Yeah, also feel like Jimmy understood Chuck a little bit more at that point, the honorable soldier/advocat with strong sense of justice who does everything by the book, the soldier blamed Jimmy the same way Chuck used to do for being 'dishonorable'.
After I've liked -> hated Chuck I've started to like him again. If you think about it Chuck was playing fair and he was being treated like a fool by Jimmy (for example Jimmy promised Chuck not to make him look like a fool again, what he did on several ocasions). So I loved the scene when he treated soldier who has no history with him like Chuck. Epic
@@johnrex9612 I'm glad you turned to liking Chuck again. I honestly don't see how people can hate him. He was right about Jimmy the entire time and fully justified in everything he did.
@@jaypee9575 I've always treated Chuck as protagonist, only when we've learnt he blocked Jimmy from getting job in HMM I blamed Chuck. But he had right to do this and later we can see why he made his decision and why it was mostly justified
It also felt like his thankfulness of his service was his closing sentiment in their argument. He was called an ambulance chaser, and he compared his life to the captain and felt guilty, and backed down. It seemed like he really felt bad about it, and wanted to show the captain the respect he deserved.
@@r2dxhate Yeah I felt the same. I felt like Jimmy could've won that exchange anyway and kept airing the add but suddenly decided to stop himself when he genuinely felt bad about it.
In any other show, I feel like Jimmy sneaking onto an airbase by fooling an air force captain would've just been a humorous scene to never be mentioned again, I'm glad that this show actually had Jimmy get confronted on it, it feels agonisingly real.
I mean he infiltrated an US Air Force base under false pretenses good thing it's a prequel, so we won't be tormented with "lawyer to threat to national security" character arc
Same thing with Lalo killing that guy Fred at the travel agency. A character that insignificant, whose death wasn’t even shown on screen, would have been entirely forgotten about. But instead, Lalo actually gets arrested and the story progresses
Honestly both this show and Breaking Bad are really good at making characters suffer the consequences of their seemingly harmless actions and I'm here for it
@@ottersirotten4290 I'd wager the point from the producer is that Jimmy was trying to make the point but, like the entirety of this show, is talking out of his ass and doesn't know (nor care) that naval aviators are separate from the air force. Makes Jimmy look foolhardy, which is a big point in this scene
One of the only guys that actually had a good comeback against Jimmy. Usually Jimmy says something witty and the other person gets baffled and shuts up. The captain actually talked to Jimmy straight. Something he needs more than he gets.
This back and forth between the two actually felt like a real argument, with Jimmy interrupting the captain and trying to take control of the conversation, and the captain still standing his ground. Phenomenal acting.
@@smoketj4830 EVEN MORE NOW!! lol I swear to God, ever since I first heard this line, it's been in the back of my head every time I watch a new episode from the show
I feel bad for the captain. You can tell near the end that this wasn't just something that angered him, it hurt him more than that. He was thinking about this all day, and now with saul off the hook this will probably dig into him for a long time.
God help that Captain when he realizes just how corrupt the Pentagon and the entire system is. He will have a hard time keeping his service pistol out of his mouth .
@@tacituskilgore6752 usually the suicidal ones are either damaged by chemical weapons or they see combat or have it really rough in the barracks. Air force is generally like a country club except for the drone strikes.
@@tacituskilgore6752 For real, you think lawyers are bad? Try seeing what your higher officers and the CIA are doing on a daily basis, Jimmy is like an angel compared to the government.
Dang, if they brought this one line full circle. That would be so much like the creators, aka creating all the the Lalo stuff off of a BB throw away line.
idk who acted as the captain but they acted the HELL outta that captain. felt 100% real, and the way he maintains dominance and sees right through Jimmy immediately was so clear. hats off, and that's church yo.
The captain is a reality check that not only Jimmy, but the audience needed to hear. So long into the story, we have got into liking Jimmyto the extent that we justify most of the things he does, and the ones we don't agree with we let it slide because we admire how creative Jimmy is into creating a solution for it. But the Captain goes directly to the issue. Jimmy does what he does, and continues doing it because in the end he gets away with it. But each time this happens, he goes deeper and deeper into the issue. And what Jimmy is unable to see (and tries to ignore it), is that there will be a point of no return, and for as deep as he goes, it will be worse for him in the end.
What is that point of no return? There is always time for repentance and coming good as long as you're not in the wake of dying. That should be known by everyone religious or not. There is a 2nd chance. God is all-forgiving. And if you don't believe in God, you should forgive yourself after repenting. And come clean.
@@minzblatt It's not that he can't eventually accept himself, but I'm talking about his literal actions. Once you do something, there's no way to undone it... and those things pile up. And there will come a point in which that pile will be to big to just "move on" from it.
I love that the character was played as not bright, it really highlighted that its not about being clever, its about basic human decency which Jimmy keeps sacrificing in his schemes.
At 2:44 is when Jimmy stops talking to the Air Force Captain and starts subconsciously talking to Chuck. When he realizes it he completely changes his tone from playful aggression to just wanting to discard of the situation altogether.
@@BingusLover93 Slipping Jimmy is anything but weak. He is just tired of trying to prevent the other party from losing face. So he gave up and said make me. Calmly but with determination. He would not yield to this Captain, or his brother. He stood his ground. That is not weak.
I think there has always been this undercurrent of Jimmy feeling guilt and shame simmering somewhere deep down, and wanting to get caught in order to face a reckoning for everything he has done and to finally drop that guilt off his shoulders. I think his choices in the finale confirm that, but there were hints of it even before. When he decides to do the mall heist, when he goes back to the house of the guy with cancer, etc. It's like there are two sides of him battling each other: one wanting to get caught, and another trying to weasel his way out of any situation, like a challenge. When he says "make me" the first time, it almost sounds sincere. Like it's the Jimmy who wants to get caught shines through for a moment, before the other Jimmy takes over again, who loves the thrill of this game, happy to throw down
Saul’s personal frustration with those on a “high horse” show his motivation against Howard. Also, he highlights how nobody was hurt in this prank. But in the end, someone got hurt…
Funnily enough, there was a real life case of a man who would repeatedly lie about being a high ranking military official to enter several different airforce bases. For the longest time he was never prosecuted because the officials that let him in were afraid it would harm their and the airforce's reputation
In a sense, this is the biggest failure of “slippin Jimmy” simply because he can’t even shake the man’s belief for a tiny bit. Jimmy’s power became completely useless in front of this man, and on top of that, the man saw through every one last bit of Jimmy’s nature.
How do the showrunners of this series and Breaking Bad always manage to find the perfect actors for ALL of the characters that appear? Brendan Fehr fits his character to a tee, what a performance.
Yeah, interesting point. I think this scene is very important to the narrative. Not only was it a huge reality check for Jimmy, but in a way, it actually foreshadowed the ending. The pilot was right- the wheel turned.
I absolutely love this scene, especially the ending. It just resonates so well with the path we all know Jimmy'll take throughout this series. "-You think you don't have to play straight with anybody. The wheel is gonna' turn. It always does." It's just so good, and the fact that they didn't even have to have this scene for any big point in the narrative or even resolution wise was so satisfying.
the first half of their discussion is a testament to how good saul is at arguing; he said nothing incriminating and was really good at spinning the topic around to recruit numbers to the point he temporarily disoriented the pilot.
These kinds of scenes are amongst my favorites in the show. Don't get me wrong, it's rewarding to watch the layers built up between two main characters unfold during a climactic confrontation. But _this_ kind of stuff, very few shows do scenes like this. Most shows would play the whole air base scam as a one-off gag. But BCS and BB both seem to love giving justice and well-used screen time to as many characters as is humanly possible.
The foreshadowing from this Airforce guy about the downfall of Jimmy is so well done. Edit: To those saying preuqels can't have fore shadowing, please refer to star wars preuqels. Yes I spelt prequels wrong and i don't care.
@Kjell Snuskberg That’s not foreshadowing tho. Foreshadowing is a hint the author gives the audience about what might happen in the future. Since this is a prequel, story-wise the future already happened so… we don’t need hints about what we already know
@@maelxidel8979 its meant that it’s a foreshadow about him being Gene Takovic, being in the perspective of being inside the story’s past. It doesn’t matter that we already know what happened to Jimmy in the end, that was a foreshadow for Jimmy’s.
Well, most of Saul´s "enemies" are usually right. The whole point of the show is Saul being a con artist, and for the most part, getting away with it. Even when he´s at his best, and just sticks to being a lawyer, he is still playing dishonest defense for people who he knows are guilty, and should be in jail. That´s what makes the show so interesting. We know that almost everything Saul does is wrong, but we still can´t help but sympathize with him.
For some people, it's hard to gauge how shady they know themselves to be when they deal with other shady people. When you deal with low-lifes, there are so many shades of grey that it becomes harder to have any self-awareness about just how bad you have become. Compared to the people Saul deals with, he is a lighter shade of gray than those he deals with, therefore (in his mind), he sits higher up on the sh*t heap than the darker characters he deals with. Because of that, he has deluded himself into thinking that despite his lies and trickery, he still has integrity. It's only when he deals with straight-arrows, and people with wholly intact, unshakeable integrity, that he ends up seeing himself as he really is. When he is hit with the bright, glaring, spotlight of truth from guys like this, (I believe) its only then that he sees himself for what he really is, which is the shady, conniving, morally questionable con-man that he is. it is during moments like this that he realizes that although he is not completely "dirty", and although he does sit at the top of the sh*t heap, it is still a sh*t heap, and it something that he is still a part of, and that his ideas of self-integrity and of being morally righteous are delusions at best.
Jimmy is a sociopath. The tiny pings of guilt are short lived as long as his plans work. The show has been a study of one man's worsening malignant narcisism. The obsession with destroying Howard confirms my diagnosis. He would have faired better had he been full blown psychopath, like Gus. I thought Kim would be his way out, but the feed eachothers disorders in codependent ickiness. Make for great TV. I would had to get in the wrong side of Jimmy and Kim. A team of evil geniuses that no amount of intelligence can stand up to. They will find a way. I've met a few. Scary. Especially the ones you like, in spite of the horrible things they do to you.
@@kidcharlemagne3044 Why, he's the only one to blame. He was an asshole about it, dishonored army and this soldier. When he got critiziced by the soldier he just took it like it was Chuck complaining again. Jimy deserved like 90% of things that happened to him. He's cheating all the time and each time he is surprised people are against him for that.
@@count_monte-sych Cheating is wrong, the soldier and his buddies were hurt, their patriotic treatement of a "veteran" was a joke. He had no right to enter the base or make a comercial. Other people have to pay and work harder to make comercials like this but he's just cheating people. That's not fair. Jimmy is a hypocrite. He can do harm to others and cheat but people can't even speak ill about his actions
This is why I love breaking bad and better call saul Any other show would never care that captain would see that ad and would go confront jimmy But this writters think about it
If the wheel is always going to turn, I don't envy the captain. Ending up on support and with PTSD because of a money grabbing war is not a good way to spend your retirement.
During that whole scene with the fake veteran and the bomber I was thinking “what about when this airs? Isn’t someone from this base gonna see this and know it was a con job?”
As Mike would say, you do your due diligence. Was Jimmy wrong, yes. Did the Captain leave himself and his base he was responsible for, open to people of unknown intent? The simplest inspection of the wheelchair or bags would have sufficed to reveal their motives. Jimmy was sleazy, but that captain was incompetent, and that's why he was so upset.
@@hohaiphong6225 Incompetent no. That's an extreme word people throw around and it shows Karl here thinks very highly of himself and very low of folks who get fooled because they trust human decency. In the end, it happens. You don't need to be incompetent to once in your life not be vigilant against scum. The whole point of the show is that good people do get taken by people like Jimmy and it happens often, but those people will not end up where Jimmy did because the wheel does indeed turn. And there are those who never pay for their crimes and deceptions. But this is rare. Because it's not about karma, morality, or any of that made up nonsense. The truth is people like Jimmy feel a high every time they tempt the dragon and don't get burned, so they will always tempt the dragon and the dragon only needs to win once.
@@truethat15 i know, but the mike analogy works so well so i dont think its so much karl being narcissistic than he seeing things a different way. Trusting people is fine, and questioning the validity of a veteran in wheelchairs is of course the last thing a soldier would do, but he should have taken responsibility for that if not by taking the blame, than by at least not going after jimmy to threat to sue. Jimmy did a bad thing, and the captain had every reason to be mad and would be right to condemn him, but taking responsibility would be him acknowledging that he too was responsible for this happening by not checking info, and while demanding jimmy to take the ad down, not go and threaten him with a lawsuit like it was only jimmy’s fault. I sympathize with the captain a lot, and thought less of jimmy because he didn’t even own up to his deception, and also agree that incompetence is a strong word, maybe even not correct for this situation, but the captain was a bit too careless, and placed the blame solely on jimmy, which can show a lacking in his character.
I also feel "incompetent" is very unfair here. It's not like they were some sort of security threat, or were given access to any kind of secret technology. He was duped by in a bizarre and unconventional scam, one which went way beyond any possibility an airbase captain could be expected to reasonably foresee and prevent. The Captain merely extended normal human trust to someone who basically lacks a conscience. There are some things that you just don't do; I can't blame the Captain in any way for not anticipating the depths slippin' Jimmy will sink to.
Is it just me, or this is like one of the very few dialogues in TV shows that actually feels natural? Im not talking about the script, but about the directing and acting of how the characters on screen argue in the same awkward way people do in real life, like interrupting one another, trying to say the same thing 3 or 4 times because you keep getting interrupted, talking all clumsy and in poor diction because you're really angry and trying to make a point. I really feel like this scene specifically from this show nailed that in a way I haven't seen anywhere else.
i haven't seen this show, only watched clips here on the ol' youtube, but this scene, the dialogue and interpersonal dynamics in it, has to be the best in the show
"Ambulance-chasing piece of shit", the second time in the series that Saul has received this exact same insult. The first time was in Season 1 by the young detective from Philadelphia.
That captain was genuinely hurt by being lied to, great acting
Ballz
@@melodic1941no better reply to this comment than that
Government loves to drone strike Kids.
But getting lied to... Unacceptable
Chuck was right
He's HOTTTTTT 😮🔥😻🤭
That bit where Jimmy lashes out as if the guy was Chuck is one of my favourite little details in the show.
Yeah, also feel like Jimmy understood Chuck a little bit more at that point, the honorable soldier/advocat with strong sense of justice who does everything by the book, the soldier blamed Jimmy the same way Chuck used to do for being 'dishonorable'.
After I've liked -> hated Chuck I've started to like him again. If you think about it Chuck was playing fair and he was being treated like a fool by Jimmy (for example Jimmy promised Chuck not to make him look like a fool again, what he did on several ocasions). So I loved the scene when he treated soldier who has no history with him like Chuck. Epic
Brilliant writing
@@johnrex9612 I'm glad you turned to liking Chuck again. I honestly don't see how people can hate him. He was right about Jimmy the entire time and fully justified in everything he did.
@@jaypee9575 I've always treated Chuck as protagonist, only when we've learnt he blocked Jimmy from getting job in HMM I blamed Chuck. But he had right to do this and later we can see why he made his decision and why it was mostly justified
The balls on Jimmy risking the "Thank you for your service" to save some face in front of his other clients.
It also felt like his thankfulness of his service was his closing sentiment in their argument. He was called an ambulance chaser, and he compared his life to the captain and felt guilty, and backed down. It seemed like he really felt bad about it, and wanted to show the captain the respect he deserved.
@@r2dxhate Yeah I felt the same. I felt like Jimmy could've won that exchange anyway and kept airing the add but suddenly decided to stop himself when he genuinely felt bad about it.
@@TerminatorZXY Hmm I felt like the "thank you for your service" sounded kind of sarcastic.
@@TerminatorZXY He suddenly stopped when he realised that in his mind he was playing out an argument with Chuck.
He does that a lot, like when he opened the door before talking back to Davis and maine boss
Even an actor with a small role in this show also throws a phenomenal performance, such excellence!!
He's been in the biz for north of 20 yrs. I recognized him straight away. Roswell ring any bells?
When there's a good director and script, even small role actor can give the best of they can.
Vince Gilligan is a genius
yes!!!
I'm the 700th thumb up.
In any other show, I feel like Jimmy sneaking onto an airbase by fooling an air force captain would've just been a humorous scene to never be mentioned again, I'm glad that this show actually had Jimmy get confronted on it, it feels agonisingly real.
I mean
he infiltrated an US Air Force base under false pretenses
good thing it's a prequel, so we won't be tormented with "lawyer to threat to national security" character arc
"Look what Top Gun did for ya.!"
more like a main plot drawn through 20 episodes
Same thing with Lalo killing that guy Fred at the travel agency. A character that insignificant, whose death wasn’t even shown on screen, would have been entirely forgotten about. But instead, Lalo actually gets arrested and the story progresses
Honestly both this show and Breaking Bad are really good at making characters suffer the consequences of their seemingly harmless actions and I'm here for it
Jimmy almost had him when he said 'look what Top Gun did for you' lol
Air force guys love it when you bring up movies about Naval Aviators.
@@danielpittman889 lol but i think the point still stands, the Air Force probably profiteered way more from Top Gun than the Navy
@@ottersirotten4290 I'd wager the point from the producer is that Jimmy was trying to make the point but, like the entirety of this show, is talking out of his ass and doesn't know (nor care) that naval aviators are separate from the air force. Makes Jimmy look foolhardy, which is a big point in this scene
@@ottersirotten4290 there are more naval and marine aviators than air force officers dropping payloads on people
Ha, Tom Cruise in Top Gun was Navy! The writer got that one wrong.
One of the only guys that actually had a good comeback against Jimmy. Usually Jimmy says something witty and the other person gets baffled and shuts up. The captain actually talked to Jimmy straight. Something he needs more than he gets.
Good point. Just like Chuck... And Jimmy HATED hearing it.
You can't corrupt a honest man. Jimmy probably figures everyone has a price or is putting on a facade. Some people do not.
@@matthewdunham1689 That’s why Jimmy was scared as fuck when Jesse beat the crap out of him about poisoning Brock.
@@matthewdunham1689 yeah those people are usually dangerous too.
@@matthewdunham1689 great point. I wish I heard that message more often
This back and forth between the two actually felt like a real argument, with Jimmy interrupting the captain and trying to take control of the conversation, and the captain still standing his ground. Phenomenal acting.
Phenomenal WRITING! Acting ain't bad either.
"The wheel is gonna turn, it always does"
Boy, was he right
And even more now
@@smoketj4830 EVEN MORE NOW!! lol
I swear to God, ever since I first heard this line, it's been in the back of my head every time I watch a new episode from the show
@@SidPhoenix2211 even more now! haha
@@SidPhoenix2211 same!
Not exactly. Saul found peace with his actions at the end. Decades in prison but his guilt is behind him
I feel bad for the captain. You can tell near the end that this wasn't just something that angered him, it hurt him more than that. He was thinking about this all day, and now with saul off the hook this will probably dig into him for a long time.
God help that Captain when he realizes just how corrupt the Pentagon and the entire system is. He will have a hard time keeping his service pistol out of his mouth .
Man just realized how deep the cesspool of evil called the US is
@@tacituskilgore6752 usually the suicidal ones are either damaged by chemical weapons or they see combat or have it really rough in the barracks. Air force is generally like a country club except for the drone strikes.
@CRAM MARC yup doing good.thanks
@@tacituskilgore6752 For real, you think lawyers are bad? Try seeing what your higher officers and the CIA are doing on a daily basis, Jimmy is like an angel compared to the government.
“The wheel is gonna turn.” I bet Gene Takovic has nightmares of this statement.
That was probably what he was thinking sitting on floor after being locked in the trash room
Dang, if they brought this one line full circle. That would be so much like the creators, aka creating all the the Lalo stuff off of a BB throw away line.
Who the hell is Gen Takovic?
@@justicedemocrat9357 Are you serious?
@@justicedemocrat9357 Just a guy who manages a Cinnabun store in the flash forward segments
Underrated scene, love the switch at the end where he goes from absolutely wanting to tear Jimmy down to feeling pity for him.
Love the profile pic.
@@gamemadness833Big fat bear lmao 🤣
Djungelskog!
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The part when he was talking about always on a high horse and paused felt like Jimmy was projecting Chuck onto the captain.
yes. this show and breaking bad both are extremely psycho-analytic! and that's what make them lovely
I felt that too
The Captain's closing remarks where very 'Chuck' too.
Yeah he definitely was. That's why he stops and catches himself before he goes any further.
I thought it was transparently obvious that that's what the writers/director were going for lol
idk who acted as the captain but they acted the HELL outta that captain. felt 100% real, and the way he maintains dominance and sees right through Jimmy immediately was so clear. hats off, and that's church yo.
He is Brendan Fehr. Great performance, had to look up his name. He has done lots of small roles like this.
Yeah Brendan fehr great actor unfortunately not many large parts in movies/tv shows but always great with the role's he gets
@@mustekala797 Feels like he'd be a famous actor if it was still the late 90s.
that actor looks like the scout from tf2
He was in Roswell and CSI Miami.
The captain is a reality check that not only Jimmy, but the audience needed to hear. So long into the story, we have got into liking Jimmyto the extent that we justify most of the things he does, and the ones we don't agree with we let it slide because we admire how creative Jimmy is into creating a solution for it.
But the Captain goes directly to the issue. Jimmy does what he does, and continues doing it because in the end he gets away with it. But each time this happens, he goes deeper and deeper into the issue. And what Jimmy is unable to see (and tries to ignore it), is that there will be a point of no return, and for as deep as he goes, it will be worse for him in the end.
What is that point of no return? There is always time for repentance and coming good as long as you're not in the wake of dying. That should be known by everyone religious or not. There is a 2nd chance. God is all-forgiving. And if you don't believe in God, you should forgive yourself after repenting. And come clean.
@@minzblatt It's not that he can't eventually accept himself, but I'm talking about his literal actions. Once you do something, there's no way to undone it... and those things pile up. And there will come a point in which that pile will be to big to just "move on" from it.
This is the moment….no I’m just kidding yes this scene was a hard reality check.
That’s how bad habits work. Eventually, they get you…
I love that the character was played as not bright, it really highlighted that its not about being clever, its about basic human decency which Jimmy keeps sacrificing in his schemes.
This was the exact moment FiFi became a B-52
NO IT'S A B29 ! A B29 ! You people think you are so smart but one day the joystick will turn on you
😂
Give me a drink, bartender!
@@goochipoochie the B-29 has a yoke, not a joystick!
That was the moment when the B-29 became a
BEE-SEVENTEEN BOWMBMER!
At 2:44 is when Jimmy stops talking to the Air Force Captain and starts subconsciously talking to Chuck. When he realizes it he completely changes his tone from playful aggression to just wanting to discard of the situation altogether.
"Guys like you, you think you're so damn smart, and you think you don't have to play straight with anybody. The wheel is gonna turn. It always does."
hits hard fr
Too bad it's only on TV. In real scums an bastards live their happy lives.
the "make me" was so weak and pitiful, you can tell he agrees with every word the Captain is saying
Jimmy's conscience behind Saul's words
not really
More like a kid
@@TheDa6781 yes really
@@BingusLover93 Slipping Jimmy is anything but weak. He is just tired of trying to prevent the other party from losing face. So he gave up and said make me. Calmly but with determination. He would not yield to this Captain, or his brother. He stood his ground. That is not weak.
That moment he was projecting chuck on to the captain damn
Transferring, technically. But yeah.
@@CreeperGuyOnWeb That is not what transferring means.
@@somm150 I'm pretty sure it's exactly what it means?
I love how quiet Jimmy was before his "Make me", you can literally see the gears turning in his head as he thinks how to counter this
I think there has always been this undercurrent of Jimmy feeling guilt and shame simmering somewhere deep down, and wanting to get caught in order to face a reckoning for everything he has done and to finally drop that guilt off his shoulders. I think his choices in the finale confirm that, but there were hints of it even before. When he decides to do the mall heist, when he goes back to the house of the guy with cancer, etc. It's like there are two sides of him battling each other: one wanting to get caught, and another trying to weasel his way out of any situation, like a challenge. When he says "make me" the first time, it almost sounds sincere. Like it's the Jimmy who wants to get caught shines through for a moment, before the other Jimmy takes over again, who loves the thrill of this game, happy to throw down
The actor for the captain really did a good job showing being hurt and disappointed.
That Captain needs to be in more TV shows and movies. He acted the scene brilliantly as did Bob Odenkirk.
Check out roswell
@@cosmicpaul1085yup, he is a veteran actor.
Seasons 1 & 2 were good, but season 3 onwards, this show was on a completely different level
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Completely different level in a good or bad way? I would definitely say in a very good way
@@TimmiTurner10 In a good way
The ending is always the best part. Same with breaking bad as well.
season 1 beginning was so boring, i almost stopped watching it.
Saul’s personal frustration with those on a “high horse” show his motivation against Howard. Also, he highlights how nobody was hurt in this prank. But in the end, someone got hurt…
Not Howard. Chuck.
@@RK-ig8gc I’m talking about against Howard in the last season or so
@@RK-ig8gc both
Funnily enough, there was a real life case of a man who would repeatedly lie about being a high ranking military official to enter several different airforce bases. For the longest time he was never prosecuted because the officials that let him in were afraid it would harm their and the airforce's reputation
What was the guy's name?
@9 Tal3s Who's mama?
@@thesouthernerwithadhd2710 candice
Yeah, that military officer's name was Major Richard Head.
@@MGAF688 Oh, Major Head, eh? That's something you don't get a whole lot of when you're in the military.
"Neither was Tom Cruise, yet look what he did for you" 😂😂😂
Yet look what Top Gun did you for 😂
Tom was Navy!
I'll go with Jimmy. Tom Cruise is a fictional person.
😂😂😂
imagine watching a video and in the same time getting the quote wrong.
I like how they made The Captain look so tall and noble even though in reality he is only 8 centimeters taller than Jimmy.
How much that is in inches?
@@ratedr7845 a little less than half a twizzler
@@zzz7903 okay
@@ratedr7845 mf that takes 2 seconds of searching up
@@ratedr7845 3 inches and a quarter... which is actually quite a bit taller. And how does Ironic Manx know that?
"A Lawyer you can trust, my ass😡"
"Thank you for you service😄"
In a sense, this is the biggest failure of “slippin Jimmy” simply because he can’t even shake the man’s belief for a tiny bit. Jimmy’s power became completely useless in front of this man, and on top of that, the man saw through every one last bit of Jimmy’s nature.
The wheel did turn, eventually. This was a very essential scene for the whole show. The actor who played the captain sold it really well, too.
How do the showrunners of this series and Breaking Bad always manage to find the perfect actors for ALL of the characters that appear? Brendan Fehr fits his character to a tee, what a performance.
"This is what I do. All day every day. So how about this: I won't fly jet planes and you, uh, stay out of court. Does that sound good?"
Great line, so Better Call Sauling.
Air Force JAGs don’t fly jets though 🤷🏻♂️😂
Alan Velasquez hahahaha😂
Does that mean he took the ad off air?
Air force captains don't run bases either. not a flag rank
This scene never gets brought up in video essays
Yeah, interesting point. I think this scene is very important to the narrative. Not only was it a huge reality check for Jimmy, but in a way, it actually foreshadowed the ending. The pilot was right- the wheel turned.
I absolutely love this scene, especially the ending. It just resonates so well with the path we all know Jimmy'll take throughout this series.
"-You think you don't have to play straight with anybody. The wheel is gonna' turn. It always does."
It's just so good, and the fact that they didn't even have to have this scene for any big point in the narrative or even resolution wise was so satisfying.
"The wheel is gonna turn"
It sure did.
Jimmy shouting at the guy felt like he was talking to Chuck and it hurts my soul
And the captain also starts to take pity on jimmy
this is the moment the captain got upset with Jimmy
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Bravo, Vince.
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Marion hits him with the "you lied to me" in the end of the show too
Totally forgot this scene. That lecture he dealt to Jimmy felt like foreshadowing, fantastic series.
This guy must've felt so vindicated after the events of Breaking Bad lol
2:41 The way the captain insulted him reminded Jimmy of his brother.
This was one hell of a moment. It was one of those moments in which we remember who the bad guy is and how much of a crook Jimmy really is
I love the framing at 2:23. Clear vs opaque. An honest man and a liar.
the first half of their discussion is a testament to how good saul is at arguing; he said nothing incriminating and was really good at spinning the topic around to recruit numbers to the point he temporarily disoriented the pilot.
I was looking specifically for this scene and can't find it until this. Thank you
This is the exact moment that the moment became the moment.
These kinds of scenes are amongst my favorites in the show. Don't get me wrong, it's rewarding to watch the layers built up between two main characters unfold during a climactic confrontation. But _this_ kind of stuff, very few shows do scenes like this. Most shows would play the whole air base scam as a one-off gag. But BCS and BB both seem to love giving justice and well-used screen time to as many characters as is humanly possible.
This is such an important scene. It really helps put a lot of things Jimmy does into perspective.
The wheels really did turn after Saul Gone Man
i like how when the guy starts talking like chuck jimmy starts to get visibly angry and almost loses control
The foreshadowing from this Airforce guy about the downfall of Jimmy is so well done.
Edit: To those saying preuqels can't have fore shadowing, please refer to star wars preuqels. Yes I spelt prequels wrong and i don't care.
How is that foreshadowing smh?
@Kjell Snuskberg That’s not foreshadowing tho. Foreshadowing is a hint the author gives the audience about what might happen in the future. Since this is a prequel, story-wise the future already happened so… we don’t need hints about what we already know
@@maelxidel8979 nerd. its foreshadowing
@@Porter-Morgan Did you read my comment at all? Or better, did you look it up? No, it very clearly isn’t. 🤦♀️
@@maelxidel8979 its meant that it’s a foreshadow about him being Gene Takovic, being in the perspective of being inside the story’s past. It doesn’t matter that we already know what happened to Jimmy in the end, that was a foreshadow for Jimmy’s.
the captain was right in this one
Obviously, Jimmy's main trait is that he thinks the ends justify the means and is willing to do awful things in order to get what he wants
And the wheel turned eventually.
Well, most of Saul´s "enemies" are usually right. The whole point of the show is Saul being a con artist, and for the most part, getting away with it. Even when he´s at his best, and just sticks to being a lawyer, he is still playing dishonest defense for people who he knows are guilty, and should be in jail. That´s what makes the show so interesting. We know that almost everything Saul does is wrong, but we still can´t help but sympathize with him.
Well in most situations Jimmy is wrong.
@@biggusdickus1689 Exactly what happened with the Davis & Main commercial
For some people, it's hard to gauge how shady they know themselves to be when they deal with other shady people. When you deal with low-lifes, there are so many shades of grey that it becomes harder to have any self-awareness about just how bad you have become. Compared to the people Saul deals with, he is a lighter shade of gray than those he deals with, therefore (in his mind), he sits higher up on the sh*t heap than the darker characters he deals with. Because of that, he has deluded himself into thinking that despite his lies and trickery, he still has integrity. It's only when he deals with straight-arrows, and people with wholly intact, unshakeable integrity, that he ends up seeing himself as he really is. When he is hit with the bright, glaring, spotlight of truth from guys like this, (I believe) its only then that he sees himself for what he really is, which is the shady, conniving, morally questionable con-man that he is. it is during moments like this that he realizes that although he is not completely "dirty", and although he does sit at the top of the sh*t heap, it is still a sh*t heap, and it something that he is still a part of, and that his ideas of self-integrity and of being morally righteous are delusions at best.
Exactly.
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Jimmy is a sociopath. The tiny pings of guilt are short lived as long as his plans work. The show has been a study of one man's worsening malignant narcisism. The obsession with destroying Howard confirms my diagnosis. He would have faired better had he been full blown psychopath, like Gus. I thought Kim would be his way out, but the feed eachothers disorders in codependent ickiness. Make for great TV. I would had to get in the wrong side of Jimmy and Kim. A team of evil geniuses that no amount of intelligence can stand up to. They will find a way. I've met a few. Scary. Especially the ones you like, in spite of the horrible things they do to you.
I feel really bad for the captain...
I feel really bad for Jimmy
@@kidcharlemagne3044 Why, he's the only one to blame. He was an asshole about it, dishonored army and this soldier. When he got critiziced by the soldier he just took it like it was Chuck complaining again. Jimy deserved like 90% of things that happened to him. He's cheating all the time and each time he is surprised people are against him for that.
@@johnrex9612 is there anything wrong about cheating? Especially when nobody gets hurt.
@@count_monte-sych cant believe I have to point this out, but yes!
@@count_monte-sych Cheating is wrong, the soldier and his buddies were hurt, their patriotic treatement of a "veteran" was a joke. He had no right to enter the base or make a comercial. Other people have to pay and work harder to make comercials like this but he's just cheating people. That's not fair. Jimmy is a hypocrite. He can do harm to others and cheat but people can't even speak ill about his actions
Does anyone else feel the Captain's words are more relevant now, heading into these final episodes, than ever?
He's lucky Lalo didn't walk in
If Lalo walked in and shot the captain the whole Eladio Empire gonna get deleted by US army
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Love the context the finale adds to his last statement, the wheel did indeed turn for Saul, eventually
Even "Fudge" knew a thing or two about Fifi. These small bits is what I love about this show!
The final season of Better Call Saul is such an epic it’s easy to forget about moments like this from the first few seasons.
This is still one of my favorite scenes. Something about Jimmy being called out by someone who isn’t Chuck is satisfying
This is why I love breaking bad and better call saul
Any other show would never care that captain would see that ad and would go confront jimmy
But this writters think about it
Honestly I don't really like jimmy in bcs.
In light of the Finale the captains speech holds way more weight
This series has some of the best writing and execution I have ever enjoyed.
This is the “sheep” hurting the wolf back. Love this scene
I love the shot from afar from the corner of the room. It feels.. Real? Like something real is happening
I’m super curious as to why they chose that shot. I’m thinking it’s to show the severity of the situation? Small fish big pond? I’m not sure.
This was the moment where the airforce man became the man who goes to Jimmy's office to criticise him for what he did on the airforce base
The best moment of the moment!
Unfunny asf, I don't get why people like this "this is the moment" jokes
@@gallardo1787 Who cares that you think it's unfunny? I'm laughing my ass off.
@@gallardo1787 well you see my friend, this was meant to be a joke about all those "this is the moment" things because they're dumb
@@Radimunto well I'm Glad You like them, I just can't Even comprehend it
One of the few people Jimmy couldn't talk his way around. He was immune to his charm and tricks, just kept it straight.
Like a real Soldier. A real Man.
THE WHEEL IS TURNING
THE WHEEL IS TURNING
Tom cruise was a naval pilot in that movie lol
Yeah, but I wouldn't be shocked if Top Gun influenced a lot of new Air Force recruits, too.
Naval Aviators hate when you call them pilots 🤣🤣🤣
Tell that to saul
Top gun actually did increase Air Force recruiting though
Every clip makes me want to rewatch the show before next season.
That captain just predicted what happened to Saul. The wheel's always gonna turn.
If the wheel is always going to turn, I don't envy the captain. Ending up on support and with PTSD because of a money grabbing war is not a good way to spend your retirement.
This is one of the moments that nailed the realism behind all the comedy and drama stuff.
That Tom Cruise comment almost had him, he flinched and was almost impressed
During that whole scene with the fake veteran and the bomber I was thinking “what about when this airs? Isn’t someone from this base gonna see this and know it was a con job?”
The captains words didn't work on Saul/Jimmy, but they ring true for Gene!
"The wheel is gonna turn".
Hey! He was right about that! The wheel turned all the way to a Cinnabon in Omaha.
As Mike would say, you do your due diligence. Was Jimmy wrong, yes. Did the Captain leave himself and his base he was responsible for, open to people of unknown intent? The simplest inspection of the wheelchair or bags would have sufficed to reveal their motives. Jimmy was sleazy, but that captain was incompetent, and that's why he was so upset.
I never even thought of that! Great analysis.
@@hohaiphong6225 Incompetent no. That's an extreme word people throw around and it shows Karl here thinks very highly of himself and very low of folks who get fooled because they trust human decency. In the end, it happens. You don't need to be incompetent to once in your life not be vigilant against scum. The whole point of the show is that good people do get taken by people like Jimmy and it happens often, but those people will not end up where Jimmy did because the wheel does indeed turn.
And there are those who never pay for their crimes and deceptions. But this is rare. Because it's not about karma, morality, or any of that made up nonsense. The truth is people like Jimmy feel a high every time they tempt the dragon and don't get burned, so they will always tempt the dragon and the dragon only needs to win once.
@@truethat15 i know, but the mike analogy works so well so i dont think its so much karl being narcissistic than he seeing things a different way. Trusting people is fine, and questioning the validity of a veteran in wheelchairs is of course the last thing a soldier would do, but he should have taken responsibility for that if not by taking the blame, than by at least not going after jimmy to threat to sue. Jimmy did a bad thing, and the captain had every reason to be mad and would be right to condemn him, but taking responsibility would be him acknowledging that he too was responsible for this happening by not checking info, and while demanding jimmy to take the ad down, not go and threaten him with a lawsuit like it was only jimmy’s fault. I sympathize with the captain a lot, and thought less of jimmy because he didn’t even own up to his deception, and also agree that incompetence is a strong word, maybe even not correct for this situation, but the captain was a bit too careless, and placed the blame solely on jimmy, which can show a lacking in his character.
@@truethat15 he’s the captain of a damn BASE he is incompetent because no matter what you gotta verify and check things
I also feel "incompetent" is very unfair here.
It's not like they were some sort of security threat, or were given access to any kind of secret technology. He was duped by in a bizarre and unconventional scam, one which went way beyond any possibility an airbase captain could be expected to reasonably foresee and prevent.
The Captain merely extended normal human trust to someone who basically lacks a conscience. There are some things that you just don't do; I can't blame the Captain in any way for not anticipating the depths slippin' Jimmy will sink to.
The air force guy 100% right though
This was such a convincing argument, props to both actors
The avgeek in me sympathized heavily with the captain when he corrected jimmy about what kind of aircraft it was
Man, Chuck was so good in this part. And so young too.
Is it just me, or this is like one of the very few dialogues in TV shows that actually feels natural? Im not talking about the script, but about the directing and acting of how the characters on screen argue in the same awkward way people do in real life, like interrupting one another, trying to say the same thing 3 or 4 times because you keep getting interrupted, talking all clumsy and in poor diction because you're really angry and trying to make a point. I really feel like this scene specifically from this show nailed that in a way I haven't seen anywhere else.
Nah, it's not just you, it's pretty natural acting.
Jimmy is so obsessed with the ends justifying the means he fails to understand that people just don’t like being deceived.
When you play decision-based games and realized characters remember your actions
The wheel did in fact turn.
As did the worm.
i bet that captain can't deny that top gun analogy 😂😂
Great scene . That captain acted the hell out of that scene.
i haven't seen this show, only watched clips here on the ol' youtube, but this scene, the dialogue and interpersonal dynamics in it, has to be the best in the show
its a must watch imo
It is one of the good ones yeah, but far from the best ones on the show. Highly recommend watching. Watch bb first if you haven't tho
The guy trusts his ass to Saul Goodman. What a compliment.
what’s funny is: in the movie Nobody, Bob Odenkirk plays a guy named Hutch who served in the military.
Wow. The wheel indeed has turned, as always as he said. This show did not fail me not even once.
that high horse line was the first big one for me that told me exactly Jimmy's motives behind his stranger more egregious schemes
Marco died in an alley by a dumpster and Jimmy is finally arrested in an Alley in a dumpster. Love it!
I like how Jimmy goes off when the air force captain says “Allways the same” the same thing chuck would tell jimmy
"Ambulance-chasing piece of shit", the second time in the series that Saul has received this exact same insult. The first time was in Season 1 by the young detective from Philadelphia.
2:41 is when the Air Force captain became Chuck McGill
Meanwhile, all the Captain really wanted was a sincere apology. If he did it right up front, he probably wouldn't even insist on taking down that ad.
"The wheel is gonna turn" and it was hell of a ride
This scene means so much now after watching the ending