History Recap / BetterCallSaulS3E3SunkCosts

* HardWorkMontage: Kim is shown going through her extensive preparations for her legal work, and hitting the fitness club to stay in physical shape.

* LipstickAndLoadMontage: Kim gets treated to one of her own, waking up from sleeping in her office, going to the gym across the street, showering, and then getting dressed, a montage that is cut off when she finds Ernesto in the parking lot to inform her that Chuck had fired him.

* HowWeGotHere: The episode begins with one of Gus Fring's Los Pollos Hermanos trucks driving away, and a pair of tied sneakers falling to the highway after hanging from a powerline. We eventually learn that a truck picked up Mike after he shot through the shoes to spill drugs on a truck driven by Hector's men, in order to set them up for a drug pinch at the Mexican border. The Los Pollos Hermanos truck is driving Mike home after he's completed his job.

* {{Workaholic}}: Kim is so busy with Mesa Verde that she slept in her office, woke up at 5:30 am, only had a cup of coffee for breakfast, took a shower at a nearby gym, and would've immediately gone back to work if Ernesto wasn't there.

* CallBack: Jimmy attempts to bribe his former colleague Bill from the DA's office into representing him by offering him a cheeseburger. He [[Recap/BetterCallSaulS1E2Mijo previously bribed him with a bag of Fritos]] to accept a plea bargain when he was still working as a public defender.

* DidNotThinkThisThrough: As [[OhCrap the look on Chuck's face]] makes clear, he did ''not'' realize that sending Jimmy to jail after canning Ernesto would deprive him of his last caregiver.

* FiringInTheAirALot: Mike fires several 'warning' shots to desensitize the drug couriers by firing straight upwards, leading them to think that there's just some hunters nearby. A falling bullet can do quite some damage, especially fired at sniper rifle velocity - as Mike would know, but they are in the desert, miles from any civilization, so he doesn't have to worry about any humans getting hit.

* LipstickAndLoadMontage: Kim gets treated to one of her own, waking up from sleeping on the couch at the office, rushing to the gym, showering, and then getting dressed, a montage that is cut off when she finds Ernesto in the parking lot to inform her that Chuck had fired him.

* WrongGenreSavvy: Jimmy thinks that he can talk a local prosecutor into a plea deal that will avoid Jimmy confessing to a felony (a disbarment offense). However, the District Attorney realizes that all his prosecutors know Jimmy so to avoid any conflict of interest, he brings in Kyra Hay, a prosecutor from Belen, where Jimmy isn't known, to handle the case.
* XanatosSpeedChess: Albeit petty and one-sided but Chuck shows signs of improvisation when being pointed out that jailing Jimmy will only deprive him of a carer -- so he resorts to simply having him disbarred!

* XanatosSpeedChess: Albeit petty and one-sided but Chuck shows signs of improvisation when being pointed out that jailing Jimmy will only deprive him of a career -- so he resorts to simply having him disbarred!

'''Mike''': We had a disagreement. He threatened my family, I'm not gonna let that go.\\

* RealityEnsues: Jimmy thinks that he can talk a local prosecutor into a plea deal that will avoid Jimmy confessing to a felony (a disbarment offense). However, the District Attorney realizes that all his prosecutors know Jimmy so to avoid any conflict of interest, he brings in Kyra Hay, a prosecutor from Belen, where Jimmy isn't known, to handle the case.

* CallBack: Jimmy attempts to bribe his former colleague Bill from the DA's office into representing him by offering him a cheeseburger. He previously bribed him with a bag of Fritos to accept a plea bargain when he was still working as a public defender, way back in the [[Recap/BetterCallSaulS1E2Mijo second episode of the series.]]

** When in Dr. Goodman's clinic picking up the cocaine, Mike uses the "Mr. Clark" alias he will use in ''Breaking Bad'' when posing as a postal inspector on the phone with the APD when searching for Gus's laptop.
** When Mike asks Gus what Hector is to him, Gus says "He's an associate .. of an associate", almost echoing how Jimmy will describe Gus to Walt and Jesse prior to them entering business together: "I know a guy who knows a guy who knows another guy."

* DyingAlone: What Jimmy believes and hopes will happen to Chuck now.

* FlashForward: The opening sequence is several years into the future, possibly in the ''Breaking Bad'' part of the timeline, when Gus now has firmly taken over Hector's role as the main distributor for cross-border drug movements. The shoes that Mike tossed up on the overhead wire have aged from years of sun exposure, and after a Los Pollos Hermanos truck drives by, they fall off. The Stop sign there is also now riddled with bullet holes, indicative of a cartel shootout having taken place some time in the years in between.

--> Here’s what’s gonna happen: one day you’re gonna get sick, again. One of your employees is gonna find you curled up under that space blanket and take you to the hospital, hook you up to those machines that beep and whir and hurt. And this time it’ll be too much, and you will… die there. Alone.

* BatmanGambit: Chuck- in line with his 'Slippin Jimmy as a Lawyer is a Chimp with a Machine Gun' attitude- does not want Jimmy in jail for the crimes committed in ''Witness''; instead, he wants Jimmy to take a conditional discharge, one condition of which is that the plea goes to the Bar Association, who will almost certainly disbar Jimmy for it (especially if Chuck can peddle as much influence with them as Jimmy implies). He never wanted Jimmy in jail, he just wanted to take away his law credentials.

* PetTheDog:Oakley tries to make Jimmy feel better and gets his court date moved up so he doesn't have to spend any longer in jail than is strictly necessary.

-->'''Jimmy''': ([[TranquilFury calmly]]) Here's what gonna happen. One day you're gonna get sick - again. One of your employees is gonna find you curled up in that space blanket, take you to the hospital, hook you up to those machines that beep and whir and...hurt. And this time it will be too much. [[DyingAlone And you will die there, alone.]]

* YouAreNotAlone: Kim, to Jimmy, when he describes having to face prosecution (or a deal) and the Bar Association - full of people who will side with Chuck - on his own.
* YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness: Chuck has now fired Ernesto, seeing no need for him anymore.

* XanatosSpeedChess: Albeit petty and one-sided but Chuck shows signs of improvisation when being pointed out that jailing Jimmy will only deprive him of a carer -- so he resorts to simply having him disbarred!

* StupidEvil: Jimmy, accurately, argues that Chuck's [[BullyingADragon vendetta]] against him is this as he will deprive himself as well as Jimmy of a carer and eventually die of electromagnetic seizures.

* {{Retcon}}: ''Breaking Bad'' implied that Tyrus Kitt only was brought in to Gus's operation after Victor was killed. Here, we see Victor and Tyrus work together for Gus as co-muscle. As opposed to the implication that Tyrus was in brought on Mike's recommendation. Though it certainly explains Tyrus's colder attitude towards Walt and Jesse, if he's mad at them for getting his partner killed.

Picking up where the previous episode left off, Mike is confronted by Gus in the desert. Gus explains that he does not want Hector to die "at this time," but encourages Mike to rob another one of Hector's trucks. Mike, realizing that Gus is Hector's competitor, forms an alliance with Gus and embarks on a scheme of his own.

* CallBack: Jimmy attempts to bribe his former colleague Bill from the DA's office into representing him by offering him a cheeseburger. He previously bribed him with a bag of Fritos to accept a plea bargain when he was still working as a public defender, way back in the [[Series/BetterCallSaulS1E2Mijo second episode of the series.]]

** Chuck’s pre-trial interview with Kyra Hay sees him repeat the “He has a good heart, but…” line that he used when talking with Kim about Jimmy in "Rebecca"[[note]]"He has a good heart. It’s just, he can’t help himself. And everybody is left picking up the pieces”[[/note]], which in turn was likely inspired by a line[[note]]“Fredo -- ah, he's got a good heart -- but he's weak, and he's stupid, and this is life and death"[[/note]] from Michael Corleone to Tom Hagan about Fredo in ''Film/TheGodfather Part II''. Incidentally, like the original scene, the discussion at hand involves brothers and betrayal, this dialogue is spoken to attorneys, and Chuck's face is half lit/half in shadow.

* {{Retcon}}: ''Breaking Bad'' implied that Tyrus Kitt only was brought in to Gus's operation after Victor was killed. Here, we see Victor and Tyrus work together for Gus as co-muscle. As opposed to the implication that Tyrus was in brought on Mike's recommendation.

** Chuck’s pre-trial interview with Kyra Hay sees him repeat the “He has a good heart, but…” line that he used when talking with Kim about Jimmy in "Rebecca"[[note]]"He has a good heart. It’s just, he can’t help himself. And everybody is left picking up the pieces”[[/note]], which in turn was likely inspired by a line[[note]]“Fredo -- ah, he's got a good heart -- but he's week, and he's stupid, and this is life and death"[[/note]] from Michael Corleone to Tom Hagan about Fredo in ''Film/TheGodfather Part II''. Incidentally, like the original scene, the discussion at hand involves brothers and betrayal, this dialogue is spoken to attorneys, and Chuck's face is half lit/half in shadow.