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How awesome was the pre-hearing scene with Howard and Chuck?
The vet's question was such cool foreshadowing
"This is our duty. As officers of the court, we have an ethical obligation..."
April Bowlby and Brian Posehn as a couple...
Did Chuck *want* Ernesto to hear the tape?
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> and doesn't deem herself better or worse than Jimmy.
As of Monday, that appears to be changing.
Many folks have noted that when a masked Walt and Jesse hold Saul at gunpoint in s2e8 of Breaking Bad, he panickedly tells them "It wasn't me! It was Ignacio!"
Yes, and Jimmy already knew this, because a doctor proved it to him when Chuck was hospitalized in season 1.
I replied with my take in the thread below:
[url]https://moviechat.org/tt3032476/Better-Call-Saul/59089af5a43d0e0011d74dc7/Chucks-Duplicate-Tape-EP-0304?reply=59119ac3607cd6001160f167[/url]
The playing of the tape and Chuck's testimony about why he sounds deranged on it were necessary to get the panel to permit Jimmy to cross-examine about Chuck's illness. The battery shenanigans would have been stricken by the panel otherwise. Kim and Jimmy knew that the playing of the tape would help them, that's why "Bingo".
The tape, Chuck's testimony about the tape, and Chuck's rant from the battery bit helped Jimmy sell the narrative of "I was only trying to save my crazy brother, but he has a huge axe to grind."
If the tape hadn't been played at all, the simple facts of the case --without the mitigating context of "Jimmy as rescuer"-- might have been enough to get Jimmy disbarred. But Chuck couldn't bear to "take that chance". Oops.
My chicken killed his dog.
All the LPH training videos get posted on AMC's official Saul website (don't know if any regions are blocked):
http://www.amc.com/shows/better-call-saul/exclusives/los-pollos-hermanos-employee-training
Good question. I don't have a satisfying answer, but I still think they'll go that direction and some rationale for their admissibility will be concocted by the creative team of the show.
I think the pictures are going to used as evidence that Chuck is a hazard to himself. Jimmy noted in particular the placement of a gas lantern on top of a newspaper in one of the photos. I think this will be part of Jimmy defense before the disciplinary board: he was only trying to protect Chuck from himself.
I think they *want* the tape played, because together with Mike's evidence about Chuck being a loon and a hazard to himself, it will help them convince the disciplinary board that Chuck is mentally incompetent and Jimmy on the tape was only telling him what he wanted to hear (which will also place the rest of Jimmy's conduct with Chuck in a more compassionate light).
Kim was merely playing Br'er Rabbit to confirm that another copy exists and to make Chuck believe they're afraid to have it played.
Also, because Jimmy's agreed written "confession" omits specific mention of a "cassette tape", there may be an angle of using Chuck's submission of the tape as evidence as a contra-indication of any "destruction of evidence" by Jimmy. Even though Howard and the PI were present, they didn't witness any evidence as to what Jimmy may have *thought* was on the tape he destroyed, and again, Jimmy's written "confession" specified only "an item of personal property".
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