re: Official Better Call Saul Season 3 Episode 5: Chicanery

He has none. It's dumb as frick.

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Or he is just remembering fondly his past life. Realizing how terrible his life is now as Gene

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I would go along with this if they stopped at the tapes. But they keep showing Gene more and more. It wouldn't serve that purpose because we all know he's miserable. IMO like a poster just said above, he will return much like Walt did after he went in hiding. It's almost inevitable at this point, especially because they are close to running out of material for BCS. They are teasing the turn to Saul already, you have Gus and Mike working together, etc. Will they go back and show Saul from BCS perspective during the BB timeline? Consensus is yes they will.

But they might not. They may just skip over the entire BB timeline and end the show with Gene turning back to Saul and going out with a bang. How much could they really retread the BB timeline anyway? If they choose that route they will have to be careful. How compelling would watching BB from Saul's perspective be anyway since we all know the outcome? I don't think they go that route. I bet instead they time jump the minute Saul meets Walt/Jesse to Gene and we get nothing more than that first meeting, then you get a "10 years later" type timejump and the show ends on the Gene timeline.

They will have at least 1 full season that follows the BB timeline. It was confirmed before BCS aired that Jessie would be in the show. In BB, Saul gave the impression that he had been practicing law as Saul for some time already, so unless there is a flash forward of at least a year or two, I could see the BB overlap season probably coming in season 5. They will probably use this season to further expand on BB, adding subtle details that the fans will go crazy over. Then you can go back and watch BB again and have new revelations with those new details.

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It's not by itself. It is just suspicious the way they did it and it has something to do with Kim. My thought was that Kim could possibly be on the run with him due to her involvement. Maybe when Gene left for work that day he grabbed that Royals bag that Kim happened to have at their apartment. It really could be anything at this point though, I just find it interesting they are hinting about Kim.

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I agree with you to a point, that the Royals bag is there to remind us of Kim. I just think it was a callback to her wearing the shirt, and they are hinting that she is from Omaha or the surrounding area. Which is why Jimmy chooses to go there.

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What other evidence do you feel supports this theory?

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Mostly just a hunch.

I think the time to break them up was now but they didn't. As slow as this show moves sometimes, it would take a whole season to set up a break up, and I think that will take to long if we are going to go into BB and post BB era.

Kim's behavior is what really makes me think it will happen. Most people argue that she is too good of a person to get involved with that, but she keeps doing it over and over.

If I am right this shot proves the writers considered this partnership from the beginning. This happens to be the first time Jimmy and Kim talked to each other. It just symbolically screams that Kim is the unseen half of Saul Goodman.



There is also the writer problem. Who will Saul share his innermost feelings with if Kim is gone. We will need that as an audience, but there won't be anyone left for him to have honest dialogue with.

A lot of these things I admit are a stretch by themselves, but to me they seem to be stacking up. I could also just be totally wrong, but I really feel like this is completely plausible at this point.

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This happens to be the first time Jimmy and Kim talked to each other. It just symbolically screams that Kim is the unseen half of Saul Goodman.

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I like your theory for the most part but that pic doesn't scream shite You could have just literally posted any scene of them smoking and there are plenty.

Yeah, I don't have a problem with the theory (other than I think it's a little too cute and cliche for Gilligan) but one thing this episode showed us is that, in addition to being shady, Jimmy is a damn good lawyer.

So it's not like he needs Kim to be the "brains" behind Saul and he seems to want to keep her as clean as possible so it would be a pretty big switch for him to suddenly start encouraging her to be part of a front operation for various scumbags.

Kim is also just too good of a character to have her leave Jimmy. Who wants to watch her become Skyler and tell Jimmy don't do this, don't do that. She is far more interesting being right in the middle of the action.

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There has been NOTHING to disprove that BCS and BB are not all just a dream of Jimmy's. It is entirely possible. If I am right, this picture is proof that the writers were planning this all along. If you look closely at the picture, you will see that Jimmy is asleep.

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