Better Call Saul Episode 1.07 Bingo

Late at night, Jimmy and Mike wait for the Philadelphia detectives at the police station. When Abbasi and Sanders arrive, Jimmy returns the younger detective’s notebook, claiming that he found it on the ground in the parking lot. Irate Abbasi confronts Mike about stealing it. Is there anything he’d like to say about the contents of the notebook? Mike remains stoic, so Abbasi switches tactics. They’re meeting with Stacey first thing tomorrow: maybe she’ll have some useful information to aid their investigation. Abbasi storms out of the station, but Sanders lingers behind. Mike dismisses Jimmy so that he can talk to his old friend, privately. Sanders apologizes for Abbasi’s behavior, but Mike waves it off – the young detective was just doing his job. Mike concedes that he doesn’t know what Stacey will tell them; whatever she chooses to say is entirely her decision. After all he’s put her through, she’s earned the right to decide for herself.

Mike emerges from the police station and finds Jimmy waiting by his car. Jimmy demands to know what Mike said to Sanders, but Mike brushes him off. He no longer requires Jimmy’s services. Jimmy is shocked. Mike is almost certainly the prime suspect for the murder of two Philadelphia cops -- he’s going to need a good lawyer! Mike shakes his head: it’s in someone else's hands.

A few days later, Jimmy stops by Chuck’s house with his usual groceries and is surprised to find his brother standing out in the yard. Chuck counts aloud, struggling to remain outside surrounded by the electricity that makes him so ill. He manages to last for two minutes, then races back inside. Panting, he explains to a bewildered Jimmy that he has been exposing himself to electromagnetic fields for short amounts of time in an attempt to build up a tolerance. He’s ready to overcome this malady, and most importantly: he’s ready to go back to work. Hearing this, Jimmy remembers that he has a couple of boxes of unfinished paperwork that he was hoping to store at Chuck’s house. Before Chuck can protest, Jimmy wheels the boxes in and promises that he’ll be back to claim them as soon as possible. On the way to his car, Jimmy peers through a window and watches as Chuck begins sifting through the paperwork - just as Jimmy hoped he would!.

Jimmy takes Kim on a tour of a high-rise office space that he’s looking to lease. It’s an ambitious space, with lots of room to grow. When she is impressed by the office he’s saving for his future partner, Jimmy offers her the job – she did tell him she was interested in elder law! She gracefully turns him down, reminding him that she’s too invested in Hamlin, Hamlin & McGill to leave.

In HHM's conference room, Kim meets with her clients, Betsy and Craig Kettleman. She advises them not to take their case to trial, because their chances of winning are very low. She urges the couple to take the plea deal she’s negotiated on their behalf, which would reduce Mr. Kettleman’s sentence from 30 years to only 16 months. The Kettlemans refuse, and fire Kim on the spot.

Later, at Loyola's Diner, Jimmy slides into a seat across from none other than the Kettlemans, who inform him of their recent departure from HHM. Mrs. Kettleman apologizes for her bluntness when last they met, and tells him that they have reconsidered Jimmy’s offer to represent Mr. Kettleman. They want to hire Jimmy -- pending a few non-negotiable conditions. Jimmy is flattered, but apprises them of his new-found specialization: Elder Law. Mrs. Kettleman won’t let him off the hook, reminding him that they’ve already provided him with a substantial “retainer.”

Privately, Jimmy calls Kim from the diner restroom. She begs him to persuade the Kettlemans to return to HHM. The plea deal she negotiated is the best they’re going to get. Although he does his best to point them toward HHM, Jimmy having accepted the Kettlemans’ bribe in Episode 104 has tied his own fate to theirs. With great reluctance, he takes the case.