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Better Call Saul Season 6, Episode 12 Recap & Ending Explained: As we get closer to the end, the hits just keep on coming. All the positivity and joviality of the first half of season six has been exhausted. The sounds of success and joy are drawn out with a yawning vacuum and damning silence where lost souls search for remnants of themselves. Better Call Saul’s universe has never been so sharp. There is no way out for Saul now. All doors close shut except the one leading to D-Day. Judgment is near for all that have done. “Waterworks” really lives up to its name. This episode also has some of the finest acting the show has offered, and that’s saying something. Rhea Seehorn is back one last time. She couldn’t have left Kim with her dignity in the mud. Bob Odenkirk has discovered nuances of Saul that he didn’t have before. An Emmy seems imminent for both of them.
While what we will see in the episode is downright heartbreaking, it is also a kind of revelation of their lives; of the kind of persons they really are. The ending sets up the show’s finale tantalizingly with a sense of terrifying foreboding. It was a prophetic conclusion that only points in one direction. And it’s not that good. Enjoy our Better Call Saul Season 6 Episode 12 recap and wrap up.
BETTER CALL SAUL (SEASON 6), EPISODE 12 SUMMARY:
WATER PLANT
Through a reflection on his law school, we see Saul playing with a bouncy ball. Francesca calls him and tells him to start work. She won’t stay longer than 8, and considering how many customers are waiting, Saul will have to make do. One of the fake pillars in his office falls onto the table. For example, we feel that it can do harm. But it is hollow and showy: like Saul. A look in the mirror in his drawer, and he set about welcoming the customers. A surprise awaits him when he opens the envelope on his desk. “Request for separation”. He reads the words in disbelief and slowly snaps back to reality. “Send her in already!” he screams. We witch back to black and white again. This time we’re in Florida, not Omaha. A brunette middle-aged woman cuts potatoes. It’s Kim in her long jeans skirt and summer top with a completely different hairstyle.
In walks a man with groceries. The couple is having a barbecue with some of their “friends”. Kim tries to blend in with the other housewives and fails miserably. She tries to hide under the skin of ordinary American women who lead normal lives. But not really. Kim is lonely in the truest sense. Her “boyfriend” has the usual make-out session after the barbecue and leaves. Kim still lives alone, somewhere she carries the burden of the past along with the decisions she made. The next day she goes to work: Pal Coast Sprinker, an irrigation and water equipment company. It’s nothing too fancy. Just your local operation with a size large enough to seem significant. “Catalogs and brochures” is where she works now.
What a boring one. The fingers and mind that once argued the complexities of the law now with learned judges sit in front of the computer arranging brochures for pumps and sprinklers. Picking and dropping pictures in little squares and showing her creative flair on odd occasions is almost an insult to the Kim Wexler we once knew. How can she possibly stand to talk to colleagues at lunch about ecstasy and crack? How does that not choke the life out of her? The glacial, non-confrontational pace of the office is no match for the hustle and bustle of the courthouse.
Tammy, whose birthday celebration is coming up at the office, attends a call from Viktor St. Claire. Kim draws the blinds, closes the door and takes a deep breath. We almost see a repeat of the last episode where we can’t hear the conversation between Kim and Gene. But luckily (or not) that’s not the case here. It’s been six years since she served the papers; the first shot in this episode. Kim barely says anything. Gene continues to rant about more things. When he asks her to say something, she screams back: “You have to turn yourself in”. That’s what pissed Gene off. She insinuates his involvement in everything that has gone down since and he just can’t take it. He barks at her before putting the phone down. Kim reconsiders the conversation, and parts of her guilty conscience threaten to spill the beans.
She is shocked but still keeps it all inside and attends the birthday celebration. The next afternoon we will see Kim back in Albuquerque. It makes us wonder why she has come back after all these years. She takes the shuttle into town and goes to the courthouse. In true Gilligan fashion, we relive small moments from various episodes of Better Call Saul, the eccentric lawyer’s journey from the honest, hard-working simpleton to this crazy, vicious criminal mastermind. We still don’t get an answer as to why she’s back. She goes up to the prosecutor’s office and we contact Cheryl, Howard’s wife. She has changed her hair and still lives in the house – alone.
Kim comes in and throws a lot of papers on the table for her to read. Now we know. The guilt has driven her to admit the truth. The papers carry it all. Every little detail of how she and her husband tarnished Howard’s image; painted him as a cocaine addict; and how he was caught in the wrong place at the wrong time. With everything buried, Cherly asks Kim why now. She couldn’t take it anymore; to know the truth and turn the other way. Kim says they won’t find Howard’s body since they have no idea where it’s buried. Due to lack of evidence, the prosecutor will not act.
She prepares to go back to Flordia. On the space shuttle, everything buried from all those years – the trauma, the lies, the pain – it all comes out. She cries like a child and breaks into an inconsolable state. Poor Kim. She was never made for this. After all, Mike was wrong. She is not stricter or wiser. She made herself believe she was, but deep down she was just a really good lawyer. And a fantastic person. Arguably Rhea Seehorn’s finest moment this season. We cut to Gene breaking into the man’s house. He is still under the influence of drugs. Gene does what Rick (Buddy) used to do. But now that he’s inside, he has a taste for more. Recklessly he goes upstairs and makes himself a drink and ducks out to check if the man is still unconscious.
Surprise, surprise, he’s not. He grabs an object and waits for him from the top of the stairs. The man exits the toilet, still hungover. He operates his phone and as Gene is about to hit him, he falls back asleep. Gene rushes out to where a police car has stopped right behind Jeff. The cabbie is nervous when he sees the car in his rearview mirror. When we look into the police car, they are actually not suspicious at all. One of the officers has a problem with the fish tacos he has for dinner. Jeff suddenly starts his car and crashes into a parked car. Now the officers have to go out and investigate the matter.
BETTER CALL SAUL (SEASON 6), EPISODE 12 END EXPLAINED:
We cut back to colors and the day Kim served the papers. She comes inside and signs them; so does Saul. He doesn’t talk too much and he doesn’t seem interested in knowing Kim’s relationship. With his feet on the table, he asks for her comments on the office layout. He laments that she is not taking the share of the Sandpiper money that she owes her. “Have a good life Kim” is all he says before burying himself in another file. He doesn’t even look up at her. Kim shakily takes a deep breath and doesn’t say what’s on her mind. She goes out and sees Saul Goodman in full flavor. There’s no Jimmy in there anymore. its just this disgusting piece of trash of a lawyer who likes to get people out of trouble for money. If the price is right, Saul can do it.
Kim goes out and it’s raining. She waits for it to die. There is another man waiting under the shed. “Hey yo, can I scold one of them?” he asks as Kim lights a cigarette. It’s Jesse. Pinkman. He has another cameo and recognizes Kim when she fought a case for one of his friends. He asks her advice about Saul. Badger in trouble needs a good lawyer. Is Saul the right man? Does making a tacky commercial take him as frivolous and incompetent? Kim takes a breath before saying, “When I knew him, he was,” and walks to her car.
Back to black and white, Gene is back home. He nonchalantly takes a glass of alcohol and watches television. He gets a call from Jeff, who is in prison. The police took him in after the man with cancer went out screaming that he had been robbed. They suspect he may have something to do with it. But Gene says that because he doesn’t have any of the stolen items, the police can’t implicate him. He assures him that he will be there to save him soon. Gene calls Marion and tells her about the incident. She’s not surprised by what Jeff has done, but surprised that he called Gene first. Gene says he will go by the house and they will go together. Marion takes out her laptop as Gene goes on his way. He knocks, but she doesn’t answer. He tries to leave from the back door and Marion is still on her laptop listening to something on her headphones. Gene catches a sound of it.
It’s him. His ad as Saul of Albuquerque. Marion knows the truth and calls the police. Gene interrupts her and tries to convince her that he is only trying to help Jeff. He scares her into not using her Life Alert device. When she says she trusted him, Gene has a moment of weakness. He lets go of the device and Marion quickly calls the service. The police are on their way and Gene runs for cover. Will he be able to get out of this one?