Better Call Saul 4.06

Piñata

The episode opens with a flashback to 1993. Jimmy and Kim are both working at HHM delivering mail. Kim is going to school at night at University of New Mexico. Jimmy has no interest in studying the law. He is more interested in the Academy Awards betting pool.

Kim, in the present, decides she's had enough of M&A law. She meets with Richard Schweikart. She makes a deal with him. She comes in as a partner and in exchange gives them the Mesa Verde business. She eventually tells Jimmy. He is not pleased but does his best to cover up his true feelings.

Mike gets everything set up for the men who are going to build the lab in which Walter White and Jesse Pinkman will eventually work for a time. The men doing the work will be there for a while so he wants to make sure that they are comfortable. Mike gets the feeling that one of the men is going to be trouble on the first day that they show up.

Mike goes to see Stacey. He doesn't apologize but he admits that he was wrong to have acted the way he did at the meeting in the previous episode.

Jimmy buys more cell phones. He stores them in the office at the back of the nail salon. The owner isn't happy about it but he gets her to back off a little bit by giving her a free phone.

Gus goes to see Hector. He tells Hector a story about when he was younger. Hector is still in a coma. There is no indication that he hears anything Gus tells him.

Jimmy gets a call from the nephew of one of the older women whose will he drew up. The nephew needs his help. Jimmy refers him to HHM. Later in the episode Jimmy stops by HHM. Howard tells him that things are not going well. Jimmy gives him a pep talk.

Jimmy goes back to see the three teenagers who beat him up and took his money. He sets a trap for them and they walk right into it. He scares the crap out of them, convinces them that they should never mess with him again.

Thoughts

Nacho is not in this episode. Chuck appears in the flashback at the beginning of the episode.

Kim mentions at one point that she will be getting her cast removed in three weeks.

Kai, the construction worker who look like trouble, won't be around for long. That's my prediction. He may be gone as early as the next episode. My guess is that the construction project won't continue into the next season. I might be wrong but that's what I'm thinking.

This is another good episode. It isn't groundbreaking but it continues to keep most of the various plot threads in motion.