He drops the torn pieces of the check on the conference room table and accuses HHM of trying to cheat his brother Chuck - a founding partner of the firm - out of his rightful share. Jimmy drives to HHM to confront one of the firm's named partners, Howard Hamlin. Jimmy spends his frustration on a trash can. Opening his mail, he finds a $26,000 check from the law firm of Hamlin, Hamlin & McGill (HHM), which he tears up. Jimmy drives to his office - the back room of a Vietnamese nail salon - and finds no messages on his answering machine. Realizing that the situation is a scam, Jimmy calls out the boys out for their ruse and choice of victim, upon which the brothers run away. The brothers demand an instant settlement of $500, threatening to call the police unless he complies. Cal's twin brother Lars, who videotaped the incident, rushes up to confront Jimmy. While Jimmy is driving, he suddenly hits a skateboarder, Cal Lindholm. Jimmy reveals the two scam artists' deception. Just as a letter of engagement is about to get signed, Craig's wife Betsy, whom he has brought along, stays her husband’s hand and asks for time to think things over. As he drives away from the courthouse, Jimmy gets stopped by Mike Ehrmantraut, the parking lot attendant, because he doesn't have proper validation.Īt Loyola's restaurant, Jimmy meets Craig Kettleman, the treasurer for Bernalillo County, who has been accused of embezzling $1.6 million, and is eager to secure a deal. While walking to his dilapidated car, a potentially big client calls on his cell phone Jimmy pretends to be his own mild-mannered, British secretary in an office. Jimmy complains about the measly payment.
Jimmy arranges an appointment with a potentially big client.Īfter he fails to win an acquittal for his clients, Jimmy gets a $700 paycheck as a public defender - not $700 per defendant, as he had presumed. Several members of the jury, the judge, and the court reporter are unable to look at the tape. Jimmy's argument to the jury is that the youths' actions were simply "boys being boys." In response to this, the prosecutor - without saying a word - plays a video which contains footage of the teens' offenses. In May 2002, Jimmy McGill is a down-on-his-luck Albuquerque public defender representing three teenagers charged with breaking into a funeral home and performing a sex act on a severed human head.
Jimmy represents three teenagers in court. The tape's contents are revealed to be a copy of television advertisements from Gene's former life as the flamboyant criminal lawyer Saul Goodman. Later, inside a modest residence, Gene is flipping through channels when he decides to retrieve a VHS cassette from a hidden shoebox. Gene becomes tense when a customer seems to be staring at him, but is instantly relieved when he passes by him. In a monochrome flash-forward sequence, set after the events of Breaking Bad, a man named Gene works behind the counter at a shopping-mall Cinnabon in Omaha, Nebraska.