a voice calls, inquiring about the sweeping.
Jimmy is not sweeping.
Jimmys dad and Jimmy know it.
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Dad, he says, Its a ripoff.
Every grifter in town knows this is the spot for a handout.
Where did you learn a word likegrifting?
dad wants to know.
What if youre wrong?
Jimmy slips behind the register.
The con man asks him, How much for a carton of Kools?
There are wolves and sheep, the guy tells Jimmy.
Figure out which one youre gonna be.
He disappears into the bright sunlight, Kools in hand.
Jimmy looks scathingly at the money in his fist, then shoves the bills into his pocket.
Jimmys dad does not have the display up.
Jimmy, Saul, Gene theyre all manufactured, like a mascot penguin wearing different outfits.
A show about any of them on their own would be snores-ville.
Theyre both lying, but only Jimmy thinks hes being himself.
Kim and Jimmy are either on parallel paths or perpendicular ones its too early to tell.
Kim will make partner at Schweikart & Coakley in two years if she signs with them.
She realizes shell never make partner at HHM.
What did she want?
More, she says, with the kind of certitude that wins courtroom cases.
Jimmy wants more, too.
He wants to get fired.
Cliff knows that Jimmy wants to get fired to keep his bonus, his $7,000 cocobolo desk.
For what its worth, I think youre a nice guy, Jimmy says.
For what its worth, I think youre an asshole, Cliff answers.
Jimmy isnt done, though.
He tells Kim she deserves better than S&C; Rich is just another Howard.
He presents Kim with a business card he made, aWMetched into the paper: Wexler-McGill.
He wants to have her, and he does, she says just not as a law partner.
After her meeting with Schweikart & Coakley, Kim calls Rich Howard.
Howards a good-looking man, Rich says, playing it cool.
Kim goes to the top of the parking garage to have a smoke.
Shes sucking down smoke on a higher level of the same gray structure as she was at HHM.
Kim visits Jimmy in his back-of-spa office, where his cocobolo desk takes up almost the entire room.
She hands him the two halves of the business card: Wexler and McGill, she says.
Two separate law offices under one roof.
Theyre both going uptown, why not share a taxi?
I dont know what to say, Jimmy says.
