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"Uno" is the series premiere of the AMC television series ''Better Call Saul'', the spinoff series of ''Breaking Bad''. The series takes place in 2002, approximately six years prior to the title character Saul Goodman (Bob Odenkirk) meeting Walter White (Bryan Cranston). The episode aired on February 8, 2015 on AMC. The episode was written by series creators Vince Gilligan and Peter Gould, and directed by Gilligan. The episode received highly favorable reviews from critics, and it also broke the record for the highest-rated series premiere for a scripted series in U.S. cable history, with 6.9 million viewers before it was overtaken by ''Fear the Walking Dead''. ==Plot== In the present, set after the events of ''Breaking Bad'', in a black-and-white sequence, Saul Goodman, now going by the name "Gene", manages a shopping mall Cinnabon in Omaha, Nebraska. He has grown a mustache and is balding. While working, he suspects that a customer recognizes him, but this proves to be just paranoia. At night in his apartment, Saul has a cocktail and drunkenly watches a VHS of his old television advertisements. The show jumps back to May 2002. Saul is just James Morgan "Jimmy" McGill, a struggling public defender in Albuquerque, New Mexico. Jimmy represents three teenagers and tries to convince a jury that their actions were merely "boys being boys". In response, the prosecutor simply plays a video that the three teenagers made of them breaking into a morgue and having sex with a severed head. Afterwards, Jimmy complains about being paid too little for the defense. He gets a call from a prospective client, to whom he pretends to be his own mild-mannered British secretary. On his way out of the parking lot, Jimmy is stopped by Mike Ehrmantraut, the parking lot attendant, who refuses to let him exit without either a payment or a court-supplied parking sticker. Jimmy meets with the prospective clients, Craig and Betsy Kettleman, who are being investigated for the disappearance of county funds. They are hesitant to hire Jimmy. While trying to order flowers for the Kettlemans while driving, Jimmy hits a youngster on a skateboard, whose twin brother records the incident on a video camera and threatens to call the police unless Jimmy pays them off. In response, Jimmy kicks the "victim", calling the obvious ruse. Afterwards, he returns to his "office" in the boiler room of a Vietnamese beauty salon. In the mail, he finds a check for $26,000 from Hamlin Hamlin & McGill, his brother Chuck's law firm, which he proceeds to tear up into several pieces. Jimmy confronts the partners, accusing them of trying to cheat Chuck out of his rightful share. On his way out, he sees the Kettlemans going in and becomes agitated. Jimmy visits Chuck, who has had a mental breakdown and believes he has electromagnetic hypersensitivity (to that end, he requires visitors to dispose of their keys and phone in his mailbox and ground themselves before entering his house. He also has no working lights or refrigerator and he works by lantern on a manual typewriter). Chuck refuses a buyout and suggests that Jimmy stop using the name "McGill" for his personal firm to avoid public confusion with HH&M. Upset, Jimmy tracks down the two skateboarders, Cal and Lars Lindholm, and suggests a partnership, telling them how he got his start taking "slip and falls" to get easy money. He arranges for one to be hit by a car driven by Betsy but instead of stopping to check, the woman drives off. Cal and Lars chase her, but when the car stops, an elderly Hispanic woman exits. Not realizing (or more likely, not caring) they have gotten the wrong person, they try to get money out of her and follow her into her house. Jimmy arrives moments later to try and save them by posing as an "officer of the court", but is pulled into the house at gunpoint by Tuco Salamanca. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Uno (Better Call Saul)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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