I got the feeling Mike became more hostile towards Saul because of his attitude change, Jimmy was always loud and a little rude at points but Saul is every worst part of Jimmy cranked up to 10
Add to that how his opinion soured when Saul decided to go against Mike's judgement and pursue Walt. Mike is pretty full of himself (sometimes justified) and he can't abide by people who don't follow his advice.
I think Mike’s face as he looked down on Howard and Lalo’s grave says a lot about how his perspective towards Jimmy has shifted. He never particularly liked Jimmy, but he treated him much better, saved his life, gave him advice, and generally just cooperated better with him up to this point. That’s because Mike saw some good in Jimmy and had a basic level of respect for him. But after Jimmy framed Howard, an innocent bystander who was never “in the game,” and indirectly got him killed, Mike couldn’t look at him the same. He could’ve grown to like Jimmy, and I think he cared about him in some ways, but he hates Saul. Mike treats Saul like a different person because as far as he’s concerned, that’s the truth. Kim leaving Jimmy and his subsequent transformation into a full blown crooked criminal lawyer pretty much solidified Mike’s newfound perspective that Saul Goodman isn’t good for anything other than being a means to an end. As pointed out in the video, that’s all they see each other as now. It’s kinda sad to think about, since I do believe that Mike and Jimmy are both good people buried under years of trauma which have lead to many bad choices. Jimmy looked up to Mike as the cool, supportive older brother he wanted Chuck to be. But as always, Jimmy’s downward spiral into Saul turns people away and gradually leads to them despising him.
Disagree completely - I think Mike doesn't respect what Jimmy and Kim have done to Howard but he would not believe it is their fault that Howard died - it is only Howard's fault. I think he is just sad in general to see Howard, who is innocent and decent, die. He is exhausted by the end of BCS with all the Nacho and Lalo stuff.
@@yesmate3442 I have seen many arguments whether Jimmy and Kim are actually responsible for Howard's death but the fact is Howard would still be alive if they didn't target him. For Mike every person killed that wasn't part of "The Game" is a tragedy so Mike blames Jimmy and Kim for causing the death of an innocent bystander with their schemes. Let's not forget Mike also indirectly caused the death of an innocent bystander when he robbed Hector's truck. He blamed himself when Hector killed just some innocent samaritan that only tried to help. Mike still caries the burden on his shoulders since his hostile attitude towards anyone who directly or indirectly causes the death of people who aren't part of "The Game".
@@Jaker788 Of course it doesn't. He regretted it because this guy, like Howard, wasn't in the game. If Mike could've foreseen the consequences of his actions, then he probably wouldn't have done it or found another way. As it was he did what he could to make the pain a tiny bit more bearable for the guy's family.
That wouldn't work. The book was encrypted with a code only the vet knew. Its intentionally set up so that killing him would cause the book to become useless. The only way to get the book was to have the vet give it willingly in exchange for money.
@@BonJoviBeatlesLedZep My reply was meant to be lighthearted, Lalo certainly was as happy to kill someone as look at them......... but even he can only kill so many. Your theory of Lalo killing the Veterinarian is as good as anyone elses theory. Lalo's character was so well written and acted. I Love the character but sure wouldn't ever want to meet him.
I like to believe the inflatable Liberty is the same one the Kettlemans had. This is reinforced in real life as the creators said in a podcast that when they were shooting BCS they looked into getting another one as they were worried the original would get damaged by weather in the desert, but discovered it was unique as they couldn't find another one anywhere.
I had idly wondered was it the same house that Kim & Jimmy visit. While Jimmy admired the light of that house, the one we see getting sacked is totally dark but kinda cool to think he finally bought that original house.
The writers have enough respect for viewers intelligence that we don't need to see exactly how Jimmy got the book. We know where it came from, we know where it ends up. We can fill the blank and theorise in whatever way we want. And everyone reading the comments on this video loves a good theory!
@@dash_r_mediaRight!! They don't know what happened to Mike. The very thing he tried to NOT do to people not in the game. He was very insistent Werner's wife got answers and closure. Nacho's Dad, the passer by who got shot because of Mike messing with Hector's trucks... In a way, much as I don't like it because we all love Mike, that's the most fitting end for his character.
Another question the show hasn't answered yet is why or how Hector got out of Casa Tranquila to Tuco's shack in the desert where we first see him in Breaking Bad.
i believe this is also self explanatory. Tuco was released from prison and went to take care of his tio. He placed him in one of his hideouts to watch over him since it wouldn’t feel right to leave him in a nursing home when he can take care of him just like how he took care of his abuelita
It just so happens to be like that. Seriously Better call saul was not yet planned, so it's up to BCS to make it work, not vice versa. If he get the story from BCS to BB, he know Hector got too dramatic about Gus and how nobody believe him, so maybe they got tired of him and just Tuco left to care for him.
Everything can't be shown. It would be a waste of time. There are many more unanswered 1) what happened to abuelita 2) Mike warns about Walt, he would have warned more about Jesse. But, these are not important for the show.
I like this, the show gives you all the pieces a b and d, and just asks you to fill in c. I don't need to see Saul getting the black book or the statue of liberty if we can all figure out what happened.
I can’t remember the name off the top of my head but during Howard memorial they say HHM was rebranding. A lot of the people there knew “Jimmy” and so Saul most likely sent Francesca there. At the time I thought it was Kim but she’s obviously no longer an attorney
I thought it was Kim too for a while, then I realized she already met Kim so him not just saying it's Kim number wouldn't make sense. It being rebranded hmm makes the most sense.
Saul's Deville is a '97 model which would have been a new car right around the time Jimmy passed the bar and was working solo out of the Nail Salon. It's the same Caddy, or at least the same model as he parked his beat-up Suzuki Esteem next to earlier in the show and was eyeing over with a bit of envy. Was it Bill Oakley's? Anyway, Jimmy doesn't go full Saul until 2004, so it's interesting that he buys a used car. Clearly this is because he remembered the one from the parking lot.
Yeah, so it'k kinda funny, how Jimmy's Suzuki Esteem ('96-'98) could be even newer than the Cadillac, yet it's already a rusty "steaming pile of crap", while the Cadillac is shiny like it's new. And since it's at least 7 years old by the time Saul buys it, it probably won't cost $40k (which is why I kinda expected him to get it in the Beginning of S6: his old car was gone, Lalo was gone, he got the $100k commission, so like... why not?)
The reason Mike hate Saul in Breaking Bad because he didn’t know whatever the hell that is that shakes Saul’s legs. Mike should have tried it though. It will make him walk like Frankenstein getting probed by aliens. Do wonder to his chi.
I think a big reason Mike’s relationship with Jimmy changed was because Mike specifically told him how risky going after Walter was and Jimmy chose to not only go through with reaching out to him but also to hide Walter and Jesse from Mike when Gus was planning to kill them both and replace Walter with Gale
Great video and idea, I like the idea of SOME unanswered questions. Huel sitting there in the Hotel waiting, could have been the 21st century Schrodinger's Cat if that was LEFT unanswered... but TBH a lot of these "spaces" is just good writing. Modern franchises and their proclivity to flush out every detail is a bit of a miss. A good musician knows it's about the notes you play AS WELL as the notes you don't see. Good writing leads us to some conclusions, but doesn't answer them all. I imagine Saul (in full Shark mode) bought Caldera's book at a barebottom price and got the statue from the Kettlemen for free (I don't see him paying anything for it).
@@billblaski9523 it wasn't answered. It's not really that important. It was just Saul's loan-out company he used for Tax purposes. It was mentioned a few times in Breaking Bad.
After Kim says “Enough carrot,” she takes the kid gloves off and begins applying “the stick” to the Kettlemans. Jimmy lags behind Kim in the parking lot, and she asks “You gave them the money, didn’t you?” Jimmy doesn’t answer, but I just assumed he made some kind of deal with them. Hence, the inflatable Liberty statue in Saul’s possession. Doesn’t need to be spelled out any further.
Did anyone else catch the callback to the guy with the broken neck in Saul's office and Mike in last episode of bcs saying he really did have a broken neck
A lot of these I think were intended on being answered. Particularly, the diamonds and "tell em Jimmy sent ya". But the story the writers were telling ended up diverging from being able to answer either of those things.
The diamonds don’t really need an explanation. He likely just bought them as a way to make it easier to hide his money, as opposed to hiding stacks of bills. The tell ‘em Jimmy sent you could still be explained. That scene takes place in the last couple episodes of breaking bad, and we’ll likely still get more from the BrBa timeline.
@@Stumme-40203 yeah diamonds and other grms are historically how refugees (e.g. Jews fleeing the Holocaust) carried what wealth they could hide on their persons. No big mystery why/how Saul acquired them.
Nice catch on the diamonds as a possible explanation. I think you’re totally on to something there, and we agreed on most of the other points as well! .. I’d like to think Saul got the Liberty 🗽 inflatable as a part of some deal that sticks it to the wife a little. But, based on their last interaction I agree with your assessment about sauls pitty(?) for Craig.. Cheers!
Mike is naturally both serious and curmudgeonly, which explains a large part of his surliness toward the seemingly brash Saul, but also at root Mike was a cop who would’ve developed in his professional career a foundational adversity to defense attorneys in general.
All I wanna see is more reaction everybody’s fallout. Like what does Stacey feel? How about the employees at pollos? Probably won’t happen but it’s interesting
great vid! some of these questions are kind of redundant in the sense; like you said "are self-explanatory". Your interpretations and display of facts via the scenes is really well done!
I think the reason Mike doesn't like Jimmy in BrBa is more than just he never did. I think there was always some animosity with the stickers and all, but after he saw what he did to Howard, I imagine that made him think less of Jimmy than he already did.
"Tell 'em Jimmy sent ya" was not Kristy Esposito. She couldn't have gotten through undergrad and law school in that short a time. There was some discussion that the public defender that Kim sees at the courthouse in Waterworks prepping an indigent client was Kristy and that was swiftly debunked on those grounds.
What I think is Mike kinda respected S1 Jimmy who 'did the right thing' and Jimmy then mostly only got dragged into the game by Nacho. But by the end of BCS, papa Varga makes it clear that at the end of the day Mike is just a criminal which Mike does seem to take in. And after Kim leaves, Jimmy fully lives the Saul persona and actively is a crooked lawyer rather than S1-6 Jimmy who was only dragged into the game. And in BB as a crooked criminal lawyer willfully in the game Mike just sees him as that and treats him as that.
I would think Caldera would just leave normally though, if he dissapears I don't really think his vet credentials would work much if at all considering we didn't see Ed fake any type of degree and such, and I'd think it would just be generally easier and less troublesome for him
Yeah, there's really no reason for him to have to disappear. No one in the criminal underworld has a hit out on him as far as we know, and the police don't know that he's a criminal.
I don't get how he almost just gives Saul and Kim the black book, and thinks he can just walk away from the criminal underworld he is apparently the service desk for. He's so casual and la-dee-da about it. Whether it's actual mafia or whatever, I thought guys like Caldera can never just walk away, because they know too much to ever get out. If he could leave though, I don't see him calling the vac guy either. He seems to be quitting because he's over it, not because he needs to disappear, like Saul did.
I was thinking more in the sense that the criminal underworld is aware of this one guy who has all their contact info and he suddenly disappears. A guy that's had cartel interaction too. He's going to want to disappear properly to make sure no one comes after him out of fear of ratting and whatnot. That was my thought process at least.
I give it about a ZERO percent chance that the people packing up Saul's house were law enforcement. No one had any sort of indication that they were with any agency on their clothing. Law enforcement dearly loves to let outsiders know who they are and "stay out of our way". So the question becomes who is packing it up? Saul could've done a Quit claim on the house and all of it's contents to Kim and left her with enough money to cover expenses and taxes?
*All* of his assets were seized by the authorities. Why wouldn't they send contractors to pack up his crap or clean up after they had gathered evidence?
I think my biggest remaining question is why does Mike despise Lydia so much that he thinks she deserves to die? In BCS, Mike only meets and knows her as an executive at Madrigal, and there’s been no real bad blood between them. He knows she has some form of association or familiarity with Gus, but that’s about it. The audience knows the relationship between Gus and Lydia also involves Peter Schuler and is connected to the Santiago incident, but we don’t know exactly what happened or what any of them specifically did. So the question remains, what the hell did Lydia do that Mike wants her dead? Yes, she puts the hit out on him in BB, but there is clearly a much deeper history there. Mike makes it explicitly clear to Walt and Jesse that Lydia deserves to die just as much as any man he’s ever met… He sees her as a liar, a traitor and his hatred for her is palpable. Something else happened here and I want to know what it was.
I found this channel randomly cuz ive been binging bcs stuff and i realised i've watched your content before on a different channel! This is stuff is super interesting and your eyes on BCS are super valuble imo so keep this up its great!
8:38 I think he's sending Francesca to the new & rebranded HHM. That's the only thing that would make sense to me where "Jimmy sent you" would not erect an outrageous response.
You can tell Mike cared deeply for Jimmy but knew that he changed for the worst. Also I think Jimmy and Gus would respect each other with both losing a loved one to the cartel and it changing them into a soulless money maker.
The question about the Sandpiper money answers the questions about the black book, statue of liberty and the cadillac, once he has the black book, that explains how he knows about the disappearer, and probably related to how he gets the Diamonds.
On a much much smaller mystery, the close-up shots of Saul’s Bluetooth headset in season six episode 11 let you identify it as a Motorola H500 which came out about 2005 so it was available for the breaking bad era a couple years later. I did a tiny documentary about this on my channel “Bruce Quinn playground.”
How did Saul get the black book? He bought it. How did Saul get the Statue of Liberty blowup? He bought it. How did Saul get the diamonds? He bought them.
@@charleswoodward9225 I'm quite sure that's what happened. He lost all his assets. Don't know why the little black book got tossed but maybe the code was too confusing for the cops to bother keeping it.
@@dielaughing73 The writers wanted us to see it for purposes of the narrative that Saul became "The Connection" in town. In reality something like that would have been booked into evidence by the Feds long before the asset seizure was allowed to proceed.
Nebraska being only a couple states away from the Canadian border is putting it lightly. It's still about a 9 hour drive to Winnipeg from Omaha and isn't all that much closer than a majority of states are, but still closer than New Mexico
Only thing I will point out is the veterinarian didn’t have to disappear. He wasn’t on the run. He simply said he just was done doing side activities meeting a legal stuff. Yeah he said he would probably move but he never had any reason to pay the fee to disappear he wasn’t running from anybody. And he was simply the middleman it’s not like he was actually part of a gang, meaning it’s highly unlikely he paid the expensive fee to basically have someone box up his belongings. He wasn’t hiding from the police he just simply was tired of not being able to just focus on being a vet.
What happened to the $7million used for Lalo's bail? The DEA concluded that Lalo's burnt body was found in his Mexican Hacienda. Since everyone believes he is dead he can not face trial and the bail should be refunded to whomever "posted" Lalo's bail.....and that should be Saul. No one in the show addresses disposition of those funds. (unless I missed it?)
Realistically the money would have gone to the state at that point. Remember Jimmy didn’t get Lalo out on paper. The state that he was someone else and even though the state couldn’t prove that Jimmy was at fault for the lies. In real life that means you lie to the states of the state will keep the money as you broke your agreements you signed when you were released from jail.
During the episode with the kaddles i thought there was going to be a scene at the end there Karen said "He took everything from us we'll at least there is nothing else he can take" and the episode would end with Jimmy sprinting with the of statue liberty
A suitable ending could be gene ending up in prison and Kim visiting him, paying tribute to the s1 e3 intro where we see chuck talking to slippin jimmy trying to get him out of jail. Except now gene has no hope, he doesn’t have chuck to defend him anymore and the choices he made have led him here This is my take on the scene where it shows a coffin slowly fading into a shot of jimmy in his bed. He may not die himself instead his Gene persona. Having to spend the rest of his life in jail he’ll have to come to the realization of a fate worse than deaths, the choices he made which put him behind bars, and the peoples he’s hurt along the way because of his slippin ways. I think there is a similarity between chuck and Kim and how they feel towards jimmy. At one point or another they loved him but because of his actions it led both of them to having to distance themselves from him. And while they may still care for him they know it’s best to keep their distance because they know how sauls choices end up hurting everyone he loves and cares for. But idk that’s how I think, I’m copying and pasting this into a lot of video so if you see it then you know. Tell me what you think tho
Omaha to Winnipeg is a 10 hour drive. I’m not saying you’re wrong about the diamonds, but I am saying you might have an imperfect understanding of the geographic scale of the usa
I’d have to disagree at 6:56, living in the states, “a few states away” is 1-2 days of travel, and if it’s an illicit operation, they would need to be transported manually.
Is it possible Saul just bought another statue of liberty? I took the Kettleman scene as showing his inspiration. They must make a lot of them in a factory somewhere.
One question I have is ... who finished the lab?? I know this can remain unanswered and we are just left to fill in the gaps ... but I still am curious
As an owner of the same generation caddy, I was sad to not see a proper buying of the car scene. 😢 Craving just a tad above the single line fron Kim that implied reason for it's existence.
I love the show and the ending was nice, but I feel like the flashback sequence of how Jimmy became Saul was really abruptly cut short to make room for present day Jimmy/Gene’s storyline to get tied up
He is one of the leaders of a massive drug cartel, wouldn't be hard for him to obtain a fake passport and then have someone bring him a gun once in Germany. I think you are underestimating how far the cartels influence can reach
@@hanspetrich6520a fellow lawyer figured out that Jimmy was representing Lalo Salamanca instead of Jorge de Guzman. We learn of this case because Kim was informed by the lawyer that was building it. The line "Your building a case against Jimmy" even made it into the trailer.
@@rejectionisprotection4448 yeah it reminds me that just because people have TH-cam channels does not mean they are of higher intelligence than me💀 Mfs coming out with the dumbest shit about how saul has a car crash in the last episode coz of his old car being shown ima reck in a teaser
Instead it's coming from a dry, obnoxious, dull, nasally bri'ish accent using an Xbox 360 mic from 2007, much more preferable. Like wtf are you talking about lmao He sounds like he has an actual cold my guy, it literally can't get more nasally than that, at least try to make sense with your half-assed insults. This video isn't that great anyway, if you want to listen to a nasally british dude ramble on about shit we already know about with no substance go ahead, but you might want to develop better taste if you think this is good
C'mon the Kettlemen's are Saul Goodman's brilliant tax professionals and he definitely conned them out of their statue at some point. Otherwise why show that they are still criminals running tax scams and have similar decor taste?
Just some thoughts on unanswered questions. Where there repercussions for Ed with Saul having his business card on him when captured? With Kim's confession linking Howard's death with Mike and Gus could this lead the Police to revisit the Lab remains and maybes find his body?
@@jacobwilliams7003 Obviously this is all just speculation on our part, but if America's Most Wanted is captured in a dumpster everything in there is being pored over and taken in to evidence. Hmmmm... diamonds, a brand new phone (unopened) and contact information for somewhere in Albequerqui(sp?) where everything went down... amongst the rest of the trash.
@Adam Movs, Hey, In BreakingBad...Walt poisoned Brock with Lily of the Valley according to the hospital. So, why did Jesse conclude Walt poisoned Brock with the lifted Ricin Cigarette ??
Because of the symptoms. The hospital said that it was likely just a kid playing with the wrong flower. Jesse thought he knew better, Walter also was quite sus about it. In a later episode he said: didn't you think that I would know exactly how much I should give him? We see a lily of the valley in Walt's garden in the ending shot though, so he did use the flower.
I think Mike likes Saul, otherwise he would not have helped him in desert. I think, as we just saw, he does resent that Saul went against his advice about Walter White being their downfall. I think the vets black book would have cost about 300,000 and Jimmy new he was about to be able to afford it with Sandpiper money. I always wondered who else was in that book. We know Mike was in it.
I got the feeling Mike became more hostile towards Saul because of his attitude change, Jimmy was always loud and a little rude at points but Saul is every worst part of Jimmy cranked up to 10
for being a killer he still has a strong sense of propriety, I could see him not respecting that
Add to that how his opinion soured when Saul decided to go against Mike's judgement and pursue Walt. Mike is pretty full of himself (sometimes justified) and he can't abide by people who don't follow his advice.
@@DrZaius3141 Mike not warning him about lalo too probably created a two way street of mistrust
Maybe coz saul doesn't have any boundaries, unlike him. Mike hates seeing innocents dies, saul doesnt care at all, and he is too loud
@@amiaw12 Mike says he does care and pretends to be above the rest of the criminals in the shows but is truly just as bad as all the rest
I think Mike’s face as he looked down on Howard and Lalo’s grave says a lot about how his perspective towards Jimmy has shifted. He never particularly liked Jimmy, but he treated him much better, saved his life, gave him advice, and generally just cooperated better with him up to this point. That’s because Mike saw some good in Jimmy and had a basic level of respect for him. But after Jimmy framed Howard, an innocent bystander who was never “in the game,” and indirectly got him killed, Mike couldn’t look at him the same. He could’ve grown to like Jimmy, and I think he cared about him in some ways, but he hates Saul. Mike treats Saul like a different person because as far as he’s concerned, that’s the truth. Kim leaving Jimmy and his subsequent transformation into a full blown crooked criminal lawyer pretty much solidified Mike’s newfound perspective that Saul Goodman isn’t good for anything other than being a means to an end. As pointed out in the video, that’s all they see each other as now. It’s kinda sad to think about, since I do believe that Mike and Jimmy are both good people buried under years of trauma which have lead to many bad choices. Jimmy looked up to Mike as the cool, supportive older brother he wanted Chuck to be. But as always, Jimmy’s downward spiral into Saul turns people away and gradually leads to them despising him.
Disagree completely - I think Mike doesn't respect what Jimmy and Kim have done to Howard but he would not believe it is their fault that Howard died - it is only Howard's fault. I think he is just sad in general to see Howard, who is innocent and decent, die. He is exhausted by the end of BCS with all the Nacho and Lalo stuff.
@@yesmate3442 I have seen many arguments whether Jimmy and Kim are actually responsible for Howard's death but the fact is Howard would still be alive if they didn't target him. For Mike every person killed that wasn't part of "The Game" is a tragedy so Mike blames Jimmy and Kim for causing the death of an innocent bystander with their schemes. Let's not forget Mike also indirectly caused the death of an innocent bystander when he robbed Hector's truck. He blamed himself when Hector killed just some innocent samaritan that only tried to help. Mike still caries the burden on his shoulders since his hostile attitude towards anyone who directly or indirectly causes the death of people who aren't part of "The Game".
@@warbeatler618 He found the dead "Good Samaritan" and called the Police, thereby enabling the family to give him a funeral.
@@rejectionisprotection4448 That doesn't erase their death, he gave the family closure, but he still got the guy indirectly killed.
@@Jaker788 Of course it doesn't. He regretted it because this guy, like Howard, wasn't in the game. If Mike could've foreseen the consequences of his actions, then he probably wouldn't have done it or found another way.
As it was he did what he could to make the pain a tiny bit more bearable for the guy's family.
The Cadillac was also a tribute to Marco, who suggested Saul should have a white Cadillac if he's gonna be a lawyer.
Good catch! I forgot about that.
Is a shame don't showing buying the car
@@issoenewwave Agreed. Although in my opinion it would have been cooler if he inherited it from Chuck.
@@Leon-zu1wp if he inherited it from Chuck, he probably would of just sold it out of spite
I'm so glad Caldera survived to just go be a vet full time. I was predicting that Lalo would kill him and that's how Jimmy would get the book.
Nippy is his favorite client.
Well, they can't have Lalo kill EVERYBODY now can they?
That wouldn't work. The book was encrypted with a code only the vet knew. Its intentionally set up so that killing him would cause the book to become useless. The only way to get the book was to have the vet give it willingly in exchange for money.
@@Brian-uy2tj I mean he made Jimmy so panicked in the desert so maybe that was part of it. Was my thought pattern.
@@BonJoviBeatlesLedZep My reply was meant to be lighthearted, Lalo certainly was as happy to kill someone as look at them......... but even he can only kill so many. Your theory of Lalo killing the Veterinarian is as good as anyone elses theory. Lalo's character was so well written and acted. I Love the character but sure wouldn't ever want to meet him.
I like to believe the inflatable Liberty is the same one the Kettlemans had. This is reinforced in real life as the creators said in a podcast that when they were shooting BCS they looked into getting another one as they were worried the original would get damaged by weather in the desert, but discovered it was unique as they couldn't find another one anywhere.
I think Saul could have easily held what they had on the Kettlemens over their heads to extort them out of the inflatable Liberty.
Important real-world context: The actual house used as Saul's mansion, complete with insane custom bedroom, was spotted on Zillow for about $825k
I had idly wondered was it the same house that Kim & Jimmy visit. While Jimmy admired the light of that house, the one we see getting sacked is totally dark but kinda cool to think he finally bought that original house.
is that considered to be expensive in that area? for that price, you don't even get a solid apartment in Amsterdam, lmao
@@LeadSwitchKick sounds like your place should start cutting trees off to build more houses lol
@@GK-ut9ncor just flood the area again, no loss really.
@@LeadSwitchKickAnother reason your country should be under water again.
The writers have enough respect for viewers intelligence that we don't need to see exactly how Jimmy got the book. We know where it came from, we know where it ends up. We can fill the blank and theorise in whatever way we want.
And everyone reading the comments on this video loves a good theory!
BINGO !!!
Still seems a little cheap to me. Saul stealing it could have made for a really intense scene.
@@Skrenja Why would he steal it. That's fucking dumb. The vet says he wants to sell it and "retire".
What about Stacey Ehrmantraut? What happened to her?
@@dash_r_mediaRight!! They don't know what happened to Mike. The very thing he tried to NOT do to people not in the game. He was very insistent Werner's wife got answers and closure. Nacho's Dad, the passer by who got shot because of Mike messing with Hector's trucks...
In a way, much as I don't like it because we all love Mike, that's the most fitting end for his character.
Another question the show hasn't answered yet is why or how Hector got out of Casa Tranquila to Tuco's shack in the desert where we first see him in Breaking Bad.
Yeah, this question about Hector/Tuco/shack seems like it deserves some kind of coverage in BCS since it was such a major plot element in BrBa.
i believe this is also self explanatory. Tuco was released from prison and went to take care of his tio. He placed him in one of his hideouts to watch over him since it wouldn’t feel right to leave him in a nursing home when he can take care of him just like how he took care of his abuelita
It just so happens to be like that. Seriously Better call saul was not yet planned, so it's up to BCS to make it work, not vice versa. If he get the story from BCS to BB, he know Hector got too dramatic about Gus and how nobody believe him, so maybe they got tired of him and just Tuco left to care for him.
Everything can't be shown. It would be a waste of time.
There are many more unanswered
1) what happened to abuelita
2) Mike warns about Walt, he would have warned more about Jesse.
But, these are not important for the show.
@@nonnobissolum I smell sarcasm lol it isn’t important at all!
My guess for why mike is so hostile towards saul is that he didn't take his advice to avoid walt, which ended up bringing him into his orbit
That and he doesn’t have any respect for him after Howard
I like this, the show gives you all the pieces a b and d, and just asks you to fill in c. I don't need to see Saul getting the black book or the statue of liberty if we can all figure out what happened.
I can’t remember the name off the top of my head but during Howard memorial they say HHM was rebranding. A lot of the people there knew “Jimmy” and so Saul most likely sent Francesca there. At the time I thought it was Kim but she’s obviously no longer an attorney
Brookner partners?
I thought it was Kim too for a while, then I realized she already met Kim so him not just saying it's Kim number wouldn't make sense. It being rebranded hmm makes the most sense.
Saul's Deville is a '97 model which would have been a new car right around the time Jimmy passed the bar and was working solo out of the Nail Salon. It's the same Caddy, or at least the same model as he parked his beat-up Suzuki Esteem next to earlier in the show and was eyeing over with a bit of envy. Was it Bill Oakley's? Anyway, Jimmy doesn't go full Saul until 2004, so it's interesting that he buys a used car. Clearly this is because he remembered the one from the parking lot.
Yeah, so it'k kinda funny, how Jimmy's Suzuki Esteem ('96-'98) could be even newer than the Cadillac, yet it's already a rusty "steaming pile of crap", while the Cadillac is shiny like it's new. And since it's at least 7 years old by the time Saul buys it, it probably won't cost $40k (which is why I kinda expected him to get it in the Beginning of S6: his old car was gone, Lalo was gone, he got the $100k commission, so like... why not?)
The reason Mike hate Saul in Breaking Bad because he didn’t know whatever the hell that is that shakes Saul’s legs.
Mike should have tried it though. It will make him walk like Frankenstein getting probed by aliens. Do wonder to his chi.
I think a big reason Mike’s relationship with Jimmy changed was because Mike specifically told him how risky going after Walter was and Jimmy chose to not only go through with reaching out to him but also to hide Walter and Jesse from Mike when Gus was planning to kill them both and replace Walter with Gale
I really like how this show’s never just spelled everything out for the audience and gives us relevant details but lets us piece together the rest.
Great video and idea, I like the idea of SOME unanswered questions.
Huel sitting there in the Hotel waiting, could have been the 21st century Schrodinger's Cat if that was LEFT unanswered... but TBH a lot of these "spaces" is just good writing. Modern franchises and their proclivity to flush out every detail is a bit of a miss. A good musician knows it's about the notes you play AS WELL as the notes you don't see.
Good writing leads us to some conclusions, but doesn't answer them all. I imagine Saul (in full Shark mode) bought Caldera's book at a barebottom price and got the statue from the Kettlemen for free (I don't see him paying anything for it).
Still hoping that the Kettlemans end up being "Ice Station Zebra Associates"
It's all over now, so what did Ice Zebra Station Associates end up being?
@@billblaski9523 it wasn't answered. It's not really that important. It was just Saul's loan-out company he used for Tax purposes. It was mentioned a few times in Breaking Bad.
After Kim says “Enough carrot,” she takes the kid gloves off and begins applying “the stick” to the Kettlemans. Jimmy lags behind Kim in the parking lot, and she asks “You gave them the money, didn’t you?” Jimmy doesn’t answer, but I just assumed he made some kind of deal with them. Hence, the inflatable Liberty statue in Saul’s possession. Doesn’t need to be spelled out any further.
He bought it and would reclaim it later
I knew he gave them the money, never thought about it as a purchase for the inflatable lady liberty. ah HA!
Did anyone else catch the callback to the guy with the broken neck in Saul's office and Mike in last episode of bcs saying he really did have a broken neck
A lot of these I think were intended on being answered. Particularly, the diamonds and "tell em Jimmy sent ya". But the story the writers were telling ended up diverging from being able to answer either of those things.
The diamonds don’t really need an explanation. He likely just bought them as a way to make it easier to hide his money, as opposed to hiding stacks of bills. The tell ‘em Jimmy sent you could still be explained. That scene takes place in the last couple episodes of breaking bad, and we’ll likely still get more from the BrBa timeline.
It wouldn't be the first time the writers diverged a plotline... Anyone else remember Marie's kleptomaniac scene?
@@Stumme-40203 yeah diamonds and other grms are historically how refugees (e.g. Jews fleeing the Holocaust) carried what wealth they could hide on their persons. No big mystery why/how Saul acquired them.
@@Stumme-40203 Wasn't answered. And we know especially that it isn't Oakley because he didn't even know he was a defence attorney.
@@jantheking7028I almost forgot about it now that you mention it.
Nice catch on the diamonds as a possible explanation. I think you’re totally on to something there, and we agreed on most of the other points as well!
.. I’d like to think Saul got the Liberty 🗽 inflatable as a part of some deal that sticks it to the wife a little. But, based on their last interaction I agree with your assessment about sauls pitty(?) for Craig..
Cheers!
Mike is naturally both serious and curmudgeonly, which explains a large part of his surliness toward the seemingly brash Saul, but also at root Mike was a cop who would’ve developed in his professional career a foundational adversity to defense attorneys in general.
All I wanna see is more reaction everybody’s fallout. Like what does Stacey feel? How about the employees at pollos? Probably won’t happen but it’s interesting
great vid! some of these questions are kind of redundant in the sense; like you said "are self-explanatory". Your interpretations and display of facts via the scenes is really well done!
I think the reason Mike doesn't like Jimmy in BrBa is more than just he never did. I think there was always some animosity with the stickers and all, but after he saw what he did to Howard, I imagine that made him think less of Jimmy than he already did.
"Tell 'em Jimmy sent ya" was not Kristy Esposito. She couldn't have gotten through undergrad and law school in that short a time. There was some discussion that the public defender that Kim sees at the courthouse in Waterworks prepping an indigent client was Kristy and that was swiftly debunked on those grounds.
What I think is Mike kinda respected S1 Jimmy who 'did the right thing' and Jimmy then mostly only got dragged into the game by Nacho.
But by the end of BCS, papa Varga makes it clear that at the end of the day Mike is just a criminal which Mike does seem to take in. And after Kim leaves, Jimmy fully lives the Saul persona and actively is a crooked lawyer rather than S1-6 Jimmy who was only dragged into the game. And in BB as a crooked criminal lawyer willfully in the game Mike just sees him as that and treats him as that.
I would think Caldera would just leave normally though, if he dissapears I don't really think his vet credentials would work much if at all considering we didn't see Ed fake any type of degree and such, and I'd think it would just be generally easier and less troublesome for him
Yeah, there's really no reason for him to have to disappear. No one in the criminal underworld has a hit out on him as far as we know, and the police don't know that he's a criminal.
I don't get how he almost just gives Saul and Kim the black book, and thinks he can just walk away from the criminal underworld he is apparently the service desk for. He's so casual and la-dee-da about it. Whether it's actual mafia or whatever, I thought guys like Caldera can never just walk away, because they know too much to ever get out.
If he could leave though, I don't see him calling the vac guy either. He seems to be quitting because he's over it, not because he needs to disappear, like Saul did.
I was thinking more in the sense that the criminal underworld is aware of this one guy who has all their contact info and he suddenly disappears. A guy that's had cartel interaction too. He's going to want to disappear properly to make sure no one comes after him out of fear of ratting and whatnot. That was my thought process at least.
I’m so glad to get more BCS content. Especially from you!
Saul got the black book because his fish was so healthy that it was gifted to him
Swimmy McGill is thriving in his new round bottom flask tank.
What happened to the film students? Why are his Better Call Saul Ads cinematically worse than his former ads?
I give it about a ZERO percent chance that the people packing up Saul's house were law enforcement. No one had any sort of indication that they were with any agency on their clothing. Law enforcement dearly loves to let outsiders know who they are and "stay out of our way". So the question becomes who is packing it up? Saul could've done a Quit claim on the house and all of it's contents to Kim and left her with enough money to cover expenses and taxes?
Probably from the bank, repossessing the house.
@@billd66 could be
*All* of his assets were seized by the authorities. Why wouldn't they send contractors to pack up his crap or clean up after they had gathered evidence?
Great attention to detail, Adam. I've wondered about all this stuff, but could never get a handle on it till now. Thanks!
I think my biggest remaining question is why does Mike despise Lydia so much that he thinks she deserves to die? In BCS, Mike only meets and knows her as an executive at Madrigal, and there’s been no real bad blood between them. He knows she has some form of association or familiarity with Gus, but that’s about it. The audience knows the relationship between Gus and Lydia also involves Peter Schuler and is connected to the Santiago incident, but we don’t know exactly what happened or what any of them specifically did. So the question remains, what the hell did Lydia do that Mike wants her dead? Yes, she puts the hit out on him in BB, but there is clearly a much deeper history there. Mike makes it explicitly clear to Walt and Jesse that Lydia deserves to die just as much as any man he’s ever met… He sees her as a liar, a traitor and his hatred for her is palpable. Something else happened here and I want to know what it was.
I loved this video! Answers how saul got his connections and the cadillac, awesome.
It doesn't tell you anything you wouldn't get from just watching the show.
@@rodjohnson3045 tbh, its been a while, so i wouldnt get too much in detail
I found this channel randomly cuz ive been binging bcs stuff and i realised i've watched your content before on a different channel!
This is stuff is super interesting and your eyes on BCS are super valuble imo so keep this up its great!
8:38 I think he's sending Francesca to the new & rebranded HHM. That's the only thing that would make sense to me where "Jimmy sent you" would not erect an outrageous response.
The actress that plays Betsy did a great job on this role
She was truly riveting.
I'm wondering why Mike agreed to clean up Jesse's place. Also why Mike let Kim go even though she knew so much about their operation.
You can tell Mike cared deeply for Jimmy but knew that he changed for the worst. Also I think Jimmy and Gus would respect each other with both losing a loved one to the cartel and it changing them into a soulless money maker.
The question about the Sandpiper money answers the questions about the black book, statue of liberty and the cadillac, once he has the black book, that explains how he knows about the disappearer, and probably related to how he gets the Diamonds.
I just realised where I recognised your voice from. I’ve been watching your DBD videos for a while!!
Keep up the content!
On a much much smaller mystery, the close-up shots of Saul’s Bluetooth headset in season six episode 11 let you identify it as a Motorola H500 which came out about 2005 so it was available for the breaking bad era a couple years later. I did a tiny documentary about this on my channel “Bruce Quinn playground.”
How did Saul get the black book? He bought it. How did Saul get the Statue of Liberty blowup? He bought it. How did Saul get the diamonds? He bought them.
who were the people in saul's house? he hired them
@@davidbray5982 No the Feds hired them.
@Billy Bob Barnabus The purpose of the diamonds is to show us the audience that Saul has the means to make another escape.
@@charleswoodward9225 I'm quite sure that's what happened. He lost all his assets. Don't know why the little black book got tossed but maybe the code was too confusing for the cops to bother keeping it.
@@dielaughing73 The writers wanted us to see it for purposes of the narrative that Saul became "The Connection" in town. In reality something like that would have been booked into evidence by the Feds long before the asset seizure was allowed to proceed.
Nebraska being only a couple states away from the Canadian border is putting it lightly. It's still about a 9 hour drive to Winnipeg from Omaha and isn't all that much closer than a majority of states are, but still closer than New Mexico
Yeah, them be some larger states west of the the big muddy.
Jimmy never withdrew those 20 grand, he didn't need to, he had more than 100g earned in the bagman episode.
Feels weird having you talk about BCS instead of DBD, but it’s cool to watch!
Only thing I will point out is the veterinarian didn’t have to disappear. He wasn’t on the run. He simply said he just was done doing side activities meeting a legal stuff.
Yeah he said he would probably move but he never had any reason to pay the fee to disappear he wasn’t running from anybody. And he was simply the middleman it’s not like he was actually part of a gang, meaning it’s highly unlikely he paid the expensive fee to basically have someone box up his belongings. He wasn’t hiding from the police he just simply was tired of not being able to just focus on being a vet.
You did a good job explaining these unanswered questions.
What happened to the $7million used for Lalo's bail? The DEA concluded that Lalo's burnt body was found in his Mexican Hacienda. Since everyone believes he is dead he can not face trial and the bail should be refunded to whomever "posted" Lalo's bail.....and that should be Saul. No one in the show addresses disposition of those funds. (unless I missed it?)
Asset forfeiture ain't just a river in Egypt
Realistically the money would have gone to the state at that point. Remember Jimmy didn’t get Lalo out on paper. The state that he was someone else and even though the state couldn’t prove that Jimmy was at fault for the lies. In real life that means you lie to the states of the state will keep the money as you broke your agreements you signed when you were released from jail.
i didnt know azhymovs had a movie channel. this is the best thing ever i love dbd and i love bcs
Yeah, I was hoping to see how he acquired the SoL from the Kerttlemans.
During the episode with the kaddles i thought there was going to be a scene at the end there Karen said
"He took everything from us we'll at least there is nothing else he can take" and the episode would end with Jimmy sprinting with the of statue liberty
Kettlemans? Betsy?
polarsaurus rex called he wants his voice back
I need to know how tuco and hector ended up in the shack they’re living in in breaking bad
Are you the guy who makes dbd content?
A suitable ending could be gene ending up in prison and Kim visiting him, paying tribute to the s1 e3 intro where we see chuck talking to slippin jimmy trying to get him out of jail. Except now gene has no hope, he doesn’t have chuck to defend him anymore and the choices he made have led him here
This is my take on the scene where it shows a coffin slowly fading into a shot of jimmy in his bed. He may not die himself instead his Gene persona. Having to spend the rest of his life in jail he’ll have to come to the realization of a fate worse than deaths, the choices he made which put him behind bars, and the peoples he’s hurt along the way because of his slippin ways.
I think there is a similarity between chuck and Kim and how they feel towards jimmy. At one point or another they loved him but because of his actions it led both of them to having to distance themselves from him. And while they may still care for him they know it’s best to keep their distance because they know how sauls choices end up hurting everyone he loves and cares for.
But idk that’s how I think, I’m copying and pasting this into a lot of video so if you see it then you know. Tell me what you think tho
You pretty much nailed it.
@@bonniehowell9206 well except that he ends in Prison not really
Saul got the liberty statue because of him looking good.
Re the inflatable. Kim says to Jimmy "You gave them the money didnt you?" THATS when he bought the thing, off screen, imho
5:27 he drove a white cadillac because marco said something about driving a white cadillac in season 2 i think it was
he said "I bet you're out there driving a big white Cadillac like the king of the desert," in season 2
Jimmy doesn't know that his mother called out his name before she passed away.
Omaha to Winnipeg is a 10 hour drive. I’m not saying you’re wrong about the diamonds, but I am saying you might have an imperfect understanding of the geographic scale of the usa
Great video! Just got recommended and subscribed.
I’d have to disagree at 6:56, living in the states, “a few states away” is 1-2 days of travel, and if it’s an illicit operation, they would need to be transported manually.
Is it possible Saul just bought another statue of liberty? I took the Kettleman scene as showing his inspiration. They must make a lot of them in a factory somewhere.
On the insider podcast they revealed that the inflatable is a one of a kind, so I kind of just used that and applied it to the show too.
@@AdamMovs ah right that's interesting. I wonder whether they'll confirm what happend or leave it to us to guess.
One question I have is ... who finished the lab?? I know this can remain unanswered and we are just left to fill in the gaps ... but I still am curious
Probably the original contractor before Werner’s team got assigned
He’s worked the kettlemans in the past , he could easily find a way to take the inflatable liberty from them too
I think someone said that with Sandpiper money saul made his golden tolite
Mike started to dislike Saul because he beg him to get Walt involved and you already know how that ends up
As an owner of the same generation caddy, I was sad to not see a proper buying of the car scene. 😢 Craving just a tad above the single line fron Kim that implied reason for it's existence.
I love the show and the ending was nice, but I feel like the flashback sequence of how Jimmy became Saul was really abruptly cut short to make room for present day Jimmy/Gene’s storyline to get tied up
I wanna know how lalo got to Germany and back with a pistol and no passport
He is one of the leaders of a massive drug cartel, wouldn't be hard for him to obtain a fake passport and then have someone bring him a gun once in Germany. I think you are underestimating how far the cartels influence can reach
Maybe I missed it but what happened to the case against Jimmy?
Which one?
@@hanspetrich6520 the one that was mentioned at the beging of season 6
@@felixweinlinger I don't quite recall, what was that about again?
@@hanspetrich6520a fellow lawyer figured out that Jimmy was representing Lalo Salamanca instead of Jorge de Guzman. We learn of this case because Kim was informed by the lawyer that was building it. The line "Your building a case against Jimmy" even made it into the trailer.
I’m quite sad that we didn’t get to see that part in the show, because it was the part I was most excited about.
He got the inflatable Ms.liberty thing from the kettlemens
Nice being able to hear Better Call Saul ideas not delivered from the most piercing nasally American accents per usual
It was so much easier listening to this breakdown. Some of the others were hard work and I never quite made it.
@@rejectionisprotection4448 yeah it reminds me that just because people have TH-cam channels does not mean they are of higher intelligence than me💀 Mfs coming out with the dumbest shit about how saul has a car crash in the last episode coz of his old car being shown ima reck in a teaser
@@jorg7228 Aren't the teasers more metaphorical than real? I mean, they're called "teasers" for a reason.
@@rejectionisprotection4448 exactly people are incredibly thick unfortunately
Instead it's coming from a dry, obnoxious, dull, nasally bri'ish accent using an Xbox 360 mic from 2007, much more preferable. Like wtf are you talking about lmao He sounds like he has an actual cold my guy, it literally can't get more nasally than that, at least try to make sense with your half-assed insults. This video isn't that great anyway, if you want to listen to a nasally british dude ramble on about shit we already know about with no substance go ahead, but you might want to develop better taste if you think this is good
Saul killed the kettlemans and stole it
About the statue of liberty : I think he just bought a new one, it doesn't have to be the one that the Kettlmans had, it just have him the idea...
The connection is too great just to be a new one. Likely got it from them.
I think they might be Ice Station Zebra
C'mon the Kettlemen's are Saul Goodman's brilliant tax professionals and he definitely conned them out of their statue at some point. Otherwise why show that they are still criminals running tax scams and have similar decor taste?
@@DarkGT Plus, it looks junky and rundown just like the Kettleman's. They look too much alike, I think it's the same one.
great content i fw it
What exactly the content of Chuck's letter to Jimmy that Kim saw?
Mike liked Jimmy, Saul is not Jimmy.
Just some thoughts on unanswered questions.
Where there repercussions for Ed with Saul having his business card on him when captured?
With Kim's confession linking Howard's death with Mike and Gus could this lead the Police to revisit the Lab remains and maybes find his body?
I think that Ed's card wouldn't be found as it was probably left in the dumpster and seen as trash
@@jacobwilliams7003 Obviously this is all just speculation on our part, but if America's Most Wanted is captured in a dumpster everything in there is being pored over and taken in to evidence.
Hmmmm... diamonds, a brand new phone (unopened) and contact information for somewhere in Albequerqui(sp?) where everything went down... amongst the rest of the trash.
Are you Azhymovs by any chance?
@Adam Movs, Hey, In BreakingBad...Walt poisoned Brock with Lily of the Valley according to the hospital. So, why did Jesse conclude Walt poisoned Brock with the lifted Ricin Cigarette ??
Because of the symptoms. The hospital said that it was likely just a kid playing with the wrong flower. Jesse thought he knew better, Walter also was quite sus about it. In a later episode he said: didn't you think that I would know exactly how much I should give him?
We see a lily of the valley in Walt's garden in the ending shot though, so he did use the flower.
@@tothepast I see, thank you :) for the explanation !
Why did Chuck move from Cicero to Albuquerque in the first place?
idk why the vet would disappear tho he's not wanted by feds
The real question is, who replaces the fluorescent tubes in Calderra's vet clinic, and what are they trying to hide?? Who is the supplier? Who? WHO??
Outta curiosity do you also do a DbD channel?
great video!
If we get one more prequel, I wanna know who wrote the Black Book.
Wait how did he get the black book and who made it in the first place how did the vet get it and how did the vet know nacho
I googled it you can easily by an inflatable statue of liberty lol
this video is super interesting after seeing the finale
If there's another spin off I think the Vet would be a good one
Man you gotta upload on azhymovs
I think Mike likes Saul, otherwise he would not have helped him in desert. I think, as we just saw, he does resent that Saul went against his advice about Walter White being their downfall. I think the vets black book would have cost about 300,000 and Jimmy new he was about to be able to afford it with Sandpiper money. I always wondered who else was in that book. We know Mike was in it.
6:23 who is Danny?
Pryce (baseball cards guy)
Thank you for the Liberty explanation. I was worried that he serviced Mrs. Kettleman while her husband laid in the corner weeping.
Looks like we need a Kettleman spin off.
Preferably a Betsy spin off.
I'd feel like the kettlemans would look better after Howard's "drug" abuse probably get their life back