Picture it, a young Jimmy McGill, looking at a Playboy magazine in his father’s store when he was supposed to be working. When a man walked in, told Papa McGill a storying about his sick son and on the way back from picking up his son's medication his car broke down. Papa McGill offered to take a look at the customer’s car, but the customer said all he really wanted was $5 to take a cab, because he didn’t want to take a chance with his old car. But Jimmy caught on and know it was a scam and warned his father. Papa McGill told Jimmy, what if he's telling the truth. So Papa McGill ended up giving the customer $10 plus he offered to find some spark plugs to fix the customer's car. While he was in the back, Jimmy was at the counter and the customer looked at Jimmy and said how much for a carton of cigarettes? And pulled out a packet full of money and bought two cartons. Then when he left he told Jimmy, “ there are two kinds of people in this world, Wolfs and Sheep, Wolfs and Sheep, figure what kind of person you want to be kid.”
There are several things in this world that annoys Mike, one is to hiring Jimmy as a lawyer the other is people thinking that he’s scared of someone or something. When Mike had to go to the DA to recant his testimony about the gun being his, they all knew his was lying, and they said are you scared or are they paying off? After that comment Mike and Jimmy walked out of the room. When they got to the elevator Jimmy told Mike that he did the right thing because he also had a run in with Tuco. Meaning Tuco had him hogged tied in the desert and broke two men's legs in front of him. Mike couldn't care less, got into the elevator and told Jimmy to take the next one.
When Jimmy got back to Santa Fe he called Omar to his office and had him dictate a resignation letter to Davis and Main. What Jimmy didn’t realized was if he quit, Jimmy would have pay back his signing bonus. So it was a lack of judgement on Jimmy part, a moment of weakness, Omar understood... Although on his way back to Albuquerque to see Kim, Jimmy stopped at a red light and saw a blow up man, at that moment Saul Goodman was born. The colorful suits, crazy behavior, and that overall jackass that we all love to hate. Was beautifully displayed in a montage unlike I’ve ever seen before.
After Jimmy got fired he headed over to HHM to make Kim an offer. He said with his signing bonus he could pay off her debt and make her a partner tomorrow. Jimmy told Kim that they are great together and “let’s be our own bosses”. But Kim had to know one thing first, what kind of lawyer was Jimmy going to be, clean, always playing by the rules or “colorful”? Jimmy couldn’t lie to Kim and told her that if they are going to do this he needs to go into it as himself, “so yes, colorful”. Kim knew it wouldn’t work, she wanted to protect her relationship with Jimmy and most of all her career. So she declined his offer, which deep down I think it broke his heart.
Kim’s interview with Schweikart went great, in fact we learned a little bit more about her past, ourselves. When they asked Kim why she moved to New Mexico she said she wanted “more…” After the interview Kim took a moment on the roof of the parking garage to have a cigarette. She took out the business card that Jimmy made Wexler - McGill and ripped it in half, in doing so she got an idea.
Kim drove straight to the nail salon, but Jimmy was in a meeting. When he was finished Kim told Jimmy that she wasn’t going to take the job at Schweikart and that she had decided to start her own firm. Jimmy was over the moon happy, but there has a hitch, she didn’t want Wexler - McGill instead Wexler and McGill, that way same office, different firms. In doing so they can protect they’re relationship and careers from one another.
