After Walt tries one last time to intimidate Saul into doing his bidding, his cancer rears its ugly head in a series of coughs that bring him to his knees and let Saul know big bad Heisenberg is no more before he leaves for his new life in Omaha.
The series also showed us just what happened to Saul/Jimmy after his association with Walter White (Bryan Cranston) – he fled to Omaha under a new identity (Gene) and worked as a baker at a shopping-mall Cinnabon – and this final episode brings all three of his personae together as Jimmy's, Gene's and Saul's worlds ...
He was eventually caught by the authorities and imprisoned for 86 years in a federal prison after finally accepting himself as Jimmy McGill, and began enjoying notoriety among his fellow inmates for his past life as Saul.
Jimmy (Saul) opted to take his money and run rather than take a chance. He already lived most of a life as someone else, he just would have to start over again minus the fame.
He is sentenced to 86 years in prison, where he is revered by fellow inmates who recognize him as Saul. Kim visits him and they share a cigarette. As she departs, he goes to the prison yard to see her off and "shoots" her finger guns. Kim acknowledges the gesture and leaves.
track down Walt, foreshadowing the debut of Mike Ehrmantraut in "ABQ". In "Breaking Bad", Saul is shown asking Mike about Heisenberg and he identifies both Walt and Jesse for him.
He finally takes to hiding in a dumpster, trying to scramble for his phone to call Ed the Disappearer. But his luck seems to have run dry, and he fumbles everything he's holding. That's when the police find and capture him.
In Better Call Saul, Saul ended up getting 86 years in a federal prison after he did not take the plea deal that was offered to him. Better Call Saul provides context for some of the characters on Breaking Bad, but also follows its own, intriguing story.
Walt and Jesse resort to kidnapping Saul, threatening to kill him if he does not keep Badger from informing on them. Initially, Saul pleads for mercy, believing they were sent by a man named "Lalo". He blames this apparent slight towards Lalo on a man named "Ignacio", and referring to himself as an "amigo del cartel".
Odenkirk's filming the final season was unexpectedly halted in July 2021 when he collapsed on the series' New Mexico set after suffering a heart attack.
In the series finale, Skyler is shown living in a government safehouse, working as a taxi dispatcher under her maiden name, and serving as the focus of a criminal investigation for her role in Walt's drug empire.
As he finds himself on the other side of the law, he develops a new persona: the criminal lawyer Saul Goodman. Identity change is often catalyzed by trauma — in his case, coming to terms with his losses. He is the last McGill left and his unique skill sets cannot be monetized in the legitimate world.
Saul died at the Battle of Mount Gilboa, and was buried in Zelah, in the region of Benjamin. Three of Saul's sons – Jonathan, Abinadab, and Malchishua – died with him at Mount Gilboa.
Saul isn't just a lawyer, he's a criminal himself. He regularly commits crimes either for himself or his clients.
Samuel says: “thou hast done foolishly: thou hast not kept the commandment of the Lord thy God, which he commanded thee: […] now thy kingdom shall not continue […]” (1 Samuel 13.13–14). Subsequently, Saul begins to display the well‐known signs of depression.
Saul Goodman legal action, the now-reformed Jimmy McGill ended up with 86 years in prison as Walter White's “indispensable” criminal lawyer.
Lastly, for the first time in six years, Saul addresses himself as "James McGill", finally killing Saul and paving way for Jimmy's rebirth. Thanks to his confession, Kim walked away as a free woman, while Jimmy's plea agreement was squashed and he was sentenced to 86 years at a maximum security prison.
The series began with Jimmy McGill desperate to prove that everyone in his life who saw him as a loser had it all wrong. And it ended with a bravura finale showing Saul Goodman realizing those people were more right about him than he wanted to admit.
When Walt finally chose to accept Gus's offer Saul agreed to be his lawyer betraying Jesse in the process as Walt had spitefully cut him out of the business due to jealousy over Jesse using his formula.
Walt pleads to Jack to spare Hank's life, offering his entire fortune to Jack. Hank refuses to beg for his life and asks Walt how such an intelligent man could be too naive to see that Jack had already made his decision. Hank then tells Jack to do what he has to do and Jack kills him with a shot to the head.
The 2004 timeline wraps up in the penultimate episode, however. In the Better Call Saul finale, 8 years after becoming Saul as seen in Breaking Bad, Jimmy McGill is sentenced to 86 years in federal prison.
Walt, the trained scientist, calls himself “Heisenberg” after the Heisenberg Uncertainly Principle by the German physicist Werner Heisenberg, who posited that the location and momentum of a nuclear particle cannot be known at the same time.
In the final scene, Hank figures out that Walt is Heisenberg while perusing Walt's copy of “Leaves of Grass” on the toilet. The book is inscribed: “To my other favorite W.W. It's an honor working with you.
Yes, Walter White and Jesse Pinkman returned—but the episode was more than just an excuse for a cool cameo. It took six and a half seasons, but in last night's episode Better Call Saul finally…