#Breaking bad season 1 episode 3 summary full

Meanwhile, weвЂ™re blessed with more Mike Ehrmantraut than ever this week. It also seems safe to say that whatever happened between them, romantically or sexually, isnвЂ™t entirely over. Her attitude towards Jimmy is complicated: she doesnвЂ™t quite trust him, but she seems aware that heвЂ™s not all bad, either. Along with the glimpse at how Jimmy evolved from criminal to lawyer, we got a bit more insight into his relationship with Kim - both in the early phone conversation where she says she wonвЂ™t talk dirty to him and in their argument about the Kettlemans, where she refuses to use her influence with Hamlin. вЂњNachoвЂќ may have been structured around a legal proceduralвЂ™s typical client-of-the-week storyline, but its true function was in laying groundwork and developing characters.

#Breaking bad season 1 episode 3 summary full

I canвЂ™t imagine many other viewers were surprised, either, when a final tussle with Betsy Kettleman revealed a gym bag full of the stolen cash. This twist - that the Kettlemans disappeared on foot after JimmyвЂ™s warning phone call - isnвЂ™t even a little bit shocking. With the cops sure that he knows more than heвЂ™s saying about what happened to the Kettlemans, Nacho convinced that Jimmy set him up, and both Kim and the police unwilling to indulge his hypothesis that the family вЂњkidnapped themselves,вЂќ Jimmy is left on his own to track them down.

And when they figure out heвЂ™s NachoвЂ™s lawyer - which he isnвЂ™t yet, exactly - they drag him to the station, where his de facto client is waiting to rip into him. Eventually, the cops trace Jimmy, chase him, throw him to the ground, and cuff him. By the next morning, theyвЂ™ve disappeared.ДЄmid what seems to be a low-level panic attack, Jimmy tries repeatedly to reach Nacho from another payphone. After refusing to aid Nacho in finding the KettlemansвЂ™ embezzled money, Jimmy had an attack of conscience, calling the family from a payphone to issue a garbled warning that theyвЂ™re in danger. This time, of course, Jimmy is the lawyer, and itвЂ™s Nacho Varga whoвЂ™s been arrested. Instead of going deeper into his past, вЂњNachoвЂќ returns quickly to the present - well, the 2002 present. In all likelihood, we can trace his career as a lawyer back to this scene.ДЄlthough the flashback is short, Better Call Saul will surely let us know the specifics of JimmyвЂ™s rehabilitation in its own time. This appears to be the moment when our hero commits to cleaning up. It isnвЂ™t until this scene that weвЂ™re entirely clear on the relationship between Jimmy and Chuck, and besides confirming that theyвЂ™re brothers, it establishes that theyвЂ™ve been estranged - probably due to JimmyвЂ™s criminal pursuits. But by this morning, industrious Better Call Saul fans had submitted a handful of entertaining possibilities and a lively debate had begun in the showвЂ™s subreddit.) ( New York Times recapper David Segal helpfully informed readers last night that he searched Urban Dictionary for вЂњChicago sunroof,вЂќ the act Jimmy tells Chuck he performed, and came up empty. Most disturbingly, he could be labeled a sex offender. Though the specifics of what he did arenвЂ™t clear - and maybe theyвЂ™re not even important - we learn that heвЂ™s facing assault and property damage charges.

HeвЂ™s come to see Jimmy, whoвЂ™s been arrested. In a flashback (one IвЂ™d estimate takes place in the mid-вЂ™90s, judging by the visible and semi-successful effort to make Bob Odenkirk look significantly younger), we see Chuck enter a police station. And the cold open to last nightвЂ™s episode, вЂњNacho,вЂќ did more than any other single scene so far to fill in the characterвЂ™s backstory. Better Call Saul is, of course, a series-length answer to that question. Where did this guy come from? Breaking Bad fans must all have wondered this, at one moment or another, about Saul Goodman, who emerged fully formed in that showвЂ™s second season as a local TV-commercial celebrity and all-purpose legal adviser to the discerning criminal.