After helping Jimmy seal up the loose ends on their deadly mess with Howard's wife, Kim quit the law and her husband, explaining to Jimmy that although she loved him, they brought out the worst in each other and inflicted the worst on the world.
Jimmy and Kim are both still alive. They're both kicking. He seems to have found a way to survive behind bars, and she certainly seems like she's headed back into the law. So in a weird way, I think it is a happy ending.
The show ended with Kim visiting Saul in prison, and the pair shared a cigarette like they used to do when they were married and they spoke about the future. While discussing his 87-year sentence Saul said that "with good behavior" he may well get out earlier.
Despite Kim and Jimmy's unconditional love for each other, Kim left him and Albuquerque after one of their schemes went horribly wrong, causing her to believe that they were bad for everyone around them. She subsequently retired permanently from her law career, and divorced Jimmy later that year.
Well, thankfully we now know that she is indeed alive in the post-Breaking Bad world of Jimmy McGill's new alias Gene Takavic. In 'Waterworks', we see that Kim now works at a sprinkler manufacturer in Florida, and she gets a call from 'Gene' after all these years.
The ultracompetent attorney who married Jimmy McGill (Bob Odenkirk), the man most likely to bring out the shadier side of her character, never appears in Breaking Bad, which led some viewers to assume she would die before Saul finished its run. But as Monday's series finale confirmed, Kim Wexler lives on.
She cancels her own law license, packs her bags, and leaves Saul for an unknown destination. “She's saying, 'There's no way back for what you and I have become. We hurt other people,'” Seehorn told Entertainment Weekly.
Rhea Seehorn's Kim Wexler. Kim becomes as close to Bob Odenkirk's Jimmy McGill as can be during Better Call Saul's latter seasons, but doesn't receive so much as a glancing mention during Breaking Bad - an oddity the spinoff needed to address before the end.
She found being with Jimmy was fun, with all their scheming and plotting. It brought out a side of her she did not recognize. Together they were poison, and she admits that to Jimmy's face. You can see the pain in her face when she realizes she has to leave Jimmy.
Kim attends the sentencing in Albuquerque, where Jimmy admits he lied so she would be present in person. He confesses to enabling Walt and admits his role in Chuck's suicide. He is sentenced to 86 years in prison, where he is revered by fellow inmates who recognize him as Saul.
Her life has changed majorly after she left Saul; she's dating a new man, rocking a new haircut, trying out a new mayonnaise and watching “The Amazing Race.” She now works at Palm Coast Sprinklers in the Catalog & Brochures department, away from Saul's morally-draining exploits.
“They've always loved each other, but love isn't always the answer,” Gould says. “That's the thing that Kim says in Episode 8. [Jimmy] says, 'But I love you.
The last time they spoke (on the phone during "Breaking Bad"/"Waterworks") Kim didn't recognize the villain her ex-husband had become. Her "hi Jimmy" line in Better Call Saul's series finale signifies how Saul Goodman is dead, and Jimmy McGill - the man Kim married - is back.
Better Call Saul season 6, episode 9 finally explains why Kim Wexler is absent during Breaking Bad. She doesn't get whacked by gangsters, jailed over Howard Hamlin's murder, or forced into hiring the Disappearer. Kim simply breaks up with Jimmy after their scheming results in a man's death.
Kim sees that Jimmy has the potential to be a proper, successful lawyer who can leave the ways of Slippin Jimmy behind (his earlier con-man alter ego). Kim thus makes a point of sticking up for Jimmy because she feels he is being unfairly characterized by everybody around him.
When Jimmy didn't seem to care about the letter, Kim was racked with guilt and that's why she wound up crying. While the scene played out on Better Call Saul, I actually thought Jimmy was making up the words about how proud Chuck was of him.
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.
Saul and Kim Divorce | Better Call Saul S6 E12 "Waterworks"
In “Wexler Watch,” we assess the state of Kim Wexler following each of the remaining episodes of Better Call Saul. It finally happened. In this week's episode of Better Call Saul, “Fun and Games,” Kim Wexler broke things off with Jimmy McGill/Saul Goodman.
One allegedly cheated on him with his stepdad, and the other with a man named Chet who owed money to Jimmy - an event which led to the invention of the infamous "Chicago sunroof." As mentioned in Breaking Bad (and now Better Call Saul) Jimmy has had two wives before Kim, both of whom he ended up divorcing.
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.
The season six episode "Plan and Execution" features the murder of Howard by Lalo Salamanca.