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Not so fast, Saul. Like Heisenberg himself, Breaking Bad creator Vince Gilligan and collaborator Peter Gould are far from done with Walter White’s lawyer — and even Mr. White himself seems to be continuing to pursue the artist formerly known as Saul Goodman.
In the opening minutes, Bad spinoff Better call Saul shows that there is life after White, and phew! What a life!
As Saul predicted in his latest showdown with the legendary crystal meth chef, the best-case scenario has come true: He is indeed the manager of Omaha’s Cinnabon. Except he’s not Saul anymore. He is now Gene and wears a mustache and glasses combination that would resemble a Groucho Marx mask so much does he resemble a certain deceased drug lord.
Saul’s life as a lawyer and his self-created pseudonym are long gone, but not forgotten. Never forgotten. By day, he oversees the careful application of frosting to cinnamon buns, glancing over his shoulder for signs of the lingering danger of One Who Knocks. But at night, he drinks heavily, alone, looking through the television mirror into the past of his former self. Where did it all go wrong?
It is a question in the heart Better call Saul, and the answer lies in the past, some five or so years before the name Heisenberg ever flashed on Saul Goodman’s radar—or even Saul Goodman’s name, for that matter. Once upon a time, long before he became the king of strip mall lawyers, there was Jimmy McGill, a defense attorney for indefensible defendants, unable to secure enough clients (see: none) to strike out on his own. His achievements as a lawyer pale in comparison to those of his brother Chuck, even if their current lives are just as miserable. While Jimmy can barely hold down a job due to his own bad luck, Chuck is out of a job due to an obscure, mysterious illness that has left him with an eccentric aversion to electricity.
Chuck, unable or at least unwilling to leave his home, vows to one day return to the company he co-founded. Jimmy knows better; his brother’s glory days are behind him. But the company stands by Chuck, if only because keeping him on the payroll at a modest salary keeps them from having to compensate the man who helped found the company. Although both Jimmy and Chuck are penniless, Jimmy wants more than what Howard Hamlin, Chuck’s sharp-dressed “partner,” is offering as sick pay. Jimmy wants something closer to the tune of millions.
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Does any of this sound familiar? In Jimmy, we have a failed man, unhappy in his personal and professional life, desperate for money not only for his own needs, but also for his family’s needs; a man who turns down a decent amount of money instead of the faint, distant glimmer of a much bigger payoff somewhere down the line. Even before he became the manager of a Nebraskan candy franchise, with sad glasses and a sadder mustache, “Saul” must have looked a lot like Walter White.
And the similarities don’t end there; Jimmy McGill’s luck is just as bad as Walt’s. When Jimmy finally comes up with the smart idea to land a top client and get a big payday, he reverts to his old ways as Slippin’ Jimmy, a nickname he got as a younger man in Illinois, slipping on the ice and swindling good-natured people out of thousands of dollars at a time. . Jimmy hires two look-alike con artists, two redheaded skateboarding brothers, to fake a car accident involving the wife of a wealthy county treasurer so Jimmy can swoop in at the eleventh hour and become the lady’s white knight in a tense situation. He will owe him, and that elusive first client he is looking for will finally be his.
Great plan, right? wrong Skateboarding siblings do their part, but the driver speeds off after colliding with one of the brothers. They follow the car to his house and Jimmy follows. But when he gets to the door, he’s met with a gun pointed in his face – a gun that belongs to none other than Tuc Salamanca, future nemesis of Walter White and Jesse Pinkman.
What happens next remains unknown, but what is known, already from the first episode Better call Saul, is this: From ghosts of deadly drug dealers past to ghosts of deadly drug dealers future, Jimmy McGill’s journey toward Saul Goodman has much more in common with Walter White’s transformation into Heisenberg than we could ever know. Grab a Cinnabon, hop in with Jimmy and enjoy the ride.
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