Episodes 01

“Wine and Roses”

In a flashforward, police seize personal property from Saul’s mansion, including his white Cadillac. As a cabinet is loaded onto a truck, a drawer opens and Kim’s souvenir tequila bottle stopper falls out and onto the ground. In 2004, Gus arranges for Nacho to hide at a motel. Juan Bolsa tells Gus that Nacho aided in killing Lalo and that the cartel has placed a bounty on him. Jimmy and Kim begin their plan to force a resolution of the Sandpiper case by discrediting Howard. Kim surveils Howard and Cliff Main during a round of golf, while Jimmy sneaks into the club locker room to plant a bag of fake cocaine in Howard’s locker. Lalo arrives at the home of his tenants Sylvia and Mateo, kills them, and moves Mateo’s body to his home to be identified as his own. Lalo calls Hector and lets him know he is alive and that he believes Gus orchestrated the attack, Hector advises him to find proof. Lalo realizes the evidence is not in the United States and abandons his plan to sneak across the border.

Episodes 02

“Carrot and Stick”

Gus’ men replace Nacho’s safe with a duplicate, into which Mike places Nacho’s cash and fake Canadian ID along with an envelope. Gus and Bolsa promise Hector they will avenge Lalo, but Hector’s demeanor convinces Gus that Lalo survived. Bolsa breaks into the duplicate safe at Nacho’s house and finds the envelope, which contains details of an offshore bank account as well as the motel’s phone number. The Cousins arrive at the motel to capture Nacho, but he escapes after a shootout. Gus orders Nacho’s father, Manuel, taken hostage to force Nacho to give up his location; Mike refuses, prompting a standoff with Gus and Tyrus. Nacho calls Mike asking to speak to Gus. Jimmy meets the Kettlemans at their fraudulent tax preparation service and cons them into believing they have grounds for a lawsuit against Howard. They reject his services and instead ask Cliff Main to sue for ineffective counsel over Howard’s alleged cocaine usage during Craig’s embezzlement case, but he refuses. Kim then coerces the Kettlemans into returning the tax money and remaining silent about Howard. They leave, with an unknown person following them.

Episodes 03

“Rock and Hard Place”

Nacho’s truck is damaged from the firefight with the Cousins, forcing him to hide. The next day, he arrives at a mechanic’s shop, contacts his father, then calls Gus and offers to surrender if his father is protected. Jimmy and Kim plot to obtain a duplicate of Howard’s car but realize that obtaining access to the car itself is more feasible. With Lalo’s fake identity exposed, prosecutor Suzanne Ericsen connects Jimmy to Lalo and asks Kim to persuade Jimmy to reveal information about Lalo. Gus arranges for Nacho to be smuggled into the U.S., while Nacho and Mike enact Gus’s plan to absolve Gus of blame for Lalo’s death. Jimmy and Kim work with Huell to obtain duplicates of Howard’s car key and remote unlock button. Mike takes a firing position with his rifle to monitor Nacho’s execution by the cartel. Nacho lies about his efforts to kill Lalo for the Alvarez drug family, but tells the truth about his attempt to kill Hector. Rather than feign escape so Victor can kill him, Nacho uses a piece of broken glass to free himself, then kills himself with Bolsa’s gun.

Episodes 04

“Hit and Run”

Kim meets with Cliff Main at a coffee shop while Jimmy, disguised as Howard, takes his car. He picks up Wendy from a motel, then pretends to force her out of the car while driving past the shop, making it appear as if Howard is ripping off prostitutes. While dropping off Wendy, Kim notices a car following her. Jimmy discovers that defending Lalo has made him disliked among his colleagues, but improved his reputation with local criminals, who now seek his representation. After being kicked out of the nail salon for attracting criminal traffic, Jimmy scouts out a new office. While meeting a pro bono client, Kim spots the same car following her and confronts the driver. Mike reveals that the people following her work for him, and tells her Lalo is alive and monitoring anyone he may be in contact with. Kim, disturbed, meets with Jimmy at the potential location of his new office and approves of it, but does not reveal her conversation with Mike. Gus uses a neighboring home connected to his via tunnels as an operations center where his men use Mike’s supervision monitors to try and find Lalo.

Episodes 05

“Black and Blue”

Kim and Gus both remain paranoid about Lalo. Jimmy rehires Francesca as his assistant. Viola tells Kim that Rand Casimiro will arbitrate the Sandpiper case. Howard persuades the Sandpiper clients not to settle. Cliff confronts Howard about his apparent cocaine and prostitution habits, and Howard realizes Jimmy is sabotaging him. Howard challenges Jimmy to a boxing match, which he wins, and tells Jimmy he hopes this ends their dispute, but later asks a private investigator to watch Jimmy. Gus hides a handgun on an excavator at the site of his planned meth lab. Using an alias, Lalo tracks down Werner Ziegler’s widow Margarethe at a bar in Germany and attempts to obtain information about Werner. The next morning, Lalo breaks into Margarethe’s home and finds a gift from Casper, a member of Werner’s construction crew. Margarethe returns home unexpectedly, but Lalo succeeds in escaping unseen.

Episodes 06

“Axe and Grind”

Howard’s PI reports that Jimmy and Kim are keeping a regular routine, except for a recent cash withdrawal. Jimmy and Kim procure a drug for use in their scheme against Howard from Dr. Caldera, who tells them he is retiring from crime and shows them his encrypted book of criminal contacts. Jimmy and his camera crew photograph an actor impersonating Casimiro. Cliff invites Kim to Santa Fe to meet representatives of a foundation that finances projects similar to her pro bono criminal defense work, which takes place the same day she and Jimmy execute their plan against Howard. Jimmy encourages her to go, but later spots Casimiro, whose arm is broken. Alerting Kim, she cancels her Santa Fe plans and drives back to Albuquerque. In Germany, Lalo finds Casper; he gains the upper hand in the ensuing struggle and interrogates him about Werner’s project.

Episodes 07

“Plan and Execution”

On the day of the Sandpiper settlement conference, Jimmy and Kim hastily reshoot their photos with the actor impersonating Casimiro, then pass them to Howard’s private investigator, who is actually working for them. Howard ingests Caldera’s drug upon contact with the photos and embarrasses himself at the conference by appearing manic and accusing Casimiro of accepting a bribe. Howard and Cliff are forced to settle the Sandpiper case for less than they wanted. Lalo surveils Gus’ laundry, realizing he has built a hidden meth lab there. Calling Hector, he tells him he will attack Gus that night after realizing Gus’ men monitored his call. Mike alerts Gus and redirects his security teams to protect Gus, leaving Kim and Jimmy’s apartment unprotected. Howard deduces that Jimmy and Kim plotted his character assassination and confronts them at their apartment. Lalo arrives soon afterward, intending to “talk” to Jimmy and Kim. Kim urges Howard to leave, but Lalo kills him with a gunshot to his head.

Episodes 08

“Point and Shoot”

Lalo orders Jimmy to go to Gus’ house and shoot him, then photograph his body. Jimmy convinces Lalo to send Kim instead for her safety. Lalo then ties Jimmy to a chair and leaves. Kim is apprehended at Gus’ front door by Mike, to whom she explains the situation. Mike orders his men to go to their apartment. When Kim says Lalo agreed to her switching places with Jimmy, Gus deduces that the shooting attempt is a diversion and drives to the laundry. Lalo ambushes Gus and kills his bodyguards, then forces Gus to show him the lab in a video for Don Eladio. Gus triggers a power outage and kills Lalo with the handgun he previously hid. Mike and his men remove Howard’s body from Jimmy and Kim’s apartment and stage his death to look like a suicide. Mike tells the two never to disclose the events, advising them to continue adhering to their story that Howard was a cocaine addict. Mike then supervises the burial of Howard and Lalo’s bodies in Gus’ underground lab.

Episodes 09

“Fun and Games”

Gus convinces the cartel that he was not responsible for Lalo’s death, despite Hector’s accusations. Eladio grants the Salamancas the South Valley territory while giving Gus the area north of it, under Bolsa’s supervision. Gus later goes to a wine bar and converses with his favorite sommelier, but cuts the outing short and orders construction on the lab to resume. Mike visits Manuel Varga to inform him of Nacho’s death and tells him he will protect him, but Manuel disapproves, dismissing his offer of protection as a revenge plot, and tells him he is no different from his criminal associates. At Howard’s memorial service, Jimmy and Kim learn that HHM is downsizing and changing its name, and Kim lies to Howard’s widow Cheryl about his alleged addiction. Kim relinquishes her law license and separates from Jimmy, telling him that even though she loves him, they are bad for each other. An unspecified amount of time later, Jimmy has fully embraced his Saul Goodman image, living in a mansion and driving a Cadillac DeVille, and remodeling his office into the tacky style in which it appears in Breaking Bad.

Episodes 10

“Nippy”

In Omaha in 2010, Jimmy, now using his Gene Takavic alias, befriends Marion, the elderly mother of Jeff, a cab driver who recognized him as Saul Goodman.^[a] Gene confronts Jeff and offers to let him in on “the game”. He trains Jeff and his partner Buddy for roles in the robbery of a department store at the mall where he works. Gene distracts the mall’s security guards with cinnamon rolls and small talk while Jeff steals expensive merchandise under a strict time limit. However, during the heist, Jeff trips on a slippery floor and hits his head; Gene gains him extra time by feigning an emotional breakdown to distract the security guard. The three get away with thousands of dollars in stolen goods, but Gene warns Jeff and Buddy to avoid him in the future, threatening to turn them in to the authorities even if it means getting caught himself. Energized by the robbery’s success, Gene finds a Goodman-style suit in the department store, but wistfully leaves without purchasing it.

Episodes 11

“Breaking Bad”

In a flashback to 2008 in Albuquerque, Saul takes on Walter White and Jesse Pinkman as clients, deducing the former to be “Heisenberg,” the chemist behind the high-purity blue methamphetamine being sold on the streets. Mike informs Saul that Walt has terminal lung cancer and cautions Saul against helping him, but Saul nonetheless decides to visit Walt in his high school classroom to propose a partnership. In 2010, Gene calls Francesca, who tells him that the FBI has seized most of his assets and that Kim asked about him. Gene attempts to reach Kim in Florida, but the call upsets him. Gene then enlists Jeff and Buddy for a new con, in which Gene gets a wealthy single male victim drunk, Jeff drives him home while giving him water laced with barbiturates, and Buddy enters his home to photograph IDs, credit cards, and financial records to sell for profit. After a string of successful thefts, their latest target reveals he has cancer, causing Buddy to back out; Gene fires him and forces Jeff to drive him to the man’s home, where he breaks in.

Episodes 12

“Waterworks”

In a flashback, Kim meets with Saul to finalize their divorce and has an encounter with Jesse outside Saul’s office. In 2010, she gets a call from Gene in Florida at her job at a sprinkler manufacturer. She asks him to turn himself in and hangs up when he refuses. Guilt-stricken, she travels to Albuquerque and gives Howard’s wife, Cheryl, a copy of an affidavit she’s supplied to the district attorney, which lays out her and Jimmy’s destruction of Howard’s reputation and the circumstances of his death. Afterward, she has an emotional breakdown on the bus. Gene narrowly escapes the cancer-stricken man’s house after he wakes up. Jeff is arrested and blamed for the burglary after he panics and runs into another car when a police car idles behind him, forcing Gene to enlist Marion to help him get out on bail. Suspicious, Marion uses the new computer Jeff bought her with the department store money to search for Gene’s true identity on Ask Jeeves, and calls the authorities with her Life Alert button when Gene tries to intimidate her, forcing him to flee.

Episodes 13

“Saul Gone”

In separate flashbacks, Saul asks Mike and Walter about their regrets; another flashback shows Chuck asking Jimmy whether he ever considered a different path in life. In 2010, Gene is caught and arrested, enlisting former rival Bill Oakley as his co-counsel and negotiating a deal for only seven years in prison, claiming to be a victim of Walt’s schemes. He also offers to confess to Howard’s death, only to learn that Kim has already done so. Saul is extradited to Albuquerque for his trial and lies about new testimony involving Kim to get her to appear in court. He then admits his full involvement in Walt’s empire and Chuck’s suicide, and reverts to using the name James McGill; he is given an 86-year sentence. Jimmy is recognized as Saul in prison and enjoys notoriety among his fellow inmates. Kim visits him and the two share a cigarette. As she leaves, Jimmy makes their signature finger-gun gesture at her.