Better Call Saul
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The story lines were inevitably going to converge.
We might worry about Kims well being specifically since we know shes not part of theBreaking Badtimeline.
We were right to worry, but not about a direct threat Lalo poses to her life.
The impact of what actually happened is far more complex not to mention utterly shocking.
Thats fate dealing Jimmy and Kim a playable hand.
How do they move forward in the short term and the long term?
And how do they do it together?
(More on those questions in a bit.)
Oh, Im sorry, did I break your concentration?
Howard is asking them the simple question we might have been asking ourselves about their motives: Why?
To wit:
What do you tell yourselves?
What justification makes it okay?
Howards such an asshole that he deserves it?
So, what is it?
I sided with Chuck too often?
I took you away from your office, put you in doc review?
Howards daddy helped him get to the top, but you both had to struggle.
Howie has so much, but we have so little.
Lets take him down a peg or two.
What allows you to do this to me?
Howard has it wrong or least mostly wrong.
There are reasons for them to resent him and want to see him embarrassed.
Hes going to explain what a mediator does to her as if shes a child.
Cliff gets it, too.
It doesnt matter, in Cliffs view, that Jimmy did what he might have done.
Im thinking about the clients, he says.
The system doesnt serve men like that.
And in the case of the Sandpiper suit and HHM, the suit is deemed bigger than the clients.
None of which eases the gut punch of Howards death.
Where do we go from here?
In the immediate term, Lalo needs his lawyers.
Then theres accounting for the murder of a prominent attorney.
But its Kims future that looms largest.
Now that shes witnessed the consequences of Jimmys decisions, can she stick around?
Before he dies, Howard tells Kim she has a piece missing.
Will she realize it?
There are different kinds of death.
Slippin Jimmies
Fantastic cold open with the reveal that Lalo is surveilling the Lavanderia Brillante.
Speaking of good touches, how about that episode title?
Show With Bob and David.
And the monologue hes practicing in the parking lot (Im not afraid of death.
What could death bring that I havent faced?)
is from Roy Cohn inAngels in America.
Delightful speech from our video auteur denying his students the good equipment.
(One important note: The recipe calls for eight cups of waterorvegetable stock.
It makes a huge difference.)
