· The fascinating tension between a do-gooder lawyer fighting for the little guy and someone who gets a thrill out of pulling off Saul-like cons helps make Kim one of television’s most complex and ...
Kim Wexler. Kimberly " Kim " Wexler is a fictional character from the AMC television series Better Call Saul, a spin-off of Breaking Bad. Kim is primarily portrayed by Rhea Seehorn, and was created by Vince Gilligan and Peter Gould. A lawyer, she is the confidant and love interest of Jimmy McGill / Saul Goodman, whom she later marries.
James Morgan "Jimmy" McGill, also known by his business name Saul Goodman and later by the alias Gene Takavic, is a fictional character who appears in the television series Breaking Bad and serves as the titular protagonist of its spin-off prequel series Better Call Saul.He is portrayed by Bob Odenkirk, and was created by Vince Gilligan and Peter Gould. ...
Crusading Lawyer: Up against Saul Goodman defending Lalo Salamanca's violent streak and murder of Fred Whalen, and she goes through whatever it takes to get Lalo. Didn't See That Coming: She and her team could never anticipate their evidence being called into question with witness tampering. When Jimmy puts on an act to grill her and Tim ...
If they’re still a couple (behind the scenes) is this another way of keeping her protected from the authorities because she’d also have some kind of attorney-client privilege. (Not a lawyer so no clue how that would work.) I don’t think Howard is Saul’s lawyer by the way. Pretty sure he’s gonna hang himself after Kim and Jimmy frame him.
The Offices of Saul Goodman & Associates was where Saul Goodman, Attorney at Law, conducted most of his business.
Kim Wexler inspired Saul Goodman's dollar trick in 'Breaking Bad' Saul's “give me a dollar” trick is one of the first things we see him do in Breaking Bad. The money legally binds Saul with Jesse and Walt, granting them attorney-client privilege. But in Better Call Saul, we see Saul picked that trick up from Kim.
Chuck was born in Cicero, Illinois, United States and is the eldest son of Ruth and Charles McGill Sr. He is the older brother of fellow lawyer and titular character Jimmy McGill ("Saul Goodman").
Saul Goodman's been Married Twice: Season Three Episode Four | Fandom. In the fourth episode of season three, Saul Goodman tells Walter White that he caught his second wife cheating on him with his step-dad. That means he was married twice.
Kim is primarily portrayed by Rhea Seehorn, and was created by Vince Gilligan and Peter Gould. A lawyer, she is the confidant and love interest of Jimmy McGill / Saul Goodman, whom she later marries.
Better Call Saul, which premiered in 2015, is set about six years before the events of Breaking Bad kick off. Over five seasons, the show has tracked how a small-time Chicago con man named Jimmy McGill lost his soul and became a friend of the cartel known as Saul Goodman.
He did get over the loss, however, and grew to resent his father, a dynamic that troubled Chuck and made him blame Jimmy for their father's death. This kind of tragic past could have affected Chuck and Jimmy well into their adulthood, and may have impacted Chuck's treatment of Rebecca, causing her to leave.
But Odenkirk said it was an honest reaction. “She wanted him to show and feel this massive gulf of sorrow and loss, but he just wasn't there yet,” Odenkirk explained. “He had so much resentment towards his brother — and justifiably in many ways. So Jimmy just wasn't there to grieve like that, at least not for a while.”
Last night's season finale took an extraordinarily dark turn with regard to that illness, as Chuck sinks into psychosis following his forced retirement from the law firm he built.
Saul Goodman said on 'Breaking Bad' that he had two ex-wives Fans already noticed that Saul Goodman says he has two ex-wives. In the third season of Breaking Bad during the episode “Green Light,” Saul says to Walt, “I caught my second wife screwing my stepdad.
Saul married Ahinoam, daughter of Ahimaaz, with whom he sired at least seven sons (Jonathan, Abinadab, Malchishua, Ishvi, Armani, Mephibosheth and Ish-bosheth) and two daughters (Merab and Michal). Saul also had a concubine named Rizpah, daughter of Aiah, who bore him two sons, Armoni and Mephibosheth.
At some point prior to the start of Better Call Saul, Jimmy had been married and divorced twice. While working in the HHM mail room, Jimmy befriended Kim Wexler, an HHM employee attending law school.
In writing the pilot for Better Call Saul, showrunners Vince Gilligan and Peter Gould had included the character of Kim but as she was a fresh character to the Breaking Bad story compared to Jimmy McGill / Saul Goodman or Mike Ehrmantraut, they had not yet established any plan for her.
Jimmy tells Kim that his "Saul Goodman" alias gives him a ready-made client base for a criminal law practice . Kim continues balancing her workload between pro bono criminal defense work and Mesa Verde business. When Jimmy suggests Kim use a con to convince a pro bono client to accept a plea bargain, she initially asks him to leave her alone but later finds herself using the con on the client, and feels ashamed about it later. She asks Jimmy to keep his distance from her work, which he agrees to do. Later, Mesa Verde asks Kim to help deal with Everett Acker, an elderly man who refuses to leave his home on land leased from the bank to make way for the bank's planned call center. Acker refuses the bank's attempts at a settlement and Kim finds sympathy for him. When she cannot convince the bank to change its plans, she asks Jimmy to represent Acker and draw out the case. They find potential blackmail information on the bank's president, but Kim decides not to use it. Rich Schweikart suggests that Kim disengage from Mesa Verde business because her heart is not in it, but she angrily refuses. Kim offers Jimmy a $75,000 settlement for Acker, promising to personally pay the difference between that figure and what Kevin Wachtell, Mesa Verde's president, agrees to. Jimmy agrees, but at the meeting to finalize the settlement, he makes use of the blackmail information Kim refused to use and Kevin's high regard for his father to coerce Kevin into a settlement more favorable to Acker. Kim tells Jimmy she is upset that he made her the "sucker" for his con and says that because of the lack of trust they either need to separate or get married so they can enjoy spousal privilege.
Following Chuck's suicide, Kim tries without success to break Jimmy out of his despondent mood. Howard tells Jimmy and Kim he thinks that his decision to force Chuck's retirement from HHM after their malpractice insurance rates rose led to Chuck's death. Jimmy conceals his role in causing the rate increase, allows Howard to shoulder the blame, and regains his usual happy-go-lucky demeanor. Unaware of Jimmy's actions, Kim later berates Howard for mistreating Jimmy. Kim works on Mesa Verde's rapid regional expansion, but is increasingly bored with banking law, so she begins taking pro bono criminal defense cases, which she finds more interesting and satisfying. After she is reprimanded by Paige for putting her pro bono work ahead of Mesa Verde's, Kim persuades Schweikart & Cokely to hire her as a partner to manage a new banking division, which enables her to handle the Mesa Verde work while continuing to devote time and effort to criminal defense cases. With her career becoming more successful, she becomes more distant from Jimmy, who works a boring job as a cellular phone store manager while he serves out the suspension of his law license.
Goodman ", Kim is shown to have become self-reliant as a teenager due to her mother's alcoholism. In " The Guy for This ", she claims that as a child, her mother frequently moved them from place to place to keep one step ahead of landlords to whom they owed back rent, and never had a place to call home herself. Kim further claims she moved to Albuquerque because of the limited opportunities available in her hometown. Kim worked in the mailroom at Hamlin, Hamlin and McGill (HHM), where Howard Hamlin and Chuck McGill were lead partners. Chuck's younger brother Jimmy was employed in the mailroom because of Chuck's insistence that he work a legitimate job and rid himself of his con artist past. With HHM loaning her the money to pay for law school, she completed her education and then joined the firm as an associate.
The pilot had two scenes with Kim, one which involves her counseling Jimmy after Howard Hamlin chews him out. The scene as written had minimal direction, but Seehorn, in preparing for the shot, saw a number of subtleties with the scene that suggested she knew Jimmy intimately, that she had boundaries, and she was used to cleaning up after Jimmy's mistakes. She also felt from this scene that Kim would prefer to listen before speaking and using that as a position of power. The writers saw how Seehorn acted out the scene and realized how much more it defined the character going forward, someone that prioritized work and placed boundaries on her relationship with Jimmy but still cared for him. Gilligan considered Seehorn's ongoing performance as Kim essential to her development. Seehorn had already gotten an idea that Kim enjoyed participating on Jimmy's cons, a fact established in the screenplay for the fourth episode of the first season " Hero ", but which Seehorn had yet to see. Seehorn was able to use very subtle smiles to indicate Kim's appreciation for Jimmy during that episode, which Gould said, "The way she played it just felt so right that it gave us a strong feeling for where we were going with her."
Jimmy and Kim marry in a simple courthouse ceremony. Kim finds that Kevin is still willing to have Kim as Mesa Verde's outside counsel despite Jimmy's representation of Acker. Jimmy is asked to represent Lalo Salamanca, a member of the Mexican cartel who was arrested under an alias for murder. Jimmy tells Kim as a test their new relationship, and she is appreciative of his honesty as well as his intent to not fight for Lalo's release on bail. Gus Fring desires Lalo's release and arranges for Mike Ehrmantraut to provide Jimmy information he uses to persuade a judge to grant bail, which the judge sets at $7 million cash. Lalo convinces Jimmy to collect the money from a remote location, paying him $100,000 for the job. Kim warns Jimmy not to be a bagman for the cartel, but Jimmy accepts the job anyway, believing it is a simple errand. While returning with the money, Jimmy is attacked by gunmen. Mike was tracking Jimmy for Gus, and he kills all but one of the attackers. Jimmy's car breaks down and they push it over the side of the road and continue a two-day trek across the desert with the money. On the second day they kill the remaining attacker, reach a truck stop, and contact Gus for help. When Jimmy does not return as scheduled, Kim pretends to be Lalo's lawyer, visits him in jail, and asks for Jimmy's location. Lalo refuses to tell her and says that Jimmy will be fine because he is a survivor.
She stays home the next day to tend to Jimmy's wounds and help him cope with the trauma, but Jim my opts to go to the courthouse for work instead. Kim returns to S&C, but her mind wanders, and she decides to quit on the spot, leaving Mesa Verde with S&C but taking her pro bono cases.
James Morgan McGill, also known by his business name Saul Goodman and later known as Gene Takavic, is a fictional character who appears in the television series Breaking Bad and serves as the titular main character of its spin-off prequel series Better Call Saul.
"Jimmy McGill" redirects here. For other uses, see Jimmy McGill (disambiguation). For the percussionist, see Saul Goodman (percussionist). Bob Odenkirk as Saul Goodman / Jimmy McGill in a promotional poster for Better Call Saul ' s third season. James Morgan McGill, also known by his business name ...
Saul and Skyler plot ways to persuade Bogdan to sell the car wash, but Skyler rules out violence or intimidation. Saul has his employee Patrick Kuby pose as a government inspector to inform Bogdan of supposed environmental concerns that will cost hundreds of thousands of dollars to mitigate. Bogdan sells the car wash to Walt and Skyler, and Skyler takes over day-to-day management. Walt confides in Saul about his concerns with respect to Jesse, Hank, and Gus. Saul tells Walt about Ed the "disappearer", a vacuum repair shop owner who can provide Walt and his family new identities if they have to flee. Walt runs over Gus' two dealers before Jesse can kill them, then tells Jesse to run. Saul helps ensure the damage to Walt's car is not discovered. Walt suggests that Gus will retaliate for the murder of the two dealers and recommends that Saul contact a hit man to kill Gus, but Saul dismisses the idea. At Jesse's behest, Saul visits Andrea and tries to give her Jesse's remaining cash.
Saul sets up a meeting between Jesse and Walt to resolve the issue of Jesse's half of the money from their previous work for Gus. Walt agrees to resume meth production for Gus, with Gale Boetticher as his assistant, so Saul changes sides and agrees to launder Walt's new income.
For the first four seasons of Better Call Saul, Odenkirk was nominated for the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actor in a Drama Series as well as the Golden Globe Award for Best Actor. Odenkirk also received nominations for the Critics' Choice Television Award for Best Actor in a Drama Series for the first four seasons, winning the award twice.
To help launder Walt's drug money, Saul uses the website his son Walter Jr. set up for donors to contribute to Walt's chemotherapy, making the drug cash look like small donations from numerous contributors. Saul also helps Jesse anonymously buy his aunt's house back from his parents with his share of the drug money. Saul and Mike bug Walt's wife Skyler's house to find out if she has told anyone about Walt. Saul attempts to get Jesse to convince Walt to resume cooking methamphetamine. After an altercation between Walt and Skyler's boss Ted Beneke, Mike brings Walt to Saul. Walt figures out that Saul has been bugging his house and attacks him, causing Saul to refuse to launder any more money through Walter Jr.'s website. Jesse visits Saul with methamphetamine he produced and asks for a meeting with Gus, at which Gus agrees to buy Jesse's product, assuming it will be an incentive to Walt. Saul sets up a meeting between Jesse and Walt to resolve the issue of Jesse's half of the money from their previous work for Gus. Walt agrees to resume meth production for Gus, with Gale Boetticher as his assistant, so Saul changes sides and agrees to launder Walt's new income.
Though originally written as a "two-and-a-half-dimensional" comic relief character, Saul's role became more in-depth, as Gilligan and Gould found they could use Saul as a "further entree to the criminal underbelly" for Walt in the later seasons.
Amoral Attorney: Increasingly so as her relationship with Jimmy leads to her compromising her morals and professional ethics a lot, but she is really remorseful of this and tries to balance her karma by taking pro bono public defense cases as she grows disillusioned with her Mesa Verde career. And on the side of Jimmy's cons, she gets a bigger and bigger high with each con, with her only concern being just not getting caught. She completely falls into this trope by the end of Season 5 when she plans to frame Howard and destroy his career to get the money from the Sandpiper case.
Wexler McGill. For Jimmy McGill himself, see Saul Goodman. For Kim Wexler, see Kim Wexler. Francesca Liddy. Francesca Liddy. Portrayed By: Tina Parker. Jimmy and Kim's new secretary after they start their own firm. Call-Forward: She'd previously appeared in Breaking Bad, still Jimmy's secretary in his new life as Saul.
Badass Pacifist: Kim hates violence, she hates that Jimmy is involved with violent people, but if you dare threaten him, she will stand in your way and spit pure logic in your face until you back off. She doesn't care if you're the psychotic head of a drug cartel:
A smart and ambitious attorney, Kim Wexler has worked her way up from humble beginnings. Kim is committed to building her own independent practice, now outside the confines of HHM, while juggling her complex relationship with Jimmy and the extraordinary situations he routinely finds himself in.
Aw, Look! They Really Do Love Each Other: Jimmy is an ex-con and a slimeball of a lawyer at best. Kim is a straight-laced, hardworking attorney in all the best ways. Yet they both clearly, deeply, completely love each other, supporting each other's decisions, and accepting the other's best and worst parts like no one else, no matter how often they argue.
One of my favorite classes in law school was Professional Responsibility, otherwise known as ethics.
In this series of blawg posts, I will address some ethical dilemmas our favorite protagonist/antagonist encounters (face it, what makes this such a good show is that Saul is his own worse enemy).
Saul Goodman (Bob Odenkirk) was "paid" a small sum by Walter White to play his attorney: $1. In a scene, Saul tells Walt (Bryan Cranston) to "put a dollar in my pocket," which is the beginning of their attorney-client relationship.
Julianna Margulies plays attorney Alicia Florrick, who returns to her career in law after her husband, the Cook County State Attorney in Chicago, is involved in a political and sex corruption scandal.
"The West Wing" examined the technicalities surrounding attorney-client privilege as it pertains in the White House — and concluded it does not.
It is located in a strip mall in Albuquerque, New Mexico. On the outside there is a large sign with his slogan "Better Call Saul!".
As shown in El Camino, after Saul Goodman left Albuquerque, his office was turned into a restaurant called "Duke City Sports Bar" (the real-life business which currently occupies the location) in the 6 months between " Granite State " and " Felina ". Exterior.
On the inside is a waiting room, with Saul's secretary Francesca Liddy and later a large security guard named Huell Babineaux. Apparently he works with no other lawyers. Saul's strip-mall office contains many gaudy assurances of his law practice: his diploma from the University of American Samoa, an actual Scale of Justice on his desk, ...
Buy Now from Fanatical. After being threatened by Mike Ehrmantraut regarding the whereabouts of Jesse Pinkman, Saul became increasingly paranoid about his safety. He hired Huell as a security guard/bodyguard and tore through his office searching for listening devices.