"Better Call Saul": 4.6 "Piņata" Quiz

Answer: Oscar pool picks

Jimmy asked one of the employees, "Are you sure about these? The pool's up to 200". One of the other employees had submitted "Howard's End" for her picks, telling Jimmy that she loved Emma Thompson: "She's so pragmatic". As he made his rounds, Jimmy ran into Kim; she also was collecting for his Oscar pool and handed over the employees' picks and money.

But the difference in work ethic between the two showed: When Jimmy said he was heading to the third floor, Kim told him she'd already been there.

He told her that she was making the rest of them look bad, to which she pointed out that if he didn't stop to chat at every cubical, he'd get things done quicker. Jimmy replied, "It's called being friendly - it's great for morale". "It is great for wasting time," Kim retorted. "That too," Jimmy agreed. Episode writer Gennifer Hutchison admitted to being a huge fan of Emma Thompson which is why the actress snagged a mention in the episode.

Answer: Entered the law library at HHM

In the flashback, we saw Chuck after he secured a big win for the firm in a case "that Howard thought was unwinnable using only the power of obscure case law," according to Kim. Kim told Jimmy that Chuck had won the Isaacson case, which didn't ring a bell with Jimmy even though Kim pointed out that the two of them had been putting together binders on the case for months. Jimmy retorted that he'd been busy with the Oscar pool "in case you didn't notice".

When Chuck approached them, Kim gushed out her congratulations to him and then discussed the case law involved in the suit. Chuck was impressed with Kim, but when Jimmy tried to participate in the conversation, stating that the case was "Isaacson v. Chuck handing him his butt on a platter", Chuck pointed out that Isaacson was their client.

After Howard took Chuck away for "a meeting with Mr. Bushmills", Jimmy dejectedly told Kim, "That'll be you soon". "Yup," said Kim, looking determined and focused. After calling out, "Last call for ballots", Jimmy pushed his cart past the law library.

He then returned, opened the door and walked in.

Answer: She wanted to work at the firm.

While Kim was working on the Mesa Verde account one evening, her attention drifted to a public defender case folder next to her. It was clear that she was more interested in the latter, so she apparently decided to look for a solution that would allow her to continue her commitment to Mesa Verde but give her more time for public defender work.

When she met with Rich, he thanked her for giving them the Billy Gatwick case and told her that she had made it easy for them with the work she had done on the case.

When he then asked her what he could do for her, she said she had a question: "How's your banking division?" When he replied that they didn't have one, she asked: "Would you like one?"

Answer: Add recreational items

Gus had two double-wide mobile homes set up inside the huge warehouse, which Mike said was "a good start". Gus looked surprised: "What do you have in mind?" "A couple treadmills over there, barbells, weight bench. You build out a stock bar, beer on tap, I mean they're German so... entertainment system here, DVD player, projector and screen setup might be nice, a few Lazy-Boys with couches, pool table, I don't know - foosball...we can even put up a hoop.." Mike pointed out that the engineer Werner had projected six months, but it would probably be ten, and they needed to keep the men entertained: "We can't just keep them alive; we need to keep them from climbing the walls". Mike also had a list of security requirements, all of which were provided by Gus's team.

When the Germans arrived, they seemed happy with the recreational items that Mike had selected, but Mike was concerned about one of the workers, a man named Kai. He seemed a bit rebellious, so Mike told his security guys who were watching the warehouse from a trailer across the parking lot to keep an eye on him.

Answer: Mrs. Strauss, one of his elder law clients

Jimmy received a call from a man who said that he (Jimmy) had prepared the will for his late aunt, and Jimmy responded rather perfunctorily until he heard the name of the aunt: Geraldine Strauss. Mrs. Strauss had been Jimmy's first elder law client, and she later acted in the commercials he prepared for Davis and Main and for his own practice. Jimmy looked sad; he asked the nephew what happened and if there was going to be a memorial service.

He also wanted to know about the Hummels: "Did Clarence get the Alpine Shepherd Boy?" The nephew wanted to hire Jimmy to assist with settling the estate, but Jimmy referred him to HHM since he wasn't practicing: "Hamlin Hamlin McGill has an excellent estate law department".

When the man asked about the "McGill" part of HHM, Jimmy said it was just a coincidence.

When Jimmy returned home, he watched a video of the Davis and Main commercial with Mrs. Strauss; he seemed more upset about her death than Chuck's.

Answer: The kitchen

Kim had the Moscow mules ready when Jimmy arrived at the Forque Kitchen and Bar (a real restaurant in Albuquerque and the same location where Jimmy and Kim scammed a man named Dale and where Rich Schweikert had lunch with Kim and offered her a job in the "Bali Hai" episode of season two) . Jimmy greeted her as Giselle, but she said she was "thinking we could just be Kim and Jimmy today". Jimmy said, "Ok. Those two aren't all bad". Kim told him that she had news, but she wasn't completely honest with him.

She said she met with Rich Schweikert because she'd "been meaning to follow up" with him since his firm took on Gatwick. She then told Jimmy that Rich had offered her a job. Jimmy initially dismissed it: "Again? What, he can't take no for an answer?" Kim then said that she'd be a partner in charge of building their banking division.

She also told Jimmy about the public defender work that she had taken on. When Jimmy questioned why she would do that, she responded: "I like it. I'm good at it". Jimmy then said that he'd been thinking on specializing in criminal law when he got his license back "like you said, you're helping people".

He went on to describe a Wexler McGill Criminal Law firm near the courthouse "where all the people who need help are". Kim had made up her mind though; she was moving on professionally without him. Jimmy looked dejected, like we saw in the flashback at the beginning of the episode. He told her he was going to the restroom, but he instead ended up at the kitchen, holding his stomach as if he were in pain. The sideshot of him standing at the kitchen showed a sign for the restaurant Forque; he and Kim were truly at a fork in the road, going different directions. When he returned to the table, he told Kim: "I say do it. It's a great opportunity, you should jump on it.... I can't ask you to wait around for me, and who knows - ten months, a lot can happen".

Answer: HHM was downsizing.

When Jimmy was walking through the HHM office, he noticed a lot of empty cubicles. Howard told him that they were "doing some reorganizing". Jimmy asked if it was just redecorating: "Making the office a little more Feng Shui?" Howard admitted that the firm had had some setbacks: "The firm's reputation is not what it was". Howard didn't respond when Jimmy asked him what plans he had to get the firm back on his feet, so Jimmy started to leave.

He then turned to Howard and gave him some tough love: "You suffer one little setback and you're going to let your entire legacy go? ...

This place is all you've got - that, and your hair, which let's face it, clock's ticking there to, so... You want to save your business? You want to save your dignity? You're going to have to fight.

Hey! You're [not much of a] lawyer, Howard, but you're a great salesman, so get out there and sell". When Howard cursed at Jimmy, Jimmy responded, "THERE you go. Use that!"

Answer: The nail salon

A pallet of the phones was delivered in front of the salon, and in a montage sequence, Jimmy carried the phones in, about twenty at a time. After stacking them in his closet at the back of the salon, we heard him on the phone with the Vet; we knew this because only the Vet would ask how the fish was doing. Mrs. Nguyen was in the doorway watching him, and when he finished his call, she asked him about the phones.

He told her it was a side business because he'd had "a temporary setback" on being a lawyer. "Lost your job again?" she asked.

She then told him that she didn't want customers walking in and out to buy the phones and that he couldn't keep them there because they were a fire hazard. She finally relented when he gave her a phone pre-loaded with 350 minutes.

She took the phone but told him that "get-rich-quick schemes never work".

Answer: A fruit tree and a coati

Gus described his poverty-ridden childhood in a house that had been built using trash his brothers had collected. The family had a fruit tree that was barely alive, and Gus devoted himself to reviving the tree and got it to bear fruit. One day he found the fruit from the tree scattered around, half-eaten and he discovered it was a coati who had ravaged his tree.

He set a snare trap for it, but it escaped into their house, so he waited several hours for it to come out. He didn't kill it but kept it until it died a slow death. Apparently he was letting Hector know that he (Hector) was going to be Gus's coati: "I believe you will wake, Hector".

Answer: Piņata store

Jimmy approached the guys and told them he was there "to make a deal". He proposed that if they let him sell his phones "without hassle", he'd give them $100 every night that he worked - "money for literally doing nothing". One of the punks asked him why they couldn't just take it all. Jimmy tried to logic with them that if they robbed him, he'd stop selling, and they'd "lose a valuable revenue stream".

When they pulled a knife on him, Jimmy took off running, and when it appeared that they had trapped him in a fenced area, he told them "You should have taken the deal".

The knife-wielding punk told him, "You're like the stupidest person I've ever met", but then he heard guns being cocked. Jimmy had two friends with him who had trapped the punks.

The kids were then strung up in a piņata shop where they heard a baseball bat being dragged on the concrete and piņatas being smashed. Jimmy got the punks to promise that they'd leave him alone and that they'd "spread the word" that Jimmy was "off-limits". "Yes, yes, we'll tell everyone. Don't mess with the cell phone guy". Jimmy was satisfied, but his accomplices kept smashing piņatas. Finally the baseball bat stopped just in front of the blond punk's face.

As the accomplices were walking off, they took off their masks, and it was Huell Babineaux (Lavell Crawford) and Man Mountain (David Mattey); Man Mountain was one of the men that Pryce had hired to help protect him in the "Pimento" episode of season one. "You get one warning, and that was it," said Jimmy as he dropped the baseball bat and walked off, leaving the punks hanging in the piņata store.