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"Trust Sol" Season 6 Episode 9: Even If The Sky Falls

The ninth and masterful episode of the last season of "Trust Sol" is full of soul-searching, tying edges and echoes to the early days of the series and "Breaking Bad".

Through a construction rich in nuances and jagged layers, the story of the ridiculous hero becomes a tremendous and heartbreaking tragedy.

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Ido Yeshayahu

20/07/2022

Wednesday, 20 July 2022, 16:00 Updated: 16:06

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Notice, "Spoilers" for "Trust Sol" Season 6 Episode 9 and for every "Breaking Bad"

in the previous episode of "Trust Sol" the story suddenly ends.

Plots that have been going on since the first season (the class action lawsuit against Sandpiper that became a campaign to overthrow Howard) and later were surprisingly wrapped up in other happenings (for those trying to hunt down Gus) - all ended in blood and shock.

Howard Hamlin died, followed by those of Salamanca.

The killer and the murdered were buried together under the floor of the lab where we had seen Walt and Jesse cooking for years.

What's left in the current episode of "Trust Sol", "Fun and Games" by name, is mostly mental arithmetic and tying edges.

Moments that spread arms to the beginning of the series and to the end of the days of some of the characters.

In many ways this was the finale.

The end of an era in every possible sense.

Kim was the only one to say hello in the episode explicitly, but "Trust Sol" is separate from the other characters as well.

Last joint scene?

Giancarlo Esposito and Jonathan Banks, "Trust Sol" Season 6 Episode 9 (Photo: Screenshot, AMC)

Ding Ding Ding

Plus, without the noise and ringing, it looks like this is the last time we've seen Mike Vegas.

We may have been fooled in the remaining four episodes, but either way, everything these two did this time was full of meaning and symbols.

In the armored passage leading to Gus' home in the suburbs, he instructed Mike to continue with the lab construction project, the one that would be such a central part of the mother-series.

Just before Gus closes the heavy door behind him, he pauses for a moment and looks at Mike without saying, who looks back at him in silence.

When the door finally closes, Mike reaches to the other side and turns off the light.

Later in his home, the late Mike sees in the corner of the room the toy he and Kylie, his only memory of his late son, played with together, and decides to approach to offer comfort to a bereaved father.

He soon realizes that they are so not in the same place.

As soon as Manuel Varga tells him, "What you are talking about is not justice. What you are talking about is revenge," we move on to a whip that frames Varga Sr. as a free man, and Mike with the fence separating them closing in on him.

"It's never over," Manuel adds, predicting the rest of Mike's life.

He will remain in this loop, continuing to be sucked into the black hole of Gus and the cartel, until he finally reaches the violent end.

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imprisoned.

Mike vs. Manuel Varga, "Trust Sol" Season 6 Episode 9 (Photo: Screenshot, AMC)

Similarly, the scene with Don Aldio was known in advance.

We know that all the participants in this meeting will be alive for a few more years beyond the current, "breaking the line" period, so the chances of something fateful happening in this class are nil.

Gus will be rescued from it, whether unharmed at all or with a small blow to the hand.

But what matters in this scene is the echoes it sent to past and future events.

Next to this pool, Max, Gus's partner and "good friend" was once shot in front of his terrified eyes by Hector at the command of Don Aldio - his blood dripped into the pool water while Gus was grounded and forced to look into his dead eyes.

Gus's sexual identity was already hinted at in "Breaking Bad" and in describing his relationship with Max.

He funded his education, set up his own food chain as a tribute to him ("Los Paulos Hermanus", or in a shaky translation into Hebrew - "brothers to fly") and after being murdered funded a small village in Mexico in his memory - the place where Mike recovered after being attacked and stabbed in season five.

And of course, Gus devoted his entire life and enterprise to revenge on those responsible, a testament to the immense significance that Max had for him.

Hector himself was aware of this relationship, if only with suspicion.

When Gus once brought (in the fourth episode of the third season of "Trust Sol") as a gift to Don Aldio a "Los Paulos Hermanus" shirt, Hector hissed, "More like '

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The place of the beginning and the end.

"Trust Sol" Season 6 Episode 9 (Photo: Screenshot, AMC)

Fire in the eyes.

"Trust Sol" Season 6 Episode 9 (Photo: Screenshot, AMC)

This incident ignited in Gus the fire of revenge, the fire that eventually consumed him, literally, and can be seen reflected in this position on the lenses of his glasses.

Revenge has guided so much of Gus' actions over the years.

Maybe all his actions.

The abuse of Hector, the ambush that led to Don Bolsa's death, the poisoning of Don Aldio and his entire entourage through a poisoned bottle of Zapiro-Aniehu, and finally his own death in Hector's suicide bombing, the same "ding ding ding" that Don Aldio did not want to hear.

Before he leaves the place, Gus stands over the water and looks at them.

The place where his blood of vengeance was sown, and the place where it was reaped twenty years later.

In between, Gus just sealed himself off from everything else.

When he relaxes the next day at the upscale restaurant, he remotely recognizes the waiter, David.

Reed Diamond plays him - this is no accidental casting: the two starred in "Murder from Red to Black", and although their periods in the series did not overlap, they did team up in a film that came a year after it ended.

The chemistry, affection and acquaintance is evident between Gus and David.

In fact, this is one of the few times in "Near Sol" and "Breaking Bad" that the scary drug lord looks human.

The two converse pleasantly and quietly, but everything goes wrong when David describes the taste of the prestigious wine he pours into Gus as "meaty, almost like the taste of blood."

Gus sips once more, but it's noticeable that the drink is sour.

How can he approach another man when the blood and flesh memory of his old love is still bitter in his mouth?

How can he approach someone when his only destiny is revenge on those who put that taste in his mouth?

He pushes the glass aside and comes out.

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Not accidental casting.

Esposito and Reid Diamond, "Murder from Red to Black" and "Trust Sol" (Photo: Greg Lewis / AMC / Sony Pictures Television; NBC)

It's really over

This is a construction that is all nuances, and it is embodied in all its mastery in the main event of the episode.

In hindsight, it's amazing to see how the series weaved the story of Jimmy, Kim, Chuck and Howard - what a craft of thought.

Jimmy set himself the goal of overthrowing and humiliating his brother, managed to do so with the help of Kim, and eventually Chuck preyed on his soul but his death was recorded as death in an accident.

A few years later, Kim set herself the goal of overthrowing and humiliating her former boss, managed to do so with Jimmy's help, and Howard was eventually murdered in cold blood but his death was recorded as suicide.

The two partners in "Hamlin Hamlin McGill" shared a tragic fate, a mirror image of each other, and in both cases this would not have happened had it not been for the toxic couple, Jimmy and Kim.

The irony cut even deeper into the flesh when the couple attended a memorial service for Howard at the building where they both once worked, the place they had known.

The trash can next to the elevator on the parking lot, the one where Jimmy's kick from the first episode remained for years, has finally been replaced with a new one.

A bitter laugh of fate, given that the rest of the place has collapsed.

Hamlin is no more, McGill is no more, "Hamlin Hamlin McGill" is no more.

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crime scene.

Ray Sihorn as Kim Wexler, "Trust Sol" Season 6 Episode 9 (Photo: Greg Lewis / AMC / Sony Pictures Television)

Prior to the broadcast of the episode, Bob Odenkirk told Entertainment Weekly that it was the episode during the filming of a scene in which he had a heart attack and was hospitalized.

Given the intensities of what is bubbling beneath the surface, this blow his heart has absorbed suddenly makes sense.

Those were some shocking days for Jimmy and Kim.

They saw their colleague murdered before their eyes in brutal violence, became the hostages of Lalo, were forced to part with terror in their captive order, and after the night of nerve-wracking cannibals were also forced to go about their daily routine as if nothing had happened.

The opening of the chapter beautifully illustrates how the prosaic and brutal are intertwined.

The muddy coffee that flows in the coffee machine in the corridors of the court becomes a blood trickle squeezed from a rag in Jimmy and Kim's apartment.

The blood in turn turns into the tomato sauce in which Jimmy dips his lunch.

It all underscores how under their façade last night's horrific events bubbling up, their handiwork.

When they returned home at the end of a day of pretense, the crime scene looked as if indeed nothing had happened to it.

Then, at a memorial service for Howard in "Hamlin Hamlin McGill," in front of his distant widow, Kim is doomed to continue with the mask of lies, further tormenting the woman's soul and further staining her own soul.

Shortly before his death, when Howard came to confront Jimmy and Kim, he even managed to say that his marriage was failing and that for most of the past year he had slept in the guest house.

Armed with this knowledge, Kim is rescued from the accusations and mistrust of Cheryl, the grief-stricken wife.

She does so in a subtle, horrible, cruel incarnation of the charge at her doorstep.

"You were his wife," she tells her.

"You saw him every day, you knew him better than anyone… you would know."

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More anguish for her soul.

"Trust the Soul" Season 6 Episode 9 (Photo: Greg Lewis / AMC / Sony Pictures Television)

Already in the underground parking lot - the place where we first saw Jimmy and Kim in a joint scene, sharing a cigarette, in the opening episode of the series - it seems that Kim has decided on her next moves: abandoning the profession, abandoning her husband.

Jimmy continues to cling to the idea that one day they will be able to forget about it, convincing Kim and himself, but she does not answer him in both cases.

This time her answer is a kiss, one that in retrospect seems like a farewell: she drives away alone and leaves him confused.

You can understand why she's breaking up with Jimmy - "we're bad at each other," she tells him.

But the fact that Kim also sheds the profession she is so good at seems like a complete and deliberate loss of her identity.

She could have just left town, stopped practicing law, but she chooses to give up her law license - a declaratory act wins.

There has been so much speculation about Kim's fate since the beginning of the series.

Will she die?

Will you be imprisoned?

Will you run away under a false identity?

None of the answers are correct.

As the name of the season opener hinted, she and Jimmy were no longer together, and yet it was hard to predict such a drastic act on her part on her way out.

And again, in a work of thought, Kim fulfills the basic idea of ​​the series.

She and Chuck were Jimmy McGill's brakes, the ones that made him maintain a certain amount of morale.

Even when he had already begun his metamorphosis into Sol Goodman, his conscience was still there, occasionally pecking.

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The place of the beginning and the end.

"Trust Sol" Season 6 Episode 9 (Photo: Screenshot, AMC)

Now, in the absence of both, after those hellish days gone by, the series can leap forward in time, show us Sol in that absurd mansion we saw at the beginning of the season, show it to us in his decorated office with the bustling waiting room and the Declaration of Independence on the walls - and we'll understand.

Just as Shakim shed her identity and ran away, so did Jimmy.

Now a cup of coffee with the caption "The best lawyer in the world" stood in front of him on the table.

Image so sad.

On his thermos throughout the years, the one Kim bought him, it was always written "the second best lawyer in the world."

Not only does the new caption perpetuate the fact that the one that was in first place is no more, but also the all-too-clear understanding that he bought the new cup for himself.

Who else is left in his life to buy for him?

Another painful double meaning comes immediately afterwards.

When Sol asks Francesca to send his office the first in line, he tells her the sentence that seals the chapter, "Justice will be done, even if the sky falls."

The gloomy things Manuel and Arga said to Mike are floating in my head again.

We know Sol.

Justice is not.

Even more substantive: this sentence, a translation of an old-fashioned phrase in the Latin language, was uttered by Chuck Lehvard in the third season.

That was when a finalist says to testify against his brother before the bar committee to have Jimmy revoked his law license, thereby launching the events that will lead to his death.

It's just amazing how, in jagged layers, "Trust Sol" turns Sol Goodman's eye-popping splendor into a tremendous and heartbreaking tragedy.

He once promised Kim that they could forget what happened to Howard, what

To Howard, leave it behind.

"It's over. It's really over," he told her then in the parking lot, when she already knew she would leave.

It is a self-conviction that Jimmy has become an existential state, the spirit in the grotesque and ridiculous figure he created and became.

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A double tragedy.

Bob Odenkirk as Sol Goodman, "Trust Sol" Season 6 Episode 9 (Photo: Greg Lewis / AMC / Sony Pictures Television)

A few years later Jimmy / Sol again shed his identity, this time with no choice.

Kim did not explicitly say where she was going when she broke up with Jimmy, but the mind suggests that she return home, to the same Nebraska that would later become Sol's destination after he escaped from Albuquerque.

There he will become Gene Takobik, the manager of the Sinbon branch in a mall in Omaha.

It is not unreasonable to assume that there will still be a black-and-white union between her and Jin.

The last time we saw his future figure was when he was spotted by a taxi driver from Albuquerque, called the vacuum cleaner man to rescue him again, but then decided to stay.

Between the lines it was possible to understand that he was going to get rid of the problem himself, but maybe that's not the plan?

The possibility that Jimmy will meet Kim again sheds a different light on his decision not to leave.

Sol is still inside, everything we saw at Gin's makes it clear - watching old commercials of his own, engraved "SG was here" on the wall in the trash room at the mall - but what about Jimmy? He's probably there too. Maybe he's at all. Seeking redemption, quiet, and hoping to reach her through Kim, who herself cut the rope that set her free to sail in the air without a purpose? Maybe they can still be successful with each other?

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