Hey guys, Pete here. Today I'll be explaining the end of Better Call Saul
season 5. this video will contain spoilers for everything that happened in
the series through the episode 5 finale and everything that happened in Breaking
Bad and El Camino. If you haven't watched the fifth season yet what are you doing
here? You should go watch it now because in my opinion it was the best season of
Better Call Saul so far, and I liked them all. Some big things happened this season.
Jimmy McGill began practicing law under the name Saul Goodman and he got married
to his long-term love interest Kim Wexler. He also began working with a
different type of clientele and this is where things got interesting.
Jimmy's legal story being unconnected from the other Breaking Bad characters,
Gus and Mike in the criminal world, at times made things feel like it was two
shows rather than one. Season five managed to bring everything together
when Jimmy was recruited to work with the cartel. Unfortunately he couldn't
keep his two worlds separate though and Kim ended up on the cartel's radar as
well. This all came to a head in season five's penultimate episode when Lalo
Salamanca barged into Jimmy and Kim's apartment looking for answers. With Jimmy
still recovering from his harrowing journey through the desert, Kim had to
step in to take charge of the confrontation, and in the end she was
able to get Lalo to leave. That set up the season 5 finale where Kim and Jimmy
had to take stock of their situation and Gus makes his move to take out the
Salamanca family once and for all. So how did it all turn out, and what does it
mean for the rest of the series? Before we dive into the ending I just want to
mention that I did a detailed recap of episode 10 which I'll put a link to at
the top of this video. I'm also working on a season 5 recap for the entire
season so subscribe if you want to check back for that. Now let's talk about Jimmy
and Kim's plan and where that title "Something Unforgivable" comes from. The
finale of season 5 kicks off immediately after Lalo leaves the apartment. Jimmy
comes clean about what really happened in the desert, and fearing for their
safety Jimmy and Kim leave home to check into a hotel nearby where they stay for
most of the episode. While they don't go far this is where we see the biggest
development in setting up the final season. When they first arrived at the
hotel Jimmy asked his wife if he's bad for her. This sets the stage for what's
to come. Kim says, "you crossed a line, you're not
gonna do it again." Jimmy responds with a "yeah" but his
expression tells us that he knows he'll find himself in a situation like this
again. Kim goes to the courthouse and while she's there she runs into Howard.
He tells her about the things Jimmy has done to mess with him after he made the
job offer it's a short interaction, but it's so consequential. After hearing
about the bowling balls and prostitutes Kim laughs in Howard's face. This tells
us a few things. First, that after what Kim's been through in the last couple of
days she's got bigger things on her mind. Second, although Howard went about this
in the worst way possible, there's some truth in what he's saying about Jimmy
and he's in a unique position to see it because he knows Jimmy better than most
people in this story. Lastly, the way that Kim reacts says that
she is all in on their marriage and protective of Jimmy if someone tries to
disparage him. But also, and perhaps more importantly, she has a real problem with
people telling her what she should think or what she should do. While Kim was at
the courthouse Jimmy learns from Mike that there's a plan in motion to kill
Lalo that night. that gives him some relief but he's still thinking that
maybe he should separate from Kim to keep her out of danger. when she returns
to the room he half-heartedly offers to leave. she quickly sets out to distract
him from this line of thinking pointing out that they already paid for the hotel
room so they might as well enjoy it. over dinner when she brings up the
conversation at the courthouse to Jimmy, the way Howard approached her with his
concerns far outweighed the substance of what he was saying. this opens the door
for her to throw out the idea of joining Jimmy and continuing to harass their
former employer. they start off innocently enough but things quickly
escalate. they go from using Nair to make Howard's hair fall out to Kim saying,
"we'd never do it but... what if Howard does something terrible? no, I mean really bad.
like misconduct you know, misappropriating funds, bribing witnesses,
something like that?" we watch as Kim moves past "we'd never do it but..." and we
see her get to the idea that "we could pull this off." she expresses the good she
thinks she can do with the two million dollars they stand to collect
from the Sandpiper settlement. she paints a picture of a scenario where everyone
wins, except of course Howard, and she minimizes the downside by saying it
would be just a career setback for one lawyer. her plan is to open a pro bono
Law Center so people with limited means can get the same kind of representation
that millionaires get. Jimmy tries to stop the plan's momentum by pointing out
that what she's suggesting goes far beyond scamming someone at a bar. he
tells her it would take Howard doing something unforgivable to get the other
lawyers to turn on him. he goes as far as saying that this scorched earth strategy
is not Kim, it's not who she is and that she wouldn't be okay with it, "not in the
cold light of day." as viewers everything Jimmy is saying tracks with what we know
about Kim Wexler right up to the point where she looks him in the eye and says,
"wouldn't I?" wouldn't she be okay with it? she looks dead serious and the question
changes from would Kim really do something like this to Howard? To has Kim
done something like this before? we don't know because we don't really know about
her background. she gets up to take a shower and she tops the whole thing off
by turning to Jimmy and making the finger guns that we saw him do at the
end of season four. as far as we can tell she's all in for this and she's ready
for whatever's to come. Jimmy on the other hand looks like he is
uncomfortable. he looks lost and alone and it's a mirror image of the way Kim
looked when he told her he was going to start practicing assault Goodman. going
into the season five finale we had three characters whose fates were unknown - Kim,
Lalo, and Nacho Varga. Nacho was the most likely candidate to become a casualty
since he's been stuck in the role of playing both sides in the cartel cold
war. he worked his way up in the Salamanca family organization but when he
made a move to get out from under his boss Hector Gus fring found out and
compromised him. Nacho's plan was to get out of the drug business and in doing
that he would protect his father who has no connection to his criminal activity.
Gus had other plans and won't let go of his asset, even when Mike encourages him
to do so. after getting bailed out of jail, and his visit to Kim and Jimmy's,
Lalo instructs nacho to take him to Mexico. they arrive at his
well-protected Hacienda and this is where Gus plans to move forward with his
assassination attempt. Nacho plays his part and goes along with things, and even
manages to impress Don Eladio when Lalo takes him to meet the cartel
boss. the assassins eventually make contact and instruct nacho to leave the
back gate open he manages that. after creating a diversion and then slips out
the door to freedom from the compound at least. it's too early to tell what that
will mean. under the threat of violence against his father he betrayed one boss
to serve the other. he managed to survive the season, but he finds himself in a
really difficult situation because the boss he served didn't succeed in his
plan to take out the other one. it wasn't from a lack of planning either,
and don't forget just how much Gus and Mike had to do to get to the point where
they could make a move on Lalo south of the border. Gus fring is a man who knows
how to get things done and for all intents and purposes his plan was not
the problem. according to the showrunner Peter Gould the one thing Gus, Nacho, and
Mike weren't counting on is that Lalo is tricky, he's lucky, he's smart and he's
able to triumph against incredible odds. and that's what he does, he triumphs. with
some quick thinking and a plan to use his escape tunnel as a trap for his
attackers Lalo manages to make it out of the season alive. after the gun battle is
over Lalo uses the one assassin who hasn't died yet to call the man who
hired him. he tells him that it was a middleman but Lalo isn't worried about
that because he says he knows who actually hired him. the call is placed so
the middleman will report to Gus that Lalo has been killed, which should buy
him a little time to plan his next move. Lalo notices that Nacho isn't around and
when he looks at the decanter that tells us that he suspects Nacho was involved
in the attack. the season ends with Lalo walking away from Hacienda into the
darkness after seeing the dead body of his cook. his home has been attacked,
he's been betrayed by the man who he was entrusting to run his family business in
the US, and we can imagine that his number one priority will be revenge. at
the end of better call Saul season 5 Jimmy and Kim are still together, Lalo
and Nacho are both still alive, and Gus is somewhat exposed after his
failed assassination attempt. Kim has a plan to go after Howard, and even
though he probably should try to stop her, I think we can expect Jimmy to go
along with it. these two have come a long way since the first episode of the
season. in that Kim is trying to slow down Jimmy's plans to practice as Saul
Goodman. he throws out the idea of offering a 50% off deal to potential new
clients and she gets him to reconsider. he even says, "see this is why this works.
I go too far and you pull me back." by the end things are turned the other way
around and Jimmy is the one who wants to slow Kim down. we can imagine that he
won't be able to change her course any more than she was able to change his.
they haven't exactly switched places but he evolved alongside each other based on
their circumstances. when Jimmy crossed the line the first time by surprising
her at the Mesa Verde meeting she decided to double down on the
relationship and get married. this in her turn at the end leaves us heading into
the final season wondering what's really going on with Kim. I discussed that and
other questions going into season six in my questions video I put out last week.
so if you want to join the conversation about Kim and where she's heading you
should check out that video. for now it's a cliffhanger as to where her plan to
take down Howard in order to get the Sandpiper settlement done is coming from.
Nacho is in Mexico where Lalo will probably like to have a word with him.
Gus has been reluctant to help him under normal circumstances, so Mike will
probably have to make that happen if nacho is able to get away. Lalo will
be out to settle the score and exact his revenge against Gus and his plans will
probably include Jimmy since he came through with the bail money when he
needed him to. Jimmy may still have to deal with the lingering effects of his
PTSD and his buried feelings about his brother Chuck's death. while he took a
few steps back at the end of the season everything is still in place for him to
become the Saul Goodman we know from Breaking Bad but it does seem likely
that something will have to come up to take Kim out of the picture before that
happens. there's only one season a better call Saul to come. it will be 13 episodes
and we'll find out what happens between Jimmy and Kim, what happens with Lalo and
nacho, and how Jimmy fully embraces this persona of Saul Goodman that we know
from Breaking Bad. and with that I'll leave it there let me know in the
comments what think's gonna happen in the next season
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