Uno (Better Call Saul)
| "Uno" | |
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| Better Call Saul episode | |
| Episode no. | Season 1 Episode 1 |
| Directed by | Vince Gilligan |
| Written by | Vince Gilligan Peter Gould |
| Featured music | "Address Unknown" by The Ink Spots |
| Original air date | February 8, 2015 |
| Running time | 53 minutes |
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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.
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.
In May 2002, James Morgan "Jimmy" McGill is a struggling public defender in Albuquerque, New Mexico. He's currently representing three teenage boys 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 Irish 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.
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