During the second hour of the two part Better Call Saul premiere we learned a bit more about James (Bob Odenkirk) circumstances as well as got an inkling as to where the season might be going and how exactly Saul comes about. We also saw two familiar faces one a welcomed delight and another a horrifying return. Check out a full recap
Better Call Saul' Meet TucoWe pick up slightly before where we left off on the Feb. 8 episode.
Take Our PollInside the house where Tweedle Dee and Tweedle Dumb (AKA the two skateboarding bros) have followed their hit and runner abuelita is sent upstairs by her grandson the one who held a gun to James head at the end of the last episode. To those who did not watch Breaking Bad grandson seems like your typically horrifying villain.
However for those of us who did watch that other series we recognize grandson as Tuco (Raymond Cruz) the totally psychopathic drug lord from early on in the series. Aaaand we re having horrifying flashbacks.
You Called Her BizznatchYou want money and you called her bizznatch ' are two of the questions Tuco asks before clocking the two in the face with a coat hanger and knocking em right out.
So we re pretty much up to speed on what happened prior to James arrival.
Granny meanwhile is happy as a clam watching her soaps upstairs. When she hears a thud she comes downstairs but there s nothing to be seen except Tuco scrubbing what he says is spilled salsa on the carpet. Huh that s a funny coincidence
Tuco makes a call to someone who we can imagine is equally scary and tells them to bring his van.
Cue Jimmy s knock knock knock on the door.
After Tuco pulls him inside he doesn t drop the gun. Actually he tells him You move and you re dead.
Time for an interrogation and some serious butt kissing from Jimmy. Not the first time we ve seen him do it. Won t be the last I m sure.
After blabbering on at what feels like a million words per minute grandson echoes what we re all thinking You got a mouth on you. It works and grandson takes him into the garage to untie the boys.
When Jimmy untapes one of the mouths though he totally blows it and says it was all James idea unaware that they were all about to be let free.
Ugh I can t with these boys.
James Applies His Sweet Talking SkillsThe three are taken to the middle of the desert by grandson and he s brought some friends with him. Guess what I was right they re so scary.
Jimmy takes another crack at explaining the mixup but it seems like it might be too late. Tuco grabs a big toolbox from his van and pulls out a massive pair of pliers. As he squeezes them against his little pinky beginning to draw blood James gets desperate.
Okay I m a secret agent James lies.
That story lasts about five seconds. Finally James fesses up to everything and after deliberation they do decide to let him go.
However Dee and Dumb are not so lucky. Tuco says he wants to skin them as he holds his knife out. James though an arguable criminal is not a bad person and he doesn t want to see the two die.
James once again uses his sweet talkin arguing skills to try and ya know minimize their sentence as it were. I m advising that you make the punishment fit the crime.
James is able to negotiate the punishment down from gauging their eyes out to a minuscule breaking of a leg on each. Unfortunately he has to stand by while the deed is done and hear it (the sound will be important later).
I m the best lawyer ever he says as he wheels one of the pained patients into an ER a little while later. Uh maybe top five James. Maybe.
Later Saul is trying to woo a pretty lady on a date. However the snapping of breadsticks in the background is forcing him to relive the leg breaking and it s making it impossible to focus on his usual charms and he abandons the date. After getting violently drunk and vomitting in the bathroom he heads home.
Except he doesn t go to his home. He drives to Chuck s (Michael McKean) and is so drunk that he makes the mistake of bringing his phone inside with him (not sure if this is a mistake for tracking purposes as Chuck is clearly in hideout or for his paranoia about radiation since he subsequently wraps himself in a space blanket ). Chuck throws it onto the lawn then wraps himself in some sort of aluminum blanket. Chuck also finds the urgent care bill for the broken legs. Hence James has got some splaining to do. He assures Chuck he s not back to his old ways (whatever those may be) then he departs to search for his phone.
It s Show TimeWhat follows is a delight a montage of James public defending the crap out of a hodgepodge of criminals. And even more delightfully prior to every case James stares himself straight in the mirror flashes his palms wide open and says It s show time.
Oh also every day Mike (Jonathan Banks) continues to give him an excruciatingly difficult time at the courtroom toll booth and it s hilarious.
Back at the nail salon/James office James pours himself a stiff drink into a pathetic plastic cup before he is interrupted by a customer
Turns out James has met this customer before he s one of Tuco s friends from earlier Nacho (Michael Mando). He wants to pull a fast one on the original targets of the skateboarding heist. I like ripping off thieves because they can t go to the cops he says to James. You tell me where they hid their cash I ll pay you. Let s call it a finder s fee.
James though despite what we all might believe does not consider himself a criminal and doesn t want to steal. Nacho is apathetic but urges James to call him when he realizes that obviously he is playing the game. He leaves his number and of course a very open door to thievery.
What did you think of part two of the premiere Should James go into business with Nacho
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John Gentile ( DrJay59)
Posted at 5 33 AM on February 10 2015
This series has so much potential and possibilities. Remember Saul and Mike knew Gus before Walter did. If Giancarlo Esposito is brought into this series the ratings will go through the roof.
Share this comment atHayatori
Posted at 11 47 PM on February 9 2015
This was interesting that he talked Tuco out of killing the two boys for two reasons. One reason is that Saul did have a conscience before Breaking Bad. In Breaking Bad Saul tried to talk Jesse and Walter into killing Badger when Saul was kidnapped by them. The second reason is that Tuco actually listened to Saul when he would not listen to Walter when he told Tuco to relax before Tuco killed one of his own members.
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Posted at 5 26 AM on February 10 2015
Saul more than likely had pity on the twins since he was the one who initiated the plan that had gone wrong He told Tuco that he took full responsibility for the mix up. Tuco wanted to hurt the twins because of their disrespect for his grandmother. As far as Tuco killing one of his own members (in the future) he was so high on that blue meth that he wasn t thinking straight. He was calmer at his grandmother s house because he probably wasn t high..
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