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"Trust Sol" season 6 episode 12: The tears flow by themselves

One phone call sent the two participants in two opposite directions.

Or at least that's how it seems.

Despite the fact that Gene almost crosses boundaries that we never thought he would reach, it seems that beneath the surface lies a completely different truth.

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Ido Isaiah

10/08/2022

Wednesday, August 10, 2022, 3:10 p.m. Updated: 3:35 p.m.

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Attention, "Spoilers" for "Trust Sol" Season 6 Episode 12

As we guessed last week based on the title of the 12th episode in the sixth season of "Trust Sol", it was dedicated to Kim Wexler.

Although not all of it, but in large part.

"Waterworks" in the original - a reference to her current place of work at the sprinkler company, is also a common expression for tears, and such Kim migrated in a gripping scene on the bus to the airport on the way back from Albuquerque.

In addition, as some of the viewers pointed out before the episode - in the game "Monopoly", "Water Works" is also the name of the slot that is two steps away from the prison.

With the end of the current episode - written and directed by Vince Gilligan - it seems that's exactly where we're headed, although "Trust Sol" has already known how to surprise us once or twice before.

For the first time since the ninth episode, Kim does return, and her absence was felt.

At first, when we see her life in Titusville, a small and rather remote town, her life perfectly parallels that of Gene Tacubik.

Deprived of all color and splendor - he is passive and hides in the dishes in Nebraska, she is submissive and says - both in Florida.

Six years ago Jimmy did adopt a completely new name for himself after the whole Howard affair, but it turns out that Kim devoted herself to a new identity just as much as he did.

Today she is dark-haired and with a voice that sounds high in the octave, lives under self-repression, leads a boring life to the point of tears with a man who shouts "yip" during sex, and works an office job churning out prosaic products.

After the deep trauma that scarred her soul, she is now unable to decide on the most basic things.

Will a mayonnaise substitute work in the potato salad?

Vanilla or strawberry ice cream (of course drink!)?

Running with bulls in Spain is dangerous or not?

Maybe someone else should decide that Kim won't hurt someone again because she took the initiative.

180 degrees from the decisive and assertive Makim who always insisted on being the master of her destiny.

unable to decide

"Trust Saul" season 6 episode 12 (Photo: Greg Lewis/AMC/Sony Pictures Television)

Kim:

"You should turn yourself in"

"Why don't you turn yourself in, considering you're the one with the guilt?"

The similarity between her and her ex-husband completely crashes with the phone call from "Victor St. Clair", and in fact becomes the complete contrast to what we saw from Jean in the previous episode.

The conversation between the two, which we saw this time from the other side (and though we heard, thank you really), completely challenged both Jimmy and Kim, but sent them on opposite paths: while he once again fled to the noise and fraud that hardens his heart and covers his conscience, she goes Confront for the first time the things they did.

"Why don't you turn yourself in?"

When Kim is standing outside the Albuquerque airport, a huge "Alaska" sign looms in the background, reminding us of the road Kim does not take.

Unlike Jesse who ran away from her, she returns to bear the consequences.

Everything is so different and so similar in the city she left, in the court that was her second home.

The bodega where Mike sat when he was still a law-abiding citizen and worked in the parking lot, now stands empty of a person - an automatic machine has replaced his successors in the position.

She lingers for a moment at the table outside where she often sat with Jimmy, including when they were plotting.

Inside by the elevators, Kim spots a kind of contemporary version of who she used to be, a lawyer in a business suit and a bouncy ponytail trying to help an elderly man before they enter the hall.

She came to give the local prosecutor a statement regarding the abuses that led to Howard's death, and she later brings the same detailed statement to his widow Cheryl, the woman whose heart Kim managed to twist before she left everything.

It's a cleansing journey that, when it ends, on the bus back to the airport, culminates in a cleansing burst of tears.

Everything Kim didn't allow herself over the years, everything she bottled up inside her, assimilated into the pale and small life she built for herself in the corner, dribbled out with loud gasps and tears.

Who knows how this whole thing will end for her, but as far as her soul is concerned, she did the thing that finally set her free.

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"Trust Sol" Season 6 (Photo: Greg Lewis/AMC/Sony Pictures Television)

Despite the stark contrast between her choices and Gene's - in his crooked, evil and cross ways he seems to end up doing something similar.

He returned to Suru not only to dull the pain, not to earn money, but to devote the Saa.

to be caught

"You have to turn yourself in."

He discards all the rules of caution when he chooses to rob the cancer patient despite everything.

If at the previous destinations they did not leave any traces, this time his entrance into the house alone leaves an indelible mark of broken glass.

He walks around the house complacently, turns on lights, makes noise, talks to himself, plays the piano!

Instead of leaving when he finishes what he deserved - knowing that the effect of the drug on his victim is already expected to fade and Jeff is supposed to be waiting for him outside - he makes up his mind and decides to go up to the second floor, gives him a drink and steals things that he doesn't need and whose disappearance you can't help but notice.

In his actions he allows the outside world to close in on him.

Yes, there's really no reason for a police car to innocently stop in the middle of the night right outside the house that Jean and Jeff are taking care of, it's too convenient writing, but there's also something cosmic about it.

Gene's subconscious has decided to get trapped and the universe is helping him do it.

Even in a conversation with Jeff's mother, he is careless, telling her about Albuquerque's laws even though he claims he has never been there and there is no reason for someone like him to be knowledgeable about them.

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A circle is closed.

"Trust Saul" season 6 episode 12 (Photo: Greg Lewis/AMC/Sony Pictures Television)

The struggle still stuck in him, as the difficult scene with Marion illustrates.

When he opens her computer and sees the old commercial starring him, the vibrations are reflected in the color of his glasses, just as they did when we first met Gene, in the opening minutes of the first episode of the series.

What an awful long way he has come - from a lawyer whose field of expertise is helping the elderly, to a man standing in front of a kind elderly woman with a telephone cord in his hand.

It's not easy to see the legendary Carol Burnett like this - and this is probably the reason she was cast in the first place - at the mercy of such a bad man who has a strong grip on the distress button hanging around her neck.

Jimmy did a lot of horrible things, but never crossed the line into first degree murder, and never looked like someone capable of it.

Up to now.

Despite the danger, Marion bravely stands up to Jean, and manages to stop him with one small sentence: "I trusted you".

He drops the thread and backs away, his face suddenly expressing defeat and guilt.

It's a nice and gentle closing of the circle - in his old commercials, Jimmy promised his elderly customers that he would be someone they could trust, and indeed he was in the end.

This word drove him away now, knowing full well that by doing so he was inking his judgment.

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The moment Gene stopped and went back brings to mind what he did in season three, when he isolated the kindly old woman who was representing the elderly plaintiffs in the class action against Sandpiper, then realized he had gone too far and came back to right the wrong.

At the time it was Kim who influenced him to do so.

This time she is gone, but most likely the fresh memory of her words is still nagging at his head, despite his persistent attempts to suppress them.

This is exactly the difference between this conversation and the last conversation that was between Jimmy and Kim, and it is not for nothing that the episode presents it to us at the same time.

When Kim came to his office to sign the divorce papers, Jimmy built a protective wall around him.

He almost didn't let her speak, just showed his arrogance and his great success without her, and finally without looking at her he signed and said, "Have a nice life, Kim."

This time, on the phone, he's just hoping you'll say something.

There is no feigned complacency, only bubbling rage at wasted potential and a big hole left where love once was.

Accordingly, his mindset is also different compared to the farewell conversation.

Although he is sealed again throughout his bold and brilliant sting operation, something about him also works the other way.

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Seemingly an unnecessary scene, in reality it distills something greater.

"Trust Saul" season 6 episode 12 (Photo: Greg Lewis/AMC/Sony Pictures Television)

Years earlier, there was a casual encounter between Jesse Pinkman and Kim Wexler outside the office of who turned out to be her ex-husband.

Unlike last time, Jesse's wounding here is significant and much more successful.

Aron Paul sounds a lot more like Jesse of old, and also looks younger than in last week's episode.

Beyond the beautiful meeting between the two characters that were the most significant for their series after the hero, on the face of it this is an unnecessary scene;

But actually she distills something bigger.

Jesse asked Kim if Saul Goodman was really good.

It took her a moment to answer: "When I knew him he was."

Jean's choice at the end of the episode to run away instead of doing something more serious is the moral choice given the circumstances.

Maybe he can still go back to being like that, if only a little, to be something of the person he was when Kim knew him.

Maybe he can do the soul-searching he never allowed himself to do.

Not after Chuck's death, not after Howard's murder, not after the breakup with Kim.

Maybe he can finish the series as third

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