Loved how many air quotes Jimmy put round this phrase as he reluctantly added the cash he’d been paid by the Kettlemans to the rest of the loot: a picture of frustration. “A deal is what they got OJ.” Betsy really doesn’t see herself as the criminal type, does she? A nice Spike Lee/ The Simpsons mashup concept from Jimmy. He’s a natural.Ģ5th Hour with Ned and Maude Flanders. “Lucky B6 – just like the vitamins.” If the whole lawyer thing doesn’t work out, Jimmy’s definitely got a second career as a bingo-master to fall back on. They are, but here’s hoping something comes up soon to bring these two together again – the show really kicks up a notch the moment they’re both on screen.
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“Am I correct in assuming we’re now square?” Mike asks Jimmy as he hands over the bag full of money. Assuming one of the kids must have been playing with the cash outside, the Kettlemans return it to the rest of their stash, leaving a handy trail of fingerprints for Mike to follow. Then he sneaks into their garden, leaves the cash sitting outside their house in the back of a toy pickup truck, and settles in to wait, munching his way through five apples – no donuts on this stakeout. He sprays a bundle of cash from Jimmy’s retainer payment with a substance that shows up under one of those nifty CSI-style UV torches. Instead, Jimmy sets them up with the help of an ingenious Mike ploy. At one point it almost looked as if Betsy was going to let Craig take the fall, but as soon as Jimmy reminded her that there was no way she could spend the money without attracting unwanted attention, she seemed to back away from that idea. It’s an offhand remark by Kim that gives Jimmy a way out. ‘Thanks for not heading to the Bahamas with this’ If they go down, Jimmy is coming with them. The only flaw in his attempt to not cash in on their loopy tactics? Betsy is more than happy to remind him that they’ve already paid him a retainer (with the money that they’re insisting they haven’t stolen). Only this time, Jimmy isn’t too keen on their business he knows what a good deal Kim has negotiated for them. They flounce out of HHM and set up another meeting with Jimmy in the diner. There’s only one thing for it – change legal teams. The thought of letting go of $1.6m is just too hard for her to deal with. Poor Craig – he seems convinced, but Betsy is having none of it. Kim has been handling their case, and she’s worked out a deal with the district attorney: if they hand back the money, and Craig pleads guilty, he’ll have to serve only 16 months instead of 30 years.
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‘We don’t need to discuss it – you’re fired’ Sanders, the older of the two detectives, even admits to Mike that there haven’t been a lot of people mourning the double homicide of bent cops Fensky and Hoffman it might even be a good thing for the precinct, a way to clean up with some fresh blood. No one’s buying Jimmy’s story about stumbling across it in the car park, but as there’s no way of proving anything, the cops let it slide. We started by checking in on Mike’s situation: the “Philly cheesesteaks” are still on his case, not happy about the way Mike and Jimmy lifted the notebook from Detective Abbasi’s jacket last episode. Even Chuck seems to be on the mend, working out a way to inoculate himself against the terrors of electromagnetic forces by standing outside for a full two minutes. Jimmy’s attempt to dream big and win Kim over to joining him in his new offices didn’t work out – even with the offer of a corner office. Until this point Bingo was a pretty flat episode, lightened by Jimmy’s turn as a bingo caller and Betsy Kettleman’s delusional attitude towards her life of crime. There’s nothing like a five-apple stakeout to get things going. Spoiler warning: this recap discusses the seventh episode of Better Call Saul on AMC/Netflix.