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How is their relationship? Its, uh, tenuous, says Gilligan. We had press folks ask us questions about, When are they going to have a happy ending? Credit: Ursula Coyote/AMC Are they going to have a happy ending? And theres a reason you never see that part. Thats the boring part. We want to see the uphill climb. We want to see them rolling the rock up the mountain. But it doesnt mean that they dont care for each other and love each other....

Jimmy McGill admitted that he transposed a 6 and a 1, and now his brother has his number. And if you thought Chuck radiated negative energy toward Jimmy before watching Klick, you know much more now. (Her last words were Jimmy and Jimmy. Credit: Ursula Coyote/AMC More festering fodder for Chuck.) What was he doing at that copy shop? Chuck did, and then asked Jimmy if he realized that he had just copped to a felony....

[SPOILER ALERT: This story contains plot details fromBetter Call Saulsseason 2 finale, titled Klick. Enter the land of Salamanca at your own risk.] But then it became clear that the Chuck part of the equation workedtoowell. Credit: Ursula Coyote/AMC (The worst nightmare for someone suffering from electromagnetic hypersensitivity? Probably a CAT scan.) Chuck acquiesced, and then asked him: You do realized that you just confessed to felony? To which Jimmy flippantly replied: I guess, but you feel better, right?...

[SPOILER ALERT: This story contains story details from Mondays episode ofBetter Call Saul, titled Rebecca. Proceed at your own risk.] Mondays episode ofBetter Call Saulcontained its share of revelations and illuminating scenes. Credit: Ursula Coyote/AMC Chuck (Michael McKean) fixed a lightbulb (!) in preparation for dinner with wife Rebecca (!!) played by Ann Cusack and his new-to-the-firm brother, Jimmy (Bob Odenkirk), in a flashback. Lets see… what else? Oh, right: A bad guy fromBreaking Badpopped up....

Well, hes still Jimmy, not yet Saul. And hes still unpredictable, not yet solvable. So when hes Gene, thats the part of Saul Goodman that feels saddest for losing. Credit: AMC And he was, at least for a while there, winning. On the audience finally getting more insight into his romantic relationship with Kim Its about time. I mean, I hate when shows tease those kinds of relationships for too long....

He’s got a new job and is teaching Kim the allure of conning. On his third attempt, he passes the bar exam. No cheating, no bribes, no threats or shady backroom dealings (and no student debt). Credit: Ursula Coyote/AMC We know Jimmy makes it big. slogan adorn billboards and local TV internet commercials. Walt dies, Jesus-like, vindicated. Jimmy, for aiding Walt, ends up as a Cinnabon manager named Gene in a middle America mall....

It’s a bus full of Sandpiper residents on their way to a restaurant. “Was it yellow?” “Canary yellow!” Credit: Ursula Coyote/AMC Jimmy bellows back, elated. “I picked that color myself.” He explains the case by likening it to being overcharged for biscuits at a restaurant. And what do you do when you’re overcharged for biscuits at a restaurant? “You send your nephew Steve to talk to the manager. That’s how I want you to think of me....

Jimmy gets out of bed and shambles in blue boxers down the hall. He sits in front of the big boxy television, wearing its luminous glow as a comfort blanket. He scrolls through channels, past late-night commercials (Ch-ch-ch-Chia!) Credit: Ursula Coyote/ Sony Pictures Television/ AMC and American flags waving goodnight as channels sign off. White text plastered onto an amorphous, bruise-colored background, a monotone voice droning monotonous words. Anyone whos ever had the artistry and passion expunged from their work can relate to Jimmy....

Jimmy gives his first great performance A metronome sways like an inverted pendulum. Fingers flitter across piano keys. Chuck messes up, starts over. Credit: Ursula Coyote/AMC Chucks home looks like a mausoleum of chiaroscuro loneliness. He messes up again, and theres a rapping at the door. Its Howard entreating entrance at Chucks chamber door, his arms full of groceries. Its a complex case. Definitely not a two-man job. Chucks face tenses like a clenched fist....

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. Credit: Ursula Coyote/AMC 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....

Jimmy faces the repercussions of his commercial Mike staggers into his apartment. Like Chuck, he lives alone, in seclusion, in darkness, but with considerably more modest means. And, unlike Chuck, he has the benefit of electricity. Credit: Ursula Coyote/AMC He goes to the fridge and cracks open a can of beer (thinkFrank Booths Heineken quote). His face is battered and bruised, one white bandage clinging to his forehead. He drops a small, dice-sized pair of silver boxing gloves on the table....

a voice calls, inquiring about the sweeping. Jimmy is not sweeping. Jimmys dad and Jimmy know it. Credit: Ursula Coyote/AMC 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?...

His car is parked behind a dilapidated billboard that reads, Oasis Motor Court. We get a series of close-ups: a cactus, hammer and nail, truck dashboard. The street hews the beige landscape like a poorly-healed scar. Credit: Ursula Coyote/AMC He exits the truck, gun in hand; hes been here before. He handles the gun like a pro. The man in black sneaks behind him, holds a gun to his head, ties him up....