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How 'Better Call Saul' turned Kim's 'scammy side' into an indelible turning point

Kim Wexler (Rhea Seehorn) and Jimmy McGill/Saul Goodman (Bob Odenkirk) are back, and with them comes the cutthroat world of "Better Call Saul" as it nears its conclusion. The AMC series' sixth and final season — two years removed from the season five finale — returned on Monday with a doubleheader chock-full of major developments. Here's a quick lay of the land: Nacho Varga's (Michael Mando) ...
Rhea Seehorn as Kim Wexler in "Better Call Saul."

Kim Wexler (Rhea Seehorn) and Jimmy McGill/Saul Goodman (Bob Odenkirk) are back, and with them comes the cutthroat world of "Better Call Saul" as it nears its conclusion.

The AMC series' sixth and final season — two years removed from the season five finale — returned on Monday with a doubleheader chock-full of major developments.

Here's a quick lay of the land: Nacho Varga's (Michael Mando) life is at stake; Lalo Salamanca (Tony Dalton) is on a path for revenge after Gus Fring's (Giancarlo Esposito) plan to kill him failed; and Kim and Jimmy move forward with their increasingly elaborate plot to take down Howard Hamlin (Patrick Fabian).

In other words, just another day in Albuquerque.

Quite possibly the most striking moment, though, is in the last 10 minutes of its second episode — fittingly titled "Carrot and Stick" — when Kim's darker side is on full display.

Kim and Jimmy have found

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