Better Call Saul ***Spoilers***

I prefer the rumoured Flynn spin-off “Breaking Fast”.

Jesse looked so old I genuinely thought he was Jeff at the start of the scene.

Looking forward to catching up with Kim in this episode. I read it's the first written and directed episode by Vince Gilligan since breaking bad I believe.

Woke up early couldn't sleep so watched it so SPOILERS BELOW

As Agent mentioned started out like an episode of Fargo I was half expecting her to be married to Jesse Plemons if he hadn't already being cast as Todd in Breaking Bad. The other side of the phone call was interesting as Kin told Jimmy to turn himself in and that she was glad he was alive.

The call triggered Kim into trying to right the wrongs that she and Jimmy were involved in. Howard's wife now knows the truth. Seeing her breakdown on the bus to the airport she has obviously been feeling the stress for years by bottling everything up.

Also Kim in the Breaking Bad timeline showed Jimmy had fully transformed into Saul and showed little interest in Kim which you could see hurt her that line "Have a nice life Kim" was horrible by Saul. It was a good scene with Jesse sharing a smoke with her.

The Gene house break in was a bit less convincing for me in that we had the mishap in the Department store robbery and then we had Gene decide to get greedy and steal watches and cigars upstairs in the house, glad he didn't have to smash the urn over the victims head. But come on the cops just happen to pull up behind Jeffy's cab to have lunch in the middle of the night and then for Jeffy to get spooked and crash.

The Marion scene played out as expected with her suspicious of Gene and looking him up on the internet (Ask Jeeves 😀). Not sure if Jimmy would have gone through with strangling her but when she said "I trusted you" it seemed to make him see sense.

Looks like from next week's teaser he is on the run and trieds to contact the vacuum guy to disappear again. He doesn't sound good on the teaser and it is color so who knows when it's set.

I think ias I said months ago it's looking more like he hands himself in at the Albuquerque Police and takes Kim's advice I hope.im wrong but I keep coming back to the season teaser and wouldn't put it past Peter or Vince to do this and put the final scenes in the teaser trailer

I assumed Gene instructed Jeff to crash the car to create a distraction so he could exit the house. He couldn't stay in the house with the mark coming around and he couldn't leave with the cop car sitting outside.

The Kim/Jesse scene was unexpected and enjoyable - better than last week's cameos. Who was the Emilio though he mentioned though - Crazy 8?

Wow!!!

That was the best episode of the season, really coming together nicely, delighted to see some sort of justice for Howards memory.

No surprise Vince Gilligan directed.

Sad to see Mike has been replaced at the courthouse carpark by a ticket payment machine.

For me the most hard hitting succinct piece of dialogue in the waterworks episode was -

Jesse - So is he any good?

Kim - He was when I knew him.

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Sums up the entire episode he was Saul at the Emilio stage. No Jimmy left.

On reflection on the last episode- Waterworks.

A better ending would have been Saul/Gene pressing the panic button then running after changing his mind. Similar to Walt on the pay phone in the bar in Breaking Bad. When Walt changed his mind.

I know Kim was just as instrumental in Howard's character assassination as Jimmy (arguably even more so) but seeing her life's potential wasted writing brochure text for sprinkler products when we know she is capable of so much more was heart-breaking. 

I love how they cut away from the office staff's lunch time chat literally in the middle of a word. It really emphasises how mundane and uninteresting her Florida life is now. 

Gene and Saul are thoroughly unlikable in this episode. 

One scene together and one scene each apart

Fantastic episode. What a show.

Brilliant episode. Rhea Seehorn’s ability to show the raw emotional toll of Kim’s behaviour finally breaking through her cool exterior demeanour on the bus was superb.

Damn that was so good. So many little nuances in each scene that make the past/present so cohesive as the story unfolds.

Some of the best tv going.

Just catching up on the thread and the vid in post #5698 nails the crazy level of detail