Bingo
Jimmy and Mike return Abbasi's notebook, telling him they found it in the parking lot. The two Philadelphia detectives aren't satisfied with the explanation, but Sanders privately tells Mike he has nothing to fear from their investigation.
Jimmy finds Chuck standing outside his home, claiming to be building up a tolerance to electromagnetic waves. He stores his clients' legal documents at Chuck's house in a plan to get Chuck interested in cases, so he can rejoin HHM. Jimmy asks Kim to take a tour of his prospective office and to join him in a law partnership, but she cites her loyalty to HHM as her reason for declining.
Kim tries to get the Kettlemans to accept a plea bargain that includes jail time for Craig and returning their embezzled money. The Kettlemans fire her, maintaining their innocence, and take Jimmy up on his offer to be their lawyer. Jimmy also tries to get them to accept the plea deal, but Betsy blackmails Jimmy by pointing out the "retainer" the Kettlemans paid him.
Jimmy discovers Kim has been demoted to the document review office after she lost the Kettleman account. Agonizing, Jimmy decides to call Mike and have him take the embezzled money. Mike sprays a wad of cash with fluorescent spray and leaves it outside the Kettlemans' house. The Kettlemans promptly return it to their stash, which Mike traces with a blacklight. Jimmy is forced to put his bribe back into the funds to make it complete and sends it to the DA's office.
Jimmy arrives at the Kettlemans' the next day. When Betsy discovers that Jimmy helped steal their money, she threatens to reveal her bribe to him, prompting Jimmy to remind her that it would implicate her in the embezzlement as well. He compels Craig to rehire Kim and take her plea bargain so that both Kettleman parents don't go to jail and leave their kids alone. Although Kim is grateful, Jimmy kicks the door of the office he can no longer afford in an outburst of anguish.
Tropes:
- Appeal to Worse Problems: Betsy tries to argue to Kim that her husband Craig is innocent of embezzlement because some murderers still walk the streets. It's obviously irrelevant "whataboutery" from her clients, but Kim lets it slide.
- Asshole Victim: By the end of the episode, the Kettlemans have been outsmarted by Jimmy, and as a result, Craig now faces a minimum of six months worth of jail time. Additionally, neither of them can accuse Jimmy of accepting a bribe without implicating Betsy as well. While it may be easy to sympathize with the two of them as they cry over the fact that their children will have to deal with an imprisoned father, there is no denying that their current predicament is 100% their fault.
- Batman Gambit: Mike places a wad of cash in a toy car, which then leads the Kettlemans to chew out their children for playing with their parents' money. Betsy then goes to put the money away, and in the process, leaves behind a trail of fingerprints for Mike to follow, allowing him to sneak away with the rest of the cash.
- Bittersweet Ending: Mike manages to steal Craig's embezzled funds from the Kettlemans' home, and Jimmy has it sent to the DA as to force them into taking Kim back on as their lawyer, as she'll get Craig a lighter sentence. However, Jimmy has to put his bribe back into the funds, meaning he can't afford the office he was planning to use as his and Kim's law practice, and the episode ends with Jimmy having a violent outburst over this development, actually being driven to tears as a result... and then Jimmy gets a call from a client, prompting him (after choking back his anguish) to get back to doing his job.
- "Blackmail" Is Such an Ugly Word: Betsy doesn't want to call the money she gave Jimmy to keep quiet a "bribe", using "retainer" as it was the same term he used when referring to it. She abandons the pretense when it's revealed that Jimmy managed to steal the money Craig "earned" and had it sent to the DA.Betsy: We'll tell... about the bribe you took.Jimmy: You could do that. You absolutely could. And I'd be in a mess of trouble... a real pickle... but so would you, Mrs. Kettleman. 'Cause right now, only Mr. Kettleman is on the hook for the whole embezzlement kerfuffle. But the bribe- we're back to calling it a bribe? Yeah, that implicates you, as well.
- Call-Back: Jimmy has Mike steal the embezzled money to ensure the delusional Kettlemans have no other option but to take the deal, essentially taking Nacho's plan for a different purpose. When he confronts them about it, Jimmy even borrows Nacho's view on how they "have no recourse" thanks to their status as criminals.
- Call-Forward: Jimmy and Mike look at the huge pile of money they've taken from the Kettlemans, and Jimmy laments that he and Mike could split it all and disappear without anyone being the wiser, but he won't, because it isn't the right thing to do. Mike agrees, and counters with a line first heard from Saul's mouth to Walt:Mike: Conscience gets expensive, doesn't it?
- Early-Bird Cameo: This is the first appearance of Irene Landry, a future client of Jimmy's that will end up kickstarting a huge case by the next episode.
- Fence Painting: To help Chuck recover and get back to his work as a lawyer, Jimmy piques his interest by bringing a stack of legal documents to the house, emphasizing how good his practice is doing. Chuck can't help but peek and sort through it, and he ends up doing much of the work for Jimmy, who was watching through a window to make sure it all went as planned.
- Futureshadowing: The opening shot shows the camera panning down a list of wanted posters at the precinct... before resting on Jimmy, who's sitting perfectly centered to the poster right above him, foreshadowing the fact that he himself will become a wanted man much later down the line.
- Hoist by His Own Petard: Since he willingly took a bribe to keep things quiet about them, Betsy effectively blackmails Jimmy into taking their doomed case to trial, since the plea deal's requirement of having every dollar returned would implicate him as an accessory to their crime. Jimmy turns the tables by having Mike steal the money away, depriving them of any reason to go down fighting. When Betsy threatens to get him in trouble by revealing he took the "retainer", Jimmy responds that he's willing to face the consequences if it means implicating Betsy.
- Insane Troll Logic: Betsy threatens to have Jimmy arrested for stealing... the millions of dollars they embezzled for themselves. Jimmy has to spell out how that would expose their criminal actions. Later, Betsy thinks she can still leverage the bribe Jimmy took, without considering how it ends up marking her as an accomplice as well.
- Meaningful Echo: Jimmy to the Kettlemans: "Criminals have no recourse, and you two? You're criminals. Big time."
- Rapid-Fire "No!": Betsy when realizing that the money has been stolen from them.
- Shut Up, Hannibal!: After Betsy threatens to reveal Jimmy took a bribe from her to keep quiet about Craig's stolen money, Jimmy pointedly tells her that if she does, she'll implicate herself and wind up in jail much like Craig.
- Sigil Spam: Jimmy continues his advertising efforts at Sandpiper Crossing, providing bingo sheets with his face on them.
- Taking You with Me: The Kettlemans pull a non-lethal but still threatening variant, thanks to the bribe Jimmy took from them. As every penny would need to be accounted for, they intend to hold Jimmy's status as an accomplice to their activities over him, ensuring he follows their demands to represent Craig in court. Jimmy flips it around by stealing their money and threatening to land the both of them in trouble, even though it means facing consequences himself.
- Title Drop: The episode's namesake happens when Jimmy hosts a bingo session in Sandpiper Crossing, and Irene calls out her "Bingo!".
- What You Are in the Dark: Jimmy voices his awe in the face of millions of dollars sitting on his desk. Then, he reaches for the bribe he took earlier and returns it to the pile.Mike: What are you doing?Jimmy: The "right thing".
