Is this the start of Jimmy McGill’s final downhill slide?
(The camera lingers on a quartet of circled puzzle words: COLUMBIA, ROCKET, ROCKS, TRAJECTORY.
ABreaking BadEaster egg, perhaps?
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He’s been parked outside Los Pollos Hermanos.
(“This onereallydon’t wanna talk about Cracker Barrel,” she deadpans.)
The guy from the Chevy comes, eats, and leaves, leaving Jimmy confusedbut not us!
(Nice to see you, Gus!
Has anyone mentioned that your face is looking wonderfully intact today?)
With a cell phone on top of it.
The phone is ringing.
But this is where theBreaking Badfan service ends and Jimmy’s unraveling begins.
Jimmy doesn’t just look sad; he looksflayed.
“Kim, I’m good,” he says.
But he’s not.
He hasn’t just been betrayed; he’s been conned, and he can’t stand it.
“Howard, you were a witness to what happened here?”
“I was,” says Chuck.
“So was I,” says the detective.
And so were we, and it must be the start of something.
