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Jimmy: Can we talk strategy here, huh? Look, I know I’m a lousy brother. I’m a lousy brother and I’m a big screw up. And if I was just a better person, I would not only stop letting you down, you know what? I would stop letting me down. And it’s about time that I started to make both of us proud. Am I right?
Chuck: Guard.
Jimmy: Wait! Chuck, wait wait wait wait! No no, you can’t leave me, no. If I don’t get out of this my life is over!
Chuck: So long as you understand that.
Jimmy: Yeah.
Chuck: Jimmy, if I do this. If. Do not make a fool out of me.
Jimmy: I promise I won’t.
Chuck: Everything you’re doing, everything you’re involved with, that’s over.
Jimmy: Just tell me what to do. Whatever it is, I’ll do it. Just say it. Please, Chuck? Help me.
— "Nacho"

"I've known good criminals and bad cops, bad priests, honorable thieves. You can be on one side of the law or the other, but if you make a deal with somebody, you keep your word. You can go home today with your money and never do this again, but you took something that wasn't yours, and you sold it for a profit. You're now a criminal. Good one, bad one? That's up to you."
Mike Ehrmantraut, "Pimento"

Jimmy:Tell me why! It's the least you can do for me now! I'm your brother! We're supposed to look out for each other! Why were you working against me, Chuck?
Chuck: You're not a real lawyer.
Jimmy: I'm what?
Chuck: You're not a real lawyer! University of American Samoa for Christ's sake? An online course? What a joke. I worked my ass off to get where I am! And you take these shortcuts and you think suddenly you're my peer? You do what I do because you're funny and you can make people laugh? I committed my life to this! You don't... slide into it like a cheap pair of slippers and then reap all the rewards!
Jimmy: I thought you were proud of me...
Chuck: I was! When you straightened out and got a job in the mail room I was very proud.
Jimmy: So that's it then, right? Keep old Jimmy down in the mail room 'cause he's not good enough to be a lawyer?
Chuck: I know you. I know what you were, what you are—people don't change, you're Slippin' Jimmy! And Slippin' Jimmy I can handle just fine but Slippin' Jimmy with a law degree is like a chimp with a machine gun! The law is sacred! If you abuse that power people get hurt! This is not a game! You have to know — on some level I know you know I'm right! You know I'm right!
(pause)
Jimmy: I... I got you a twenty pound bag of ice, and some bacon and some eggs. A couple of those steaks that you like, some fuel canisters, enough for three or four days. After that... you're on your own. I am done.
— "Pimento"

Jimmy: Uh, quick question, who here knows what a Chicago sunroof is? Anybody? You, sir? No? OK. True story, uh, back home, there was this guy named Chet. Now, Chet was a real asshole. He might have owed me some money! He might have slept with my wife... before she became my ex-wife. The details don't matter! Suffice to say, I was wrong. Alright, so one summer evening, I was out having a few drinks, one or two, maybe three, huh! You get the picture? And, uh, who do I see? Chet! He drove off and he double-parked outside a Dairy Queen, and went in to get some soft-serve. Now, Chet drove, just to give you an idea of exactly the kind of a douchebag this guy was, drove a white pearlescent BMW 7-series with a white leather interior. (chuckles) So I saw that thing, and I— I'd had a few, like I said. And, uh... I climbed up top, and I may have... (Beat) defecated, uh... through the sunroof. (awkward silence) Not my finest hour, I'll grant you that. But, that's what a Chicago sunroof is! Now you know. (nervous chuckle) It's a real thing, I didn't make it up. Not the first person to do it. There's a name for it. Guy wanted some soft-serve, I gave him some soft-serve. I did not know that his children were in the back seat. There was a level of tint on the windows that I maintain to this day was not legal in an Illinois-licensed vehicle. But somehow, that's on me, I guess. Who leaves two cub scouts in a double-parked car with the engine running? Come on. Now, Chet was connected, see? Like, uh, Cicero connected. So, usually I'd be lookin' at malicious mischief, public intoxication, disorderly conduct, maybe... but he's got the DEA saying indecent exposure. Calling me a sex offender! What?! One little Chicago sunroof, and suddenly, I'm Charles Manson?! And that's where it all went off the rails! I've been paying for it ever since. THAT'S WHY I'M HERE!
Jimmy going on a rant in "Marco"

Mike: Well, that was quick. No charge.
Jimmy: Help me out here. Did I dream it, or did I have $1,600,000 on my desk in cash? When I close my eyes, I can still see it. It's burned into my retinas like I was staring into the sun. No one on God's green earth knew we had it. We could have split it 50/50. We could have gone home with $800,000 each, tax-free.
Mike: Your point being?
Jimmy: Why didn't we? What stopped us?!
Mike: I remember you saying something about doing the right thing.
Jimmy: I don't even know what that means.
Mike: You want to know why I didn't take that money? Is that what you're asking?
Jimmy: Yeah, that's what I'm asking.
Mike: Me personally? I was hired to do a job. I did it. That's as far as it goes.
Jimmy: Yeah. Well, I know what stopped me. And you know what? It's never stopping me again.
Jimmy deciding to do whatever he wants, "Marco"

"My brother is not a bad person. He has a good heart. It's just...he can't help himself. And everyone's left picking up the pieces."
Chuck McGill, "Rebecca"

Kim: I know he’s not perfect. And I know he cuts corners. But you’re the one who made him this way. He idolizes you. He accepts you. He takes care of you. And all he ever wanted was your love and support. But all you’ve ever done is judge him. You never believed in him. You never wanted him to succeed. And you know what? I feel sorry for him. And I feel sorry for you.
Kim Wexler's "The Reason You Suck" Speech to Chuck McGill, "Nailed"

Chuck: I AM NOT CRAZY! (Beat) I am not crazy! I know he swapped those numbers, I knew it was 1216 — one after Magna Carta, as if I could ever make such a mistake! Never, never! I just-I just couldn't prove it! H-H-He covered his tracks, he got that idiot at the copy shop to lie for him!
Alley: Mr. McGill, please. You don't have to go in—
Chuck: You think this is something, you think this is bad, this, this chicanery? He's done worse. That billboard! Are you telling me that a man just happens to fall like that? No, he orchestrated it! Jimmy! He defecated through a sunroof! And I saved him! I shouldn't have, I took him into my own firm! What was I thinking?! He'll never change. He'll never change, ever since he was 9, always the same. Couldn't keep his hands out of the cash drawer. "But not our Jimmy, couldn't be precious Jimmy!" Stealing them blind! And HE gets to be a LAWYER?! WHAT A SICK JOKE! I should have stopped him when I had the chance! And you, you have to stop him, you—
(Chuck realizes he's ranting)
Chuck: I apologize. I lost my train of thought... got carried away. Do you have anything else?
Jimmy: No. Nothing further.
Chuck McGill's Villainous Breakdown, "Chicanery"

Chuck: I know you don't think it's a show. I don't doubt your emotions are real, but what's the point of all the sad faces and the gnashing of teeth? If you're not gonna change your behavior — and you won't — why not just skip the whole exercise? In the end, you're gonna hurt everyone around you. You can't help it, so stop apologizing and accept it, embrace it. Frankly, I'd have more respect for you if you did.
Jimmy: What about you, Chuck? You didn't do anything wrong? You're just an innocent victim?
Chuck: Let me put your mind at ease, Jimmy. You don't have to make up with me. We don't have to understand each other. Things are fine the way they are. Hey, I don't wanna hurt your feelings, but the truth is you never mattered all that much to me.
Chuck McGill's final conversation with Jimmy McGill, "Lantern"

"I was just gonna – I was gonna try to move you all with my brother's eloquent words. You know, pull on your heartstrings. But it's not right. This letter is between me and him, and it should stay that way. Listen, my brother Chuck...you–you knew him. He loved me in his own way. He loved me as a brother. He did not love me as a lawyer. Big reason I became a lawyer was Chuck. He was the most brilliant man I ever knew, and an incredible lawyer, you know? And he knew exactly who he was. Exactly. And all my life, I wanted to make him proud, and he was not an easy man to make proud. You know, like climbing Everest without supplies: if you were one of the lucky few who reached that peak, even for a moment, if you made him proud – wow, what a feeling. And he let you know it, too. But if you weren't one of those people... He–he was polite enough, but he did not suffer fools, you know? And he could be judgmental and difficult, and he knew how to get under your skin. Hmm... could be a real son of a bitch. Chuck was the one who was always right, always. And usually he was, you know? So for a guy like me – I did lousy in school, I lacked ambition, I always cut corners – I mean, for me to live up to the standards of Charles McGill... I mean, look at me. I'll never be as moral as him, I'll never be as smart, I'll never be as respected. I'll never be as good as Chuck. (sniffs) But I can try. I can try. If you decide I get to be a lawyer, I'll do everything in my power to be worthy of the name McGill. And if you decide I'm not a lawyer...doesn't matter. I'll still try to be the best man that I can be. I'm lucky I got this letter. I never had a chance to write him a letter, and to tell him all the things that I should have. But I gotta believe that somehow... somehow he knows. Well, that's... that'll have to do it for me. Sorry... thank you."
Jimmy speaking his view about Chuck, "Winner"

Kim: I knew you could do it! I knew you had it in you!
Jimmy: That was so great!
Kim: I mean, yes! They–they have to reinstate you now! They just have to!
Jimmy: Uh, yeah! Did you see those suckers? (Kim is stunned) That one asshole was crying, he had actual tears! Jesus, Kim! Listen, I started reading the letter, and I just knew it wasn't... I could tell by their faces it wasn't gonna be enough, right? So I just went off on this flow, you know? I had this energy going through me, it was like improv, or jazz, and then boom! Sunk the hook in! "I'm so lucky I have this letter." God! I could see the Matrix, you know! I was invincible! I could dodge bullets, baby! And you were right, you were right – it was all about Chuck! The whole time!
Clerk: Oh, Mr. McGill, you're still here. There's some good news.
Jimmy: Believe me, I already know.
Clerk: Oh good. Then if you want to come with me to the office, there's some paperwork for you to sign.
Jimmy: Absolutely! Let's do this thing! Oh, and sweetheart, I'm gonna need one more form: a DBA. Y'see, I'm not gonna be practicing under the name "McGill", so...
Clerk: Shouldn't be a problem. Just down the hall. We have all the forms.
Jimmy: Great! Great!
Kim: W-w-wait, Jimmy, Jimmy–what?!
Jimmy: (makes finger guns) S'all good, man!
Jimmy revealing Kim he faked the emotions in the hearing, and deciding to practice as Saul Goodman, Winner

Mike: The anonymous benefactor. Well, that must make you feel pretty good. And is that supposed to balance the scales, make up for everything else you do?
Gus: It makes up for nothing. I am what I am.

Jimmy: You're sorry? You kill my brother and you say you're sorry? Let me tell you something: the job offer? It didn't upset me. It amused me. Big job at the illustrious HHM — chance to play at the palace! Ooh, little old me?
Howard: I was trying—
Jimmy: You have no idea what's going on! You're a teensy-tiny man in a teensy-weensy little bubble!
Howard: Oh, Jimmy...
Jimmy: Oh, don't you fuckin' "oh, Jimmy" me! You look down on me, you pity me?!
(Howard begins walking away from Jimmy)
Jimmy: Walk away, that's right, Howard. You know why I didn't take the job? 'Cause it's too SMALL! I don't care about it! It's nothing to me, it's a bacterium! I travel in worlds you can't even imagine! You can't conCEIVE of what I'm capable of! I'm so far beyond you! I'm like a god in human clothing! LIGHTNING BOLTS SHOOT FROM MY FINGERTIPS!
Saul Goodman having a professional conversation with a colleague, "JMM"

"You wanna be a friend of the cartel? Time to get yourself a new motto: Just Make Money."
Lalo Salamanca, "JMM"

Jimmy: Oh God! I don't know how. How the hell are you still going?
Mike: Because I know why I'm out here. That's how. I know what it's for. I can't drag that money out of here by myself. So, you... You get up, and you get up now.
Jimmy: What it's for. What... is it for?
Mike: I have people. I have people waiting for me. They don't know what I do. They never will. They're protected, but I do what I do so they can have a better life. And if I live or if I die, it really doesn't make a difference to me as long as they have what they need. So that when it's my time to go, I will go knowing I did everything I could for them. You ask me how I keep going? That's how.
— "Bagman"

"Here's what's gonna happen. One day, you're gonna wake up, eat your breakfast, brush your teeth, go about your business. And sooner or later, you're gonna realize you haven't thought about it. None of it. And that's the moment you realize you can forget. When you know that's possible, it all gets easier."
Mike Ehrmantraut, "Bad Choice Road"

"We all make our choices. And those choices, they put us on a road. Sometimes, those choices seem small, but they put you on the road. You think about getting off, but eventually you're back on it. And the road we're on led us out to the desert and everything that happened there and straight back to where we are right now. And nothing, nothing can be done about that."
Mike Ehrmantraut to Jimmy McGill, "Bad Choice Road"

Jimmy: Kim, doing this... it's not you, okay? You would not be okay with it. Not in the cold light of day.
Kim: Wouldn't I?

"Alvarez has been paying me for years. Years. But you know what? I would have done it for free. Because I hate every last one of you psycho sacks of shit. I opened Lalo's gate, and I would do it again, and I was glad what they did to him. He's a soulless pig, and I wish I killed him with my own hands. And you know what else, Hector? I put you in that chair. Oh yeah, your heart meds? I switched them for sugar pills. You were dead and buried, and I had to watch this asshole bring you back. So when you are sitting in your shitty nursing home and you're sucking down on your Jell-O night after night for the rest of your life, you think of me, you twisted fuck."
Ignacio Varga's last stand, "Rock and Hard Place"

"I mean, what do you tell yourselves? What justification makes it okay? "Howard's such an asshоlе that he deserves it?" So... what is it? I sided with Chuck too often? I took away your office, put you in doc review? All of the above? Howard's daddy helped him get to the top, but you both had to struggle. "Howie has so much, and we have so little, let's take him down a peg or two"? What allows you to do this to me? Because this isn't just a prank. No. This goes beyond throwing bowling balls on my car. This took planning. Coordination. I mean, how many weeks? O-Or was it months? It couldn't have been easy. So, tell me... why? Why go through this elaborate plot just to burn me to the ground? [...] Oh yeah, sure. The Sandpiper settlement—HHM's share will be substantial, absolutely. Even though I humiliated myself. And my clients and peers will whisper that Howard Hamlin's a drug addict. You're right. I've worked my way through worse. Debt. Depression. My marriage falling apart. Oh, yeah. Been sleeping in the guest house for the better part of a year. Just one more thing that good ol' Howard has to work through. But yes, I will land on my feet. I will be okay. But you? Far from it. You two are soulless. Jimmy, you can't help yourself. Chuck knew it. You were born that way. But you? [to Kim] One of the smartest and most promising human beings I've ever known... and this is the life you choose. [...] You're perfect for each other. You have a piece missing. I... I thought you did it for the money, but now it's... It's so clear. Screw the money. You did it for fun. You get off on it. You're... you're like... Leopold and Loeb. Two sociopaths. [...] Oh, you know it's true, you just don't have the guts to admit it. [...] I’m going to make it clear to everyone, because I’m going to dedicate my life to making sure everybody knows the truth... believe it... you can’t hide who you really are forever."
Howard Hamlin confronting Saul Goodman and Kim Wexler over ruining his career, "Plan And Execution"

Lalo Salamanca: One moment, Don. Think of the laboratory you could put here, Don Eladio. Eh? How much meth you could make... that was his plan. Cut you out to become boss. And now here we are, in this big hole! Gustavo thought he was building an empire, but all he built himself was a tomb.
Gustavo Fring: You can't kill me.
Lalo: Why not?
Gus: I haven't told that fat pig Eladio what I think of him yet.
Lalo: Hoo-hoo! Perfect! You've got one minute.
Gus: Eladio... you greasy, bloated pimp. You talk of honor. But you have none. A pack of stray dogs fighting for scraps has more honor. Jackals. That's all you are! No vision. No patience. No thought. Stupid and impulsive! That is how I did all this. You couldn't see it, couldn't even conceive of it. And you Salamancas... you're the worst vermin of all. You say you believe in "blood for blood" but you only understand blood for money! You're whores! [in English] I understand blood for blood. Hector? Yeah, I kept him alive. Kept him broken. I will save him to the last. Before he dies, he will know... I buried every one of you.
Lalo: Big talk. You done?
Gus: No. Not yet.

Jimmy: Hey... I love you.
Kim: I love you too... But so what?

Jeff: I don't know...
Gene: What don't you know?
Jeff: Just, this whole thing, it seems crazy!
Gene: Is this too hot for you?! Ju— You know what, just say so! You know what? Screw it. "Crazy." I'll tell you what's crazy! Fifty-year-old high school chemistry teacher comes into my office. The guy is so broke, he can't pay his own mortgage. One year later, he's got a pile of cash as big as a Volkswagen. That's crazy.
— "Nippy"

"You... You have a wife, right, Frank? Yeah! And she's waiting for you. Look at me! I got... I got no one. My parents are dead. My brother... My brother's dead. I, uh... I got no wife. No kids. No friends. If I died tonight... no one would care. What difference would it make? [...] If I died tonight, my landlord would pack up my stuff. It'd take him three hours. And Cinnabon would just hire a new manager. Gene who?! Poof! I'd be gone, I'd be a... A ghost. Less than a ghost, I'd be a... A shadow. I'd just be... nothing. I mean, Frank, what's the point, Frank?
"Gene Takovic", "Nippy"

"Dude is standing in front of a meth lab, it's not like he ain't gonna put two and two together!"
Jesse Pinkman, "Breaking Bad"

Walter White: So, you have a job, one job. And I still don't understand how you're gonna pull it off.
Saul Goodman: Listen, when I get all my ducks in a row, I'll give you a PowerPoint down at the office, but until then, just— Just bring what we talked about, okay? And don't worry! I'm gonna make it work.

Jesse Pinkman: So, this guy. Any good?
Kim Wexler: When I knew him, he was.

Judge Small: "Mr. Goodman, sit down and stay seated."
Jimmy McGill: "The name's McGill. I'm James McGill."
— The end of Saul Goodman, "Saul Gone"

Saul Goodman: So you started a company, is it still around?
Walter White: Oh, yes.
Saul: Is it successful?
Walt: Very.
Saul: How could you never tell me about this? We could've done something with this! Wrongful termination, intellectual property theft, uh, patent fraud! I mean, I could've sunk my teeth into this!
Walt: You'd have been... the last lawyer I'd have gone to.
— "Saul Gone"

Kim Wexler: You had them down to seven years.
Jimmy McGill: Yeah, I did.
Kim Wexler: ...Eighty-six years.
Jimmy McGill: Eighty-six years. But with good behavior... who knows?
— The final words of the series and the franchise, "Saul Gone"

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