Better Call Saul 5.10

Something Unforgivable

Jimmy and Kim move into a hotel in downtown Albuquerque. They are still worried about Lalo coming after them. Jimmy reaches out to Mike but Mike won't talk to him. Jimmy goes to Mike's house and makes a nuisance of himself. Mike lets him in and tells him that there is nothing to worry about. Lalo will be taken care of within 24 hours.

Kim goes back to work doing pro bono work. She takes on some more cases. She runs into Howard, who tells her about what Jimmy did to him: bowling balls, hookers. It makes her laugh. She goes back to the hotel and tells Jimmy about running into Howard. She suggests that they get him good, put a real dent in his reputation, something unforgivable.

Better Call Saul 5.09

Bad Choice Road

Saul and Mike return from the desert. Saul takes the cash to the detention facility and bails out Lalo. He doesn't mention Mike or the men who tried to kill him. He says that he got the money and then headed back but his car broke down about six or seven miles into the drive back. He walked back, across the desert. That's the story he tells Lalo.

Lalo accepts the story. Nacho picks up Lalo and they leave. Jimmy goes home to Kim. He doesn't tell her the full story. She finds his coffee mug which has a bullet hole in it. She says he's lying to her. He admits that he had to drink his own pee but he doesn't tell her about the men with guns or Mike. She doesn't tell him that she found the coffee mug.

Better Call Saul 5.08

Bagman

Saul gets instructions from Lalo. He heads out into the desert near the US-Mexico border to pick up the money. He meets the cousins at the assigned spot. They drop off two duffle bags full of cash and leave without saying a word.

Saul throws the cash in his car heads back to Albuquerque. He doesn't get very far before he gets pulled over by armed men. They are getting ready to kill him when a sniper starts shooting at the armed men. All but one of the armed men are killed by the sniper.

Better Call Saul 5.07

JMM

Jimmy and Kim get married. They have a civil service at the courthouse. Huell is one of the witnesses. He has questions for Jimmy about why he's doing it.

Kim and Richard meet with Paige and Kevin. Kevin is disappointed. It seems uncertain whether he will want Kim or Schweikart & Coakley to continue to represent Mesa Verde. Kim decides to set things straight. She tells Kevin exactly how she feels about how things have gone down recently.

Jimmy represents Lalo in court. Lalo makes it clear that he doesn't want a plea and he wants out of jail. The judge doesn't grant bail.

Better Call Saul 5.06

Wexler v. Goodman

This episode opens with a flashback to Kim's youth. Her mother comes to pick her up from school. Her mother is drunk and Kim can smell it. She refuses to get in the car. She opts to walk home instead. Her mother isn't happy about it.

Jimmy, in the present, with the help of his film making trio cooks up some commercials to make it look like Mesa Verde has been scamming its customers and worse. Kim doesn't want to proceed with the commercial. Jimmy agrees to shut it down.

Mike and Gus meets with Nacho. Nacho tells them about Lalo’s plans to bring down Gus's operations. Gus explains that Nacho needs to give Mike whatever help he needs. Nacho asks for help protecting his father. Mike says that they need to deal with Lalo first.

Jimmy hires a couple of his clients, sex workers, to embarrass Howard while he is having lunch in an upscale restaurant with Cliff Main of Davis & Main. 

Kim, Rich Schweikart, Paige, and Kevin meet with Saul to discuss a settlement. Kim thinks she knows what's coming. Saul pulls a fast one and shows Kevin the commercials. Kim, Paige, and Rich are all outraged. Kevin caves and agrees to Saul's terms.

Mike surreptitiosly passes information along to the police implicating that Lalo is the one who killed the guy at the money transfer business that Werner Ziegler used. He gives them enough information to track him down, which they do.

Kim comes home to Jimmy very angry about what happened. She no longer feels like she can trust him. She wants to break up with him but at the last minute she suggests that the only way they can stay together is if they get married.

Thoughts

I wasn't sure who the girl was in the opening scene. It wasn't until about ten minutes after I watched the scene that it occurred to me that it was Kim, even though her mother calls her by name.

What's next for Lalo? It looks like the police have him. My guess is that somehow he will wiggle his way out of jail. I doubt that he will exit the story this quickly. Who will take the blame for his apprehension by the police? Nacho?

Will Jimmy and Kim really get married? Even if they do I can't see it lasting.

What's next for Mike? What about Nacho?

This was a really good episode.  It makes me hungry for more.

Better Call Saul 5.05

Dedicado a Max

Mike wakes up south of the border. He tries leaving but he is still in bad shape. He resigns himself to staying. His phone is dead and there is no phone that he can use to call the United States. The doctor who takes care of him says it will probably be a week or more before he can leave.

Jimmy puts on the full court press for Acker, the man who refuses to leave. He finds all sorts of gimmicks to delay the police from forcing Acker out. Kevin doesn't like it but he refuses to back down. He knows that Kim's boyfriend, Jimmy, is the one behind it all. Kim offers to step down but Kevin says no. Rich Schweikart meets with Kevin but nothing will sway Kevin.

Better Call Saul 5.04

Namaste

The episode opens with Saul in a pawn store. He spends a lot of time looking around. He winds buying three bowling balls.

Saul meets with two clients of his who went on a spree a couple episodes back and expect him to give them fifty percent off. He has to convince them to go along with his plan even though it will mean doing some time.

Howard invites Saul to lunch. He wants to hire Saul but Saul is very reticent to give him an answer one way or the other. Howard asks him to spend some time and think it over.

Better Call Saul 5.03

The Guy for This

Lalo hires Saul to be Crazy Eight's lawyer. Saul doesn't want to do it. He asks for about $8,000 for the job. Lalo gives him the money, in cash. Saul goes to see Crazy Eight. There are things that Lalo wants him to pass along to Crazy Eight.

Kim wants to do her pro bono work but she gets a call from Schweikart who got a call from Kevin, at Mesa Verde. She drives out to deal with a situation. There's a man who refuses to move. She tries to sweeten the deal but the man still won't budge. The man doesn't have the law on his side but he doesn't care.

Better Call Saul 5.02

50% Off

Gus meets with Nacho. Gus makes it clear that he wants to know more about what Lalo has going on. Gus makes it clear that Nacho's father's life is on the line if Nacho can't or won't deliver.

Saul talks Kim into going to look at a nicer house.

Lalo visits Hector at the nursing home.

Mike does Stacey a favor and looks after Kaylee, his granddaughter. Kaylee asks him a lot of questions about her father. He gets annoyed and yells at Kaylee.

Better Call Saul 5.01

Magic Man

2010 - Omaha, NE - Gene takes some time off from work. Someone recognized him. He calls the disappearer, who helped him relocate from Albuquerque to Omaha. He asks for help. The disappearer says okay and quotes him a price. Gene agrees to the price but moments later he changes his mind and cancels the request. He tells the disappearer that he will deal with it himself.

2004 - Albuquerque, NM - Jimmy makes it official. He gets the paper work filed to allow him to practice law under the name Saul Goodman. Kim tries to talk him out of doing it but he insists on doing it. Later, he hands out free burner phones to people that used to buy them from him. He gives away all the phones he has.