Join Simon & Jamie as they Rewind cult TV Show Better Call Saul. This week we deep dive S2 E7 Inflatable and S2 E8 Fifi and explore the show's symbolism, symmetry and plot twists.
S2 E7 "Inflatable"
In a flashback to the early 1970s, ten year old Jimmy is working in his family's store when a grifter enters and attempts to pull a con on Jimmy's father by claiming to be a needy parent with an emergency. Jimmy disbelieves him and tries to warn his father, but his father is more concerned that suspicion could lead him to not help someone who might truly be in need. When the grifter uses mostof the money given by Jimmy's father to buy cigarettes, Jimmy pockets the money. In 2002, Jimmy helps represent Mike when he claims to the district attorney that the gun in his recent altercation with Tuco did not belong to Tuco. Jimmy decides to quit D&M, but learns that if he quits, he will have to repay the firm's signing bonus. Jimmy discovers his contract allows him to keep the bonus if he is fired without cause. He takes several actions designed to be irritating to his D&M co-workers, and Cliff eventually fires him after saying that losing the bonus money is worth it to be rid of him. Jimmy attempts to convince Kim to become a partner in their own law firm. Kim agrees only on the condition that Jimmy play it "straight and narrow". Kim later approaches Jimmy with a compromise, suggesting they start separate solo firms, but share office space so that they can split expenses and lend each other support. Mike promises to buy Stacey a new house in a safer neighborhood and begins surveilling Hector's restaurant.
S2 E8 - "Fifi"
Kim tells Howard she is leaving HHM. Howard wishes her well, and immediately after Kim leaves, they each race to secure the Mesa Verde account. Kim meets with Kevin and Paige, who agree that Kim will be Mesa Verde's outside counsel. Kim and Jimmy set up their practices in a re-purposed dentists' office. Howard informs Chuck of Kim's resignation, the loss of Mesa Verde and Kim's teaming with Jimmy. Chuck damns Kim with faint praise at a meeting with Kevin and Paige, causing Kevin to keep Mesa Verde’s business at HHM. Jimmy perpetrates a ruse at a U.S. Air Force base in order to gain access to the B-29 bomber FIFI and shoot video footage for use in TV ads promoting his law practice. Kim tells Jimmy she lost Mesa Verde. Ernesto tells Jimmy Chuck is ill from leaving his house to meet with Kevin and Paige and Jimmy says he will stay with Chuck. While Chuck is asleep Jimmy takes Mesa Verde documents to a copy store, alters them, then replaces them in Chuck's files. While surveilling Hector, Mike follows a cargo truck to a remote garage, then returns home and uses a length of garden hose to assemble a homemade spike strip.
