History Recap / BetterCallSaulS4E8Coushatta

* ActorAllusion: Possibly with Nacho. In one scene he can be seen wearing a red wifebeater shirt, just like his character from Far Cry 3.

* YouAreInCommandNow: Subverted by Nacho, who at the start of the episode has been left in charge of what remains of the Salamanca gang, due to Tuco being in prison, Hector incapacitated, Arturo killed, and the Cousins 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.

* AllGirlsWantsBadBoys: Pulling a scam with Jimmy turns Kim on so much that she basically attacks him right in the courthouse.

* RealityEnsues: When Werner tries to downplay the liability his drunken slip-up at the bar might have proven him to be, he insists that the patrons will have forgotten about him by now. Mike counters that on the contrary, a German citizen in Albuquerque talking about pouring concrete in a secret underground construction project is the sort of thing that leaves a lasting impression.

* ArmyOfLawyers: Kim gets a full-fledged team of S&C associates to attempt to intimidate ADA Ericsen into dropping the case against Huell. It fails, but that is by Kim's design so that way, the ADA is already flustered enough when Jimmy's fabricated letters from Louisiana arrive in the judge's chambers.

* OohMeAccentsSlipping: Jimmy's bayou accent is... not great, though it fools the prosecutor. Kim even snarks about how unconvincing it is afterward.

* 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.
** Which is slightly ironic, as mail fraud was the "smoking gun" that turned the Sandpiper case into a huge class-action lawsuit.

* 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, Arturo killed, and the Cousins 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.

* ArmyOfLawyers: Kim gets a full-fledged team 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.

* 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.
* 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 technically she's never talked to anyone from Coushatta.]]

* FaceHeelTurn: After running a scrupulously honest law practice for years, Kim decides to embrace unethical ad illegal tactics to get Huell off the hook and then gleefully decides to pull another scam afterwards.

** "You're gonna die."

* FaceHeelTurn: Kim decides to throw away her career to become a full-on con artist with Jimmy.

* 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.

* 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, while Kim slips back into being a full on con artist.

* FaceHeelTurn: [[spoiler: Kim decides to throw away her career to become a full-on con artist with Jimmy.]]
* GoodPeopleHaveGoodSex: Inverted; the thrill and efficacy of their con rekindles Jimmy and Kim's sexual intimacy. By the end of the episode, [[spoiler:Kim has been [[FaceHeelTurn fully seduced and wants to pull it off again.]]]]

* CallForward: Jimmy will later implement the donation feature of his phony web page here to help Walt launder his drug money.

* KnowWhenToFoldThem: The ADA is initially uncompromising on the charges. 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, the threatened media circus would get her on the judge's bad side, and that level of public support could even sway the jury and cost her the whole case. As the judge points out, the case is not big enough to be worth all that.
* LeftTheBackgroundMusicOn: When posing as the Southern pastor, Jimmy has his crew play a CD with pipe organ music for background ambience.

* StylisticSuck: The church website -- [[http://www.freewill-baptistchurch.com/ which exists as an Easter Egg]] -- comes complete with a terrible slideshow of Huell doing staged good deeds like singing in the choir, tending a garden, and working on a DIY project.

** While the previous episodes had implied that the weak link in the German construction team would be Kai. He does, inevitably, get into trouble and ends up getting thrown out of a strip club, but Mike handles the situation without lasting damage. While Mike is dealing with this, the normally meticulous Werner causes much more serious trouble by getting drunk and talking about the work with some bar patrons.

* 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.

* 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.]]

** 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 -- the real problem turns out to be 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.

* StylisticSuck: The church website -- [http://www.freewill-baptistchurch.com/ which exists as an Easter Egg] -- comes complete with a terrible slideshow of Huell doing staged good deeds like singing in the choir, tending a garden, and working on a DIY project.

* StylisticSuck: The church website -- which exists as an Easter Egg -- comes complete with a terrible slideshow of Huell doing staged good deeds like singing in the choir, tending a garden, and working on a DIY project.