"Better Call Saul": 4.8 "Coushatta" Quiz

Answer: Louisiana

Jimmy said he'd be back on Thursday, "unless we break down in Amarillo", and Kim rather curtly said "see you Thursday". The bus he was initially on was headed to Houston, but it later said "Shreveport", or maybe he switched buses in Houston - he was sitting in a different seat so perhaps.

A man asked to sit in the seat next to him, but Jimmy wasn't looking for a seatmate, so he discouraged him: "Sure, man, uh - word of warning, I had a pile of cheese chili fries back at Stuckey's with onions on top - the last guy who sat here didn't last five miles, but welcome to it".

The man took another seat. The final bus we saw him on had a "Lafayette" sign, and he got off the bus in Coushatta, Louisiana. Incidentally, the "Better Call Saul" film crew never left New Mexico for this segment; all of those Louisiana swamp trees were digitally added.

Answer: Write cards and letters

We now knew why Kim bought all of those office supplies in the "Something Stupid" episode. To the sounds of Les McCann's jazzy "Burnin' Coal", we saw Jimmy in the midst of a letter-writing campaign while on the bus. At first, it was just Jimmy using the different pens to write letters and cards, even holding the pens/pencils differently to disguise his handwriting.

By the time he was on the bus headed to Lafayette, we saw other passengers participating, with Jimmy paying them to write: "Would you like to do some postcards? It's fifty cents per". And being Jimmy, he of course knew everyone's names: "Uh, Chastity, let's see what you got. Don't use swears. I thought we talked about it. Respect".

When he reached his destination, Coushatta, Louisiana, we saw him get off the bus and walk into the post office, carrying two very full bags with him.

Answer: Canadian IDs for him and his father

Nacho was apparently doing well while running the Salamanca operation. He had a nice stylish house with two women waiting on him. When he arrived home, he threw them some drugs, ignoring their invitation to smoke with them and then went into the bedroom.

He went into his closet, opened a safe and appeared to put money into it. While he was doing so, he knocked a plastic bag out of the safe. He picked it up, taking out two Ids from the bag. They were Manitoba identification cards for him and his father, showing an issue date of 2003.

He stared at them for a while and then put them back in the safe. Incidentally, actor Michael Mando who portrays Nacho is actually Canadian, born in Quebec.

Answer: A strip club

When the men were first shown the housing warehouse, Kai had asked when the women were arriving. That had been eight months earlier, and Werner had pointed out to Mike that the men couldn't be kept cooped up; they needed fresh air and, he hinted, entertainment. So Mike arranged for a night out at a strip club called Fantasy World.

The club looked fairly empty; there didn't appear to be anyone else there besides the Germans and Mike's security team - maybe Mike had reserved the club? Unfortunately, Kai proved to be a troublemaker and had to be sent home early. Mike paid off the bouncer to keep the cops out of it and also gave him money for the girl with whom Kai had apparently been rough.

Answer: He talked to strangers about the job.

While Werner's men were at the strip club, Mike took Werner to a much-quieter Louie's Pub and Grill where Werner talked about his father who had worked on the Sydney Opera House. As they were having a drink, a man came up to the bar and ordered a German beer, Hefeweizen, but he didn't pronounce it correctly, so Werner corrected him. Mike looked slightly displeased that Werner had talked to the man and paid for his drink, but he didn't say anything. Shortly after that, Mike left Werner at the bar while he (Mike) went back to the strip club to deal with an issue with Kai, and when Mike returned to the bar, he found Werner sitting at the table with the man and his friend. Werner had diagrammed the underground facility on a beer coaster and was talking about the challenges of the operation with the men. Mike took him away and the next day, had stern words with him. Werner said that he didn't say anything specific about the construction: "No detail, no scale at all, could be a skyscraper". He said that the men had probably already forgotten him. Mike wasn't buying it: "The German national in the middle of Albuquerque, talking about pouring hundreds of tons of concrete in a secret underground location".

He then issued a guarded threat: "Listen to me, carefully. The man we're working for is very serious. Think about the precautions we take to keep everything that goes on here quiet. Think about how much money you're making. Think about what happens if something goes wrong. Do you understand what I am saying to you?" Werner said that he did, and Mike later vouched for him with Gus.

Answer: Santa Claus

Kim had brought a team of lawyers with her to meet with the prosecutor, Suzanne Ericsen, regarding Huell's case. They were filing a motion for continuance so that they could subpoena surrounding businesses for video and a motion for discovery to look at the officer's personnel file for his history with Huell. Kim also mentioned that they "were in conversation with the ACLU assessing the possibility that Mr. Babineau's civil rights may have been violated". Ericsen seemed bemused but not intimidated.

She told Kim, "Shock and awe isn't gonna cut it. Bring every fancy associate you got, file all the motions you want, and at the end of all this, your client is still going away". But all of those letters that Jimmy and his fellow bus passengers had written had reached Judge Munsinger, and he wasn't happy about it: "I have one question for you, Ms. Ericsen. Are you prosecuting Santa Claus? Because it looks like 'Miracle on 34th Street' in here".

He asked Kim if she started this. "Did I instruct the people of Coushatta, Louisiana, to start writing letters to the court? No, your honor, I did not". Kim did say that she heard the locals were planning to send a contingent to attend the trial. Munsinger was exasperated: "You're talking about a bunch of yahoos packing my court?" Ericsen asked to take some of the mail, which he gladly allowed: "Take it all!" He told them that the case "did not merit a circus" and to "work it out".

Answer: A fund-raising page for him on a church website

Several of the letters had come from parishioners at the Free Will Baptist Church in Coushatta, Louisiana. When one of Ericsen's employees looked up the church on the Internet, he found the website had a donation link for Huell on its homepage. There were pictures of Huell singing in his choir gown, painting and raking leaves, and wearing a volunteer firefighter shirt.

The website stated that Huell was "wrongly accused of a crime, all the way up in New Mexico". The calendar on the church's website also showed a "Huell Babineaux letter writing campaign" for Monday night from 5:30 - 7 p.m.

Incidentally, if you visited the church's webpage and clicked on the donation button, it took you to the Food Bank of Northwest Louisiana.

Answer: Jimmy and his college kids film crew

When one of her staff found a phone number on a letter, Ericsen called it; she got a kindly voice-mail message and left a message to return her call. The next number she called belonged to an Eloise Lockhart. Lockhart said that she loved Huell: "He's a dearest, dearest man... he's a pillar of our church".

But then the scene changed from Ericsen's office to Jimmy's office in the nail salon, and it turned out that Lockhart was actually Jimmy's makeup artist from commercials. Jimmy had hired his college-kids film crew a.k.a. Camera Guy, Sound Guy, and Make-up/Drama Girl to answer the phones for him. Ericsen next called the church and spoke to Pastor Hansford who turned out to be Jimmy with a very exaggerated Bayou accent.

After the call, Jimmy went to the courthouse to wait for Kim to finish negotiations with Ericsen.

When Kim left the building, he followed her out. "Well?" he asked. She threw down her briefcase, pushed him against the wall and kissed him. Huell ended up receiving four months probation and time served. Later Kim told Jimmy that his idea with the phones was brilliant. "The phones were a touch.

This was all you, start to finish," Jimmy said.

Answer: She wanted to pull another scam.

During her meeting with Kevin and Paige from Mesa Verde, Kim's mind was clearly elsewhere. But she focused on Kevin when he asked her for a special request. He told her that the "foot traffic at Tucumcari is off the charts and that's driving a lot of new accounts, and it seems to me that's because the building itself is so damn eye-catching".

He wanted to make the Lubbock branch the same as Tucumcari. Paige told him it was too late to do this, but he asked Kim if she could "pull another rabbit out of the hat for us". Kim told him that she agreed with Paige; it was just too late in the process to make the change. Later in her office, she pulled the bottle stopper from the Zafiro Anejo tequila bottle from her desk - the one she received when "Giselle and Viktor" pulled the scam on the investment banker.

She stared at it for a while before putting it back in the drawer. When she showed up at the facility that Jimmy was looking at as a potential office, he was surprised to see her: "What are you doing here?" Kim said she was driving by and saw his car in the parking lot.

She said she'd been thinking about things. Jimmy wanted to put her mind at ease: "Listen Kim, I know what's on your mind. The thing that we did, I mean, it was nuts. And I dumped it in your lap. Ex parte communication, contempt of court, a couple hundred counts of mail fraud, I could have wrecked you at Schweikert.... Don't worry, no one's gonna know about it.... We are totally done with all that. Over and out. No more". But Jimmy had misread her; he thought she was upset. But her response surprised him: "Let's do it again".

Answer: Lalo

Nacho realized something was up. He looked at Domingo who indicated with his eyes that the man sitting across from him was somehow involved, but he didn't say anything. Nacho approached the kichen with his hand ready to grab his gun if necessary. But when he got in the kitchen, he just saw a man cooking.

The man offered Nacho a plate: "I made this just for you". Nacho stared at him and said no thanks. "Very well, you're not hungry," the man said. He said the recipe was a family secret, and when Nacho asked if it was the Salamanca family, he confirmed it.

He said his name was Eduardo but that Nacho could call him Lalo. "I'm just here to lend a helping hand - make sure the business is running in order. I got a good head for numbers". He then went and sat next to Domingo as the dealers started to come in.

The name Lalo might be familiar to "Breaking Bad" fans; he wasn't in the show, but his name was mentioned in the "Better Call Saul" episode of "Breaking Bad". When Walt and Jesse kidnapped Saul, Saul asked if Lalo had sent them.