Note: Major spoilers for the episode of Better Call Saul, you have been warned.
I've been a bit busy the last couple weeks, so I have gotten behind on my recaps for the shows I have been writing about, and so I have decided to do a condensed version of my recaps. I am lumping the last two episodes together, and won't be doing the normal full recap of the episodes, but instead just give my thoughts and review of the two episodes instead.
We see that the situation for Kim has not really gotten any better, as Howard is still very upset with her. He gives her a case that is basically unwinnable, and the opposing attorney offers her a job at his firm. She says she will think about it, and runs another con with Jimmy to blow off some steam. She tells him about the offer, and he tells her to take the job.
Meanwhile, Mike continues to refuse Hector's offer, and so Hector sends Tuco's cousins to threaten Mike's granddaughter, which causes Mike to meet with Hector to renegotiate. Mike says he will do it, if Hector gives him $50,000. Hector agrees, and says that Mike will take the fall for the gun charge so Tuco doesn't get put away for a long time. Mike then gives Nacho half of the money, telling him that he wasn't able to follow through on their deal, as Tuco will be back sooner than expected.
For the most part, this was a throwaway episode. Lots of development, but not much going on. Some promising things on the horizon potentially, depending on which way they go with things, but overall I was underwhelmed by the episode as a whole.
In the next episode, we get a flashback of Jimmy when he was working for his father. A guy is ripping his father off, and Jimmy tries to tell him not to fall for it, but his father can't help but try to see the good in people, and so he does it anyway. The man tells Jimmy that there are wolves and their are sheep in this world, he needs to decide which one he is going to be. Jimmy takes the money that the man paid him for some cigarettes and doesn't put it into the register.
I thought this back story was very good, as it pulled from the story that Chuck told a couple weeks back about how Jimmy was causing their father's business to go under. We got to see that Jimmy tried to help his father, but he couldn't get through to him, so he starting taking from his father just like all these other people were doing, because he was too easy.
Mike gets Jimmy to represent him when he tells the judge that the gun was not Tuco's. This causes the judge to be suspicious, but they won't say anything else, and so the gun charge will not be put on Tuco. Jimmy then goes to resign when he finds out that he will lose his signing bonus if he quits, so he instead decides to get fired. The next little bit is pretty humorous, as Jimmy pushes the limits until Cliff gives him what he wants. Jimmy then goes to Kim and says they should start their own firm, but she says she will only do it if Jimmy does things the right way. He says he is tired of doing what everyone else tells him to do, so he's now going to do things his own way, so she says no to the offer.
After her interview with the new firm goes very well, Kim makes the decision that she doesn't want the job after all, and wants to open her own firm. She offers to Jimmy that he will open his own, and she will open his own, and they will just work together without being actual partners. We don't get his answer as the episode ends.
There was not much Mike in this episode, which is always a bad thing, but there was one scene that show him scouting out Hector's place, so he must have some retribution in mind. We know that Hector is in a wheelchair in Breaking Bad, so I think this doesn't end well for him, but I am very interested to see how Mike goes about handling the situation, without getting the rest of the group to kill him, so the next few episodes should be pretty good following this part of the story.
Overall, this episode was better than the previous episode, but still not a whole lot going on. More build up, but not a lot of payoff. There is only a few more episodes left, so hopefully things will pick up here real soon. If that is the case, this season has a good chance of ending on a high note.
My rating for the two episodes is 6.5/10
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