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A friend of the cartel: "Trust Sol" may have finally killed Jimmy McGill's conscience

Jimmy and Kim's conspiracy against Howard reached its peak, and at the same time that of Lalo Salamanca encountered a major pitfall.

What does all this say about the second part of the last season of "Trust Sol"?

Please note, spoilers for the seventh episode of the sixth season

Ido Yeshayahu

25/05/2022

Wednesday, May 25, 2022, 4:17 p.m.

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Trailer "Trust Sol" Season 6 Episode 7 (AMC)

Please note, the article includes spoilers for the events of the seventh episode in the sixth season of "Trust Sol", the end of the first part of the season.

If you have not yet seen the episode, it is recommended to watch and only then read

many times when talking about "Trust Sol", refer to it as a series with two separate plots.

There's the world of Jimmy, Kim, Chuck and Howard's lawyers and there's the drug world of Mike, Gus and Nacho.

Occasionally these worlds launched, usually in encounters between Jimmy and Mike, and mostly in a rather minor way.

That changed in the fifth season, when Lalo Salamanca came into the picture.

With his own hands he forced the two parts of the series to unite again and again.

He first hired Jimmy as his lawyer, then sent him to bring him the fortune he needed for bail, which led to his horrible adventure with Mike in the desert and a win-win relationship between the two men.

And even then, those two worlds parted ways once more afterwards: in the ninth episode of the fifth season for those who came to visit Jimmy, Kim confronted him and he just set off.

The couple were afraid he would return, they even rented a hotel room because of this fear, but then Mike informed Jimmy that Lalo was dead so they could breathe a sigh of relief.

These worlds have been so separate throughout "Near Sol" that only this season, after five full seasons and a little more, has the series brought together two of its main characters - Kim and Mike (in an episode directed by Ray Sihorn herself, How Appropriate).

Mike then told her that these were probably alive, so she peeked over her back again, but even so - the cartel plots and the lawyers' plots continued to remain separate.

Until suddenly they collided like they had not done before, and the results were violent and tragic.

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Probably the most decent and good man in "Trust Sol".

Howard (Photo: Greg Lewis / AMC / Sony Pictures Television)

Howard's arrival at Jimmy and Kim's house was a logical link in their shared story.

They abused him and humiliated him for a long time as part of a meticulous planning that went exactly as they wanted (despite the unexpected mishap found in the judge's arm), so of course Howard came to confront them late at night, the candle flickering when the door opened.

But then that plot suddenly emerges from the sorcerer as well, from the end of the fifth season, the couple's fear that they will appear in their home again.

And behold that yes, the candle flickers once more and to those who sneak in like a ghost, a shadow emerges behind Howard.

He even planned to hit Gus, but his original plot went down the drain when he found out that someone (probably Gus, probably because he suspects those alive) was eavesdropping on Hector's phone.

At that moment in the drainage pit where he was hiding a cockroach passed over Lalo's face.

"La Kokracha," as he once called Jimmy to Kim, assuring her that her husband would surely survive in the desert.

The insect came up with an alternative plan.

One plot succeeded, another failed, and as a result the two worlds stayed simultaneously in the house of the person who touches between the two worlds.

Out of these separate universes, Howard was the man furthest from the cartel stories.

Chuck at the time was close to Jimmy for much of the time, so it still makes some sense that he would get hurt.

Kim is his wife, and who knows if she herself will not be Lalo's next victim.

But Howard was the man least likely to be in the wrong place at the wrong time.

And yet, in a perfect performance, under our noses, "Trust Sol" has cunningly led to this moment.

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La Kokracha.

"Trust the Soul" Season 6 Episode 7 (Photo: Greg Lewis / AMC / Sony Pictures Television)

There are so many parallel lines between the deaths of Howard and Chuck.

It is not for nothing that his moving memory was brought up in this chapter.

The expiration of both came after - or perhaps following - a sting plot that Jimmy spun around them, and in both cases Kim was involved in one way or another.

For the first time Jimmy wanted to undermine Chuck's credibility so that the "Mass Verde" case would move to Kim, the one who found and brought him to "Hamlin Hamlin and McGill" in the first place before leaving for her own practice.

Jimmy went out of his way to change numbers on official documents presented to the Banking Committee, and then when Chuck managed to trap his brother so that he would confess to witnesses (Howard was one of them), Jimmy exposed his brother naked in his testimony before the Bar Association's Bar Association. Albuquerque - A professional humiliation that led to the dismissal of Chuck (by Howard) from the company whose name lives on in the front.

Just like Chuck, Howard immediately realizes that Jimmy is the one behind the bizarre cases he has run into, and just like him he fails to stop the snowball that led to his professional humiliation get with a committee.

Howard is smug and arrogant at times, and he was born with a teaspoon of gold in his mouth, in stark contrast to his two rivals.

It's also hard for him to forget that he served as a spokesman for "Hamlin Hamlin and McGill" when he had to reject Jimmy after he became a lawyer.

Chuck was the one pulling the strings, but Howard just did as he said without argument.

The big difference is that unlike Chuck, Howard has proven time and time again since he's in favor of Jimmy and tried to help him.

As for Kim, Howard has often treated her like shit.

Just before his death he mentioned the time he would lower her to engage in document control, because of an incident she had no control over (in the first season the Catalans refused to believe she was offering them the best offer and left her in favor of Jimmy, who in turn immediately tried to bring them back) .

Nevertheless,

Now he comes to prove them and with a demand to understand why they did what they did.

It's not the money, he diagnoses correctly, but the humiliation.

This is a question that many viewers of the series have often asked themselves, and the motives for Jimmy and Kim's hostility towards Howard seem to be primarily psychological.

Jimmy was the first to make him the object of his hatred, because Howard is the epitome of his poignant conscience over Chuck's death.

Ever since Broken Howard expressed his guilt over his partner's death, Jimmy has been happy to allow him to carry that burden.

He told him immediately and explicitly, "Well, Howard, I suppose this is the cross you must bear."

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The plot succeeded.

"Trust the Soul" Season 6 Episode 7 (Photo: Greg Lewis / AMC / Sony Pictures Television)

Jimmy did seem free of this burden throughout the year after his brother's death, but when Howard offered to come and work for Hamlin Hamlin McGill again as a full-fledged attorney, he even went so far as to say that in his opinion Chuck's treatment of him was unfair, Jimmy Just lit up even more.

Apparently the very thought of staying close to Howard, the man representing his own guilt over his brother's death, ignited the battle fire in him.

He teased Howard about relatively small and spontaneous things that the tailor-made lawyer also mentioned this time, like throwing bowling balls at his vehicle or sending prostitutes to embarrass him at lunch with Cliff Maine.

When Howard confronted him about it in a temporary encounter in the corridors of the courthouse, Jimmy angrily told him how enormous his powers were and that he was in fact God in a human suit - an attempt to magnify himself in front of whoever was actually the male to his conscience.

As for Kim, the one who embroidered the conspiracy to overthrow Howard at the end of last season - it happened after she too was accidentally arrested by him in court.

How everything is incidental on Howard's path to his death.

He told her about Jimmy's actions and told her that the man was not in control of himself.

The key phrase of what he tells her is undoubtedly this: "We both know it makes no sense to leave a client like 'Mesa Verde,' and I have to think Jimmy has something to do with it."

Kim scolds him at that very moment that this is a wonderfully insulting remark and that she is responsible for her decisions, but that does not dampen her anger.

This seems to be much more than protecting Jimmy.

Howard detailed a hated string within her, one that undermined her mastery over herself, a matter that had always been important to her, even in front of those closest to her, like Jimmy.

"You're not saving me. I'm saving me," she told him at the time, when she was buried in the archives department and Jimmy wanted to help her.

And so, later in the day of the conversation with Howard, Kim convinces her shocked husband to come out against him in order to finally get the Sandpaper money.

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Soulless.

"Trust the Soul" Season 6 Episode 7 (Photo: Greg Lewis / AMC / Sony Pictures Television)

Of all the expanded universe of "Breaking Bad" and "Trust Sol," I find it hard to imagine a sadder death.

Reasons and even guilt can still be found in each of the other dead.

In some cases it was the heroism that turned their deaths into a sort of victory.

This is what happened earlier this season, in an episode where Nacho deprived himself of his life.

Although his fate was doomed, he still managed to regain control and then leave on his own terms.

By virtue of being in the game of the drugs and the cartel, his death may not have been necessary or self-evident, but neither was it surprising when he arrived.

It's part of the game.

In Howard's case there is a heartbreaking combination of a good and decent man, probably the best in the series, perhaps apart from Nacho's father, and of the cruel randomness with which he finds his death.

Before the terrified eyes of Kim and especially Jimmy, Howard's blood splattered on the painting hanging on the wall, the one at the back of which the two made their plan against him, then his head hit the table before falling to the floor.

It's an unfair death in every sense.

Not only because of the final circumstances but also because of everything that happened before.

Howard died the day he ruined his good name, without being given the opportunity to try to rehabilitate him - which might have happened now that Jimmy and Kim got what they wanted and got off his back.

And that's even before we know what excuse will be given for his death - suicide like Chuck?

A drug-related murder he was allegedly addicted to?

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ghostly.

"Trust the Soul" Season 6 Episode 7 (Photo: Greg Lewis / AMC / Sony Pictures Television)

Only six episodes remain for the series, and they will air starting July 11 in the United States and as usual two days later Bite, Hot and Cellcom Tiwi, and another day later on Netflix.

During these six episodes we are expected to understand how Kim comes out of Jimmy's life, get guest appearances by Brian Cranston and Aaron Paul, and see what happens to Gene Takobic in Omaha, Nebraska - Jimmy's last incarnation after escaping the law at the end of "Breaking Bad" Lines ".

Even earlier "Trust Sol" should explain to us what Lalo's plan is and why he even came to Jimmy and Kim's house if his target is Gus, someone they have nothing to do with.

And above all this hovers the question, how will Howard's murder affect Jimmy and Kim?

Will this be a wake-up call for them?

For one of them?

Because if Howard plays Jimmy's conscience, and there are only six episodes left until the end of the series, perhaps the death of Hamlin Jr. symbolizes the death of the protagonist's conscience, another step in the hardening of his heart.

What an amazing end and full of possibilities for the last line.

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