![]() ![]() With the Kettlemans apparently now in custody, I’m guessing Nacho now turns from attitude to gratitude, which might be just as dangerous. “When you realize how wrong you are on this, I’ll take an Edible Arrangement, heavy “Hey, Cagney, Lacey,” he tells two cops who doubt his theory that the Kettlemans are unharmed and hiding. Mostly he is a hoot, and never more so than when he sinks his teeth into a good insult That said, it no longer seems remotely nuts to have built a dramatic show around an actor that is best known for sketch comedy. The sort of assignment that Bryan Cranston, the lead of “Breaking Bad,” would relish. But when he begs for his brother’s aid, he must sound desperate in a nuanced and quietly vulnerable way. He has been asked to play hardened wiseacre, frantic kidnap victim, and plenty in between. We learn a bit more of Jimmy’s back story when he pleads for his brother’s legal assistance. “You didn’t do the sex robot voice, did you?” “You didn’t,” says Kim Wexler (Rhea Seehorn), who flags early in the episode that she is Jimmy’s occasional phone-sex partner. Voice-disguise system to warn the Kettlemans in that phone call, he seems a little too adroit at putting the contraptions together. It’s also clear that the guy has an odd take on phone sex, one that involves speaking through the cardboard core of a paper-towel roll with a piece of tissue rubber-banded to the end. (Remember Episode 1, when he burst into a conference room at his brother’s law firm and quoted “Network.” Or Episode 2’s “All That ![]() one that opens the episode, as Jimmy enters the jailhouse room to meet Chuck, and another that closes it, when Jimmy surprises the Kettlemans in their hideout tent. Leave it.” There are also two takes of Jack Nicholson’s famous “Here’s Johnny!” line from “The Shining” With Nacho’s considerably more terse, “Nacho. The Kettlemans’s voice-mail message, which sounds lifted from a Mouseketeer (“Hello! You’ve reached Team Kettleman!”) is contrasted There is also a bit of fun with doubling in this episode. One of my favorite moments in this episode is watching Mike mouth the letters to a crossword-puzzle answer as Jimmy stews by the parking lot gate, a few stickers short. Own, tells Jimmy that the Kettlemans probably didn’t wander far from home. This is not a simple feat, though he does briefly acquire an ally - Mike Ehrmantraut, who finally emerges as something more than a parking-lot drudge and, following some actual kung fu of his “You gave my score to another crew,” he fumes, confusing Jimmy for the sort of person who knows a “crew.” “You get me out of here today, or you’re a dead man.”Īnd thus we have the sort of pickle previously found regularly in “Breaking Bad.” The villainous-looking man is innocent, the innocent-looking family is guilty, and Jimmy must prove these improbable facts He names Jimmy as his lawyer, and during a jailhouse visit, Nacho accuses Jimmy of framing him. Nacho is arrested because his van was spotted for a few nights at chez Kettleman, staking out the place. This good deed is immediately punished when the Kettlemans ransack their own home and fake their own kidnapping. Part of a scheme that Jimmy learned about from the man who conceived it, Nacho, at the end of Episode 2. In an anonymous late-night phone call, he warns Craig Kettleman, the embezzling county treasurer, that his home might be invaded and his ill-gotten gains stolen, If anything, Jimmy proves that he is a pretty decent guy. Its version of the present, the rest of the episode suggests that Jimmy is hardly the reprobate he was a decade or so earlier, nor the money-laundering whiz that he will eventually become. The I’m-scared-straight promises that Jimmy makes to Chuck McGill, who is revealed to be his older brother and - for a time at least - his lawyer, sound pretty tinny. Jimmy do? This isn’t clear, though I Googled “Chicago sunroof,” a phrase he invokes to protest his innocence, to see if it turned up on Urban Dictionary. He’s in jail on charges that could leave him labeled, for time immemorial, as a sex offender. Cue a flashback to what appears toīe the early ’80s, judging from the Rick Springfield-ish rug sported by Bob Odenkirk. We learn that Jimmy McGill’s past was a tad more sordid than previously known. The twists in “Nacho” are too numerous to catalog, but they arrive straight away. ‘Better Call Saul’ Recap: What Kind of Show Is This?.‘Better Call Saul’ Recap: A Chimp With a Machine Gun.‘Better Call Saul’ Season 1 Finale Recap: It’s Never Stopping Me Again. ![]()
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