He can’t persuade the seniors at Sandpiper Crossing to re-embrace Irene, the leader of the class-action settlement, who has been deemed inexcusably selfish by her peers. I think Chuck’s mental turmoil in the aftermath of Jimmy’s peace overture leaves him conscience-stricken and ready to die in a blaze of his own making.Ĭompare this with Jimmy’s own methods for coping with guilt. And on the evidence of the flashback at the start of the episode - a cozy scene in which the older McGill reads in a tent to the younger one - I’d say it isn’t true.
Good thing he didn’t want hurt Jimmy’s feelings! He’s brutally rebuffed by Chuck, who delivers this eviscerating line: “I don’t want to hurt your feelings, but the truth is you’ve never mattered all that much to me.” 2 lands in the form of Jimmy, who visits and attempts a heartbreakingly sincere, painfully honest rapprochement. “You won,” Howard says to Chuck, a devastating pair of final words. That instant settlement had to rankle, in part because Howard demonstrated what magnanimity really looks like. Why the change? My sense is that Chuck’s electricity phobia is a stand in for his conscience, which begins to torment him after he is ushered out the door of his firm with $3 million of Howard’s money. He ends in a full-on relapse, and a suicidal one at that. He was on the mend just a few chronological days ago, looking forward to a barbecue with friends and to a life surrounded by colleagues and the electromagnetic pulses that turned him into a shut-in. And Kim says so long to the grind of a one-woman start-up law practice, having reordered her priorities (Blockbuster home videos and nachos now top the list) after a car crash that nearly killed her.Īs it has in the past, the show whipsawed viewers, this time over the issue of Chuck’s mental state. Hector most likely says farewell to the use of his limbs, though that is a parting he will learn about in a hospital soon enough. Chucks bid adieu to his sanity and then his life. Howard said goodbye to Chuck, having masterfully engineered his former mentor’s exit from Hamlin, Hamlin & McGill. Jimmy said goodbye to his senior law practice and the office where he and Kim worked. Fittingly enough, the Season 3 finale of “Better Call Saul” was all about goodbyes.
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