![]() Photograph: Greg Lewis/AMC/Sony Pictures Television Albuquerque incidentalĪ well observed cameo … Aaron Paul as Jesse Pinkman. Kim gets on the bus and lets everything out. Kim acknowledges the possibility and, with that, their encounter is done. It bowls Cheryl over, understandably, but also in a way that makes you wonder – had Howard’s wife not considered this before? Kim admits it is unlikely that she could be prosecuted, given a lack of evidence. Her confession is detailed and thorough, and you can detect the application of professional pride in the work. So that leads her back to New Mexico and an encounter with Cheryl. As much as Kim will always have an appetite for fun, she has a desire to do good. ![]() Does she make an effort with her barbecue dishes? Yes, she does. Does she snap at that lunk of a boyfriend? No, she does not. More importantly, we see in her new dull existence a determination to live well, to choose a good life as everyone else sees it. It is as far away from her Albuquerque life as you can imagine, and we know that being all over the details of sprinkler flanges is unlikely to be enough to satisfy Kim. The scenes of her life in Florida are quintessential American ennui, with a kind boyfriend who is as dull as a stone and a pack of friends and colleagues who like to talk about the difference between mayonnaise and Miracle Whip. “Said the pot to the kettle!” he shot back, after Kim tried suggesting he can’t have been living much of a life all these years. He goaded her, suggesting she should turn herself in because she had nothing worth losing. It was Jimmy (or Gene posing as Victor) who prompted her to take action. In choosing to submit an affidavit to the district attorney’s office and to share her confession with Cheryl Hamlin, she has faced up to what she has done and accepted responsibility. It is bleak and frightening, but ultimately, Kim has done the right thing. At its end we see her break down on a bus and finally shed the tears we never saw in the aftermath of Howard’s death. The heroine returns this week, as a brunette on a trip of self-harm from Florida to Albuquerque. Even if we are talking levels only visible under a microscope. Photograph: Greg Lewis/AMC/Sony Pictures Televisionįor Kim there is more hope. The long journey homeĭetermined to choose a good life … Rhea Seehorn as Kim and Alvin Cowan as Glenn. And that may be the best we can expect for him. Something of Jimmy still remains alive inside. But whatever they are, it turns out they are still not a killer. We have seen too much bile fall from their mouths and too much duplicity for either to have our sympathy. Saul and Gene are nasty, spiteful people. The words trigger something within him, and he steps back. “I trusted you”, she says, as he teeters on the edge of violence. He is pulling that against her neck, too. He grabs Marion’s alarm to stop her from pressing it. Now there’s an option that might take care of this tricky situation. So he yanks the phone wire out of the computer and starts twisting it like a garotte. He tries to continue charming her, to get her to come to prison and bail out Jeff who selflessly threw himself in front of the cops to allow Gene to escape from his robbery. He knows he has been busted and that Marion is a problem. After he is confronted by the results on Chekhov’s Laptop (TM), however, those of us who used to be won over by Jimmy’s playful charm still get a flicker of solace. Photograph: Greg Lewis/AMC/Sony Pictures Televisionįor Saul, Jimmy and Gene, the prospect of a happy ending is over (I think). Teetering on the edge of violence … Carol Burnett as Marion and Odenkirk as Gene Takavic. It is clear that the plot will have been tied up, the characters given their endings and that the creators know the moral of this fable and are about to lay it out. But after this penultimate episode I feel satisfied. Which is just as well, because there’s only an hour left of Better Call Saul. He is already the subject of a federal manhunt because of his involvement in the Heisenberg plot. ![]() His cover in Nebraska has been blown, and he has no means of arranging another. That appears to be where we are now with Jimmy McGill, Gene Takavic, or as the FBI know him, Saul Goodman.ĭashing from Marion’s house after she alerted her care workers to the presence of a criminal in her home, Saul has very few options left. The perp starts off in a helicopter, say, then has to abandon that for a car, then someone else’s car and perhaps a bus until, finally, they are running away on foot. In the movies, when the police are chasing a criminal, it is a game of diminishing returns. ![]()
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