"You got to listen to me, the man needs help."  "Howard, I know jimmy and you're wrong." hey guys,  

Pete here. Can you believe it's been two years  since the Better Call Saul Season five finale?  

No one can blame you for being a little fuzzy  on the details at this point and I'm making this  

video after re-watching the entire series just  in case you didn't have time to do the same.  

Since this is a prequel and a sequel we know how  things end for a lot of the main characters, but  

considering there's still about four years between  the last episode of Better Call Saul and the first  

episode of Breaking Bad, there are still a lot of  fascinating questions left to answer. Of course,  

the biggest questions relate to the characters we  don't see during the original series; Kim, Nacho,  

and Lalo. Other questions that tend to get thrown  around a lot are when will Jimmy fully become  

Saul? And after season 5, are we going to see  Kim break bad? Are we gonna see Slippin' Kimmy?  

I tend to think that both of these things already  happened. Honestly, I think the two "finger gun"  

moments were the exclamation points on those  sentences. Jimmy officially started practicing  

as Saul Goodman after being reinstated and his  strategy of leaning into being the kind of lawyer  

guilty people hire is there. He isn't yet the  same person, it's a bit like a snowball rolling  

downhill, what happens next will shape him,  that'll lead him to hone that persona to becoming  

that person we first met, but the main difference  right now is that Kim is still the most important  

thing in Jimmy's life. While Saul only appeared to  care about money and then maybe the thrill of what  

he's able to get away with. Saying that Kim has  already broken bad might be an oversimplification  

but she has made the decision to go after Howard  for what she thinks is a good reason. this is new  

territory for her and this move might come with  consequences none of us are ready for. and I will  

come back to both jimmy and Kim to refresh you  on where they're at at the beginning of season 6.  

during the Breaking Bad series Saul Goodman is  the guy you go to in Albuquerque when you need a  

criminal lawyer. emphasis on criminal. someone who  isn't above playing fast and loose with the rules.  

this reputation led to him becoming the personal  lawyer of the infamous meth cook Walter White,  

and that relationship led to him having to flee  and go into hiding at the end of that series.  

better call saul opens in Omaha, Nebraska where  you see that this throwaway line to Walter White  

about becoming a manager at a Cinnabon turned  out to come true. the new series starts out  

there but it doesn't linger. you get exactly one  scene in Omaha at the beginning of each season  

where you see that Saul has taken on the fake  identity of Gene Takavic. he's set up in a  

normal if not boring life but it's clear that  he lives in constant fear of his true identity  

being exposed that eventually happens in the  season 5 gene scene when he's approached by a  

taxi driver from albuquerque and he calls ed to  disappear with the intention of running again  

during their call he changes his mind and his  story is left with him saying that he'll handle  

it himself what happens to gene aka saul aka  jimmy is arguably the biggest question there  

is his ending is the end of the story probably the  very last thing that we'll see in this universe  

people used to question about what kind of charges  he might be facing what was he really on the run  

from or even if the authorities would still be  looking for him after five tenth seasons i don't  

think there's any question that his paranoia  is well warranted he's not in a bubble he knows  

what's going on in the outside world and his  identity being exposed is a huge deal you see  

that he had the ability to run it felt like that  was probably the safest option but he chose to  

go this different route to take action maybe go  into saw mode one last time the series opened  

with gene and it will likely end there and i'm  hoping we'll get to spend a fair amount of time  

seeing how that plays out nacho varga is another  character whose end is in question and is also on  

the run at the end of season 5. nacho started  out as a pretty straightforward criminal type  

who worked for the salamanca family you do end  up rooting for him by the end of the series but  

it wasn't always that way over time he wants to  get out of the life but each attempt he makes  

to try to get out backfires on him leaving him  more entrenched and generally worse off a lot  

of why he becomes so sympathetic is because his  father who's a civilian gets caught up in things  

and he tries to make that right initially hector  wanted to take over his upholstery business and  

wanted to use it as a front for their smuggling  so that he wouldn't have to rely on gus that led  

nacho to try to kill hector by swapping out his  heart medication with dummy capsules filled with  

ibuprofen after the attempt was unsuccessful gus  figured out what he tried to do and he realized  

that he could use that information to force him  to become a mole in the salamanca organization  

nacho knows that if he doesn't do what he's told  his father will pay the ultimate price and he  

hasn't been able to convince him that their only  option is to run by the end of season 5 lalo has  

introduced him to don elattio as the salamanca's  guy in the north for at least the 10 remaining  

months until tuko gets out of prison while he's in  mexico gus uses him to open up lalo's compound for  

the mercenaries he's hired to kill him he does get  away but lolo now knows he was involved which is  

a big problem since he's not dead his story will  pick up in season six with him trying to get out  

of the country where he doesn't really have anyone  he can trust the salamancas and the cartel will be  

after him and he's a liability to gus because  he could implicate him under questioning mike  

has tried to talk gus into letting him get  out but so far that's fallen on deaf ears  

he may be nacho's only hope in a situation  where it's in gus's interest to get him away  

from the salamancas but where it would also make  sense to eliminate him once he's back in the u.s  

what happens to lalo is also a big question nacho  and lalo are characters that were created from a  

throwaway line from jimmy when walt and jesse were  trying to scare him into becoming badger's lawyer  

when they took him out into the desert he says  it wasn't me it was ignacio referring to nacho  

and then he's relieved when he finds out that it  wasn't lalo that sent them that would indicate  

that saul thinks lalo is still alive or at the  very least he doesn't know what happened to him  

that contradicts gus telling hector that everyone  in his family is dead and that the salamanca name  

ends with him later in the series for what it's  worth gus seems like a more reliable source  

lalo entered the story towards the end of  season 4 and has injected some life into the  

cartel side of things he quickly became a worthy  adversary for gus causing him a lot of problems  

his place in the salamanca family his  connection to the cartel made him untouchable  

especially north of the border where gus would  be the prime suspect if anything happened to him  

this led to the plan to have him arrested for  the money wire killing that involved an innocent  

citizen then gus used jimmy to get him out of jail  so that he would be forced to jump bail and flee  

back to mexico from there gus made his move at the  end of season 5 he sent that group of mercenaries  

to take him out and they failed so lalo knows that  gus was behind that it should be clear that nacho  

was involved but he also has the problem that  he's wanted in the united states of course it's  

under a different name but it probably won't be  long before they realized that that was fake this  

could mean that he might reach out to jimmy who is  now a friend of the cartel and what a journey he's  

had to get to that point when we first met jimmy  mcgill the man that we'll eventually know as saul  

goodman he was working as a public defender out  of the back of a nail salon driving around in  

a suzuki esteem there was very little of the soul  we knew from breaking bad in this character in the  

beginning he was far from successful but he did  take the idea of being a lawyer seriously he has  

a checkered past he was a low-level scammer known  as slipping jimmy back in cicero illinois he gets  

himself in some trouble but he also has a knack  for being able to talk his way out of difficult  

situations his antics and a chicago sunroof in  particular got him in a situation where he was  

in real trouble with the law he was about to go  to prison he had to reach out for the help of  

his brother chuck who was a well-respected lawyer  to get him out of the situation and part of that  

was him straightening up his life and moving to  albuquerque to take a job in the mailroom of one  

of the most respected law firms in the city that's  also where he meets his girlfriend kim wexler  

in the early going jimmy is mostly trying to  turn his life around he does still have that  

tendency to cut corners but he works hard and  he's dedicated to taking care of his brother  

who believes he has a condition that  makes him allergic to electricity  

he does his best to leave the life of slipping  jimmy behind he gets his law degree and is hoping  

to get hired on at hhm just like kim did but is  led to believe that howard hamlin doesn't want  

him there the big reveal at the end of season one  after he pulls his stunt with the kettleman's to  

show that he can do the right thing he learns that  it's been his brother chuck that's been holding  

him back the whole time chuck doesn't believe he  can change he doesn't believe he's a real lawyer  

and in his words jimmy with a law degree is like  a chimp with a machine gun the two brothers go  

to war and eventually jimmy loses his license to  practice for a year chuck was trying to get him  

permanently disbarred though and in their final  battle jimmy had to team up with kim to keep that  

from happening they set up chuck to humiliate  himself in public in court in front of his peers  

and he never really recovered from that he started  to turn things around for a period and jimmy did  

come around and try to mend their relationship  only to be rejected by his brother one last time  

in the end jimmy tipped off the insurance company  about chuck's outburst in court they threatened to  

raise the malpractice rates for the entire firm  so howard asked chuck to consider retirement he  

fought back that led to howard forcing him out and  his condition came back bringing him so low that  

he decided to take his own life jimmy knows that  the stunt with the insurance company set off the  

chain of events that led to chuck's suicide he  spent most of season 4 unable to deal with what  

happened he was never able to process the loss of  his brother he also wasn't able to practice law so  

he spent most of his time selling drop phones to  criminals and that turned out to be a successful  

hustle he got the idea to practice law with the  same name that he was using with this clientele  

since they were all the kind of people that would  eventually need a lawyer he officially became saul  

goodman he primarily focused on these kinds  of clients and the days of him trying to be a  

respectable lawyer to make his brother proud have  all but slipped away he'll throw himself into this  

new practice and things will conspire so that he  won't have much time to reflect on how losing his  

brother is affecting his life in the first half  of season 5 kim continues to focus on doing pro  

bono work this serves as a way for her to get back  and she finds it more interesting and rewarding  

than the banking law she does for mesa verde  she's called in to deal with a property owner  

who refuses to leave his home even though mesa  verde is legally entitled to it mr acker has a  

way of getting under her skin he lumps her in with  the rich people she works for he hits a nerve and  

makes her question her motives and that leads to  her enlisting jimmy to represent him to go against  

her own firm she works hard to give mesa birdie an  out one that would see mr acker stay in his house  

but her client kevin wachtel won't back down  jimmy eventually encourages her to let it go but  

she decides that she wants to take things to the  next level they plan to go after kevin personally  

and force him to back down she eventually  changes her mind though when she realizes  

that it's causing problems at her firm and she  tells jimmy to call off the plan he sees an  

opportunity to pull it off without her and at the  same time make it look like he was doing this all  

on his own from the beginning because they are a  couple there was suspicion that they were working  

together in his mind this would actually be good  for kim and we see that she is visibly enraged by  

his actions in the meeting so it is successful in  that sense but this also crosses a line for her  

he made her the sucker and she doesn't see any  way forward for them other than to break up or  

maybe they should just get married and that's what  they decide to do now this does establish spousal  

privilege but they also have genuine feelings for  each other which come up when they exchange their  

vows and throughout the rest of the season part of  this new arrangement is that jimmy has to tell her  

things that he might not want to she wants to  know what he's up to what's going on with him  

and we had seen that they drifted apart that they  were sort of living separate lives towards the end  

of the third season and into the fourth as i've  already touched on jimmy does get involved with  

lalo and becomes a friend of the cartel this will  bring up the first test of him being honest with  

her he tells her the truth about going to pick  up lalo's bail from the cousins near the border  

she thinks it's way too dangerous she's not okay  with it and more she doesn't understand why this  

is so important to him he tells her she's worried  about nothing he goes through with it anyways  

and of course things go wrong he does pick up  the money but he's ambushed by a gang of armed