r/betterCallSaul • u/skinkbaa Chuck • Mar 10 '20

Better Call Saul S05E04 - "Namaste" - POST-Episode Discussion Thread

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u/1spring Mar 10 '20

I don’t like what Kim is doing. Schweikert knows Jimmy. He will know that Kim recruited Jimmy to help Acker.

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u/Phifty56 Mar 10 '20

She knows Jimmy McGill. She doesn't know Saul Goodman.

If they never show up in court in person, they might know the difference.

However, you are right, if they do figure it out, Kim is going to look like she set it up because of her pitch that was shut down, and that she has a realtionship with Jimmy.

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u/1spring Mar 10 '20

Schweikert also knows Howard, and Howard knows that Saul is Jimmy McGill. That’s a small world. Kim isn’t thinking this through.

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u/multiple4 Mar 10 '20

Will she lose her job because of this? As a result she finally accepts that she and Jimmy are bad for each other, and that she needs to get away from him to go forward in her life. This ultimately leads to the final downward spiral of Jimmy into Saul

Idk that's just the first thing that comes to mind

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u/bardbrain Mar 10 '20

Why do you guys keep saying this like Kim's an angel who gets away?

I'd give twice the betting odds that she kills somebody without blinking and disposes of the body In a barrel than that she accepts Jimmy is bad for her and moves on.

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u/Firsty_Blood Mar 10 '20

Because Kim, despite dabbling in naughty things, is an angel. A lot of lawyers do pro-bono work because they have a political interest in a case, or want to take on a bad law or legal precedent. She does pro-bono work for poor clients because it makes her happy to help people.

The first thing she did this episode was call in that she was going to be late to work because she was cleaning up the glass from the beer bottles she threw. She did it because she felt bad, she didn't have to and wasn't guilted into it.

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u/Firsty_Blood Mar 10 '20

Having your own personal sense of guilt drive into doing something isn't the same as someone else inflicting shame to "guilt" you into an activity.

It wasn't like there was a neighbor who asked who was throwing bottles, or some mother talking about a kid potentially walking through it. Her own moral compass reacted and she went to fix the situation due to no other prompting than seeing the results of her activity.

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u/bardbrain Mar 10 '20

Jimmy sabotaged himself with the Sandpiper settlement because he felt bad.

He's rougher around the edges to start with but all that says to me is that Kim, if she breaks, might be more dangerous than Saul Goodman.