I don’t know about you, but my jaw is still hanging on the floor after Better Call Saul’sThe unsurprisingly masterful penultimate Monday night episode, entitled simply Waterworks. Which, as we now know, was a sly reference of sorts to not only Kim Wexler’s soul-crushingly boring new job at Palm Coast Sprinklers in Florida. This episode also features her heartbreaking, tearful bus ride. When her life with Jimmy/Saul was too heavy.
All things considered WaterworksIt was one of the greatest episodes in the Vince Gilliganverse. Gene was seen in black and white, his old Saul Goodman TV ad reflected in the glasses of his glasses (in color). Kim standing outside the law offices of Breaking BadSaul Goodman from the era of Saul Goodman has just signed divorce papers and is smoking a cigarette. And there’s Jesse Pinkman, asking her whether this guy Saul is any good.
“When I knew him, he was,”Kim coolly informs Jesse before flipping her head over and running in the rain to her car.
Better Call SaulFinal theory
The most important part of the episode, though, arguably came in the all-too-brief teaser for next week’s Better Call Saul Series finale. You can view the teaser below, if you have missed it. “Gene” can clearly be heard reciting the code he’ll use to make a certain call to a certain vacuum store man.
This is how my theory works. Better Call SaulFinale will resolve everything as follows.
During the WaterworksEpisode: We got to see the Kim Genee side of the Kim Genee phone call that we received last week in the telephone booth. This is the post-Breaking Bad, and it’s clear that Kim is aware of what went down, at least to some degree. She urges “Gene”to confess and turn himself into police. Of course, he’s not doing any of that, not for all the flashy men’s suits in Albuquerque. One kick of the phone booth’s glass later, and he’s off.
It’s the beginning of the end.
Gene re-enters the scam to counter Kim’s plan to be honest. Specifically, the selling-photo-IDs-for-cash scam. One that he’s so hardcore about, he’s even willing to take advantage of a mark who has cancer.
It wasn’t clear, at first, why he was so insistent about moving forward with the scam, once he found out that particular victim is sick. But there’s at least one scenario where it makes all the sense in the world.
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If you think about it, Gene’s insistence on going through with scamming that final victim is logical, if you consider it in the context of Gene Truly, trulyNot having enough money. Or, more accurately, needing a specific amount of cash. In cash.
Does an insistence on an absolutely precise amount of money — no hemming and hawing about being a little short — make you think of any particular Better Call Saul/Breaking Bad characters? Yes, it does.
Next week’s teaser also makes it clear. Gene devised the photo ID fraud because he needed money to pay the vacuum man. You can see how strict Gene was about the exact amount of money. El CaminoWhen Jesse was just a little short? However, this raises all kinds of questions.
The man who makes criminals vanish was already mentioned to him once before. That’s how he ended up at a Cinnabon in Omaha. Would this be a do-over?
Final thoughts
- We, of course, don’t have to wait much longer for the ending, with less than a week to go before all will be revealed. Fun fact: Series star Bob Odenkirk confirms that there are still some of you. Correctly guessedIt is impossible to predict where everything will lead. He says that 1 in 9 people can correctly predict the future by reading fan theories online.
- Marion theories are especially intriguing. Some people believe that Marion was/was a Sandpiper client.
- Also, what if Gene isn’t calling the vacuum man for himself … but, rather, for Kim? Kim, it’s fine. You confessed. You were free from all guilt. Here’s your ticket to a new life.