This week's BetterCallSaul delivers another iconic showdown in the desert. Alan Sepinwall's recap
. But this is a feature, not a bug. While it’s thrilling and scary and at times darkly hilarious to watch Jimmy and Mike attempt to get out of the desert alive with all of Lalo’s cash intact, the episode’s power ultimately comes from where it exists in the story of Jimmy’s transformation into Saul Goodman, from the already precarious state of his marriage to Kim, and from our knowledge of what the space blanket truly means.
We then come home to Kim and Jimmy’s apartment, where he springs the Friend of the Cartel news she’s been bracing for, only it’s worse because of the insane thing he’s doing in order to achieve that status. Jimmy tries downplaying the risk, but Kim isn’t one of Jimmy’s marks, and the only times he’s ever been able to fool her have been when she wanted to be fooled. Not here. Not now. This development rightly terrifies her, and she lays out her feelings as plainly as she can: “I don’t like this.
This is more of a transformative episode for Jimmy than for Mike, but Mike still gets one of its most emotional scenes, where he explains to his traveling companion why he is still trying to get home, and why he has associated himself with such deadly criminals. “I have people waiting for me,” he says. “They don’t know what I do, they never will. They’re protected. But I do what I do so they can have a better life.
Eventually, the weight of the duffel bags and the physical impact of being out in the heat with so little hydration seems too much for Jimmy to take. Mike only talks about his family to encourage a collapsed, defeated Jimmy to stand up and keep moving. Instead, it’s the return of the bandit’s truck that does the job. Jimmy rises, gathers the space blanket around his shoulders, and starts trudging toward the road.
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