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* TheGreatestStoryNeverTold: This seems to be the reason for Werner's melancholy and why he starts talking about his work while drunk in a bar. Werner's father was an engineer who worked on the Sydney Opera House and the building is a proud monument to his skill as an engineer. Werner is also working on an near-impossible engineering project but the nature of the work means that he can never tell anyone about it and few people will know about it. He will leave no legacy that the public can look at and admire.

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* TheGreatestStoryNeverTold: This seems to be the reason for Werner's melancholy depressed state and why he starts talking about his work while drunk in a bar. Werner's His father was an engineer one of the engineers who worked on the Sydney Opera House and the building is a proud monument to his skill as an engineer. Werner Werner, meanwhile, is also working on an near-impossible engineering project project, but the nature of the work means that he can never tell anyone about it and few people will know about it. He will leave no legacy that the public can look at and admire.



* WhamEpisode: The mysterious Lalo[[note]]In his debut episode of ''Breaking Bad'', Saul screamed out that "Ignacio" was the one when kidnapped and threatened by Walt and Jesse and then says, "Lalo didn't send you? Don Lalo?"[[/note]] finally makes his appearance.
* WhamLine: "Let's do it again."

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* WhamEpisode: The mysterious Lalo[[note]]In his debut episode of ''Breaking Bad'', Saul screamed out that "Ignacio" was the one when kidnapped and threatened by Walt and Jesse and then says, "Lalo didn't send you? Don Lalo?"[[/note]] finally makes his appearance.
appearance, while Kim slips back into being a full on con artist.
* WhamLine: "Let's WhamLine:
**"Let's
do it again."
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** While the previous episodes had implied that the weak link in the German construction team would be Kai -- and he does cause trouble by getting thrown out of a strip club and forcing Mike to bribe the doorman not to take the matter further -- but the real problem is actually Werner, the seemingly meticulous engineer, who causes trouble by getting drunk and talking about the work with some bar patrons.

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** While the previous episodes had implied that the weak link in the German construction team would be Kai -- and he does cause trouble by getting thrown out of a strip club and forcing Mike to bribe the doorman not to take the matter further -- but the real problem is actually turns out to be Werner, the seemingly meticulous engineer, who causes trouble by getting drunk and talking about the work with some bar patrons.
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* TheGreatestStoryNeverTold: This seems to be the reason for Werner's melancholy and why he starts talking about his work while drunk in a bar. Werner's father was an engineer who worked on the Sydney Opera House and the building is a proud monument to his skill as an engineer. Werner is also working on an near-impossible engineering project but the nature of the work means that he can never tell anyone about it and few people will know about it. He will leave to legacy that the public can look at and admire.

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* TheGreatestStoryNeverTold: This seems to be the reason for Werner's melancholy and why he starts talking about his work while drunk in a bar. Werner's father was an engineer who worked on the Sydney Opera House and the building is a proud monument to his skill as an engineer. Werner is also working on an near-impossible engineering project but the nature of the work means that he can never tell anyone about it and few people will know about it. He will leave to no legacy that the public can look at and admire.
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* GreatestStoryNeverTold: This seems to be the reason for Werner's melancholy and why he starts talking about his work while drunk in a bar. Werner's father was an engineer who worked on the Sydney Opera House and the building is a proud monument to his skill as an engineer. Werner is also working on an near-impossible engineering project but the nature of the work means that he can never tell anyone about it and few people will know about it. He will leave to legacy that the public can look at and admire.

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* GreatestStoryNeverTold: TheGreatestStoryNeverTold: This seems to be the reason for Werner's melancholy and why he starts talking about his work while drunk in a bar. Werner's father was an engineer who worked on the Sydney Opera House and the building is a proud monument to his skill as an engineer. Werner is also working on an near-impossible engineering project but the nature of the work means that he can never tell anyone about it and few people will know about it. He will leave to legacy that the public can look at and admire.
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* GreatestStoryNeverTold: This seems to be the reason for Werner's melancholy and why he starts talking about his work while drunk in a bar. Werner's father was an engineer who worked on the Sydney Opera House and the building is a proud monument to his skill as an engineer. Werner is also working on an near-impossible engineering project but the nature of the work means that he can never tell anyone about it and few people will know about it. He will leave to legacy that the public can look at and admire.
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* OohMeAccentsSlipping: Jimmy's bayou accent is... not great, though it fools the prosecutor. Kim even snarks about how unconvincing it is afterward.

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** While the previous episodes had implied that the weak link in the German construction team would be Kai -- and he does cause trouble by getting thrown out of a strip club and forcing Mike to bribe the doorman not to take the matter further -- instead, it's actually Werner, the seemingly meticulous engineer, who causes trouble by getting drunk and talking about the work with some bar patrons.

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** While the previous episodes had implied that the weak link in the German construction team would be Kai -- and he does cause trouble by getting thrown out of a strip club and forcing Mike to bribe the doorman not to take the matter further -- instead, it's but the real problem is actually Werner, the seemingly meticulous engineer, who causes trouble by getting drunk and talking about the work with some bar patrons.

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** While the previous episodes had implied that the weak link in the German construction team would be Kai, instead, it's actually Werner, the seemingly meticulous engineer, who causes trouble by getting drunk and talking about the work with some bar patrons.

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** While the previous episodes had implied that the weak link in the German construction team would be Kai, Kai -- and he does cause trouble by getting thrown out of a strip club and forcing Mike to bribe the doorman not to take the matter further -- instead, it's actually Werner, the seemingly meticulous engineer, who causes trouble by getting drunk and talking about the work with some bar patrons.



** "You're gonna die."

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** "You're gonna die.""
* YouAreInCommandNow: Subverted by Nacho, who at the start of the episode has been left in charge of the Salamanca gang due to Tuco being in prison, Hector incapacitated, and the twins having been forced to retreat to Mexico after their massacring the Espinosa gang. At the end of the episode, however, a hitherto-unseen Salamanca family member, Eduardo (aka Lalo) suddenly shows up to take control of the gang.
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* KnowWhenToFoldThem: The ADA is not intimidated by Kim threatening to bring all the resources of Schweikart & Cokely to bear on the case since she has a good case and Huell is just a common criminal to her. However, once Kim and Jimmy's ruse works, the ADA quickly agrees to a plea bargain that lets Huell off with time served. Prosecuting a dumb but lovable home town hero on what she knows are exaggerated charges will not make her or the DA's office look good to the public. Plus, she might lose the case since a jury that might believe that a petty criminal attacked a cop out of revenge, are less likely to believe this about someone who risked his life to save the elderly from a fire.
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* AbsenteeActor: No Howard in this episode.
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* WhamLine: "Let's do it again."

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* WhamLine: "Let's do it again."
** "You're gonna die.
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* DramaticIrony: Judge Munsinger accuses Kim of asking the citizens of Coushatta, Louisiana to send letters of support for Huell, a scheme that was very much her idea. [[ExactWords To which Kim says she didn't with a straight face, since it wasn't her, but Jimmy, who actually postmarked the letters.]]

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* TheBusCameBack: Jimmy's amateur film crew returns, having last been seen filming commercials with him in the last season.

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* BaitAndSwitch:
**While the previous episodes had implied that the weak link in the German construction team would be Kai, instead, it's actually Werner, the seemingly meticulous engineer, who causes trouble by getting drunk and talking about the work with some bar patrons.
**Previous episodes have made it seem like Jimmy and Kim's breakup is coming, only for Kim to get right back into it with him and insist on scamming again. It's only become stale because she thought he had become a boring, law-abiding slob, while she already is stuck in a job at Schweikart & Cokely that she secretly despises. Now that she knows he's still ol' Slipping Jimmy, she is all over him again.
* TheBusCameBack: Jimmy's amateur Jimmy hires up his old film crew returns, having last been seen filming commercials with him in the last season.to pose as fellow "parishioners".



* EvilFeelsGood: Kim is very turned on by the scam to get Huell off, making love with Jimmy right afterwards, and eagerly asking Jimmy to do another scam.

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* EvilFeelsGood: Kim is very turned on by the scam to get Huell off, making love with Jimmy right afterwards, afterwards. The next day, when in a meeting with Kevin and eagerly asking Paige, she's still reminiscing about the scam, goes through her desk to uncover the bottle cap from the first "Giselle" scam, then immediately seeks out Jimmy and asks to do another scam.one with him.
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* EvilFeelsGood: Kim is very turned on by the scam to get Huell off, making love with Jimmy right afterwards, and eagerly asking Jimmy to do another scam.
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* {{Narm}}: Huell's church photos are an in-universe example, perhaps not quite as Jimmy intended.
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* PetTheDog: Mrs. Nguyen, who has been a ceaseless nagging harridan to Jimmy during her every appearance, is genuinely kind to Jimmy as his relationship to Kim is falling apart.

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* ArmyOfLawyers: Kim gets a full-fledged team for Huell's defense.

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* ArmyOfLawyers: Kim gets a full-fledged team for Huell's defense.of associates to attempt to intimidate ADA Ericsen into dropping the case against Huell. It fails, but that is Kim's plan, as Jimmy's fabricated letters from Louisiana are the ace in the hole.



* CallBack: After meeting with Kevin and Paige, Kim is seen rummaging in her desk and finds the cap from the Zafiro Anejo bottle from her and Jimmy's [[Recap/BetterCallSaulS2E1Switch first scam as "Giselle"]].



* InventedIndividual: Jimmy takes a Greyhound bus all the way to Louisiana to send seemingly genuine letters of support for Huell from nonexistent churches.

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* InventedIndividual: Jimmy takes a Greyhound bus all the way to Louisiana to send seemingly genuine letters of support for Huell from nonexistent churches.parishioners of a nonexistent church.[[note]]This is simply so the postmarks are accurate[[/note]] Then, when the letters make it to Albuquerque, he knows the A.D.A. will check some of the letters' listed phone numbers, and calls them to verify. All of the calls are just going to a row of burners in the back of the nail salon, where Jimmy and his film crew are stationed to answer them using false Southern accents.
* ImpliedDeathThreat: Mike all but threatens Werner with one for his drunken slip-up.


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* LeftTheBackgroundMusicOn: When posing as the Southern pastor, Jimmy has his crew play a CD with pipe organ music for background ambience.
* RefugeInAudacity: Kim and Jimmy pull off their most advanced scam ever, forging letters of support for Huell to strongarm the ADA into dropping the case. After they pull it off, Jimmy remarks that they're guilty of ''ex parte'' communication, contempt of court and hundreds of counts of mail fraud, which could have easily destroyed both them and Schweikart & Cokely if it got discovered.
* TheReveal: The coloring supplies Kim bought in the last episode were for Jimmy to fabricate letters of support for Huell from a nonexistent church.
* ShoutOut: When Jimmy's letters come in, the exasperated Judge Munsinger asks if ADA Ericsen is trying Santa Claus, likening this to ''Film/MiracleOn34thStreet''.
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* WhamEpisode: The mysterious Lalo[[note]]In his debut episode of ''Breaking Bad'', Saul screamed out that "Ignacio" was the one when kidnapped and threatened by Walt and Jesse and then says, "Lalo didn't send you? No Lalo?"[[/note]] finally makes his appearance.

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* WhamEpisode: The mysterious Lalo[[note]]In his debut episode of ''Breaking Bad'', Saul screamed out that "Ignacio" was the one when kidnapped and threatened by Walt and Jesse and then says, "Lalo didn't send you? No Don Lalo?"[[/note]] finally makes his appearance.
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* ArmyOfLawyers: Kim gets a full-fledged team for Huell's defense.
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* InVinoVeritas: Mike has to intervene when Werner gets drunk and starts talking about his secret work with Gus to some fellow bar patrons.
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* InventedIndividual: Jimmy takes a Greyhound bus all the way to Louisiana to send seemingly genuine letters of support for Huell from nonexistent churches.
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* CallForward: Jimmy will later implement the donation feature of his phony web page here to help Walt launder his drug money.
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* TheBusCameBack: Jimmy's amateur film crew makes another appearance, having previously been seen filming commercials with him in the last season.

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* TheBusCameBack: Jimmy's amateur film crew makes another appearance, returns, having previously last been seen filming commercials with him in the last season.
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* TheBusCameBack: Jimmy's amateur film crew makes another appearance, having previously been seen filming commercials with him in the last season.
* CharacterDevelopment: In her previous appearances, the make-up girl in Jimmy's film crew had shoddy acting skills and wasn't good at keeping a straight lie. In this episode, she turns a ''very'' convincing performance as a concerned Louisiana denizen, and when Jimmy expresses being impressed, she reveals she's been taking improv classes.
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* ArmorPiercingResponse: After Nacho teaches one of his ring's dealers a lesson by ripping off his earring, Krazy-8 tries to butter him up by saying that he needed to learn and that Nacho was right to do what he did, to which Nacho replies, "So, why didn't you do it?"
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* WhamEpisode: The mysterious Lalo[[note]]In his debut episode of ''Breaking Bad'', Saul screamed out that "Ignacio" was the one when kidnapped and threatened by Walt and Jesse and then says, "Lalo didn't send you? No Lalo?"[[/note]] finally makes his appearance.
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Jimmy goes to great lengths to right a wrong, as Kim pulls out all the stops for Huell's case; Mike lets his team blow off steam; Nacho receives a visitor.

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Jimmy goes to great lengths to right a wrong, as Kim pulls out all the stops for Huell's case; Mike lets his team blow off steam; Nacho receives a visitor.visitor.

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* FaceHeelTurn: [[spoiler: Kim decides to throw away her career to become a full-on con artist with Jimmy.]]
* WhamLine: "Let's do it again."
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Jimmy goes to great lengths to right a wrong, as Kim pulls out all the stops for a case; Mike lets his team blow off steam; Nacho receives a visitor.

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Jimmy goes to great lengths to right a wrong, as Kim pulls out all the stops for a Huell's case; Mike lets his team blow off steam; Nacho receives a visitor.
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