Your post is a great example of why this series needs to be watched all at once, again, once it ends.

So many plot points get missed or forgotten over time.

I was inline with your thinking until I came back across the episode last night. Now, I believe even before hearing the tape she knew, or strongly believed, that Jimmy did actually do everything that Chuck alleged.

After Chuck accused Jimmy of changing the address, her and Jimmy were laying in bed together. She told him basically that Chuck was a shark and if he tasted one tiny bit of blood he would never stop - basically saying if Jimmy left one tiny bit of evidence, Chuck would find it and never stop until he proved it. That was the point that Jimmy grabbed his keys & headed over to the all night copy place.

To me, she assumed Jimmy had done it and told him to clean it up so that there was no evidence of it.

Next week's ep gets a CP approved 'Hoo Boy'

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The Kim story could go anywhere. Hell, Saul and her might still be together when he goes on the run.

Probably not, but it’s possible.

Loved the opening scene tonight. Great episode so far.

Holy shit. Maybe it is the mood I was in but that shit was ****ing heavy.

The audio and visuals coalesce nicely. The transactions occur from the POV of the trunk, and the soundtrack is Street Life I originally used in Jackie Brown. . . ;)

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Wouldn't call that episode a "humdinger" by any means.

That's why you and I view her emotions differently.

I think she knows he did it. I think as a trained lawyer, she'd know about mnemonics training and in the dark recesses of her soul, knows full well that Chuck was telling the truth and Jimmy changed those numbers.

That's why I say her response was guilt - I think she knows that these gains are ill-gotten, even if she wasn't directly responsible.

^^ It was pretty clear Kim knew that Jimmy had the ability skirt the law all the way back to when she refused to open the law firm with him as partners.

What's up w/Kim dissing Mesa Verde for some low life? I think they're starting the downfall of Kim. I could see her having a bad ending, leading to the ultimate reason Jimmy ends up working at Cinnabon.

My fav part of this show right now is the Nacho storyline.

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I think it needs to be said that BCS continues to explore the intricacies of morality in ways that other shows simply don't have the acumen to even try.

We've moved on from Jimmy-v-Chuck, where the conversation was 'is being moral is determining from the outset your are 'good' and following a strict set of rules from then on, or is it striving every day to do your best and improve on the past?'

Is moral what you are? Or what you strive towards?

Now, there is an interesting dynamic between Jimmy and Kim.
Both have have a safe, moral, lawful, etc. path.
Jimmy earn his daily wage at the cellular store until his licensure is restored
Kim earn her retainer being constantly available and prepared to meet her client's needs.

It seems on the surface that Jimmy is delving into something devious, dangerous and shady by going out after hours and marketing his wares for their less honorable capabilities. And this surface judgment is reinforced by the 'shady' people he interacts with, and the thugs who roll him for his profits when they spy a chance.

But what is he doing that is amoral? He's being proactive in advancing his employer's interests. He's connecting the [legal] product to people who would eventually think to seek it out themselves [recall, a big plot point in The Wire was the crew sending corner boys up and down the coast to buy burners 1 or 2 at a time at every random convenience store they came across].


He's serving his employer well, and being a good laborer by tapping into a legal need, even if the supposition is that it is a need that eventually fills nefarious purposes.

OTOH, Kim has a clear directive as counsel on retainer to Mesa Verde. They pay her handsomely and she pledges to devote her skills exclusively [or at least explicitly primarily] to their interests. But the same pain, wanderlust and ego drives her to ply her wares surreptitiously as pro bono counsel in the petty criminal courts.

Again, on the surface, her actions are altruistic and noble. But she, unlike Jimmy, is more explicitly undermining her employer's expectations.

I really enjoy how far and wide the show can make you just sit and ponder 'who exactly is in the wrong here? If anybody . . . '

Great post Baby Lee.