Better Call Saul

Season 1

S1E1 · Uno

Following the events of Breaking Bad, Saul Goodman lives as "Gene Takavic," manager of a Cinnabon in Omaha, Nebraska. After work, he watches a VHS tape of a 2005 Saul Goodman TV ad. In 2002, Jimmy McGill (Saul's birth name) is a struggling public defender in Albuquerque, New Mexico. He attempts to convince Craig and Betsy Kettleman, who are accused of embezzlement, to retain him. Jimmy cares for his brother Chuck, who is semi-reclusive and believes he has electromagnetic hypersensitivity. Jimmy also confronts Howard Hamlin of Hamlin, Hamlin & McGill (HHM) when Howard attempts to buy Chuck out with a token payment, demanding that HHM pay Chuck for his partnership's full value. The Kettlemans hire HHM, so Jimmy orchestrates a phony vehicle-pedestrian accident involving Betsy, in hopes of getting another opportunity to win her over. Jimmy's accomplices, twins Lars and Cal, accidentally target the wrong car, which is driven by an elderly woman whom they follow into her house. Jimmy arrives soon after and is pulled into the house at gunpoint by Tuco Salamanca.

S1E2 · Mijo

Jimmy learns that the elderly woman was Tuco's abuelita (grandmother) and he kidnapped Cal and Lars for insulting her. Jimmy attempts to explain about the mistake, only for Lars to immediately implicate Jimmy. Tuco and his associates take Jimmy and the twins to a remote desert site. Jimmy informs Tuco that he is a lawyer and one of his associates, Nacho Varga, convinces Tuco that killing a lawyer would bring unwanted attention. Jimmy then manages to persuade Tuco from not killing the twins and to show mercy by breaking one leg each; he later rushes them to the hospital. A few days later, Nacho tells Jimmy he wants to steal the $1.6 million the Kettlemans embezzled, for which he will pay Jimmy a finder's fee. Jimmy declines, telling Nacho he is not a criminal. Nacho leaves his phone number, advising Jimmy to call when he realizes that he is "in the game".

S1E3 · Nacho

In a flashback, Jimmy is jailed in Cicero, Illinois, facing multiple charges and sex offender status for a scatological "Chicago Sunroof" revenge prank. Chuck agrees to defend Jimmy if Jimmy agrees to cease running cons and move to Albuquerque to work a legitimate job. In 2002, Jimmy still hopes to represent the Kettlemans and notices Nacho conducting surveillance of their home from his van. Disguising his voice, Jimmy calls from a pay phone to warn them of the impending theft. The next day, Jimmy learns that the Kettlemans have been kidnapped, with Nacho arrested as a person of interest. Nacho accuses Jimmy of setting him up and threatens to kill him unless he proves his innocence. Jimmy comes to believe that the Kettlemans staged their own kidnapping, and based on advice from Mike Ehrmantraut, Jimmy finds them hiding in the nearby hills along with the embezzled $1.6 million.

S1E4 · Hero

In a flashback to Cicero, Jimmy and his partner in crime, Marco, use a fake Rolex watch to con a bar patron. In 2002, the Kettlemans agree to return home and pay Jimmy $30,000 to ignore their stolen funds. Jimmy gets an embittered Nacho released from jail. He then uses his ill-gotten gains to compete with HHM by creating a billboard that mimics HHM's logo and Howard's signature look. This results in a cease and desist order and Jimmy is required to remove the advertisement. In an attempt to generate sympathetic media coverage, he fakes the rescue of the worker who is removing the billboard. To Howard's annoyance, Jimmy's scam generates positive local news coverage and new clients. Jimmy hides the scam from Chuck, but he learns of it after taking his neighbor's newspaper.

S1E5 · Alpine Shepherd Boy

Chuck's neighbor reports him for taking her newspaper, and due to his living conditions causing the police to believe he is producing meth, they kick in his door and tase him. Chuck is hospitalized, and the doctor, believing that his "disease" is psychosomatic, wants to have him committed, but Jimmy declines. Jimmy's newfound fame attracts less than promising clients. Among them is an elderly woman who he helps prepare her will; her bequests consisting almost entirely of leaving her Hummel figurines to various friends and family members. Jimmy's rapport with her leads his colleague Kim Wexler to suggest that he specialize in elder law. Jimmy begins promoting himself at a nursing home, wearing clothes like the fictional TV lawyer Matlock. Meanwhile, Mike is visited at home by several Philadelphia police officers.

S1E6 · Five-O

In a flashback a few months prior, Mike arrives in Albuquerque and visits Dr. Caldera, a veterinarian, to have his wounded shoulder treated. In 2002, Mike is at the police station, requests Jimmy as counsel, and asks him to spill coffee as a diversion so Mike can steal a detective's notebook. Mike learns that his daughter-in-law, Stacey, called the police after she found money her husband Matt hid in a suitcase. Mike reveals to Stacey that Matt was a clean cop in a precinct of corruption that included Mike. Mike counseled him to participate for his own safety, but Matt's partner and another cop killed him for fear that he might turn them in. In another flashback, Mike manipulates the two cops into confirming they were the ones who killed Matt. They attempt to kill him, but he kills them, and is wounded in the process.

S1E7 · Bingo

Jimmy and Mike return the detective's notebook. The two Philadelphia detectives are unsatisfied with their explanation, though one privately tells Mike he has nothing to fear from their investigation. Jimmy finds Chuck standing outside his home, claiming he is building up a tolerance to electromagnetic waves. He stores legal documents at Chuck's house as part of a plan to pique Chuck's interest in cases, hoping to get him back into practicing law. Jimmy asks Kim to join him in a law partnership, but she declines, citing her loyalty to HHM. The Kettlemans fire HHM and hire Jimmy after Kim tries to convince them to accept a plea bargain that includes jail time for Craig. Jimmy also attempts to persuade them, but Betsy blackmails him, pointing out that the "retainer" the Kettlemans paid could be considered a bribe. Jimmy later discovers that Kim has been demoted to the document review office because she lost the Kettlemans as clients. Together, Mike and Jimmy steal the embezzled money from the Kettlemans. Jimmy returns the bribe/retainer money to the stolen funds and gives everything to the prosecutors, compelling Craig to accept the plea bargain to keep Betsy out of jail.

S1E8 · Rico

In a flashback to before 2002, Jimmy is working in the HHM mailroom and passionately celebrates with Kim over passing his bar exam results. Jimmy shows Chuck his results and explains that he studied law at the University of American Samoa via distance learning. Chuck tells Jimmy he is proud of him, however later Howard tells Jimmy that HHM will not hire him as an attorney. In 2002, Jimmy continues to work in elder law. While assisting a resident of the Sandpiper Crossing home with her will, Jimmy discovers that the company overcharges residents for expenses. After speaking to several other residents, Jimmy suspects elder abuse and presents a hastily written demand letter warning Sandpiper against destroying evidence. He is escorted from the facility but can hear the staff shredding documents, so he searches the dumpster and finds the shreds. Jimmy and Chuck put the pieces together and recover an incriminating document. Realizing the potential of the case as a class action lawsuit, Chuck agrees to aid Jimmy. In the excitement, Chuck goes to Jimmy's car for more documents and is shocked to realize he went outside without suffering any electromagnetic hypersensitivity symptoms.

S1E9 · Pimento

Sandpiper Crossing buries Jimmy and Chuck in paperwork, and Chuck convinces Jimmy the case is too big for them, so they bring it to HHM. Howard is eager to take it but makes clear Jimmy will not continue to participate, offering instead a small of counsel fee and a percentage of the settlement or judgment; Jimmy angrily refuses. Later, Jimmy discovers Chuck braved his electromagnetic hypersensitivity symptoms to make a pre-meeting phone call to Howard, in which he asked Howard to prevent Jimmy's participation. Chuck admits he has never regarded Jimmy as a peer, owing to his conman's past and unconventional legal training, also admitting it was he who insisted HHM not hire Jimmy back when he passed the bar exam. Jimmy decides to stop taking care of Chuck and allows HHM to take the case. Meanwhile, to make more money for Stacey and Kaylee, Mike takes a job as a bodyguard for pharmaceutical employee Daniel Wormald, who sells Nacho stolen pills. Despite Wormald's inexperience and nervousness, Mike ensures the deal goes well.

S1E10 · Marco

In a flashback, Jimmy says goodbye to Marco in Cicero, explaining that as part of Chuck's work to get him out of jail, he has agreed to take a legitimate job in Albuquerque. In 2002, Jimmy has a breakdown while calling bingo at the senior center due to Chuck's betrayal, and returns to Cicero, where he reminisces with Marco. Jimmy's agreement to do a con with Marco leads to a week of scams, which ends after Marco suddenly dies. Kim calls Jimmy to say the Sandpiper case is so big that HHM intends to work with Davis & Main of Santa Fe. D&M's partners know Jimmy has a good rapport with the elderly clients, so they want to hire him. Jimmy returns to Albuquerque to meet with them but hesitates and then drives out of the courthouse parking lot. He questions Mike why they didn't keep the Kettleman money, which Mike recalls that Jimmy wanted to do the "right thing". Jimmy assures Mike that he will not make that mistake again and drives off.

Season 2

S2E1 · Switch

In a flash-forward, "Gene" accidentally locks himself in an Omaha, Nebraska mall's dumpster room, but because of the need to conceal his identity, he is unable to use the emergency exit, which would summon the authorities. When he is finally let out, he leaves behind the words "SG WAS HERE" carved on the wall. In 2002, Jimmy decides to decline Davis & Main's employment offer and closes down his practice. Kim confronts Jimmy about his odd behavior, but Jimmy is adamant about leaving the practice of law. Instead, he persuades Kim to help him con a stock trader into buying them expensive drinks and food and then paying their tab. Thrilled by the experience, Kim spends the night with Jimmy. Daniel ("Pryce") fires Mike since he believes he no longer needs Mike as a bodyguard. Nacho takes advantage of Mike's absence to obtain Pryce's real name and address. Pryce's house is burgled and he calls the police to report his stolen baseball card collection. The responding officers are suspicious about the nature of the burglary and investigate further, finding an empty hidden compartment behind his couch. After reconsidering the offer to join Davis & Main, Jimmy decides to accept.

S2E2 · Cobbler

Howard visits Chuck and informs him about Jimmy's employment at Davis & Main, the latter expresses concern about it. Mike encounters Daniel (Pryce) arriving at the police station for an interview about his stolen baseball cards. Mike warns Pryce that the police must suspect that he is a drug dealer and offers to find the cards himself to keep him from talking to the police. Mike tracks down Nacho and threatens to inform Tuco about Nacho's secret drug deals if Nacho does not return the cards. Nacho agrees to return Daniel's cards plus $10,000 in exchange for Daniel's Hummer. Chuck visits the HHM office, where he sits in on a meeting with Davis & Main, unnerving Jimmy. Jimmy receives a call from Mike asking him to represent Daniel. Jimmy deflects police attention from Daniel by telling investigators the secret compartment in his living room was used to hold fetish videos. When Jimmy tells Kim about staging a video with Daniel as part of his effort to convince the police, Kim disapproves and tells Jimmy that his willingness to engage in unethical behavior will jeopardize his position at D&M.

S2E3 · Amarillo

Jimmy bribes a Sandpiper Crossing bus driver to allow him to solicit a bus full of residents on their way to lunch. At an HHM meeting, Jimmy presents his client outreach report and informs the group that he has signed up several new clients for the class action lawsuit. Chuck is suspicious of Jimmy's methods, but Jimmy deflects the question. Kim warns Jimmy to keep his methods legitimate, since she recommended him to Davis & Main, and his actions will reflect on her judgment. In an effort to reach more clients, Jimmy creates and then airs a commercial about the lawsuit, which proves a success. Jimmy claims to Kim that he got approved, only for him to be scolded by Cliff Main for airing it behind his back. Meanwhile, Stacey voices concern to Mike about gunshots she heard in her neighborhood over the previous two nights. Mike does overnight surveillance without Stacey's knowledge, learning the sound is the arrival of the morning papers. The following morning, Stacey claims there were three more gunshots, and points out a chip in the corner of her outside wall that she tearfully insists is from a bullet, so Mike decides to move her out of the house. Mike visits Dr. Caldera for new job offers, and receives a lucrative one from Nacho.

S2E4 · Gloves Off

Jimmy is scolded by the Davis & Main partners, angry at him for running a commercial without their consent, but Cliff gives him a second chance. Kim meets with Howard and Chuck—Howard reprimands her for not informing them about Jimmy's commercial and demotes her to entry-level work in the document review office. Meanwhile, Nacho is concerned about Tuco's erratic behavior and the possibility that he might find out about his secret deals. Nacho wants Mike to kill Tuco, but Mike decides against it, arguing that Tuco's death would draw attention from the Salamancas and the cartel. Instead, Mike stages a fender bender with Tuco's car and goads Tuco into attacking him, having called the police beforehand. The police arrive during the altercation and arrest Tuco for assault with a deadly weapon since he was carrying a gun.

S2E5 · Rebecca

In a flashback, Jimmy visits Chuck shortly after moving to Albuquerque. He meets Chuck's wife, Rebecca, and succeeds in charming her, making Chuck uncomfortable; Chuck's later attempt to imitate Jimmy falls flat. In the present, Jimmy meets Kim in the HHM document room and proposes she sue the firm. Kim refuses, pointing out that no firm would ever hire her again, and tells Jimmy not to worry about her job. She calls many professional and school contacts, hoping to land a major new client for HHM. She secures the business of the Mesa Verde Bank, a local institution planning to expand regionally. Howard is pleased to have the lucrative new client, but does not give Kim credit, and keeps her in document review. Later, Chuck tells Kim his belief that Jimmy embezzled money from their family convenience store in Cicero, which led to the store's failure. Meanwhile, Mike is approached by Tuco's uncle, Hector Salamanca, who offers Mike $5,000 to claim that Tuco's gun was actually Mike's, which would reduce Tuco's jail sentence.

S2E6 · Bali Ha'i

Jimmy has difficulty adjusting to his new job at D&M; unable to sleep in his corporate apartment, he returns to his old boiler room office to sleep. With Chuck's help, Kim is reinstated to her old position at HHM, but is treated coldly by Howard who gives her humiliating and menial assignments, including arguing an unwinnable motion in court. Kim is offered a job by Rich Schweikart of Schweikart & Cokely, who was impressed with her performance. Unsure how to proceed, Kim relieves her stress by running another con with Jimmy, fooling an investor into giving them a $10,000 check, which Kim keeps as a souvenir. Meanwhile, Mike refuses Hector's deal, but Hector wages an intimidation campaign. Two of his subordinates break into Mike's house to scare him, and Leonel and Marco Salamanca silently threaten to kill Kaylee. Mike agrees to say the gun was his but demands $50,000, which Hector agrees to pay. Mike gives $25,000 to Nacho and explains that since Tuco's sentence will be reduced, Mike has failed to uphold his part of their deal, so he is obligated to give Nacho half of the payment.

S2E7 · Inflatable

In a flashback to the early 1970s, thirteen-year-old Jimmy is working in his family's store when a grifter enters and attempts to con Jimmy's father by claiming to be a needy parent with an emergency. Jimmy does not believe him and tries to warn his father, but his father is more concerned about helping someone who might be in need. When the grifter reveals the con, a disillusioned Jimmy steals money from the store. In 2002, Jimmy represents Mike when Mike claims to the district attorney that the gun in his altercation with Tuco was not Tuco's. Jimmy decides to quit D&M but learns that if he quits, he will have to repay the firm's signing bonus, although his contract allows him to keep it if he is fired without cause. He begins irritating his D&M co-workers with flashy displays, and Cliff eventually fires him. Jimmy tries to convince Kim to partner with him in their own law firm. She later suggests they start separate firms, sharing office space and expenses and lending each other support. Meanwhile, Mike promises to buy Stacey a new house in a safer neighborhood and begins surveilling Hector's restaurant.

S2E8 · Fifi

Kim tells Howard she is leaving HHM. Howard wishes her well, and immediately after Kim leaves, they each race to secure the Mesa Verde account. Kim meets with Kevin and Paige, who agree that Kim will be Mesa Verde's outside counsel. Kim and Jimmy set up their practices in a re-purposed dentists' office. Howard informs Chuck of Kim's resignation, the loss of Mesa Verde, and Kim's teaming with Jimmy. Chuck damns Kim with faint praise at a meeting with Kevin and Paige, causing Kevin to keep Mesa Verde's business at HHM. Jimmy perpetrates a ruse at a U.S. Air Force base in order to gain access to the B-29 bomber FIFI and shoot video footage for use in TV ads promoting his law practice. Jimmy learns about Chuck meeting with Kevin and Paige, and stays with him while he recovers at home. While Chuck is asleep, Jimmy takes the Mesa Verde documents to a copy store, alters them, then replaces them in Chuck's files. While surveilling Hector, Mike follows a cargo truck to a remote garage, then returns home and uses a length of garden hose to assemble a homemade spike strip.

S2E9 · Nailed

A disguised Mike ambushes one of Hector's trucks, extracts the $250,000 hidden in a tire, and leaves the driver tied up nearby. Mike admits to Nacho that he wanted to attract police attention to Hector, but Nacho informs him a "Good Samaritan" freed the driver, and police were not notified; Hector then arrived with a crew to clean up the scene and killed the Good Samaritan. Chuck's application for a new Mesa Verde branch is incorrect, causing a long delay. Kevin re-engages Kim as outside counsel and Chuck suspects Jimmy sabotaged him. Chuck accuses Jimmy in front of Kim, but she says the mistake was Chuck's. Kim infers Jimmy's guilt and implies that if there is evidence, Chuck will find it. Jimmy realizes the copy store clerk can identify him, so he goes there to buy the clerk's silence. Ernesto is investigating copy stores for Chuck and Jimmy sees him leave after conversing with the clerk. While Jimmy observes from across the street, Chuck begins to question the clerk, but his electromagnetic hypersensitivity causes him to faint and hit his head. Jimmy considers entering the store to render aid.

S2E10 · Klick

In a flashback, Chuck and Jimmy are beside their mother's hospital bed and Jimmy leaves to buy sandwiches. Their mother wakes and calls Jimmy's name before dying. Jimmy returns and asks Chuck if their mother awakened or had any last words, and Chuck falsely says "no". In 2002, Jimmy rushes into the copy store where Chuck has hit his head, comforting him while they wait for an ambulance. Meanwhile, Mike intends to kill Hector with a black market sniper rifle and positions himself on a ridge overlooking the site where Hector and his crew intend to execute Ximenez, the driver. Before he can, he detects the sound of his car horn and when he investigates he finds a branch wedged against the steering wheel and a note with the word "Don't" left on his windshield. Chuck tells Jimmy his mistake on Mesa Verde's paperwork made him question his judgment, so he is retiring. Feeling guilty about deceiving Chuck, Jimmy confesses to tampering with the documents and bribing the copy store clerk. After Jimmy leaves, Chuck unveils a tape recorder he activated prior to Jimmy's arrival.

Season 3

S3E1 · Mabel

In a flash-forward, "Gene" points out to mall security guards a shoplifter hiding in a photo booth, but yells at him to stay silent and obtain counsel. He then falls unconscious at work. In 2002, Jimmy helps Chuck remove foil from his walls and reminisces over a children's book they read together, but Chuck promises consequences for the fraud that humiliated him. Chuck plays Jimmy's confession to Howard, who says it has no legal value, but Chuck insists it has a use. Chuck later asks Ernesto to change the player's batteries and Ernesto hears the confession, but Chuck swears him to secrecy. Meanwhile, determined to discover how someone prevented him from killing Hector, Mike dismantles his station wagon and finds a tracking device in the gas cap, finding the same type of device in his sedan. Mike obtains a similar tracker and is able to trick the man following him to pick it up, enabling Mike to follow him.

S3E2 · Witness

Chuck meets with a private investigator. The individuals who changed tracking devices on Mike's car meet with a courier, whom Mike tails until he stops at Los Pollos Hermanos. Mike asks Jimmy to watch the courier inside the restaurant. Jimmy notices nothing unusual, briefly conversing with the manager, Gus Fring, before leaving and reporting to Mike. Mike proceeds to follow the tracking device, until he finds it with his gas cap and a cell phone in the middle of a remote stretch of road; the phone rings, and Mike answers it. Meanwhile, Ernesto tells Kim he heard Jimmy's taped confession. Kim has Jimmy engage her as counsel to obtain attorney-client privilege and tells him about the tape. She tells Jimmy it is useless in court and wonders what Chuck is planning, so she suggests Jimmy wait for Chuck to make the first move. However, Jimmy angrily breaks in to Chuck's house and destroys the tape. Howard and the private investigator reveal themselves and tell Chuck they witnessed the crimes Jimmy committed, enabling Chuck to report him to the police.

S3E3 · Sunk Costs

Mike meets Gus, and they agree that Gus will stop tracking Mike and that Mike will not kill Hector, however Gus supports Mike's attempts to attract police attention to Hector. Mike obtains a small amount of cocaine from Barry Goodman, stuffs it into the toe of a sneaker, and hangs the pair from a cable spanning the road where Hector's drivers stop to stash their guns before crossing the Mexican border. As they depart, Mike shoots the sneakers, causing cocaine to spill onto the truck. When the truck arrives at the border crossing, drug-sniffing dogs are alerted, and Hector's drivers are arrested. Meanwhile, Jimmy is arrested for the break-in at Chuck's, pleads not guilty, and posts bail. The prosecutor informs Chuck that she takes the charges seriously and will press for jail time, but Chuck suggests a better solution than criminal prosecution. Jimmy tells Kim that Chuck's proposal includes Jimmy confessing to the break-in in exchange for probation and a diversion program that could wipe his record clean, but only if he submits his confession to the New Mexico Bar Association, which could result in disbarment. Kim convinces Jimmy to let her help him fight Chuck's plan.

S3E4 · Sabrosito

In a flashback, Hector delivers a cash tribute to Don Eladio, but is humiliated when Gus sends a significantly larger tribute via Juan Bolsa. In 2003, Hector demands Gus use his trucks to smuggle Hector's drugs. Gus seems to reluctantly agree, with Hector not realizing this is part of Gus' plan. Gus sends payment to Mike for his disruption of Hector's trucks, but Mike refuses the money. Jimmy hires Mike to pose as a handyman to repair Chuck's door, which is a ruse allowing Mike to photograph the interior of Chuck's house and document his bizarre living conditions. Gus informs Mike that he is interested in hiring him, and Mike says he is willing to consider it. Jimmy, Kim, Howard, Chuck, and the prosecutor meet to finalize Jimmy's confession, with Jimmy agreeing to have it reviewed by the bar association. Afterward, Kim confronts Chuck and tells him she suspects he has a copy of the tape. Chuck confirms it and states that he plans to submit it as evidence at Jimmy's disciplinary hearing. Kim relays the information to Jimmy and reveals that having Chuck admit the existence of the second tape was part of their strategy for defending Jimmy.

S3E5 · Chicanery

In a flashback, sometime after their divorce, Chuck invites Rebecca to dinner, and works with Jimmy to hide his EHS. Rebecca answers her cell phone during the dinner, and Chuck knocks it out of her hand; he refuses to explain and forbids Jimmy from doing so, so Rebecca angrily departs. In 2003, the bar association hearing occurs, with Kim arguing the situation being a more personal argument between brothers, in particular relating to Chuck's supposed EHS. When Chuck arrives for his testimony, Rebecca appears having been called over by Jimmy, which Chuck believes is a ploy to embarrass him. During Jimmy's cross-examination with Chuck, he questions how close an electronic device has to be before Chuck is affected. Suspecting a trick, Chuck correctly guesses that Jimmy is carrying his cell phone. However, Jimmy then reveals that he had Huell plant his cell phone battery in Chuck's pocket, which Chuck carried for more than an hour without noticing. The bar association's counsel suggests that Chuck's mental illness should not affect the proceedings, and the idea that his illness is not real triggers an outburst from Chuck, who vents all his frustrations about Jimmy. Chuck realizes too late that his tirade has shocked the entire room into silence.

S3E6 · Off Brand

Hector compels Nacho to beat Domingo when his weekly payment is short, disillusioning Nacho. The bar association suspends Jimmy for a year but does not disbar him. As Kim and Jimmy celebrate, Rebecca arrives and asks Jimmy to help her see Chuck, who will not answer his door, but Jimmy refuses. Howard visits Chuck and suggests he end the feud with Jimmy and look to the future, and Chuck agrees. Nacho and Arturo pick up cocaine from Gus' warehouse, and Nacho attempts to take six packages instead of the expected five. Tyrus calls Gus, who orders Tyrus to give him the sixth package. At the end of the call, Gus is revealed to be scouting a commercial laundry with Lydia. Hector wants Nacho's father's upholstery shop as a front for a new smuggling route, to which Nacho objects. Hector is informed that Tuco's sentence will be extended following a prison fight, and suffers an angina attack. He drops a nitroglycerin capsule, which Nacho steals. Jimmy attempts to avoid losing money he prepaid for TV commercials by making on air pitches for other businesses under the alias "Saul Goodman".

S3E7 · Expenses

Jimmy unsuccessfully tries to sell the TV ad time for which he has already paid. Nacho approaches Daniel (Pryce) with the nitroglycerin capsule he stole and asks Daniel to obtain him empty, unsealed lookalikes. Paige gloats over Chuck's loss and praises Kim's cross-examination, but Kim expresses regret for her actions. Mike helps with construction of the new church playground and receives help from other members of Stacey's support group. Daniel asks Mike to be his bodyguard at his planned meeting with Nacho, but Mike declines. After hearing Anita tell the support group about how her husband mysteriously disappeared while hiking years previously, Mike changes his mind and accompanies Daniel. Nacho tells Mike about his plan to stop Hector by replacing his nitroglycerin with ibuprofen in hopes of inducing a fatal heart attack. Mike advises Nacho that if Hector dies, Nacho should immediately take the placebos from Hector and replace them with the real medication, in order to minimize the chance that Hector's death will be recognized as murder and traced back to Nacho. Jimmy attempts to obtain a malpractice insurance premium refund, then feigns distress over Chuck's health in order to sabotage Chuck's insurance.

S3E8 · Slip

In a flashback, Jimmy and Marco recover Jimmy's coin collection from the abandoned McGill store in Cicero and find one to use later in a con. Marco fondly reminisces about Jimmy's parents, but Jimmy criticizes his father as a "soft touch". In 2003, Chuck follows Dr. Cruz's advice for overcoming his EHS and becomes able to walk outdoors and shop on his own. Two of Jimmy's advertising clients refuse to pay, so he stages a "slip and fall" accident which nets him enough to pay his half of the rent. While at lunch with Kevin and Paige, Kim encounters Howard and tries to repay her law school loan, but Howard refuses. Jimmy coerces his community service supervisor into giving him credit for hours worked while he rests his injured back and earns $700 from another crew member, a drug dealer, by persuading the supervisor to allow him to leave early. Nacho switches Hector's capsules with ibuprofen lookalikes. Mike locates the body of the Good Samaritan that Hector killed and reports it to the police. Gus agrees to help Mike launder the remaining $200,000 of the $250,000 he stole from Hector.

S3E9 · Fall

Jimmy receives an update on the Sandpiper case from Irene, the class representative, and finds that HHM and D&M have rejected a substantial settlement. He asks Howard why they will not accept, and Howard says they believe they can obtain more by waiting. Howard and Chuck meet with their insurance agent, who proposes substantially raising their malpractice premiums or having another attorney supervise Chuck. Chuck refuses and Howard says he will force Chuck to retire. Chuck responds by suing for $8 million, the value of his share of HHM. Mike becomes a contracted security consultant for Madrigal Electromotive, and the monthly payments enable him to launder his stolen money. While Jimmy is suspended, Kim takes on a second client to earn additional income and becomes exhausted from overwork. Nacho admits to his father, Manuel, that he works for Hector and begs him to follow Hector's orders, but Manuel orders Nacho to leave his house. Jimmy manipulates the Sandpiper residents into believing Irene is holding out on them in regards to the Sandpiper settlements, ostracizing her until she accepts, meaning Jimmy will receive his share -- more than $1 million. Kim falls asleep while driving to a meeting with her new client and crashes into a boulder.

S3E10 · Lantern

In a flashback to their childhood, Chuck reads to Jimmy by lantern light. In 2003, Kim suffers a broken arm in the car accident. Jimmy agrees to break their office lease so Kim can save money by working from home. Chuck is forced out of HHM when Howard pays the first installment to buy him out. Hector bribes Manuel to use his business as a drug front, and Manuel reluctantly accepts. Nacho intends to ambush Hector but is caught in a meeting between Hector, Gus, and Juan Bolsa. Bolsa informs Hector that Eladio wants Salamanca drugs smuggled from Mexico in Gus' trucks to be a permanent arrangement. An enraged Hector suffers a stroke, and Gus resuscitates him back to life. Nacho replaces the fake capsules with Hector's real nitroglycerin, but Gus is suspicious. Jimmy tries making amends with Chuck, but Chuck refuses. Jimmy then tries mending relations between Irene and her friends, but when they refuse, he arranges for them to overhear him admit to tricking Irene into accepting the Sandpiper settlement, vindicating her and causing her to withdraw acceptance, but costing him his share of the settlement, and all his elder clients. Chuck's EHS symptoms re-emerge and he destroys his home's interior. That night, he intentionally sets a fire by knocking over a gas lantern, burning down the house and killing himself.

Season 4

S4E1 · Smoke

In a flash forward, following his collapse while working at the Omaha Cinnabon, "Gene" has a worrying encounter with a hospital clerk who needs his personal information for billing purposes. During his taxi ride back to the mall, Gene becomes suspicious of the driver, when he spots an Albuquerque Isotopes air freshener; he exits before reaching the mall and walks around the corner out of the driver's sight. In 2003, Jimmy and Kim learn of Chuck's death, and believing himself responsible, Jimmy falls into depression. Howard arranges Chuck's funeral, and later admits that he believes his decision to dismiss Chuck from HHM caused Chuck's suicide. Howard explains that Chuck's malpractice insurance rates had become exorbitant – not realizing Jimmy was to blame for reporting Chuck's instability to the insurers; Jimmy allows Howard to take the blame and quickly regains his happy-go-lucky demeanor. Meanwhile, Mike decides to perform actual security and safety consulting for Madrigal Electromotive and details a list of violations he uncovered on his first site visit. Following Hector's stroke, the cartel bosses direct Nacho and Arturo to take over Hector's drug operation. Gus remains suspicious of Nacho and has Victor follow him, spotting him disposing of the dud pills.

S4E2 · Breathe

With his law license suspended, Jimmy interviews for a job as a salesman at Neff Copiers and spots an opportunity to steal a valuable Hummel figurine. Rebecca and Kim meet with Howard to review the disposition of Chuck's estate. Unaware of Jimmy's role in the events, Kim has an explosive confrontation with Howard in which she lambastes him for treating Jimmy poorly ever since. Meanwhile, Lydia informs Mike that his security consulting is meant to be a paper transaction to facilitate the laundering of the money he stole from the Salamancas, but Mike insists on continuing actual inspections, arguing they provide a plausible explanation in case anyone looks into the payments. Gus discreetly pays a skilled doctor to help Hector recover from his stroke. When Nacho and Arturo come to his facility to acquire more drugs, Arturo strong-arms his way into taking more than he is supposed to. He brags about his success as they leave, but Gus ambushes and kills him. Gus reveals that he knows Nacho attempted to murder Hector, but the Salamancas do not, so Nacho is now under Gus' control.

S4E3 · Something Beautiful

Jimmy approaches Mike to steal the Hummel, but he is unwilling to do it, so Jimmy hires Ira. The crime is nearly a bust due to the unexpected development of the owner living at the Copiers, but they manage to escape with the figure. Kim returns to working with Mesa Verde but is concerned about their planned rapid expansion. Victor and Tyrus arrange Arturo's death to look like a gang attack, deflecting attention from Nacho and hiding his involvement with Gus. The staged attack includes bullet wounds for Nacho, who calls Leonel and Marco ( the Cousins ) for aid. They succeed in getting Nacho to Dr. Caldera alive; he covertly saves Nacho but recommends Nacho seek proper care to ensure there are no complications. The Cousins alert the cartel that the attack looks like the one carried out previously on one of their trucks (the one Mike attacked secretly). Concerned that their Mexican routes are vulnerable, Juan Bolsa directs Gus to seek local manufacturers. Gus visits the university to check on the quality of meth samples he gave to Gale Boetticher for testing. Kim tells Jimmy about the disposition of Chuck's will, giving him a letter purportedly from Chuck, which is undated but contains condescending praise for Jimmy. Jimmy calls it "nice", but Kim is visibly upset by it.

S4E4 · Talk

Jimmy is quickly bored with managing a cellular phone store and tries to boost business. He later meets with Ira, who sold the stolen Hummel for more than expected and offers to carry out future thefts. Bored herself with Mesa Verde work, Kim observes Judge Munsinger's courtroom, hoping to rekindle her interest in the law by taking on pro bono defense counsel work. Meanwhile, Victor sells the drugs from the fake attack on Nacho to the Espinosas. Nacho tells the Salamancas that the Espinosas carried out the attack, so the Cousins kill the Espinosas, retrieve the "stolen" drugs, and return to Mexico. Nacho realizes that by eliminating the Espinosas, Gus secured himself more territory, but does not see the full scope of Gus' plan. Mike confronts Henry in their support group for falsely claiming to have a wife who died. Later, he inspects another Madrigal site and provides a list of items to fix. He meets with Gus, who feigns anger that Mike did not tell him about Nacho's intent to kill Hector, but Mike says he promised only not to kill Hector himself. He realizes Gus' ulterior motive and tells him to provide information about "the job" he wants done.

S4E5 · Quite a Ride

In a flash forward (taking place during Breaking Bad ' s " Ozymandias "), Francesca quickly shreds documents and Saul frantically collects cash, mementos, and paperwork from his office before contacting his "disappearer" for a new identity. In 2003, Jimmy convinces a customer to buy several prepaid cellular phones as a way to maintain his privacy and then gets the idea to profit by reselling prepaid phones on the street. He sells them all, but the venture proves unsuccessful because he is mugged by three teenagers. As Kim treats his wounds, he blames himself for not recognizing the threat and promises to see a psychologist, but instead goes to work the next day as usual. Kim is assigned as pro bono counsel for several defendants. When a problem arises with recent Mesa Verde paperwork, Kim sees her current case through to completion before responding, for which Paige later reprimands her. Meanwhile, Mike discreetly escorts foreign structural engineers through the industrial laundry so they can evaluate the space below as a site for Gus' planned meth "superlab". Gus is impressed by one, Werner Ziegler, and offers him the job of planning and overseeing the construction of the facility.

S4E6 · Piñata

In a flashback, Kim and Jimmy work in HHM's mailroom. Third-year law student Kim demonstrates her legal knowledge, impressing pre-sickness Chuck and piquing Jimmy's curiosity. In 2003, Kim juggles Mesa Verde work with pro bono criminal defense cases, and Jimmy struggles financially during his suspension. Kim joins Schweikart & Cokely, enabling her to handle both Mesa Verde and criminal cases, but disappointing Jimmy, who realizes the death of his dream to restart the Wexler-McGill office. Jimmy is informed that Geraldine, his first eldercare client, has died, and he grieves for her more than for Chuck. Jimmy tries to rouse a depressed Howard with a "tough love" speech. He uses his $5,000 inheritance to buy prepaid cell phones for street resale. This time, Jimmy intimidates his three teenage assailants into leaving him alone. Meanwhile, Mike creates secret living and recreation facilities for Werner's crew, who begin constructing Gus' meth "superlab". Gus visits a hospitalized, unconscious Hector and previews their future by relating a childhood story about trapping a coati that ate the fruit from a lúcuma tree Gus nursed to health. Rather than humanely killing the injured coati after catching it, Gus held it and let it suffer until it died.

S4E7 · Something Stupid

In a time jump sequence of several months that advances to early 2004, Jimmy and Kim are shown to be drifting further apart. Kim's arm has healed, and to Jimmy's chagrin, she thrives at Schweikart & Cokely, with Mesa Verde's expansion continuing on schedule and Kim finding time to work on the pro bono criminal defense cases that give her satisfaction. Jimmy plans his return to practicing law, including searching for an office. His business re-selling prepaid phones on the street continues to grow, and he increasingly uses his "Saul Goodman" alias. Huell is arrested for assaulting a police officer who tries to get Jimmy to end his phone business, and Jimmy involves Kim in defending him. He tries to get her to smear the police officer so the charges will be dropped, but she refuses, telling Jimmy she has a better way. Meanwhile, Hector begins recovering from his stroke, so Gus dismisses Dr. Bruckner, in effect trapping Hector's recovered mind in his unhealed body. Mike observes Werner's crew during construction of the underground meth lab; work proceeds more slowly than expected, frustrating the crew, and Mike has to step in to break up a fight.

S4E8 · Coushatta

Kim enlists S&C employees in Huell's defense and indicates she'll bury prosecutor Suzanne Ericsen in paperwork. Jimmy takes a bus ride, uses a variety of pens and paper to write supportive mail for Huell, and enlists other passengers to help. The mail is sent with return addresses and postmarks from Coushatta, Louisiana, Huell's hometown. Suzanne investigates, but Jimmy has arranged for a fake church website and pay-as-you-go cellular phones that Jimmy and his TV ad film crew answer. The phony support causes Suzanne to accept a plea that keeps Huell out of jail. Kim is elated, and tells Jimmy she wants to engage in similar behavior again. Meanwhile, Mike arranges a strip club outing for Werner and his crew. Kai starts a fight, but the real problem is Werner, who drunkenly discusses underground concrete construction details with strangers. A fully healed Nacho takes prominence in the Salamanca organization and trains Domingo to punish dealers who do not meet their weekly quota. However, he is then surprised by the unexpected arrival of Lalo Salamanca, who unlike Hector, is interested in the everyday details of the business, which concerns Nacho. At home, Nacho keeps a safe with cash and fake Canadian IDs for himself and his father.

S4E9 · Wiedersehen

Jimmy and Kim surreptitiously replace approved plans for Mesa Verde's Lubbock, Texas branch with plans for a bigger building. Jimmy answers the questions eloquently at his reinstatement hearing, but his application is denied. The chairman suggests Jimmy's answers were "insincere", and when he recounts the details to Kim, she explains to Jimmy that he did not mention Chuck; Jimmy's relationship with Chuck caused his suspension, so the panel expected Jimmy to discuss it. He defensively accuses Kim of "slumming" with him whenever she needs something, while Kim says she is always supportive and Jimmy causes his own problems. That night, Jimmy starts moving out, but Kim stops him and offers to help him win reinstatement. Meanwhile, Lalo visits Hector and improves his communication ability with a concierge bell Lalo kept as a souvenir after Hector killed a hotelier and burned the building. Lalo thanks Gus for saving Hector's life and paying for his treatment. He then asks Nacho to show him where the Salamancas receive their drugs after Gus' trucks bring them from Mexico. Later, Werner's crew blow up the rock preventing construction of the elevator and celebrates that their work is almost done. Werner misses his wife and in desperation, escapes.

S4E10 · Winner

In a flashback, Chuck feigns enthusiasm on the day Jimmy becomes an attorney. In 2004, Kim helps Jimmy's appeal by arranging public displays where he feigns grief for Chuck. Jimmy participates in interviewing Chuck's scholarship candidates and connects with one whose past includes shoplifting. He tells her the other panel members didn't select her and counsels her that the powerful will never look past her youthful mistake, so she should do whatever is necessary to get ahead. At his appeal, Jimmy speaks extemporaneously about how he wants to bring credit to the McGill name. His appeal succeeds, but he reveals to Kim that it was a con, and his declaration that he will not practice under his own name stuns her. Meanwhile, Lalo surveils Gus' drug operation and learns about its regular activities. Werner plans a rendezvous with his wife, with Mike obtains in hot pursuit, learning of his location from a money wire clerk. Lalo finds Mike's actions suspicious so investigates himself, killing the clerk. Lalo tricks Werner into revealing lab construction details over the phone before Mike ends the call. Under Gus' orders, Mike reluctantly agrees to kill Werner, so Werner calls his wife at the airport and sends her home, after which Mike shoots him. Gus shows Gale the still-in-progress lab.

Season 5

S5E1 · Magic Man

In a flash-forward, the taxi driver (Jeff) tells Gene he recognizes him as Saul Goodman. Gene calls Ed, "the Disappearer", but changes his mind and says he will handle the problem himself. In 2004, Jimmy tells Kim the "Saul Goodman" alias he used for his cell phone business gives him an instant criminal law client base. Nacho reports rumors that cocaine Gus provided the Salamancas is inferior, which Lalo confirms. Gus tells Lalo and Juan Bolsa that Werner was building a chiller on the chicken farm under Mike's supervision but fled with stolen cocaine, which Gus replaced with locally acquired meth. Lalo accepts Gus' apology and cover story but remains suspicious. Gus shuts down lab construction, and Mike sends Werner's crew home. Upset over Gus' lack of compassion for Werner, Mike refuses to accept payment during the downtime. Saul gives away his remaining cell phones to publicize his criminal law practice. Saul's camera crew helps generate publicity for his practice by faking a confrontation with Deputy District Attorney Oakley. When Kim's client refuses a favorable plea bargain, Jimmy offers to help trick him into accepting; Kim refuses, but ends up successfully running the con herself.

S5E2 · 50% Off

Gus wants Nacho to provide inside information about Lalo's intentions. Two drug users who received Saul's 50% off business card go on a multi-day crime binge. As they attempt to buy more cocaine at the Salamanca drug house, the bags get stuck in the drainpipe. Domingo's attempt to solve the problem causes the drugs to fall out just as the police arrive. Nacho gains Lalo's favor by climbing over rooftops to sneak in and retrieve the drug stash before police enter. Mike remains upset over Werner's death and drinks heavily. He babysits Kaylee, who asks questions about her father, causing Mike to lash out angrily. Jimmy attempts to get back into Kim's good graces. As Saul, Jimmy turns on the charm at the courthouse and makes several favorable plea bargains, then tricks Assistant District Attorney Ericsen into making more after he arranges to be stuck with her in an elevator. Howard invites Jimmy to lunch and the reminder of his past leaves Jimmy unsettled. As Jimmy leaves the courthouse, Nacho suddenly appears and coerces Jimmy into his car.

S5E3 · The Guy for This

Nacho delivers Jimmy to Lalo, who wants him to make sure Domingo is freed from prison without talking. Jimmy as Saul sets up a ploy that draws in DEA agents Hank Schrader and Steven Gomez. Saul arranges for Domingo to go free in exchange for becoming Hank's confidential informant and revealing the locations of Gus' dead drops. Nacho tries to have someone purchase his father's upholstery shop so he can retire away from the drug world, but his father sees through the ruse. Nacho reveals Lalo's plan for Domingo to Gus, who decides not to interfere because doing so would reveal he has a mole in the Salamanca organization. Mike continues wallowing over Werner's death. Kim is pulled from a day of pro bono criminal defense work to deal with a stubborn homeowner, Mr. Acker, who refuses to leave his land to make way for a Mesa Verde call center. Initially demanding he accept the court judgment, she returns with a sincere offer to help him move, but Acker accuses her of only pretending to help and refuses.

S5E4 · Namaste

Jimmy meets with Howard over lunch, where Howard offers Jimmy a position at HHM. Jimmy is unnerved by the offer and later uses three bowling balls to damage Howard's expensive car, which sports a vanity plate reading "NAMAST3". Kim tries to convince Mesa Verde to use an alternate development plan and leave Mr. Acker's home standing, but Kevin insists on evicting him. Kim decides to bring in Jimmy as Saul, who represents Acker in a suit against the bank. Gus works with Victor and Diego to ensure that the DEA finds the three dead drops Domingo told them about after his arrest. Stacey tells Mike she does not yet feel comfortable having him babysit Kaylee. That night, Mike is beaten up and stabbed by the local gang he previously fought with, and he wakes in an unknown pueblo.

S5E5 · Dedicado a Max

Mike wakes up on a ranch in Mexico which has ties to Gus, including a fountain dedicated to Max. Dr. Barry Goodman treats him and recommends he stay and heal. Gus later arrives and asks for Mike's help in his war against the Salamancas. Mike refuses to engage in killing simply to further Gus' aims, but Gus says he wants Mike because he understands Gus' need for revenge. Jimmy as Saul creates delays in Mesa Verde's eviction of Acker. Kim tries to recuse herself by claiming a conflict of interest, but Kevin insists she remain. Howard asks Jimmy to accept his offer to join HHM, and Jimmy claims he is still considering it. Jimmy suggests there are no options left for Acker but to find "dirt" on Kevin and cautions against it, but she decides to proceed. Jimmy hires Sobchak, who thinks his search of Kevin's home revealed nothing damaging, but Kim's knowing smile as she looks through his photos indicates she notices something useful. Rich Schweikart suggests that Kim disengage from Mesa Verde's business, correctly deducing her heart is not in it, but she angrily refuses.

S5E6 · Wexler v. Goodman

Kim tells Jimmy she does not want to follow through on blackmailing Kevin and wants to reach a settlement between Mesa Verde and Everett Acker. Jimmy agrees, but at the meeting to finalize the settlement, he stuns everyone by asking for $4 million. Kim's insight into Sobchak's photos was that Mesa Verde's logo was inspired by a photograph the bank never obtained permission to use. Jimmy pressures Kevin by threatening an injunction against displaying the logo and threatening to run TV ads seeking plaintiffs for class action suits against the bank which negatively depict Kevin's father. Kevin meets privately with Jimmy and accepts a deal to pay Acker and the photographer. Kim angrily confronts Jimmy, upset that he made her the "sucker" for his con. After initially suggesting splitting up, she instead suggests getting married. Gus, Victor, and Mike meet with Nacho, who reports Lalo's plan to reveal the locations of Gus' street dealers to the police. Gus directs Victor to give up low-level employees while ensuring nothing leads back to Gus. Mike secretly points the police to Lalo's involvement in the murder of Fred the money wire clerk, and they converge on Lalo while he is driving.

S5E7 · JMM

Jimmy and Kim get married, applying spousal privilege to their conversations. Lalo is charged with murder under an alias and directs Saul to obtain his release on bail. Kim and Rich apologize for the outcome of Acker's case. Kevin indicates he will let them know later whether he will retain them; Kim reminds Kevin he ignored their advice and hopes he will be willing to listen to whomever he hires, and Kevin indicates his approval. Mike tells Stacey he is over the problem that caused his recent anger. Nacho tells Mike that Lalo wants Nacho to burn down one of Gus' restaurants. Gus and other subsidiary owners provide updates to Peter Schuler, Head of Madrigal's fast food division. Gus briefs Peter and Lydia on the meth lab's status. Nacho and Gus destroy a Los Pollos Hermanos location to preserve Nacho's role as Gus' mole. Saul uses Mike's information to accuse police of fabricating evidence against Lalo. Bail is set at $7 million, which Lalo says he can pay. Howard confronts Jimmy and rescinds his job offer. Jimmy blames Howard for Chuck's death and says that as Saul he has grown too big for the constraints of HHM.

S5E8 · Bagman

The Cousins pick up Lalo's bail money at a cartel site in Mexico; an informant makes a telephone call to report their presence. Lalo directs Jimmy to a remote pickup site and pays him $100,000 to transport the cash. Kim does not want him to go because he is a lawyer, not a drug dealer's "bagman", but he says it will be an easy job. The Cousins deliver two bags of cash to Jimmy. As Jimmy starts his return trip, he is cut off by several gunmen. They take the money and prepare to kill him but are attacked by an unseen sniper. All but one are killed and the survivor escapes. The shooter is Mike, who drives off with Jimmy and the cash. Jimmy's car breaks down, so they push it over the edge of the road, then walk cross-country to avoid the gunman. They camp overnight, then continue their trek. When Jimmy fails to return, Kim asks Lalo for his location, but he refuses to tell her. The gunman continues searching, so Jimmy acts as a decoy and draws him in. Mike shoots the gunman, whose vehicle flips and is destroyed. Mike and Jimmy resume walking.

S5E9 · Bad Choice Road

Tyrus and Victor pick up Jimmy and Mike at a truck stop. Jimmy posts Lalo's bail and claims he walked alone after his car broke down; Lalo plans to return to Mexico. Gus realizes the men who ambushed Jimmy were hired by Juan Bolsa to protect Gus' business. Jimmy lies to Kim about what happened, but she realizes the truth after observing a bullet hole in his coffee mug. Kim quits Schweikart & Cokely. Mike tells Jimmy his post-traumatic stress will pass with time. Lalo goes to the pickup site so the Cousins can transport him to Mexico, but instead searches for Jimmy's car, then returns to Albuquerque. Mike calls to warn Jimmy just before Lalo arrives at Kim's apartment. As Mike trains his rifle on Lalo from a nearby roof, Lalo has Jimmy repeat the story of his desert walk, then asks about the bullet holes in his car. Kim berates Lalo for not trusting Jimmy and Lalo appears satisfied. He tells Nacho to head for Mexico, but not the original pickup site.

S5E10 · Something Unforgivable

After Lalo leaves, Jimmy tells Kim the truth about his desert trek; Kim and Jimmy hide at a downtown hotel. Mike tells Gus that Lalo and Nacho went to Lalo's Chihuahua home. Gus suggests Nacho can help the assassins he sent. Kim accepts 20 pro bono cases from the public defender. Nacho receives a call telling him to open Lalo's back gate at 3 am. Kim tells Howard she quit Schweikart & Cokely, and he warns her about Jimmy's recent harassment and suggests she stop following his lead. Kim says she is insulted by the notion that she cannot decide for herself. Mike tells Jimmy that Lalo will be killed, and Jimmy later informs Kim. They discuss forcing a Sandpiper case resolution by sabotaging Howard, which would enable Jimmy to receive his seven-figure share of the settlement sooner. Jimmy expresses his unease with Kim's shifting morality, but Kim insists on proceeding. Lalo introduces Nacho to Don Eladio, who blesses Nacho's plans for the Salamanca drug business. At 3 am, Nacho opens Lalo's gate, allowing the assassins entry, then flees. Lalo kills all but one assassin; he forces the survivor to call the middleman who arranged the attempt and report that Lalo was killed.

Season 6

S6E1 · Wine and Roses

In a flashforward, police seize personal property from Saul's mansion, including his white Cadillac; Kim's souvenir tequila bottle stopper falls out of a cabinet as it's loaded onto a truck. In 2004, Gus arranges for Nacho to hide at a motel. Juan Bolsa tells Gus that Nacho aided in killing Lalo and that the cartel has placed a bounty on him. Jimmy and Kim begin their plan to force a resolution of the Sandpiper case by discrediting Howard. Kim surveils Howard and Cliff Main during a round of golf, while Jimmy sneaks into the club locker room to plant a bag of fake cocaine in Howard's locker. Lalo arrives at the home of his tenants Sylvia and Mateo, kills them, and moves Mateo's body to his home to be identified as his own. Lalo calls Hector and lets him know he is alive and that he believes Gus orchestrated the attack; Hector advises him to find proof. Lalo realizes the evidence isn't in the United States and abandons his plan to sneak across the border.

S6E2 · Carrot and Stick

Gus's men replace Nacho's safe with a duplicate, into which Mike places Nacho's cash and fake Canadian ID along with an envelope. Gus and Bolsa promise Hector they will avenge Lalo, but Hector's demeanor convinces Gus that Lalo survived. Bolsa breaks into the duplicate safe and finds the envelope, which contains details of an offshore bank account as well as the motel's phone number. Nacho deduces Gus' betrayal and he escapes during a shootout just as the Cousins arrive to capture him. Gus orders Nacho's father, Manuel, to be taken hostage to force Nacho to give himself up, but Mike refuses, prompting a standoff with Gus and Tyrus; Nacho calls Mike to speak to Gus. Jimmy meets the Kettlemans at their fraudulent tax preparation service and cons them into believing they have grounds for a lawsuit against Howard. They reject his services and instead ask Cliff to sue for ineffective counsel over Howard's alleged cocaine usage during Craig's embezzlement case, but he refuses. Jimmy unsuccessfully tries to bribe the Kettlemans into silence, but Kim coerces them by threatening to reveal their scam to the IRS. Jimmy and Kim leave, with an unknown person following them.

S6E3 · Rock and Hard Place

Nacho's truck is damaged in the firefight with the Cousins, forcing him to hide. The next day, he contacts his father to say farewell, then calls Gus and offers to surrender if his father is protected. Jimmy and Kim plot to obtain a duplicate of Howard's car but realize obtaining access to his car is more feasible. Prosecutor Suzanne Ericsen connects Jimmy to Lalo and asks Kim to persuade Jimmy to reveal information about him. Gus arranges for Nacho to be smuggled into the U.S., after which Nacho and Mike go over Nacho's part of the plan to absolve Gus for Lalo's death. Jimmy and Kim work with Huell to obtain duplicates of Howard's car key and remote unlock button. Mike takes a firing position with his rifle so he can observe Nacho's confession to Hector and the Cousins. Nacho falsely claims he tried to kill Lalo for the Alvarez drug family, and bolsters his credibility by admitting his previous attempt to kill Hector. Rather than avoiding torture by having Victor kill him in a fake escape attempt, Nacho uses a piece of broken glass to cut his restraints, then kills himself with Bolsa's gun.

S6E4 · Hit and Run

Kim meets with Cliff while Jimmy, disguised as Howard, takes his car. He picks up Wendy from a motel, then pretends to force her out of the car while driving past Kim and Cliff, making it appear as if Howard is using prostitutes. While dropping off Wendy, Kim notices a car following her. Jimmy discovers that defending Lalo has made him disliked among his colleagues, but improved his reputation with local criminals, who now seek his representation. After being evicted from the nail salon, Jimmy scouts out a new office. While meeting a pro bono client, Kim spots the same car following her and confronts the driver. Mike approaches her and reveals that the men work for him, that Lalo is alive, and they are attempting to find him by surveilling those he may attempt to contact. Kim meets with Jimmy to view his potential new office. She approves, but does not reveal her conversation with Mike. Gus uses a home connected to his via a tunnel as an operations center, where teams under Mike's supervision surveil Albuquerque for signs of Lalo.

S6E5 · Black and Blue

Kim and Gus both remain paranoid about Lalo. Jimmy rehires Francesca as his assistant. Kim uses Viola to learn Rand Casimiro will mediate the Sandpiper case. After Howard persuades the Sandpiper clients not to settle, Cliff confronts him about his apparent cocaine and prostitution habits, with Howard realizing Jimmy is sabotaging him. Howard challenges Jimmy to a boxing match, which he wins. He tells Jimmy he hopes this ends their dispute, but later asks a private investigator to watch Jimmy. Gus hides a handgun on an excavator at the site of his planned meth lab. Using an alias, Lalo tracks down Werner Ziegler's widow Margarethe at a bar in Germany and obtains information about Werner. The next morning, Lalo breaks into Margarethe's home and finds a gift from Werner's construction crew. Margarethe returns home unexpectedly, but Lalo succeeds in escaping unseen.

S6E6 · Axe and Grind

Howard's PI reports that Jimmy and Kim are keeping a regular routine, except for a recent cash withdrawal. Jimmy and Kim procure a drug from Dr. Caldera for use in their scheme against Howard. Caldera tells them he is retiring from crime and shows them his encrypted book of criminal contacts. Jimmy and his camera crew photograph an actor impersonating Casimiro. Cliff invites Kim to Santa Fe to meet representatives of a foundation that finances projects similar to her pro bono criminal defense work, which takes place the same day she and Jimmy execute their plan against Howard. Jimmy encourages her to go, but later spots Casimiro, whose arm is broken, something not depicted in their photos. He alerts Kim, who returns to Albuquerque. The maker's label on the gift Werner's crew gave Margarethe enables Lalo to find Casper; Lalo gains the upper hand in the ensuing struggle and interrogates Casper about Werner's project.

S6E7 · Plan and Execution

On the day of the Sandpiper settlement conference, Jimmy and Kim hastily reshoot their photos with the actor impersonating Casimiro, then pass them to Howard's private investigator, who is actually working for them. Howard ingests Caldera's drug upon contact with the photos and embarrasses himself at the conference by appearing manic and accusing Casimiro of accepting a bribe. Howard and Cliff are forced to settle the Sandpiper case for less than they wanted. Lalo surveils Gus' laundry to learn about construction of the hidden meth lab. Realizing Gus is monitoring Hector's calls, Lalo tells Hector he will attack Gus that night. Mike alerts Gus and redirects his security teams to protect Gus, leaving Kim and Jimmy's apartment unprotected. Howard deduces that Jimmy and Kim plotted his character assassination and confronts them at their apartment. Lalo arrives soon afterward; Kim urges Howard to leave, but Lalo shoots and kills him.

S6E8 · Point and Shoot

Lalo gives Jimmy an address, then orders him to go there and shoot the occupant, whose description matches Gus. Jimmy convinces Lalo to send Kim, after which Lalo leaves Jimmy tied to a chair, informing him about Nacho's role in the attempted assassination. Mike intercepts Kim at Gus' front door; when she explains that Lalo is alive, Mike orders his men to her apartment. Gus realizes that sending Kim to his house was a diversion and drives to the laundry. Lalo ambushes Gus and kills his bodyguards, then forces Gus to show him the lab while he videotapes it as evidence of Gus' disloyalty to show Don Eladio. Gus cuts power to the lights and kills Lalo with the handgun he previously hid. Mike and his men remove Howard's body from Jimmy and Kim's apartment and stage his death as a suicide. Mike advises them to adhere to their story that Howard was a cocaine addict, then supervises the burial of Howard and Lalo's bodies under the floor of the lab.

S6E9 · Fun and Games

Gus convinces the cartel that despite Hector's accusations, he was not responsible for Lalo's death. As a consolation, Eladio grants the Salamancas the South Valley drug territory while giving Gus the area north of it. Gus goes to a wine bar and converses with his favorite sommelier, but cuts the outing short and orders construction on the lab to resume. Mike visits Manuel Varga to inform him of Nacho's death and promise justice for Nacho, but Manuel dismissively tells Mike he is no different from his criminal associates. At Howard's memorial service, Jimmy and Kim learn that HHM is downsizing and changing its name, and Kim lies to Howard's widow Cheryl about his alleged cocaine addiction. The next day, a remorseful Kim relinquishes her law license and separates from Jimmy, telling him that even though she loves him, they are bad for each other. Sometime later, Jimmy fully embraces his Saul Goodman persona, living in a mansion and driving a Cadillac DeVille, and remodelling his office into the tacky style in which it appears in Breaking Bad.

S6E10 · Nippy

In Omaha in 2010, Jimmy, as Gene Takavic, ingratiates himself with Marion, the elderly mother of Jeff, the cab driver who recognized him as Saul Goodman. In exchange for his silence, Gene offers to let Jeff in on "the game". He trains Jeff and his partner Buddy for roles in the robbery of a department store at the mall where Gene works. He distracts the mall's security guards so Jeff can steal expensive merchandise without being observed. During the heist, Jeff slips and knocks himself unconscious; Gene gains him extra time by feigning an emotional breakdown to hold the guard's attention. They get away with thousands of dollars in stolen goods, but Gene warns Jeff and Buddy to avoid him in the future, threatening to turn them in if they reveal his identity to authorities. Energized by the robbery's success, Gene finds a Goodman-style shirt in the department store, but wistfully leaves without purchasing it.

S6E11 · Breaking Bad

In a flashback to 2008 Albuquerque, Saul is taken to the desert by Walter White and Jesse Pinkman, becoming their lawyer after deducing Walt to be "Heisenberg", the chemist behind the high-purity blue methamphetamine being sold on the streets. Mike informs Saul that Walt has terminal lung cancer and cautions against helping him, but Saul visits Walt at his high school classroom and proposes a partnership. In 2010, Gene makes a prearranged call to Francesca, who tells him that the FBI has seized most of his assets and that Kim asked about him. Gene reaches Kim in Florida, but the call upsets him. Gene then enlists Jeff and Buddy for a new con, in which Gene gets a wealthy single male victim drunk, Jeff drives him home while giving him water laced with barbiturates, and Buddy enters his home to photograph IDs, credit cards, and financial records to sell to identity thieves. After a string of successful thefts, their latest target reveals he has cancer, causing Buddy to back out; Gene fires him and has Jeff drive him to the man's home so he can break in himself.

S6E12 · Waterworks

In a flashback, Kim meets with Saul to finalize their divorce and has an encounter with Jesse outside Saul's office. In 2010, Kim has been living a painfully mundane life in Florida, working a dead-end job at a sprinkler manufacturer when she receives a call from Gene. She asks him to turn himself in and hangs up when he refuses and demands her to do the same. Guilt-stricken, she travels to Albuquerque and gives Howard's wife, Cheryl, a copy of an affidavit she provided to the district attorney, which lays out the plan to destroy Howard's reputation and the circumstances of his death. Afterward, she has an emotional breakdown on the airport shuttle bus. Gene's mark wakes up unexpectedly and Gene makes a narrow escape. As Jeff waits for Gene, a police car idles behind him, causing Jeff to panic and run into the car in front of him. Jeff is arrested and Gene enlists Marion to help get Jeff released on bail. A suspicious Marion uses the new computer Jeff bought her to find Gene's true identity as Saul Goodman, then alerts the authorities via her Life Alert button, which forces Gene to flee.

S6E13 · Saul Gone

In separate flashbacks, Saul asks Mike and Walter about their regrets, then describes his; they each express disdain for the shallowness of his responses. In another flashback, Chuck expresses interest in Jimmy's legal practice and says it is not too late for Jimmy to change his path; Jimmy assumes Chuck is criticizing him and ends the conversation. In 2010, Gene is arrested, then enlists Bill Oakley as his counsel. They negotiate a plea deal that calls for only seven years in prison. Jimmy attempts to further reduce his sentence by offering to reveal details of Howard's death, only to learn that Kim has already done so. As Jimmy is extradited to Albuquerque, he claims to have testimony that will implicate Kim. At his sentencing, he admits he lied about Kim to ensure she would be present, then admits responsibility for Chuck's suicide, as well as his full involvement in Walt's drug empire, which results in an 86-year sentence. In prison, Jimmy is recognized as Saul and enjoys notoriety among his fellow inmates. Kim visits him and they share a cigarette. As she leaves, Jimmy makes their signature finger-gun gesture.