Saul Goodman

Jimmy looks after Chuck, who has stepped away from the firm HHM and lives without electricity, convinced he's allergic to it. A botched scam with two skateboarders puts Jimmy in front of Tuco Salamanca in the desert, and he talks the dealer into breaking the boys' legs instead of killing them. That's where he meets Nacho Varga.

Jimmy finds out the Sandpiper retirement homes are robbing their residents and brings the case to Chuck and HHM. Then he learns Chuck himself kept HHM from hiring him, because he thinks Jimmy will never be a real lawyer. Hurt, Jimmy decides he's done playing it straight.

Jimmy joins the firm Davis & Main, airs a TV commercial without approval and gets himself fired. To help Kim land the bank Mesa Verde, he doctors Chuck's documents, and Chuck loses the client. Chuck records Jimmy confessing to the fraud.

The case goes to a bar hearing. Jimmy shows the court that Chuck's condition is psychological and avoids disbarment, but he's suspended for a year. Chuck is forced out of HHM and, alone at home, deliberately knocks over a lantern and the house catches fire.

Chuck died in the fire. Jimmy pretends to feel nothing, works at a cell phone store and sells burner phones to criminals on the street under the name Saul Goodman. At his reinstatement hearing he gives an emotional speech about his brother, gets his license back and announces he'll practice as Saul Goodman. Kim realizes the speech was an act.

As Saul, he becomes the lawyer for the city's criminals. He marries Kim. The cartel sends him into the desert to pick up $7 million in bail for Lalo Salamanca, and he survives the ambush only thanks to Mike Ehrmantraut. At the end, Kim proposes wrecking the reputation of Howard Hamlin, a partner at HHM, to speed up the Sandpiper settlement.

Jimmy and Kim pull off an elaborate con with fake photos and an actor to make Howard look like a drug user in front of the Sandpiper mediator. It works. That same night Howard comes to their apartment for answers, and Lalo Salamanca shows up and shoots him dead.

Lalo sends Jimmy on a mission and Kim goes in his place. Once it's over, Howard's murder is staged as a suicide. Kim gives up her law license and leaves Jimmy.

In 2008, Walt and Jesse drag Saul into the desert over a client, Badger, and he becomes the duo's lawyer and money launderer. He introduces Walt to Mike and Gus Fring, helps Skyler launder the money and handles the dirty side of the operation.

When Hank figures out Walt, Saul knows it's over. He calls Ed, the man who builds new identities, and vanishes from Albuquerque. Before he vanishes, he makes a guess: if he's lucky, he'll be managing a Cinnabon in Omaha.

In Omaha, Saul is now Gene Takavic, manager of a Cinnabon. A cab driver, Jeff, recognizes him. Instead of running, Gene pulls Jeff into scams, including identity theft from rich men. Marion, Jeff's mother, figures out who he is and calls the police.

Under arrest, Saul talks his way to a deal of just seven and a half years. At the hearing he throws the deal away, confesses everything and owns what he did to Chuck. He goes back to calling himself Jimmy McGill and gets 86 years. Kim visits him and they share a cigarette.

Saul was written for four episodes of Breaking Bad, but Bob Odenkirk went over so well that he became a regular. The name is a pun on "it's all good, man," so clients would remember it. The spinoff, Better Call Saul, ran for six seasons.