windom

Well, he certainly spent a lot of time with Howard, so it might have been good if Kim had gotten Howard's wife and Clifford together to confess since they focused on making Clifford think Howard had a drug problem.

I was imagining what Kim must have been thinking when her coworkers discussing crack and ecstasy.

bunkaroo

My gut feeling during viewing was Jeff crashed out of panic.

windom

What were the cops doing there in the first place? They just happen to park outside of the house that Saul has broken into?

Decker

Yup. Close to the taco stand, apparently.

benh911

Trying to figure out the date roughly of Kim dissolving the marriage and meeting Jesse? (Unless it was on the paperwork and I missed it.)

Also, I know there’s mixed feelings about the black and white episodes. I see both sides. I haven’t hated it, and I obviously understand the need to do it artistically after committing to it with the flash forwards over the season. But I will admit to now starting to miss the color, just because one of my favorite parts of the show and this universe is the cinematography and all the great colors and shots. I do wonder if the last episode will have more color now that he’s been made and is on the run again as Saul Goodman.

John Galt

If you can even call that a taco

Decker

It's kind of weird. The paperwork in the episode shows that Jimmy and Kim married on May 6, 2004. The Better Call Saul timeline places the divorce-signing meeting in 2004 (but I don't know how they figured that), which seems very early to sign divorce papers. But it is a very compressed timeline overall. Howard and Lalo both die on June 24, 2004.
We see Emilio in the episode, and he dies in "Cat's In The Bag" on October 2, 2008.

So my big take-away is that Kim and Jimmy were only married for about 7 weeks.

Deftones

That was a much better use of a Jesse cameo. So now Gene identity is burned. Does he go in the run or get caught before he can. Doesn't seem to have many resources to use to get out of town.

Decker

Here's today's BCS tweet

But we know Saul has a bag of Diamonds we saw in the pilot. Plus now a stash of cash in the crawl space. He could disappear again (or he could have, if Robert Forester hadn't died), but it would be a really unsatisfying ending.

jpcamb

Wow, that would be brutal if true.

Geofferson

Nice shoutout from Glen on Duke's mayo which, is in fact, leaps and bounds better than Hellman's mayo/miracle whip.

OldBoy

Do we know why Saul was so irate after trying to get Kim on phone from last ep? Was it just she didn’t want to talk anymore and what she said in this episode? It seemed he was more angry then he should be.

Decker

Did you watch this episode? His ex-wife told him not to call her and that he should turn himself into the police.

OldBoy

Yes, I saw that, but his reaction last week seemed more hostile, like she was dead or something, but ok, I get it now.

John Galt

It felt like there was more than a few months between Kim leaving and Jimmy fully embracing Saul during Fun and Games. If it was really only a matter of weeks for him to buy that gawdy mansion, start banging prostitutes on the regular, and go full tilt on the Saul character we saw in BB, it says a lot about that character.

Decker

No. Seven weeks between Kim and Jimmy getting married, seemingly out of legal necessity, and her "I love you too, but so what?", when she leaves Jimmy for good. The mansion stuff is a jump-ahead to 2007, per the timeline. I don't know how they determined that. Per that website :

MLBFan24

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BuckNaked2k

So how long is it between seeing Emilio at Saul's and his eventual demise in a tub of acid? His legal troubles can't be a result of the DEA raid on his meth lab, because he immediately suspected Jesse ratted him out, and in this case, Jesse was waiting for him outside.

John Galt

Ahh, I had the timeline wrong. I was thinking the divorce papers were being signed after he had the mansion and was binging on prostitutes, so several years after she had walked out.

dex14

The scene takes place before the BB pilot. About 3.5 years.

dex14

Isn't that Gilligan's wife?

Jason

Just frustration, I imagine.

He definitely took the wrong track when talking to her.

New Lurker

Sometimes I wonder if people posting here are watching the same show I am lol. Yes the post above nails it. This isn't an ambiguous scene at all. Jeff's character is a full on goof (after the recasting). This was definitely a panicked move from a goofy dude. Saul wasn't going to get on a phone and make a phone call near by a just barely fallen back to sleep home owner. Also they would have shown Jeff getting a phone call in the cab if he got one. Jeff is a loser goof that made a loser goof choice and fucked up by crashing his car. Even when he gets out he has this scared loser look on his face when he looks up at the police. I legit laughed out loud at the crash because it was about as slapstick of a scene as an Ace Ventura talking with his butt.

Saul laid the phone on his table when he got home because he just knew he'd be Jeff's one call. (And he was hoping for that too, because if he didn't call chances are he would have ratted on Saul). This wasn't some master plan. This was Saul knowing how to read someone, and being over confident he could fix it all. Just like he was being over confident sticking around in that house and stealing the watches. Had he not taken those, the home owner would have called in the break in. But nothing would have been missing. (Just stolen data no one would be aware of). So no evidence of any crime at all.

They're really laying it on that Saul just can't help himself and has an addiction to pushing things too far. Always. In every scenario. A chimp with a machine gun.

Josh-da-man

Kind of ironic that if Saul had just walked out of the house and gotten into the taxi, nobody would have been any wiser. The police were just parking there, and someone leaving a house and getting into a waiting taxi wouldn't have been suspicious. (Unless the homeowner reported a burglary and the police had the taxi's license plate on their dashcam. In which case, Jeff and Saul are fucked either way.)

Back when Gene was coming back from the hospital in Jeff's taxi, he recognized Saul Goodman from his tv ads. Presumably, Saul Goodman was one of those lawyers that floods the local stations with corny, attention-getting ads.

Decker

It is months if not years. We don't know the actual time of that scene. But the marriage effectively ends when Kim leaves. And my point is that they only lived together as Husband and Wife for 7 weeks of elapsed time (from Wexler V Goodman to Fun and Games). It just took Kim years to serve divorce papers.