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Jimmy's latest scam has gone horribly wrong and he's face-to-face with violent criminals and being forced to talk his way out of a life-threatening situation.

Jimmy McGill locates the skateboarders, but in the hands of the crazed Tuco Salamanca he may not have long to live. Tuco is hellbent on killing the skateboarders, who not only tried to scam, but also insulted, his much-loved grandmother. Soon they are all in the desert where Tuco plans to dispose of all three of them; now Jimmy has his biggest chance to plead for somebody's life. Tuco is no reasonable man, but one member of his crew, Nacho Varga, sees the value of Jimmy's argument. They compromise--although the skateboarders aren't keen on the solution--and Jimmy is set free. The situation doesn't help Jimmy's business, but Nacho has a suggestion for him.—garykmcd

Tuco Salamanca (Raymond Cruz) is cooking in the kitchen when his grandmother (Miriam Colon), using a four-footed walking cane, enters with the twin skateboarders (Daniel Spenser Levine and Steven Levine), one of whom pretends to have an injured leg. Calling him "Mijo," she tells Tuco that she hit one of the twins with her car. When the twins refer to her by a derogatory name, Tuco silently bristles, but calmly reassures his grandmother, and sends her upstairs to watch TV. He talks briefly with the twins, determining that they want money and that the police have not yet been called. Then he beats them both to the floor with his grandmother's cane.

Tuco's grandmother watches a Spanish-language soap opera, but is curious as to what's happening downstairs. She goes to the top of the staircase and sees Tuco cleaning a small patch of blood off the living room rug. He tells her it's spilled salsa, and reassures her the twins won't bother her any more. After she returns to her TV, he makes a phone call and tells the person on the other end to get Nacho (Michael Mando) and his van.

Jimmy McGill (Bob Odenkirk) knocks on the front door; Tuco pulls him inside at gunpoint. Tuco questions Jimmy, who explains as innocently as possible that he's just a lawyer who got a call from the twins about an accident. Tuco's grandmother appears on the stairs again; Tuco hides his gun behind his back so she won't see it. She draws attention to the "salsa" stain, which Jimmy now notices. Tuco talks his grandmother back upstairs, then returns to interrogating Jimmy. Jimmy pleads that if the twins are still alive, they and he will leave, and never bother Tuco or his grandmother again. Tuco takes Jimmy to the garage and reveals that the twins are indeed alive, but bloodied, bound, and gagged. Tuco gives Jimmy a big knife and tells him to cut the twins free. As soon as Jimmy removes one of the gags, that twin blurts out that the accident was a scam led by Jimmy.

Tuco and his henchman tie and gag Jimmy and the twins, and take them out to the hot, sunny desert. As soon as Jimmy gets a chance to speak, he explains that the target of his scam was Betsy Kettleman, not Tuco's grandma, who happens to have a similar car. Tuco doesn't believe him, and scares Jimmy with a pair of wire cutters, so Jimmy makes up a story that he's an FBI agent. Paranoid Tuco swallows the tale easily, and is thrilled that the FBI operation is named "Kingbreaker" -- but then Nacho asks a few questions and quickly establishes that Jimmy doesn't know anything about Tuco's business. Jimmy admits he's just a lawyer, and Nacho convinces Tuco to let Jimmy go. Tuco is going to brutally kill or maim the twins for insulting his grandmother, but Jimmy argues, courtroom style, for mercy, eventually convincing Tuco just to break their legs, which he does with terrifying gusto. Jimmy drives the twins to the hospital.

Jimmy chats with a pretty lady (Jamie Luner) in a ritzy hotel bar. It's going well, but Jimmy becomes distressed by a nearby patron (Jeff Poole) snapping hard breadsticks in half, which reminds him of legs breaking. He goes to the washroom to vomit.

At night, Jimmy enters Chuck's (Michael McKean) dark, electricity-free house, takes off some of his clothes, and crashes on the couch without explanation. Chuck removes Jimmy's cellphone from his pants pocket and uses tongs to throw it out into the yard. While Jimmy sleeps, Chuck examines a hospital bill that also fell out of the pants, which details the twins' fractures. Morning comes, and Jimmy wakes up and drinks coffee with Chuck, who is wrapped in a foil sheet. Jimmy asks about the foil, and Chuck explains about the cellphone. Jimmy asks if he looked at the bill, and Chuck says, yeah, maybe. Jimmy says that the bill isn't the return of "Slippin' Jimmy." Jimmy repeatedly requests that Chuck remove the foil sheet. Reluctantly Chuck does, but after Jimmy leaves, he immediately puts it back on.

Jimmy returns to his life as public defender and works many cases. He continues to rehearse in the restroom, to have trouble with parking validation stickers at Mike's (Jonathan Banks) lot-exit booth, to argue with the prosecutor (Peter Diseth) in the hallway, to drink vending-machine coffee, and to collect meager checks from the pay-window woman (Nadine Marissa). His work starts to become tiresome.

In his utility-closet office in the back of the nail salon, Jimmy's desk phone still has "zero messages." He sits on his fold-out bed, sipping a strong drink. The nail salon owner (Eileen Fogarty) pokes her head in and announces there's a customer outside. Jimmy quickly folds his bed back to a couch, tidies his office, and dons his suit. The customer enters -- it's Nacho. Nacho assures Jimmy that no one knows he's here. Nacho's interested in the Kettleman's embezzled loot; he wants to steal it. He proposes that Jimmy tell him how to get to it, for which Jimmy will receive 10%. Though grateful that Nacho saved his life, Jimmy says he doesn't know where the money is, and besides he just wants to be a lawyer, and was only ever trying to get the Kettleman's business. On his way out, Nacho writes a phone number in a matchbook on the desk, in case Jimmy changes his mind.