Portrait of the Scam Artist

Better Call Saul tells the story of Jimmy McGill, a struggling public defender who will eventually transform into a criminal mastermind and amigo del cartel named Saul Goodman (this was his role on AMC’s previous hit, Breaking Bad). Jimmy has a penchant for elaborate schemes. He climbs a billboard tower to fake a heroic rescue that will earn his floundering solo practice local publicity; he spreads ground-up radioactive beads in the dirt around a client’s property to trigger an inspection that will delay his eviction. He bends the rules, then breaks them, with a flair for the dramatic as boisterous and colorful as his many shirt-and-jacket ensembles.