The DEA learns that Mike's lawyer Dan Wachsberger is the conduit for Mike's hush money payments to Gus's former employees and Mike's hiding cash for his daughter-in-law Stacey and granddaughter Kaylee.
To both pay his share of the rent on the office and make use of TV ad time for which he has already prepaid, Jimmy begins producing commercials for other businesses while using the on air alias Saul Goodman.Jimmy attempts to obtain a refund of his malpractice insurance premium but finds that the insurance must stay in force in case he is sued over past cases while his license is suspended. To help launder Walt's drug money, Saul uses the website his son Walter Jr. set up for donors to contribute to Walt's Saul and Skyler plot ways to persuade Bogdan to sell the car wash, but Skyler rules out violence or intimidation. Instead of leaving with Ed, Jesse returns to Saul's office and assaults him. James « Jimmy » McGill1, mieux connu sous le pseudonyme Saul Goodman, est un personnage principal de la série Breaking Bad créé par Vince Gilligan, puis dans le spin-off Better Call Saul.
This season picks up where the fourth season left off, also taking place in 2004; four years before Saul Goodman meets The fifth season received universal acclaim from critics. Saul helps ensure the damage to Walt's car is not discovered. At Jesse's behest, Saul visits Andrea and tries to give her Jesse's remaining cash. When he returns that night, Kim tells him she quit Schweikart & Cokely and gave up the Mesa Verde account. Saul defends Mike from the DEA's investigation by threatening litigation over their supposed harassment. He informs Walt that he was too easy to find and offers to be his full-time legal counsel, money launderer, and adviser with respect to protecting his identity. Huell, acting as Jimmy's bodyguard, misunderstands the interaction due to wearing headphones, and strikes the cop over the head with a bag of sandwiches, leading to an assault charge. As Mike listens in via Jimmy’s concealed cell phone and trains a sniper rifle on Lalo, Lalo questions Jimmy’s version of events and reveals he found bullet holes in Jimmy’s car. Chuck begins to question the clerk, but his EHS causes him to faint and hit his head. Bogdan sells the car wash to Walt and Skyler, and Skyler takes over day-to-day management. Walt suggests that Gus will retaliate for the murder of the two dealers and recommends that Saul contact a hit man to kill Gus, but Saul dismisses the idea. Jimmy enters the store and bribes the clerk, then waits across the street to see what happens when Chuck arrives. Walt is angry with Saul about Saul's payment to Beneke, while Saul is upset at Walt for poisoning Brock (as revealed in the previous season's finale episode), revealing that he knew about it all along. Mike asks Saul to retrieve the "go bag" with cash and false identity documents that he previously hid. To protect Skyler from the IRS investigation into Beneke's tax fraud, Saul gives him $620,000 of Walt's cash to pay the tax bill by passing off the money as an inheritance from a fake relative. He is portrayed by Bob Odenkirk, and was created by Vince Gilligan and Peter Gould.