List of Better Call Saul episodes

Better Call Saul is an American television drama series created by Vince Gilligan and Peter Gould, a prequel spin-off of Breaking Bad (2008–13). The series premiered on AMC on February 8, 2015. As of June 19, 2017, 30 episodes of Better Call Saul have aired, concluding the third season. The series was renewed by AMC for a 10-episode fourth season to air in 2018.

Series overview

Season	Episodes		Originally aired
			First aired	Last aired
1	10		February 8, 2015 (2015-02-08)	April 6, 2015 (2015-04-06)
2	10		February 15, 2016 (2016-02-15)	April 18, 2016 (2016-04-18)
3	10		April 10, 2017 (2017-04-10)	June 19, 2017 (2017-06-19)

Episodes

Season 1 (2015)

No. overall	No. in season	Title	Directed by	Written by	Original air date	U.S. viewers (millions)
1	1	"Uno"	Vince Gilligan	Vince Gilligan & Peter Gould	February 8, 2015 (2015-02-08)	6.88
Following the events of Breaking Bad, Saul Goodman is living under the assumed name Gene in Omaha, Nebraska and managing a Cinnabon. One night after work, he watches a tape of television ads made when he worked as an attorney. Flashing back to 2002, Jimmy McGill (Saul's original name) is a struggling public defender in Albuquerque, New Mexico. At Loyola's Diner, Jimmy exhorts Craig and Betsy Kettleman, the county treasurer accused of embezzling $1.6 million, to hire him. Jimmy lives and works out of a cramped storage room in the back of a Vietnamese nail salon while caring for his brother, Chuck, a successful attorney. Chuck has become semi-reclusive and believes he suffers from electromagnetic hypersensitivity. On his brother's behalf, Jimmy passionately and theatrically confronts Chuck's law firm partner, Howard Hamlin, of Hamlin, Hamlin & McGill (HHM), demanding HHM cash out his brother's US$17 million share in the firm. The Kettlemans decide to hire HHM instead. Frustrated, Jimmy sets up a skateboarding accident scam with con artist twins Lars and Cal after regaling them with stories of his successful cons years earlier in Chicago where he was known as "slippin' Jimmy" (a master of phony slip-and-falls which resulted in cash payoffs). The plan is to stage a phony skateboard accident involving the Kettlemans' station wagon (with Mrs. Kettleman driving), whereupon Jimmy will arrive on the scene to offer his services to the Kettlemans. However, the twins accidentally target the wrong car, driven by the grandmother of Tuco Salamanca. When the twins try to extort money out of Tuco for Lars' phony broken leg, Cal refers to Tuco's abuela (grandmother) as "biznatch" which infuriates Tuco, prompting him to viciously pummel both twins, bind them and throw them into the garage. Jimmy arrives at Tuco's front door, and is drawn at gunpoint into Tuco's house.
2	2	"Mijo"	Michelle MacLaren	Peter Gould	February 9, 2015 (2015-02-09)	3.42
Tuco drags Jimmy at gunpoint into the house where the skateboarding twins are being held. Jimmy explains that the twins were part of his scam operation, but they picked the wrong car. Tuco leads Jimmy to the garage, where the twins are tied up. After Jimmy frees them, Lars reveals that this was all Jimmy's idea, which infuriates Tuco. Later, Jimmy is tied up and gagged with duct tape, and on his knees in the desert. Tuco demands to know who Jimmy is and why he is coming after him. Out of options, Jimmy lies about being an FBI agent. Tuco's subordinate Nacho doesn't believe this, and Jimmy confirms that he is actually a lawyer. Jimmy is released. He talks Tuco out of killing the twins, suggesting Tuco break their legs instead, which Tuco orders his henchman to do. Jimmy drives the twins to an emergency room, with the twins calling him "the worst lawyer in the world". Nacho visits Jimmy at his nail salon office, reveals a scheme to steal the money the Kettlemans embezzled, and offers Jimmy a 10% finder's fee. Jimmy declines to participate, telling Nacho that he is a lawyer, not a criminal. Surprised, Nacho leaves his phone number with Jimmy, encouraging him to call when Jimmy decides he's "in the game".
3	3	"Nacho"	Terry McDonough	Thomas Schnauz	February 16, 2015 (2015-02-16)	3.23
In a flashback, Jimmy, who faces multiple charges and the prospect of being branded a sex offender in the wake of his "Chicago Sunroof" gag, is visited by Chuck in jail. Chuck promises Jimmy that he will extend his legal help in exchange for Jimmy's sincere promise to quit "everything he's involved with". Returning to 2002, Jimmy is still hoping to get the Kettleman case back from HHM. Disguising his voice, Jimmy Calls the Kettlemans from a pay-phone and warns them that they are in danger of being robbed. As Jimmy returns to the Kettleman house, he's informed they have been kidnapped. Nacho, whom a neighbor spotted casing the Kettleman house, is arrested; he accuses Jimmy of tipping off the Kettlemans and threatens to kill Jimmy unless he proves Nacho's innocence. Jimmy comes up with a theory that the Kettlemans have kidnapped themselves and strives to prove it. The police do not believe Jimmy's theory, but Mike, a retired cop who works as a parking lot attendant for the Albuquerque courthouse, does. Later, following Mike's advice, Jimmy locates the Kettlemans camping out in the hills above their home, along with the embezzled $1.6 million.
4	4	"Hero"	Colin Bucksey	Gennifer Hutchison	February 23, 2015 (2015-02-23)	2.87
In a flashback, Jimmy and his buddy Marco use a fake Rolex watch as bait to con a bar patron out of money. Returning to 2002, Jimmy offers his legal services to the Kettlemans; they reject his offer and counter with a $30,000 bribe, which Jimmy accepts. Jimmy represents Nacho and successfully gets him freed, but Nacho deduces that Jimmy tipped off the Kettlemans and warns him about "consequences". Jimmy uses the bribe money to purchase clothing and a billboard that exactly imitates Hamlin and HHM's logo. Hamlin obtains a cease and desist order and forces Jimmy to take the billboard down. Jimmy uses this as a way to try to make Hamlin look bad through college media, and in the meantime stages a phony rescue of a billboard worker who pretends to have fallen off the billboard. The next day, Jimmy's actions make it onto the news, much to Hamlin's disgust. Jimmy then makes his daily drop off at Chuck's house but removes the local paper from Chuck's supplies in order to prevent Chuck from learning of Jimmy's billboard "rescue". Seeing his neighbors have their local newspapers, with great difficulty Chuck runs outside to steal a neighbor's newspaper (observed in the act by another neighbor) and reads about Jimmy's act.
5	5	"Alpine Shepherd Boy"	Nicole Kassell	Bradley Paul	March 2, 2015 (2015-03-02)	2.71
After Chuck's neighbor reports him for stealing the newspaper, he is arrested and hospitalized. A doctor tries to have Jimmy commit Chuck to a mental institution, but Jimmy manages to convince her that he is fully capable of containing Chuck in his own home; the doctor advises Jimmy that Chuck's "disease" is entirely psychosomatic. Jimmy's newfound fame seems to attract mostly unpropitious clients, but he eventually comes across an elderly lady in need of a will, which prompts Jimmy's lawyer friend Kim to propose that Jimmy specialize in elder law. Jimmy takes her advice and begins promoting himself at a nursing home. Meanwhile, parking lot attendant Mike is visited at home by several police officers from Philadelphia.
6	6	"Five-O"	Adam Bernstein	Gordon Smith	March 9, 2015 (2015-03-09)	2.57
In a flashback, Mike arrives in Albuquerque on a train and is met by his daughter-in-law, Stacey (Kerry Condon). Their conversation reveals that Mike's son, Matty, was a Philadelphia police officer who was recently murdered. Mike finds a crooked veterinarian, Dr. Caldera, to treat a bullet wound in his shoulder. Returning to 2002, Mike is taken to the police station and demands Jimmy as his lawyer. Asking Jimmy to spill coffee on one of the detectives as a diversion, Mike steals the detective's notebook and realizes that Stacey had called the detectives. He confronts her and reveals that Matty was the only clean cop in the precinct. In another flashback, Mike breaks into a police car outside a bar before entering the bar and appearing to drink heavily. When he leaves, two detectives pick him up under the pretense of giving him a ride home. During the ride, Mike reveals that he knows they killed Matty. The detectives plan to murder Mike with his own gun, but Mike, having feigned his drunken state and hidden a second gun in the car, kills them both. Returning to 2002, Mike explains to Stacey that he was the one who convinced Matty to take the bribe, but his partners killed him anyway.
7	7	"Bingo"	Larysa Kondracki	Gennifer Hutchison	March 16, 2015 (2015-03-16)	2.67
Mike and Jimmy are called down to the station, and the younger detective accuses them of stealing his notebook. Jimmy returns the notebook and assures him they found it in the parking lot outside. Mike and Jimmy are allowed to go, and Mike tells Jimmy to go home. The next day, Jimmy takes Kim to his new office and offers her a partnership, which she refuses. Back at HHM, Kim presents the Kettlemans with their best deal, which would send Craig to jail for 16 months instead of 30 years. Betsy refuses, fires HHM and leaves with Craig. Meanwhile, Jimmy is hosting a bingo game at a nursing home and is contacted by the Kettlemans. They all meet at Loyola's again, and the Kettlemans demand that he represent him and insist they want no jail time. Jimmy turns them down and strongly encourages them to go back to Kim. They inform him that in order for them to take the deal, they would need all the money, including the $30,000 bribe Jimmy accepted. Later that night, Jimmy hires Mike to steal the $1.6 million from the Kettlemans' home and returns the bribe in full. The next day, Jimmy visits the Kettlemans, tells them he took their money, and forces them to take Kim's deal. Jimmy returns the Kettlemans to HHM and visits the office he had to give up in order for the deal to go through. Jimmy angrily kicks an office door shut and sobs on the floor, only to pull himself together to answer a phone call.
8	8	"RICO"	Colin Bucksey	Gordon Smith	March 23, 2015 (2015-03-23)	2.87
In a flashback, Jimmy is working in the mailroom at HHM. Jimmy asks Kim to open his bar exam results; he has passed, and she kisses him passionately. Jimmy then shows Chuck his results and explains that he studied law via distance learning from the "University of American Samoa". Chuck tells him that he is proud of him. Later there is a small mailroom party to celebrate, but Howard tells Jimmy that HHM refuses to hire him as an attorney. Returning to present-day, Hamlin holds a press conference to announce Craig Kettleman's plea deal, as Jimmy visits clients at a senior care home called Sandpiper Crossing. At one client's residence, Jimmy discovers that Sandpiper is overcharging her. Jimmy returns to Chuck's house and points out fraud by Sandpiper Crossing. Chuck tells Jimmy he needs more information; Jimmy returns to Sandpiper but is forcibly thrown out. Meanwhile, Mike receives a call from Stacey, asking him to babysit Kaylee. Later that night, Jimmy searches Sandpiper's dumpster for shredded documents. He brings bags of the shredded documents to Chuck's house, but makes no progress and falls asleep. Chuck manages to put some of the documents together, and these prove Sandpiper's guilt. Mike spends the day with Kaylee and is asked by Stacey what she should do with the money Matty accepted. Mike tells her to spend it and returns to the vet for a job. Jimmy sets up a meeting with Sandpiper's lawyers at Chuck's house, and Chuck demands $20 million from them. Chuck explains he sees a way to win, which makes Jimmy visibly ecstatic. The next day, Jimmy returns to Chuck's house with new client files and naps on his sofa. Chuck absentmindedly walks outside to Jimmy's car to grab some documents Jimmy forgot, and they stand outside, amazed that Chuck wasn't hindered by his condition.
9	9	"Pimento"	Thomas Schnauz	Thomas Schnauz	March 30, 2015 (2015-03-30)	2.38
Chuck and Jimmy are enjoying time outside on a park bench. It seems Chuck is able to spend more time outside than he originally thought, but after a while he insists they go back inside. Mike brings Stacey and Kaylee a dog and receives a call about a job. Jimmy goes to court to argue against a restraining order from Sandpiper Crossing and ultimately wins. Returning to Chuck's house, Jimmy finds boxes of paperwork, and Chuck convinces Jimmy to bring the case to HHM because of its large scale, which may lead to it becoming a class action suit. Later that night, Chuck sneaks outside to place a phone call. The next day, Mike, a loudmouth mercenary named Sobchak (Steven Ogg) and a very large man wait for the job. Pryce (the client) arrives, whereupon Mike advises Pryce that no guns will be necessary on the job and furthermore, Mike will be able to handle the job himself without Sobchak and the big goon. Sobchak threatens Mike with his gun, whereupon Mike masterfully subdues Sobchak, relieving him of his gun. The big goon then scampers off and Sobchak slinks away, leaving Mike and Pryce alone to carry out the assignment. Meanwhile, Chuck and Jimmy prepare to visit HHM, sewing Chuck's space blanket into the lining of his suit. The McGill brothers present their case to Howard, but Howard informs Jimmy that he wants the case, but not him. Frustrated, Jimmy refuses to give the case to Howard and tells him to go to hell. Kim confronts Howard on his decision, but Howard reveals something to her, unknown to the viewing audience at this point. On the job, Mike and his client wait for Nacho and a new gang of thugs to show up and buy the pills the client is selling. After the deal is concluded, Mike explains to Pryce, who insists he is not a "bad man", that he is now a criminal, and that morality doesn't enter into it, criminal or not, the crucial thing is to keep one's word. Back at the nail salon, Kim meets with Jimmy and urges him to take the deal, causing Jimmy to get angry at her. Jimmy enters his office and has a realization when he charges his phone. The next day, Jimmy goes to Chuck's house and confronts him about the phone call he placed to Howard before their meeting. Jimmy has realized it was Chuck who told Howard not to hire him, and Chuck has been blocking him from being hired at HHM ever since his days in the mailroom. Jimmy demands to know why. Chuck reveals his opinion of Jimmy as not being worthy to be called a real lawyer and says he has not changed since his "Slippin' Jimmy" days as a con man. Jimmy tells Chuck he's on his own and storms out, with Chuck calling out to him to come back as Jimmy drives off
10	10	"Marco"	Peter Gould	Peter Gould	April 6, 2015 (2015-04-06)	2.53
In a flashback to Cicero, Illinois, Jimmy says goodbye to his friend and con artist partner Marco, telling him that he is moving to Albuquerque. Back to 2002, Jimmy meets with Howard Hamlin to receive his $20,000 "of counsel" fee, and to discuss arrangements for delivering groceries and supplies to Chuck. After having a breakdown while calling bingo at the retirement home, Jimmy returns to Cicero, where he catches up with Marco at their old favorite bar. They run a rare coin scam, with a Kennedy half dollar, on an out-of-town businessman. Over the next week, they run several successful scams. One morning, Jimmy explains to Marco that he is now an elder law attorney and must return to Albuquerque. Marco insists on one last fake Rolex scam for kicks but succumbs to a heart attack and dies during the con. A grieving Jimmy, now wearing Marco's pinky ring, receives a phone call from Kim. A large Santa Fe firm, Davis & Main, is assisting with the class action suit and considering Jimmy for a partner track position. Jimmy returns to Albuquerque but backs out of the Davis & Main meeting. He asks Mike why they gave back the embezzled $1.6 million, then proclaims that whatever stopped him from taking it "is never stopping [him] again". Jimmy drives away, smiling and humming "Smoke on the Water", the same song Marco hummed whenever they pulled the Rolex scam.

Season 2 (2016)

No. overall	No. in season	Title	Directed by	Written by	Original air date	U.S. viewers (millions)
11	1	"Switch"	Thomas Schnauz	Thomas Schnauz	February 15, 2016 (2016-02-15)	2.57
In the present, Jimmy under his Gene persona in Omaha, Nebraska, accidentally locks himself in the mall's dumpster room, but because of the need to conceal his past he is unable to force himself to use the emergency exit, which will summon the authorities. When he's finally let out, he leaves behind the words "SG WAS HERE" carved in the wall. Back in 2002, Jimmy decides to decline Davis & Main's employment offer and closes down his practice. Kim confronts Jimmy about his odd behavior, but Jimmy is adamant about leaving the practice of law. Instead, Jimmy ropes Kim into conning a stock trader into buying them expensive drinks and food, and then paying their tab. Thrilled by the experience, Kim spends the night with Jimmy. Meanwhile, Pryce fires Mike, since he believes he no longer needs a bodyguard. Nacho takes advantage of Mike's absence to steal Pryce's personal information. Some time later, Pryce's house is burglarized and he calls the police. The responding officers are suspicious about the nature of the burglary and investigate further, finding a hidden compartment behind Pryce's couch. After some thought on the matter, Jimmy changes his mind and decides to take the job with Davis & Main.
12	2	"Cobbler"	Terry McDonough	Gennifer Hutchison	February 22, 2016 (2016-02-22)	2.23
Howard visits Chuck, expressing concern about Jimmy's employment at Davis & Main. Meanwhile, Mike encounters Pryce when he arrives at the police station for a police interview to recover his stolen baseball cards. Mike warns Pryce that the police must suspect that he's a drug dealer and offers to find the cards himself, to keep Pryce from talking to the police. Mike tracks down Nacho and threatens to inform Tuco about Nacho's secret drug deals, if Nacho doesn't return the baseball cards. Intimidated, Nacho agrees to return the cards in return for Pryce's Hummer, which he intends to sell as parts, and $10,000. Chuck decides to pay a visit to the HHM office, where he sits in on a firm meeting between HHM and DM, and unnerves Jimmy. Jimmy then receives a call from Mike requesting he remove police suspicion from Pryce, which Jimmy achieves by telling the police the secret compartment in Pryce's living room was used to hold fetish videos of Pryce sitting on pies and crying. When Jimmy tells Kim the story about how he staged a video with Pryce to convince the police, Kim voices disapproval, since Jimmy had effectively fabricated evidence and jeopardized his position at DM.
13	3	"Amarillo"	Scott Winant	Jonathan Glatzer	February 29, 2016 (2016-02-29)	2.20
Jimmy bribes a Sandpiper bus driver to allow him to solicit a bus full of Sandpiper residents on their way to lunch. At an HHM meeting, Jimmy presents his client outreach report. Chuck announces his suspicions about the legality of Jimmy's methods. Jimmy manages to deflect the issue. Kim warns Jimmy to keep his methods legitimate, since she recommended him to Davis & Main, and his actions will reflect on her judgment. When direct mailing potential clients doesn't work, Jimmy films a television ad, which impresses Kim. Jimmy decides to run the ad without prior approval from Cliff Main or the partners, and it is a massive success. Main is furious at Jimmy's conduct and demands an explanation from him. Meanwhile, Stacey voices her concerns to Mike about gunshots she has heard over the past two nights. Mike does overnight surveillance without Stacey's knowledge and does not hear or see anything out of the ordinary. At work the following morning, Stacey calls Mike. He rushes to her house, where she says there were three more gunshots the night before and points out a hole in her siding that she tearfully insists is from a bullet. Despite knowing that there were no gunshots, Mike tells Stacey what she wants to hear: that he will help her get out of the neighborhood. Mike later receives a job offer from Nacho, asking him to "take care" of a certain "guy".
14	4	"Gloves Off"	Adam Bernstein	Gordon Smith	March 7, 2016 (2016-03-07)	2.20
Jimmy is brought in front of the Davis & Main partners, who are angry at him for running the commercial without their consent. Cliff decides to give Jimmy a second chance to redeem himself. At HHM, Kim is brought in front of Howard and Chuck, and Howard chews out Kim over her failure to inform them about Jimmy's commercial. As a result, Kim is demoted to document review. Jimmy then arrives at Chuck's house to confront his brother. The two get into an argument over HHM's treatment of Kim, and Jimmy dares Chuck to reinstate Kim in return for Jimmy leaving the practice of law forever. Chuck doesn't take the bait, as he is confident Jimmy will inevitably disgrace himself. Meanwhile, Mike and Nacho go over plans to assassinate Tuco, due to Nacho's fear of Tuco's finding out about his secret deals. Mike ultimately decides against doing the hit, as he realizes that Tuco's death would draw the attention of the cartels. Instead, Mike sets up Tuco by calling the police in advance, crashing his car into Tuco's, and goading Tuco to beat him just as the police arrive. As a result, Tuco is arrested and will likely be imprisoned for armed assault and robbery, putting him out of the picture for 5–10 years. Nacho asks Mike why he went through all the trouble to avoid killing Tuco, for half the payoff, but Mike refuses to answer.
15	5	"Rebecca"	John Shiban	Ann Cherkis	March 14, 2016 (2016-03-14)	1.99
In a flashback, Jimmy visits Chuck's house shortly after moving to Albuquerque, where he also meets Chuck's wife, Rebecca (Ann Cusack). Jimmy manages to charm Rebecca with his charisma, which makes Chuck uncomfortable. In the present, Jimmy meets Kim in the HHM document room and proposes that she sue HHM. Kim rejects this idea, pointing out how that would be career suicide and tells Jimmy to worry about his own job while she worries about hers. Throughout his day, Jimmy is accompanied by fellow associate Erin (Jessie Ennis), who claims to want to help Jimmy fit into D&M better, though Jimmy suspects she has been ordered by Cliff to keep an eye on him. Meanwhile, Kim works hard to bring in a new client to impress HHM enough to reinstate her old position. Kim eventually delivers a valuable new client, Mesa Verde Bank, to HHM, but Howard decides to keep her on document review. Chuck then talks to Kim, and tells her a story about how years ago, Jimmy had secretly embezzled money from their father's business, which led to its eventual collapse. Chuck then promises to try to get Kim reinstated. Meanwhile, Mike is approached by Tuco's uncle, Hector Salamanca, who asks Mike to claim Tuco's gun was his in order to reduce Tuco's jail sentence, and offers him $5,000.
16	6	"Bali Ha'i"	Michael Slovis	Gennifer Hutchison	March 21, 2016 (2016-03-21)	2.11
Jimmy finds it difficult adjusting to his new job at D&M, and is unable to sleep in his apartment, only finding comfort when he returns to his old boiler room office. Kim, with Chuck's help, is reinstated to her old position, but she is treated coldly by Howard who gives her the most humiliating and menial assignments, such as sending her to try and argue unwinnable motions at court. Kim is then approached by Rich Schweikart of Schweikart & Cokely, who tells her that he was impressed with Kim's performance and offers to hire her into S&C with better benefits. Unsure of what to do, Kim relieves her stress by running another con with Jimmy, fooling an investor into giving them $10,000, although the next morning Kim tells Jimmy they will not cash the $10,000 check and will only keep it as a "souvenir". She then confides her doubts to Jimmy about whether to move to S&C or not, and expresses jealousy at how Jimmy always seems to know what he wants. Jimmy lies to Kim about how working at D&M is everything he had always wanted in order to keep her from quitting the law. Meanwhile, Mike refuses Hector's deal, but is constantly harassed by Hector's goons, including Leonel and Marco Salamanca. After Stacey and Kaylee are implicitly and explicitly threatened, Mike finally agrees to Hector's deal, but manages to raise his price to $50,000. He then gives $25,000 of the $50,000 to Nacho, having failed to uphold his part of their earlier deal.
17	7	"Inflatable"	Colin Bucksey	Gordon Smith	March 28, 2016 (2016-03-28)	2.03
In a flashback to the early 1970s, ten year old Jimmy is working in his father's store when a grifter enters and attempts to pull a con on Jimmy's father by claiming to be a needy father in a fix. Jimmy disbelieves him and tries to warn his father, but his father is more concerned that suspicion could lead him to not help someone who might truly be in need. When Jimmy's father is distracted, the grifter admits the con and tells Jimmy that there are only wolves and sheep in the world, and he will have to choose which one to be. Disillusioned by his father's gullibility, Jimmy steals money from the register. Back in 2002, Jimmy helps represent Mike when he claims to the DA that the gun in his recent altercation with Tuco gun did not belong to Tuco. Afterwards, Jimmy decides to quit D&M, but learns that if he quits, he will have to repay the firm's signing bonus. Jimmy finds a loophole in his contract where he can receive the bonus if he is fired without cause. He does everything in his power to be irritating at D&M, from dressing in unprofessional colorful suits to playing bagpipes in his office to poor hygiene. Cliff finally relents and fires Jimmy with the result that Jimmy will be able to keep his signing bonus. Jimmy approaches Kim and attempts to convince her to become a partner in their own law firm. Kim agrees only on the condition that Jimmy play it "straight and narrow". Jimmy admits that he can only be himself, so Kim politely refuses his offer. Jimmy moves back to his old office at the nail salon. Meanwhile, Mike promises to buy Stacey a new house and begins scouting out Hector's restaurant. Kim approaches Jimmy and proposes a compromise, suggesting both she and Jimmy start separate solo firms, but share an office space so that they can share expenses and lend each other support, if needed. She asks Jimmy if he is willing. Jimmy pauses.
18	8	"Fifi"	Larysa Kondracki	Thomas Schnauz	April 4, 2016 (2016-04-04)	1.93
Jimmy accepts Kim's offer, and Kim goes to announce her resignation from HHM to Howard. Howard accepts Kim's resignation, wishes her well and they both shake hands. Immediately after Kim exits Howard's office, they both race to secure the Mesa Verde account. Kim meets with the Mesa Verde boss and his chief legal counsel; the meeting ends with Mesa Verde's stated intention to become Kim's first solo client. Kim then agrees with Jimmy to set up their practices in a re-purposed dentists' office. Howard reports Kim's resignation, the loss of Mesa Verde and her teaming with Jimmy to Chuck. Alarmed, Chuck arranges a "final, tie up loose ends" meeting with Mesa Verde and masterfully damns Kim with faint praise enough to change Mesa Verde's boss' mind, whereupon he decides to stay with HHM. However, forcing himself to appear normal in the HHM office environment, without "protection" from everyday office electromagnetic radiation leads to Chuck's collapse In the aftermath of the meeting. Meanwhile, Jimmy uses two of his clients, along with a registered sex offender, to perpetrate a ruse at a U.S. Air Force base in order to gain access to the B-29 Fifi for video footage to be used in a TV ad for his elder care legal business. Kim begins to have doubts about their future, but Jimmy reassures her that there will be other opportunities like Mesa Verde. Jimmy hears that Chuck's condition has worsened, and visits him. While Chuck is zonked out in the wake of the electromagnetic radiation he received earlier at the HHM Mesa Verde meeting, Jimmy secretly falsifies address information for a soon-to-open bank branch in the Mesa Verde files being kept at Chuck's house. Meanwhile, Mike continues to watch Hector's restaurant and quietly tracks Hector's movements to a remote garage. He then returns home and begins assembling a homemade spike strip.
19	9	"Nailed"	Peter Gould	Peter Gould	April 11, 2016 (2016-04-11)	2.06
Mike uses his spike strip to ambush one of Hector's trucks, and extracts $250,000 hidden in one of the tires, leaving the driver tied up but alive. Mike meets with Nacho, who suspects that Mike is responsible for the heist. Mike admits his role, explaining he wanted to attract police attention to Hector with the heist, but Nacho advises Mike that a "good Samaritan" chanced upon the bound driver before police and freed him, after which Hector had the do-gooder murdered and buried in the desert. At what should be a routine meeting between the New Mexico Banking Board, Mesa Verde Bank and Chuck and Howard, it is revealed that the addresses in the documents Chuck submitted (based on those Jimmy falsified) do not match those initially filed, creating a six-week delay in Mesa Verde's plans to open their newest branch. A humiliated Chuck immediately suspects that Jimmy is responsible for the sabotage. Dissatisfied with this turn of events and HHM's performance, Mesa Verde decides to leave HHM and sign with Kim. Jimmy and Kim arrive at Chuck's house to pick up the Mesa Verde files, whereupon Chuck accuses Jimmy of sabotaging his case. Kim sides with Jimmy and claims Chuck simply made a mistake. Kim further points out that Chuck has no concrete evidence, and that Chuck's life-long treatment of Jimmy has made Jimmy into who he is today. Once alone in the car with Jimmy, however, Kim angrily punches him. Later that night, in bed, Kim tells Jimmy she never wants to discuss the matter, and she warns Jimmy to make sure all of his tracks are covered. Jimmy returns to the copy store where he altered the files and buys the clerk's silence. Chuck then arrives to interrogate the clerk, but faints in reaction to the electricity there and hits his head on the counter. Jimmy secretly watches from across the street, anxious to save Chuck but reluctant to come out of hiding.
20	10	"Klick"	Vince Gilligan	Heather Marion & Vince Gilligan	April 18, 2016 (2016-04-18)	2.26
In a flashback, Chuck and Jimmy are beside their comatose mother's hospital bed. Jimmy leaves to buy sandwiches for himself and for Chuck, who has not eaten for days. While Chuck is alone with his mother she wakes and calls Jimmy's name twice before dying. Jimmy returns to find his mother's room empty, and asks Chuck if their mother awakened or had any last words. Chuck says she did not. Returning to 2002, Jimmy rushes into the copy store and orders the clerk to call an ambulance. In the hospital, Chuck, now stable, wonders how it was possible for Jimmy to come to his aid in the copy store when Chuck had only been unconscious for less than a minute, correctly deducing that Jimmy had bribed the clerk and then stayed to watch. However, Ernesto covers for Jimmy, lying to Chuck that he called Jimmy before going to the copy store. Elsewhere, Mike purchases a sniper rifle and ammunition, intending to kill Hector Salamanca. He positions himself on a ridge overlooking a spot in the desert where Hector and his crew are preparing to execute the driver whose truck Mike robbed in the previous episode, but Mike is unable to get a clear shot at his target because Nacho is standing directly in front of Hector. Behind him, Mike hears his car horn blaring. He finds a branch wedged against the horn and a note on the windshield with a single word: "Don't". Back in the hospital, Chuck is subjected to a CT scan against his will, which he strenuously resists. After the procedure, the doctor tells Jimmy that Chuck is otherwise healthy, but is now in a "self-induced catatonic state" as a result of the scan. Jimmy refuses to commit Chuck to a mental institution, but assumes responsibility as Chuck's temporary guardian. Chuck finally awakens after 20 hours and Jimmy takes him home. Later, Howard calls Jimmy to advise that Chuck has quit HHM. Jimmy rushes to Chuck's house, where he finds his brother covering the walls, floor and ceiling of his living room with foil sheets. Chuck explains that the walls of his home were doing nothing to deflect electromagnetic rays, and this has led to the deterioration of his mind over time, hence his inexcusable mistake with the Mesa Verde documents. Feeling guilty about his deception and Chuck's unnecessary decision to abandon his beloved law profession, Jimmy confesses to tampering with the documents and bribing the copy store clerk, assuring Chuck that Chuck's mind is not deteriorating. After Jimmy leaves, Chuck unveils a tape recorder he had hidden and activated prior to Jimmy's arrival.

Season 3 (2017)

No. overall	No. in season	Title	Directed by	Written by	Original air date	U.S. viewers (millions)
21	1	"Mabel"	Vince Gilligan	Vince Gilligan & Peter Gould	April 10, 2017 (2017-04-10)	1.81
In the present, Gene has a sandwich during his lunch break and reads as he watches a shoplifter hide inside of a photo booth. He points him out to the mall security looking for him, but then instinctively snaps and yells for the shoplifter to hire himself a lawyer as he's being walked away. Gene later collapses when back at work. In 2003, Jimmy helps Chuck remove the foil from his wall and reminiscences over a book they read together during their youth; Chuck is quick to sever the nostalgia and remind him that his actions won't be forgotten or forgiven. Chuck plays Jimmy's confession to Hamlin, who warns him that the tape has no legal or public value. Chuck assures him that it has a use. Bauer, the US Air Force Captain previously seen in "Fifi", meets with Jimmy and is angered that he lied about Fudge being a war veteran and threatens him if he does not remove the commercial. Jimmy momentarily cracks, but is unmoved by Bauer's threats and forces the latter to storm out. Meanwhile, Kim begins to experience anxiety at running her own law firm, as well as keeping the knowledge of Jimmy's fraud secret. Chuck later arranges for a key part of the tape to be played by Ernesto in a way that appears to Ernesto to be accidental. Chuck quickly turns the player off and makes Ernesto promise not to tell anything that he heard to anyone on the premise of confidentiality. Mike, determined to find out how the saboteur prevented him from killing Hector, dismantles his car at a local mechanic but fails to find a tracker until he has an epiphany and discovers the tracker inside of the car's gas cap. Upon obtaining an identical tracking device from Caldera, he then replaces the tracker in his gas cap with the new one, drains the battery of the one tracking him and waits. Eventually, someone arrives and takes the tracker; Mike dresses up, arms himself and begins his pursuit.
22	2	"Witness"	Vince Gilligan	Thomas Schnauz	April 17, 2017 (2017-04-17)	1.46
Chuck converses with a private investigator. Meanwhile, Mike follows the courier to Los Pollos Hermanos as the tracker is dropped off at the restaurant. While Jimmy and Kim work on hiring a new paralegal, Mike calls Jimmy and has him watch the man Mike tailed as he has breakfast in the restaurant. Jimmy notices nothing unusual and reports back to Mike as Gus Fring watches the two from a distance. The trail picks back up as Mike notices Victor, one of Gus' henchmen, drive towards the back of the restaurant and leave nearly as quickly. Eventually, the trail drops off again and Mike finds a cell phone with the gas cap under it in the middle of the road and answers it as it rings. Ernesto approaches Wexler-McGill but decides against entering and speaks to Kim in the parking lot about the tape. Kim relays this to Jimmy and the former takes the latter on as her legal client, advising him that the tape is no legal threat to him. Jimmy suppresses his feelings of anger and betrayal in front of Kim, but later drives to Chuck's house, breaks in, berates him and destroys the tape. However, this more or less happens all according to Chuck's plan, as he only used the tape as bait and Hamlin and the private investigator are present to witness Jimmy's break-in.
23	3	"Sunk Costs"	John Shiban	Gennifer Hutchison	April 24, 2017 (2017-04-24)	1.52
Gus and Mike come to agreement. Gus will stop tracking Mike and Mike will not kill Hector. Upon quick deliberation, however, Mike agrees to once again try to attract police attention to Hector and meets with Barry Goodman to pick up a package of cocaine as one part of this plan. Jimmy is arrested following a few harsh but hesitant words with Chuck and chooses to represent himself (against Kim's wishes), pleads not guilty and posts bail. Jimmy later explains what happened during his break-in and tells Kim to work on Mesa Verde while he works his own legal battle, to which she flatly agrees. The prosecutor in Jimmy's case, Hay, meets with Chuck and tells him that she doesn't plan to let Jimmy off easy. Chuck wishes to seek a "better solution for everyone." Elsewhere, Mike stuffs the cocaine into a pair of shoes, hangs the shoes from a phone wire, and shoots them with a sniper rifle as a truck owned by Hector rolls by—causing the cocaine to fly through the air and land on the moving truck. When the truck reaches the border, a drug-sniffing hound is alerted to it and two of Hector's men are arrested by the DEA. Jimmy talks with Kim outside of Wexler-McGill and informs her that he can avoid jail time, but will have to confess to his felony break-in and submit his confession to the New Mexico Bar Association, which will likely result in disbarment. Kim convinces Jimmy to let her help him fight Chuck's plot.
24	4	"Sabrosito"	Thomas Schnauz	Jonathan Glatzer	May 1, 2017 (2017-05-01)	1.56
Hector delivers his tribute to Don Eladio, but is humiliated when Gus sends a significantly larger tribute via Juan Bolsa, earning Don Eladio's favor and ridicule towards Hector. Hector confronts Gus at Los Pollos Hermanos and attempts to threaten him into using his trucks to move his drugs, now that the police have closed off his main smuggling route. Gus sends payment to Mike for his services, but Mike refuses to accept it. Meanwhile, Jimmy hires Mike to pose as a handyman and uses the repair of Chuck's door as cover to photograph the interior of Chuck's house in order to document the bizarre living conditions. Mike returns to his day job, where Gus arrives to meet him. Gus probes Mike as to why he didn't accept his money, lets Mike know that he's interested in hiring him and reveals that he stopped Mike from killing Hector because "a bullet to the head would have been far too humane." Jimmy, Kim, Hamlin, Chuck and ADA Hay meet in order to finalize Jimmy's confession, with Jimmy agreeing to have his confession reviewed by the New Mexico Bar Association. After the meeting, Kim confronts Chuck, telling him that she suspects he has a copy of the tape. Chuck confirms her suspicions and states that he plans to submit the tape as evidence in Jimmy's disciplinary hearing. Kim then relays the information to Jimmy, revealing that having Chuck admit the existence of the second tape was all according to their plan.
25	5	"Chicanery"	Daniel Sackheim	Gordon Smith	May 8, 2017 (2017-05-08)	1.76
In a flashback, Chuck invites Rebecca over for dinner and comes up with an elaborate lie about the power to his house being cut so he doesn't have to reveal his EHS to her. However, Rebecca answers her cell phone, causing Chuck to knock it out of her hands in a panic. He refuses to explain his actions to her and forbids Jimmy from revealing the truth. In the present, both sides gear up for Jimmy’s hearing in front of the New Mexico Bar Association after Jimmy meets with Caldera to acquire the services of "someone with a light touch." At the hearing, things do not seem to go well for Jimmy as the tape is played before the committee. Rebecca enters the courtroom, much to Chuck’s surprise, though he believes it's some ploy by Jimmy to throw him off balance. Later, Jimmy cross-examines Chuck about the circumstances of the recording, Rebecca’s presence and his illness. Though Chuck remains calm throughout most of it, Jimmy reveals that Chuck had been carrying a fully charged cell phone battery planted by Huell for the entire hearing, contradicting the EHS symptoms Chuck claimed to have and suggesting he has a mental illness. This triggers a sudden and acidic tirade from Chuck as he vents all of his frustrations about Jimmy and how he never should have tried to help him. Chuck realizes, too late, that his outburst has shocked the entire courtroom, including the committee.
26	6	"Off Brand"	Keith Gordon	Ann Cherkis	May 15, 2017 (2017-05-15)	1.72
After being forced by Hector to beat Domingo "Krazy-8" Molina, one of his dealers for coming up short, Nacho begins to grow disillusioned. Jimmy is given only a year's suspension in the aftermath of his legal battle with Chuck. Afterwards, while he and Kim celebrate, Rebecca asks Jimmy to help with Chuck, who has shuttered himself in his home, but Jimmy refuses, no longer calling Chuck his brother. Chuck later admits Howard into his home. Howard suggests to Chuck that he forget about Jimmy and look to the future, which Chuck appears to agree to. However, Chuck is later seen walking through the streets of Albuquerque, dialing Dr. Cruz, the doctor who diagnosed his condition, over a payphone. Mike bonds further with Stacey. As part of Gus' agreement with Hector, Gus' men hand over a portion of his smuggled drugs to Nacho, who insists on taking one more package than was agreed to. Gus orders his henchmen to allow Nacho to take the extra portion, as he is scouting a commercial laundry with Lydia Rodarte-Quayle. Nacho returns to Hector with the drugs, though Hector wants a new smuggling route and decides to use Nacho's father's upholstery business as a front over Nacho's objections. Hector then has a coughing attack after he receives news that Tuco was involved in a prison stabbing and placed in solitary confinement. Hector drops one of his medication capsules, which Nacho steals. After personally bidding a year's farewell to his clients, Jimmy must figure out how to recoup money spent on his remaining television commercial slots. With the help of his college film crew, he uses a loophole in his contract to sell the slots via a new series of commercials, in which Jimmy poses as a character named Saul Goodman.
27	7	"Expenses"	Thomas Schnauz	Thomas Schnauz	May 22, 2017 (2017-05-22)	1.65
Jimmy tries to fulfill his court-mandated community service while also trying to sell his commercials, but can't convince any of them to sign on for more than one or two spots, and more often, none at all. Cash in hand from the few spots Jimmy does secure rapidly nets deeper and deeper losses, but Jimmy papers over this careening towards poverty by bravely giving his film crew and Kim Wexler the very last of his money and insisting he is not maxing out his credit cards or emptying out his personal bank account. Finally, in a parking lot after yet another net-loss, Jimmy collapses on the ground and stays there, clearly exhausted, nearly penniless, and extremely depressed. Meanwhile, Nacho approaches Pryce with the pill stolen from Hector and offers to pay Pryce to obtain copies of the capsules with no medication. At a meeting with Mesa Verde, Kim reveals that she feels some regret for destroying Chuck's reputation in the disciplinary hearing. While having dinner with Jimmy, she wonders whether they did the right thing and Jimmy replies what happened to Chuck was his own fault and that she should forget about him. Mike begins construction on the new playground and receives some help from the other members of Stacey's support group, including a woman named Anita (Tamara Tunie). Upon returning to work, he is approached by Pryce, who wants to hire him as a bodyguard again to keep an eye on Nacho, which Mike declines. At a meeting, Mike begins to befriend Anita as she recounts how her husband mysteriously disappeared on a hiking trip and the fact that she doesn't know what happened to him constantly troubles her. Apparently touched by Anita's story, Mike calls Pryce and agrees to be his bodyguard. At the meeting with Nacho, Mike learns the full story about Hector's desire to force Nacho's father into the drug trade and the plan to replace Hector's medication with fake pills. Mike agrees not to interfere, but advises Nacho to switch the pills back after Hector dies so they cannot be traced back to him. He then requests something from Nacho. Desperate for funds to keep up his end of office expenses, Jimmy meets with an insurance agent to try and get a refund on his malpractice insurance policy. However, the agent is unable to grant the refund and mentions that due to his suspension, Jimmy's premium will rise by 150%. Jimmy is visibly shaken by this news and starts to cry. When the agent reacts sympathetically to his emotional breakdown, Jimmy seizes the opportunity to "accidentally" mention Chuck's mental illness before leaving, knowing that the insurance company will be forced to act on the information.
28	8	"Slip"	Adam Bernstein	Heather Marion	June 5, 2017 (2017-06-05)	1.63
In a flashback, Jimmy and Marco recover some coins from the remnants of the McGill's old general store to use in an upcoming con. Jimmy berates Marco for calling his father beloved, instead criticizing his "soft touch" for anyone who told him a sob story. In the present, Chuck consults with Dr. Cruz, and admits that the events of the disciplinary hearing demonstrated that his EHS may not be real. Dr. Cruz agrees to help Chuck, and he is able to walk to a store to buy groceries on his own. However, he is met by Howard, who informs him there is a problem with his malpractice insurance. Jimmy's guitar store clients become suspicious of his motives and refuse to pay him. Jimmy stages a "slip and fall" con, intentionally slipping on a drum stick and injuring himself in the process. While at lunch, Kim is offered a new client from her Mesa Verde companions when she encounters Howard. She tries to pay back her law school loans to Howard, though he refuses and coldly accuses her of betraying the firm, to which Kim replies that he should not have tried to cover up Chuck's condition. Kim returns to the office to find Jimmy lying on the floor, with his half of the rent, indicating he used the "slip and fall" to coerce the guitar shop into paying him off. Despite Jimmy's assurances, Kim still expresses doubts about Jimmy's ability to pay and considers taking on another client. Jimmy later is able to make $700 during his community service, helping a drug dealer "see his sick child" by threatening the supervisor. Nacho puts his plan to kill Hector in motion, successfully switching his heart medication pills with a carefully prepared substitute containing only ibuprofen. Mike, using information he gained from Nacho, tracks down the body of the Good Samaritan that Hector shot (in "Nailed") and reports the discovery to the police. Later that night, Mike approaches Gus to seek help in laundering the remaining $200,000 he stole from Hector so that it can be left to his family. Gus agrees, warning Mike that the process will be difficult, and both men shake hands.
29	9	"Fall"	Minkie Spiro	Gordon Smith	June 12, 2017 (2017-06-12)	1.47
Jimmy talks with the Sandpiper class action representative Irene to get an update on the Sandpiper case, and realizes that Sandpiper has already offered a settlement deal which if D&M and HHM accept, would give Jimmy over $1 million as his share of the settlement. Jimmy tries to convince Howard to accept the settlement, but Howard sees through Jimmy's motivations and refuses. Meanwhile, Howard and Chuck meet with their malpractice insurance agency, who propose either raising HHM's premium or having Chuck supervised at all times. Chuck refuses to negotiate and instead decides to fight the insurance company in court. This proves to be the last straw for Howard, who informs Chuck that he will be forced to retire since his judgment can no longer be trusted. Chuck responds by suing HHM for $8 million, the value of his share of the practice. Mike is hired on as a "security consultant" to Madrigal on Gus' recommendation to launder his stolen money, and Kim takes on Gatwood Oil as a second client. Nacho admits to his father that he is working for Hector, and begs him to follow Hector's orders. Furious, Nacho's father tells Nacho to leave his house. In order to secure the Sandpiper settlement, Jimmy pulls a series of cons and social manipulation to trick Irene into thinking that holding out on the Sandpiper settlement is against the interests of her fellow elderly clients and she moves to accept it, giving Jimmy his much needed fee. He returns to the office to give the good news to Kim, but she is too busy preparing for an important meeting with Gatwood Oil and leaves in a rush. However, due to her fatigue from overwork, Kim falls asleep at the wheel and drives her car off the side of the road, crashing into a boulder.
30	10	"Lantern"	Peter Gould	Gennifer Hutchison	June 19, 2017 (2017-06-19)	1.85
In a flashback, a young Chuck reads a story to a young Jimmy under the light of a lantern. In the present, Kim suffers a broken arm from the car accident, and decides to take the opportunity to take a leave of absence from law practice. Jimmy, feeling partly responsible for Kim's situation, finally agrees to break their office lease and have Kim work out of her own home to save costs. Meanwhile, Chuck is forced out of HHM when Howard pays off his $9 million share out of his own pocket. Hector arrives at Nacho's father's shop and attempts to bribe him for his loyalty. Under Nacho's urging, Nacho's father reluctantly accepts the bribe, but Hector remains suspicious of him. With no other choice, Nacho attempts to assassinate Hector but is caught up in a meeting between Hector, Gus, and Bolsa. Bolsa reminds Hector that it is under Don Eladio's orders that all smuggling operations will be handled by Gus, which enrages Hector and triggers a heart attack, forcing him to be hospitalized. In the chaos, Nacho is able to switch Hector's fake medication back with his real pills, but Gus gives him a suspicious look. Jimmy meanwhile tries to make amends with Chuck, but Chuck coldly cuts ties with Jimmy. Jimmy then tries to mend relations between Irene and her friends, but is unable to since Irene's friends remain suspicious of her. Jimmy then constructs a situation where Irene and her friends overhear him discuss his fraud, which both vindicates Irene and cancels the Sandpiper settlement. After forcing Jimmy away, Chuck's EHS symptoms begin to re-emerge, and he becomes obsessed with disabling all electronic devices in his home to the point of tearing walls open to remove the wiring. He eventually reaches a breaking point and knocks the gas lantern over, setting fire to his house, while he is still inside.

See also

• List of Breaking Bad episodes

External links

• Official website
• Better Call Saul at IMDb