![]() ![]() So it shouldn’t factor in at all into your decision to continue or not. There’s no reward at the end of this game.” The sunk cost fallacy essentially means that a cost has already been incurred and cannot be gotten back. “That’s the sunk cost fallacy,” Jimmy replies “It’s what gambler’s do. – Kim also tries to appeal to Jimmy’s financial sense by telling him he shouldn’t quit the law since he’s already invested so much money and time in his career. Jackson) tells his partner that he’s ready to retire from this life of crime and walk the Earth like David Carradine in Kung Fu. – Kim asks Jimmy what he’s going to do “walk the Earth like Jules in Pulp Fiction?” Vince Gilligan is a huge Quentin Tarantino fan and wears his influence on his sleeve. – Wormald’s vanity license plate on the Hummer reads “Playuh.” According to, that plate is actually in use in New Mexico on a 2003 Mercedes Benz C240 M AWD This time Wormald turns up in a hilariously gaudy yellow Hummer with rims, causing Mike to quit. – Mike is back at the same parking garage with his pimento sandwich as he was in season 1 episode “Pimento.” This parking garage is where client Daniel Wormald picks him up so that Mike can act as silent muscle in drug deals with Nacho. – “I know what stopped me and you know what? It’s never stopping me again,” Jimmy tells Mike and then drives off humming Deep Purple’s “Smoke on the Water.” This is a carbon copy of the final moments of season 1. Charlie Hustle was also the nickname of famous baseball player and even more famous gambler Pete Rose. Ironically Jimmy quits moments after being called that. – Jimmy is called “Charlie Hustle” by Howard to impress Clifford Maine. ![]() And Jimmy is still wearing the pinky ring of his dearly departed friend and hustle partner, Marco – The post-credits sequences picks up almost immediately where season 1 left off. Vince Gilligan’s assistant Jenn Carroll declares “you’re probably okay not obsessing over that one.” ![]() What’s the significance of Skribe? Well apparently someone in the art department likes it. – Also on the wall behind Jimmy is the graffiti tag “Skribe.” That’s appeared in both Breaking Bad and Better Call Saul season one. This version of Jimmy/Saul is someone different entirely. Saul Goodman sure was here but he’s not anymore. was here” on the wall of the trash room while he waits. – The song playing during the opening scene is the slow, mournful “Funny How Time Slips Away” from Willie Nelson Instead, he just sits down, dejected, until a janitor arrives and lets him out. He can escape easily if he merely pushes open the emergency exit but that would draw the attention of the police and he can’t have that. The future Jimmy performs the mundane task of taking out the trash after a day’s work and gets locked in the room with the dumpster. Fans may have been frustrated with the lack of furthering the Breaking Bad/Better Call Saul universe mythology but artistically it couldn’t possibly work any better. – The season begins with another black and white flash forward to Saul’s life in Omaha as a Cinnabon. He’s been tapped to write a “revisionist take” on Jack and the Beanstalk to be produced by Vince Gilligan. The two have worked together on The X-Files, The Lone Gunmen and Breaking Bad. – This episode is directed and written by Thomas Schnauz, who goes way, way back with the Vince Gilligan family. Mike breaks ties with a former associate. Official synopsis: Jimmy decides to quit the law after turning down a job at Davis & Main. ![]() Better Call Saul Season 2 Episode 1: Switch ![]()
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