(*) In the series premiere, Jimmy quoted a different scene from “Network,” but it wouldn't have been the least bit shocking here if he had told the bingo players that he was as mad as hell and not going to take it anymore. As he flees Albuquerque for the friendly confines of Cicero and lets his old pal Marco talk him into running one last scam, and then another, and another… and another, it becomes clear that Saul Goodman is coming – even if he won't be called that at first – and Gould and company are just making sure they don't skip over any steps in that transformation, just as they didn't for that chemistry teacher who wound up employing Saul. In the very next scene, though, Jimmy has a meltdown(*) while calling out another bingo game at the senior center.

Chuck's betrayal was a brutal blow, but maybe it wouldn't be the one that knocked Jimmy over the edge. It seems, just then, that the “Better Call Saul” creative team – most of them (like co-creator Peter Gould, who wrote and directed the finale) veterans of “Breaking Bad,” a show largely defined by the patient way it moved through its arcs – will be playing a particularly long game in getting us from Jimmy McGill to Saul Goodman. There's a moment early in “Marco” where Jimmy and Kim walk past the dented trash can in the HHM parking garage – a reminder of so many of Jimmy's early frustrations with his brother's law firm – and he assures her that he's at peace with what he learned about Chuck. And you know what? It's never stopping me again.” -Jimmy A review of the “Better Call Saul” season finale coming up just as soon as I know what a Chicago sunroof is…

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