Kim is stunned speechless by JimmyвЂ™s declaration that he was done practicing under his given name. ItвЂ™s not too late, however, for Saul Goodman to start scoring victories.

He pleads with her to forget about jumping through their hoops and cut corners until she carves out a lane that works for her, advice that was more or less terrifying for a teenager hopping the bus but instructive about what Jimmy would have wished for his younger self the same mailroom kid who walked into the HHM library (indeed, the one that now bears ChuckвЂ™s name thanks to JimmyвЂ™s $23,000 donation) and set about a journey to step out of his brotherвЂ™s shadow inevitably doomed by roadblocks, sabotage, and self-defeat.

But there was one applicant of distinction: Christy Esposito (Abby Quinn, whoвЂ™s about to be a thing), a shoplifter (and we know JimmyвЂ™s heart bleeds for pickpockets) made good whose essay spoke to her ambition toward using her legal ado as a catalyst for pursuing a better way. Duncan Springer, Raymond Chin, Marcie Ramirez - all fine young students worthy of ensuring a steady line of heirs to the privileged circle of corporate-law elite (ring any timely bells?). The most stunning new information imparted was that LavanderГa BrillanteвЂ™s transformation into an criminal-architectural marvel was, schematically, GaleвЂ™s design, entwining his and WernerвЂ™s stories like polar ends of a constellation.ДЇar more indistinguishable were the finalists in HHMвЂ™s search for scholarship candidates in ChuckвЂ™s name, part of the faГ§ade orchestrated and paid for by Jimmy to anecdotally butter up the bar panel for his reinstatement-appeal hearing. FringвЂ™s fortune, no different than Werner (or Walter White). It was never GusвЂ™s intent to rid the world of his prized chemist pupil, but that script was written the moment Gale married his fantasies to Mr. The shift from WernerвЂ™s last stand to GaleвЂ™s first steps inside GusвЂ™s meth lab was just as pointed, GaleвЂ™s enthusiasm overshadowed only by our melancholy over the insight into his violent end. Their unlikely mentor/mentee bond in BBвЂ™s back end was a kind of mutual redemption and recovery for them both, though as we know, Mike ultimately had too many wounds to heal. Each man had, at some point, been compelled to join a support group only to lash out before leaving, and each had done terrible things for terrible bosses. In retrospect, it was only apt that Mike would wind up taking Jesse under his wing. GaleвЂ™s was a far more inelegant death, occurring in the doorway of his dim apartment rather than in some pastoral Whitman-worthy scene, and at the hands of a far more inexperienced and jittery assailant than Mike. Several years later in Breaking Bad, GaleвЂ™s fate would mirror WernerвЂ™s, his face an unsparing foot or so from the barrel of Jesse PinkmanвЂ™s gun. Then, like the narrator in Walt WhitmanвЂ™s вЂњWhen I Heard the LearnвЂ™d AstronomerвЂќ - the very text so admired by GusвЂ™s protГ©gГ© Gale Boetticher - Werner stared at those New Mexico stars in a silence so perfect it could only be shattered by a bullet cutting through air. The cruelty of life in Gus FringвЂ™s employ was underscored less by WernerвЂ™s no-way-out conundrum than having had to belittle Margarethe in their final conversation in order to steer her back on a plane to Germany and clear from him. The reality of his situation didnвЂ™t entirely sink in until he and Mike were eye to eye at the raceway, stuck at an impasse that would only come unjammed once Werner accepted his fate and took a bullet to the head. He nearly soiled himself a couple episodes back while rewiring blast explosives, but couldnвЂ™t have been more composed waiting for Margarethe to arrive at Dulce Vega. Werner was never able to see when the real danger was coming. Photo: Nicole Wilder/AMC/Sony Pictures Television

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