![]() ![]() As the trio becomes a well-oiled machine, little trappings of Gene’s old life as Saul return: the Bluetooth earpiece, burner phones for his associates, aliases, ladies of the night, even the ol’ Swing Master. ![]() After the mall heist, Gene uses Jeff and his buddy to run identity theft schemes on financial advisors, getting them drunk, then drugging them in Jeff’s cab on the way home so they could easily break into their homes and steal classified information like credit card numbers, investment and tax records, banks statements, and personal passwords. I was more interested in the way “Breaking Bad” slowly found Gene Takvoic reverting to Saul Goodman. However, Jimmy McGill can’t help himself. ![]() The FBI is still searching for Saul Goodman and breaking into a man’s house who might be awake could lead to an arrest. The fate awaiting Gene in Omaha is more unknown, but what we do know about the situation doesn’t bode well. Becoming entangled with Walt makes Jimmy a very rich man, but it blows up his life entirely. In the Breaking Bad timeline, we know what comes of Jimmy ignoring Mike’s advice and going to meet Walter White at a school science fair. Others try to warn him and change his course, but in both timelines, we see what appears to be a lapse in judgment and a moment of no return. Though Jimmy has many names - Saul, Gene, Viktor - perhaps Icarus would have been a fitting moniker for him during “Breaking Bad,” as the episode presents two moments, one from early in the Breaking Bad timeline and one in the present as Gene in Omaha, that show Jimmy flying too close to the sun. All it took was a simple mall heist to jog Jimmy’s memory. ![]() There’s something immensely powerful about knowing what you’re good at. The allure of the finer things in life, the thrill of the con, the sense of power and importance that Jimmy gets out of his scheme, it’s a high that’s greater to him than what any blue crystal could provide. Jimmy is addicted to the hustle, and not in the way that the worst guy you know from high school posts about on Facebook. Breaking Bad explored the theme of addiction with Jesse and Jane in a traditional albeit harrowing sense, but on Better Call Saul, Jimmy’s addiction isn’t chemical. It’s no surprise that a series with a partial focus on the inner workings of a drug cartel would be so adept at presenting an addiction parable. This Better Call Saul review contains spoilers. ![]()
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