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Narrator: In this episode
of "American Greed,"

James Morgan McGill
has a secret weapon...

his mouth.

What do the Irish call it?
Blarney?

That man could spin a tale
with the best of them.

He could even hold a jury
in the palm of his hand.

McGill: Oh, to be 19 again.

Do you remember 19?

Yeah, you do.

Narrator: Armed with just a

correspondence-school
law degree,

he sets up shop
in the back of a nail salon.

As a public defender,
he fights for the little guy

and wins.

But helping people
soon loses its cachet.

Jimmy McGill sees new
opportunities for making money.

And with that comes
a bigger office

and a whole new identity...

Hi. I'm Saul Goodman.

Did you know
that you have rights?

The Constitution says you do.

And so do I.

Narrator:
Commercials, billboards,

and bus benches
across New Mexico

exclaim his trademarked catchphrase...

Better call Saul!

Better call Saul!

Announcer: Better call Saul.

Narrator: Clients beat a path
to his door.

One of them, an unassuming
high-school chemistry teacher,

changes Goodman's life forever.

The teacher has
a peculiar nickname...

"Heisenberg."

For him, Saul Goodman
launders untold millions

and covers up
the most heinous of crimes.

Walter White was
the most notorious meth

kingpin this country
has ever seen.

He destroyed lives
and terrorized the Southwest.

But he couldn't have done it
without Saul Goodman.

Narrator: In the early hours of
March 20, 2010,

police and DEA agents
descend upon a quiet strip mall

in the northeast corner
of the city.

Looming above them,
30 feet tall,

stands an inflatable
Statue of Liberty.

Beneath its watchful eye,

they enter the office
of Saul Goodman and associates.

Inside, they discover
Styrofoam columns

and an oversized image
of the Constitution

plastered on the wall --

signature backdrops
for Goodman's commercials.

I fight for you,
Albuquerque!

Narrator:
But the columns are toppled,

and a mysterious hole
has been dug into the Sheetrock.

What was stashed in this
secret hiding place?

Francesca Liddy,
Saul Goodman's secretary,

is detained for questioning.

According to District Attorney
Suzanne Ericsen,

Goodman himself has vanished
without a trace.

The beginning of the end was
when we had two federal agents,

Hank Schrader
and Steve Gomez, go missing.

Schrader was
Walter White's brother-in-law.

We had to presume them deceased,

which sadly turned out
to be the case.

That's when the whole
house of cards

began to crumble for White.

He and his partner,
Jesse Pinkman, disappeared,

and Goodman followed suit.

Narrator:
Despite his verbal superpowers,

Saul Goodman has finally found
a situation

he can't talk his way out of.

But where is he now?

Rumors abound.

Did he flee the country?

Is he dead, murdered
by his former associates?

Well, first off,
he's alive.

I will go on record --
completely alive.

Fingers crossed.

Mm.
Definitely not dead.

The world is not
that lucky.

And while there's still good,
honest people in the world,

he will have a steady
supply of victims, like us.

Unfortunately,
that's what we are.

- We're victims.
- Yeah.

- We're survivors.
- We're survivors.

- Mm-hmm.
- Yeah.

Narrator: Craig Kettleman is

the former treasurer
of Bernalillo County.

He and his wife, Betsy,
find themselves

exploited by Saul Goodman.

Betsy: He courted us as clients.

And, oh, where to begin?

I mean, he lied to us. Yeah.

And gave us terrible
legal advice.

Absolute malpractice, really.

I mean, he actively
tried to ruin us.

He broke into our house
and stole our --

Really, it's too many
things to list.

Yeah.
Yeah.

And right from the start,

he was the kind of
lawyer guilty people hire.

- Which was not us.
- Yeah.

And when we first met
this person,

he was still going by
his given name.

You know, this Saul Goodman
business came later.

Back then, he was just trading
on the family reputation.

Narrator: In 1992,
Jimmy McGill works in

the mail room at
Hamlin, Hamlin, McGill,

where his brother, Charles,
is a named partner.

Charles Lindbergh McGill
is known far and wide

as a brilliant attorney.

Highly esteemed,
his reputation for honesty

and legal acumen
is second to none.

Jimmy idolizes
his older sibling.

But according to Deputy
District Attorney Bill Oakley,

that respect
never flows both ways.

Oakley: Chuck McGill was
a God around these parts.

He was like the second
coming of Clarence Darrow.

And then his brother
becomes a lawyer?

"Slippin' Jimmy"
with a mail-order diploma

from the University of
Wherever-it-is?

I mean, wow.

The guy had street smarts,
but come on.

I can't imagine how humiliating
that must have been for Chuck.

Still, trading on Chuck's name
got Jimmy a job

at a big Santa Fe law firm.

Nice office with a window.

Of course, he blew that one
tout de suite.

Craig: Sometimes, I kinda think
maybe his older brother

was everything Jimmy
wanted to be but wasn't.

- Yeah.
- You know, maybe Jimmy -- Saul --

maybe we're talking
about a person

who lived his life
in someone's shadow.

You know, when I think about it
like that, I kind of feel --

We don't feel sorry
for him.

No.
No.

- He made his bed.
- He made -- Yeah.

And now he has to
sleep in it.

Yep.

Narrator: Forging his own path,

Jimmy leaves
Hamlin, Hamlin, McGill

and goes into private practice.

Dabbling in the field
of elder law,

he institutes a large
class-action lawsuit

against a chain
of retirement homes.

Schweikart: Sandpiper Crossing.

That was quite a case.

He was...colorful.

And this was even before the
crazy suits and the new name.

But he could be
a formidable adversary.

If he didn't feel this
constant need to cut corners.

Had he kept that under control,

who knows how far
he could've gone.

Hmm. He and Kim --

those were two smart cookies.

Narrator: Kimberly Wexler is

a bright
and ambitious young woman

Jimmy meets
in the HHM mail room.

She becomes a fellow attorney,
a business partner,

and, eventually, Jimmy's wife.

For the life of me, I don't
know what she saw in him.

Never understood it.

Narrator: For a time,
life is good.

Jimmy finds his practice flourishing.

He builds a reputation
for providing advocacy

that's vigorous,
if unconventional.

McGill: Do you feel confident

that you can identify
this person?

That's what you're saying?

Harkness: I can.
It's him, your client.

McGill: Would you be surprised
to learn, Mr. Harkness,

that the person
you just pointed to

is not the defendant?

My client is in the back
of the courtroom.

Mr. Sticky,
would you please stand up?

- Attorney: Objection!
- Judge: Oh, Mr. Goodman!

Narrator: But the lure of
easy money is seductive.

Along with his name change,

Saul Goodman pivots
to a new breed of client.

Ericsen:
I don't know when it happened.

I don't know the exact date.

But at some point,
he started to work

with the drug cartels.

And that was
the beginning of the end,

because from there,
if you survive,

it is a short hop to becoming

the consigliere
to Heisenberg himself.

Narrator:
Among the Mexican cartels,

one family is feared
above all others.

Ruthless and cruel,

they rule their territory
with an iron fist.

When Saul Goodman's greed
puts him on a collision course

with the Salamancas,
there's bound to be trouble.

One day, it arrives --
in a smiling, handsome package.