature and refusal to turn down anyone who asks for help ends up ruining him and leading to his early death.
- Continuity Snarl: Chuck says that he is named after him, which should mean that his name is Charles McGill, Sr. However, it says on Chuck's tombstone that his father is Willard McGill, which either means that McGill senior is actually named Willard Charles McGill or the writers make a mistake. It's also possible he just prefers to go by his middle name.
- Death by Despair: Seeing his store have to close and losing his dream crushed Charles Sr so badly he died just a few months later which Chuck believes was due to the failure.
- Extreme Doormat: Deconstructed. Willard McGill believed in the good parts of humanity, and was always willing to lend a hand or some money to try to help the people who needed it. Problem was, most of the people asking for his money didn't need it; they just wanted a way to grift some quick cash off an unsuspecting storeowner for their own selfish wants. And because Willard fell for this scheme so many times, he ultimately lost too much money to be able to keep running the store, leading him to die in despair.
- Family Business: The brothers McGill grew up in (and helped out with) a small town general grocery and hardware store run by their dad. Classic.
- Family Theme Naming: Assuming he is actually named Charles, he is likely named for King Charles I, while his sons are named for his two successors. Also, Charles I, though considered intelligent, horribly mismanaged his country to the point of causing a civil war, and he was eventually defeated, arrested, and executed by his own parliament, similar to how Chuck Sr.'s mismanagement of his business led to its closure and his early death.
- Fatal Flaw: His trusting, idealistic nature. Charles was a good man but his tendency to trust everyone who came to him for help, for fear of turning down someone who did need it, made him an easy mark for grifters and ended up playing a major role in putting him out of business.
- Good Cannot Comprehend Evil: Chuck describes him as "the personification of good" and notes that he could not see sin in any form. However, this made him very easy to get scammed multiple times without ever realizing it. He also refused to believe that his younger son Jimmy could steal from him throughout the years or that any customer could make up a sob story about needing help just to swindle some extra cash.
- Hard Work Hardly Works: Jimmy tells Marco that no matter how hard he worked and how many regular clients liked him, he was simply too much of a pushover and every deadbeat in the neighborhood owed him money. He also never could compromise his morals to keep his business afloat, like selling alcohol and cigarettes to delinquents.
- Horrible Judge of Character: Willard was infamous for this amongst grifters (and locals), unfortunately. A semi-convincing sob story was all someone needed to get either a major discount, a freebie... or outright cash.Jimmy: Dad, it's a rip-off, just like that bum from last week.
Willard: Jimmy.
Jimmy: Every grifter in town knows that this is the spot to come for an easy handout. - Humble Goal: Charles only ever wanted to run his own store and do as much good in his community as he could but his own trusting nature ended up ruining things.
- I Reject Your Reality: He utterly refuses to accept either that Jimmy had been stealing money from the till or that most of the people who ask for help are bullshitting him despite considerable evidence for both.
- Like Father, Unlike Son: Both his sons grew up to be quite different from Charles, inheriting some of his positive traits but fatally missing others. Jimmy inherited his charm and skill with people but lacks his honesty, work ethic and integrity while Chuck inherited his self-discipline but fatally missed out on his humility, sincerity and idealism.
- Like Father, Like Son: On the other hand, while Jimmy has a lot of resentment for his dad, and really doesn't want to be like him, but still has a lot of Extreme Doormat qualities, wants to be loved, ignores good advice not to trust someone, and panics at the thought of not being able to keep an office with Kim (something he's adamant that they need to keep the relationship going).
- Mr. Red Ink: Although Chuck is quick to blame Jimmy for lifting money from the till and thereby sinking the family business (in fairness, he did contribute to the failure), it's quite apparent that their father needed little incentive to spend what the shop couldn't afford on people who really didn't need the help.
- Nice Guy: To a fault. He 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. Turns out he was.
- No Good Deed Goes Unpunished: His kindness and willingness to help out anyone who said they needed it, no questions asked, made him an easy mark for grifters and played a major role in putting him out of business.
- Parents as People: Willard was undeniably a good man who loved his sons and tried to instill good morals in them but his flaws and actions unintentionally left both with seriously warped views of the world and themselves. Jimmy ended up believing that hard work and honesty would never help him get ahead and in a world of scammers and con artists, the only way to survive is to be better at it; meanwhile, Chuck did believe in the value of hard work and integrity but felt emotionally deprived and with a serious case of envy at how his parents seemed to prefer Jimmy over him and his belief in his own moral superiority left him a raging narcissist who couldn't fathom being in the wrong about anything and made him blind to his own worst impulses. He also trusted Chuck to act as something akin to an additional parent to Jimmy and always help him out, which in turn contributed to Chuck's view that Jimmy would never change and thus had a right to determine whether Jimmy worked as a lawyer or not. And while Chuck speaks fondly of his work ethic, it's heavily implied that he, like Jimmy, was well aware that their dad was too trusting for his own good and went far in the opposite direction in believing the worst about others, especially of his little brother.
- Posthumous Character: He's long dead by the time the series starts.
- Selective Obliviousness: He has a very bad habit of refusing to see anything he doesn't want to, wheter it's that Jimmy is not an innocent boy scout but a con artist in the making, that Chuck seriously resents being forced to act as a third parental figure or that most of the people he helps out are grifters who see him as an easy mark.
- Small Role, Big Impact: He only appears in one episode, and in a flashback no less, but from what can be gleaned from that brief little look, it's very clear that seeing his father's generosity be taken advantage of all the time had seriously screwed up Jimmy's sense of ethics and morals.
- Stupid Good: He refuses to not offer aid to just about anyone who asks for it, out of fear of turning down someone who actually does need it. Most people are actually like this in real life whenever a scammer feeds them an "I need money for baby formula" story. If it didn't work so often, scammers would quit.
- Super Gullible: He believed just about every story grifters would tell him, even when Jimmy pointed it out. This ultimately led to him going out of business.
- Taking Advantage of Generosity: Willard was a frequent victim of this. As the flashback he appears in shows, even Jimmy (who was 12/13 at the time) could tell right away that his father was every grifter's favorite target and tried to protect him before ultimately giving up.
- Too Good for This Sinful Earth: Chuck describes him in these terms, as someone who "couldn't see sin". Jimmy has a less charitable assessment, taking one grifter's assessment of the world as made up of "wolves and sheep" and seeing his dad as the latter.
- Tragic Dream: All he ever really wanted was to run his own little store but his trusting nature and, to a lesser extent, Jimmy's thefts from the till as a result of witnessing said scammers, put him out of business.
- Unwitting Instigator of Doom: Had he just listened to Jimmy's advice and stopped trusting conmen (which triggered Jimmy's origins as a scammer), all of Better Call Saul wouldn't have happened, Breaking Bad would be cut short after Badger gets arrested, and hundreds of people would still be alive.
- Wide-Eyed Idealist: To an extreme degree. Willard was notorious for trusting everyone who came to him for help and did whatever he could for them, to the point that he developed a reputation as an easy mark, and refused to even consider that someone could be lying to him or manipulating him. This played a major role in causing his store to go under.
- Wrong Genre Savvy: He believes himself to be in an idealistic story about the value of trust and helping people in need whenever you can. It never dawns on him that he's in a much more cynical story where not everyone is as moral as he is.
Ruth McGill
Ruth McGill
With Chuck and Jimmy
Portrayed By: Patty Figel
"Jimmy..."
Mother of Jimmy and Chuck.
- Doting Parent: Jimmy in a flashback mentions that Ruth will hear what she wants. Some of that is down to not wanting to admit he cried in jail, but she and her husband did
pass on the parental responsibility for their youngest child’s issues to Chuck. - Last Words: Ruth's dying words are a major source of envy and rage for Chuck. Jimmy had stepped out of the room to get both brothers something to eat after many hours by her bedside, at which point Ruth called out for Jimmy, not Chuck. She died seconds later, but Chuck never did tell Jimmy what her final words were up to his dying breath.
- Parental Favoritism: The fact she only says Jimmy's name over and over to her last breath clearly indicates she loved him more than Chuck.
- Posthumous Character: She's dead by the time the series begins.
- Small Role, Big Impact: She only has one scene where she's dying, but her death pushes Jimmy and Chuck further into her co-dependency, her playing favorites is the main source of Chuck's hate towards his brother, and being out of the room when she died contributed to Jimmy's abandonment complex.
- Unwitting Instigator of Doom: Getting Chuck to be the surrogate parent of his much younger sibling caused Chuck to be a Big Brother Bully and that in turn - according to Vince - made Jimmy the type of person who felt like he needed to create terrible coping methods like Saul Goodman in the first place.
Rebecca Bois
Rebecca Bois
"Chuck was right about you all along. He's mentally ill, what's your excuse? Enjoy your champagne."
Portrayed By: Ann Cusack
Chuck's ex-wife.
- Amicable Exes: Despite leaving Chuck, she's shown to still be friendly and loving towards him.
- Innocently Insensitive: She has fun with Jimmy springing into comedian Attention Whore mode in the dinner flashback and believes it went well, having no idea how pissed off her husband is with the whole thing. Helps that she thinks of Jimmy as more of an excitable puppy rather than a potential boytoy.
- Locked Out of the Loop: Part of the irony with Rebecca is that nobody truly tells her what's going on. She has to learn about her ex-husband's mental illness from a court rant, Howard lets her believe Chuck's death was an accident, and she has no idea the complicated and obsessive dynamic that Chuck and Jimmy have. In "Breathe", Kim both looks and acts like she wants to tell her some shit, but decides not to.
- Not So Above It All: Chuck certainly 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.
- Screw This, I'm Outta Here: Jimmy reveals that at some point, Rebecca left Chuck. This seems to be the catalyst for the development of Chuck's mental illness.
- Third Wheel: Ironically considering Chuck feeling that way about her and Jimmy, "Off Brand" implies several times that Chuck had fixated on Jimmy so much to the detriment of their marriage, Rebecca believes Jimmy got the attention instead and owes his brother.
- Weakness Turns Her On: Chuck worries this is the case, as she likes Jimmy for being lively, vulnerable and eager to please (to quote the insider podcast), and he thinks that means Jimmy is stealing his wife.
- What the Hell, Hero?: She is understandably taken aback by Chuck slapping her phone and not telling her about his psychosomatic condition. She gives one of these to Jimmy as well, after he drives Chuck to a breakdown on the stand in order to escape being disbarred. Given that Chuck was leading that effort and only took the stand to personally destroy Jimmy's career, Jimmy is unsurprisingly not moved by Chuck's plight or Rebecca's attempt at shame.
The Ehrmantraut family
Matty Ehrmantraut
See here.
Stacey Ehrmantraut
Stacey Ehrmantraut
"There's been a lot going on... You know how it is."
Portrayed By: Kerry Condon
"I don't know why I noticed it just then, but I hadn't thought about Matty all morning, not once."
Mike's daughter-in-law and mother of his beloved granddaughter Kaylee, she's a healthcare worker who moved to New Mexico from Philadelphia in the wake of her husband's death.
- Ascended Extra: She only appeared briefly in one scene in Breaking Bad, but has a bigger role to play in this series.
- Broken Bird: She took Matt's death really poorly, suffering from PTSD and paranoia.
- Morality Pet: Keeping her and Kaylee safe is the only thing that Mike has left to live for. Subverted in that Mike could have lived his life as a grumpy booth man but Stacey's situation forces Mike to make more money for her and Kaylee's sake, money he can only get through illegal means.
- Nice Girl: She is a kind and understanding woman.
- Obnoxious In-Laws: Averted, she really likes Mike (whom she affectionately refers to as "Pop") and he looks after her like she is his own child.
- Properly Paranoid: Is convinced that someone is out to get her and her daughter. Considering what happened to her husband, it's understandable. This becomes true later as the Salamancas threaten her and her daughter to scare Mike.
- Saved by Canon: Since she briefly appears in Breaking Bad (albeit played by a different actress), her survival in this show is guaranteed.
Kaylee Ehrmantraut
Kaylee Ehrmantraut
Portrayed By: Faith Healey (season 1), Abigail Zoe Lewis (season 2)
Mike's precocious granddaughter.
- Cheerful Child: She's a sweet and happy little girl.
- Morality Pet: Even more than Stacey. Kaylee is basically most of what holds together Mike's humanity.
- Vague Age: Despite Better Call Saul taking place several years before Breaking Bad, Kaylee doesn't appear to age much between the two.
Other families
Cheryl Hamlin
Cheryl Hamlin
"You're a lawyer, right? You're a, a great one Howard said! How could you not know?"
Portrayed By: Sandrine Holt
Howard's wife, with whom he has a strained relationship.
- Ambiguous Situation: The nature of her strained relationship with her husband Howard. Howard mentions he's been sleeping in their guest house for "a better part of a year", and Cheryl's reaction to Kim's false story about Howard implies they'd had marital issues for at least over a year and had grown distant, with her only on-screen interaction with her husband being polite but icy. Whether or not this is simply a case of two people growing apart, the fallout of Howard's feud with Chuck and his grief-stricken response to the latter's death, something else, or all of the above is anyone's guess. We also never know what exactly Howard suggests to Cheryl, implied to be either a discussion about divorce or about going to couples' therapy, and the reason for her refusal to engage in it, whether that be due to not wanting to end the marriage or the marriage just being irreparably damaged. Regardless, Cheryl's implied Belated Love Epiphany indicates she deeply cares for him.
- Aw, Look! They Really Do Love Each Other: She may have a distant and icy relationship with her husband, but it's clear that she loved him deeply and is emotionally crushed by his death. Her continuing to wear the same wedding ring six years later implies she still considers herself married to him in a way.
- Awful Wedded Life: A downplayed example. Howard and Cheryl don't hate each other, but they also don't spend much time together, Cheryl seems to have no desire to do things with Howard, and she is so focused on her own life that she doesn't even notice Howard trying to be kind to her.
- Belated Love Epiphany: Is implied to have gone through one in the time between Howard's death and Kim's confession to her. For how distant her marriage originally was to Howard, she's implied not to have found another partner by 2010 as she's still wearing her wedding ring to him.
- Break the Haughty: The one who does the breaking: she calls out Kim for hiding the true circumstances of Howard's death and mocks her attempt to give her solace by confessing it. She then considers starting a civil suit to take whatever Kim has left. Despite all this, Kim herself feels that she deserves this as a form of retribution.
- Cassandra Truth: In "Fun and Games", Cheryl refuses to believe that her late husband was a drug addict, and correctly suspects that Jimmy is not telling her the whole truth about what happened to him. But thanks to Kim's lie about Howard, and the thorough Gaslighting job they did on Cliff as part of their scheme, Cheryl can't find anybody who is willing to come to Howard's defense.
- Crusading Widow: Has shades of this. When Kim tells her the full truth about Howard's death, Cheryl responds that she could sue Kim in a civil case in an attempt to take most everything she has, although it's unlikely Kim has much of anything after she quit law and never accepted the Sandpiper settlement money and it's unlikely the suit would be successful. Bill Oakley later mentions that she's "shopping for lawyers", indicating she'll go through with this regardless.
- Dead Sparks: Howard and Cheryl are evidently no longer in love but are not separated, and Howard claims that Cheryl refuses to discuss divorce or trying to salvage the relationship. Instead they just continue to go through the motions as a couple, sharing purely functional conversation and appearing at social events together when they both deem it appropriate. However, by 2010, when Howard is long gone, Cheryl still cares for him.
- Death Glare: Cheryl casts quite the glare at Jimmy and Kim during her husband's funeral wake, demanding to know what they told the police as she's (rightfully) suspicious of the narrative of Howard being a drug addict who killed himself. It repeats in 2010 when Kim confesses to her about actual events.
- Defrosting Ice Queen: Cheryl's scene in "Axe and Grind" had her acting very coldly towards Howard. But she is very distraught at his apparent suicide during her husband's wake in "Fun and Games", and breaks down in tears when she is unable to convince anyone that her husband wasn't a drug addict.
- Gaslighting: Is subjected to this by Kim to manipulate her into believing her and Jimmy's story, implying she wouldn't even notice if Howard picked up a drug habit because of the emotional distance she had with him in the last year of his life. This causes her to walk away crying.
- Handshake Refusal: Does this to Jimmy at Howard's memorial, being the first to indicate her disdain and suspicion of Jimmy and Kim based on what they reported to the police following Howard's disappearance and death.
- Small Role, Big Impact: Cheryl only appears in three episodes, but Kim having to gaslight her into believing that Howard was actually a drug addict is the final straw for her, causing her to quit being an attorney and leave Jimmy entirely. This is what finalizes his transformation into Saul Goodman.
- Tragic Keepsake: She's shown in 2010 to have at least one photo of her late husband around the house they once shared. She's also still wearing her wedding ring to him, and has apparently left the furniture of the house exactly as it was six years prior.
- Tranquil Fury: She's visibly frustrated and angry at Jimmy and Kim in "Fun and Games" when she (correctly) assumes they had something to do with Howard's death. It's very apparent how angry she is at Kim upon learning the truth of what the latter and Jimmy did to Howard which resulted in his death, mocking Kim for attempting to give her solace when she says Howard didn't suffer when he was killed.
- What the Hell, Hero?: Her response to the content of Kim's confession is a mixture of anger and pain as she lays into Kim for her actions before openly considering starting a civil suit to take everything she has.
Manuel Varga
Manuel Varga
"You gangsters and your "justice." You're all the same."
Portrayed By: Juan Carlos Cantu
"If you want to run, run. But me? No, I will not run away!"
Nacho's principled father. He runs a car reupholstery and detailing shop, where Nacho works in his spare time.
- All There in the Manual: His first name has not been revealed on the show, but it appeared in casting information for the seventh episode of Season 3.
- Badass Bystander: It takes some serious guts to tell Hector Salamanca to Get Out!. He doesn't even feign much politeness, fixing Hector with a Death Glare the entire time.
- Berserk Button: While he remains mostly silent as Mike breaks the news of Nacho's death to him, he is subtly set off once Mike mentions that the Salamancas will receive "justice" for their actions.
- Brutal Honesty: After informing him of the death of his son, Mike assures Manuel that the Salamancas will receive justice. Manuel dismisses such assurances however, deriding Mike's idea of justice as nothing but revenge, for revenge will not bring his son back. He further makes it clear that he holds Mike in as much contempt as all other criminals.
- Establishing Character Moment: In his first sequence, he makes some lightly teasing remarks in Spanish about Mike's old car, but also earnestly tries to dissuade Mike from upholstering the car in alligator skin (feeling it would look gaudy), and tells Nacho not to try to upsell him. The effect is to establish him quickly as a candid but principled and well-meaning man who conducts his business with integrity – a far cry from fiction's stereotypical sleazy secondhand auto industry worker.
- Honor Before Reason: Nacho says that his dad would never associate himself in illegal activities even if his life is on the line. To make it worse Mauel refuses to run as that's just giving in to the criminals. He would rather go with Nacho to the cops even if they die trying.
- Also when Nacho tries to set up one of Manuel's friends in getting him to sell his workshop for enough money to retire (to make him less of a target for Gus), he furiously confronts Nacho in his own house and states he not only knows what he likely did, he also knows he has a target on his back but will absolutely not move out of town. He refuses to accept the dirty money he knows is from his son.
- In a lesser example, he's shown to be honest in his own work as well. Mike comes into his store pretending to be interested in some expensive upholstery for his car, but Manuel tells him a cheaper product would fit his vehicle better.
- Foil: To Mike. Both are loving and beloved fathers of young men whose relationships with them become strained due to revelations about criminal activity, and both of their sons end up dying after a series of cloak-and-dagger circumstances involving their colleagues. Whereas Mike shattered Matty's view of him after demonstrating he was a criminal, Manuel disowns Nacho after finding out he was still working with the Cartel. Whereas Matty was murdered by his fellow corrupt officers for hesitating on a bribe, Nacho kills himself to protect his father from the criminal underworld.
- I Have No Son!: He is not impressed at finding out Nacho is in league with the Salamancas, telling him to get out of the house. But upon Nacho's death, it's made clear that Manuel never stopped loving him.
- Locked Out of the Loop: Not unlike Tuco's grandma (maybe), Nacho's father does not know that his son is a drug dealer. It's implied that Manuel is aware of Nacho's criminal past, and thought that he was The Atoner, back on the straight-and-narrow.
- The Millstone: While it's not his fault at all, he ends up being this to his son. There were multiple opportunities where Nacho could have just fled Albuquerque and gone into hiding, even having a new identity set up in Canada for just such an escape, but that would have just left his father in the crosshairs of his enemies. Nacho planned for Manuel to join him in Canada, but Manuel has no interest in running, even understanding the danger he's in thanks to Nacho. Nacho has to offer himself up to be killed in order to keep his father safe in the end.
- Morality Pet: For Nacho, reflected in his refusal to involve him in the business.
- Nice Guy: He tries to convince Mike to buy a cheaper product than he asked for, since the cheaper one fits Mike's car better, even though he would make less money on the sale.
- Outliving One's Offspring: Nacho agrees to die if it means his dad will be kept safe.
- Screw the Money, I Have Rules!: Manuel flatly refuses to accept payment from Hector Salamanca.
- Tranquil Fury: He makes it no secret how deeply he despises Hector, despite saying very little to him. Also demonstrated when Mike informs him of Nacho's death, curtly dismissing Mike's assurances and writing him off as no better than any other criminal.
- Unwitting Instigator of Doom: Manuel wants nothing more than for Nacho to leave his life of crime, but he's oblivious to the fact that his son has to stay in it to protect him. By refusing to run away with his son, Manuel unwittingly makes him an easy pawn for whoever's willing to hurt him. This would eventually result in Nacho performing a Heroic Sacrifice to secure his father's safety for good.
Margarethe Ziegler
Margarethe Ziegler
Portrayed By: Andrea Sooch
Werner Ziegler's wife. After her husband's death, Lalo seeks her out to find out more about Gus' secret operation.
- Happily Married: She and Werner were this before he died.
- Horrible Judge of Character: Granted, Lalo did up the charm, but unlike many characters that saw through his uncanniness, she is easily seduced by him in their conversation.
Mrs. Wexler
Mrs. Wexler
"A thief? You know better than this Kim."
Portrayed By: Beth Hoyt
"Fine. Don't listen to me. You NEVER LISTEN!"
Kim's troubled mother.- Alcoholic Parent: Mrs. Wexler appears to be an alcoholic or at least neglectful, considering she forgets to pick Kim up because she was drinking and eventually turns up still buzzed.
- Anti-Role Model: Serves as a complicated one for Kim. Her irresponsibility and tendency to evade punishment taught Kim to be highly self-reliant and controlling, but at the same time had her very much wanting punishment for any bad things she may have done.
- Hate Sink: She's a lot worse when she is not drunk, such as using her daughter to steal earrings without any regard for the consequences
- Mirror Character: To Jimmy; Mrs Wexler falling into drinking and Jimmy falling into Saul Goodman and Kim following them both, and to Chuck; having the mask of well-respected parent/sibling in public, but cruel in private.
- No Name Given: Only known as Mrs. Wexler.
- Parental Neglect: She left Kim waiting for her in the cold for hours, and when she finally drove up she was so buzzed that Kim refused to get in the car with her.
- Uncertain Doom: Given her horrible lifestyle and Kim never making any mention of her as an adult, it's not known if she's dead or not.
Glenn (SPOILERS)
Glenn
Portrayed By: Alvin Cowan
Kim's new partner following her divorce from Jimmy and move to Titusville, Florida.
- Country Mouse: Glenn seems perfectly content with his mundane life in the small city of Titusville. He even gets excited on hearing that a new branch of Outback Steakhouse will be opening nearby, and plans a date night there well in advance.
- Disposable Fiancé: Disappears in "Saul Gone". Kim was never actually happy with him, just trying to punish herself, and as she makes small but important changes in her life, it’s very likely that she dumps him.
- Foil: To Jimmy. Given that Kim is trying to punish herself so that she gets the inverse of any fun thing she had, it's understandable that she picked the anti-version of her ex:
- Jimmy was charming, clever and funny, if also dangerous to know. Glenn is honest, dependable and a safe pair of hands, if lacking in that bad boy charm Kim used to go for. To Kim, Jimmy was a case of Evil Feels Good, while Glenn is an example of Good Is Boring.
- Despite the bad haircut and questionable taste in suits, Jimmy was a trim and handsome guy. Glenn is much more average-looking.
- Jimmy took great pride in his appearance, buying more colourful suits than he could fit in their wardrobe and desperately trying to disguise his thinning hair. With his Hawaiian shirts and mandals, Glenn is badly-dressed in an entirely different way- he simply appears not to care too much about looking stylish.
- Jimmy was very much "the woman" in his relationship with Kim. As well as being the more emotional and flamboyant of the pair, Jimmy did most of the cooking and loved to prepare dinner and breakfast for Kim. Glenn meanwhile is very much the man of the house- he can work a barbecue, but Kim's the one left in the kitchen trying to make potato salad to his exacting specifications (and with him having bought the wrong ingredients), then doing the washing up afterwards. This is despite her apparent lack of enthusiasm for cooking, as evidenced with the other women being so much more interested in recipes and ingredients than she is.
- Like Kim, Jimmy was The Movie Buff, while Glenn's main interests appear to be DIY and reality TV. He also seems a lot less intelligent and knowledgable about the world in general - when he tries to declare himself Team Switzerland in an argument, he likens himself to Sweden by mistake.
- Jimmy and Kim were very passionate and affectionate, having good and spontaneous sex and cuddling up watching old films together. By contrast Glenn doesn't seem to be very considerate in bed, and will watch reality TV alone while Kim does jigsaws in the next room.
- Despite being a bad person, Jimmy was a good boy in his and Kim’s Power Dynamics Kink, getting turned on by her bossing him around and being shoved against a wall. Kim will let Glenn make all the choices, and they have boring missionary sex.
- Good Is Boring: He's a pleasant enough but thoroughly unexciting man, and Kim doesn't seem to find him all that thrilling either.
- Lousy Lovers Are Losers: His Good Is Boring persona extends to his bedroom ability, as he's shown to be a lousy lover to Kim, whom he has passionless missionary sex with.
- Men Are Uncultured: Downplayed. While his main interests are DIY and reality TV, his friends don't appear to be any more cultured than he is, and the same applies to the women Kim befriends at her new job. Kim and Glenn's entire social circle in Titusville seems to consist of incurious people who are perfectly content with their mundane small-town existence.
- Nice Guy: He's a genuinely decent man whose only real fault is being blisteringly dull.
- Real Men Eat Meat: He certainly likes his barbecues and his steaks. It'd be hard to imagine him bringing home sushi or Thai food for Kim.
- Replacement Goldfish: Inverted. While Jimmy coped with the loss of Kim by making Saul a tribute/memorial to her, Kim coped with the loss of Jimmy by rebounding with the opposite of him, an incurious lousy lover who assumes she should Stay in the Kitchen.
- Ridiculously Average Guy: He's average-looking, enjoys barbecues, isn't too hot at deep conversation, and wears mandals. This would be a case of What Does She See in Him? if we didn't know that, after the exciting but dangerous Jimmy, this is exactly the kind of guy Kim feels like she deserves.
- Stay in the Kitchen: Not maliciously, but he assumes Kim will be the one doing actual cooking and cleaning while he plays with the grill, has bland sex with her, and goes off with his guy friends at a barbecue, too incurious to ask what her actual tastes are.
Law Clients
Jimmy's
Daniel Wormald
See here.
Ricky Sipes
"Big" Ricky Sipes
"I think you are just the lawyer I need."
Portrayed By: Joe Barryman
"We are going to be America's Vatican City!"
A wealthy mogul who wants Jimmy to help him secede from the United States. The deal falls through when he tries to pay Jimmy in currency which he printed himself.
- Bait-and-Switch: When he brings up Jimmy's decrepit car, Jimmy thinks he's going to criticize it, but instead Sipes says he sees it as evidence of how a good working man like Jimmy can't even make a decent living in the States anymore.
- Cloud Cuckoo Lander: Needs binoculars to try spotting baseline reality, put it that way. That bubble he's living in is very well insulated by money.
- Eagle Land: So much so that he wants to secede and set up his own country called "Sandia Republic" which more closely fits his vision of America's original ideals.
- Rich in Dollars, Poor in Sense: He's wealthy, and wants to secede from the United States. This, coupled with the fact that he tries to pay Jimmy with his own made-up currency (a US $100 bill with his face printed on it rather than Ben Franklin's), makes it clear that he's seceded from reality.
- Screw the Rules, I Have Money!: Printed out his own currency, and he only wants to create his own country independent of the U.S. because he thinks the U.S. isn't rich enough.
- Too Dumb to Fool: Jimmy saw him as an easy cash cow at first since he has an unrealistic goal and a lot of money to throw away, but he is so deluded he wants to pay Jimmy in his own made up currency.
Roland Jaycox
Roland Jaycox
Portrayed By: Tim Baltz
"You're completely disgusting, you know that?"
An inventor who wants Jimmy to help him patent his 'talking toilet buddy' which says encouraging phrases to children as they potty-train. When Jimmy observes that the toilet's comments are more suited to erotica than toilet training, Roland throws him out.
- Achievements in Ignorance: In a way, as Jimmy points out. That toilet idea could find a very niche market and be a success if marketed right... You'd just have absolutely no shame in producing and selling it. But, it really wasn't what the guy was going for.
- Accidental Innuendo: In-universe, Tony the Toilet Buddy's phrases of encouragement for small children using the toilet sound suspiciously like sexual innuendos (as Jimmy points out.)
- Bungling Inventor: His toilet might technically work, but it's really not suited for the purpose he designed it for.
Geraldine Strauss
Geraldine Strauss
Portrayed By: Carol Herman
An elderly lady. She hires Jimmy to handle her estate planning and later stars in a commercial Jimmy shoots for the Sandpiper case.
- Back for the Dead: In Season 4, Jimmy learns that she died in her sleep.
- The Bus Came Back: She returns in Season 2 when Jimmy needs someone to film for his Sandpiper commercial.
- Kitsch Collection: Has a large collection of Hummel figurines and hires Jimmy to write her will with an elaborate plan on which recipient receives which figurine.
- Only Sane Woman: She's one of three prospective clients Jimmy gets after his billboard stunt and the only one of the three sane enough that Jimmy can actually help her.
Irene Landry
Irene Landry
"Is this how these usually go?"
Portrayed By: Jean Effron
A sweet resident of Sandpiper Crossing. She hires Jimmy to write her will.
- The Bus Came Back: Comes back into the picture at the end of Season 3 when Jimmy realizes that he needs her to settle in the Sandpiper case so he can get his payoff. In a rare example of the bus coming back twice, she turns up yet again in the Season 6 mid-season finale for the mediation session.
- Minor Crime Reveals Major Plot: When she reveals that she doesn't have the money to pay Jimmy at the moment, he looks at her bills and sees that they're slightly high. This minor overbilling eventually leads to him uncovering massive fraud on Sandpiper's part which could potentially result in a multimillion-dollar judgment.
Helen, Rose & Myrtle
Helen, Rose & Myrtle
Helen (left), Mrtyle (top), Rose (right), with Irene at center
Portrayed By: Bonnie Bartlett (Helen), Carol Mansell (Rose) & Phyllis Applegate (Myrtle)
Three other elderly residents of Sandpiper Crossing.
- Bitch in Sheep's Clothing: For the most part, they're just harmless old ladies. But when Jimmy manipulates them into ostracizing Irene, the way they turn on their former "friend" is devastating.
Recliner store owner
Recliner store owner
Next to Jimmy
Portrayed By: Raymond McAnally
The owner of Duke City Recliners. He hires Jimmy to film a commercial for him.
- Bad Acting: Despite Jimmy's attempts to coach him, he is hopelessly awkward and nervous on-camera.
- Henpecked Husband: He whines his wife is very strict about his budget.
- Only Known By His Nickname: His name isn't given on the show, and the casting information just refers to him as 'Friendly-Faced Man.'
Rick & Ryan
Rick and Ryan
Portrayed By: Randy & Jason Sklar
The owners of ABQ In Tune, a music store in Albuquerque who consider hiring Jimmy to film commercials for them.
- Always Identical Twins: The actors are identical twins, and presumably the characters are as well.
- Asshole Victim: The first time Jimmy tries to shoot a commercial for them, they cancel at the last minute, costing Jimmy time and money. He manages to cut a deal in which he'll give them a free commercial on the condition they buy more after business picks up; their business does improve thanks to the commercial, but they back out of the deal and refuse to pay. So Jimmy forces them to buy by staging a fall in their store and threatening to sue otherwise.
- Beard of Evil: Both of them.
- Greed: They had no qualms forcing Jimmy to do their commercial for free. It's almost as though they were manipulating Jimmy into shooting it for free.
- Jerkass Has a Point: If their point is they're real jerkasses; they point out to Jimmy that they have the ability to re-shoot their entire commercial without Jimmy's involvement, as they simply want to weasel out of paying Jimmy for work he already did. They're technically right that they can, but from a legal standpoint, they shouldn't because that's copyright infringement on Jimmy's own work.
- The Pessimist: They are stoic, cynical and have very low opinions of their business and refuse to invest in Jimmy's commercials despite the fact their store is already suffering from lack of attention.
- Speak in Unison: They do this on occasion, usually when arguing with Jimmy.
- Ungrateful Bastard: Even though Jimmy's commercial did bring them a lot of customers, they only offer to pay Jimmy a meager $450 for it which is well below Jimmy's operating costs for shooting.
Sakey
Sakey
An alleged robber that Jimmy defends in court.- Identical Stranger: He looks very similar to a bartender named Hollis Earley. Jimmy uses this to trick a witness into accusing Hollis, not Sakey, of being the robber. With the witness thus discredited, Jimmy gets the mistrial he wanted.
Everett Acker
Everett Acker
"I don't need a lawyer! I don't want a lawyer, and nothing you can say is gonna change my mind!"
Portrayed By: Barry Corbin
"You're one of those people that, uh, give a little money to charity every month so you can make up for all the bad that you've done. You go to a soup kitchen once a year on Thanksgiving. That makes you feel a whole lot better about yourself. Makes you feel like one of the best rich people."
An isolated homeowner in a land dispute with Mesa Verde.- David Versus Goliath: A poor old veteran versus a huge banking company that wants his house. Thanks to Jimmy, he wins.
- Grumpy Old Man: As Paige warns Kim, Acker is very unpleasant.
- Jerkass Has a Point: He's not got the whole story, and is an asshole about it, but from her angry reaction and dealing with it by throwing bottles off the balcony, he's not wrong about Kim will say whatever to get the result she wants, and thinks the good she does balances out all the bad.
- Railroad Plot: His home rests on the future building site of a Mesa Verde bank branch. Everyone else took the offered money and moved out, but Acker refuses to leave despite having no legal or ethical right to remain where he is: the lease he signed back in the 1970s stipulated that the property owners could buy him out whenever.
- "The Reason You Suck" Speech: He unleashes one on Kim, and she releases one right back. Both of them make fairly good points, although Kim has the legal high ground.
- Unwitting Instigator of Doom: It's implied his extremely cruel words to Kim causes her to doubt her moral agency and slip further down the path of immorality.
Kim's
For the people Kim serves as a public defender, see Petty Criminals. Kevin Wachtell
Kevin Wachtell
"My dad never, ever did anything like that!"
Portrayed By: Rex Linn
"If there's one thing I cannot abide, it's a man who won't own up to his mistakes."
CEO of Mesa Verde Bank & Trust, who hires HHM to help with an interstate expansion project.
- Anti-Villain: For the most part, he's barely a villain. He's an honest and decent person who plays by the rules and treats his legal counsels with respect. Still, his ruthless pursuit of business ends up jeopardizing Everett Acker, which puts him on Saul's radar as an Arc Villain and gets humiliated as a result.
- Ascended Extra: Has a larger presence in season 5 due to the Everett Acker subplot.
- Benevolent Boss: He's a thoroughly nice guy, although no less commanding as an employer. Kevin is charming and humorous, highly values Paige's opinion, praises Kim as the "best outside counsel" he's ever dealt with, and even offers her another client. When Kim confesses that Chuck is embroiled in a legal battle with her and her partner, he thanks her for her honesty but states that he intends to stick by her.
- Butt-Monkey: The entire Everett Acker affair. First, the outside counsel he hired betrays him and mocks him behind his back, he ends up having to spend an obscene amount to handle the Acker affair, and it's ultimately resolved when Saul threatens him with a smear campaign against Mesa Verde, which involves a humiliating out-of-context commercial depicting Kevin's dad (founder of Mesa Verde) overlaid by "testimonials" from "customers". Saul then bleeds an exhausted Kevin dry with a ridiculous deal.
- Deadpan Snarker: When Chuck is being stubborn, he has this little gem, "I know where my own damn bank is".
- Determinator: When Kim escalates the legal dispute between Mesa Verde and Everett Acker, Kevin makes it pretty clear he's going to fight Acker all the way rather than cave and build the call center on the alternate lot.
- Honest Corporate Executive: He might be determined in his pursuit of Mesa Verde's expansion, but he's a largely ethical man who even has a clean personal record.
- Mistaken for Racist: He calls Jimmy a "money-grubbing son of a bitch" while Jimmy's playing up his Jewish persona, thus giving him plenty of ammunition to paint Kevin as anti-semitic.
- Screw This, I'm Outta Here: He and Paige ditch Chuck when he treats them with contempt following the discrepancies caused by Jimmy's forgery.
- Southern Gentleman: He's got the thick Texas drawl and good manners.
- Suspiciously Clean Criminal Record: Jimmy hires a PI to look into him and see what he and Kim can exploit against him, but the man they hire reveals that there was absolutely nothing incriminating to find, saying Kevin is practically an Eagle Scout. The closest thing was a DUI arrest he had in college.
Billy Gatwood
Billy Gatwood
Portrayed By: Chris Mulkey
Owner of an oil drilling operation.
- Honest Corporate Executive: Although it's causing problems for him, he stands by the original deal he made with the land owners and is happy that they should get what is, legally, theirs.
- Small Role, Big Impact: He's only onscreen for a few minutes and his legal problem, unlike those of Sandpiper Crossing and Mesa Verde, is simple enough that it could be polished off in a couple of weeks. However, adding his oil rights issues to Kim's already over-extended workload forces her to pull yet another all-nighter, which ultimately culminates in her crashing her car en route to a meeting with him.
Scamming Victims
People scammed by Jimmy and some friends in their thrill-seeking antics.Jimmy & Kim
Ken
Ken "Wins"
Portrayed By: Kyle Bornheimer
An obnoxious middle-class stockbroker.
- Asshole Victim: In his original appearance, and his cameo in the training video.
- Butt-Monkey: First, Jimmy and Kim scam him out of dinner, including a bottle of tequila priced at about $7800. Much later, in Breaking Bad, Walt sets his car on fire. In the promotional Los Pollos Hermanos training video series, he is threatened by Gus (of course that's for unnecessarily disturbing the peace in Gus's restaurant).
- Ironic Nickname: He calls himself a winner, but tends to lose every situation he's thrown in as karma for his reprehensible behavior.
- Narcissist: As a stockbroker, he tends to think of himself as superior to others.
- Nice to the Waiter: Inverted. He screams at and almost assaults a cashier in a Los Pollos Hermanos training video, which earns him some very serious threats from Gus.
- Shockingly Expensive Bill: Jimmy and Kim stab him with this over Tequila, and he's not happy about the total due.
- Small Name, Big Ego: Ken claims to be very rich and making a fortune off stockbroking, but he can't afford Tequila bottles and he drives a 1996 car when Breaking Bad started in 2008.
Dale
Dale
Portrayed By: Steven Flynn
An engineer who was scammed by Jimmy McGill and Kim Wexler.
- Asshole Victim: He's heavily implied to be a serial philanderer, hence why it's amusing to see Jimmy and Kim swindle him so expertly.
- Dirty Old Man: Dale leans a little more into being a silver fox than some drooling old man, but he is substantially older than Kim, whom he targets as a potential conquest.
Shirley Martland
Shirley Martland
Portrayed By: Marceline Hugot
A records clerk in Lubbock, Texas. Jimmy and Kim need her to swap out one set of architectural plans for another, so they decide to trick her.
- Almighty Mom: Tricked into thinking Kim is one. She immediately sympathizes with Kim since she's a mother herself, deciding to agree to stamp a new copy of the plans which Kim claims to desperately need and which she thinks Jimmy destroyed.
- The Con: She serves as a target to Jimmy and Kim, who manipulates her into swapping in a new copy of architectural plans for the previous copy that Jimmy had destroyed.
- Nice Girl: Doesn't exhibit any negative traits and treats people with decency. When she sees Kim panic over the milk being spilled all over the old plans, she agrees to help cover the incident up despite her being a total stranger, sympathizing as a fellow mom. Which is the exact reason why she became their mark.
Jimmy & Marco
Cameron
Cameron
Portrayed By: Keith Kupferer
A businessman conned into buying a worthless half-dollar coin from Jimmy and Marco.
- The Con: Jimmy pretends to be trying to sell a misprinted Kennedy half-dollar to Marco, who remains skeptical at its true worth. Jimmy heads to the restroom, and Marco drums the guy's interest by snarking about how much of a conman Jimmy is. After pretending to make a call to someone he knows as a supposed expert on the topic, he feigns further interest and tries to make Jimmy take his low-ball offer. Cue Cameron making a bigger payment.
- Greed: This is his problem. Once he thinks the coin is valuable, he rushes to try to buy it without independently confirming its value.
Stevie
Stevie
Portrayed By: Kevin Weisman
A man who is tricked into paying Jimmy hundreds of dollars for a fake Rolex watch.
- Asshole Victim: Stevie was only too willing to steal from an unconscious man in an alleyway, and truly believed he'd taken advantage of both Jimmy and Marco. Hell, he even seemed a little proud of himself for it, so it's hard to feel sympathy for him.
- False Friend: Despite befriending Jimmy and sharing a few laughs with him, he's quick to take advantage of his apparent naivety, and tries to scam him into giving him a Rolex watch for half its price. Of course, the sucker turns out to be him.
- Greed: He jumps at the opportunity to steal a Rolex from the unconscious Marco and even pays Jimmy all the money he has on him to let him leave with the watch. Unfortunately for him, Jimmy and Marco are in cahoots and the watch is worthless.
- Pay Evil unto Evil: To be fair to the guy, he only resolves to steal Marco's cash after he deliberately acts like a Jerkass to him while "drunk", making the latter look like an Asshole Victim.
Kevin
Kevin
Portrayed By: Joseph Cranford
A man who is almost scammed into paying for a fake watch.
- A Lighter Shade of Black: Unlike Stevie, he doesn't instantly try to hog all of Marco's money for himself, instead asking Jimmy if he wants to split the content.
- Greed: Like Stevie, he gets interested in stealing an unconscious Marco's wallet to split the money with Jimmy, not knowing they're both in on the con.
- Jerkass: Tries to persuade Jimmy to leave Marco lying down since he's probably just had too much to drink, planning on splitting his wallet. When Jimmy tries to help Marco and asks that they call 911, Kevin makes a run for it.
- Karma Houdini: He runs off with the dying Marco's wallet and is never punished for it.
- Screw This, I'm Outta Here: When Jimmy breaks character and says Marco's name after realizing the latter is actually unconscious, he realizes it was all a setup and runs off with the money.
Sabrina & Lucianne
Sabrina & Lucianne
Portrayed By: Amy Davidson (Sabrina) & Jessica Osbourne (Lucianne)
Two women who sleep with Jimmy after he tricks them into thinking he's Kevin Costner.
- Call-Forward: In Breaking Bad, Saul told Walt that he once fooled a woman into thinking he was Kevin Costner. As it turns out, it was this instance he was talking about.
Jimmy & Ira
Mr. Neff
Mr. Neff
Portrayed By: Andrew Friedman
The owner of Neff Copiers.
- Benevolent Boss: He's a friendly guy, although he might be too benevolent for his own good.
- Butt-Monkey: Mr. Neff is just a nice business owner, but in his short screen time he's subjected to a devastating vocal unleashing by Jimmy who then conspires to steal from him. To make matters worse, he's having marital troubles.
- Digging Yourself Deeper: He's already in the doghouse for his well-intentioned but oh-so insulting decision to gift his wife with a vacuum cleaner, but even when he tries to apologize over the phone, he says all the wrong things and makes it clear he doesn't understand why she's so irritated with him.
- Exiled to the Couch: He winds up sleeping in his office after his wife takes offense to his choice of romantic gift (a vacuum cleaner).
- Family Business: He's the latest of many Neffs to own Neff Copiers. He even has Hummel Figurines belonging to his grandmother on display in his office.
- Horrible Judge of Character: After Jimmy does a convincing song-and-dance during his job interview, Neff takes only a few minutes to talk things over with his assistant before agreeing to hire him. Neff really doesn't have any reason to distrust Jimmy, but Jimmy still unloads a fair amount of vitriol for his naiveté.
Jimmy and others
Bauer
Captain Bauer
Portrayed By: Brendan Fehr
"You know, guys like you you think you're so damn smart, and you think you don't have to play straight with anybody. The wheel is gonna turn. It always does."
A US Air Force captain posted to a base with a famous bomber airplane. Jimmy resorts to unsavory measures in order to get some footage with the plane, which draws Bauer's ire.
- Blackmail: Jimmy is able to get him to back down by threatening to involve his superior officer for being incompetent enough to fall for Jimmy's trickery and let Jimmy on the premises.
- Gullible Lemmings: He not only believes Jimmy about Fudge's heroic war record but gets other troops to line up for a photograph. Jimmy is later able to use Bauer's incompetence to keep him silent about the whole sordid event.
- What the Hell, Hero?: Bauer is absolutely furious with Jimmy for his trickery, calling him an ambulance chaser and threatening him with legal action.
Park supervisor
Park supervisor
Portrayed By: Frank Deal
"Think of community service as your jail time."
A supervisor that monitors people assigned to pick up trash for their community service.
- Asshole Victim: The community service supervisor is brought to heel with the threat of Jimmy suing him for the back damage he sustained during the below flopsy, threatening to bring in someone else doing community service to make it a class action. Though this other person is heavily implied to be a drug dealer, the supervisor had no way of knowing this and was told the man needed to see his sick kid in hospital - so Jimmy threatens to add emotional distress to the suit. The possible drug dealer gets to 'see his sick kid', both of them get their full hours for that day's community service, and Jimmy gets $700 from the 'distressed father'.
- Mean Boss: Punishes Jimmy for talking on his phone during his community service by sharply reducing his time to be logged, even though Jimmy picked up more trash than everyone else. To be fair, he's probably had to deal with community servers doing exactly the same thing many times over but still the way he goes about telling Jimmy... is enough to qualify for this trope. The fact that he was aware Jimmy was on his phone but didn't warn him to stop shows that he doesn't give a damn about the rules like he claims, he just gets a charge out of being a petty asshole.
- No Sympathy: He doesn't care about Jimmy's plea as he is there for community service and not volunteering, comparing it to jail time.
- Wardens Are Evil: While not running a prison, he acts this way for community service. His handling of the assigned people and policies, as seen above, qualifies him enough to be a Downplayed example. There's also the accompanying quote.
"Viktor" and Jeff (Spoilers)
Alfred Hawthorne Hill
Alfred Hawthorne Hill
Portrayed By: Devin Ratray
A man Viktor identifies as a potential mark for a scam in a Nebraska bar.
- Asshole Victim: Shown to be loud and obnoxious and deserving of being scammed.
- Comedic Sociopathy: Makes bets with Viktor so that he gets to put him through humiliating experiences when he loses. In one final bet, he gets Viktor to put a book of matches on the back of his hand, which he then attempts to set fire to. He also thinks it's hilarious to insult Victor and slap him on his bald head.
- Mirror Character: To Marco Pasternak. Both characters are overweight and skilled at bar tricks but while Marco was Jimmy's Fat Best Friend and Big Fun, Alfred is more of an unsympathetic Fat Bastard type. Marco was a Gentle Giant while Alfred is a Boisterous Bruiser. Marco was also genuinely skilled as a confidence trickster while Alfred is merely convinced he is and doesn't realise that he is the mark, being lulled into a false sense of security by Viktor letting him win bets and pretending to be more drunk than he really is.
- No Sense of Personal Space: As if slapping Viktor on his bald head wasn't bad enough, he then tries to set fire to his hand as a joke.
Lingk
Lingk
Portrayed By: Kevin Sussman
Another mark identified by Viktor. He suffers from cancer, though Viktor has no qualms of mugging him.
- Incurable Cough of Death: He has cancer and, based on his comments about it 'not being the good kind,' isn't expected to survive it.
- Mirror Character: Is a nice, soft man and has a speech about how his trick is to have no tricks at all, startlingly similar to Jimmy's resented, "sheep" father.
- Nice Guy: Possibly the first scamming victim to be portrayed as someone who has done absolutely nothing to warrant his ill treatment. He is perfectly friendly and charming and even manages to be jovial on the subject of his cancer treatment. Viktor later admits to Jeff and Buddy that he singled him out as a mark mainly because he had no partner or children who would be affected by a financial loss.
- No Name Given:
Word of God is that his name is Mr. Lingk, but this isn't indicated in his introductory episode. - Shout-Out: He is named after a con victim in the famous show Glengarry Glen Ross.
Others
Jimmy's film crew
Joey
Marshall Joseph "Joey" Dixon
"I signed the form. Only I can touch the camera."
Portrayed By: Josh Fadem
"You can't rush the process."
A student at the University of New Mexico whom Jimmy occasionally hires to film him. He works the camera.
- Bad "Bad Acting": Repeats a dull delivery of a line shilling Jimmy's services after he's made the change to Saul Goodman.
- Basement-Dweller: Jimmy tells him, "I hope your parents enjoy supporting you for the rest of their lives".
- Berserk Button: When Kim arrives at the nail salon while Jimmy is filming, he warns her about Joey.Jimmy: Alright, just don't touch the camera. He claims it's an extension of his body.
- The Bully: He has the nerve to pick fights with Jimmy, the man who pays him.
- Bunny-Ears Lawyer: For all of his attitude, he's genuinely good behind a camera. The commercial he films for the Davis & Main Sandpiper case under Jimmy's direction ends up being of professional quality.
- Deadpan Snarker: He greets almost everything Jimmy says with a snide remark.
- Greed: He expects to make a living off his intern work.
- I Have Many Names: He's called "Joey" in a prop article visible on screen, but he introduces himself as "Marshall" in the "Filmmaker Training" minisodes. In a Reddit AMA, his actor explains that his full name is probably Marshall Joseph Dixon.
- Jerkass: He's not a very pleasant person, and a very bad, disrespectful intern to Jimmy.
- Jerkass Has a Point: While he never shows any tact in talking about it, his disdain for Jimmy is understandable given that the crew is being paid peanuts to do constant rush work without the proper supplies or accommodations, in often uncomfortable and even legally compromising situations.
- Karma Houdini: Jimmy is either too pressed for time to find a replacement for this bad intern or he's too worried about his personal finances to fire him.
- Nice, Mean, and In-Between: The Mean; he's a snarky Jerkass who never has anything polite or constructive to say to Jimmy and is openly Only in It for the Money.
- Not So Stoic: Typically deadpan and unemotional, he's genuinely shocked when he sees the worker fall from Jimmy's billboard, unaware that it's a scheme.
- Only in It for the Money: As he states, numerous times. Jimmy says he still gets support from his parents.
- Small Name, Big Ego: He's a college kid who runs the AV department at his school yet carries himself as though he were a jaded auteur filmmaker that is above the projects Jimmy hires him for.
- Skewed Priorities: He makes it clear multiple times over his Filmmaker Training videos that you should value the equipment much, much more than your own safety.Marshall: Protect the camera at all costs. AT ALL COSTS.
- Vitriolic Best Buds: A small scene in season 6 shows Jimmy and Joey haggling over a price that ends with a pinky swear/handshake and Jimmy reminding him not to tell anyone else he pays Joey more, suggesting they have a slightly friendlier rapport one-on-one.
Phil
Phil / "Sound Guy"
"You gonna catch the bus, Mr. McGill?"
Portrayed By: Julian Bonfiglio
A student at the University of New Mexico whom Jimmy occasionally hires to film him. He works a boom microphone.
- Bad "Bad Acting": While he's shilling Jimmy's services after he's made the change to Saul Goodman, he's seen clearly glancing at a card to help him deliver his lines. It helps that he's not on camera.
- The Ditz: Whenever Jimmy tries to get his opinion on anything, he always seems zoned out and is never able to offer useful feedback. It's unclear if he's stupid or just too indifferent about Jimmy's projects to put much thought into them. The "Filmmaker Training" minisodes further depict him as being affable but oblivious.
- The Generic Guy: Doesn't have as much of an obvious personality as the rest of Jimmy's film crew. He doesn't really talk much either.
- Nice, Mean, and In-Between: The In-Between; he usually keeps to himself and seems fairly amiable whenever Jimmy talks to him, but never has anything worthwhile to say and mostly comes across as having no interest in the projects he's hired for other than as a means of making quick money.
- No Name Given: In spite of recurring in multiple episodes, he is never named in the main show. In the "Filmmaker Training" minisodes, he finally gives his name as "Phil".
- Pop-Cultural Osmosis Failure: He thinks Ritchie Blackmore did "Another Brick in the Wall".
- The Quiet One: Does the least amount of talking of the film crew.
- Ship Tease: The animated segments in the "Filmmaker Training" minisodes imply that he has a crush on Sherry.
Sherry
Sherry / "Make-up Girl" / "Drama Girl"
"I've been taking improv classes."
Portrayed By: Hayley Holmes
"But you're losing money."
Student make-up artist in Jimmy's commercial film crew.
- Artsy Beret: She is a makeup artist after all.
- Bad "Bad Acting": Her initial performance provides a more realistic take on this; Jimmy wants to make a commercial offering filming and broadcasting services, so he asks the Make-up Girl to do his line since he can't do it himself, and she repeats it unconvincingly. She gets better later on.
- Character Development: Initially, she's a terrible actress, but manages to improve over the course of her appearances until she takes the lead in a phony news interview complete with wonderful 70s reporter's hair. She tells Jimmy she's been taking improv classes, and they've definitely paid off. She's no Meryl Streep, but she's convincing enough to pull off a con, and it's reflected in her new credited title of "Drama Girl".
- Glad I Thought of It: Repeatedly suggests ways out of their current jam, which Jimmy immediately seizes on as they were his ideas.
- Hair of Gold, Heart of Gold: She's a blonde, and out of Jimmy's three UNM amigos, she's easily the sweetest. When she sees Jimmy is going out of pocket to pay her for her work on a commercial, she tries to give him his money back.
- Nice Girl: She offers to give Jimmy her payment back when she sees that he's losing money during his commercial-filming services.
- Nice Job Breaking It, Hero: In the middle of Jimmy's attempt to convince some locals that a famous singer attended a school in New Mexico, she comments that the singer was actually English, almost derailing Jimmy's story.
- Nice Mean And In Between: The Nice; she's the only one of the film crew who takes any genuine interest in Jimmy as a person rather than as a source of income and always makes an effort to try and give him constructive feedback when asked.
- No Name Given: She's credited only as "Make-up Girl", and later "Drama Girl" in the show itself. In the "Filmmaker Training" minisodes, she introduces herself as "Sherry".
- Only Sane Man: She's polite and sympathetic to Jimmy.
- Remember the New Guy?: Suddenly starts tagging along with the rest of the film crew in season 2, despite not showing up at all in season 1. It's reasonable to assume they eventually picked her up off-screen, but still.
Lenny
Lenny
Portrayed By: John Ennis
An actor hired by Jimmy to impersonate a mediator.
- Casting Gag: He's an actor hired to work for Jimmy that is played by Mr. Show alum and frequent Bob Odenkirk collaborator John Ennis.
- Classically-Trained Extra: He's an aspiring actor who works as a cart runner at a supermarket for a day job. When he's hired by Jimmy as part of a grift, he needlessly commits himself to immersing into the role. Jimmy later exploits this side of him when he needs to pull him out of work to do reshoots by treating the production as an opportunity to demonstrate his talents as a performer rather than just a chance to make quick money.
- Took the Bad Film Seriously: Invoked. Despite the slipshod nature of the production, he tries to alter and improve his 'character's' appearance based on what he knows of the mediator's personality.
Court staff
Hannah
Hannah
Portrayed By: Jordyn Aurora Aquino
A court staffer who gets people their mail.
- Affectionate Nickname: Jimmy calls her 'Hannah Banana.' She's fine with this the first time she appears, but in her second time she's clearly fed up with Jimmy.
- Everyone Has Standards: She is polite and kind to Jimmy in her first appearance despite his various antics. However, after Jimmy becomes known as a cartel lawyer who scammed the court in order to free a sicario murderer, she becomes hostile to him.
Contract Counsel Administrator
Contract Counsel Administrator
Portrayed By: Nadine Marissa
A courthouse clerk. Her responsibilities include paying public defenders for their work and scheduling some cases.
- Comically Small Bribe: Jimmy learns that he can bribe her with little stuffed animals to get preferential treatment. Unfortunately for him, he's prevented from doing this by Erin Brill after Cliff assigns her to ride herd on him. Later, after his reputation as a cartel lawyer gets out, the administrator begins refusing his bribes altogether.
- Everyone Calls Him "Barkeep": She is only known by her job title and is never give a name in the show.
- Everyone Has Standards: She may be usually up for accepting bribes from Jimmy to give him leniency, but when she finds out how he helped the Cartel, she refuses any more bribes and just acts barely professional towards him.
- No Name Given: Her name is never given.
- Sassy Black Woman: She gets sassy and sarcastic with Jimmy after he gets a reputation as a cartel attorney.
Grief Counseling Group
Anita
Anita
Portrayed By: Tamara Tunie
A woman in the grief counseling group that Stacey attends. She forms a friendship with Mike.
- Broken Bird: Downplayed compared to Stacey, but the death of her husband is still hurting her. It doesn't help that unlike Stacey, who ended up having some closure when Mike gives the Awful Truth, Anita's husband simply disappeared.
- Call-Forward: Her husband went missing after a hike in the woods and left his family wondering about where he went. It not only reflects the Good Samaritan Mike got indirectly killed but also echoes Mike's eventual fate in Breaking Bad.
- Put on a Bus: Or rather she stayed on the bus. After recurring for a few episodes, her appearances halt altogether after Mike tells the grief counseling group what he really thinks of them, thus ending their Ship Tease.
- Recurring Character: Whenever the grief counseling is of concern for Mike, she's there.
- Ship Tease: She's clearly interested in Mike, and although he's seemingly interested back, he's a little more tentative.
Henry DeVore
Henry DeVore
Portrayed By: Marc Evan Jackson
A member of the grief counseling group. He lies about having a dead wife to get a hard-on from the reactions of others.
- Attention Whore: He spends months or even longer turning up to a grief counseling group, fabricating an entire story about his non-existent dead wife "Judy", solely to feed off the misery of others. He's pretty ghoulish.
- Bad Liar: Mike's assessment of him. He manages to fool most of the group, but Mike says that's only because the rest of the group is too wrapped up in their own miseries to be paying attention. Mike himself notes that Henry's story changes constantly and he has a visible tell when he's lying.
Realtors
Stephanie Doswell
Stephanie Doswell
Portrayed By: Jennifer Hasty
A realtor working for Venture Reality Group.
- Continuity Cameo: The same realtor as the one who catches Marie stealing from an open house in Season 4 of Breaking Bad.
Jodi Nichols
Jodi Nichols
Portrayed By: Beth Bailey (in Breaking Bad) and Audrey Walters (in Better Call Saul)
A realtor working for Sunny Reality.
- Continuity Cameo: Jodi, the realtor who in Better Call Saul is seen running an open house that Jimmy and Kim check out, is also the realtor who tries to run an open house in Jesse's home (only for Jesse to climb up from the meth lab in his basement and throw everyone out) in Breaking Bad.
Other civilians
Mrs. Nguyen
Mrs. Nguyen
Portrayed By: Eileen Fogarty
Jimmy's Vietnamese-American Cranky Landlord. She runs the nail salon where Jimmy rents his boiler-room law office.
- Asian Rudeness: Especially toward Jimmy, who rubs her the wrong way.
- Asian Speekee Engrish: She has a remarkably strong Vietnamese accent which winds up sounding like this.
- Asian Store-Owner: She runs a nail salon often frequented by other Vietnamese women.
- As Long as It Sounds Foreign: Vietnamese viewers will instantly notice how unnatural she sounds. Her words have the most literal meaning and don't fit the context in which they are spoken. The way she delivers her lines is also way too long to be natural to Vietnamese.
- Cranky Landlord: To Jimmy, since she rented out the boiler room of her building to him, which he converted into an independent law office.
- Jerk with a Heart of Gold: She's rather irritable and snarky, making no secret of her dislike for Jimmy. She also denies Jimmy access to the cucumber water cooler and generally seems to run her salon with an iron fist. Despite this, she's hardly a bad person and there isn't any sincere, deep-seated hatred felt between her and Jimmy. When his relationship with Kim starts to fail, she reacts with genuine sympathy and good advice.
- Pet the Dog: She's genuinely kind and sympathetic to Jimmy for the first time as his relationship with Kim is falling apart.
- Token Minority: The most frequently seen Asian character on the show, even if she's only a minor character.
Fran
Lara Cruz
Dr. Lara Cruz
"You have the power to help your brother. Truly help him. Ignoring this won't make it go away."
Portrayed By: Clea DuVall
The doctor who is assigned to treat Chuck McGill at the hospital.
- Cruel to Be Kind: She exposes Chuck to electricity in order to demonstrate that his condition is mental, not physical, to convince Jimmy to have him committed for evaluation.
- Ignored Expert:
- Neither Chuck nor Jimmy are willing to hear her out that his "Electromagnetic Hypersensitivity" is a nocebo delusion. After she demonstrates such to the latter, Jimmy accepts but has a hard time processing what to do next since he doesn't want his brother sent to a mental institution, despite her recommendation.
- Later, when Chuck gets into self-induced catatonia after a simple CT scan, Jimmy would rather enable Chuck's delusion again when seeing him in such a state.Dr. Cruz: We think it's a state of self-induced catatonia.
Jimmy: "We". Always with the "we". I think it's you. You're the only doctor in the room. I think you fried his brain with that machine.
- Recurring Character: She helps Chuck at the hospital in Season 1 and 2, later helping him with his condition in Season 3 as his prominent doctor.
Fred Whalen
Fred Whalen
"I can't. I'm sorry. You better just call the police."
Portrayed By: James Austin Johnson
"It's not company policy to give out customer information."
The clerk at TravelWire in Albuquerque. When Werner Ziegler runs wild, Mike and Lalo visit him to inquire about his whereabouts.- Cruel and Unusual Death: Taken by surprise, he's beaten to death with a pistol, then left inside while the TravelWire burns down.
- Innocent Bystander: A completely normal clerk that is completely unaware of the people he's dealing with and who, as Mike puts it, isn't in "the game".
- Pistol-Whipping: Implied to have been pistol-whipped to death by Lalo, based on the autopsy report Mike looks at.
- Properly Paranoid: He's clearly uneasy and worried when Lalo seems to vanish from his store. Unfortunately, he still can't react quickly enough to save himself.
- Small Role, Big Impact: Fred is little more than a two-scene redshirt in terms of character, but his death at Lalo's hands has major reprecussions for everyone going into the subsequent season: his murder gets manipulated by Gus and Mike to put Lalo in prison where he's represented by Jimmy (who tells Kim about it), thereby bringing just about all the remaining main characters in on the same plot, save for Howard. ...at least until Lalo murders him, something that would never have come about if Jimmy hadn't had anything to do with Lalo in the first place.
Doreen Valco
Doreen Valco
Portrayed By: Jean Villepique
An agent working for Santa Rosa Insurance, which provides HHM's malpractice insurance.
- Bitch in Sheep's Clothing: Acts sympathetic towards Jimmy, but when he breaks down crying in front of her and starts talking about Chuck's condition and his breakdown, she writes down a note to raise Chuck's insurance rates. Jimmy planned on this of course, but really, how heartless can you be and there's a hint that maybe even he was momentarily surprised by how willing she was to do this?
- Small Role, Big Impact: She takes note of Chuck's recent mishaps according to Jimmy's Crocodile Tears, leading to his insurance spikes and thus everything else they entail.
- Unwitting Pawn: Of Jimmy's. He manipulates her into believing that Chuck is falling apart as a lawyer, even though some of the things Jimmy attributes to Chuck were in fact Jimmy's doing.
Ughetta
Ughetta
Portrayed By: Michael Chieffo
A commissioner in charge of determining whether or not the new Mesa Verde branch in Scottsdale can open.
- Obstructive Bureaucrat: Played with. He does block Mesa Verde from opening its new branch because of a paperwork error, and Chuck acts like this is no big deal and can easily be overlooked, but Ughetta makes it clear that the paperwork error resulted in his staff researching the wrong location and thus rendered them unable to provide his commission with the information they need to determine whether the branch should be allowed to open. Kim is able to have an earlier date than what he proposed to Chuck by negotiating and looking for free spots.
- Old Friend: He's glad to see Chuck back to work during the meeting for Mesa Verde's branch opening, warmly welcoming him before they get to business.
David
David
"Am I talking too much?"
Portrayed By: Reed Diamond
"Mr. Fring? It's so good to see you!"
A sommelier who seemingly is on good terms with Gus.
- Ambiguously Gay: His one scene with Gus has a lot of flirtatious undertones, but since nothing ever comes of it the question of whether he was romantically interested in Gus or simply enjoyed his company remains unanswered.
- Morality Pet: David practically exists to show Gus still has some humanity inside him unlike most of the other drug lords seen in the show. Tragically, despite contemplating his options in life, Gus decides to pursue his path of vengeance and discards whatever soul he has left by the time of Breaking Bad.
- Silver Fox: A good-looking older man who Gus has latent feelings for.
- Wine Is Classy: A sophisticated man who is very knowledgeable about wine.
The Widow (SPOILER WARNING)
See the Marie Schrader folder here.
