Better Call Saul 2.03

Amarillo

Jimmy uses some underhanded tactics to get more people to sign on to the class action case against Sandpiper. Chuck questions how Jimmy was able to sign 24 new clients at one nursing home when they only received one response by mail. Kim questions Jimmy's ethics, in a private conversation. She tells him that she stuck out her neck for him. Jimmy decides its time to try something different.

Mike learns from Stacey, his daughter-in-law, that she heard shots the last couple nights. He offers to stay there but she doesn't want him to. He stakes out the house that night and learns that what she probably heard was just the paper boy delivering papers. The next day Stacey calls Mike and shows him what she thinks is evidence of gun shots. Mike decides that Stacey and Kaylee need to move to a different neighborhood.

Jimmy gets Cliff Main to agree that a TV commercial might be a good and legal way for them to sign some new clients to the class action case against Sandpiper. Jimmy is very unimpressed with the last TV commercial that Davis & Main ran. He comes up with something a little showier. He works with the same college students who filmed his publicity stunt in 1.04 (Hero) to put the commercial together. He wants to show it to Cliff but decides instead to run the ad without letting Cliff see it first.

Mike goes to see the veterinarian that got him some work before. The most lucrative work is for a loan shark. Mike isn't interested in doing that kind of work. He takes a lower paying job instead. He gets a call from the vet late at night with another job offer, someone who asked specifically for him. It turns out to be Nacho.

The ad runs and the phones light up. They get just over 100 calls from residents of Sandpiper. Jimmy shows the ad to Kim, she is impressed with it. He gets a call from Cliff just after he shows it to Kim. Cliff is irate. Jimmy is disappointed and pretends that Cliff was nothing but happy when he tells Kim about the call.

Thoughts

This was a decent but unspectacular episode. Mike's part of it was a little slow. I'm not sure what is going on with Stacey. Clearly there were no gun shots the night that Mike staked out her home.

Cliff probably wouldn't have approved the ad if he had seen it. I don't think he's going to be in a better mood the next time Jimmy sees him. The ad that Cliff would have run probably wouldn't have generated any calls.

I wasn't sure who the client was going to be when Mike met with Nacho. I thought that it might be Gus but I guess it is a little too early for that.