Season 2

Complete listed story — includes the ending

S2E1 · Switch

In a flash-forward, "Gene" accidentally locks himself in an Omaha, Nebraska mall's dumpster room, but because of the need to conceal his identity, he is unable to use the emergency exit, which would summon the authorities. When he is finally let out, he leaves behind the words "SG WAS HERE" carved on the wall. In 2002, Jimmy decides to decline Davis & Main's employment offer and closes down his practice. Kim confronts Jimmy about his odd behavior, but Jimmy is adamant about leaving the practice of law. Instead, he persuades Kim to help him con a stock trader into buying them expensive drinks and food and then paying their tab. Thrilled by the experience, Kim spends the night with Jimmy. Daniel ("Pryce") fires Mike since he believes he no longer needs Mike as a bodyguard. Nacho takes advantage of Mike's absence to obtain Pryce's real name and address. Pryce's house is burgled and he calls the police to report his stolen baseball card collection. The responding officers are suspicious about the nature of the burglary and investigate further, finding an empty hidden compartment behind his couch. After reconsidering the offer to join Davis & Main, Jimmy decides to accept.

S2E2 · Cobbler

Howard visits Chuck and informs him about Jimmy's employment at Davis & Main, the latter expresses concern about it. Mike encounters Daniel (Pryce) arriving at the police station for an interview about his stolen baseball cards. Mike warns Pryce that the police must suspect that he is a drug dealer and offers to find the cards himself to keep him from talking to the police. Mike tracks down Nacho and threatens to inform Tuco about Nacho's secret drug deals if Nacho does not return the cards. Nacho agrees to return Daniel's cards plus $10,000 in exchange for Daniel's Hummer. Chuck visits the HHM office, where he sits in on a meeting with Davis & Main, unnerving Jimmy. Jimmy receives a call from Mike asking him to represent Daniel. Jimmy deflects police attention from Daniel by telling investigators the secret compartment in his living room was used to hold fetish videos. When Jimmy tells Kim about staging a video with Daniel as part of his effort to convince the police, Kim disapproves and tells Jimmy that his willingness to engage in unethical behavior will jeopardize his position at D&M.

S2E3 · Amarillo

Jimmy bribes a Sandpiper Crossing bus driver to allow him to solicit a bus full of residents on their way to lunch. At an HHM meeting, Jimmy presents his client outreach report and informs the group that he has signed up several new clients for the class action lawsuit. Chuck is suspicious of Jimmy's methods, but Jimmy deflects the question. Kim warns Jimmy to keep his methods legitimate, since she recommended him to Davis & Main, and his actions will reflect on her judgment. In an effort to reach more clients, Jimmy creates and then airs a commercial about the lawsuit, which proves a success. Jimmy claims to Kim that he got approved, only for him to be scolded by Cliff Main for airing it behind his back. Meanwhile, Stacey voices concern to Mike about gunshots she heard in her neighborhood over the previous two nights. Mike does overnight surveillance without Stacey's knowledge, learning the sound is the arrival of the morning papers. The following morning, Stacey claims there were three more gunshots, and points out a chip in the corner of her outside wall that she tearfully insists is from a bullet, so Mike decides to move her out of the house. Mike visits Dr. Caldera for new job offers, and receives a lucrative one from Nacho.

S2E4 · Gloves Off

Jimmy is scolded by the Davis & Main partners, angry at him for running a commercial without their consent, but Cliff gives him a second chance. Kim meets with Howard and Chuck—Howard reprimands her for not informing them about Jimmy's commercial and demotes her to entry-level work in the document review office. Meanwhile, Nacho is concerned about Tuco's erratic behavior and the possibility that he might find out about his secret deals. Nacho wants Mike to kill Tuco, but Mike decides against it, arguing that Tuco's death would draw attention from the Salamancas and the cartel. Instead, Mike stages a fender bender with Tuco's car and goads Tuco into attacking him, having called the police beforehand. The police arrive during the altercation and arrest Tuco for assault with a deadly weapon since he was carrying a gun.

S2E5 · Rebecca

In a flashback, Jimmy visits Chuck shortly after moving to Albuquerque. He meets Chuck's wife, Rebecca, and succeeds in charming her, making Chuck uncomfortable; Chuck's later attempt to imitate Jimmy falls flat. In the present, Jimmy meets Kim in the HHM document room and proposes she sue the firm. Kim refuses, pointing out that no firm would ever hire her again, and tells Jimmy not to worry about her job. She calls many professional and school contacts, hoping to land a major new client for HHM. She secures the business of the Mesa Verde Bank, a local institution planning to expand regionally. Howard is pleased to have the lucrative new client, but does not give Kim credit, and keeps her in document review. Later, Chuck tells Kim his belief that Jimmy embezzled money from their family convenience store in Cicero, which led to the store's failure. Meanwhile, Mike is approached by Tuco's uncle, Hector Salamanca, who offers Mike $5,000 to claim that Tuco's gun was actually Mike's, which would reduce Tuco's jail sentence.

S2E6 · Bali Ha'i

Jimmy has difficulty adjusting to his new job at D&M; unable to sleep in his corporate apartment, he returns to his old boiler room office to sleep. With Chuck's help, Kim is reinstated to her old position at HHM, but is treated coldly by Howard who gives her humiliating and menial assignments, including arguing an unwinnable motion in court. Kim is offered a job by Rich Schweikart of Schweikart & Cokely, who was impressed with her performance. Unsure how to proceed, Kim relieves her stress by running another con with Jimmy, fooling an investor into giving them a $10,000 check, which Kim keeps as a souvenir. Meanwhile, Mike refuses Hector's deal, but Hector wages an intimidation campaign. Two of his subordinates break into Mike's house to scare him, and Leonel and Marco Salamanca silently threaten to kill Kaylee. Mike agrees to say the gun was his but demands $50,000, which Hector agrees to pay. Mike gives $25,000 to Nacho and explains that since Tuco's sentence will be reduced, Mike has failed to uphold his part of their deal, so he is obligated to give Nacho half of the payment.

S2E7 · Inflatable

In a flashback to the early 1970s, thirteen-year-old Jimmy is working in his family's store when a grifter enters and attempts to con Jimmy's father by claiming to be a needy parent with an emergency. Jimmy does not believe him and tries to warn his father, but his father is more concerned about helping someone who might be in need. When the grifter reveals the con, a disillusioned Jimmy steals money from the store. In 2002, Jimmy represents Mike when Mike claims to the district attorney that the gun in his altercation with Tuco was not Tuco's. Jimmy decides to quit D&M but learns that if he quits, he will have to repay the firm's signing bonus, although his contract allows him to keep it if he is fired without cause. He begins irritating his D&M co-workers with flashy displays, and Cliff eventually fires him. Jimmy tries to convince Kim to partner with him in their own law firm. She later suggests they start separate firms, sharing office space and expenses and lending each other support. Meanwhile, Mike promises to buy Stacey a new house in a safer neighborhood and begins surveilling Hector's restaurant.

S2E8 · Fifi

Kim tells Howard she is leaving HHM. Howard wishes her well, and immediately after Kim leaves, they each race to secure the Mesa Verde account. Kim meets with Kevin and Paige, who agree that Kim will be Mesa Verde's outside counsel. Kim and Jimmy set up their practices in a re-purposed dentists' office. Howard informs Chuck of Kim's resignation, the loss of Mesa Verde, and Kim's teaming with Jimmy. Chuck damns Kim with faint praise at a meeting with Kevin and Paige, causing Kevin to keep Mesa Verde's business at HHM. Jimmy perpetrates a ruse at a U.S. Air Force base in order to gain access to the B-29 bomber FIFI and shoot video footage for use in TV ads promoting his law practice. Jimmy learns about Chuck meeting with Kevin and Paige, and stays with him while he recovers at home. While Chuck is asleep, Jimmy takes the Mesa Verde documents to a copy store, alters them, then replaces them in Chuck's files. While surveilling Hector, Mike follows a cargo truck to a remote garage, then returns home and uses a length of garden hose to assemble a homemade spike strip.

S2E9 · Nailed

A disguised Mike ambushes one of Hector's trucks, extracts the $250,000 hidden in a tire, and leaves the driver tied up nearby. Mike admits to Nacho that he wanted to attract police attention to Hector, but Nacho informs him a "Good Samaritan" freed the driver, and police were not notified; Hector then arrived with a crew to clean up the scene and killed the Good Samaritan. Chuck's application for a new Mesa Verde branch is incorrect, causing a long delay. Kevin re-engages Kim as outside counsel and Chuck suspects Jimmy sabotaged him. Chuck accuses Jimmy in front of Kim, but she says the mistake was Chuck's. Kim infers Jimmy's guilt and implies that if there is evidence, Chuck will find it. Jimmy realizes the copy store clerk can identify him, so he goes there to buy the clerk's silence. Ernesto is investigating copy stores for Chuck and Jimmy sees him leave after conversing with the clerk. While Jimmy observes from across the street, Chuck begins to question the clerk, but his electromagnetic hypersensitivity causes him to faint and hit his head. Jimmy considers entering the store to render aid.

S2E10 · Klick

In a flashback, Chuck and Jimmy are beside their mother's hospital bed and Jimmy leaves to buy sandwiches. Their mother wakes and calls Jimmy's name before dying. Jimmy returns and asks Chuck if their mother awakened or had any last words, and Chuck falsely says "no". In 2002, Jimmy rushes into the copy store where Chuck has hit his head, comforting him while they wait for an ambulance. Meanwhile, Mike intends to kill Hector with a black market sniper rifle and positions himself on a ridge overlooking the site where Hector and his crew intend to execute Ximenez, the driver. Before he can, he detects the sound of his car horn and when he investigates he finds a branch wedged against the steering wheel and a note with the word "Don't" left on his windshield. Chuck tells Jimmy his mistake on Mesa Verde's paperwork made him question his judgment, so he is retiring. Feeling guilty about deceiving Chuck, Jimmy confesses to tampering with the documents and bribing the copy store clerk. After Jimmy leaves, Chuck unveils a tape recorder he activated prior to Jimmy's arrival.