Ladies and gentlemen,Saul Goodmanis in the courthouse.
Hours later, the whole gang (including Ernie!
Hi, Ernie!)
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It’s a fun, brotherly duet… for about thirty seconds.
(Although damn, it’s a fun reminder thatMichael McKeancan really wail.)
But what does it look like to win against a dead man?
He even takes up the offer to sit on the board that awards the Chuck McGill scholarships!
“You were never gonna get it,” he says.
As far as they’re concerned your mistake is who you are, and it’s all you are.
But you know what?
It doesn’t matter.
You don’t need them.
They’re not gonna give it to you?
You’re gonna take it.
You’re going to cut corners and you are going to win.
And the higher you rise, the more they’re gonna hate you.
You rub their noses in it.
You make them suffer.
The winner takes it all."
But does Jimmy McGill feel like a winner?
Venturing a guess: no, he does not.
In the next scene, he climbs into his carwhich won’t startand bursts into angry, helpless tears.
“and Mike’s only answer is a silent twitch.
And then it’s time for Jimmy’s big moment: his hearing.
“This should stay between me and him,” he says.
“I’ll never be as good as Chuck,” Jimmy says, fighting back tears.
“But I can try.
And if you decide I’m not a lawyer… it doesn’t matter.
I’ll still venture to be the best man I can be.”
Kim wipes a tear as it ends.
“Did you see those suckers?”
“That one asshole was crying!”
He doesn’t notice that Kim has gone silent, no longer celebrating.
But we do, and it’s not hard to understand why.
It’s not that Jimmy is a con man; she knew that, she even liked it.
“Wait, what?”
Jimmy turns, grinning, triumphant.
“S’all good, man.”
The winner takes it all.
Only we know: he’s going to lose everything.
