Better Call Saul

So long as you don't murder his other employees or get witnessed at a crime scene, Gus seems like an ok guy to work for.

edited 4th May '17 8:13:17 AM by Millardkillmoore

I wonder if Gus would murder his employees for knowing too much. Or would Hector murder them out of spite.

Given how he treats his employees and what he expects of them, I assume he would do so only if they were a direct threat to his operation via being an information leak or incompetent.

Oh man, that was so satisfying to watch.

You could see it coming, but it still felt really good to watch.

I actually agree with Chuck's belief that Jimmy has no business being a lawyer and needs to be disbarred for the good of society. But Chuck is so fucking detestable that it was still satisfying to watch that.

edited 8th May '17 8:42:04 PM by Millardkillmoore

He wouldn't be right if he hadn't screwed Jimmy's chances of Breaking Good in season 1.

All he did in season 1 was refuse to hire Jimmy. It's not his fault that Jimmy chose to start breaking the rules. He didn't make Jimmy accept a bribe, pull that stunt with the Tuco's grandmother, forge documents, fabricate evidence, etc. Even when Jimmy got a fantastic job at Davis & Main, he immediately torpedoed it because he couldn't keep himself on the straight and narrow. Chuck might be an asshole whose vendetta against Jimmy is caused more by spite and jealousy than righteousness, but he's entirely correct that Jimmy has no business being a lawyer.

Chuck basically created Saul Goodman by screwing with Jimmy from the start. And now he embarrassed himself and made his complaint appear baseless. Chuck's entire crusade was based on vanity, not any sort of sense of justice.

Also hey random henchman from Breaking Bad.

Hey! How dare you not remember Huell's name!

Also, Chuck has a lot of responsibility for what happened to Jimmy and deserves what happened to him yesterday, but let's not act like Jimmy is entirely flawless. Even when trying to do the right think, he still did some crooked things. Also, he self-sabotaged his sweet gig in season two due to his own ego, not because of Chuck.

edited 9th May '17 10:09:57 AM by GamerSlyRatchet

Anyone else think that Howard is going to turn on Chuck this season? He's clearly out of patience with this unending vendetta and just wants to attend to the actual business of the firm.

The next episode preview makes it looks like Howard is going to do his best to distance himself from Chuck.

Time for some speculation/prediction!

So, we all know that Kim is about to lose Mesa Verde, right?

Think about it: she did the ethical thing and told the Mesa Verde people about Jimmy's hearing, and during said hearing the tape was played where Jimmy explicitly said that he did in fact sabotage Chuck's Mesa Verde hearing.

Whether through scuttlebutt in the local legal community or through Chuck or Howard getting word to Mesa Verde, what happened is going to get back to them. At that point Kim is going to get dropped like a hot potato all over again, either because they think she was in on Jimmy's plan all along, or because she didn't confess the full details to them. Defending Jimmy is about to turn into No Good Deed Goes Unpunished for Kim.

Also, any thoughts on the end of the last episode, and whether Chuck calling the doctor is to get himself help, or a step in a new scheme?

I think it is a new scheme-Chuck has been obviously hamstrung by his aliment, and if there is one thing that could get him to overcome it, that would a yearlong window of opportunity to get his brother disbarred.

edited 18th May '17 9:00:46 PM by ViperMagnum357

Agree with you on Kim. No clue what Chuck is up to.

Anyone else thinking that Nacho will enlist Mike to help sabotage Hector's pills, causing the stroke?

Yes, and I bet Mike will bring it to Gus, who will help with arrangements in return for taking Hector off the board. Then Nacho takes the wrap, which gets Saul wrapped up in it-closing the loop and creating the 'Ignacio Incident' Saul references in Breaking Bad.

I think Nacho is going to ask Mike to kill Hector, and Mike is going to tell him no (for obvious reasons). Instead he'll contact Gus, and the three of them will coordinate.

Think about it this way: if Kim hadn't told Mesa Verde about Jimmy, their first time hearing about it would be due to Jimmy's confession. And then she'd look like an asshole for not being up front with them about it. That was the entire point, in fact, of her owning up to Jimmy being under investigation.

The boss was okay with it then, why wouldn't he be now?

Before now the boss at Mesa Verde has been convinced that Chuck genuinely messed up regarding the hearing, and is too arrogant to admit it and doing a Never My Fault. Hearing that someone actually admitted to sabotaging Chuck, and furthermore, that his current legal counsel is connected to that person, profited from their actions, and hasn't reported it to him... that might change a lot of the mental calculations going on. If nothing else, it opens up the question of "Is she going to undermine or work against my company again so she might profit from it somehow?"

Except the episode's conclusion hinges on the fact that Jimmy's confession was coerced and, as far as the bar's concerned, Jimmy didn't commit sabotage.

I'm not looking forward to Kim and Jimmy's eventually fallout. It's going to be brutal.

You can already tell that Jimmy is willing to do things Kim simply isn't, and that's going to cause the split. Especially with Jimmy implicating his own brother for the insurance.

Anyone else really starting to feel bad for Nacho? He's starting to seem like this show's version of Jesse.

I feel bad for Nacho because it's going to blow up horribly in his face, probably in some way he couldn't avoid.

I'm trying to think who is worse, Chuck suing the guy that stood with him through thick and thin and was ready to make his retirement an easy one, or Jimmy making an old lady feel pressured into accepting a settlement.