The McGill brothers sat on the bench across from their house for a while. For the first time in over a year, Charles enjoyed the comfort brought by the sunshine and the grass. However, he still couldn't control the panic in his heart and turned around to go back home. But for Jimmy, this was a very good start.
Just as Jimmy was realizing his dream of working with his brother, Mike Ehrmantraut was struggling to make ends meet. Ever since Stacey learned the truth about Matt's death, her attitude towards Mike had changed. When she worked overtime, she would ask Mike to look after Kaylee. But relying on her income plus Matt's pension, it was difficult to cover Kaylee's living and education expenses. To find a way to increase his income, Mike thought of the veterinarian who had stitched him up before.
The veterinarian earned commissions by referring illegal jobs. Mike's first job was to work as a bodyguard for someone who illegally sold prescription drugs. The employer specified that three bodyguards were needed. Besides Mike, there were also the fierce-looking "Double Gun Guy" and the burly "Hulk". The other two looked down on Mike, who was unimposing and even didn't carry a gun. But Mike showed his skills, beating the Double Gun Guy until he couldn't get up, and scaring the Hulk into running away. The employer also secretly worried that they might be robbed by the outnumbered drug dealers during the transaction. But his worry was completely unnecessary. When Mike took the task, he had already done his research. The drug dealer coming for the transaction was named Nacho Varga. This time, Nacho was acting alone behind his associates' backs, so there was no need for him to bring a gun at all. As Mike expected, Nacho didn't want to cause any trouble, and the entire transaction was completed without any real danger. Mike naturally took the payment that was supposed to be for three people.
In the court, Jimmy tried his best to prove to the judge that Attorney Rich's restraining order was obstructing justice, preventing his clients in the nursing home from meeting their lawyer. The judge ruled that the restraining order was invalid. Jimmy was overjoyed. As soon as he got back, he excitedly told Charles the good news. But Charles was sitting among a pile of file boxes, looking worried and unable to smile at all. Charles had long known what kind of ruling the judge would make, and Rich knew it too.
Rich's strategy was to delay time. The dozen or so file boxes in front of them were sent by Rich's law firm, questioning the mental state of each plaintiff. They kept flooding Charles and Jimmy with various restraining orders and useless materials, leaving them no time to push forward the lawsuit. If they could just delay for a few years, those elderly clients would probably have passed away. Finally, Charles said the words Jimmy least wanted to hear: entrust this lawsuit to Hamlin, Hamlin & McGill (HHM), a law firm with strong human resources. Jimmy compromised, with the only requirement that the firm must hire him. That night, Charles worked until midnight, while Jimmy lay on the sofa, half-asleep. Charles quietly stood up, put on a space blanket, opened the door, and walked to the mailbox. Jimmy's phone was in the mailbox. Charles, with a microwave timer on his left wrist, used the eraser end of a pencil to press the numbers on the phone. He had to inform Howard in advance to do something.
The next day, Charles, wearing a suit lined with a space blanket, got into Jimmy's car. When Jimmy opened the mailbox, he was surprised to find that his phone was dead. He clearly remembered turning off the phone's power before putting it in the mailbox, so how could it have run out of battery? But he didn't have time to figure this out, as everyone from the law firm was waiting for Charles. In the lobby of the firm, all employees voluntarily turned off their phones and computers, and all the power in the building was cut off. When Charles walked in, the lobby erupted in warm applause. Having been away for more than a year, Charles still had such great charm. Jimmy admired his brother from the bottom of his heart.
After greeting a few old friends, Charles went to the conference room. Accompanying him were not only Jimmy and Howard but also the firm's main legal team. Everyone was excited to get this lawsuit worth millions of dollars. Howard also promised that after the lawsuit was over, Jimmy would get 20% of the final settlement fund, and the firm would also pay Jimmy $20,000 for the time he had invested. But Howard firmly refused Jimmy's request to work at the firm, even if the cost was losing this big deal.
The development of events was beyond everyone's expectation. Kim waited at the door of the beauty salon until late at night before seeing Jimmy carrying a big bag of wine bottles. Kim had a fierce argument with Howard during the day and learned something that Jimmy didn't know. She came here just to tell Jimmy to accept Howard's terms, as that was the best outcome. Jimmy was very angry; how could his good friend of many years speak up for Howard? After Kim left, Jimmy calmed down. Kim must have had her reasons for saying such things. Looking at his dead phone, a thought that he didn't want to believe suddenly popped into Jimmy's mind.
Early the next morning, Charles got up very early and whistled while ironing the suit he had worn the day before. He was startled by Jimmy's voice coming from the living room sofa. Jimmy had been to the communication company and found a call record that had existed but was manually deleted. He already knew the truth: he knew that someone had turned on his phone in the middle of the night but forgotten to turn it off; he knew that someone had called Howard; he knew that it was his brother Charles who had kept him out all along, not Howard. Charles had never looked up to Jimmy and always regarded him as an incompetent person who couldn't be helped. Charles had studied hard at a prestigious university and interned at a large law firm for many years before obtaining his license to practice law. How could Jimmy, a small-time crook with only a community college education who got his qualification through online courses, be on an equal footing with him? Charles couldn't accept that. The negative emotions he had accumulated in his heart were not worry about Jimmy, but disgust for him.
Jimmy, who had seen Charles' true feelings clearly, was heartbroken. He had just brought enough food and fuel to last for three or four days, and from now on, Charles would have to rely on others. Jimmy angrily drove away from Charles, not wanting to pay any attention to the shouts coming from behind him at all.