Is strip-mall Saul simply the last stop on Jimmy’s incremental but inexorable slip-and-slide downhill?
This week, it seems we have our answerand it’s one we already had.
And here they are, in the last cold open of season 3.
Two little boys, a young Chuck and younger Jimmy, sitting together in a backyard tent.
But for now, we have Chuck’s assurance that it’s all going to be okay.
“You’re not feeding me, Jimmy,” she says.
“There are lines we do not cross.”
Meanwhile, back at HHM, Chuck sits at the head of a table surrounded by partners.
“Jimmy, this is what you do.
In the end, you’re going to hurt everyone around you.
you’re free to’t help it,” Chuck shrugs.
And then, having opened the wound, he pours an ocean’s worth of salt into it.
1 spot on the list of Harshest Burns in the History of Hollywood).
That night, awake and anxious, Chuck runs downstairs and flips every switch in the fuse box.
But the next day, he discovers that his again-shadowy house is still drawing power from an unknown source.
But a surprise twist: the man who saves Hector Salamanca’s life?
), a chair yoga gig, and an oopsie hot mike.
As he and Kim pack up their office, Jimmy chucks his Rolodex in the trash.
But based on what happens next, this moment won’t last.
He’s staring at it, and while he stares, he kicks the pile.
A few times, a dozen times, as many times as it takes.
Eventually, it topples.
And everything goes up in flames.
