Author: Caitlin Gallagher / Source: Bustle
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Spoilers for the Better Call Saul Season 4 finale follow. Every viewer has seen this day coming, but perhaps you are as taken aback as Kim is to learn that Jimmy will be Saul Goodman on Better Call Saul from here on out. Well, Jimmy will be Saul at least when it comes to being a lawyer — and just how this identity will bleed into the rest of his life is something that Season 5 will tackle.
His decision to practice law under the name Saul Goodman comes at the end of the Season 4 finale, “Winner.” Kim helps Jimmy get reinstated and his choice to go by Saul shows that he’s far removed from the law path of his older brother Chuck.The episode’s title comes from the flashback that opens the episode. Jimmy has just become a lawyer with Chuck vouching for him. To celebrate, they go to a karaoke bar and Jimmy lures his uptight brother onto the stage for a rendition of “The Winner Takes It All” by ABBA. While Mamma Mia fans know this song is about love, Jimmy goes with the most cynical interpretation of it by the end of “Winner.”
He’s bitter that it took pretending to care about Chuck to get in the good graces of the bar association again. He knows that these snobby lawyers will never really allow him to be part of their club, like that applicant for Chuck’s scholarship who shoplifted. So now that he has this opportunity to practice law again, he’s not going to (mind the ABBA) be a fool who plays by the rules. He wants to end up on top and the best way he knows how is to defend the guilty as Saul Goodman.
Of course, Saul doesn’t really end up a winner, as the future flashes of his life as Cinnabon manager Gene highlight.
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