Better Call Saul star Bob Odenkirk imagines a happy ending for his on-screen wife, Kim Wexler, played by Rhea Seehorn. Introduced in the prequel series and never seen during the events of Breaking Bad, audiences may already be guessing that Kim may not be among the living by the time Better Call Saul season 6 wraps in 2022. Her character’s ultimate fate may end up being one of the most suspenseful plot points for the final season, especially as her romantic involvement with Odenkirk’s Jimmy McGill has been arguably his most redeeming and humanizing story throughout the series.
Odenkirk and company are currently shooting the final season of Better Call Saul in Albuquerque, New Mexico, though Odenkirk has stated that he does not yet know how the series will end just yet. By the time Better Call Saul wraps, audiences will have seen Jimmy McGill’s complete 6-year transformation into the slippery lawyer Saul Goodman from Breaking Bad and all the tragic experiences and poor decisions that led him down that path. Chief amongst those tragedies being the death of his older brother Chuck McGill, whose tepid last words to his brother were, “The truth is you’ve never mattered all that much to me.“
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Odenkirk told THR he could see a version of the show’s ending that leaves Jimmy and Kim in a happy place. Specifically, he addressed the assumption that prequel characters not seen in Breaking Bad are more likely to die. While he does admit that it is doubtful that Kim and Jimmy are still in contact during the events of Breaking Bad, he pushes the point that anything is possible, especially with a show like Better Call Saul where all the characters have the potential to evolve in shocking ways.
“That’s not at all true. In fact, there’s some version of life where Kim and Jimmy stay married and live a Mary Matalin and James Carville-type situation. (Laughs.) Kim would be a superpowered lawyer with the white-shoe law firm, and he would be the complete scumbag ambulance chaser across town. And at night, they go home, take off their disguises and be kind to each other. I don’t think that’s where we’re going to go, but in real life, those weird and seemingly conflicting relationships can be very real. They can happen. It’s probably easy to think that Kim dies, or that anyone who’s not visible passes away. But there’s still a lot of people who die on these shows; the stakes are high. But I’m with you in that anything could be the case.”
With the prequel series mainly revolving around Jimmy McGill, there is a chance the show might be setting up a world where Kim is part of Jimmy/ Saul’s life’s during Breaking Bad, but circumstances have forced her off-screen. Perhaps she moved away to get some space from Jimmy and his new morally bankrupt business, or maybe she ended up in whatever “protection” scenario Saul went into at the end of Breaking Bad.
Whether she dies or divorces Jimmy and flees, Kim’s ultimate fate all comes down to how Better Call Saul wraps up the Jimmy storyline. Throughout the series, she seemed to be his anchor, the character that kept him somewhat grounded in reality and kept him from being a complete scumbag. And seeing what he becomes in Breaking Bad, how Saul Goodman is more or less the embodiment of everything Kim Wexler hated, makes it even more apparent that she is not part of Jimmy’s life anymore unless her character changes drastically in season 6. But, if she does manage to survive the prequel series, maybe there is more to add to the story of Kim Wexler and Jimmy McGill/ Saul Goodman, hence the flashes to the future that have been shown throughout the series. Perhaps the final flash to the future will have some reunion between the estranged pair.
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Source: THR
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