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

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It pays a lot better than doing wills for $140 a pop.

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That's all he was charging? And when Kim was doing some for him a couple of episodes back it looked like a damn novel they were signing.

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That's all he was charging?

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In the episode Alpine Shepard Boy his first paying client is a little old lady needing a will. It was his first paying client outside of being a public defender.

He charged her $140 and told her she could pay $70 up front and $70 when he was done, but she paid in full.

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Which is why Howard kept trying to keep him off the stand. It's like even Howard knew that Jimmy was more wily than Chuck.

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When Jimmy said he was going to prove "My brother hates me". You had to break for him. You can still be a good guy doing bad things.

Might be, might not be.. no one knows.

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You keep spouting this idiotic idea

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Not sure why it upsets you so much. This is twice you have called me an idiot without saying why it's not possible. Keep it up and I will start a BCS crackpot theory thread just to piss you off.

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Not for certain, but Jimmy was never going to be disbarred. A simple name change could never get him around disbarment.

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No but to play along with the J+K=S line of thinking, if Jimmy does get disbarred or has his license suspended is it possible that they invent Saul to keep jimmy working but practice under her law license?

I don't know how it is with lawyers but I know that draftsmen can basically work as an architect as long as they have a licensed architect stamp their drawings. It's the same way with draftsmen and mechanical/electrical engineers.

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You can still be a good guy doing bad things.

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That seems to be a recurring theme throughout both BCS and BrBa. Mike even talks about it with squat cobbler. He says he's known a lot of good guys that were criminals and a lot of bad guys that were cops.

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Jimmy is not remotely "a good guy." He's a POS who had to defend himself not against a lie, but the truth, concerning the fraud he perpetrated against his brother, which made Chuck look like an idiot in the one area of his life he holds most dear, the law.

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But he did it so he could continue to nail Kim. I like to think I'm a pretty good guy but I would stab a nun if it meant I got to bed her.

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His theory= Chuck's condition. (It's all in his mind

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Actually there has been plenty on screen to support it. Particularly since the beginning of this season. Time will tell though.

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That would be really unbelievable. Too many people know him from his time as a public defender. When he got arrested the judge knew him. Plus with his billboard stunt there is just no way this would fly.

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Not to mention Jimmy's enemies, like Chuck, Hamlin, and others would certainly figure it out and report it. Saul's aggressive billboards and advertisements certainly don't keep his law practice on the down-low

There has to be another reason he becomes Saul, like perhaps to distance himself from this whole controversy which surely would be talked about widely throughout the Albuquerque law community?