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He’s baaaack. Jimmy McGill (Bob Odenkirk) is one season premiere closer to becoming Walter White’s lawyer after the season 3 opening of Breaking Bad prequel Better Call Saul hit Monday night.
As Jimmy, Chuck (Michael McKean), and Mike (Jonathan Banks) maneuvered through their latest schemes, fans formulated some theories about where all this might lead.
And Gus Fring (Giancarlo Esposito) hasn’t even returned yet! More on that later.
When you can't believe this day is finally here. #bettercallsaull @BetterCallSaul pic.twitter.com/C844RVyUCq
— Adrian Cano (@acanoaz) April 10, 2017
Once again, the season opened up in black and white with “Gene” (Jimmy’s new alias) working at Cinnabon. Look at him try to go unnoticed by cops pursuing a shoplifter, buried in his book and sandwich. Even though he points the cop to the shoplifter’s hiding spot, he can’t help giving the shoplifter legal advice: “Say nothing. Get a lawyer.”
Gene… your Saul is showing #BetterCallSaul
— brittany (@brittrosenthal) April 11, 2017
Oh does he ever miss his old life #saulgoodman @BetterCallSaul #BetterCallSaul
— Shay (@baynaboo) April 11, 2017
Back to where season 2 left off: Chuck secretly taped Jimmy’s confession to altering the Mesa Verde files. Chuck promises Jimmy, “Don’t think I’ll ever forget what happened here today. And you will pay.”
He plays the tape for Howard (Patrick Fabien), and they discuss the legalities of its admissibility. What exactly is Chuck planning?
Chuck is trying to put his plan for revenge into motion and Howard isn't buyin' it!#BetterCallSaul
— Justin (@AdmiralOfAges) April 11, 2017
Chuck is up to no good. I guess lying and deceit runs in the family no matter what side of the law youre on! #bettercallsaul @BetterCallSaul
— Mike Ciotti (@TheMikeCiotti) April 11, 2017
More importantly, could whatever Chuck is plotting against Jimmy backfire on Chuck himself?
But can Howard turn on Chuck and use the tape to get Chuck kicked out of the firm for being cray cray? A change of heart? #BetterCallSaul
— Fronkensteen (@Fronkensteen) April 11, 2017
Chuck is the poor man's Jimmy, not nearly as sneaky. Whatever he's planning will come back to bite him #BetterCallSaul
— Big Fancy (@JazzyRaspberry) April 11, 2017
Oh yeah, there’s also where we left off with Mike. He aborted his plans to assassinate Hector Salamanca (Mark Margolis), and returned to his car to see a warning note reading “Don’t.” Suspecting a tracker, Mike hoisted the car on a forklift. And has he been here before?
same junkyard as the one in breaking bad???? hmmm #BetterCallSaul
— brittany (@brittrosenthal) April 11, 2017
I feel like 90% of #breakingbad and #BetterCallSaul takes place in a salvage yard ?
— Maggie Johnson (@arrestingmarge) April 11, 2017
That wasn’t the end of Mike’s search.
Remember when cars had full frames and could be lifted like that without damaging them? #BetterCallSaul
— nudememphis (@nudememphis) April 11, 2017
Surprising to see Mike panic this much. #BetterCallSaul
— Will Brabrook (@WillBrabrook) April 11, 2017
I've never been as thorough about anything as Mike is about literally everything. #BetterCallSaul
— J.R.P. (@JoeRobPete) April 11, 2017
Vince Gill is a master at unusual shots. Below, under, over and all the in between #BetterCallSaul
— StarryStarry Nights (@_Wendy_L_) April 11, 2017
It was in the gas cap all along.
Gotta love those old fashion gas caps. #BetterCallSaul
— Jeremy Fuscaldo (@JeremyFuscaldo) April 11, 2017
everyone thinking about their gas caps. #BetterCallSaul pic.twitter.com/tKgDtRrQ1j
— steve mincer (@stevemincer) April 11, 2017
How many of y'all planning on checking your gas caps as soon as this episode is over? ☝️ #BetterCallSaul
— Hans Liburd (@ElMeester) April 11, 2017
Oh, remember Captain Bauer (Brendan Fehr), who allowed Jimmy onto the military base? Well, he saw the commercial Jimmy filmed there and now he threatens legal charges. Jimmy calls his bluff when Bauer asks him to pull the ad.
"Make me" Saul is coming out #BetterCallSaul
— A Patel (@dontboovote2020) April 11, 2017
"Make me." #BetterCallSaul
— Sky (@SKYLERIZED) April 11, 2017
Saul and I are alike.
"Make me." ??#BetterCallSaul— Irma✨ (@tangled30) April 11, 2017
Chuck’s blackmail tape already hit a snag when his assistant Ernesto (Brandon K. Hampton) heard a portion of the tape. He was changing the batteries for Chuck and then the part about changing the address came on. But would Ernesto even know what that means out of context?
Lets hope Ernesto tells Jimmy about the tape recorder! @BetterCallSaul #TalkingSaul
— J james (@JBowerz) April 11, 2017
He just put Ernesto in a HORRIBLE position. #BetterCallSaul
— Patchette (@RealPatchette) April 11, 2017
You know, Ernesto just wants to help people. Now he's got a conflict of interest protecting 2 self-destructive bros. #BetterCallSaul
— Stewart Moncure (@rsmon77) April 11, 2017
Whenever an old white guy starts sweating and says, "Don't tell anyone", you better tell everyone. #BetterCallSaul
— Mike Timko (@Oh_TheHorror) April 11, 2017
Kim (Rhea Seehorn) this week was focusing on clients, clients she took over when Jimmy no-showed on his appointments. She spent a lot of time obsessing over punctuation in a brief.
Never has a semicolon given me so much anxiety. #bettercallsaul
— Erica Hind (@carebearica) April 11, 2017
This scene of Kim choosing between period, semi-colon and em dash = actual hours of my life. #BetterCallSaul
— Marysa LaRowe (@marysalarowe) April 11, 2017
I like Kim Wexler even better now that I know she obsesses over punctuation too.#BetterCallSaul
— Ahmer Murad ? (@AhmerMurad) April 11, 2017
Friendly reminder, folks: lawyers use two spaces! #BetterCallSaul
— Jeff Brown (@starwart1) April 11, 2017
Finally, Mike is gonna catch whoever was tailing him. He put a tracker in the tracker and off he goes to follow him. If Mike can catch this guy, he can definitely catch Hank later on Breaking Bad.
In retrospect, Hank played a really lazy GPS tracker game. #BetterCallSaul
— JessSaying (@Sleepy_Viking) April 11, 2017
I too could eat a bag of pistachios…while waiting for the drug dealers to realize I swapped the GPS tracker on my car. #BetterCallSaul
— Meh (@s3aner) April 11, 2017
No one is going to out smart Mike. #BetterCallSaul
— Antonio Veranos (@antbanks2323) April 11, 2017
#BetterCallSaul Not Mike's first rodeo
— emster (@mikadelic461) April 11, 2017
Next week promises Gus Fring and Los Pollos Hermanos.
I've gone through all the stages of grief about Gus not showing up, with 4 minutes left I've arrived at acceptance #BetterCallSaul
— Natasha Simons (@ndotsimons) April 11, 2017
GUS IN THE PROMO!!!!!!!!! #bettercallsaul pic.twitter.com/bX2lyqAgFS
— ⋆ Ellen Aim ⋆ (@robot_allee) April 11, 2017
FRIIIIIIIINNNNGGGG!!!!!!!!!!! #BetterCallSaul
— John Paquette (@jpaq68) April 11, 2017
Yessssss!!! Gonna see Gus next week. ?? #bettercallsaul
— HvyMetalChick (@Judy80sforever) April 11, 2017
Better Call Saul airs Monday nights at 10 p.m. on AMC. Catch up on the first two seasons here. Watch Grae Drake’s interview with Odenkirk here.
