History Recap / BetterCallSaulS2E8Fifi

* BerserkButton: Chuck and Jimmy have a difficult relationship but they are still brothers so Jimmy has refrained from seeking revenge against Chuck. However, when Chuck goes after Kim, the gloves are off and Jimmy uses his access to Chuck's house to sabotage HHM.

* FiveSecondForeshadowing: "That's the story, right, guys?"

->''"Kim and my brother, partners at law. He's Svengali. The man is Svengali!"''
-->-- '''Chuck [=McGill=]'''

* BaitAndSwitch: The airfield major and several other officers are returning after Jimmy told the major [[WeNeedADistraction that he needed water for "Fudge".]] Jimmy is scared that he's been caught in the act and about to be arrested. But it turns out that the major and the other officers want to have their picture taken in the belief that "Fudge" really is a war hero.

* WeNeedADistraction: Jimmy tells the airfield major that "Fudge" is dehydrating and that he forgot the water bottle. The major leaves, and that buys Jimmy and his crew enough time to shoot the commercial.

* BaitAndSwitch: The airfield major and several other officers are returning after Jimmy told the major [[WeNeedADistraction that he needed water for "Fudge".]] Jimmy is scared that he's been caught in the act and about to be arrested. But it turns out that the major and the other officers want to have their picture taken in the belief that "Fudge" really is a WW2 hero.

* WellIntenionedExtremist: Jimmy desperately wants to hold onto his dream of Kim and himself practicing out of the same office space as their own bosses. And it's easy to understand why. He enjoys helping the elderly with their needs, and sees it as being able to do good in the world in his own way, and he more than anyone else knows Kim's potential as a lawyer. But when Chuck's and Howard's actions threaten that dream? He doesn't skip a beat in doctoring Chuck's application documents, which is both a criminal offence and grounds for disbarment.

* PassiveAggressiveCombat: Chuck's sales pitch to Mesa Verde takes this form. He has nothing but compliments for Kim as being brilliant and talented despite her youth as a lawyer, and she's obviously the right choice going forward. There's even some SelfDeprecation as being an old-time lawyer the legal world is passing by. But then he starts to bring up legal requirements applicable to banking in New Mexico law, and the significant consequences of not fulfilling those consequences. The implication is being clearly made that chances are good that a relatively young and experienced like Kim will fudge things up in a bad way at some point, no matter how much potential she has.

* PassiveAggressiveCombat: Chuck's sales pitch to Mesa Verde takes this form. He has nothing but compliments for Kim as being brilliant and talented despite your youth as a lawyer, and she's obviously the right choice going forward. There's even some SelfDeprecation as being an old-time lawyer the legal world is passing by. But then he starts to bring up legal requirements applicable to banking in New Mexico law, and the significant consequences of not fulfilling those consequences. The implication is being clearly made that chances are good that a relatively young and experienced like Kim will fudge things up in a bad way at some point, no matter how much potential she has.

* SinisterSurveillance: Mike as he surveils Hector's operation looking for a weakness.

* WhamEpisode: Chuck torpedoes Kim's attempt to take her recently landed big client with her when she leaves for a private practice, just because she'll be working alongside Jimmy. This marks the first time his efforts to put a stopper in Jimmy's law career have had serious collateral damage, which he doesn't seem to care about at all, and it's made worse by the physical hell he puts himself through just to do it. Jimmy responds by slipping Kevin and Paige's paperwork out while Chuck is suffering the severe effects of taking that meeting without any of his usual precautions, and spending hours at a copy center meticulously altering a single address throughout all the papers. While intended just to make Chuck look bad, it signifies the gigantic escalation in Chuck and Jimmy's rivalry to follow and will result in HMM's reputation being permanently damaged.

* CallForward: Jimmy and Kim eat at the Dog House, an establishment where Jesse Pinkman does several drug deals at prior to working with Walter White.

** The use of an ice cream truck to smuggle drugs into the country seems to foreshadow Gus Fring's usage of refrigerator trucks for distribution.
** Likewise, the ice cream man's gun buried hiding place in the desert, concealed with a rock seems to foreshadow Walt's hiding place for his barrels of cash.

* {{Futureshadowing}}: The use of an ice cream truck to smuggle drugs into the country seems to foreshadow Gus Fring's usage of refrigerator trucks for distribution.

* WhamEpisode: Chuck torpedoes Kim's attempt to take her recently landed big client with her when she leaves for a private practice, just because she'll be working alongside Jimmy. This marks the first time his efforts to put a stopper in Jimmy's law career have had serious collateral damage, which he doesn't seem to care about at all, and it's made worse by the physical hell he puts himself through just to do it. Jimmy responds by slipping Kevin and Paige's paperwork out while Chuck is suffering the severe effects of taking that meeting without any of his usual precautions, and spending hours at a copy center meticulously altering a single address throughout all the papers. While intended just to make Chuck look bad, it signifies the gigantic escalation in Chuck and Jimmy's rivalry to follow and will result in HMM's reputation being permanently damaged.

* SinisterSurveillance: Mike as he surveils Hector's operation looking for a weakness

* TitleDrop: Fifi, the Boeing B-29 featured in the episode.

* KnowWhenToFoldEm: Averted - cringingly so by this point - by Chuck. Why doesn't he just let it go with the whole 'Jimmy becoming a laywer' thing? His actions are now damaging others (Kim), and if Jimmy's forgery manages to go undetected long enough, his overly persistent desire to hamstring Jimmy's lawyer career will finally come back to bite him and his entire law firm in the ass hard. [[FridgeHorror There may be a reason why there's no mention of HHM in Breaking Bad.]]

* WhamEpisode: Chuck torpedoes Kim's attempt to take her recently landed big client with her when she leaves for a private practice, just because she'll be working alongside Jimmy. This marks the first time his efforts to put a stopper in Jimmy's law career have had serious collateral damage, which he doesn't seem to care about at all, and it's made worse by the physical hell he puts himself through just to do it. Jimmy responds by slipping Kevin and Paige's paperwork out while Chuck is suffering the severe effects of taking that meeting without any of his usual precautions, and spending hours at a copy center meticulously altering a single address throughout all the papers. While intended just to make Chuck look bad, it could also have a huge impact on both HHM, and Kevin and Paige.
** Not to mention blowing Chuck's argument to Mesa Verde out of the water - that HHM is a safer pair of hands - with the possible result that Kim may get their work after all, one person outfit or no

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** In a later episode, Jimmy does want a shot (of himself) in front of an American flag. Instead of buying one or asking permission, he concocts a story about a fake documentary to con his way onto an elementary school campus to use their flag.