Who shot Jimmy Better Call Saul? (2023)

Who shot Jimmy Better Call Saul?

All but one are killed and their vehicles are disabled. The surviving gunman escapes in the only drivable truck. The unseen shooter was Mike Ehrmantraut, who was tracking Jimmy for Gus Fring.

It isn't a stretch to say Lalo ordered the hit on Jimmy. There wasn't anything random about the attack; in the moment, it felt like a coordinated assault, with Jimmy's aggressors knowing exactly where he'd be on the road with the money.

Everywhere he turns, there are cops. After hiding in a dumpster, Saul tries to dig out a phone to call Ed the Disappearer, but he fumbles everything he's holding and the police find him. Saul lands in a prison cell, where he calls his Cinnabon co-workers to tell them they'll need to find a new manager.

A guy named Jeff — a slightly menacing cabbie who had spent time in Albuquerque and had seen Saul on TV and billboard ads — confronted Saul during a lunch break at the mall and elicited a confession. “I know who you are, you know who you are,” Jeff said, creepily.

Rick thought that Jimmy was trying to steal his then girlfriend Terri MacGregor away from him which was one of the things that began the abusive relationship. Rick shot Jimmy, which caused him to be paralyzed from the waist down and be put into a wheelchair.

Jimmy learns in that scene that it was Jimmy's act of spilling the beans to the insurance carrier that lead to Chuck's death. Jimmy now knows he was the responsible one - and that Howard mistakenly blames himself.

The overriding intention behind Mike's Better Call Saul safe-swapping trick was to ensure Nacho's death without casting suspicion over Gus Fring.

He evidently did the same to Jimmy, which allowed him to track Jimmy without needing to be close enough to be seen. Just before he and Jimmy pushed the Suzuki Esteem into the ditch, Mike removed the gas cap so as not to leave any evidence of his subterfuge.

Jimmy gets ambushed, shot at, saved by Mike Ehrmantraut (Jonathan Banks), stranded in the desert and forced to drink his own pee — all in one episode. Luckily, Jimmy and Mike make it back to civilization, and Jimmy and Kim are able to convince Lalo that everything is fine, despite Jimmy's dehydrated desert adventure.

Hank refuses to beg for his life and asks Walt how such an intelligent man could be too naive to see that Jack had already made his decision. Hank then tells Jack to do what he has to do and Jack kills him with a shot to the head.

How long is Saul sentenced for?

The massacre had led to 10 men being killed within three prisons in under two minutes. In the end, Saul muses out loud; he doesn't need to convince the entire jury. He only needs one juror to believe his story. The deliberation led to his sentence getting reduced to 7 years.

When Walt finally chose to accept Gus's offer Saul agreed to be his lawyer betraying Jesse in the process as Walt had spitefully cut him out of the business due to jealousy over Jesse using his formula.

Although the Salamancas knew about Nacho's involvement until Better Call Saul season 6, Gustavo Fring knew the truth about his role in Hector's life-saving medication theft right away. As a result, Gus blackmailed Nacho into serving as a double agent by making fun of him.

Director Peter Gould's use of black and white to draw the viewer's eye and aid in the framing of his shots is spectacular. He reminds the viewer of classic black and white films while also underscoring and symbolizing Saul Goodman's journey out of darkness and toward the light.

In drafting Marion (Carol Burnett) to bail out Jeff, Gene tripped the wrong curiosity wires in that sharp, not-to-be-underestimated Marion. With the help of Ask Jeeves, she realized that he was actually Albuquerque conman Saul Goodman.

Spinner bullied Rick Murray to the point where he brought a gun to school, which lead to Jimmy being shot. Spinner stole Jimmy's MP3 player in Fight for Your Right. They both graduated in the Class of 2007. They were seen in the Season 3 and Season 4 opening credits together.

Lilley says that during Jimmy's first appointment with a specialist, an X-ray revealed his spine was curved and twisted like a corkscrew at the end. It was a birth defect, indicating his back legs would be permanently paralyzed. There is no surgical fix for this type of defect.

His character, Jimmy, used a wheelchair when he was paralyzed from the waist down after he was shot in a season four episode. Drake, who then went by the name Aubrey Graham, reportedly didn't want the character to end up like that.

He believes that Jimmy with a law degree is dangerous and an insult to the legal profession, and rationalizes his conniving and betrayal as serving the greater good. Chuck later hatches a scheme to have his brother disbarred.

Charles Lindbergh McGill Jr. Chuck was born in Cicero, Illinois, United States and is the eldest son of Ruth and Charles McGill Sr. He is the older brother of fellow lawyer and titular character Jimmy McGill ("Saul Goodman").

What is Chuck's mental illness?

One of the subplots of the show follows Chuck's obsessive compulsive order (OCD), a mental illness where people suffer from intrusive thoughts and compulsions.

Gustavo 'Gus' Fring : [to Mike] Would you care to know why I stopped you from killing Hector? A bullet to the head would have been far too humane.

When Gus has his men put a tracker on Mike's car, he gets right to work. Step 1: Find and remove the tracker from the vehicle so they can no longer track your whereabouts. Mike drops it his on his property, so to Gus and his men, it looks like Mike never leaves.

After searching through every possible square inch of every component in the car, Mike finally found what he was looking for: a tracker concealed in the cap of the gas tank.

Given that urine is excreted wastes and very salty, no one would suggest drinking in a desert environment, especially not someone who is knowledgeable. Mike is even shown to put up a condensation trap. He would just pour the urine in there and distill water from it that way.

That's when Mike came up with a brilliant plan: run out the battery on the tracker by hooking it up to a handheld radio, and replace it in the gas tank with a tracker of his own.

Mike Ehrmantraut drives away from the location where he tried to kill Hector Salamanca and unsuccessfully checks his car for a tracking device. Certain he was followed, he completely dismantles the station wagon he was driving at a local junkyard but finds nothing.

She's undaunted. The woman has range. She even knows what kind of soaking bath cures a guy desiccated in the desert. So, Juan Bolsa was behind the attempted hijacking of Lalo's $7 million in bail cash.

(Nor, as they've admitted, could Gilligan and Gould.) Event-wise, “Bagman” is a pretty simple episode. Jimmy goes to pick up the money, he gets attacked by bandits, Mike saves him, and then the two have to find a way to make it back to civilization without being killed by the guy who got away.

As the truck pulls away, Mike fires at the sneaker holding the cocaine, which causes the powder to spill onto the back of the truck. At the border crossing, drug-sniffing dogs discover the cocaine, and the drivers are taken into custody. Jimmy McGill is arrested for breaking into Chuck McGill's house.

How many kills does Walter White have?

Throughout the five seasons of Breaking Bad, Walter White caused the death of almost 300 people, directly or indirectly.

In the end, Hank's body was returned to his family and Walter was killed after seeking vengeance on Uncle Jack.

Gus Fring tipped Hank off. Even though he did send the brothers to attack Hank in the first place, he warned Hank so that he would be aware of what's going on and proceed to kill them, thus wrapping up a loose end.

Saul had a sweet deal to go to prison for seven years. When his day in court came, he decided to be honest and got 86 years to life instead. If you're wondering why Jimmy decided to make things worse for himself, it was because of his last conversation with Kim.

Saul Goodman

By combining his legal income with the cuts he gets by making the wishes of gangsters come true, his net worth could easily sum up to the tens of millions.

Odenkirk's filming the final season was unexpectedly halted in July 2021 when he collapsed on the series' New Mexico set after suffering a heart attack.

Kim's effortless ability to spin untruths and manipulate people, and her glee in doing so, all proves too much for her. She tells Jimmy that they are bad for one another—that the chaos they've created together is too much for her conscience, despite having “the time of [her] life” doing it.

The ultracompetent attorney who married Jimmy McGill (Bob Odenkirk), the man most likely to bring out the shadier side of her character, never appears in Breaking Bad, which led some viewers to assume she would die before Saul finished its run. But as Monday's series finale confirmed, Kim Wexler lives on.

Jimmy discovers that Chuck secretly used Howard to get him off the case—the same way Chuck used Howard to block Jimmy from becoming an attorney at HHM. Jimmy confronts Chuck, who tells Jimmy that he doesn't consider him a "real lawyer" since he is still the same "Slippin' Jimmy" from Cicero.

How did Jimmy end up paralyzed?

In the teen drama's fourth season, Jimmy is paralyzed after a school shooting and becomes a wheelchair user, one of the show's most iconic character arcs thanks in no small part to Drake's subsequent superstardom.

Chuck's condescension and his thinly veiled resentment led him to sabotage Jimmy's efforts to become a lawyer. Chuck and Jimmy's relationship was complex, and this was revealed in every scene they had together in Better Call Saul. This relationship was set up from the start.

“Nippy” is about the pleasure he derives from working those atrophied Saul Goodman muscles back into shape. First, he establishes a relationship with the two night security guys by offering free cinnamon rolls as a thank-you for the time one of them helped him in an emergency.

One of the subplots of the show follows Chuck's obsessive compulsive order (OCD), a mental illness where people suffer from intrusive thoughts and compulsions.

Because when you've been hurt one too many times, you stop caring after a while. Of course Jimmy is upset by the death of his brother, and he knows that he is partially to blame for his demise. He knows deep down that Chuck's ailment and eventual death has to do with his actions.

Beth, Kayce, Monica, Tate, and John all survive, though John was in a coma for two months after the attacks. At this point, it is unclear who ordered the hit on the Duttons. However, it is later revealed that Jamie's biological father Garrett Randall is behind the attacks.

That's where Jimmy was a basketball star until he was shot in the back by a classmate. It's where he met his fiancée Trina in physical therapy. It's where he gets stem cell surgery which allows him to walk with crutches at graduation.

Spinner bullied Rick Murray to the point where he brought a gun to school, which lead to Jimmy being shot. Spinner stole Jimmy's MP3 player in Fight for Your Right. They both graduated in the Class of 2007. They were seen in the Season 3 and Season 4 opening credits together.

Dear Jimmy, I have left many things unsaid in our relationship through the years. Rather than allow these unspoken thoughts to die with me, I've chosen to record them here for you. I hope you will take my words in the spirit in which they are intended.

Chuck's life ended at his own hand via an intentional house fire, but his presence certainly hasn't left Better Call Saul. Chuck's death and life continue to shape Jimmy's Better Call Saul arc throughout the show's next few seasons.

Was Jimmy or Chuck right?

In the end, Better Call Saul proved that Chuck was right – Slippin' Jimmy was and continued to be a danger to himself and others. Despite all of the situations Jimmy could have not anticipated, such as becoming associated with Lalo Salamanca, he had several chances to jump out of the game.

And this cab driver named Jeff [Don Harvey] — whose eyes we saw in the season 4 premiere when he was driving the cab that Jimmy was in — he seems menacing, more than a crazed fan.

Pat Healy took over the role of Jeff in season 6 of Better Call Saul and the original Jeff, Don Harvey, has publicly addressed the situation.