Starchild

Someone upthread mentioned how it might be interesting to see Jimmy and Hamlin go head-to-head. I was thinking along the same lines, although I wasn't thinking of Hamlin. I wonder if G+G could somehow swing it so that Jimmy and Chuck were adversaries in the courtroom. How would Chuck react if we were beaten, fair and square, by someone who was not a real lawyer?

Has anyone watched the entire confession on the DVD? Was Saul explicitly implicated in anything criminal by Jesse? Yes Saul's position was dire when he ran, but was it because he feared prison? Or execution?

What did he have to do with the actual murders? Unless they were active participants, lawyers are not liable for their clients' crimes, are they? ETA: I can't recall now: was Saul running from the law, or from other bad guys who were after Walt and Jesse (e.g., the bikers, drug cartels).

Now that Walt is dead and Jesse has likely disappeared for good, what charges might be waiting for Saul? When he finds out those two are gone, might he resurface without fear of pursuit by the authorities?

Did Julie look at all? Wasn't it the psychiatrist who did all actual the searching?

This feels like a back-door pilot. Is this "International Unit" part of the FBI? I thought the FBI's mandate was purely domestic, though granted I am no expert.

My guess is that it's related to why all these dead people are so hungry all the time. Somehow she is metabolizing the alcohol much faster than normal, so she's not getting drunk.

Hm, maybe so. Then perhaps it is really only Chuck's respect that matters. And he's never going to get that.

I don't think it's about money at this moment. I think it's about respect. James M. McGill, Esq. doesn't get any. But Slippin' Jimmy? Everyone wanted to be his friend.

Oh Chuck, what have you done? You broke your boy.

I love British drama. I am smart and patient and can sit through just about anything. But this was really boring. I'm on the fence about continuing.

Someone remind me why Kurt "doesn't need the money". Who doesn't even try for a half-mil?

You know, I'm starting to give Howard the benefit of the doubt here. I'm thinking if he were that big a dick, he wouldn't have told Kim the truth. Maybe he urged her to use her friendship to try to get Jimmy to take the deal because he didn't want Jimmy to lose out after all that hard work. He's been doing Chuck's dirty work for years now and it certainly looked to be wearing on him tonight.

Jimmy's buildup was brilliant. I kept going back and forth on whether or not he'd figured it out, even though, after that lingering shot on the charging cell, I knew he'd figured it out. And Chuck's cold, dead eyes when he realized he'd been found out. Odenkirk and McKean were just masterful in that scene.

I wonder if Howard would be willing to work with Jimmy if it weren't for Chuck nixing it. He seemed genuine in his praise of Jimmy's efforts.

As soon as Chuck protested, I was sure. I watched that last scene with tears in my eyes. Poor Jimmy.

I'm hoping we get 3-5 seasons covering Jimmy, then some of Saul's missing scenes during his time with Walter and Jesse, and finally Gene starting over with a newly-rebranded degree from the University of American Samoa.

Yeah, I got it in the opening scenes. Something about the way Linus told the victim "You're brave when it's a lady" and the fact that she didn't come out of the bathroom or make a sound after Linus burst in, tipped me off that they were the same person. The rest of the scenes after that just kept confirming it, especially that they were mostly talking to each other when they were standing in front of mirrors.

My fanwank for this at the moment is that between now and then he's been forced (somehow) to represent so many criminals that he's given up on making more reasonable recommendations and just goes straight to the ones he believes his clients are going to want, based on past experience. You know, for efficiency.

Poor Jimmy, that's his problem. Everyone (Kim, HHM, maybe even Chuck in a way) thinks they can do better than Jimmy. And they all overlook this fantastic guy just because he's rough around the edges.

"Sometimes"?

Fiancee. They didn't make it to the altar.

Until I'm told otherwise, I'm assuming that H1 is Howard's father, who took his son, and later young hotshot Chuck McGill, on as junior partners. Chuck was the workhorse while Howard schmoozed. Hamlin senior has retired and/or passed, leaving Junior in charge and Chuck shafted.

I'm getting kind of tired of all of these superwomen. Seriously how realistic is this? I suppose the Machine may be orchestrating these encounters to find a replacement for Shaw, but even on a show with this premise it's pretty far-fetched that all these women can continually best Reese.

It might turn out to be somewhere in between. Chuck is acting in good faith, but HHM pulls the rug out from under both of them. And in a crucial moment where Chuck could stand up for Jimmy with Hamlin, he instead backs down and reluctantly lets Jimmy get screwed. Depending on where Jimmy is mentally when that happens, it could be the last straw. Then, perhaps, before Jimmy has a chance to try to mend fences with Chuck, something final happens to prevent it forever.