It is displayed in his name change: his birth name of Jimmy McGill, which ties him to the legacy of his brother, or Saul Goodman, the expert con artist and money grabber. He was best when he was bad. Desire, or passion, is not as simple as a dualistic split between good and evil.
Determined not to be like his father, Jimmy becomes a con artist and earns the nickname "Slippin' Jimmy" for staging "slip and fall" accidents. He also ran petty scams including the "fake Rolex" with the help of his partner-in-crime Marco Pasternak.
Becoming Saul is more than taking on a new professional identity: it's a desperate attempt to reinvent himself and become successful his way through a grotesque fusion of Slippin' Jimmy (the freedom to be himself) and Charles McGill (the respect he craves).
In the season 4 finale, after his license is reinstated, Jimmy applies to practise law under a new name and tells Kim, “S'all good, man!” In the season 5 premiere, Jimmy starts practising law under the name Saul Goodman, taking on shady clientele from the underworld he traversed as a burner cell phone salesman.
In the first episode, we find out that Saul Goodman's real name is Jimmy (James) McGill, the name the character goes by for the majority of the series. Jimmy McGill (Bob Odenkirk) was mentioned in Breaking Bad (2008). "Saul Goodman" is, in fact, a persona created by Jimmy McGill.
It is a diminutive form of the given name James, along with its short form, Jim.
Never truly connected to the name McGill, over the years, Jimmy has constantly been trying to forge his own identity. In Better Call Saul's season 4 finale, audiences believed they saw the final transformation as Jimmy legally changed his name to Saul Goodman and opened up his law practice under the same name.
The final season of Vince Gilligan and Peter Gould's Better Call Saul brought about the highly anticipated return of Breaking Bad's iconic, beloved duo, Walter White (Bryan Cranston) and Jesse Pinkman (Aaron Paul).
No surprise that when we find out that it's Chuck who told Howard Hamlin not to hire Jimmy, it's in part because he thinks the law is sacred, as though he lived under divine mandate to protect it. “You know I'm right!” Chuck shouts at Jimmy, who, like us, can barely believe what he's hearing.
Ten years prior to the events of "Better Call Saul", Chuck defended his younger brother Jimmy after Jimmy defecated through the sunroof of a romantic rival's BMW, unaware the man's children were in the backseat.
Antisocial personality disorder
Sometimes he even exceeds normative morality to the point of altruism (like when he saves the twins' lives from Tuco's revenge in Season 1, how he takes exceptionally good care of his brother Chuck during his illness and how he risks his career to save his assistant Huell from jail).
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.
Antisocial personality disorder
Just as we start to make up our minds about Jimmy, a new side of him is revealed that's incompatible with that judgment. The early part of the series tells the story of Jimmy becoming a lawyer after years of pulling small-time cons as “Slippin' Jimmy.”
One of the subplots of the show follows Chuck's obsessive compulsive order (OCD), a mental illness where people suffer from intrusive thoughts and compulsions.
And by the way, she wants to set the record straight: “Kim did not write Chuck's letter.” Saul's writers confirmed to her that Jimmy's late brother really did write the letter Jimmy received after his death. It wasn't her character's invention, as some fans have theorized.
Dear Jimmy, I have left many things unsaid in our relationship through the years. Rather than allow these unspoken thoughts to die with me, I've chosen to record them here for you. I hope you will take my words in the spirit in which they are intended.
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.
Better Call Saul co-creator Peter Gould already confirmed America's favorite meth lab coworkers, Walter White (Bryan Cranston) and Jesse Pinkman (Aaron Paul), would be reprising their Breaking Bad roles this season.
And, just before the film's close, El Camino delved back in time for the return of the show's central character: Walter White, the chemistry-teacher-turned-drugs-baron portrayed by Bryan Cranston.
Jimmy is a boy's name of Hebrew origin and a derivation of James. Associated with victory and change, Jimmy means “he who supplants” which indicates someone who may forcefully take a position or role belonging to someone else.
So, there you have it. A Chicago Sunroof is not a real thing.
In one of the best Better Call Saul episodes, Season 5's "JMM," Kim's year of birth can be spotted on her driver's license. The details on the license reveal that she was born in 1968. Kim is, therefore, 8 years younger than Jimmy, who was born in 1960. This means that during the show's timeline, she is in her 30s.
He is voiced by Trey Parker. He is physically disabled, requiring forearm crutches in order to walk. His disability is confirmed to be cerebral palsy but it is also rumoured to be muscular dystrophy.
Jimmy is described as a rail-thin young man who is pale and has blonde hair. His front teeth are brown and a few are missing entirely. As a vampire he possesses a vampire's fangs and silver-reflecting eyes. While tracking Dean and Jason, he wears a black parka with the hood pulled up and ski goggles.