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BETTER CALL SAUL "Five-O" Episode #106 Written by Gordon Smith Directed by Adam Bernstein Production Draft WHITE - 8/1/14 BLUE PAGES - 8/4/14: 18, 24, 30, 35, 37, 40
Mar 9, 2015 · About nine months ago, he responded to a shots-fired call in some West Side rattrap. Matt went in with his partner, officer Troy Hoffman. They had sergeant Jack Fensky backing them up.
EPISODE 1.06. “Five-O” When Mike needs a favor, he finds Jimmy willing to go to surprising lengths to lend a hand. However, that doesn't put Mike's demons to rest. WRITTEN BY: Gordon Smith. DIRECTED BY: Adam Bernstein. ORIGINAL BROADCAST: March 9, 2015.
Better Call Saul. 106: Five-O Mike's days as a police officer in Philadelphia catch up to him when he's questioned about a tragic event from his past. Read Screenplay - Five-O
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"Five-O" is the sixth episode of the first season of Better Call Saul and the sixth episode of the series altogether.
Teaser
In a flashback, Mike arrives in Albuquerque by passenger train, travel-worn and carrying a lone duffel bag. He waits inside the train station until his daughter-in-law, Stacey, picks him up. As she pulls the car around, he enters the empty women's restroom to buy a maxi-pad from the vending machine. Ducking into the men’s room, he unbuttons his shirt and reveals a fresh bullet wound beneath a blood-soaked bandage on his shoulder. Grimacing, he applies the pad to the wound, then buttons back up and leaves the station.
Act I
At Stacey’s house, Mike pushes his young granddaughter Kaylee on a swing set. He takes a break to make small talk with Stacey, who seems to be keeping him at a distance. When she asks how long he’s planning to be in town, Mike tells her that he's going to stay indefinitely, to help out her and Kaylee. Stacey isn't thrilled by the news. Finally, she brings up what’s bothering her: she overheard Matt—her husband and Mike’s son—having a heated late-night phone conversation just a few days before his death. When she asks Mike if he was the one on the other end of the line, he denies remembering such a call and advises her not to dwell on it. Catching a taxi outside the house, Mike finds a veterinarian, Dr. Caldera, who will stitch up his wound without asking too many questions. When Caldera offers to refer Mike for some “work,” he declines and says he’s not looking for that type of work. Back in the present, Mike sits in an interrogation room opposite Greg Sanders and Geoff Abbasi, two detectives from the Philadelphia Police Department. Though he’s not under arrest, Mike demands that Jimmy be brought in to represent him.
Act II
Jimmy arrives at the police station with a cup of coffee, which Mike instructs him to spill on Abbasi after Mike answers his questions. Realizing that the stunt is a diversion that will allow Mike to steal the detective’s notepad, Jimmy refuses—even after Mike reminds him that Jimmy owes him a favor for his help with finding the Kettlemans. When the detectives begin questioning Mike, Jimmy insists they start from the beginning and explain the events that brought them to New Mexico. Exasperated, Abbasi obliges: Mike was a cop in Philadelphia for nearly thirty years and his son Matt, a rookie, was killed in the line of duty nine months previously. Matt, along with his partner, Troy Hoffman, and his sergeant, Jack Fensky, were purportedly ambushed while responding to a routine call. Hoffman and Fensky escaped the attack but were killed six months later in a similar ambush. Theorizing that Hoffman and Fensky were involved in corrupt activities that might have led to them—and Matt—getting killed, the detectives hope Mike can shed some light on what happened. Mike admits to seeing Hoffman and Fensky on the night they were killed, but claims he doesn't remember anything else and offers nothing more. Jimmy listens to Mike’s story quietly, gaining compassion for the man and his loss. As the group prepares to leave the interrogation room, Jimmy makes up his mind: he pretends to lose his balance and spills coffee all over Abbasi. Mike immediately whips out a handkerchief and dabs at the irritated detective’s jacket, successfully lifting his notepad.
•Saul and Mike are the only main characters that appear in this episode.
•The Breaking Bad episode, "Fly", is the only other episode to feature only two main characters. However, unlike "Fly", this episode features guest stars.
•Despite playing the main character, Bob Odenkirk's total screen time is 8 minutes and 4 seconds, or approximately only 19% of the episode.
•This is the only episode of Better Call Saul, until this point (she later doesn't appear in "Nippy" and "Breaking Bad") that Kim Wexler does not appear in, although she doesn't have any speaking lines in "Mijo"
•There is an anachronism in this episode. Mike presumably leaves Philadelphia for Albuquerque, in late 2001 or early 2002. The train he is riding, the New Mexico Rail Runner, was launched in 2006. Anachronism aside, it's odd that Mike arrives on the New Mexico Rail Runner instead of on Amtrak's Southwest Chief, since that runs through Albuquerque and he presumably would have to take that once he got to Chicago (since almost all trains through the Midwest go through Chicago).
•At first glance, it seems odd that Mike would travel all the way from Philadelphia to Albuquerque via Chicago by train. But consider that he had just been shot and the bullet may have still been lodged in his body. So if he tried to fly, the bullet would have set off the metal detector at the airport. The TSA agents would have found the bullet wound and they would very likely have reported him to the police. And, of course, Mike was in no condition to drive such a long distance. So the best option would have been to take the train.
Credits Starring
•Bob Odenkirk as Jimmy McGill •Jonathan Banks as Mike Ehrmantraut •Rhea Seehorn as Kim Wexler (credit only) •Patrick Fabian as Howard Hamlin (credit only) •Michael Mando as Nacho Varga (credit only) •Michael McKean as Chuck McGill (credit only)
Guest Starring
Kerry Condon as Stacey Ehrmantraut Barry Shabaka Henley as Detective Greg Sanders Omid Abtahi as Detective Abbasi Joe DeRosa as Caldera Billy Malone as Sergeant Jack Fensky Lane Garrison as Officer Troy Hoffman
Co-Starring
Steve Mokate as Bartender Eric Martinez as Francisco Faith Healey as Kaylee Daniel Knight as APD Detective
DIRT ROAD - ARROYO AREA - DAY 1. Wind whistles over jagged hills. A big blue sky above. We're way out in the desert -- oh, and we're in COLOR. There's a flash of YELLOW at the bottom of a GULLY... Jimmy's wrecked SUZUKI ESTEEM, bullet holes and all. Flipped over like roadkill rotting in the hot sun. Just as Jimmy and Mike left it. EXT.
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The script was the first-ever television script written by Gordon Smith, who was previously a writer's assistant on Breaking Bad. It was directed by Adam Bernstein, who directed several episodes of Breaking Bad.
