Better Call Saulis a series prominent with drama. This drama comes from the characters' actions and the subsequent consequences. Relationships are broken beyond repair, with some characters evenfacing something far worse than a simple breakup.Better Call Saulfeatures some great characters with wonderful chemistry, but that does not mean they exist without fault.
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Most of the characters inBetter Call Saulhave been explored throughout the six seasons the show had to offer, and many of these characters had a moment that could be seen as questionable to the viewer and a gigantic mistake worthy of noting. All of which, of course, paves the way forBreaking Bad.
7Chicago Sunroof
Better Call Saulmainly focuses on the character of Jimmy McGill and his rise to the famed criminal lawyer known as Saul Goodman. In his youth, Jimmy was known around Cicero, Illinois, as“Slippin’ Jimmy.” With this alias, Jimmy committed many scams to get quick and easy money. However, his title caught up with him in 1992.
Jimmy divorced his first wife when he discovered she had cheated on him with a guy named Chet. To make matters worse, Chet owed Jimmy money. Jimmy, drunk, discovered Chet’s car at a Dairy Queen and proceeded to defecate through the sunroof of Chet’s car. Little did he know, Chet’s children were in the back seat, causing a level of criminal charges and the possibility of a sex offense. This giant mistake made Jimmy put behind “Slippin’ Jimmy” for good and leave Illinois to join his older brother, Chuck, in New Mexico.
6Chuck Not Trusting Jimmy
After helping his younger brother out of criminal charges, Chuck McGill made Jimmy promise to turn over a new leaf and come work for him in the mailroom atHamlin, Hamlin & McGill. Jimmy did well and made new friends, and even passed the bar exam to become a lawyer to impress his older brother Chuck. However, Chuck’s resentment for Jimmy festered into something unhealthy.
Ever since they were children, Chuck had a distaste for his younger brother for how he stole money from their parents. Chuck refused to move on and continued to accuse his younger brother of being “Slippin’ Jimmy,” further straining their relationship until Jimmy no longer saw them as brothers. Chuck betrayed his brother by recording him and trying to get him disbarred from the law, an event that blew up in his face when he had a meltdown in court against his brother and his dislike for him.
5Manipulating Irene
After Jimmy has his law license suspended, he looks for ways to make money to continue paying his half of the law office he shares with Kim Wexler. One of these ways is by settling the Sandpiper Crossing Case. This case would see Jimmy earn 20% of the common fund of the shared settlement, which he discovers will be well over $1,000,000 at the time of his unemployment.
To make the residents of Sandpiper Crossing settle so he can get his paycheck, Jimmy manipulates the residents into hating the Sandpiper class action representative, Irene. He does this by putting ideas in their heads about how she won’t settle, so she can make more money she doesn’t need. Jimmy’s outright slander causes a sweet elderly woman to lose her friends, a mistake that he has to villainize himself publicly to fix.
4Howard Betrays Chuck
After Chuck’s meltdown in court, Chuck is more determined than ever to cure himself of his electromagnetic hypersensitivity. His progress is going steady until, with Howard, he discovers that his malpractice policy premium will go up by 150% due to Jimmy leaking Chuck’s mental condition and court breakdown to the insurance company as revenge.
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This forces Howard’s hand, who asks Chuck to retire for the good of HHM since the insurance company wants to double the premiums of every lawyer at HHM while Chuck remains employed there. Howard buys out Chuck with $3,000,000 of his funds and leaves Chuck alone and abandoned. His electromagnetic hypersensitivity delusion returns, and he takes his own life purposefully by starting a house fire. If Howard remained loyal to his friend, Chuck would still be alive.
3“I Broke My Boy”
For thirty years, Mike Ehrmantraut was a beat cop at the Philadelphia Police Department. His frequent jobs involved dealing with break-ins and domestic disputes, but his career was utterly mired in corruption. His fellow offers and himself would accept bribes and participate in protection rackets.
Mike’s son, Matt, adored his father and joined the police force due to how much he looked up to his dad. Matt was a good cop and did not want to join the corruption. However, he waspressured by Miketo do so but was killed by his partners due to them not being able to trust him to go dirty. Mike blames himself and regrets that his son died dirty, knowing his father was too.
2Destroying Howard Hamlin
Kim Wexler and Jimmy McGill despise Howard Hamlin, the owner of HHM. For years, Kim has felt downtrodden by Howard, as has Jimmy. In season 6 ofBetter Call Saul, Kim and Jimmy have had enough of Howard and scheme to ruin him and his career by ruining his image with colleagues and friends and sabotaging the Sandpiper Crossing settlement case.
Howard’s marriage is already falling apart, andKim and Jimmy’s plans to sabotagehim into destruction bring him over the edge. Howard confronts the pair in their apartment, to which they try and gaslight him. However, a horrid fate awaits Howard; if only Kim and Jimmy left him alone.
1Becoming Saul Goodman
Arguably the biggest mistake inBetter Call Saulis when Jimmy McGill decides to become the criminal lawyer, Saul Goodman. Audiences first met Saul Goodman as the ‘criminal’ lawyer inBreaking Bad, who assisted Walter White and Jesse Pinkman on many illegal schemes for money. However,Jimmy’s turn to Saul Goodman is his downfall.
Jimmy wanted to be a good man, but with all of the traumatic events in his life beating him down, he could not help his corruption and became a lawyer for the wrong side of the law. Saul Goodman leaves behind what made Jimmy human and dedicates himself to money to forget. Who knew that a guy called “Saul Goodman” does not have it “All good, man.”
Better Call Saulairs on Mondays on AMC at 9:00 p.m. EST.
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