Winner: Better Call Saul Season 4 Episode 10 Explained

Key plot points

In a flashback, Chuck pretends enthusiasm on the day Jimmy becomes a lawyer. In 2004 Kim helps the appeal by arranging public displays in which Jimmy acts out grief for Chuck. During interviews of Chuck’s scholarship candidates, Jimmy connects with one whose past includes shoplifting. He tells her the other panel members did not choose her, and he advises her that people with power will not look past that early mistake, so she should do what she must to get ahead.

At the appeal he speaks without a script about wanting to bring credit to the McGill name. The appeal succeeds. He tells Kim it was a con. His statement that he will not practice under his own name stuns her.

Lalo watches Gus’s drug operation and learns its routine. Werner plans to meet his wife. Mike pursues him and learns the location from a money-wire clerk. Lalo finds Mike’s movements suspicious, investigates, and kills the clerk. He tricks Werner into describing the lab construction on the phone before Mike ends the call. On Gus’s order, Mike agrees, unwillingly, to kill Werner. Werner calls his wife at the airport, sends her home, and Mike shoots him. Gus shows Gale the lab, still unfinished.

Character development

Kim builds the public grief and then hears that the winning speech was a con. The name he refuses is his own.

Mike’s pursuit of Werner ends in the shooting he did not want. Lalo’s killing of the clerk is what the list places on the same trail.

Themes

A successful return to the law is immediately described, by Jimmy, as a performance. The list makes the McGill speech the performance and the other name the plan.

The lab is shown to Gale while it is unfinished, and the man hired to oversee it is dead. The list states both outcomes.

What to watch for

Watch the scholarship interview. The list says he tells the candidate she was not chosen and advises her to get ahead however she must. It does not name her.

Watch the phone call Mike cuts off. Werner has already described the construction to Lalo. The shooting comes after the wife is sent home.

Easter eggs and fun observations

The list dates the appeal in 2004 and the flashback on the day Jimmy becomes a lawyer, with Chuck only pretending enthusiasm. The episode title is not defined, so this page does not define it.

Gale sees the unfinished lab. Lalo is the person who kills the clerk and draws the construction details out of Werner. This page does not review seasons after this one.