"Woman: (On TV) My husband andI scrimpedandsaved forsomanyyears." "so that wewouldn'tbe  aburdento ourfamily." "Imovedto" "aniceplace." "Theytoldme they'd takecareof everything." "theysaidallmy moneywasgone." "Howcouldthatbe?" "Wheredidit allgo?" "Jimmy:" "If your loved one isa residentof  asandpipercrossing facilityorother..." "Jesus." "You used your own voice?" "Strictly to save money." "the whole thing cost us..." "Just callthelawoffices ofDavismain at505-242-7700." "That's505-242-7700." "all in." "The one single airing was a $700 ad buy." "So dirt cheap." "You think this is about money?" "You think that's what this is about?" "I'm just trying to offer complete information here." "it was an experiment." "a success." "You keep using the word "experiment like you're the goddamn Wright brothers." "When exactly were you gonna tell us about this experiment?" "Today." "This morning." "I got a little ahead of myself." "A little exuberant." "I apologize. we've gotten nearly 200 phone calls since this one airing." "72 more." "(Phones ringing in the distance)" "You hear that?" "Right there." "That's the sound of victory." "stop selling." "And don't act like you don't see the problem here." "I don't." "(Scoffs) You cut us out." "You did an end-run around us." "Exuberance is no excuse." "Cliff." "(Sighs) Client outreach is my department." "you told me that from day one. would that mean I'd be okay with you giving everyone a million-dollar bonus?" "You and I did discuss the possibility of a commercial. for a grand total of 30 seconds when I was halfway out the door." "I took some initiative." "Some"." "Wow." "We're a team at Davis  main." "This is a team approach." "I knew there's gonna be a learning curve." "But if you simply can't fit in as part of the team..." "I can fit in." "I..." "I fit in." "I am here to help you and hhm win sandpiper." "That's all this was about." "Sandpiper's not what keeps the lights on around here." "We have clients who wouldn't want to be associated with this kind of..." "This. is something we've been carefully building for years." "It's worth far more than any one case." "Something like this could damage it." "there's not a lot of love for you in the room at the moment." "The vote is currently two-to-one to fire you for cause." "I believe in second chances." "But know this is both strike one and strike two." "you can expect a great deal more scrutiny." "(Telephones ringing in distance)" "(Indistinct conversations)" "(Telephones ringing)" "(Dialing)" "(Ringing)" "Come on." "Come on." "you've reached thevoicemailofKimwexler." "andI 'llgetbackto youassoonasI can." "Kim." "(Clears throat) all right?" "It's a time-sensitive thing." "uh..." "I may have..." "Uh..." "Just...well..." "okay?" "Bye." "Kim." "Didyouor didyou not  knowaboutthiscommercial?" "I... yes." "He showed it to me." "He showed it to you?" "Yes." "A few days ago." "And you didn't say anything to anyone?" "No." "I didn't." "You didn't think i deserved a heads-up?" "I didn't realize..." "I didn't think it was necessary." "you were wrong about that. or on you." "That'll be all." "You can go." "What are you going to do?" "(Sighs)" "Nacho:" "So what do you think?" "you've got a good bead on the place." "they can't pick you out." "that's our spot." "He always sits facing out. but I know it's just so he can keep an eye on his ride." "we're here squaring accounts." "Dealer comes in and pays what he owes." "he likes to get face-to-face." "Says everything he needs to know is written right here." "like he's looking inside 'em." "10 minutes." "(Sighs)" "And what does that accomplish?" "Calls it his lie detector." "That's why these things go all day." "Just the two of you?" "No extra muscle?" "Don't need it." "We can handle our business." "it takes hours." "lie detector." "transacts." "Then the next." "i get in mine." "Boom." "We go our separate ways." "That is where you come in." "You see him packing up?" "Wsssh." "You drive over." "Pull up in the spot next to tuco's." "Pop." "Headshot." "Roll out." "Easy." "The i-40 onramp is eight blocks up." "You're in the wind before anyone has time to blink." "And here's the beauty." "they know we're here. get a cut of the business. as far as the cartel's concerned." "day or night when you wrap it up?" "Day." "So full daylight." "Mmm-hmm." "Plenty of traffic." "How exactly do i not get seen?" "My car at least." "Murphy's law tells me somebody's gonna pull a plate." "buy a beater." "You gonna stay in the car." "(Whistles) Ain't no one gonna see you." "so what?" "That's why you're perfect." "You're no one." "You got no connections." "You're a ghost." "Mm-hmm." "So I pull in next to him..." "That assumes there's a parking spot." "Our guys park next to him." "They come and go from the same spot." "you're open." "I'm blocked." "Who's gonna pull in behind you?" "I'm guessing someone who likes tacos." "What then?" "What's my exit?" "I don't know." "Get out and run." "Bad knees." "that's what I'm paying you for." "tell me." "I'm all ears." "You sure about this?" "Killing your partner." "(Chuckles)" "That's a bell you don't un-ring." "You see this?" "You know how I got this? tuco and I were working with these bikers out of riverside county." "They were running this peanut butter crank." "you know?" "But cheap." "We could sell it as fast as we got it." "tuco develops a taste for it." "And crank does not bring out the best in people." "Made tuco erratic." "Our connect was a guy called dog paulsen." "tuco's settling up with dog." "He decides to put on his lie detector." "what the hell?" You know." "Tuco just keeps staring at him." "Then he goes real quiet." "dog?" "trying to cut tuco out." "he denies it." "No way." "Not me. and..." "Right in dog's face." "I was behind him." "to this day." "And this?" "a little piece of him." "but it's in there pretty good." "not the kind of thing you go to the doctors for." "tuco really liked dog." "Kind of felt bad afterwards." "But when he's using..." "(Pops lips) crazy." "There's no other way to put it." "And he's using again." "Crystal." "Much bigger kick." "So it's like you said. it's gonna be dog all over again." "It's him or me." "(Sighs)" "There." "A man with a scoped rifle could get a clean shot. disappear before anybody knew what had happened." "No witnesses." "Clean egress." "Pretty far." "You can make that shot?" "Yeah. (Sighs)" "You saying you'll do it?" "Fifty grand." "Fifty grand." "I'll look into it." "(Whirring)" "(Crickets chirping)" "(Lock disengages)" "Mr. mcgill." "he sent me to get his ink blotter." "I'll just be a second." "Watch yourself." "The floor's slick." "gesualdo." "Sorry about the floor!" "(Sighs) no." "Are you looking for Ms. wexler?" "huh?" "she's still here." "Where?" "(Door opens)" "(Door closes)" "Kim." "I am so..." "(Chuckles) So sorry." "I should have told you last night." "You think?" "I honestly thought I could fix it." "I thought they'd understand once they saw the numbers." "and it did." "It worked." "(Sighs)" "Howard can't just stick you in doc review because of something I did." "at an entirely different law firm." "What the hell kind of sense does that make?" "I told you this would happen." "He can't blame you for this." "I warned you he would." "I'm talking to Howard." "that'll help." "you know?" "(Chuckling) I know that." "But this?" "This is total bs." "I'm talking to him tonight." "no." "You'd only make things worse." "I'll explain it to him." "No!" "I'm not asking you." "I'm telling you." "we're done." "So we're not done now?" "I need this job." "And there's a weekly billing quota that I'm about 40 hours behind on." "So could you please just go?" "I'm sorry." "(Vehicle approaching)" "(Crickets chirping)" "(Engine shuts off)" "(Keys jingling)" "(Dog barking in distance)" "(Clattering)" "(Knock on door) Jimmy:" "Chuck?" "Chuck!" "(Pounding on door)" "Come on!" "(Chuckling) I'm not going away!" "you asked for it." "(Keys jingling) (Lock disengages)" "(Door creaks)" "(Keys jingling)" "I'm coming in!" "(Chuck groans)" "Chuck?" "(Groans)" "Chuck?" "(Groans)" "Can you hear me?" "Can you talk to me?" "(Inhales deeply)" "Do you want me to get you to the hospital?" "no hospitals." "I'll be all right." "please." "(Sighs)" "(Jimmy sighs)" "(Groans)" "Extra protection here." "(Groans)" "Ohh." "(Sighs)" "Here." "You know what?" "Sit up." "Aah!" "Can you sit?" "Ow." "All right." "(Sighs)" "Okay." "All right." "Here." "Mmm." "(Sighs)" "Mmm." "(Sighs)" "Lawson:" "That's the armalite ar-50." "400 meters. but I can always upgrade you to a schmidt  bender." "bolt." "reliable." "It fires the.50 caliber bmg." "Very effective against soft targets in light cover." "small-diameter trees and such." "I've gone through the trouble of grinding down the serial number." "acid will recover it." "that would be true." "But I follow up with a pass through a random-stipple machine press." "Hides the patterns in the metal density." "Should throw off your X-ray diffraction and some other higher-end methods." "but this is close." "Mmm." "Looks like a hernia with a scope on it." "34 pounds." "which adds some heft." "Too much gun." "i would tend to agree." "Sr-25 match rifle." "Eugene stoner design." "Semi-auto." "That's about 11 pounds there. 000 meters." "I've heard they're prone to jam. but there's not a semi-auto built can boast it never jams." "you ought to stick to bolts." "I'd wager you were setting out to do so." "Which brings us to the m40." "Tried and true." "Battle-tested." "Essentially the same rifle used by marine snipers since 1966." "It's light." "Accurate." "200 meter range." "You seem to know this one." "yeah." "You could say that." "That's the a1 model." "There's not much change from the original." "Biggest difference is the stock." "It's fiberglass instead of wood." "They changed it over in 1970 or so." "Good." "Wood warped like hell." "gone." "Somebody probably should've figured that out before they sent it into a damn jungle." "Yeah." "Probably." "I could get my hands on a few more." "No." "I've changed my mind." "Thank you." "I don't need anything at this time." "For your trouble." "it's no trouble." "I make my living on repeat business." "you know how to find me." "(Birds chirping) (Blanket crinkling)" "(Sighs)" "(Breathes deeply)" "You're still here." "I'm still here." "Hmm." "(Breathes deeply)" "Ooh." "Ohh." "Oh." "(Sighs)" "Did you get any sleep?" "Some." "Hmm." "Enough." "(Sighs) How you feeling?" "(Sighs)" "I could use some tea." "Thanks." "(Spoon clatters)" "(Both sigh)" "Ohh." "You scared me last night." "Yeah." "It happens sometimes." "(Inhales deeply) that's all." "It passes." "(Inhales deeply) doesn't it?" "yeah." "Guess it's hard not to stay. stick it to Kim wexler." "What did I do to Kim wexler?" "isn't she?" "I didn't do anything to Kim." "yes." "those decisions are all Howard's." "(Chuckles) That is rich." "when Howard was making was he sitting on your knee with your arm up his ass?" "can he talk while you drink a glass of water?" "That's uncalled for. he certainly wouldn't have recommended you to Davis  main." "I'm sure it was Kim wexler who talked him into doing that." "Hence his anger." "Don't punish Kim." "take it out on me." "(Cup clinks) (Clears throat) but this has nothing to do with you." "Kim had a responsibility to Hamlin Hamlin mcgill." "She should have been looking out for her firm's interests." "Not letting us know what you were up to was her mistake." "come on." "You can't be pissed off at her about this." "I'm not!" "(Chuckling) Howard is." "And why shouldn't he be?" "Because she didn't know." "She didn't know i was gonna air the commercial." "She didn't know i hadn't gotten it approved." "She just... she didn't know." "(Sighs)" "(Newspaper thuds)" "I see." "So she didn't know there was anything she was supposed to tell Howard. cliff main was already looped in." "You told her he was?" "I implied it." "So it's on me." "Not her." "(Sighs)" "She didn't say anything to us about that." "she wouldn't want to make me look bad." "You have to admit this shows a lack of judgment on her part." "She knows you." "She should've known better." "You are such an asshole." "Why?" "For pointing out that her one mistake was believing in you?" "For Christ's sake." "Can we get some perspective here?" "It was a simple little commercial." "It aired once." "That's all." "And can i remind you it worked?" "It worked like a dream!" "Jimmy." "Thinking the ends justify the means." "And you're forever shocked when it all blows up in your face." "(Scoffs) What did I do that was so wrong?" "(Sighs) You broke the rules." "(Chuckles) You turned Kim into your accessory. inexplicably vouched for you with cliff main." "You made cliff and his partners look like schmucks." "Shall I go on?" "How he hasn't fired you for this positively mystifies me." "Perspective." "You want perspective?" "I'll give you mine." "and I love you." "But you're like an alcoholic who refuses to admit he's got a problem." "Now someone's given you the keys to the school bus." "And I'm not gonna let you drive it off a cliff!" "can we just get down to brass tacks here?" "huh?" "What?" "You want me to quit Davis  main?" "That's fine." "I never wanted that job in the first place." "I can't get through to you." "Life is not one big game of let's make a deal." "it is!" "I'm monty hall!" "What's behind door number two?" "huh?" "You want me to quit being a lawyer?" "(Scoffs) right?" "Huh?" "So what do you say?" "You help Kim." "I quit the law." "Is that a deal?" "I didn't say that." "right?" "That's why you put the screws to Kim in the first place." "To squeeze me!" "and I would never say that!" "Why not?" "Because if I were impeding the career of one of my employees for the purpose of compelling you that would be extortion." "Yeah. (Chuckles) It would." "Chuck?" "It's a lead-pipe cinch." "You'd get away with it." "I'm not gonna tell anyone." "It's real easy." "You just set things right for Kim." "out of doc review." "Everything back to normal." "And I quit the law for good." "esquire." "Poof!" "Like he never even existed." "Wow." "okay?" "You're a man of your word." "right?" "Jimmy... and I will quit." "But I need to hear it from your mouth." "You want me to commit a felony?" "right?" "Because you wanna believe that deep down I'm some hypocrite!" "Let's find out." "Chuck!" "Roll around in the dirt with me!" "All your dreams will come true!" "Go on." "Do it." "Go on!" "I am not the bad guy here. that's between you and the new Mexico state bar." "You want to quit Davis  main?" "Be my guest." "You clearly don't need any help from me to tank your career." "You're doing just fine on your own." "(Inhales deeply) it's an hour's drive to Santa fe. you're still gonna be at least 20 minutes late for work." "Another feather in your cap with Clifford main." "(Clock ticking)" "(Chuck sighs)" "So?" "I'm not gonna do it." "are you negotiating now?" "for you." "I told you..." "It's a bad move because it doesn't solve your real problem." "what's that?" "It's not tuco." "It's keeping a secret." "A dead tuco draws salamancas like flies." "Cartel noses into the business." "Looks for who hit one of theirs." "You gonna be able to keep your secrets then?" "Something's gotta give." "I don't care." "But something's gonna happen." "you don't need him dead." "You need him to go away." "You mean snitch?" "who do you think the cartel looks at?" "Me." "too." "I'm what you call a known associate." "who's looking for the guy that put him there." "Tell me how that helps me." "You won't have to talk to the cops." "You won't have to do any time." "There's no killing. it goes away." "(Wind rushing)" "(Wings flapping)" "(Munecadejaliscoplays in background)" "It's all there." "Shh." "Let the man count." "We're good." "huh?" "Tuco?" "Okay." "Go." "Okay." "uh... tuco." "Nacho." "domingo." "Nacho:" "He's got good numbers." "He's hustlin'." "What do you think?" "Solid?" "(Inhales sharply)" "(Coins clatter)" "yes." "I would like to report a fight going on at the El michoacano restaurant in the 5000 block of isleta boulevard." "There's a man threatening another man with a gun." "Uh... (Chuckles) Looks to be some sort of gang thing." "I'm a passerby." "I don't wanna get involved." "(Coins clinking)" "(Engine revs)" "(Elquerrequeplays in background) The fuck!" "Did you see that?" "See what?" "That old man just hit my car." "(Music continues)" "(Grill sizzling)" "(Door closes)" "Hey." "(Inhales deeply) Hello." "Oh." "Hmm." "let me see." "Um... por favor." "sir." "gramps." "You just hit my car." "You talking to me?" "(Laughs)" "Check out Mr. Magoo here." "sir." "You see that car that you parked your piece of shit next to?" "That's mine." "You just ran into it." "No." "I don't think I did." "You calling me a liar?" "Oh." "Uh..." "No." "Hey." "too." "You gonna stand here and deny it?" "I don't know what to tell you." "I'm not aware of hitting anyone's car." "I apologize." "So... (Clears throat) $6.33." "Hmm." "You keep the change." "Thank you." "Excuse me." "(Music continues)" "(Bell jingles)" "Don't you walk away from me." "you better listen to the man." "all right?" "I ain't your friend!" "Look." "You see that?" "You." "You did that." "come on." "That'll buff right out." "You're gonna make this all right." "You're not leaving until you do." "Fine." "You got a pen?" "A pen?" "A pen." "We'll exchange information." "Insurance." "I have very good coverage." "They'll take care of this." "ese." "Cash." "(Scoffs) that's all." "now you're lying to me." "I saw your wallet." "You got plenty in there." "Take it out." "jog your memory." "You heard him." "Take out the wallet." "I just cashed my social security check." "and I am not giving it to you." "(Laughs)" "You're not?" "I offered to do this the right way." "then I can't help you." "guys." "I'm gonna make this real simple for you." "Give me your wallet." "And maybe you walk away from this." "I'm not giving you a damn thing." "homes?" "Give me your wallet." "Let's just stay calm here... bitch?" "Wallet." "Wallet." "Wallet." "There's like $400 here." "(Siren wailing in distance) old man." "Your life's worth 400 bucks?" "time to bounce." "Yeah." "Go." "Go." "(Keys jingling)" "(Engine starts)" "You're..." "One lucky old man." "What the hell?" "Let go!" "Let go!" "(Both grunting)" "Let..." "let go!" "(Siren wailing)" "Let go." "Let go." "(Grunting) Let go!" "(Dripping blood echoes)" "(Distorted warbling)" "(Sirens wailing)" "(Tires screech)" "Let me see your hands." "Hands up!" "Now!" "On the ground!" "That all you got?" "Get on the ground!" "(Laughs)" "(Punch echoes)" "(Distorted warbling)" "(Warbling fades)" "(Gearshift clicks)" "(Door creaks)" "(Wind whistling)" "Wow." "Look at you." "Are you gonna have to testify?" "The cops witnessed him in the commission of a felony." "My wallet in his pocket." "he gets a five to 10 stretch." "000." "You definitely earned it." "you could've gotten twice as much for one-tenth the hassle." "You would've done the world a favor." "You wouldn't look like someone took a lead pipe to your face. maybe he comes looking for you." "Get to the point." "Just saying you went a long way to not pull that trigger." "Why?" "(Wind rushing)" "(Door creaks)" "(Car door creaks shut)"