Better Call Saul
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Following the events of Breaking Bad, Saul Goodman is living under the assumed name Gene in Omaha, Nebraska and managing a Cinnabon. One night after work, he watches a tape of television ads made when he worked as an attorney. Flashing back to 2002, Jimmy McGill (Saul's original name) is a struggling public defender in Albuquerque, New Mexico. At Loyola's Diner, Jimmy exhorts Craig and Betsy Kettleman, the county treasurer accused of embezzling $1.6 million, to hire him. Jimmy lives and works out of a cramped storage room in the back of a Vietnamese nail salon while caring for his brother, Chuck, a successful attorney. Chuck has become semi-reclusive and believes he suffers from electromagnetic hypersensitivity. On his brother's behalf, Jimmy passionately and theatrically confronts Chuck's law firm partner, Howard Hamlin, of Hamlin, Hamlin & McGill (HHM), demanding HHM cash out his brother's US$17 million share in the firm. The Kettlemans decide to hire HHM instead. Frustrated, Jimmy sets up a skateboarding accident scam with con artist twins Lars and Cal after regaling them with stories of his successful cons years earlier in Chicago where he was known as "slippin' Jimmy" (a master of phony slip-and-falls which resulted in cash payoffs). The plan is to stage a phony skateboard accident involving the Kettlemans' station wagon (with Mrs. Kettleman driving), whereupon Jimmy will arrive on the scene to offer his services to the Kettlemans. However, the twins accidentally target the wrong car, driven by the grandmother of Tuco Salamanca. When the twins try to extort money out of Tuco for Lars' phony broken leg, Cal refers to Tuco's abuela (grandmother) as "biznatch" which infuriates Tuco, prompting him to viciously pummel both twins, bind them and throw them into the garage. Jimmy arrives at Tuco's front door, and is drawn at gunpoint into Tuco's house.
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