Jimmy McGill is reeling from tragedy as Season 4 of Better Call Saul opens… but has the last thread of pre-Saul Goodman decency within him already snapped?
The season starts, as they all do, by checking in on Omaha Cinnabon manager “Gene” with another black-and-white flash-forward. Last we saw Gene, he was passed out on the floor, and here, we see paramedics revive him and take him to the hospital. His heart rate quickens when he notices a cop lingering near his bed, but the doctor tells him he didn’t have a heart attack and sends him home. Just as Gene is about to make a clean getaway, though, he gets called back by the receptionist, who wants a closer look at his driver’s license. The computer keeps kicking his information back, she says, and Gene starts to sweat as he gives her an obviously phony social security number. Finally, she lets out a relieved laugh: She typed an “O” instead of a zero, so that explains the error. He rushes out of there and into a taxi… but the cab has an Albuquerque Isotopes air freshener, and the driver is eyeing him intensely. (A hired thug who knows his true identity?) He throws some cash at the guy and ditches the cab to walk home — and his heart rate is back up again.