Nailed (''Better Call Saul'')

"Nailed" is the ninth and penultimate episode of the second season of the AMC television series Better Call Saul, the spinoff series of Breaking Bad. The episode aired on April 11, 2016 on AMC in the United States.^[1]

Plot

Mike uses his spike strip to ambush one of Hector's trucks, and extracts $250,000 hidden in one of the tires while leaving the driver tied up but alive. Mike meets with Nacho, who suspects that Mike is responsible for the heist, which Mike admits. He explains his intent to attract police attention to Hector's drug operation, but Nacho tells him that a passing motorist freed the driver. The driver then called Hector, who dispatched a crew to clean up traces of the attack, including killing the good Samaritan and burying him in the desert.

At a meeting of the New Mexico Banking Board, the panel members realize that the documents they're reviewing while considering approval of a new Mesa Verde branch are incorrect. Between corrections and waiting for the next scheduled meeting of the board, the bank will experience a six-week delay. Chuck is humiliated and immediately suspects that Jimmy was involved. Kevin decides to leave HHM and sign with Kim, who promises Mesa Verde will be her sole client and the focus of her attention.

Jimmy and Kim arrive at Chuck's house to pick up the Mesa Verde files and Chuck accuses Jimmy of sabotaging his case. Kim sides with Jimmy and claims Chuck simply made a mistake, arguing that Chuck has no proof and that Chuck's belittling treatment of Jimmy has prevented him from becoming as successful as Chuck. Alone in the car with Jimmy, Kim angrily punches him.

Later that night, Kim tells Jimmy she never wants to discuss how incorrect documents came to be filed and to make sure there's no evidence. Jimmy realizes the only way he can be caught is if the clerk at the copy store where he altered the documents says he was there, so he goes to the store and buys the clerk's silence. Chuck arrives at the copy store soon afterwards; he's been checking at each one in the city to see if anyone recognizes Jimmy. Chuck's electromagnetic hypersensitivity symptoms overcome him while he's questioning the clerk, and he faints. He hits his head on the counter as he falls, which Jimmy observes while watching the store from across the street. Jimmy is torn between his desire to aid Chuck and his reluctance to come out of hiding, because doing so would be an admission that he had been at the store previously to alter the documents.

Reception

References

External links

• "Nailed" at AMC
• "Nailed" on IMDb