Jimmy makes a speech to the appeal panel about wanting to do justice to the McGill name, convincing them to reinstate his law license. He then shocks Kim by revealing that the speech was an insincere con. He obtains a DBA application and announces he intends to resume practicing law as Saul Goodman.
In the season 4 finale, after his license is reinstated, Jimmy applies to practise law under a new name and tells Kim, “S'all good, man!” In the season 5 premiere, Jimmy starts practising law under the name Saul Goodman, taking on shady clientele from the underworld he traversed as a burner cell phone salesman.
In Better Call Saul, Jimmy McGill (who becomes the eponymous Saul Goodman) transforms his life via a correspondence law degree from the University of American Samoa.
As he finds himself on the other side of the law, he develops a new persona: the criminal lawyer Saul Goodman. Identity change is often catalyzed by trauma — in his case, coming to terms with his losses. He is the last McGill left and his unique skill sets cannot be monetized in the legitimate world.
Jimmy's law license is suspended for a year, but he is not disbarred. To both pay his share of the rent on the office and make use of TV ad time for which he has already prepaid, Jimmy begins producing commercials for other businesses while using the on-air alias Saul Goodman.
The series also showed us just what happened to Saul/Jimmy after his association with Walter White (Bryan Cranston) – he fled to Omaha under a new identity (Gene) and worked as a baker at a shopping-mall Cinnabon – and this final episode brings all three of his personae together as Jimmy's, Gene's and Saul's worlds ...
He turns around and steps inside, deciding to become a lawyer like Chuck and Kim. ("Piñata") To do so, he took a correspondence course from the University of American Samoa. After two failed attempts, Jimmy passed the bar exam himself in 1997.
In Better Call Saul, Saul ended up getting 86 years in a federal prison after he did not take the plea deal that was offered to him. Better Call Saul provides context for some of the characters on Breaking Bad, but also follows its own, intriguing story.
To quickly recap, Jimmy/Saul has had his license suspended due to criminal charges he faced for breaking into his older (now deceased) more successful brother Chuck's home to destroy audio recordings of Jimmy confessing to manufacturing evidence.
Irene has refused because the lawyers have advised her they believe they can get Sandpiper to offer more. Jimmy stands to receive $1.16 million, and tries to persuade Howard Hamlin to accept, but Howard refuses. Howard and Chuck McGill meet with their malpractice insurance agents.
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In the end, it meant that Howard's boss Clifford Main (Ed Begley Jr.) decided to agree to the offer that the Sandpiper Crossing clients offered to the residents, meaning that Jimmy and Kim did indeed win.
The Firing Scam, "Inflatable" (Season 2, Episode 7) Feeling more confident on his own as opposed to being attached to a firm, Jimmy decides to quit his prestigious job at the conservative Davis & Main law firm, intending to take his recently accrued bonus with him.
After a little United States v. Saul Goodman legal action, the now-reformed Jimmy McGill ended up with 86 years in prison as Walter White's “indispensable” criminal lawyer.
As the truck pulls away, Mike fires at the sneaker holding the cocaine, which causes the powder to spill onto the back of the truck. At the border crossing, drug-sniffing dogs discover the cocaine, and the drivers are taken into custody. Jimmy McGill is arrested for breaking into Chuck McGill's house.
Lastly, for the first time in six years, Saul addresses himself as "James McGill", finally killing Saul and paving way for Jimmy's rebirth. Thanks to his confession, Kim walked away as a free woman, while Jimmy's plea agreement was squashed and he was sentenced to 86 years at a maximum security prison.
Odenkirk's filming the final season was unexpectedly halted in July 2021 when he collapsed on the series' New Mexico set after suffering a heart attack.
The series finale answered the big question, “Where is Kim Wexler in Breaking Bad?” Moreover, it showed what happened to Saul Goodman after the events of Breaking Bad as he was imprisoned for 86 years for his crimes after reneging on the seven-year plea bargain to protect Kim Wexler.
Shyster attorney Jimmy McGill (Bob Odenkirk) will never adapt to the button-down corporate environment of Davis & Main, even with its generous perks. That's why he launches an obnoxious scheme to get himself fired on “Inflatable,” Episode 207 of AMC's “Better Call Saul.”
Jimmy McGill aka Saul Goodman is a licensed attorney in the state of New Mexico. In order to sit for the New Mexico Bar exam, the applicant must have attended an American Bar Association (ABA) approved law school or have passed a bar exam in another state.
Kim is primarily portrayed by Rhea Seehorn, and was created by Vince Gilligan and Peter Gould. An intelligent and proficient lawyer, she is the confidant and love interest of Jimmy McGill / Saul Goodman, whom she later marries.
He is sentenced to 86 years in prison, where he is revered by fellow inmates who recognize him as Saul. Kim visits him and they share a cigarette. As she departs, he goes to the prison yard to see her off and "shoots" her finger guns. Kim acknowledges the gesture and leaves.
He finally takes to hiding in a dumpster, trying to scramble for his phone to call Ed the Disappearer. But his luck seems to have run dry, and he fumbles everything he's holding. That's when the police find and capture him.
While interesting and complete as individual characters, Jimmy and Kim really seem to complete each other — but you wouldn't exactly call their relationship "healthy." As Kim said herself, while they love each other, together they're "poison."