'Better Call Saul' Season 5 Episode 6 promo hints at a Jimmy-Kim faceoff, will their love survive the tension?
On Jimmy McGill's pursuit to becoming the most influential lawyer of the shady and degenerate, he seems to be prioritizing all the wrong things — and nobody knows it better than the one woman who has stood by him for four years now, Kim Wexler.
But how much of Saul Goodman is too much? That's what the premise of the upcoming Episode 6 of 'Better Call Saul' Season 5 asks. Or teases, for sure.
In a new promo for the episode titled 'Wexler v. Goodman' in the most self-explanatory manner ever, we see Kim (Rhea Seehorn) at war with the man her boyfriend Jimmy (Bob Odenkirk) has turned into, as Saul.
As he exploits the lowest of low levels to win by hook or by crook, it is once again a parallel of his conviction and goal rivaled by Kim's. On one hand, is Jimmy-turned-Saul's inherent need to win and excel — something that he realized wasn't going to happen on his path to being an idealistic attorney.
However, as he puts on the amoral lawyer cap, we began seeing the downfall of the man towards who we were introduced to in the parent show 'Breaking Bad', it keeps becoming clearer why Kim was totally out of the picture in the original series.
The clip sees 'Saul' engage in a photo shoot with a bunch of skimpily clad models — expectedly for a new case, he is trying to win by not the straightest of clear cut methods.
However, the scene changes to a possible confrontation between him and Kim, where he can be seen assuring her, almost bragging, how there's "no way to prove anything."
The official synopsis by AMC states that the episode will see "Kim try to pump the brakes on Jimmy's latest scheme, but it may be too late to stop Saul," and that could be what the confrontation is all about.
Kim's passing stares of pity and looks of disappointment have been a common element this season so it's only a matter of time before she realizes enough is enough and decides to go all out in a face-off with her boyfriend's new avatar.
Saul says "shock and awe" are what he's going for as core traits of his new aura and Kim's lingering smirks are too much of a tease to say anything right now, but there's a high chance she is going to prove Jimmy/Saul wronger than he possibly could have ever imagined.
The clip is also padded with snippets of Mike Ehrmantraut (Jonathan Banks) talking about wanting justice and asking someone (expectedly Jimmy) to get something off his chest, and Gus Fring gets more and more involved in the cases Jimmy is handling to tease an inevitable big blow-up for him from all ends.
'Better Call Saul' Season 5 airs on Mondays at 9 pm only on AMC.