This appears to be the moment when our hero commits to cleaning up. It isn’t until this scene that we’re entirely clear on the relationship between Jimmy and Chuck, and besides confirming that they’re brothers, it establishes that they’ve been estranged - probably due to Jimmy’s criminal pursuits. But by this morning, industrious Better Call Saul fans had submitted a handful of entertaining possibilities and a lively debate had begun in the show’s subreddit.) ( New York Times recapper David Segal helpfully informed readers last night that he searched Urban Dictionary for “Chicago sunroof,” the act Jimmy tells Chuck he performed, and came up empty.
Most disturbingly, he could be labeled a sex offender. Though the specifics of what he did aren’t clear - and maybe they’re not even important - we learn that he’s facing assault and property damage charges.
He’s come to see Jimmy, who’s been arrested. In a flashback (one I’d estimate takes place in the mid-’90s, judging by the visible and semi-successful effort to make Bob Odenkirk look significantly younger), we see Chuck enter a police station. And the cold open to last night’s episode, “Nacho,” did more than any other single scene so far to fill in the character’s backstory. Better Call Saul is, of course, a series-length answer to that question. Where did this guy come from? Breaking Bad fans must all have wondered this, at one moment or another, about Saul Goodman, who emerged fully formed in that show’s second season as a local TV-commercial celebrity and all-purpose legal adviser to the discerning criminal.