It’s all fun and games until someone gets hurt. Or, until Better Call Saul’sKim Wexler, Jimmy McGill, and Kim Wexler pull off a long-planned con to get a nice paycheck. Only to then watch a colleague shot to death in their apartment by a psychotic cartel boss, a turn of events that helps, finally, throw cold water on Kim’s idea of some kind of idyllic happy-ever-after with Jimmy.
Better Call SaulSeason 6, Episode 9 (titled appropriately Fun and Games) sets up the beginning of the end. The showKim has been offered a plausible explanation, among others, for why he is not part the Breaking Bad universe. And it’s given Jimmy the push that he needs, setting him on the path towards fully embracing the persona of everybody’s favorite skeezy Albuquerque defense attorney.
Better Call Saul Season 6, Episode 9 — Fun and Games
Last week’s episode, titled Point and shootOne of the remaining big mysteries is answered by. Better Call SaulSlowly links up to the events of Breaking Bad: Lalo Salamanca: What’s the future?
The brilliant cartel leader with the icy smile doesn’t appear at all in Breaking BadExcept for a single mention by Saul Goodman of his name, he is not mentioned. We now know why. In last week’s episode, Salamanca and “the chicken man” Gustavo Fring confronted each other in the latter’s unfinished, subterranean drug superlab. Fring had a gun stashed there in case the final showdown would occur. It did. Two men entered — and only Fring walked out.
This is the last Better Call SaulOne more big question from fans: What will Kim Wexler do?
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“We’re bad for each other”
Kim is not mentioned or seen in any way. Breaking BadFans worried that she would die too soon to make it complete.
It turns out that Better Call SaulShe had something else in mind, though it was no less heartbreaking. The events surrounding Howard, and then Kim getting pulled into Lalo’s subsequent scheming around Fring, proved too much for her. Her pained face during the law firm’s memorial gathering for Howard was a giveaway. Her eyes were filled with resignation when she found out that the firm was closing.
Jimmy and Kim are causing so many people to be pulled into a vortex, or chaos, of death and destruction.
“You asked if you were bad for me,”Kim tells Jimmy near the end that she is going to be leaving. Fun and Games. “That’s not it. We’re bad for each other.”
Her bags are half-packed. Jimmy begs. He begs Kim to stay. He tried everything, even calling in the clients to her aid, but Kim was unmoved. Not only is she leaving Jimmy — she’s given notice to the bar. She’s quitting law, as well.
Kim’s confession about why she stayed too long with Jimmy is also emotionally devastating. Through her tears, she shares with him: “I was having too much fun.”
There are four more episodes Better Call Saul
Rhea Seehorn, who plays Kim as an actress, has always been amazing. However, her performance in Fun and GamesIt was just off-the-charts amazing. Hopefully, we haven’t seen the last of her character. Jimmy moves fast. By the end of the episode, he’s already tricked out his house in icky Saul Goodman-style. We see him making threats to sue people and refusing to pay his bills. He also wakes up next to random women.
The remaining episodes of Better Call SaulThe meanwhile, will continue to appear weekly. Each Monday until the series finale, August 15. The remaining orders of business are:
- Walter White, Jesse Pinkman and others will be making an appearance.
- Carol Burnett has been cast as a character that we’ll meet in the remaining episodes.
- The post-Breaking BadWe saw flash-forward at the beginning Better Call Saul — of an incognito “Saul” managing a Cinnabon — will no doubt also be important. Who knows, perhaps he could reunite with Kim as part of that storyline, since they’d both be beyond their law careers at that point.