Better Call Saul Season 6 Breaks Bad And Turns On The Waterworks

As it turns out, Kim takes Jimmy’s advice. She heads back to Albuquerque and files an affidavit in which she breaks down what happened: how she and Jimmy teamed up to ruin Howard, and how Howard was murdered by Lalo. She then takes this document with its gory details to Cheryl, who is understandably horrified. Once again, Seehorn mostly sits and reacts to how her scene partner, Sandrine Holt, reacts as Cheryl pours over the words that finally reveal her husband’s tragic fate. 

Cheryl wants to know what will happen next — is Kim going to jail? Maybe … but probably not. As Kim states, it’s up to the District Attorney to file charges, and there’s a good chance that won’t happen because there’s no physical evidence. Kim also tries to stress that Howard didn’t suffer when he was killed, but Cheryl reminds her that Howard’s reputation was ruined right before his death, and now that’s all anyone remembers of him. Kim replies that she wants to change that … somehow. “Why are you doing this?” Cheryl asks.

Kim doesn’t have an answer. But later, we see her riding a bus, and we are forced to watch as she has a complete breakdown. Director Vince Gilligan keeps the camera trained on Seehorn’s face as it slowly cracks, bit by bit, until she’s overwhelmed with emotion, sobbing. It’s brutal to watch. As is another scene that comes after — a flashback to when Kim and Jimmy last saw each other six years ago. It involved the former couple signing their divorce papers. Jimmy is in full Saul mode, and rather cold to Kim, dismissing her with a cruel, “Have a nice life!” before returning to his criminal clients. 

After the deed is done, Kim heads outside of Saul’s strip mall office. It’s pouring rain, which isn’t exactly normal for this location. As expected, Kim needs a cigarette after the previous painful encounter, and she lights one up. As it turns out, she’s not alone — also outside is none other than Jesse Pinkman, who asks to bum a smoke. Kim obliges, and Jesse proceeds to go on a very Jesse-like diatribe about the weather, and about his criminal buddies — one of whom Kim actually represented years ago. Finally, he asks Kim about Saul Goodman. Another of Jesse’s friends is represented by Saul (because he likes the commercials), and Jesse wants to know if the lawyer is any good. “When I knew him he was,” Kim replies. Like I said: brutal.