Jimmy may have convinced himself to cut his own trail with a lie he told during one of his scams. So he decided to become an even better version of Slippin' Jimmy instead. He had a chance to say goodbye to Slippin' Jimmy for good, but he couldn't do it. He tried abiding by the system, but it spit him out. He works hard, he's good with people, and he's willing to take some liberties when it comes to the law. He has a certain skill set that makes him a perfect fit for the man he was meant to be, and that man is Saul Goodman. He's not cut out to be a partner at a law firm. In a sense, Chuck was right: Jimmy isn't a lawyer, at least not in the obvious sense. Jimmy finally understood where he was headed, realizing it had to be in the opposite direction of the job in Santa Fe. But active characters who take control of their lives-characters like Walter White-are interesting, and 'Marco' was all about giving Jimmy agency. Passive, reactionary characters are boring. But that would be the easy way out, and Vince Gilligan and Peter Gould aren't in the business of writing passive, reactionary characters with 'wah wah' stories about how other people have done them wrong.

Looking back at 'Pimento,' it'd be easy to say that Chuck is the reason Jimmy ultimately became Breaking Bad's Saul Goodman if Chuck hadn't intervened with Jimmy's lawyerly ambitions, Jimmy might've been hired at HHM, filled his closet with obnoxiously expensive suits, and spent the next several years handling cases alongside his big bro, far away from the strip mall where Saul eventually set up shop.

But 'Marco' took a very important, if somewhat subtle, step with Jimmy's character, one that put Jimmy's destiny back in the hands of Jimmy himself. After getting most of its shock and betrayal out of the way in last week's penultimate 'Pimento,' Better Call Saul used its Season 1 finale to examine the fallout from Chuck's admission that he was the one who'd held Jimmy back while Jimmy tried to swim for the shores of legitimate employment.

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