It also has the more taciturn Mike, who deals in actual lead.
Slippin Chuck is as conniving as Slippin Jimmy.
He might even enjoy the con game more.
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Mike, on the other hand, says far less than his loquacious lawyer.
Finally, the camera settles back on the driver, a man whose salt-n-pepper beard suggests experience.
It seems like every week, this show gets more confident, more daring.
They talk about how they have to pinch pennies until they can wrangle some clients.
Then theres Kims purple dress.
Purple, the color of royalty, of piety and penitence and vanity and the inside of blood oranges.
Even Jimmys adolescent grifting has a complicated beginning.
But his dad didnt want him to.
Kim sprints to her office to phone Paige, whose husband is her contact at Mesa Verde.
Theyre still on for lunch.
Jimmy finds an old dental practice to convert into the shared offices for him and Kim.
Surely this cannot last.
HHM cant afford to lose Mesa Verde.
Mesa Verde is, by comparison, small fish.
But Howard wants to keep the client, and so does Chuck.
Chuck wants to go with Howard to meet with Mesa Verde.
Chuck tells Mesa Verde that Kim is the future, the right choice for them.
Chuck, like Jimmy, is a master of gab, paralyzing and poisoning his prey with periphrasis.
He pulls a Ronald Reagan, painting his adversary as young and inexperienced.
NEXT: Jimmy turns the tables again
But Jimmy turns the tables again.
Jimmys on set for his newest commercial.
Then he gets a phone call.
All that time in the office has messed him up real good.
Jimmy rushes to Chucks home, where he finds a stack of paperwork.
(Notice how hes framed as being pinned under the gutter.)
The bright green (green!)
beams from the copiers illuminate the screen as Jimmy and the lights dissolve into each other.
A scene of someone photocopying legal documents has no right to be this beautiful.
Mike, meanwhile, is doing a DIY project of his own, with assistance from his granddaughter.
They drill holes into a garden hose to help water the rhododendrons, he tells his daughter-in-law.
This is an incredible episode, visually poetic, emotional tense, and no one dies.
