Jimmy McGill

Saul Goodman

Gene Takovic

**"Slippin'" James Morgan McGill a.k.a. Saul Goodman** is an American lawyer in the XXI century, and associate of the criminal Walter White.

## Biography

### Early life ("Slippin' Jimmy")

Jimmy Morgan McGill is born in 12 November 1960 in the United States of America and raised with his older brother Chuck McGill in Cicero, Illinois. As a tween, Jimmy developed a confidence trick where he would purposefully slip in a patch of ice and trick people into paying him off. Because of this and his slippery personality, he gained the nickname of "Slippin' Jimmy". In the early 1970s, he gets enrolled into the Catholic school Our Lady of Perpetual Sorrow.

#### 1973

##### Summer

Jimmy's rebelliousness gets him into many misadventures, including multiple Breaking and Enterings. After getting caught in the attempt of one to steal Wite-Out, he is sent to Camp Reformation in the Summer of 1973 There, he challenges the authority of scoutmaster Father Karras Carris and earned the ire of Marco Pasternak, even when trying to chat with him when they are forced to cut down trees with the other kids. After being told to work longer than the others due to his rebelliousness, Jimmy decides to make it seem the tree he cut fell on him, threatening to tell his parents the injury made him limp. The plan works and he is sent to the infirmary, not having to work for the rest of the day.

Marco, his bunk bed partner, confronts him that night, and after Jimmy tells him about how he might no work again tomorrow, Marco complains that the others had to chop more trees down since Jimmy wasn't present. Jimmy defends himself by saying Karras is the one to blame for making them work, and advises Marco to take what he wants just as he did, then goes to sleep next day, Karras confronts Jimmy for having tried to steal from his ice cream cooler. Jimmy figures it was Marco, but takes the blame and is forced the punishment of having to repeatedly roll a boulder up and down a hill, which Karras based on the punishment Zeus Panhellenios gave King Sysiphus. Jimmy incorrectly associates this punishment with being reminiscent of Franz Kafka's writings, which doubles his punishment. His punishment is upped to 30 times up and down when he tries to talk back to Karras.

Jimmy spends the whole day rolling that boulder up and down the hill, and after finishing the task, he goes to sleep at night and Marco admits to him he was the culprit. Marco thanks Jimmy for taking the fall for him and they become friends. When Jimmy finds out Marco didn't manage to get ice cream sandwiches, he decides to help him try again.

The two slip off in the middle of the night, avoiding getting caught, and throw peanuts so squirrels will set off Carris' cabin's motions sensors enough times for him to stop being vigilant. They get to the cooler and Jimmy tells Marco his plan to make Carris think the squirrels will have done it. They get back to their cabin and enjoy the ice cream sandwiches.

##### Winter

It's a snow day, the kids of Cicero are playing and Jimmy goes on a quest in the city to save Marco, leading him to confront a group of three ruffians, who he has to explain a quip to. A snowball fight ensues, Jimmy takes out all of them in one hit each. As Seth, one of them, laments, Jimmy sleds away. Jimmy passes some kids that are making Western-themed snowmen and slides off a horse ice sculpture. Jimmy arrives to where Trent Titweiler and his friends are imprisoning Marco. All of them throw snowballs at him but Jimmy is unaffected because he had multiple squirrels under his coat as armor. Jimmy then defeats all of them with a quick array of snowballs, until only him and Trent are left standing. Jimmy hits a snowball at him and retrieves Marco from his ice cage. While Jimmy is taking Marco home on his sled, Trent throws a surprise snowball at them, which Marco gets in the way off to protect Jimmy. Jimmy strategically throws a snowball at the ice above Trent in retaliation, causing him to get covered by snow. The kids then stop playing and all head home.

#### 1974

In one month, Jimmy is sent to detention two times. In that same month, he pulls a prank by putting a paper on Father Karras' back written "POPE ME" in the middle of lunch, which leads the other kids to ironically praise Karras. This gets Jimmy to detention a third time, along with Marco Pasternak, leaving Jimmy halfway to being expelled.

## Name

He is born James Morgan McGill, and throughout his life, mainly uses the casual variant of James, Jimmy, often referring to himself as Jimmy McGill. Jimmy is well known, specially in Illinois, by the nickname "Slippin' Jimmy", due to his slippy personality.

In 2002, over a kerfuffle with the Hamlin, Hamlin & McGill law firm, Chuck McGill advises Jimmy to stop using their surname in his business.

## Miscellaneous

• Throughout 1973, Jimmy McGill used nuts to give orders to compliant squirrels. Even befriending some.

• In the Winter of 1973, Jimmy gained the nickname of "The Boy With Not Name", a direct comparison to the famous cowboy known as "The Man With Not Name" due to his contested identity.

## Sources

1. ↑ Breaking Bad (2008) [TV show]
2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 Better Call Saul (2015) [TV show]
3. ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 3.3 Better Call Saul Presents: Slippin' Jimmy (2022) [TV show]
4. ↑ 4.0 4.1 Uno [episode], season 1 (2015), Better Call Saul [TV show]
5. ↑ The Exor-Sister [episode], Better Call Saul Presents: Slippin' Jimmy [TV show] (2022)
6. ↑ 6.0 6.1 Cool Hand Jimmy [episode], Better Call Saul Presents: Slippin' Jimmy (2022) [TV show]
7. ↑ 7.0 7.1 7.2 7.3 Fistful of Snowballs [episode], Better Call Saul Presents: Slippin' Jimmy (2022) [TV show]
8. ↑ Mijo [episode], season 1 (2015), Better Call Saul [TV show]
9. ↑ The Dollars Trilogy (1964-1966) [movie series]