AMC's Better Call Saul returns on February 23 after an extended hiatus due to scheduling and writing dilemmas. The premiere has been much anticipated for the hit crime drama, which often keeps fans compelled and on the edge of their seats.
Since we will be seeing the return of our favorite crooked, career-driven characters soon, it's a good time to just how deeply complicated this series has made them. No one is exactly as they first seem, everyone has dark secrets, and more prominently, a dark side that is sometimes not evident at first glance. The complexity is what makes Better Call Saul's cast of characters so profound and interesting. Let's take a look at the worst thing each of them has done.
Jimmy McGill - Ruining Kim's Career
We don't know what Kim's fate ends up being after Jimmy completely transforms into Saul Goodman and begins working for Walter White. At the beginning of Better Call Saul, she had a very successful career in law, but this began to change the more involved she became with Jimmy.
She even ended up indulging in his whims of opening up their own law firm together, but it's sad that Kim's relationship with Jimmy would cause her to have to make so many difficult sacrifices.
Hector Salamanca - Using An Ice Cream Shop As A Front For A Drug Cartel
Hector Salamanca is one of the most notorious villains in the entirety of the franchise. He was known as Don Hector to his followers, and ran a successful drug "business" for years, instilling fear and respect into those who worked for him.
One of the most despicable and disturbing things Hector has done was revealed in Better Call Saul; he used an ice cream truck as a cover-up for his drug cartel, which is pretty low, even for Hector.
Jimmy McGill - Becoming Saul Goodman
Jimmy McGill was first introduced in Breaking Bad's season 2 episode, "Better Call Saul", as his alter-ego of sorts, Saul Goodman. In the original series, we never really got to know the real side of Jimmy, and he was only ever referred to as being Saul Goodman.
Now that the spinoff series, Better Call Saul, is nearing its fifth season, audiences have been given compelling insight into the earlier life of Jimmy McGill, before Saul Goodman was even thought of. We ultimately know that Jimmy will go down a terrible path, one that will effectively ruin his life, and watching it happen after the fact is quite heartbreaking.
Chuck McGill - Discouraging His Brother
Chuck was one of Better Call Saul's most complex, utterly complicated characters, and his effect on Jimmy is still going strong despite Chuck having met his demise in the season 3 finale. It's a well-known fact in the series that Jimmy always ired and looked up to his older brother, Chuck. When the ladder developed a psychological "allergy" to electricity, it was Jimmy who stepped up and took care of him for years.
This makes the fact that Chuck constantly insulted and looked down on Jimmy and his somewhat questionable ways, all the more heartbreaking. Memorably, in the season one episode, "Pimento", Chuck delivers a speech to Jimmy detailing just what he thinks of his younger brother's career as a lawyer. For Jimmy, having Chuck call him "Slippin' Jimmy" and insult his law degree was a major blow.
Kim Wexler - Engaging In Jimmy's Corrupt Games
Kim is known as being one of the most ambitious and capable lawyers in Better Call Saul, beginning her career with a small mailroom job at Hamlin Hamlin McGill (where she met Jimmy) and working her way up to becoming a well-respected litigator.
Despite this, Kim's weakness is commonly shown to be her complicated romantic relationship with Jimmy, and because of this, his antics often bring her down. In one instance, Kim stoops to "Slippin' Jimmy's" level and, under the aliases of Giselle and Viktor, pretend to be Internet entrepreneurs for one of Jimmy's schemes.
Mike Ehrmentraut - Working For Gus Fring
Mike is one of the most notable characters in both Breaking Bad and Better Call Saul. Although he has never been considered an antagonist in either series, he has certainly made his share of questionable decisions, from being a corrupt police officer to ultimately working for the nefarious Gus Fring.
It's the ladder decision that was probably the worst one Mike ever made, and that combined with his involvement with Walter White would eventually lead to his demise in Breaking Bad's season 5 episode, "Say My Name".
Nacho Varga - Being A Double Agent
Nacho was introduced in the first season of Better Call Saul, and is one of the many characters in the series that had never appeared in Breaking Bad. He led a seemingly quiet and normal life, working at his father's upholstery store, up until he met the Salamancas, which would lead to several bad life decisions.
After meeting Tuco, Nacho began to participate in the running of his illegal drug operations, becoming one of Tuco's top enforcers and right-hand men. This decision would prove to be a dangerous one for Nacho, as he would eventually get sucked into the Salamanca's lethal lifestyle.
Gus Fring - Taking Down Hector
Gus is easily the most notorious, dangerous, well-respected antagonist in both Breaking Bad and Better Call Saul. He has a sordid past and shamelessly runs his restaurant chain, Los Pollos Hermanas, as a front for methamphetamine distribution. At first appearance, Gus seems to be a successful and highly-ired business proprietor, which is one of the things that makes him so sinister.
Gus has done countless terrible things throughout the course of both series'; he has effortlessly slaughtered several people and infamously threatened to kill Walter's infant daughter. One of the worst things Gus has ever done occurred in Better Call Saul, when he ensured that Hector Salamanca would remain in a vegetative state after Nacho slipped him some lethal pills.
Howard Hamlin - Betraying Chuck
From the beginning of Better Call Saul, Howard has been portrayed as an antagonist who of course, is nowhere near the likes of Gus Fring or the Salamancas, but he does some fairly sleazy stuff nonetheless. Howard is always out for himself, and it's been shown that he is willing to step on anyone to achieve his goals. He worked for years with his father and Chuck at Hamlin Hamlin McGill, and thus had enormous respect for the ladder.
This didn't stop him from ultimately betraying Chuck, though. After a falling out, Howard forced Chuck into an early retirement, which would then feed into Chuck's already deteriorating mental state.
Tuco Salamanca - Recklessly Killing Dawg
Tuco is best known in both Breaking Bad and Better Call Saul for his unpredictable, psychotic nature and sudden extreme outbursts and more often than not, leads to someone getting killed or seriously hurt. This means that Tuco was obviously one of the most notorious villains in the franchise, and he definitely did his share of terrible things.
In season 2 of Better Call Saul, Nacho reveals that Tuco killed one of Nacho's closest friends, suddenly shooting him in the face with a shotgun because he had a suspicion that the victim was ripping him off.