With the cops sure that he knows more than he’s saying about what happened to the Kettlemans, Nacho convinced that Jimmy set him up, and both Kim and the police unwilling to indulge his hypothesis that the family “kidnapped themselves,” Jimmy is left on his own to track them down. And when they figure out he’s Nacho’s lawyer - which he isn’t yet, exactly - they drag him to the station, where his de facto client is waiting to rip into him. Eventually, the cops trace Jimmy, chase him, throw him to the ground, and cuff him. By the next morning, they’ve disappeared.Īmid what seems to be a low-level panic attack, Jimmy tries repeatedly to reach Nacho from another payphone. After refusing to aid Nacho in finding the Kettlemans’ embezzled money, Jimmy had an attack of conscience, calling the family from a payphone to issue a garbled warning that they’re in danger. This time, of course, Jimmy is the lawyer, and it’s Nacho Varga who’s been arrested. Instead of going deeper into his past, “Nacho” returns quickly to the present - well, the 2002 present. In all likelihood, we can trace his career as a lawyer back to this scene.Īlthough the flashback is short, Better Call Saul will surely let us know the specifics of Jimmy’s rehabilitation in its own time. This appears to be the moment when our hero commits to cleaning up. It isn’t until this scene that we’re entirely clear on the relationship between Jimmy and Chuck, and besides confirming that they’re brothers, it establishes that they’ve been estranged - probably due to Jimmy’s criminal pursuits. But by this morning, industrious Better Call Saul fans had submitted a handful of entertaining possibilities and a lively debate had begun in the show’s subreddit.) ( New York Times recapper David Segal helpfully informed readers last night that he searched Urban Dictionary for “Chicago sunroof,” the act Jimmy tells Chuck he performed, and came up empty. Most disturbingly, he could be labeled a sex offender. Though the specifics of what he did aren’t clear - and maybe they’re not even important - we learn that he’s facing assault and property damage charges. He’s come to see Jimmy, who’s been arrested.
In a flashback (one I’d estimate takes place in the mid-’90s, judging by the visible and semi-successful effort to make Bob Odenkirk look significantly younger), we see Chuck enter a police station. And the cold open to last night’s episode, “Nacho,” did more than any other single scene so far to fill in the character’s backstory. Better Call Saul is, of course, a series-length answer to that question. Where did this guy come from? Breaking Bad fans must all have wondered this, at one moment or another, about Saul Goodman, who emerged fully formed in that show’s second season as a local TV-commercial celebrity and all-purpose legal adviser to the discerning criminal.